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Contains 400 recipes that are low in calories, salt, fat, and cholesterol. Includes charts to compare the nutritional value of meats, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products.
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"An army as Napoleon said moves on its stomach. In this book a colonel's lady and a general's daughter gives you the recipes and the philosophy that have enabled her to keep her own small army happily on the move."--Jacket.
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This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative rendering of the lives of seven generations of black men and women.
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A cookbook of invisible writing, by Dutch artist, designer and teacher Amy Wu, is an introduction to analog steganography--a type of secret writing that is hidden in plain sight. This book serves as a starter pack to run workshops with groups who are interested in alternative forms of communication. It contains invisible ink recipes and other invisible communication techniques that may be used to subvert surveillance and bypass censorship, but also inspire your community to develop poetic and playful forms of communication to nurture social bonds. In the tradition of esoteric manuals published on secret writing, this cookbook also channels the spirit of everyday access and the easy distribution and sharing of practical knowledge. Following Giambattista della Porta's 1558 popular science book Natural Magic--one of the first major publications that detailed simple but diverse recipes of invisible inks for public consumption--this cookbook aims to bring this obscure field to a wider audience. The publication includes a critical essay about the history of surveillance through a feminist and postcolonial lens. The last chapter presents Wu's own body of work that aims to revive analog techniques as a counter to today's digitally surveilled mediascape.
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The generation gap in the Japanese-American community is the subject of this novel. The protagonist is Wil, a 20-year-old woman suffering from depression due to a broken love affair and an abortion. As she wallows in her depression, Wil reflects that her problem, diagnosed by doctors in California as bi-polar disorder, would in the days of her grandparents have been called weakness of character.
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Visual Materials
Image of a pictorial map of the United States used as an interactive game board. Regional landmarks and natural features of each state are illustrated with simplistic and exaggerated imagery (i.e. waterfalls, mountains, wild animals, government buildings, foliage). Specific areas on the map are numbered. The print has two vignettes, one on the upper right corner which depicts the Statue of Liberty, an American Eagle and American flags next to text that reads, "The Rising Generation." Another vignette located on the bottom left corner of the print depicts a dramatized image of four indigenous people holding rifles while hiding out amongst trees on a hill watching over a train that passes by below. Bodies of water are shown bordering the map, illustrated with sails and ferries.
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