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1) Stargirl
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"In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever"--T.p. verso.
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In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates that California Indians and native Hawaiians adapted in ways that allowed them to harvest the opportunities for wealth that these unfamiliar biological...
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By the mid-twentieth century, smallpox had vanished from North America and Europe but continued to persist throughout Africa, Asia, and South America. In 1965, the United States joined an international effort to eradicate the disease, and after fifteen years of steady progress, the effort succeeded. Bob H. Reinhardt demonstrates that the fight against smallpox drew American liberals into new and complex relationships in the global Cold War, as he...
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International Chef Exchange volume 6
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In Brighton, Sicilian Chef Nicola demonstrates his gelato making skills and cooks live for a huge audience. He tours Audrey's Chocolates. Meanwhile, British chef Seb Cole visits sunny Sicily for a feast granita in the beautiful seaside town of Acireale. While there he climbs Etna, visits vineyards, and descends into the ice caves on the slopes of the local volcano.
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International Chef Exchange volume 2
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Chef Bas Oonk visits Michael's acclaimed restaurant 64 Degrees in Brighton to demonstrate his exquisite skills. He visits an organic chocolate producer, a traditional English Pub and the famous Victorian subterranean aquarium. Over in Den Haag Michael runs the kitchen at Basaal to show his own modern European style of cooking. He visits the local fish market, eats herring and learns about Genever.
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International Chef Exchange volume 5
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In Brighton, food celebrity Chef Tony Leck produces a fabulous meal, embracing local produce and foraged foods. While in Sussex he travels to a micro-brewery and a beach front fish smoker. Over in Guernsey, Semone cooks a dinner of twisted classics to the delight of his audience. He tours a cider producer, herb farm and cheese maker.
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International Chef Exchange volume 3
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Swedish celebrity chef Christofer Johansson creates a stunning feast for the British locals. While in Sussex he visits an apple orchard and cider farm, and meets a local gamekeeper. In Linköping, chefs Jimmy and Jeremy cook up a Sussex storm. They tour a beautiful castle garden, an organic farm, and a fabulous lakeside restaurant.
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International Chef Exchange volume 4
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Chef Audrey Eussen comes to Brighton to cook a fabulous meal from her native Limburg. She tours the Ridgeview Wine Estate, a local fishing fleet and a Sussex cheese producer. Brighton's Andy MacKenzie travels to Maastricht and takes over Audrey's kitchen. He visits a pasta maker, kobe beef producer and tastes foie gras.
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International Chef Exchange volume 1
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Dutch celebrity chef Pepijn Schmeink comes to Brighton to cook his innovative cuisine. He also visits a cheese shop, eats artisan gelato and cooks traditional British fish and chips. Meanwhile, Rob Carr travels to Pepijn's restaurant, struggles with a strange kitchen, transfers desserts across the city in the back of a van and battles to create a stunning dinner.
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Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From...
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As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how...
14) The Exchange
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He's fighting the present. He's fleeing the past. Can love survive across the ages?
Pendleton, 2030. Ari never backs down from doing the right thing. And when her defiance almost costs her father's job, her punishment is to host an exchange student from the early Twentieth Century. But the cute farm boy she gets stuck with unexpectedly steals her heart… and unleashes a flood of trouble.
James hates life in 1903 and wants to live in the future....
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In ancient times, the Mediterranean Sea allowed Greeks, Phoenicians, Egyptians, and the people of Mesopotamia to trade goods and make cultural connections. In fact, trade routes through the Mediterranean allowed both Greeks and Phoenicians to establish new colonies, extending their reach and leading to immense wealth. Mediterranean Trade Routes provides context for how these routes fostered political relationships, private business, and advances in...
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The Northwest Passage has captured the imagination of nations and explorers for hundreds of years. And today, as global warming reshapes geography, trade along the passage is becoming a reality for the first time. This book provides a sweeping history of the route from the earliest attempts to navigate through its punishing landscape to breaking news about its economic viability in modern day.
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France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic...
18) The Panama Canal
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Since the beginning of exploration, people have searched for easier ways to navigate between waterways and oceans to bolster trade. The Panama Canal demonstrates how innovation, advanced engineering, hard work, and great personal cost resulted in one of modern history's most critical trade routes. This book includes information about the explorers and inventors behind the project, the goods and services traded, and the ways the canal is used today....
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The Phoenicians were known as intrepid sailors, and their skillful navigation and shipbuilding led to trade routes that brought them glory and economic power. This book investigates the ways that technology helped to form trade partnerships between cultures, which ultimately resulted in the transmission of art, new economic systems, and more.
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Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought monumental changes worldwide. During a turbulent Vietnamese past, rubber transcended capitalism and socialism, colonization and decolonization, becoming a key commodity around which life and history have revolved. In this path breaking study, Michitake Aso narrates how rubber plantations came to dominate...
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