Mir Tamim Ansary
1) Veterans Day
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English
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Introduces Veterans Day, explaining the historical events behind it, how it became a holiday, and how it is observed.
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[2012]
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English
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Five times in the last two centuries. some great power has tried to invade, occupy, or otherwise take control of Afghanistan. And as Tamim Ansary shows in this illuminating history, every intervention has come to grief for much the same reason: the intervening power has failed to understand that Afghanistan has a story of its own, a story that continues to unfold between--and despite--the interventions. Drawing on his Afghan background, Muslim roots,...
4) Labor Day
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1999.
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English
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Introduces Labor Day, explaining the historical events behind it, how it became a holiday, and how it is observed.
6) Memorial Day
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English
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Introduces Memorial Day, explaining the historical events behind it, how it became a holiday, and how it is observed.
8) Columbus Day
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English
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Introduces Columbus Day, explaining the historical events behind it, how it became a holiday, and how it is observed.
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English
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Discusses the history of the world from an Islamic perspective, explaining the evolution of the Muslim community while recounting the history of the Western world with respect to Islamic events and interpretations.
"We in the west share a common narrative of world history -- that runs from the Nile Valley and Mesopotomia, through Greece and Rome and the French Revolution, to the rise of the secular state and the triumph of democracy. But our story...
11) Presidents' Day
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English
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Introduces Presidents' Day, explaining the historical events behind it, how it became a holiday, and how it is observed.
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2019.
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First edition.
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English
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"A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilizations and cultural movements -- Confuscianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Nomadism -- and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that has brought us to where we are today"--
18) Arctic peoples
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[2000]
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English
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Describes various elements of the traditional life of Arctic people including their homes, clothing, games, crafts, and beliefs as well as changes brought about by the arrival of Europeans.
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