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by Nellie Bly (Author)Nellie Bly was an American reporter best known for a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days. Bly also undertook an assignment to fake insanity in order to be placed in an asylum. Bly wrote popular accounts of both experiences. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: January 17, 2014

EMP Survival: 50+ Tips on How To Survive The Electromagnetic Pulse And Save Your Electronic Devices: (EMP Survival, EMP Survival boo - Paperback

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by Imogen Evans (Author)EMP Survival 50+ Tips on How To Survive The Electromagnetic Pulse And Save Your Electronic Devices You cannot see, hear or feel an Electromagnetic Pulse coming. You may not be able to rely on an advanced warning from the Government or authorities. And yet it could prove deadly to every electronic device you own. As more and more of our lives - entertainment, medical intervention and life support systems, employment, photographs, music, communication and more - comes to...

Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviation - Hardcover

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by Charles R. Mitchell (Author), Kirk W. House (Joint Author)In the beginning of the twentieth century, women were demanding more freedom. What could bring more freedom than a chance to fly? Women went up in those early wire-andfabric contraptions to gain independence, to make money, or to make their names as pilots. They sought to prove that women pilots could do just as well as men--and some did far better. Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviation tells the story of Blanche Stuart Sc...

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by Estrella Ravelo Alamar (Author), E. Alamar (Author), Willi Red Buhay (Author)The pictorial history of Filipino immigration to Chicago encompasses 100 years, moving from the Philippines to this country of unknown landscapes and uncertainties. The pioneering Filipinos came in the early 1900s to seek the land of "milk and honey." They were mostly pensionados-government-supported students-and self-supported students who settled in the Garfield Park, Hyde Park, and Near North Side neighborhoods...

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by Wilfredo Cruz (Author)Puerto Ricans have a long history in Chicago. Beginning in the 1920s, a handful of middle-class Puerto Rican families sent their daughters and sons to study at prestigious universities in the city. While most returned to Puerto Rico, migration to Chicago peaked during the 1950s and 1960s. Enticed by the prospect of a better life for their families and future generations, thousands of Puerto Ricans came to Chicago in search of a brighter tomorrow. They came to Chicago ...

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by Gavin Schmitt (Author)In Wisconsin history, no single group has been on the land longer than the Menominee Indians. While other tribes were pushed west by the Europeans and Americans, the Menominee stayed firm and held on to their ancestral homeland. Though their territory has been greatly diminished, there is something to be said about raising a family in the same place as your parents and their parents, going back thousands of years. Their interaction with the white man dates back to the...

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by L. Craig Roberts (Author)Mardi Gras in Mobile began its carnival celebration years before the city of New Orleans was founded. In the 1700s, mystic societies formed in Mobile, such as the Societe de Saint Louis, believed to be the first in the New World. These curious organizations brought old-world traditions as they held celebrations like parades and balls with themes like Scandinavian mythology and the dream of Pythagoras. Today, more than 800,000 people annually take in the sights, sou...

Spirits, Witches and Trolls Children's Norse Folktales - Paperback

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by Baby Professor (Author)The purpose of folktales is to keep cultures and traditions alive. They may just be stories of made-up creatures but if you listen closely, you will see history reflected in them. For your little ones, this is the perfect book to introduce the Norse folktales. Remember to choose bedtime stories with true and historical roots. Choose this book today. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2017

Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland - Paperback

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by John Martin Crawford (Author)The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias L nnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. The compilation was first published in 1849 and consists of 22,795 verses, divided into fifty songs (runes). It was translated into English by J.M. Crawford and published in 1888. - "In the Kalevala, the nation...

All about Coffee (Second Edition) - Paperback

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by William H. Ukers (Author)Reprint of the second edition (1935). The second and standard edition of this definitive work on the history and influence of coffee. Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. A still unsurpassed work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated. Number of Pages: 826 Dimensions: 1.64 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: February 02, 2010

Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art - Paperback

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by Jack Solomon (Author), Olivia Solomon (Author), Suzanne Solomon (Photographer)Four decades ago, folklorists Jack and Olivia Solomon began documenting Southern cemeteries, recording the names, lives, and epitaphs of thousands of the deceased. The volume they now share with us is not a Book of the Dead, but a Book of Life. The Solomons reveal here their love and respect for the "final resting places" of this world. In these pages are recorded the sorrow for a lost child, the anger over the m...

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by Henry Ford (Author)The International Jew is a book written by Henry Ford, who authored books and articles which make claims about Jews. Readers will be able to make their own judgements of this work, as some find it to be accurate while most have historically found Henry Ford's writings to be filled with innacuracies and bigotry. This book is presented here for educational purposes and for those who are interested in reading a book written by important American businessman Henry Ford. Numb...

The Mis-Education of the Negro (An African American Heritage Book) - Paperback

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by Carter G. Woodson (Author)The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare them for success and to give them an adequate sense of who they are within the system that they must live. Woodson provides many strong solutions to the problems he ide...

Native American Cooking An Indian Cookbook With Legends, And Folklore - Paperback

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by G. W. Mullins (Author), C. L. Hause (Illustrator)"Native American Cooking An Indian Cookbook with Legends, and Folklore" presents a rich history of the native American Indians through food and stories of their past. Containing more than 320 pages in 6x9 format, this book is packed with recipes, a large collection of native inspired art and entertaining stories about life, beliefs, hunting, and of course food.Native Americans were not only experts at hunting wild game, but they also were ex...

Amerindian Life and Folklore (Guyana, South America) - Paperback

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by Harry MC D. Persaud (Author)In this book author Harry McD Persaud shares the legends and folklore of Native Guyanese. His picturesque and accurate description of the lifestyle, culture and taboos of of the Amerindians of Guyana is so compelling that I would not be surprised if the reader is encouraged to visit them in their natural habitat. This book is rather unique in that, perhaps for the first time, a non-native and an Indo-Guyanese has been privileged to be the repository of these leg...

The 48 Laws of Black Empowerment - Paperback

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by Dante Fortson (Author)The 48 Laws of Power was written by Robert Greene and first published in 1998. It is often praised as one of the best books to read if you want to get ahead in life. This got me to thinking, "why isn't there anything like this for our community?" We have a lot of people talking about what we need to do, what we should do, and what we could do as a community, but nothing con-crete that we could all sit down with, learn from, and relate to on an individual level. The 48...

Craft of the Untamed: An Inspired Vision of Traditional Witchcraft - Paperback

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by Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold (Author)The Craft of the Untamed sets out to present the main pillars of traditional witchcraft. Its premise is that a proper tradition is defined as a timeless unity. Outwardly the tradition bears a great diversity across different lands and spirit. Traditional witchcraft is found in various sodalities and groups across the world. Even so it is possible to discern several harmonious, shared themes. These themes are the land, the crossroads, death, night and the...

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns and Fairies - Paperback

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by Robert Kirk (Author)2019 Reprint of 1893 Edition Edited by Andrew Lang. Robert Kirk (1644 -1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight (a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.) Folklorist Stewart Sanderson and mythologist Marina Warner call Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of the most important and signif...

Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Women Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Davis - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Keckley (Author)In "Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House," Elizabeth Keckley offers a poignant and personal account of her experiences as a former slave who rose to become the dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. Keckley employs a candid narrative style that intertwines her harrowing life story with sharp socio-political observations of 19th-century America, particularly concerning slavery and the complexities of race in the midst o...

Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs (Illustrated Edition): From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess and Powhatan - To Chief Joseph and Geronimo - Paperback

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by Norman B. Wood (Author)"Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs" is a collection of biographies of the influential and notable Native Americans such as King Philip, Pontiac, Black Hawk and Geronimo, just to name the few. The author also reviews different theories on the origin of Native Americans and their original homeland, prior to American continent. Contents: Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess Powhatan, or Wah-Un-So-Na-Cook Massasoit, The Friend of the Puritans King Philip, or Metacomet, The Last o...

Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles - Hardcover

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by Amy Lotson Roberts (Author), Patrick J. Holladay (Author), Melanie R. Pavich (Foreword by)The Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll Island and, thanks to preservation efforts, the Historic Harrington School still stands on St. Simons Island. From the Selden Normal and Industrial Institute to the tabby cabins of Hamilton Plantation, aut...

Walkable Cities: Revitalization, Vibrancy, and Sustainable Consumption - Paperback

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by Carlos J. L. Balsas (Author)Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.Author BiographyCarlos J. L. Balsas is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 02, 2020

Feminism: In the history of art - Paperback

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by Esther Tauroni Bernabeu (Author)Feminist training is necessary because it is the only way to guarantee equal education. Making history and the past visible, studied and analysed is the best way to understand the inequalities that have existed on the basis of gender.Artistic productions, as reproductions of past mentalities, are a fundamental vehicle for humanistic education, as well as an inexhaustible source for social debate.Art and its history must cease to be conceived as passive eleme...

Disconnected from Death: The Evolution of Funeral Customs and the Unmasking of Death in America - Paperback

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by Troy Taylor (Author), April Slaughter (Author)DISCONNECTED FROM DEATHTHE EVOLUTION OF FUNERAL CUSTOMS AND THE UNMASKING OF DEATH IN AMERICA BY APRIL SLAUGHTER AND TROY TAYLORAmericans have a complicated history with death - that final darkness at the end of life. Our ancestors dealt with death on a daily basis, dreaming up countless traditions and rituals to try and understand it. Society today, however, has disconnected from death. In years past, Americans died at home. Bodies were prepar...

Viking Tales and Sagas: The Captivating Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Lagertha, and More as well as Other Legendary Stories of V - Paperback

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by Matt Clayton (Author)Explore Captivating Viking Tales and Sagas Two captivating manuscripts in one book: Viking Sagas: The Captivating Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Lagertha, and More, in Their Historical Context Tales from the Viking Age: Captivating Legendary and Historical Sagas The period between the end of the eighth century CE and the middle of the eleventh is often called the "Viking Age" because this is the period in which Scandinavian people expanded their contacts ...

Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender - Paperback

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by Rachel Lifter (Author), Elizabeth Wilson (Editor), Reina Lewis (Editor)In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their unwashed appearance captured widespread attention, propelling the British indie music scene and its signature look-slender bodies clad in skinny jeans-to the center of popular fashion. Using this fashionable watershed as a launching point, Fashioning Indie narrates indie's evolution: from a 1980s British m...

Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues - Hardcover

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by James Gill (Author), Howard Hunter (Author)In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The authors open and close their manuscript with the dramatic removal of the city's Confederate statues. On the eve of the Civil War, New Orleans was far more cosmopolitan than Southern, with its sizable population of immigrants, Nor...

The Mexican Experience in Chicago: Early Memories and Echoes in Our Time - Paperback

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by Marc Zimmerman (Author)Chicagoland's Latino population developed in relation to labor needs in the steel mills, railroad lines and packing houses. First, the Mexican population grew slowly serving as a buffer against African American and striking workers. Many were deported during the Depression; but in spite of continuing deportations, the population grew, as Mexicans and Puerto Ricans arrived in great numbers after World War II. With the 60s, Cubans joined the wave, so that by the 1970s,...

The Sacred Magic of the Qabbalah - Paperback

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by Manly P. Hall (Author), Elizabeth Ledbetter (Foreword by)The Sacred Magic of the Qabbalah (1936) by writer and mystic Manly P. Hall, explores the doctrines of the Qabbalah, an ancient tradition that investigates the science and mystery of divine names and numbers.Author, lecturer, and mystic Manly P. Hall (b. 1901, d. 1990) wrote over 150 books and pamphlets, countless essays, and gave thousands of lectures over his 70-year career. Canadian-born, young Hall was first led to mysticism when ...

Myths, Tall Tales and Half Truths of Cape Cod - Hardcover

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by James H. Ellis (Author)Cape Cod, one of the nation's oldest regions, can claim many firsts, but not as many as some want you to believe. Boastfulness, tall tales and plain stretching the truth about history is widely practiced in this tourist mecca. Even esteemed institutions such as churches and historical societies are nimble in the art of gilding the lily. Discover where The Wizard of Oz film really premiered, whether Mercy Otis Warren had a hand in writing the Bill of Rights and who ...

Mound Builders' Works, Near Newark, Ohio - Paperback

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by Isaac Smucker (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repro...

Marijuana: A Reference Handbook - Paperback

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by David E. Newton (Author)This single-volume resource provides sound, up-to-date information and authoritative resources for research on the controversial topics of the use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes and the effects of marijuana use on society. The use of marijuana has consistently been a highly controversial, polarizing, and emotional topic, so much so that social, cultural, and religious factors have largely influenced public opinion, legislation, and law enforcemen...