wyszukanych pozycji: 10
In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia
ISBN: 9780520084445 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in the workplace. In Their Own Interests presents a cross-section of southern urban blacks--the power-brokers and lesser-knowns, Garvey followers and communist enthusiasts--who came to live in Norfolk between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Lewis seeks to recreate the texture of...
Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have ...
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211,91 zł |
Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society
ISBN: 9780691170480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social connectedness remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability. The major demographic changes taking place in America make discussions about such issues all the more imperative. Our Compelling Interests engages this conversation and demonstrates that diversity is an essential strength that gives nations a competitive edge. This inaugural volume of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Our Compelling Interests series illustrates that a diverse population offers our communities a prescription for thriving... It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social connectedness remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability... |
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191,84 zł |
Michigan and the Cleveland Era: Sketches of University of Michigan Staff Members and Alumni Who Served the Cleveland Administrations 1885-89, 1893-97
ISBN: 9780472750115 / Angielski / Miękka / 1948 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a four-year labor of love by a group of alumni of the University of Michigan. It depicts the contribution by the University to the public life of the country at a turning point in our national history. Our country has for more than three hundred years been engaged in developing an educational system, culminating in the colleges and universities, public and private. The success of such a program is properly measured by the degree to which it contributes enlightened leadership to the communities, large and small, which provide its support. The present volume shows how one institution,...
This is a four-year labor of love by a group of alumni of the University of Michigan. It depicts the contribution by the University to the public life...
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284,59 zł |
Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society
ISBN: 9780691178837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social connectedness remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability. The major demographic changes taking place in America make discussions about such issues all the more imperative. Our Compelling Interests engages this conversation and demonstrates that diversity is an essential strength that gives nations a competitive edge. This inaugural volume of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Our Compelling Interests series illustrates that a diverse population offers our communities a prescription for thriving... It is clear that in our society today, issues of diversity and social connectedness remain deeply unresolved and can lead to crisis and instability... |
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98,61 zł |
Hood-Winked: Some Historical Accounts of the Deception of Man Since the Beginning of Time.
ISBN: 9781466979154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Have you ever wondered why people are so gullible here in the twenty-first century, especially in the United States of America, where education is mandated through age sixteen? Is it all the deceiver's fault, or does the victim has a part to play in these villainous acts? It appears that in this enlightened era, this age of reason, people are more deceived than ever before. What motive or motives are at play to allow the deception to take place? Are both sides of the ploy looking for something? After a seed is planted and it begins to germinate, two sprouts or shoots come from it. One shoot...
Have you ever wondered why people are so gullible here in the twenty-first century, especially in the United States of America, where education is man...
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70,48 zł |
Another Slam Dunk!!!: When Man said NO, God said YES!!
ISBN: 9781498493352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This autobiography describes the heart-stopping moment when the author learned that her twenty-year-old son, Stephen, had collapsed and died. However, through a miracle only God could have performed, the author shares how Stephen was able to make a full recovery and increase in health each day."Another Slam Dunk " is about Stephen Mask, 20 year old young man who had cardiac arrest while playing football on the field. This book is also about the importance of first responders, good Samaritans and the need to educate our young kids how to do effective CPR. The book is also a testament about...
This autobiography describes the heart-stopping moment when the author learned that her twenty-year-old son, Stephen, had collapsed and died. However,...
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99,28 zł |
Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
ISBN: 9780393323092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the social register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once the news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class and sex gripped the nation - and forced the couple into an annulment trial. This work tells the story of the scandal retaining the drama of the time, but also concerns itself with the prickly nature of racial identity.
When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the social register as a membe...
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103,60 zł |
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
ISBN: 9780691191539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose id
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversit...
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77,04 zł |
What to Expect from the Holy Spirit
ISBN: 9781939992314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Christian world has shown a remarkable interest in the Holy Spirit in recent decades. A host of articles and books have been published to define the Spirit's ministry in the church today. The charismatic movement has focused attention upon the sign gifts, leading believers to wonder if they have all of the Spirit they should have, and to think that maybe they've been missing something. Dr. Earl Radmacher discusses the Holy Spirit's ministry today, pointing out that he was sent to focus our attention upon Christ, not upon Himself. Therefore, Christians can expect from the Holy... The Christian world has shown a remarkable interest in the Holy Spirit in recent decades. A host of articles and books have been published to defin... |
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47,54 zł |
Sylacauga
ISBN: 9781531669089 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Shawnee Indians would be surprised to find the name that they gave the area in 1748--Chalakagay--remains much the same; however, the area has changed quite a bit. New ideas surfaced with the building of the plank road that supported rumbling horse-drawn stage coaches through the "old town" and again in recent times when a piece of marble became the Falling Star sculpture, a memorial to the local 1954 meteorite. Around 1820, Dr. Edward Gantt discovered marble in what would become Gantts Quarry while on military duty with Gen. Andrew Jackson. The pioneering spirit of early settlers...
The Shawnee Indians would be surprised to find the name that they gave the area in 1748--Chalakagay--remains much the same; however, the area has chan...
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138,39 zł |