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Beyond the legacy of Genghis Khan

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Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / by Lehman, Eric D.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: playing The palace -- The boy from Bridgeport -- At the American Museum -- Prince Charles the First -- Buttons, bullfights, and balloons -- Hop o' my thumb -- Heart of a child -- On the New York stage -- The measure of a man -- The wedding of the year -- The long and short of it -- A very strange honeymoon -- Tom Thumb's America -- Around the world -- At the helm -- A marriage and two funerals -- The great fire -- At Mountain Grove.…”
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Cree narrative expressing the personal meanings of events / by Preston, Richard J., 1931-

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Big box reuse by Christensen, Julia

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Center -- The Nelson County Justice Center -- The RPM Indoor Raceway -- Centralia Senior Resource Center -- Network -- The Charter School -- The Head Start Early Childhood Center -- Design -- The Spam Museum -- The Lebanon-Laclede County Library -- The Calvary Chapel -- Future -- The St. …”
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New York City : An Outsider's Inside View / by Maffi, Mario, 1947-

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Nic Nicosia by Nicosia, Nic, 1951-

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Conversations with remarkable Native Americans

Table of Contents: “…Madsen -- From the forgotten American to indigenous rights / Joëlle Rostkowski -- Conversation with series editor Gerald Vizenor -- Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, painter, and UNESCO artist for peace -- Suzan Harjo, policy advocate, journalist, and poet -- Richard West, lawyer and founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian -- Emil Her Many Horses, curator, National Museum of the American Indian -- Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska -- Veronical Tiller, historian, consultant, and writer -- Erma Vizenor, tribal chair, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota -- Louisita Warren, elder of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico -- Tony Abeyta, painter and sculptor -- David Bradley, painter and sculptor -- Darren Vigil Gray, painter and musician -- Jill Momaday, actress, model, and chief of protocol, State of New Mexico -- Rulen Tangen, dancer and choreographer -- Robert Tim Coulter, laywer, founder and director of the Indian Law Resource Center -- Kenneth Deer, journalist, educator, and UN indigenous representative -- Text from U.N. document: Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.…”
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The leadership of George Bush an insider's view of the forty-first president / by Popadiuk, Roman

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Incestuous and close-kin marriage in ancient Egypt and Persia : an examination of the evidence / by Frandsen, Paul John, 1943-

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Thomas Day master craftsman and free man of color / by Marshall, Patricia Phillips

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Coastal shrines and transnational maritime networks across India and Southeast Asia / by Ray, Himanshu Prabha

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Being and becoming Hausa interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…/ Sarah Worden -- God made me a rapper : young men, Islam, and survival in an age of austerity / Adeline Masquelier -- Engendering a Hausa vernacular Christian practice / Barbara Cooper -- Hausa as a process in time and space / John E.G. …”
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Flowing through time a history of the lower Chattahoochee River / by Willoughby, Lynn, 1951-

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Northwest Coast Indian art : an analysis of form / by Holm, Bill, 1925-

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Labour goes to war the CIO and the people's war, and the construction of a new social order, 1939-45 / by Cuthbertson, Wendy

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The challenge of linear time : nationhood and the politics of history in East Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Viren Murthy, Axel Schneider -- [1] Time, history, and moral responsibility -- Negativity and historicist time : facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s / Naoki Sakai -- Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution : Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response / Viren Murthy -- Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China / Axel Schneider -- Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history / Sun Ge -- [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future -- An eschatological view of history : Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s / Takahiro Nakajima -- The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history -- Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China / Long-Hsin Liu -- Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum : the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead / Haiyan Lee -- [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries -- Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao / Tze-Ki Hon -- Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture / Ya-Pei Kuo.…”
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Children's services partnerships for success /

Table of Contents: “…The Big Tree Library / Janet Johnson -- Crossing cultural borders : serving immigrant families / Dorothy Stoltz ... [et al.] -- Language fun storytime : serving children with speech and language delays / Tess Prendergast and Rhea Lazar -- Reaching Little Heights / Catherine Hakala-Ausperk -- Thrive by Five reading readiness initiative / Elizabeth M. …”
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The Search for the First Americans : Science, Power, Politics / by Davis, Robert V., 1947-

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Time restored the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything / by Betts, Jonathan

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A kingdom of the mind how the Scots helped make Canada /

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