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History and Current Events January 2017
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Cast away : true stories of survival from Europe's refugee crisis
by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Examines the refugee crisis in Europe as droves of people try to escape turmoil in the Middle East and Africa, describing the agonizing stories and terrible decisions that migrants have to make as they head toward what they believe is a better life
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Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America
by Patrick Phillips
A harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America chronicles acts of racial cleansing in early 20th-century Forsyth County, Georgia, where the murder of a young girl led to mob lynchings, acts of terror against black workers and violent protests by night riders who would enforce whites-only citizenship.
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Is This Live? : Inside the Wild Early Years of Muchmusic: the Nation's Music Station by Christopher WardIs This Live? captures the pure fun and rock 'n' roll rebellion of the early years of MuchMusic television. On August 31, 1984, the Nation's Music Station launched, breaking ground as the Wild (Canadian) West of television--live, gloriously unpredictable, seat-of-the-pants TV, delivered fresh daily. Ranging from Toronto's iconic studio at 299 Queen Street West, to Vancouver's MuchWest, MuchMusic's programming travelled across Canada and connected the Canadian music scenes in an unprecedented way. With stories of the bands, the music, the videos, the specialty shows, the style and the improvisational approach to daily broadcast life at Much, Is This Live? is told by the people who were there--the colourful cast of on-air VJs, the artists who found their way into our living rooms of the nation as never before, and the people behind the cameras. Christopher Ward delivers a full-on dose of pop culture nostalgia from the 1980s and '90s, when the music scene in Canada changed forever.
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| The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall FergusonThough Occupy Wall Street went home five years ago and the story of Wells Fargo's fake accounts broke this past September, this is as opportune a time as any to read author Niall Ferguson's history of money, banking, and credit. Ferguson, who is both a historian and an author of several books on money-related topics, provides an accessible and engaging guide to financial history, from Mesopotamia's clay tablets to the bursting of bubbles. If you're looking for the logic behind financial institutions, want to understand why credit was necessary for civilization to prosper, or are curious what Scottish widows have to do with insurance theory, you'll want to check out The Ascent of Money. |
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Magna Carta : the making and legacy of the great charter by Dan JonesOn a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch reluctantly agreed to fix his regal seal to a document that would change the world. A milestone in the development of constitutional politics and the rule of law, the 'Great Charter' established an Englishman's right to Habeas Corpus and set limits to the exercise of royal power. For the first time a group of subjects had forced an English king to agree to a document that limited his powers by law and protected their rights. Dan Jones's elegant and authoritative narrative of the making and legacy of Magna Carta is amplified by profiles of the barons who secured it and a full text of the charter in both Latin and English.
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| Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures by Paul LukacsFrom its inconsistently palatable origins to today's scientifically managed vintages, alcoholic grape juice has been a popular beverage for 8000 years. In Inventing Wine, English professor and oenophile Paul Lukacs traces details of its history, including ancient casks found in King Tut's tomb, the development of glass bottles, Louis Pasteur's analysis of yeast action, and Prohibition. Though the earliest wines were suitable mainly for getting drunk, human ingenuity and perseverance gradually elevated the vintner's craft to a science and made wine into an affordable source of pleasure. Enjoy this engrossing account while sipping, perhaps, a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau. |
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Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war by Nathaniel PhilbrickA history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England challenges popular misconceptions, discussing such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the fragile working relationship between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors, and the devastating impact of the King Philip's War. By the author of Sea of Glory.
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| Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Patricia SullivanThis chronological history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People begins with its little-known early decades, when it was founded and led by an inter-racial group of equal rights activists. Lift Every Voice profiles important individuals, including W.E.B. Du Bois and suffragist Mary White Ovington, and details the organization's activities during World War I and after. In the Depression and New Deal eras, it moved into anti-segregationist litigation; after World War II, Brown v. Board of Education proved to be a key victory. Though published before the advent of #BlackLivesMatter, this compelling account portrays the origins of an essential force in the dismantling of Jim Crow. |
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