Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney W. MintzA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave"

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Moving through her colorful

including the lion

telling its stories drink by drink

a pocket-sized book with lovely cover detail and gold decorated spine

Set in Canada and the battlefields of France and Belgium

Permission—People follow because they want to

Bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time

Jane possesses a sound strength of character beyond her years that equips her to weather the vicious storm

Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us

who describes a harrowing escape across continents

and the difficulty of going from one to the other and then back again