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How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

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Report copyright infringementby Lyn Slater (Author)One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024 A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon," brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just ...

Airplane Coloring Books for Adults: A Sketch grayscale coloring books beginner (High Quality picture)

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Report copyright infringementby Airplane Coloring Books for Adults (Author), Mildred R. Muro (Author)AMAZON BEST SELLER BEST GIFT IDEAS This incredible adult coloring book by best-selling artist is the perfect way to relieve stress and aid relaxation while enjoying beautiful and highly detailed images. Each coloring page will transport you into a world of your own while your responsibilities will seem to fade away... Use Any of Your Favorite Tools Including colored pencils, pens, and fine-ti...

World of Cultures: Exploring Diversity Through the Eyes of Children

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Report copyright infringementby So S S (Author)This captivating children's book is an invitation to explore the rich and diverse tapestry of our planet's cultures, customs, and traditions through the eyes of children from across the globe.Within these pages, young readers aged 6-8 will embark on an enchanting voyage, visiting countries near and far, and meeting fellow adventurers who celebrate life in their own unique ways. From the vibrant festivals of India to the mesmerizing dances of Sout...

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Report copyright infringementby Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Author)Settler Colonialism examines the genesis in the USA of the first full-fledged settler state in the world, which went beyond its predecessors in 1492 Iberia and British-colonized Ireland with an economy based on land sales and enslaved African labor, an implementation of the fiscal-military state. Both the liberal and the rightwing versions of the national narrative misrepresent the process of European colonization of North America. ...

Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Mackell (Author)Prostitution thrived in pioneer Colorado. Mining was the principal occupation and men outnumbered women more than twenty to one. Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview of the business between 1860 and 1930, focusing her research on the mining towns of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City, and similar boomtown communities. She used census data, Sanborn maps, city directories, property records, marriage records, and court records to document...

Pressed for All Time: Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Jarrett (Author)In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside -- generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we'd have little on record of some of the most important music ever created. Discover the stories behind some of jazz's best-selling and most influential albums in this collection of oral histories gathered by music scholar and writer Michael Jarrett. Drawing together intervi...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Drowne (Author), Patrick Huber (Author)The American 1920s had many names: the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Dry Decade, and the Flapper generation. Whatever the moniker, these years saw the birth of modern America. This volume shows the many colorful ways the decade altered America, its people, and its future. American Popular Culture Through History volumes include a timeline, cost comparisons, chapter bibliographies, and a subject index. Writer...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Herrera-Sobek (Author)Chicanos and Chicanas, or Mexican Americans, are deeply rooted in the cultures of African, European, and Native American groups. The richness of Chicano culture is especially evident in such folklore genres as myths, tales, legends, traditional beliefs, songs, games, and riddles. Written especially for high school students and general readers, this book is an introductory guide to Chicano folklore. It defines and classifies the folkl...

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Report copyright infringementby Geralyn G. Brostrom (Author), Jack Brostrom (Author)Wine has been a beverage staple since ancient times, especially in Europe. Today's global wine business is thriving, and American consumption of wine has increased dramatically in recent years, with the health benefits touted in the media. More Americans are becoming interested in learning about wine, and they are taking winery tours and attending wine tastings. The Business of Wine: An Encyclopedia is a neces...

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

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Report copyright infringementby Don Miguel Ruiz (Author), Janet Mills (With)The incredible New York Times and international bestselling guide to true happiness. "This book by don Miguel Ruiz, simple yet so powerful, has made a tremendous difference in how I think and act in every encounter."--Oprah Winfrey In The Four Agreements, a perennial bestseller published in dozens of languages worldwide, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless...

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist

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Report copyright infringementby Sesali Bowen (Author)"Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still figuring out who they are in this world will gain so much from whatever she has to say."--Charlene A. Carruthers, activist and author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements"Sesali perfectly vocalizes the inne...

A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Clements (Author)This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a divine sovereign. It was the terminus of t...

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence R. Samuel (Author)How America's greatest marketing triumph in World War II shaped race, ethnicity, and class in modern America The World War II Bond Campaign is a history of the World War II bond drive led by the federal government, an effort called the most successful marketing operation in history. By the war's end, some 85 million Americans had spent $186 billion in an unprecedented outpouring of patriotism that contributed to the military victory a...

Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State

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Report copyright infringementby Brooks Blevins (Author)What do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They're all Arkansans. What do hillbillies, rednecks, slow trains, bare feet, moonshine, and double-wides have in common? For many in America these represent Arkansas more than any Arkansas success stories do. In 1931 H. L. Mencken described AR (not AK, folks) as th...

A Guide to Butterflies (In Your Stomach): A Book for Kids' Worries

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Report copyright infringementby Sophia Rose (Author), Alyssa Pontz (Illustrator)This heartwarming picture book explores just how normal feeling anxious is for everyone. It names that feeling as having "butterflies" and shares skills to practice that help deal with the butterflies before they happen.Princess Talk-a-Lots and Rowdy Rabbit explain how nervousness can come up in lots of different corners of life and how to face it, as they are given a frightening new school project! N...

The 21: A Journey Into the Land of Coptic Martyrs

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Mosebach (Author), Alta Price (Translator)Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach.In the West, daily reports of new atrocities may have displaced the memory of this particularly vile ev...

Furries Among Us: Essays on Furries by the Most Prominent Members of the Fandom

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Report copyright infringementby Kyell Gold (Contribution by), Jonathan W. Thurston (Contribution by), Connor Methvin (Contribution by)Are they human, or are they beast? Over the past several decades, the world has seen a new phenomenon on the rise, a group of people identifying as "furries." They have appeared in the news and popular TV shows as adults wearing fursuits and participating in sex parties, but what are they really? This collection of essays on the furry fandom reveals furries thr...

Dancing in the Forest: Korean Shamans in the United States

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Hong (Author)Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the "othered" life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate the present with the past, life with death, the living with the ances...

HBCU Experience - The Book: A Collection of Essays Celebrating the Black College Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Tyree &. Cathcart (Author) Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 06, 2014

Prepping for Beginners: A Collection of 4 Survival Books

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Paine (Author)Are You and Your Family Ready to Survive the Next Disaster? If you have ever thought about prepping, you have probably been a bit overwhelmed, at least once or twice. It can seem like a monumental task that will take too much work. Where do you start? You have to start somewhere. You can start with this collection of 4 best-selling prepping guides. With Prepping for Beginners: A Collection of 4 Survival Books, you'll get: 10 Ways to Start P...

Over Your Dead Body: the history and future of how we deal with the dead

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Connolly (Author)Over Your Dead Body is about the history and future of how we deal with the dead: everything about death, funerals and what happens to the body afterwards. It features vivid personal experiences of the business of death, but also the science, history, and ecology of death - what undertakers do, their curious obsession with embalming, what people did before undertakers, new high-tech replacements for burial and cremation, plus Green funer...

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Report copyright infringementby Chad Helder (Author)The Pop-Up Book of Death is a collection of vivid and startling poems from Chad Helder. These poems navigate a humorous and unsettling landscape where horror movies transgress the boundaries of the screen, sinister words strike out from books like trapdoor spiders, and true love extinguishes every apocalyptic flare-up. In this bizarre terrain haunted by the white dog, Helder offers a pastiche of childhood memory, dream journal, and surrealis...

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Report copyright infringementby Acie Cargill (Author)Child grooming is befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, and sometimes the family, to lower the child's inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse. Child grooming is also regularly used to lure minors into various illicit businesses such as child trafficking, child prostitution, or the production of child pornography.This is a 5000 word booklet describing the practice of grooming and ensuing sexual abuse of t...

Sacred Flames: The Power of Artificial Light in Ancient Egypt

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Report copyright infringementby Meghan E. Strong (Author)A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By the time we began to paint cave walls, we were producing lamps consisting of an illuminant, a fat or oil, and a wick, such as a strip of fabric or a piece of reed or wood. Drawing on archaeological, textual, and iconographic sources, Meghan Strong examines the symbolic part that artificial li...

Raising Goats for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Happy and Healthy Herd of Goats - Breeds Selection, Housing, Feeding, Goat Care, Breed

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Jason (Author)Learn to Raise a Beautiful and Flourishing Herd!Do you want to raise a herd of goats full of milkers? Or maybe raise meat goats to make some money? Are you interested in keeping some fiber goats for mohair and cashmere or a few Pygmies as pets? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then this is right book for you.Goats are a versatile animal that make a great addition to a farm with suitable space and facilities. You can raise them...

The Honey Bee and the Apple Tree: A Rosh Hashanah Story

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph B. Meszler (Illustrator), Kris Graves (Illustrator)What happens when a friendly little bee sets out in search of a new home?Fly along and find out in this sweet Rosh Hashanah story!A heart-warming illustrated story about a beloved Jewish tradition. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 31, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby George E. Laidlaw (Author)A collection of traditional tales from the Ojibwa people, one of the largest indigenous tribes in North America. These stories, passed down from generation to generation, offer insights into the cultural and spiritual beliefs of the Ojibwa, as well as their skills as hunters, fishermen, and craftspeople.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it...

Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Russell Jerry (Author)An up-closeview of the movement to make "Afro-Mexican" an official cultural category Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico delvesinto the ongoing movement toward recognizing Black Mexicans as a cultural groupwithin a nation that has long viewed the non-Black Mestizo as the archetypal citizen. Anthony Jerry focuses on this process in Mexico'sCosta Chica region in order to explore the relational aspects...

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

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Report copyright infringementby Paula Gunn Allen (Author)This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.Author BiographyPaula Gunn Allen (1939-2008) was a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Native American of Laguna Pueblo and Sioux heritage. She authored many books, including The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditi...

Sueños Americanos: Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities

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Report copyright infringementby Julio Cammarota (Author)Education is a primary route to rewarding employment and economic security. It is particularly significant for the future prospects of children who are ethnic minorities, were born into disadvantaged economic circumstances, or are dealing with language barriers. For nearly a decade Julio Cammarota interviewed and observed Latino youth between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four who lived in a barrio in a city on the California coast. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Erle C. Ellis (Author)The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, shifting global cycles of the weather, widespread pollution, radioactive fallout, plastic accumulation, species invasions, the mass extinction of species - these are just some of the many indicators that we will leave a lasting record in rock, the scientific basi...

Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

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Report copyright infringementby Lilia Fernández (Author)Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America's great cities. Through their e...