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Author
Language
English
Description
"'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves."--
4) Seminole
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This title introduces readers to the Seminole people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today"--Publisher.
5) Navajo
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"This book introduces young readers to the Navajo people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Navajo are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
6) Comanche
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book introduces young readers to the Comanche people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Comanche are keeping their culture alive today"--
7) Algonquin
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book introduces young readers to the Algonquin people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Algonquins are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
8) Iroquois
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book introduces young readers to the Iroquois people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Iroquois are keeping their culture alive today"--Publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form...
10) Apache
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Introduces young readers to the Apache people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Apache are keeping their culture alive today"--OCLC.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death...
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