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Discusses the history, geography, and culture of the Pacific Islands including the traditions, family, community, colonialism, religion, everyday life, and the future.
Profiles pirates throughout history, especially women pirates of Europe, America, and Asia, such as Princess Alvilda, Ingean Ruadh, Grany Imallye, Elizabeth Killegrew, Anne Bonny, and Lai Cho San.
Discusses the historical origins, beliefs, arts, family life, cultural clashes with white Europeans, and future hopes of the nomadic Rom, or Roma, people who were once called Gypsies.
Author Anne Wallace Sharp describes the events that led up to and followed the historic Freedom Rides of 1961. The experiences of African Americans in the Jim Crow South, the stark inequality enforced with segregation laws, and the struggles of the budding civil rights movement are all discussed. Sharp recounts the experiences shared by the Freedom Riders as they faced oppression and violence, and describes how this event changed the course of American history.
Discusses the identity, survival, religion, culture, social development, and modern world of the Blackfeet.
Discover the creatures which live in the world's oceans in this attractive hardback jigsaw book. Explore the dramatic ocean environment, then make the jigsaw to recreate the scene. Complete with six 24-piece jigsaws, each page is filled with fascinating facts about the ocean creatures and habitats featured in the jigsaws, and the final spread contains a fun " Can you spot? " Quiz.
Having witnessed too many miracles to believe in coincidences, Sharp and Terbay present not only their inspirational experiences, but those of social workers, counselors, chaplains, volunteers and other hospice staff. These are stories of relatives who couldn't have known that death was imminent, arriving to say good-bye to their loved ones; mysterious specters and light, seen and unseen, touching visitors. These are stories of personal growth, healing, transformation and love.
Influential Hispanic figures can be found worldwide and in all fields of endeavor including science, politics, education, the arts, sports, religion, and literature. Each of these individuals has a unique and fascinating story to tell. These stories are the subjects of The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Hispanics, a biography series from Lucent Books. Vivid narrative, fully documented primary and secondary source quotations, a bibliography, thorough index, and mix of color and black-and-white photographs enhance each volume and provide excellent starting points for research and discussion. Book jacket.
Describes the role of women in ancient Egypt, including their work, home life, and religion.
For African Americans, the Jim Crow era was a period of broken promises and shattered hopes that saw the federal government turning its back on its black citizens.