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Dragon Masters ; 14
Language
English
Description
The Dragon Masters have defeated the evil wizard Maldred, but not before the Kingdom of Bracken was devastated by Naga, the earthquake dragon; now Drake and his dragon, Worm, must appeal to the spring dragon, Fallyn, who is their only hope of restoring Bracken before its people starve--but Fallyn lives deep inside a secret fairy world, and Drake must pass a series of tricky tests before he can even make his appeal.
2) Famines
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Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the worst of disasters, famine, focusing on that problem in several African countries in the 1980s and mentioning somemajor famines in history, such as China's in the 1870s, Ireland's of mid-nineteenth century, and Russia's of the 1920s.
Author
Publisher
Sutton Publishing
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
This ambitious work allows the reader to discover the art of engraving in Europe from the 15th to the 16th century. The engravings of the Renaissance masters are considered models of artistic perfection, often studied and frequently copied.
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English
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The Great Hunger is the definitive account of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. Emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada in small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus.
The Irish who managed
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English
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"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
8) Flamefall
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Series
Aurelian cycle ; 2
Language
English
Description
"After a brutal revolution Callipolis is ravaged by famine and the Pythians are ready for revenge, so it's up to Annie, Lee, and newcomer Griff to decide what to fight for, and who to love"--
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English
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"In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine,...
10) Nory Ryan's song
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English
Description
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil. All...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" Cormac Ó Gráda is professor emeritus of economics at University College Dublin. His books include Famine: A Short History and Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (both Princeton).
New perspectives on the history of famine-and the possibility of a famine-free world
Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality
Deeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions, John Kelly's retelling of the awful story of Ireland's great hunger will resonate today as history that speaks...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Gorta Mor in 1840s Ireland, the famine in British-controlled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines in Ethiopia in the late 20th century, and explores the concept that while famine can be caused by crop failures and weather conditions, famines are worsened by man-made choices such as politics and social and religious ideology.
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
This eloquent, searing, and haunting account of the great famine will shock and move the reader, evoke compassion and furry, and add substance to Ireland's bitter, undying hatred for England. Ireland was, and is, too close to England. Queen Elizabeth, in the 16th century, sent military expeditions to subdue the dissident Catholic, fiercely independent clans across the Irish Sea. In the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell, with pitiless fervor, raised an...