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Daughters of Arraweelo: stories of Somali women
Par Ayaan Adan. 2022
Somali women tell their stories, sharing experiences of love, war, displacement, family, identity, and everyday life. In their own words,…
these are stories of mothers and daughters, teachers and social workers, scientists and medical professionals, lawyers and politicians--all Somali women who have made their marks on Minnesota. -- ?c Adapted from publisher's descriptionInspired: understanding creativity : a journey through art, science, and the soul
Par Matt Richtel. 2022
How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can…
we maximize our creative potential? Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement and innovation in art, science, technology, business, sports, and virtually every activity. This is a book about the science of creativity, distilling an explosion of exciting new research from across the world. Through narrative storytelling, Richtel marries these findings with timeless insight from some of the world's great creators as he deconstructs the authentic nature of creativity, its biological and evolutionary origins, its deep connection to religion and spirituality, the way it bubbles in each of us, urgent and essential, waiting to be tapped. Adult. UnratedStalin's general: the life of Georgy Zhukov
Par Geoffrey Roberts. 2012
"Marshal Georgy Zhukov is one of military history's legendary names. He played a decisive role in the battles of Moscow,…
Stalingrad and Kursk that brought down the Nazi regime. He was the first of the Allied generals to enter Berlin and it was he who took the German surrender. He led the huge victory parade in Red Square, riding a white horse, and in doing so, dangerously provoking Stalin's envy. His post-war career was equally eventful--Zhukov found himself sacked and banished twice, and wrongfully accused of disloyalty. However, he remains one of the most decorated officers in the history of both Russia and the Soviet Union. Since his death in 1974, Zhukov has increasingly been seen as the indispensable military leader of the Second World War, surpassing Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery and MacArthur in his military brilliance and ferocity. Making use of hundreds of documents from Russian military archives, as well as unpublished versions of Zhukov's memoirs, Geoffrey Roberts fashions a remarkably intimate portrait of a man whose personality was as fascinating as it was contradictory. Tough, decisive, strong-willed and brutal as a soldier, in his private life he was charming and gentle. Zhukov's relations with Stalin's other generals were often prickly and fraught with rivalry, but he was the only one among them to stand up to the Soviet dictator. Piercing the hyperbole of the Zhukov personality cult, Roberts debunks many of the myths that have sprung up around Zhukov's life, to deliver fresh insights into the marshal's relations with Stalin, Khrushchev and Eisenhower. A highly regarded historian of Soviet Russia, Roberts has fashioned the definitive biography of this seminal 20th-century figure." -- Provided by publisherHistoria mínima de Argentina (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Raúl Mandrini. 2018
"This book proposes a general approach to the Argentine past. It is an authentic synthesis effort that reconstructs the great…
avenues of a history in which politics, economy, society and culture are interwoven. The journey begins with the first human settlements thousands of years ago, and closes with the debates, conflicts and challenges that Argentina is going through at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This broad chronology unfolds according to four moments: the original populations; the colonial period; the process of independence and national organization; and finally the contemporary era and the immediate past." -- Translation provided by NLSBuilding an orchestra of hope: how Favio Chávez taught children to make music from trash
Par Carmen Oliver. 2022
When a children's orchestra in Cateura, Paraguay, grows to have more students than instruments, music teacher Favio Chávez works with…
a brilliant local carpenter to create instruments out of garbage from the local landfill. For grades K-3Renderbrook: a century under the spade brand
Par Steve Kelton. 1989
The hundred-year-old Spade Ranch was built with earnings from barbed wire, the Yankee invention that revolutionized Texas ranching and made…
a cattleman out of entrepreneur Isaac Ellwood. Today, the ranch still belongs to Ellwood's descendants. This lively narrative chronicles the ranch's growth, mirroring the history of ranching in West TexasSouth Pass: gateway to a continent
Par Will Bagley. 2014
Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation's history and to the development of the American West. Fur…
traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass in transforming the American West in a single generation. AdultNotorious Victoria: The Life Of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored
Par Mary Gabriel. 1998
Victoria Woodhull, born in poverty, emerged as a prominent voice of the women's rights movement, speaking before a congressional committee…
about suffrage and later declaring her candidacy for president. Between her avowal of free love and her role in revealing Henry Ward Beecher's adulteries, Victoria Woodhull slipped from the public eye-- and from the history books. Adult. UnratedA hand on their shoulder: the special love story at Marbridge Ranch
Par Mary Mae Hartley. 1989
The story of Marbridge Ranch, the first "halfway house" established in Texas to help the mentally disabled move into the…
larger society. The Marbridge Plan began when Ed and Marge Bridge's son was born brain-damaged, and they decided to devote their lives to Jim and other mentally handicapped men and women. They have since proved to skeptical professionals that many mentally handicapped people can become wage-earning, self- sufficient citizensTempest-tossed: the spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker
Par Susan Campbell. 2013
An enthralling portrait of an American lady: a cross between a character out of Edith Wharton, Emily Bronte, and Sigmund…
Freud. A work as concerned with the spiritual as it is with the material, readers will be swept up in the details of a particular moment in New England history as it reveals the universal themes of human ambition, frustration, despair, and enlightenment. Adult. UnratedMongolia: a political history of the land and its people
Par Michael Dillon. 2020
"Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. But modern Mongolia is now…
caught between two giants: China and Russia; and known to be home to enormous mineral resources they are keen to exploit. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over Inner Mongolia. Michael Dillon, one of the foremost experts on the region, seeks to tell the modern history of this fascinating country. He investigates its history of repression, the slaughter of the country's Buddhists, its painful experiences under Soviet rule and dictatorship, and its history of corruption. But there is hope for its future, and it now has a functioning parliamentary democracy which is broadly representative of Mongolia's ethnic mix. How long that can last is another question. Short, sharp and authoritative, Mongolia will become the standard text on the region as it begins to shape world affairs." -- Provided by publisherIf you lived during the Civil War (If you lived)
Par Denise Lewis Patrick. 2022
"What do you know about the Civil War? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would…
you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived...series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving readers. What if you lived during the Civil War? Would you be allowed to be a soldier? How would you communicate? What is the true story of the battle between the states? Denise Lewis Patrick answers all these questions and more in this comprehensive guide to the Civil War. A great choice for Civil War units, and for teaching children about this important moment in American history." -- Provided by publisherHistoria mínima de México (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Daniel Cosío Villegas. 2021
"This classic from El Colegio de México is republished 44 years after its first edition. The events that have left…
their mark on the history of Mexico are recorded in these pages, from the uncertain steps of its first settlers, in pre-Hispanic times, to the also uncertain steps of those who went through the crisis of the eighties in the twentieth century. Between this and that, the reader can follow the course of the viceregal era, the formative period of independent Mexico, the modern stretch of the restored Republic and the Porfiriato, the Revolution and the years of 'political stability and economic progress.'" -- Translation provided by NLSSix days in Havana
Par James A Michener. 1989
With his associate, John Kings, James Michener visited Havana in mid-1988 during research for a new novel on the Caribbean.…
He was only looking for a house and a sugar plantation in which to set the Cuban portion of the story but he found much more to excite his interest. Fascinated by the spectacle of once-grand public buildings and mansions slowly falling into ruin, Michener and Kings set out to explore all of Havana that they could see in six days, including coffee and sugar plantations in the outlying areas. 1989. Adult"This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who-in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old-joined the Imperial Japanese Navy…
to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps-a group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their lives by crashing planes into enemy ships. Their callsign was "ten dead, zero alive." By picking up Memoirs of a Kamikaze, readers will experience the hardships of fighter pilot training-dipping and diving and watching as other trainees crash into nearby mountainsides. They'll witness the psychological trauma of coming to terms with death before each mission, and breathe a sigh of relief with Odachi when his last mission is cut short by Japan's eventual surrender. They'll feel the anger at a government and society that swept so much of the sacrifice under the rug in its desperation to rebuild. Odachi's innate "samurai spirit" carried him through childhood, WWII and his eventual life as a kendo instructor, police officer and detective. His attention to detail, unwavering self-discipline and impenetrably strong mind were often the difference between life and death. Odachi, who is now well into his nineties, kept his Kamikaze past a secret for most of his life. Seven decades later, he agreed to sit for nearly seventy hours of interviews with the authors of this book-who know Odachi personally. He felt it was his responsibility to finally reveal the truth about the Kamikaze pilots: that they were unsuspecting teenagers and young men asked to do the bidding of superior officers who were never held to account. This book offers a new perspective on these infamous suicide pilots. It is not a chronicle of war, nor is it a collection of research papers compiled by scholars. It is a transcript of Odachi's words." -- Provided by publisherZapata y la Revolución mexicana (Sección de obras de historia)
Par John Womack. 2017
"This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and…
commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking agrarian reform. Zapata's dedication to the cause of land rights made him a hero to the people. Womack describes the contributing factors and conditions preceding the Mexican Revolution, creating a narrative that examines political and agrarian transformations on local and national levels." -- GoodreadsSuffragette: the battle for equality
Par David Roberts. 2019
"A century ago, women in the United States and the United Kingdom won the right to vote. The long road…
to victory required courage, intelligence, and the tireless determination of many fascinating women and men, some of whose contributions to this profound societal change have received relatively little attention. Here, in a lavishly illustrated book for young people, best-selling author-illustrator David Roberts celebrates dozens of key suffrage figures from the U. K. and U. S. in beautiful portraits and thrilling scenes that bring them--and their courageous efforts--to vivid life." -- Dust jacketMore than petticoats: Remarkable Nevada women (More than petticoats series)
Par Jan Cleere. 2005
The book presents the compelling histories of fourteen pioneer women, all born before 1900, who traveled Nevada Territory in unstable…
wagons, on temperamental mules and in early Model T's to leave a legacy of courage and celebration as they broke records, hearts, and rules while conquering unchartered ground. AdultBorder: the U.S.-Mexico line
Par Leon Claire Metz. 1989
This is a chronicle of the Mexican border, a historical account described largely through the eyes and experiences of government…
agents, politicians, soldiers, revolutionaries, outlaws, Indians, engineers, immigrants, developers, illegal aliens, businesspeople, and wayfarers looking for jobs. The author shares with the reader the massive effort of two nations to pull together for a common causeThe Zulus at war: the history, rise, and fall of the tribe that washed its spears
Par Adrian Greaves. 2014
"By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of…
Zululand, |The Zulus at War| is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership the warrior nation built a fearsome fighting reputation without equal among the native tribes of South Africa. It also examines the tactics and weapons employed during the numerous intertribal battles over this period. They then became victims of their own success in that their defeat of the Boers in 1877 and 1878 in the Sekunini War prompted the well-documented British intervention. Initially the might of the British empire was humbled as never before by the shock Zulu victory at Isandlwana but the 1879 war ended with the brutal crushing of the Zulu Nation. But, as Adrian Greaves reveals, this was by no means the end of the story. The little known consequences of the division of Zululand, the Boer War, and the 1906 Zulu Rebellion are analyzed in fascinating detail. An added attraction for readers is that this long-awaited history is written not just by a leading authority but, thanks to the coauthor's contribution, from the Zulu perspective using much completely fresh material." -- Provided by publisher