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The golden trade of the Moors : West African kingdoms in the fourteenth century / by Bovill, E. W.(CARDINAL)780546; Hallett, Robin.(CARDINAL)166908;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.Africa antiqua -- Arid nurse of lions -- Carbuncles and gold -- Romans and Garamantes -- Sahara and Sudan -- The Tuareg and other peoples of the Sahara -- Peoples of the Sudan -- The Arabs -- Medieval empires -- The Almoravids -- The gold of Ghana -- Mansa Musa of Mali -- Ibn Battuta: a fourteenth century traveller in the Sudan -- The golden trade -- The Crescent and the Cross -- The quest for gold -- The discovery of Guinea Wangara -- The rise and fall of the Songhai Empire -- The Songhai -- Leo Africanus: an early sixteenth-century traveller in the Sudan -- Mulai Ahmad al-Mansur -- Taghaza -- The desert army -- The invasion of the Sudan -- The fall of Songhai -- Adh-Dhahabi -- Nineteenth-century revolutions -- The European penetration of the interior -- Bornu, Hausa, and the Fulani Empire Sokoto -- The last of the caravans.
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All she ever dreamed / by Hatcher, Robin Lee,author.;
"Betrothed in a sensible match, even if the man isn't the love she's always imagined, Sarah McNeal relies on the advice her late grandmother gave as well as her own common sense. Dreams of a mysterious European count who rides in and sweeps her off her feet are the stuff of girlhood. And she's a woman now. But when her fiancé's older brother, Jeremiah, returns to Boulder Creek, he unknowingly awakens that discarded dream. Nine years ago, Jeremiah West lost his wife and newborn son in an epidemic, and he's been wandering ever since. A survivor of the Spanish-American War, he finally returns to Boulder Creek to settle on the farm he inherited from his father, an inheritance his younger brother still begrudges. When a blizzard threatens Sarah's life--and her reputation--Jeremiah is there to rescue her. But the pain of his past remains a stumbling block. Then fate brings Jeremiah and Sarah to a crossroads, and love demands a decision that will change the course of their lives." -- Amazon.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Christian fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Veterans; Farms; Blizzards; Marriage; Marriage.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The black moth / by Heyer, Georgette,1902-1974.(CARDINAL)508496;
When Lord Jack Carstares is falsely accused of cheating at cards, the young nobleman accepts the blame to protect his brother. Alone and friendless in his European exile, Jack is obliged to develop his skills as a swordsman - an accomplishment he puts to use upon his return to England, where he embarks upon a new career as a highwayman. Chivalrous Jack, like Robin Hood, steals only from the rich and shares his loot with the needy. And when he foils the attempted kidnapping of raven-haired beauty Diana Beauleigh, his rescue sets the stage for a thrilling romance and a chance at redemption. Georgette Heyer's debut novel, written as a diversion for her ailing brother, abounds in the qualities that make her books perennial favorites with lovers of historical romance: colorful characters, sparkling dialogue, and lively plotting punctuated by swashbuckling action. Set in the 1750s, The Black Moth is rich in Georgian-era atmosphere, offering a compulsive page-turner that novelist and critic Margaret Drabble praised as "stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty."
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.;
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Slow birding : the art and science of enjoying the birds in your own backyard / by Strassmann, Joan,author.; Bartley, Anthony,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-321) and index.Introduction -- Home -- Blue jay: mighty oaks from little blue jays grow -- American robin: earthworm whisperer -- House wren: strategies for success -- Dark-eyed junco: a bird worthy of a lifetime of study -- Flynn Park: my neighborhood patch -- Northern Flicker: architects of Aspen homes -- Cooper's hawk: predator at your bird feeder -- Cedar waxwing: evanescent berry pickers -- Forest Park: city habitat for 220 bird species -- European starling: how bad are 200 million? -- House sparrow: universal human commensal -- Northern cardinal: find me anywhere -- Tyson Research Center: wilderness nearby -- Northern mockingbird: mimus polyglottos, our best singer -- Yellow-rumped warbler: the wax-eating northerners -- White throated sparrow: can it really have four sexes? -- Riverlands -- American coot: whose chicks are these? -- Great egret: will the chick from the third-laid egg survive? -- Snow goose: Arctic dreams -- Conclusion."Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or "exotic" birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann introduces readers to the joys of birding right where they are. In this inspiring guideto the art of slow birding, Strassmann tells colorful stories of the most common birds to be found in the United States-birds we often see but might not have considered deeply before."--
Subjects: Field guides.; Bird watching; Bird feeders; Birds;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 19
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Rogues & scholars : a history of the London art world : 1945-2000 / by Stourton, James,author.(CARDINAL)285148;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-385) and index.Preface -- Introduction -- The Goldshmidt sale -- Sotheby's goes for world domination -- The Christie's fightback -- The grandees -- Bond Street and beyond -- Modern art: mostly Cork Street -- Cuckoo in the nest: the Marlborough Gallery -- New directions: the swinging sixties -- Furniture: Bond Street -- Pimlico Road -- Tribal art: from curiosities to masterpieces -- European porcelain -- Sculpture and works of art -- All that glisters: silver -- Art commodified: British Rail Pension Fund -- Disrupters: Geraldine Norman and Tom Keating -- The Chinese market -- Victoriana -- The London scene -- The zenith of Sotheby's and Christie's in London -- The Getty factor: old master drawings -- Antiquities: the gathering storm -- The rise and fall of Robin Symes -- The 'Sevso' saga -- The most improbable deal: 'go see Oliver Hoare' -- Game over Bond Street -- The rise of contemporary art -- Anthony d'Offay -- The YBAs -- Commission fixing at Sotheby's and Christie's -- At the millennium."A colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market--a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions. On October 15, 1958, Sotheby's of Bond Street staged an "event sale" of seven Impressionist paintings belonging to Erwin Goldschmidt: three Manets, two Cézannes, one Van Gogh, and a Renoir. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, and Somerset Maugham were there as celebrity guests. The seven lots went for £781,000--at the time the highest price for a single sale. The event established London as the world center of the art market and Sotheby's as an international auction house. It began a shift in power from the dealers to the auctioneers and paved the way for Impressionist paintings to dominate the market for the next forty years. Sotheby's had pulled off a massive coup by capturing the Impressionist market from Paris and New York--and now began its inexorable rise, opening offices all over the world. A huge expansion of the market followed, accompanied by rocketing prices, colorful scandals, and legal dramas. London transformed itself from a fusty place of old master painting sales to a revitalized center of contemporary art, crowned by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000. The Tate Modern successfully united new (and mostly foreign) money in London with the art world, offering its patrons a ready-made sophisticated social milieu alongside dealers in contemporary art. In a vibrant and briskly-paced style, James Stourton tells the story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium. While Sotheby's is the lynchpin of this story, Stourton populates his narrative with a glorious rogue's gallery of eccentric scholars, clever amateurs, brilliant emigrés, and stylish grandees with a flair for the deal"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Sotheby's (Firm); Art auctions; Art;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The overthrow of colonial slavery, 1776-1848 / by Blackburn, Robin.(CARDINAL)122785;
Includes bibliographies and index.The origins of anti-slavery -- Hanoverian Britain: slavery and empire -- Slavery and the American Revolution -- British abolitionism and the backlash of the 1790s -- The French Revolution and the Antilles: 1789-93 -- Revolutionary emancipationism and the birth of Haiti -- Abolition and empire: the United States -- British slave trade abolition: 1803-14 -- Spanish America: independence and emancipation -- Cuba and Brazil: the abolitionist impasse -- The struggle for British slave emancipation: 1823-38 -- French restoration slavery and 1848."In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger and indigo craved by Europeans. By 1848 the major systems of colonial slavery had been swept away either by independence movements, slave revolts, abolitionists or some combination of all three. How did this happen? Robin Blackburn's history captures the complexity of a revolutionary age in a compelling narrative. In some cases colonial rule fell while slavery flourished, as happened in the South of the United States and in Brazil; elsewhere slavery ended but colonial rule remained, as in the British West Indies and French Windwards. But in French St. Domingue, the future Haiti, and in Spanish South and Central America both colonialism and slavery were defeated. This story of slave liberation and American independence highlights the pivotal role of the "first emancipation" in the French Antilles in the 1790s, the parallel actions of slave resistance and metropolitan abolitionism, and the contradictory implications of slaveholder patriotism. The dramatic events of this epoch are examined from an unexpected vantage point, showing how the torch of anti-slavery passed from the medieval communes to dissident Quakers, from African maroons to radical pirates, from Granville Sharp and Ottabah Cuguano to Toussaint L'Ouverture, from the black Jacobins to the Liberators of South America, and from the African Baptists in Jamaica to the Revolutionaries of 1848 in Europe and the Caribbean."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Antislavery movements; Enslaved persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Hidden colors 4 [videorecording] : the religion of white surpremacy / by Nasheed, Tariq,film director,film producer,interviewee (expression)(CARDINAL)468360; Rhodes, David C.,film producer; White, James,film producer(CARDINAL)506732; McClanahan, Brent,film producer; Thompson, Henry,film producer; Akinroluyo, Ola,film producer; Brown, Jim,interviewee.; Valentine, Phil,interviewee.(CARDINAL)462004; Watkins, Boyce,interviewee.; Walker, Robin,interviewee.; Brower, Tony,interviewee.; Kamene, Kara,interviewee.; Mercuri, Luca,director of photography; Crofoot, Vance,editor of moving image work; Berbeci, Ignat,visual effects provider; Broadnax, Jermaine,researcher; Gaiusbayode, Tola,artist; King Flex Entertainment,production company,publisher.;
Cinematography, Luca Mercuri ; film editing, Vance Crofoot ; visual effects, Ignat Berbeci ; researcher, Jermaine Broadnax ; artwork, Tola GaiusbayodeInterviewees (commentators): Jim Brown, Tariq Nasheed, Phil Valentine, Boyce Watkins, Robin Walker, Tony Brower, Kara Kamene, James Small, Jennifer Tosch, Delbert BlairExplores the motivation behind European global subjugation, the history of rarely discussed vast West African empires, how germ warfare is used on melanted people, and the history of slave breeding farms in America.Rating: Not rated.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Historical films.; Social problem films.; Nonfiction films.; Feature films.; White supremacy movements; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Racism; Black people; Black people; Sociological jurisprudence;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Early modern Europe : an Oxford history / by Cameron, Euan(Euan K.)(CARDINAL)732913;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-380) and index.1410L
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Birds at your feeder : a guide to feeding habits, behavior, distribution, and abundance / by Dunn, Erica H.,author.(CARDINAL)528848; Tessaglia-Hymes, Diane L.(CARDINAL)654823; Cornell University.Laboratory of Ornithology.(CARDINAL)280713; Project FeederWatch.(CARDINAL)683725;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-407) and index.
Subjects: Birds; Birds;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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The practical guide to the genetic family history / by Bennett, Robin L.,MS, CGC.(CARDINAL)652869;
MARCIVE 12/2/11Includes bibliographical references and index.The language of the pedigree -- Practical inheritance -- Getting to the roots : recording the family tree -- Directed medical-genetic family history queries : separating the trees from the forest -- Using a pedigree to recognize individuals with an increased susceptibility to cancer -- Medical verification of family history, and resources for patients to record their genetic family histories -- The challenge of family history and adoption -- Family history and assisted reproductive technologies -- Genetic counseling: where to turn, what to expect, and the pedigree as a psychosocial assessment and counseling tool -- Pedigree predicaments."The Second Edition of The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History not only shows how to take a medical-family history and record a pedigree, but also explains why each bit of information gathered is important. It provides essential support in diagnosing conditions with a genetic component. Moreover, it aids in recommending genetic testing, referring patients for genetic counseling, determining patterns of inheritance, calculating risk of disease, making decisions for medical management and surveillance, and informing and educating patients." "Featuring a new Foreword by Arno Motulsky, widely recognized as the founder of medical genetics, and completely updated to reflect the most recent findings in genetic medicine, this Second Edition presents the latest information and methods for preparing and assessing a pedigree." "Throughout the book, clinical examples based on hypothetical families illustrate key concepts, helping readers understand how real issues present themselves and how they can be resolved." "This book will enable all healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, medical social workers, and physician assistants, as well as genetic counselors, to take full advantage of the pedigree as a primary tool for making a genetic risk assessment and providing counseling for patients and their families."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Genetic counseling.; Medical history taking.; Genealogy.;
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