Norman Miller
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English
Description
"No interruptions please," as you read about the CIA smuggling U.S. Bobsled coach, Shawn Murphy back into the Soviet Union to retrieve documents containing technology that would give Americans superior naval power. Experience thrills, chills and romance as a risky mission turns into a disaster after Murphy locates the documents but is double-crossed and becomes stranded behind the Iron Curtain with no clear plan to escape. Other twists to this fast-paced...
2) IceSpy
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English
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Fiction often mirrors truth. And you get just as close as you want to be to non-fiction in this fast-paced novel, that in reality, was the initial start of the collapse of the Soviet Union. U.S. Bobsled Coach, Norman Miller, and Daumant Znatnajs, the Minister of Sports of the Soviet Union conducted a press conference in Riga, Latvia to announce that the United States and the Soviet Union had reached an agreement for the Soviet Bobsled Team to compete...
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American Palate, a division of The History Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Explore the celebrated brewing history and beer culture of Boston"--
"Recounts Boston's long and storied history with beer--including the story of how the Green Dragon Tavern became the birthplace of the Revolutionary War." -- Pulse Since before Patriots like Paul Revere and Sam Adams fermented a revolution in smoky Beantown taverns, beer has been integral to the history of Boston. The city issued its first brewing license in 1630, and breweries...
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English
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The Complete Regional Guide to Craft Beer
With quality beer producers popping up all over the nation, you don't have to travel very far to taste great beer; some of the best stuff is brewing right in your home state. “Beer Lover's New England” features breweries, brewpubs, and beer bars geared toward brew enthusiasts looking to seek out the best beers New England has to offer, from bitter seasonal IPAs to rich, dark stouts. Written by a local...
5) New England
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English
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“The Complete Regional Guide to Craft Beer” With quality beer producers popping up all over the nation, you don't have to travel very far to taste great beer, some of the best stuff is brewing right in your home state. Beer Lover's New England features breweries, brewpubs, and beer bars geared toward brew enthusiasts looking to seek out the best beers New England has to offer, from bitter seasonal IPAs to rich, dark stouts. Written by a local...
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English
Description
Now you can enjoy genuine Amish recipes from the Amish themselves. From the members of the Evart, Michigan, Amish community comes this collection of 450 family favorites, including...
• salads and dressings (24-Hour Potato Salad, Italian Macaroni Salad, Overnight Fruit Salad)
• meats and main dishes (Honey-Mustard Baked Chicken, No-Fuss Lasagna, Taco Quiche)
• desserts (Apple Cream Cheese Pie, Rhubarb Torte, Raspberry Swirl)
Several miscellaneous...
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English
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A renowned authority on East Africa examines the effects of witchcraft beliefs on African culture, politics, and family life.
Encounters with Witchcraft is a personal story of a young man's fascination with African witchcraft discovered first in a trek across East Africa and the Congo. The story unfolds over four decades during the author's long residence in and many trips to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. As a field researcher he learns from villagers...
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English
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Fiction often mirrors truth. And you get just as close as you want to be to non-fiction in this fast-paced novel that turned the turmoil surrounding the U.S. Bobsled Federation into shocking international intrigue. The pace is faster than a sled on ice and it races from Lake Placid, New York to the burrow of the CIA at Langley, Virginia to rebelling Latvia and its ancient rift with the Soviet Union during the final days of the Cold War. It's scary...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Undetermined
Description
An Aymara family plants potatoes, prepares and eats a meal, and discusses the religious and astronomical forces that control their destiny. The stark routine of this typical planting day contrasts with thecomplexity of their beliefs.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Viracocha features mestizos and campesinos in the Andean highlands interacting within a near-subsistance economic system. Market days and fiestas provide opportunities for Spanish-speaking mestizos, alternately benign and abusive, to assert their traditional social dominance over the Aymara and Quechua campesinos.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The people of the Bolivian highlands blend in thought and practice the traditional magic of the region and the religion of their conquerors. A fatal automobile accident, coincident with the festival of Santiago, provides occasion for unique expressions of both faith and magic in the effort to influence events.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The words of the women and the rhythm of their lives in the seclusion of family compounds suggests both the satisfying and the limiting aspects of a woman's role in a rural Afghan community. Filmed in the Balkh Province, an area inhabited by Tajik and other Central Asian peoples. The town of Aq Kupruk is approximately 320 miles northwest of Kabul.The theme of the film focuses on women. The film and accompaning instructor notes examine the economic,...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Aymara
Description
Aymara women voice a common paradox. In the film they express agreement with the dominant Hispanic ideal that women should be subservient to men and assigned to tasks appropriate to their limited strength and intellegence. Yet Aymara culture recognizes their equal contributions to survival.
14) Boran Women
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Traditionally confined to the roles of life-givers, nurturers and homemakers, Boran women of Kenya are slowly realizing the importance of education and the difference it can make in their lives. They attach great importance to the traditional role of women in a herding society and perform dawn to dusk tasks with little deviation from customary ways. Remarkable though is the obvious independence they demonstrate in performing tasks which normally would...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Undetermined
Description
At dawn a nomad caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp, and in commerce with the townspeople, the Maldar reveal the mixture of faith and distrust that has kept nomads and sedentary people separate and interdependent over the centuries.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Undetermined
Description
An old Bolivian man nears the end of his life. He has property and status, but not contentment. Believing himself posessed by evil spirits, he opens his heart to reveal his anguish. His personal tragedy brings us close to every man's confrontation with the unknown, old age, and death.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film concerns the traditional "floating population" who fish Chinese coastal waters from family sized Junks based in Hong Kong in competition with salaried fisherman using large, mechanized boats. The combined effect of education and an increased integration with shore life is putting strains on the old ways.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tai A Chau symbolically rids itself of the last vestiges of the Old China. The town is represented by the Landlord Chan when it sells land to buy a freshwater pond. The community effort to improve the island's economic well-being brings together government representatives and the land people.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Three women, varying in ages and therefore perspective, agree that life on a small Chinese island in Hong Kong waters, is better for them now than in the past. They are treated equal to the men in the rigors of manual labor and now participate fully in the island's decision-making and economic life.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The deep division in Andean society between rural and townspeople begins at birth, is perpetuated by the schools and continues throughout life. The film evidences the discrimination faced by the children of the rural and extremely poor campesinos.