A Young People's History of the United States

A Young People's History of the United States
By:"Howard Zinn"
Published on 2011-01-04 by Seven Stories Press

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of A Young People’s History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword young.

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Fat History

Fat History
By:"Peter N. Stearns"
Published on 2002-09-01 by NYU Press

The modern struggle against fat cuts deeply and pervasively into American culture. Dieting, weight consciousness, and widespread hostility toward obesity form one of the fundamental themes of modern life. Fat History explores the meaning of fat in contemporary Western society and illustrates how progressive changes, such as growth in consumer culture, increasing equality for women, and the refocusing of women's sexual and maternal roles have influenced today's obsession with fat. Brought up-to-date with a new preface and filled with narrative anecdotes, Fat History explores fat's transformation from a symbol of health and well-being to a sign of moral, psychological, and physical disorder.

This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword beauty.

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The History of al-Tabari Vol. 39

The History of al-Tabari Vol. 39
By:"Ella Landau-Tasseron"
Published on 1998-01 by SUNY Press

This is biographical material that al-T'abari appended to his History, bringing together biographies of Companions and successors of the Prophet. Many chapters are devoted to women who played a role in the transmission of knowledge.

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword biographies.

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Early History of Thurston County, Washington

Early History of Thurston County, Washington
By:"Georgiana Mitchell Blankenship"
Published on 1914 by

This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword biographies.

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History of the Art of Antiquity

History of the Art of Antiquity
By:"Johann Joachim Winckelmann","Alex Potts"
Published on 2006 by Getty Publications

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This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword art.

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Korea, and in Korean Cookbooks, Restaurants, and Korean Work with Soyfoods outside Korea

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Korea, and in Korean Cookbooks, Restaurants, and Korean Work with Soyfoods outside Korea
By:"William Shurtleff","Akiko Aoyagi"
Published on 2014-03-26 by Soyinfo Center

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on soy in Korea. With extensive index and 80 photographs and illustration. Free of charge in digital format on Google Books

This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword cookbooks.

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The History of Ancient Art

The History of Ancient Art
By:"Johann Joachim Winckelmann"
Published on 1849 by

This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword art.

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Japan, and in Japanese Cookbooks and Restaurants outside Japan (701 CE to 2014)

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Japan, and in Japanese Cookbooks and Restaurants outside Japan (701 CE to 2014)
By:"William Shurtleff","Akiko Aoyagi"
Published on 2014-02-19 by Soyinfo Center

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject, with 445 photographs and illustrations. Plus an extensive index.

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword cookbooks.

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The Cooking of History

The Cooking of History
By:"Stephan Palmié"
Published on 2013-06-14 by University of Chicago Press

Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides a comprehensive analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of the Afro-Atlantic World. Understood largely through its rituals and ceremonies, Santería and related religions have been a challenge for anthropologists to link to a hypothetical African past. But, Palmié argues, precisely by relying on the notion of an aboriginal African past, and by claiming to authenticate these religions via their findings, anthropologists—some of whom have converted to these religions—have exerted considerable influence upon contemporary practices. Critiquing widespread and damaging simplifications that posit religious practices as stable and self-contained, Palmié calls for a drastic new approach that properly situates cultural origins within the complex social environments and scholarly fields in which they are investigated.

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword cooking.

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Biographical History of Cloud County, Kansas

Biographical History of Cloud County, Kansas
By:"E. F. Hollibaugh"
Published on 1903 by

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword biographies.

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The History and Art of Printing ...

The History and Art of Printing ...
By:"Philip Luckombe"
Published on 1771 by

This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword art.

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A Concise History of Photography

A Concise History of Photography
By:"Helmut Gernsheim"
Published on 1986 by Courier Corporation

Highly acclaimed, scholarly volume examines technological advances and artistic development, with nearly 300 examples of photographic art. 285 black-and-white photos.

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword photography.

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