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Well-known humor writer Ian Frazier takes a sobering look at life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the South Dakota home of the Oglala Sioux. Frazier's abstract admiration for the Sioux world-view is tempered by the realities of reservation life, which include chronic alcoholism, violence, and poverty, and which add up to what Frazier can characterize only as manifest evil. In his book, he rails against the injustices to which the Oglala Sioux have been subjected, but he also takes the Indians to task for internal problems. The book is a mix of Frazier's account of his own friendship with some of the Oglala Sioux, a history of the Pine Ridge reservation, and biography of some of the reservations' notables, including a young basketball star whose on-court victories were overshadowed by her death in one of the reservation's all-too-frequent car accidents. AUTHOR: Ian Frazier
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Schools our Child by Alfie Kohn
Author Alfie Kohn discusses why standardized testing is a dangerous practice--instead of helping students become active thinkers, the tests make students walking repositories of knowledge; they merely memorize and answer questions by rote. He also posits that standardized testing does not prepare students for the real world, nor does it allow children to really show what they really know. AUTHOR: Alfie Kohn
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Grandfather by Tom Brown
Description not available.America's most acclaimed outdoorsman tells the life story of his greatest spiritual teacher, a Native American who mastered the skills of survival and learned universal truths from the beauties of nature, whose quest for inner peace sheds new light on our own spiritual odyssey. Reissue. AUTHOR: Tom Brown
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Medusa File by Craig Roberts
In The Medusa File the reader will learn the hidden secrets of the highest levels of government. During the period of 1940 to the present Power Brokers, working from positions of trust, have committed and covered up the most heinous crimes known to man. AUTHOR: Craig Roberts
PUBLISHER: Consolidated Press International
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | American Narrow Gauge Railroads by George W. Hilton
This is the first comprehensive, extensively illustrated account of the growth and decline of American narrow gauge railroading, a singular and still not fully understood episode in the history of American transportation. AUTHOR: George W. Hilton
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Civilization of Angkor by Charles Higham
Description not available.The great Southeast Asian civilization is revealed in all its splendor here, with details of the statues, inscriptions, canals, fountains, and moats that made its capital--Angkor Wat--one of the great marvels of the ancient world. AUTHOR: Charles Higham
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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