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A guide to countries around the world, including facts, travel essentials, and extensive coverage of culture, history, and language.
Author
Publisher
IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new. For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition to Spanish colonialism, Latin American dictatorships, US imperialism in Central America, the oppression of farmworkers, or the current exploitation...
Author
Publisher
Soulstice Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this extended visual essay celebrating the San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff, watch more than 150 years of history unfold in 125 historical drawings and photographs paired with their modern-day counterparts. Author John L. Vankat, an experienced plantecologist and teacher, reveals the telling historical and natural details that provide meaning and context and bring history alive. The photo sets document the effects of lumber mills, early settlement,...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Field journaling is an adaptable process of observation and perception which engages individuals of all ages, helping them to construct their own deep connection with the more than human wold. Compared to journals in general, a nature journal is unique in that place takes on a central role as the main subject along with the journalist as observer. This activity generates a foundation of wonder, joy and caring in the individual practitioner. The following...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Professor of Sociology Dr. Joanna Kemper follows a group of people united only by debilitating cluster headaches, who, after coming together in the early days of the internet, developed their own medicine from home-grown mushrooms, produced near-clinicalgrade trials and dosing protocols, and managed to get academics at Harvard and Yale to test their work and results. In the process, this extraordinary story reminiscent of John Carreyrou's Bad Blood...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating true-crime caper about Arthur Barry, a jewel thief who charmed celebrities and millionaires, stole from Rockefellers and royalty, and pulled off the most audacious and lucrative heists of the Jazz Age"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From Paleolithic loincloths to Henry VII's wives wearing underwear on their heads and beyond, this hilarious--and accurate--history of underwear (as comically modeled by chickens), tells the fascinating story of our most private clothing.
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Pub
Pub. Date
[2009], ©2009.
Language
English
Description
Describes in graphic novel format how the United States reacted to the rest of the world from Maximilian's rule in Mexico to the treaties following World War I, and includes the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii, the Spanish-American War, and the buildingof the Panama Canal.