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History and Current Events October 2017
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CMRLS is celebrating several anniversaries during October: Mississippi's Bicentennial year, called Tour the Town, a celebration of our library communities and their place in the history of Mississippi; also, the 80th Birthday of the Brandon Public Library, and the 20th Birthday of the Scott County Genealogical & Historical Society that meets at the Forest Public Library. See the October 2017 Events calendar for more information. The calendar can be filtered by age, event type, location, and keyword. Join us for a history-filled month!
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| Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption by Benjamin RachlinViewing the history of a wrongful conviction through the lens of the trial, verdict, and imprisonment of Willie James Grimes, author Benjamin Rachlin traces the specifics of this case as well as the beginnings of North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Commission. While other convictions had been questioned after DNA evidence was introduced, the Grimes case was a key factor in passing a 2006 state law that enables systematic challenges to mishandled prosecutions. For another unsettling look at a questionable conviction (in 1950s Alabama), check out S. Jonathan Bass' He Calls Me by Lightning. |
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| The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. TwittyFood blogger (Afroculinaria), Judaic studies scholar, and Southerner Michael Twitty connects family history with food and culture in this wide-ranging -- and often mouth-watering -- study. Primarily a narrative cultural history that examines slavery, race relations, soul food, and even kosher cooking, The Cooking Gene includes recipes that Twitty extensively researched and personally tested. Fans of culinary history, African American studies, and multicultural memoirs will relish this richly descriptive survey. For additional exploration of some of Twitty's themes, try Frederick Douglass Opie's Southern Food and Civil Rights or John Edge's The Potlikker Papers. |
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The Origins of ISIS : The Collapse of Nations and Revolution in the Middle East
by Simon Mabon
The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military exploits, brutal tactics and radicalisation methods employed by the group. While ISIS remains a relatively new phenomenon, it is important to consider the historical and local dynamics that have shaped the emergence of the group in the past decade. In this book Simon Mabon and Stephen Royle provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the roots, tactics and ideology of the group, exploring the interactions of the various participants involved in the formative stages of ISIS. Based on original scholarly sources and first-hand research in the region, this book provides an authoritative and closely-analysed look at the emergence of one of the defining forces of the early twenty-first century.
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The ethics of influence : government in the age of behavioral science
by Cass R Sunstein
An eminent legal scholar and best-selling co-author of Nudge breaks new ground with a deep yet highly readable investigation into the ethical issues surrounding nudges, or the behavior-insights teams used by governments; choice architecture; and mandatesùaddressing such issues as welfare, autonomy, self-government, dignity, manipulation and more.
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Russia: 100 years since the Revolution |
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The court of the last tsar : pomp, power, and pageantry in the reign of Nicholas II
by Greg King
"While a massive body of literature has been devoted to the last of the Romanovs, The Court of the Last Tsar is the first book to examine the people, mysteries, traditions, scandals, rivalries, and riches that were part of everyday life in the last two decades of the Romanovdynasty. This illustrated volume removes the mystery with twenty-four pages of color photos; more than eighty black-and-white photos; floor plans of the tsar's Winter Palace, the Alexander, Palace, and the Grand Kremlin Palace; a map of St. Petersburg; and plans of the imperial parks at Tsarkoye Selo and Peterhof." "This tour of hedonistic imperial Russia on the edge of oblivion draws on hundreds of previously unpublished primary sources, including memoirs, personal letters, diary entries, and official documents collected during author Greg King's fifteen years of research in Russia and elsewhere in Europe. It invites you to experience dozens of extravagant ceremonies and entertainments attended only by members of the court; exposes the numerous sexual intrigues of the imperial family, including rape, incest, and brazen affairs; and introduces many of the more than fifteen thousand individuals who made the imperial court a society unto itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler : the age of social catastrophe
by Robert Gellately
A study of the political and social upheavals that rocked Europe between 1914 and 1945 focuses on the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and on the dictatorships of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, revealing the similarities and differences among the three, the conflict between Communism and Nazism, and their repercussions in terms of the horrors and genocide of World War II.
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The fly swatter : how my grandfather made his way in the world
by Nicholas Dawidoff
Written by his grandson, a portrait of the complex and contradictory life and times of Alexander Gerschenkron, a Russian-born, Viennese-trained economist, describes his flight from the Russian Revolution and, later, the Nazis, his successful career at Harvard, and his relationships with colleagues, friends, and enemies. By the author of The Catcher Was a Spy.
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The Russian revolution, 1917 : a personal record
by N. N. Sukhanov
Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government. His seven-volume book, first published in 1922, was suppressed under Stalin. This reissue of the abridged version is, as the editor's preface points out, one of the few things written about this most dramatic and momentous event, which actually has the smell of life, and gives us a feeling for the personalities, the emotions, and the play of ideas of the whole revolutionary period."
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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