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Journey : an illustrated history of travel / by Adams, Simon(Transport consultant),author.(CARDINAL)428967; Grant, R. G.,author.(CARDINAL)265622; Humphreys, Andrew,1965-author.(CARDINAL)530398;
The Ancient World -- Trade and Conquest -- The Age of Discovery -- The Age of Empires -- The Age of Steam -- The Golden Age of Travel -- The Age of Flight."An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery-from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyager missions. Human journeys arise from all manner of impulses, from migration and the search for food, to pilgrimages, trade, scientific curiosity, or simply the quest for adventure. Journey traces each through lively accounts, alongside the biographies of conquerors, explorers, and travelers; stories of technological innovation; literary journals; and works of art. Themed spreads and feature panels capture the romance of travel with evocative accounts, archive images, historic maps, and artifacts, while catalog spreads add glamour and nostalgia, showcasing objects and documents associated with the rise of travel, such as postcards and passports. A textured cover with a picture-perfect image and shiny finishes make it ideal for gift-giving. Produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution." -- ONIX annotation.
Subjects: Travel; Emigration and immigration;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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Fly away : the great African American cultural migrations / by Rutkoff, Peter M.,1942-(CARDINAL)156728; Scott, William B.,1945-(CARDINAL)134718;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Out of Africa : West African origins -- New Africa : South Carolina low country -- Negro capital of the world : Harlem -- Mules and men : Birmingham -- Blues pianos and tricky baseballs : Pittsburgh -- Walkin' Egypt : Mississippi Delta -- Bronzeville's Pinkster Kings : South Side Chicago -- Dixie special : Houston -- California dreaming : South Central LA -- Circle unbroken : three stories and a conclusion.The Great Migration, the mass exodus of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and West in the twentieth century, shaped American culture and life in ways still evident today. The authors trace the ideas that inspired African Americans to abandon the South for freedom and opportunity elsewhere. Black Southerners fled the Low Country of South Carolina, the mines and mills of Birmingham, Alabama, the farms of the Mississippi Delta, and the urban wards of Houston, Texas, for new opportunities in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Los Angeles. They took with them the South's rich tradition of religion, language, music, and art, recreating and preserving their Southern identity in the churches, newspapers, jazz clubs, and neighborhoods of America's largest cities. This study explores the development and adaptation of African American culture, from its West African roots to its profound and lasting impact on mainstream America. It illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Migration, Internal; Rural-urban migration; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Destination America [videorecording] : the people and cultures that created a nation by Brown, Blair.(CARDINAL)379167; Gazit, Chana.(CARDINAL)218204; Grubin, David.(CARDINAL)198608; Stept, Stephen.(CARDINAL)217834; David Grubin Productions.(CARDINAL)185457; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)287167; PBS Home Video.(CARDINAL)218235; Penguin Television.;
MARCIVE 04/08/08[Part 1] The golden door / written & produced by Stephen Stept ; associate producer, Rachel Buchanan ; cinematography, Keith Walker ; edited by Ed Barteski -- [Part II] The art of departure / written, directed, photographed & produced by David Grubin ; co-producer, Dana Liebert ; edited by Deborah Peretz -- [Part III] The earth is the Lord's / written, directed, photographed & produced by David Grubin ; co-producer, Danna Liebert ; edited by Bruce Shaw -- [Part IV] Breaking free: a woman's journey / written, produced & directed by Chana Gazit ; edited by David Steward ; co-producer, Alexandria Dionne ; directors of photography, Erich Roland & Joel Shapiro.Music, Michael Bacon.Narrated by Blair Brown.Destination America looks at the driving forces that have compelled individuals to immigrate to America and, in particular, the immigration of women who have come to this country in search of opportunity and basic human rights denied them in their homelands.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Immigrants;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Back to blood : a novel / by Wolfe, Tom,author.(CARDINAL)142495;
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians.
Subjects: Novels.; Political fiction.; American fiction; Emigration and immigration; Police; Politicians; Police.;
Available copies: 67 / Total copies: 75
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Fly away : the great African American cultural migrations / by Rutkoff, Peter M.,1942-(CARDINAL)156728; Scott, William B.,1945-(CARDINAL)134718;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Out of Africa : West African origins -- New Africa : South Carolina low country -- Negro capital of the world : Harlem -- Mules and men : Birmingham -- Blues pianos and tricky baseballs : Pittsburgh -- Walkin' Egypt : Mississippi Delta -- Bronzeville's Pinkster Kings : South Side Chicago -- Dixie special : Houston -- California dreaming : South Central LA -- Circle unbroken : three stories and a conclusion.The Great Migration, the mass exodus of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and West in the twentieth century, shaped American culture and life in ways still evident today. The authors trace the ideas that inspired African Americans to abandon the South for freedom and opportunity elsewhere. Black Southerners fled the Low Country of South Carolina, the mines and mills of Birmingham, Alabama, the farms of the Mississippi Delta, and the urban wards of Houston, Texas, for new opportunities in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Los Angeles. They took with them the South's rich tradition of religion, language, music, and art, recreating and preserving their Southern identity in the churches, newspapers, jazz clubs, and neighborhoods of America's largest cities. This study explores the development and adaptation of African American culture, from its West African roots to its profound and lasting impact on mainstream America. It illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Migration, Internal; Rural-urban migration; African Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The book of records [audio-enabled device] : a novel / by Thien, Madeleine,1974-author.(CARDINAL)348170; Playaway Digital Audio,issuing body.(CARDINAL)565887; Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;
Narrated by a full cast."A novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door. Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China. Memory, political revolution, generational change, and the ethical imagination are at the heart of Lina's illuminating conversations with her fellows in the Sea: how we come to believe what we believe, and how every person is an irreplaceable, unique vessel of history. Through the guidance of these great thinkers, Lina equips herself to reckon with difficult questions of guilt, responsibility, and the possibility of redemption when her ailing father begins to reveal his role in their family's tragic past. As Lina confronts her father's troubling admissions, she begins to reconceptualize the world around her, gaining a deeper understanding of how our individual futures are shaped by our political circumstances, and she relies on the collective joy of art and intellectual endeavors to carry her through difficulty. A novel that voyages between centuries, generations, and ideas, The Book of Records is an indelible testament to the migratory nature of humanity and our ceaseless search for a home-in the physical world, in cyberspace, in history, and in the imagination-in the wake of catastrophe."--Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Audiobooks.; Fathers and daughters; Emigration and immigration; Time travel;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Alambrista! [videorecording] = The illegal / by Ambriz, Domingo.act; Gillin, Linda.act; Hausman, Michael.pro; Silva, Trinidad.act; Young, Irwin.pro; Young, Robert M.,1924-ausdrt; Criterion collection (Firm)(CARDINAL)348269; Image Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)328010;
Director of photography, Robert M. Young; art director, Lilly Kilvert ; original version film editor, Edward Beyer; music, José B. Cuellar ... [et al.] ; editor, Norman Buckley.Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillin, Ned Beatty, Jerry Hardin, Julius Harris, Edward James Olmos.A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work.Rating: Not rated.DVD, NTSC, widescreen, 1.66:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital Stereo.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Migrant agricultural laborers; Noncitizens;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Back to blood [large print] : a novel / by Wolfe, Tom.(CARDINAL)142495;
A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians.
Subjects: Large print books.; Political fiction.; Emigration and immigration;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The Irish empire [videorecording] by Gilsenan, Alan.drt; Shaw, Fiona,1958-; Shaw, Fiona,1958-nrt; Walsh, Dearbhla.drt; BBC Northern Ireland.; Café Productions Ltd.(CARDINAL)332338; Hilton Cordell & Associates.; Little Bird (Firm); Radio Telefís Éireann.; Raidió Teilifís Éireann; SBS Independent.; WinStar TV and Video (Firm);
Pt. 1. The scattering -- Pt. 2. Building the world -- Pt. 3. A world apart -- Pt. 4. Keeping the faith -- Pt. 5. Dreams of home.Directors, Alan Gilsenan (pt. 1, 5), David Roberts (pt. 2, 4), Dearbhla Walsh (pt. 3) ; music, Deborah Mollison ; photography, Peter Dorney ... [et al.] ; series producer, Ritchie Cogan ; executive producers, Andre Singer, James Mitchell, Chris Hilton.Narrator, Fiona Shaw.Explores the history of the Irish experience abroad as seen by Irish migrants themselves and as others perceive them. Covers the diversity and scale of Irish migration, the rise of Irish emigrants from slaves and convicts to plantation owners and influential politicians, Ireland's women emigrants, religious beliefs of Irish emigrants, and how the reality of Ireland today differs from the Ireland imagined by emigrants and their descendents.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD ; Dolby digital 2.0, 4:3 "letterbox," NTSC all regions.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Irish; National characteristics, Irish.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Thank you, Mr. Nixon [large print] : stories / by Jen, Gish,author.(CARDINAL)342098;
"The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write--a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds--a work that Cynthia Ozick has called "an art beyond art. It is life itself." Beginning with a cheery letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change. Opal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans "like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes"; Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their "number-one daughter" in New York; and Betty Koo, brought up on "no politics, just make money," finds she must reassess her mother's philosophy. With their profound compassion and equally profound humor, these eleven linked stories trace the intimate ways in which humans make and are made by history, capturing an extraordinary era in an extraordinary way. Delightful, provocative, and powerful, Thank You, Mr. Nixon furnishes yet more proof of Gish Jen's eminent place among American storytellers"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Domestic fiction.; Short stories.; Chinese Americans; Chinese; Families;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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