The Making of an American Small Batch Micro-Distillery The Making of an American Small Batch Micro-Distillery is a profile of the new wave of private distilleries popping up all over the country. This book is not a how to. It is more of a why to. A case study of three successful artisan distillers, it…
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither…
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The Souls of Black Folk (An African American Heritage Book) William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. The importance of his work to the success of the Civil Rights movement cannot be overestimated. “In the course of his long, turbulent…
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Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks Looking at the different ways textbooks from different eras present the same historical events, Not Written in Stone offers an abridged and annotated version of Kyle Ward’s celebrated History in the Making specifically designed for classroom use. In each section, Ward…
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Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History (Wadsworth)) Designed to encourage critical thinking, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. The central theme of this volume asserts that the history of business is…
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