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American dance : the complete illustrated history / by Fuhrer, Margaret.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index."A lavishly illustrated history of American dance; covers more than four centuries, from Native American ceremonial dances to the early 21st century; written by journalist and dancer Margaret Fuhrer"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Dance; Modern dance;
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The Penguin history of modern China : the fall and rise of a great power, 1850 to the present / by Fenby, Jonathan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. This book shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim to brutality on an unmatched scale, to oppression, to war and to famine. This makes its current position as the newest and, arguably, most important global superpower all the more extraordinary.
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The sandcastle girls : a novel / by Bohjalian, Chris,1960-;
Includes bibliographical references."Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Armenian Americans; Armenian massacres, 1915-1923; Armenians;
© c2012., Doubleday,
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Modern wedding : creating a celebration that looks & feels like you / by McKinnon, Kelsey,author.; Ross, Abby,photographer.; Ross, Lauren(Photographer),photographer.;
Subjects: Weddings; Weddings;
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The everything war : Amazon's ruthless quest to own the world and remake corporate power / by Mattioli, Dana,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'The Everything War' is the shocking untold exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary. It will become the defining account of how Amazon became the 21st century Standard Oil, and explains what led to the U.S. government, and nations around the world, to charge the tech giant with one of the biggest antitrust cases in modern history.
Subjects: Amazon.com (Firm); Antitrust law; Avarice.; Corporate power.; Monopolies.;
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The last queen : Elizabeth II's seventy year battle to save the House of Windsor / by Irving, Clive,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 349) and index.A timely and revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth and her family, this work explores how the Windsors have evolved and thrived as the modern world has changed around them.
Subjects: Biographies.; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-; Windsor, House of.; Monarchy; Queens;
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The sandcastle girls [sound recording] / by Bohjalian, Chris,1960-; Campbell, Cassandra.; Fraser, Alison,1955-;
Read by Cassandra Campbell and Alison Fraser."Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Armenian Americans; Armenian massacres, 1915-1923; Armenians; Audiobooks.;
© p2012., Random House Audio,
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First platoon : a story of modern war in the age of identity dominance / by Jacobsen, Annie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An urgent investigation into warfare in the age of biometrics, and the dangerous implications of new technologies that would allow the government to identify anyone, anywhere, at any time"--
Subjects: United States. Army. Cavalry Regiment, 73rd. Squadron, 4th.; United States. Army; Afghan War, 2001-; Biometric identification; Terrorists; Military intelligence;
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Canada's prime ministers and the shaping of a national identity / by Blake, Raymond Benjamin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Since Confederation, Canadian prime ministers have consciously constructed the national story. Each created shared narratives, formulating and reformulating a series of unifying national ideas that served to keep this geographically large, ethnically diverse, and regionalized nation together. This book is about those narratives and stories. Focusing on the post-Second World War period, Raymond B. Blake shows how, regardless of political stripe, prime minsters worked to build national unity, forged a citizenship based on inclusion, and defined a place for Canada in the world. They created for citizens an ideal image of what the nation stood for and the path it should follow. They told a national story of Canada as a modern, progressive, liberal state with a strong commitment to inclusion, a deep respect for diversity and difference, and a fundamental belief in universal rights and freedoms. Ultimately, this innovative history provides readers with a new way to see and understand what Canada is, and what holds us together as a nation."--
Subjects: Nationalism; Nationalism; Prime ministers; Prime ministers;
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The new India : the unmaking of the world's largest democracy / by Bhatia, Rahul,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change. Based on six years of detailed research and on-the-ground reporting, the book builds -- authoritatively, vividly, indelibly -- to become the story of post-colonial India. Using hundreds of interviews, and letters, diary entries, Partition-era police reports, and an astonishing range of sources, Bhatia shows how history plays a recurring role in the present: in politics, in the minds of citizens, in notions of justice and corruption. Bhatia examines the connections between the Delhi riots of 2020 and the emergence of nineteenth-century revolutionary secret societies, the rise of Hindu nationalism, whose early advocates drew lessons from Hitler and Mussolini, the political use of misinformation and religious targeting, and the Hindu fundamentalist ideology that sparked the creation of the world's largest biometric project. As Bhatia shows, the evolution of this citizen database, in the hands of the BJP, now threatens to deny vast numbers of India's 200 million Muslims their Indian citizenship. Electorates in democracies used to choose their government. Now, in India, the government is choosing its electorate. India has rarely been seen as in The New India, a monumental work of narrative reportage that illuminates the ways in which a supremacist ideology remade the country over decades, resulting in the prodigious rise of Narendra Modi, and forcing many to ask what they truly understood about their neighbours and themselves.
Subjects: Modī, Narendra, 1950-; Democracy; Hindutva; Ideology; Muslims; Secret societies;
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