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As India stands on the precipice of becoming a global power, historian Michael Wood examines the massive country's 10,000 year history. In his all-encompassing overview, Wood touches upon the many different cultures of India, and the Indian people who have helped to shape the world, including Nehru, Gandhi and Buddha.
67) The Navajo
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This book is a case study of the pastoral aspects of the Nez Ch'ii society and culture.
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"This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American's first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. You'll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to making Tucson taste like nowhere else"--
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In "Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty," Navajo grandmothers, mothers, and daughters in twenty-one families tell their life stories. Through a series of intimate, revelatory personal histories, they open up about how they have been shaped by powerful cultural and historical forces, and by their love for each other. As their stories unfold, photo portraits taken in and around their homes add richly to the readers' understanding...
70) Cinco de Mayo
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Relates the history of Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that honors the Mexican army's victory over the French in 1862, looks at the traditions associated with the celebration, and includes recipes and a song.
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New York Times bestselling author Kathleen E. Woodiwiss debut romance...The Flower Doomed to a life of unending toil, Heather Simmons fears for her innocence-until a shocking, desperate act forces her to flee. . . and to seek refuge in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger. The Flame A lusty adventurer married to the sea, Captain Brandon Birmingham courts scorn and peril when he abducts the beautiful fugitive from the tumultuous London dockside....
74) A Pima past
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"In simple, unaffected prose, Mrs. Shaw constructs a moving saga of Native Americans caught between their tribal past and a Europeanized present. . . . Some of the most interesting passages deal with the wrenching realities of Indian life on the reservation in the years around the turn of the century, when the Indian male as a warrior found himself bereft of his very reason for being and forced to endeavor to become a farmer."—Journal of Arizona...
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Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten.Martin's quest took her to ranches,...
79) Timeline
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A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War
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