There are thousands of reasons to celebrate and these festivals will show you only some of them. Festivals are reflective of the nations, cultures, traditions and religions. In a way, you can have a glimpse of a nation's way of life based on how festivals are celebrated. Hence, festivals are excellent topics that should be discussed under the umbrella of geography. Grab a copy now!

Evade the Tourist Herds and Enter Into An Insider's Central California.Known and unknown history, hidden delights, blood curdling and fascinating stories pervade the past of Central California beginning from the high tech Silicon Valley heading south until seaside Santa Barbara. In between, the Central Valley and Central Coast offers contributing tales of vice, tragedy and insightful discovery. This kaleidoscope of attractions, personalities, egos,...

Wisdom comes to two Ojibway sisters as they share a powerful night together watching the northern lights.

In the "hep" rhythm of her own Swingster voice18-year-old Margo depicts the restless lives of young people living on the verge between the Great Depression and WWII. As Margo attempts to escape from the limitations of small town life and the desperate struggle of her eccentric family to survive she becomes the recorder of universal struggles of young people in a world which, as she puts it, "No one is quite sure what will happen next." Artie Shaw...

In this book, we're going to examine How the British Invaded North America by going over the details of the French and Indian War. Though war is a heartbreaking subject, it is rich with lessons. Go over the events that led to war, and what changes were felt before, during and after such bloody encounters. Grab a copy today!

Grab a Zweigle's White Hot at Dwyer Stadium (built in 1939) and cheer on the Batavia Muckdogs. Join B.B. the Bluefish as he warms up the crowd at Bridgeport's Ballpark at Harbor Yard. Take in the view of Coney Island from the upper deck of MCU Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. Watch from a box seat in Pawtucket as top Red Sox prospects try to make it to the bigs. . . . It's all part of minor league baseball in the Northeast. This book conveys...

Hiking Trails in Valles Caldera National Preserve offers first-time and returning visitors a complete guide to the recreation and beauty found in this unique landscape.

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance....

"Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood's 'XXX's and OOO's.' Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community...

Your identity can be a lot of things: your heritage, gender, hometown, school, faith, or even what you've been through. The awesome thing is no one is just one thing! Your identity can grow and change as you do! This book explores all the different parts of identity: who you are, what you love, and what's true about you. Core themes in this book: Belonging, Expression, Self, Uniqueness Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a...