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last updated January, 2004
Resource List of Books, Websites
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| Cooking the Chinese Way: Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks, Ling Yu Description: From the catalog... Completely revised and expanded, the Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks series serves up tantalizing recipes for countless dishes. Seasoned with vibrant, color photographs and easy, step-by-step directions, many of the recipes are low in fat and call for ingredients you may already have at home. Also included are new vegetarian recipes, complete menu suggestions, and an expanded cultural section highlighting each country or region's people, customs, holidays--and of course, food. Subjects: Cooking; Culture Lerner Publishing Group,
2002, 0-8225-4160-2, Paperback, 72 pgs, 7 1/4 x 8 1/2, $7.95.
Level: 5+ |
Description: (See Cooking the Chinese Way) Subjects: Cooking; Culture
Lerner Publishing Group,
2002, 0-8225-4161-0, Paperback, 72 pgs, 7 1/4 x 8 1/2, $7.95.
Level: 5+ |
| Cooking the Vietnamese Way: Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks, Chi Nguyen and Judy Monroe (See Cooking the Chinese Way) Lerner Publishing Group,
2002, 0-8225-0513-4, Paperback, 72 pgs, 7 1/4 x 8 1/2, $7.95.
Level: 5+. |
Holiday Cooking around the World: Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks, Editors (See Cooking the Chinese Way) Lerner Publishing Group,
2002, 0-8225-4159-9, Paperback, 72 pgs, 7 1/4 x 8 1/2, $7.95.
Level: 5+. |
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Description: America has been called a "melting pot" of many cultures. This book looks at the importance of food in the celebrations of people from many cultures. There's a recipe section in the back Subjects: Cooking; Children's Book; Culture Silver Moon Press, 1994,
188188953X , Hardcover, 53 pgs, 6 3/4 x 9 1/2, $14.95. Level:
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Vegetarian
Cooking around the World: Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks, Editors Lerner Publishing Group,
2002, 0-8225-0514-2, Paperback, 72 pgs, 7 1/4 x 8 1/2, $7.95.
Level: 5+. |
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| Nightingales and Nice-Time Girls: The story of township women and music (1900-1960), Minky Schlesinger Description: from the catalog...This book is the story of black women and music in South Africa from the 1900s, when most African women still worked in rural areas, to the 1950s when many women had moved to the cities. Some of them had become famous performers in the dance-halls of the townships. Read about the characters, musical influences and tortured experience of the black South Africans that led to the birth of unique South African musical sound. Includes photographs and stories of famous stars including some, such as Miriam Makeba, who became world famous. Subjects: Music; International; History Peppercorn / ViVa Books, 1993, 1-874932-06-9,
Paperback, 84 pgs, $9.50. Level:8+. |
Selected from "Coal Miner's Daughter": Writer's Voices Series, Loretta Lynn Description: Loretta Lynn, a popular country singer, talks about the events of her life and her music career. Subjects: Bios/Autobios; Music New Readers Press, 1996, 0-929631-11-0, Paperback, 63 pgs, 4 x 7, $5.00. Level:4+. |
| Tandie's Blues, M. Isaacson and M. Schlesinger Description: From the catalog...This is the life story of Tandie Klaasen, a well known South African jazz singer. Born in 1931, she sang and danced her way through the years until by the 1970s Tandie had struggled to the top. She had been a gangster's girlfriend, a domestic worker, and a stage actress, but now she was a star. Then something happened that changed Tandie's whole life. Read about Tandie's life of bad luck, how she picked herself up and carried on and how her life of troubles led her to sing the blues. Illustrated with black and white photos. Subjects: Bios/Autobios; International; Music Peppercorn / ViVa Books, 1995, 1-874932-,
Paperback, 84 pgs, $8.50. |
Yvonne Chaka Chaka: Princess of Africa, Minky Schlesinger Description: From the catalog...In 1985 a shy young girl from Soweto recorded a hit song, "I'm in Love with a DJ". It set the townships' feet tapping. This young girl was Yvonne Chaka Chaka and since then she has become a superstar. Read about her family, her school friends and her rise to fame. In Africa, Yvonne is more popular than Madonna, making her the "Princess of Africa". Illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Subjects: Bios/Autobios; International; Music Peppercorn / ViVa Books, 1993, 1-874932-02-6,
Paperback, 52 pgs, $7.00. Level:5-8. |
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| Women at Work: A Photographic Documentary, Betty Medsger
Description:
A wonderful collection of black and white photograps portrating
women in a variety of work situations: managerial, slef-employed,
worker; professional, blue collar; traditional, non-traditional;
galmorous, gritty; skilled, unskilled; safe, risky. The photographs
are accompanied by no comment, some poetry, or a brief quote
by the pictured woman. Sheed and Ward, Inc., 1975, 0-8362-0614-2, Paperback, 212 pgs, 8 1/2 x 11, $---Out of Print. Reviews: Recommended in Choosing and Using Books with Adult New Readers by Marguerite Crowley Weibel, p. 7. |
Description:
These black and white photographs show women in a variety of
work settings. Each photograph is accompanied with reflections
by the photographed women about their work and how they feel
about it. In some cases, the reading level may be high. However,
because of the quality and movement in the photos and with the
text read aloud, learners will gain much from the experience. NewSage Press, 1986/1994, 0-93916523-6,
Paperback, 192 pgs, 11 x 8 1/2, $14.95. |
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Changing the Game: The Inside Stories of Tennis Champions Alice Marble and Althea Gibson : Women Who Dared Series, Sue Davidson
Description: Written in a lively, readable style, this book profiles two women who broke new ground in tennis. Alice Marble (1913-1990) became the first woman to play "power tennis", and by 1939 had won several Wimbledon titles. Althea Gibson (1927- ) broke the racial "color line" in tennis by entering many previously white-only tournaments, and became the first black person to win both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon competitions.
Subjects: Bios/Autobios; SportsSeal Press, 1997, 1-878067-88-5, Paperback, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, $10.95. Level: 8+.
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(Subject Categories)
Cooking
the Italian Way: Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks, Alphonse Bisignano
Melting
Pots: Family Stories and Recipes, Judith Eichler Weber
Women
& Work: In Their Own Words, Maureen R. Michelson
(text editor) and Michael R. & Michelson, Maureen Dressler
(photographs editor)