ilość książek w kategorii: 43846
Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America
ISBN: 9780140232981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence while endorsing surveillance of black rebels and using "constitutional" military force against them. In this groundbreaking study, constitutional scholar Mary Frances Berry analyzes the reasons why millions of African Americans whose lives have improved enormously, both socially and... How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
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103,07 zł |
American Indian Trickster Tales
ISBN: 9780140277715 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American Indian trickster tales, compiled by an eminent anthropologist and a master storyteller, serves as the perfect companion to their previous masterwork, American Indian Myths and Legends.
American... Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble w...
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68,71 zł |
Army Life in a Black Regiment: And Other Writings
ISBN: 9780140436211 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves |
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103,07 zł |
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
ISBN: 9780140443974 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world--part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the stunning "Exile of the Sons of Uisliu"--a tale of treachery, honour and romance--these are masterpieces of passion and vitality, and form the foundation for the Irish literary tradition: a mythic legacy...
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world--part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with ma...
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51,58 zł |
The Classic of Mountains and Seas
ISBN: 9780140447194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the mythical figures, rituals, medicine, natural history, and ethnic peoples of the ancient world.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas explores 204 mythical figures such as the gods Foremost, Fond Care, and Yellow, and goddesses Queen Mother of the West and Girl Lovely, as well as many other figures unknown outside this text. This eclectic Classic also contains crucial information on early medicine (with cures for impotence and... This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the m...
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81,60 zł |
Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
ISBN: 9780142003756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermath
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and such judges as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, sketches of numerous black children throughout history whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools, and gripping... Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important ...
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103,07 zł |
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
ISBN: 9780142004173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws, walking the racial tightrope between black and white, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary...
In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of ...
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85,89 zł |
Rapunzel
ISBN: 9780142301937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Award winning author/adapter/illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky's Caldecott Medal Winning book Perfect for readers of all fairy tales. "A breathtaking interpretation gives the fairy tale new art-historical roots, with illustrations that daringly-and effectively-mimic the masters of Italian Renaissance painting."--Publishers Weekly Trapped in a tower with no door, Rapunzel is allowed to see no one but the sorceress who has imprisoned her-until the day a young prince hears her singing to the forest birds. . . . The timeless tale of Rapunzel is vividly and magnificently brought...
Award winning author/adapter/illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky's Caldecott Medal Winning book Perfect for readers of all fairy tales. "A breath...
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42,90 zł |
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings
ISBN: 9780142437094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Illuminating the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience, this volume collects the finest stories and nonfiction writings by a Native American author and activist.
Illuminating the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience, this volume collects the finest stories and nonfiction writings by a Native...
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73,01 zł |
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Bl
ISBN: 9780143034476 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how black performers, athletes, and activists made increasing inroads into the mainstream. This fast-paced, chronological retrospective profiles personalities from Bill Cosby to Louis Farrakhan and explores such flashpoints as the first rap single and the infamous Willie Horton ad campaign.
On the web: http: //www.nelsongeorge.com/ One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reaga...
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103,07 zł |
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
ISBN: 9780143036067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the...
Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down th...
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103,07 zł |
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
ISBN: 9780143111986 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the ?middle passage, ? but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright,... Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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128,84 zł |
Tikta'liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo Legend
ISBN: 9780152877484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A young hunter is trapped on an ice floe and marooned on a barren island. . . . The Eskimo survives freezing weather, an attack by a polar bear, and the long journey that brings him safely home. . . . The author's distinctive drawings help make this a memorable book."--The New York Times Book Review
"A young hunter is trapped on an ice floe and marooned on a barren island. . . . The Eskimo survives freezing weather, an attack by a polar bear, and ...
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51,49 zł |
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
ISBN: 9780156006538 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart from our ancestors, and the significance of our knowledge. A worldwide tour of discovery, Tattersall takes the reader from 30,000-year-old cave paintings in France and anthropological digs in Africa, to examining human behavior in a New York restaurant. And by offering wisdom gleaned from fossil remains, primate behavior, prehistoric art, and archaeology, Tattersall presents a stunning picture of where humankind evolved, how Darwin's theories have...
In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart from...
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81,55 zł |
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
ISBN: 9780156008549 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. It is told from the point of view of the Africans who arrived in shackles and endured the terrible dichotomy of this new land founded on the ideal of liberty but dedicated to the perpetuation of slavery. Meticulously researched, this book weaves together the experiences of the colonists, slaves, free and fugitive blacks, and abolitionists to present an utterly original document, a...
A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared histor...
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167,28 zł |
Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.
ISBN: 9780156030830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Can you grow a bonsai kitten? Should you stock up on dehydrated water? Is it easy to order human-flavored tofu? Or is this all just B.S.?
In a world of lip synching, breast implants, payola punditry, and staged reality shows, it's hard to know the real from the fake. Hippo Eats Dwarf is the essential field guide to today's Misinformation Age. Whether you're deciphering political doublespeak or trying to decide whether to forward that virus warning, hoaxpert Alex Boese provides the guidelines you need. For instance, Reality Rule 6.1: Just because you read it on the Internet doesn't make it... Can you grow a bonsai kitten? Should you stock up on dehydrated water? Is it easy to order human-flavored tofu? Or is this all just B.S.?
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85,85 zł |
Essential Anatomy of Britain: Democracy in Crisis
ISBN: 9780156290586 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This thoroughly revised edition of a classic examines the recent deterioration of democratic representation in Great Britain. New Preface by the Author; Index.
This thoroughly revised edition of a classic examines the recent deterioration of democratic representation in Great Britain. New Preface by the Autho...
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72,96 zł |
Gypsy Folk
ISBN: 9780156379892 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stretching back many centuries to its origins in India, the Gypsy oral tradition has accumulated a vast, diverse treasury of folktales. The eighty tales in this volume are gathered from thirty-one different countries. Each tale has a headnote elucidating the tale s background. Index; photographs.
" Stretching back many centuries to its origins in India, the Gypsy oral tradition has accumulated a vast, diverse treasury of folktales. The eighty tal...
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89,97 zł |
Italian Folktales
ISBN: 9780156454896 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Chosen as one of the New York Times s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
" Chosen as one of the New York Times s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among ...
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139,58 zł |
There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America
ISBN: 9780156890892 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achieve freedom from slavery. Index; photographs.
From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achieve freedom from slavery. Index; photograph...
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128,79 zł |