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Defy the storm / by Gratton, Tessa,author.; Ireland, Justina,author.;
"One year after the fall of Starlight Beacon, the galaxy is in chaos. An anarchistic group known as the Nihil has taken over a section of space now known as the Occlusion Zone. Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and scientist Avon Starros team up in an attempt to find a way through the Nihil Stormwall to save those on the other side."--
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Science fiction.; Novels.; Interplanetary voyages; Jedi (Fictitious characters); Space colonies; War; Interplanetary voyages; Jedi (Fictitious characters); Space colonies; War;
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The blackbirder / by Nelson, James L.;
Subjects: Slave insurrections; Pirates;
© c2001., HarperCollins Pub.,
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Pathogenesis : a history of the world in eight plagues / by Kennedy, Jonathan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through 60,000 years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the world's major religions. By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective past--and urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story"--
Subjects: Diseases and history.; Epidemics; Plague;
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Soundtrack to a coup d'etat [videorecording] / by Armstrong, Louis,1901-1971,on-screen participant.; Blouin, Andrée,1921-1986,on-screen participant.; Coltrane, John,1926-1967,on-screen participant.; Grimonprez, Johan,film director,screenwriter.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.;
Louis Armstrong, Andrě Blouin, John Coltrane.United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today's geopolitical climate.E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Historical films.; Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961; United Nations. Security Council; Jazz musicians; Cold War; Coups d'etat; Geopolitics;
For private home use only.
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1494 : how a family feud in medieval Spain divided the world in half / by Bown, Stephen R.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-279) and index.Looks at how a feud between monarchs the Church created the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 and divided the entire world between Spain and Portugal.LSC
Subjects: Ferdinand V, King of Spain, 1452-1516.; Isabella I, Queen of Spain, 1451-1504.; John II, King of Portugal, 1455-1495.; Treaty of Tordesillas (1494).;
© c2011., Douglas & McIntyre,
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The Herbert Macaulay Affair. by Umoren, Imoh,film director.; Balogun, Saidi,actor.; Benson, William,actor.; Destinations Flag (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Saidi Balogun, William BensonOriginally produced by Destinations Flag in 2019.Set in 1920s Nigeria, THE HERBERT MACAULAY AFFAIR follows the life of Nigerian nationalist Herbert Macaulay, who returns to Nigeria from England and begins the opposition to the colonial government.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion pictures--Africa.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures--Nigeria.;
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The sun walks down / by McFarlane, Fiona,1978-author.;
"The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Country life; Dust storms; Interpersonal relations; Missing children; Search and rescue operations;
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Cats of Malta. by Jayne, Sarah,film director.; Jayne, Sarah,actor.; Entertainment Squad (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Sarah Jayne PortelliOriginally produced by Entertainment Squad in 2023.Experience the colorful cats of Malta as you journey through cat colonies, meeting locals and artists who embrace and look after the huge population of stray cats in this Mediterranean Island.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Zoology.; Documentary films.;
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Australia / by McCollum, Sean.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index.Welcome! -- Dry and flat -- Seasons -- Critters -- The reef -- First people -- A colony -- City -- Country -- Family life -- Aussie talk -- Religion -- Celebrate! -- Sports -- Food -- Schooltime -- Vacation -- Art -- Movies -- What to read -- The flag of
© 2008., Lerner,
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America, América : a new history of the New World / by Grandin, Greg,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates, the nation's unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south-no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World Grandin reveals how North and South emerged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other. America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest-the greatest mortality event in human history-through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond. Grandin shows, among other things, how royalist Spanish America, by sending troops and supplies, helped save the republican American Revolution; how in response to U.S. interventions, Latin Americans remade the rules, leading directly to the founding of the United Nations; and how the Good Neighbor Policy allowed FDR to assume the moral authority to lead the fight against world fascism. Grandin's book sheds new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who almost lost his head in the French Revolution and conspired with Alexander Hamilton to free America from Spain; the Colombian Jorge Gaitán, whose unsolved murder inaugurated the rise of Cold War political terror, death squads, and disappearances; and the radical journalist Ernest Gruening, who in championing non-interventionism in Latin America, helped broker the most spectacularly successful policy reversal in United State history. This is a monumental work of scholarship that will fundamentally change the way we think of slavery and racism, the rise of universal humanism, and the role of social democracy in staving off extremism. At once comprehensive and accessible, America, América shows that centuries of bloodshed and diplomacy not only helped shape the political identities of the United States and Latin America but also the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world. A culmination of a decades-long engagement with hemispheric history, drawing on a vast array of sources, and told with authority and flair, this is a genuinely new history of the New World"--
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