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Reducere. Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern. Culture and Cust...
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Reducere. Tales from the Greenwood District is a series of short fictional stories that adds color and dimension to Black Wall Street before the Tulsa Massac...
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Reducere. The Victory of Greenwood invites readers to learn more about the full history of the Greenwood community, aka "Black Wall Street", through the live...
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Reducere. Cooking with the Bible provides a feast for the body, mind, and spirit, introducing contemporary cooks to recipes for eighteen meals described in t...
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Reducere. Here is an in-depth account of the worst riot in U.S. history, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, assembled by one of Tulsa's most important oral histori...
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Reducere. Even as a young girl, Jane Goodall was fascinated with animals. As she grew older, she would have the opportunity to begin her research on chimpanz...
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Reducere. Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 to parents of German and Spanish descent, in Coyoacan, outside Mexico City. After contracting polio at age six, Frida ...
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Reducere. Sacagawea, kidnapped as an adolescent and sold as a slave to a French-Canadian fur trader, is best known for her role as interpreter and symbol of ...
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Reducere. Jean-Michel Basquiat was barely out of his teens when he rocketed to the center of New York's art scene. He was 27 when he died of a heroin overdos...
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Reducere. Walt Disney has been dissected, criticized, and lauded in numerous biographies, most of which try to penetrate the psychology of the man and his mo...
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Reducere. DescriptionThis much-needed reference text places the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement within the broader context of the African American struggle...
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Reducere. Now known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to fi...
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Reducere. DescriptionUnlike previous works that focus on the relationships of the Chippewa with the colonial governments of France, Great Britain, and the Un...
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Reducere. Although a near-universal experience, grief can be very difficult to talk about and handle. Many of the thoughts and emotions that arise during gri...
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Reducere. Although news outlets provide daily updates on stock market performance, many Americans have little understanding of how stocks and stock exchanges...
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Reducere. He established himself early in his acting career as "the strong silent type" and became known as the "actor's director." In a career that spans se...
Reducere. Latinos make up a vibrant, expanding, and extremely diverse population with a history of being in the Americas that dates back to the early 16th ce...
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Reducere. Using updated scholarship and never before published primary research, this new biography peels away the myths surrounding Emily Dickinson and take...
Reducere. DescriptionNon-suicidal self-injury has been in existence to some extent for centuries. Today, the practices are increasing in terms of the number ...
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Reducere. In every field of study there is one book that rises above the rest in stature and authority and becomes the standard work in the field. In genealo...
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Reducere. In every field of study there is one book that rises above the rest in stature and authority and becomes the standard work in the field. In genealo...
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Reducere. From the restrictive immigration laws that the United States Congress passed against Arabs in the early 20th century to the backlash against this c...
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Reducere. After World War II, the United States was the strongest, most powerful nation in the world. Life was safe and secure--but many women were unhappy w...
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Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...
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Reducere. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit...
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Reducere. The recent histories of Croatia and Slovenia have been relatively stable, as both countries have merged successfully into modern Europe. But how di...
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Reducere. This updated and expanded edition of The History of Spain offers an in-depth examination of Europe's fifth largest economy, providing important cov...
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Reducere. China is both the world's oldest continuing civilization and an emerging global super power. Over the last two millennia, this rich and complex nat...
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Reducere. Examines the ways in which hair has served as a signifier of class, gender, ethnicity, conformity/non-comfority, authority, and power throughout hi...
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