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The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words 1750-1800
ISBN: 9780064461450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A humble shoemaker hears the bells ringing at Lexington and responds to a call to battle. An aide to George Washington recounts his feelings as he crosses the Delaware. A young surgeon describes in his diary the horror of an army camp, where the spread of smallpox, frostbite, and starvation are deadlier than any sword. These are the voices of the American Revolutionaries. Most of us know about the American Revolution only from secondhand accounts of the fighting or from documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. But listen closely and you can hear the... A humble shoemaker hears the bells ringing at Lexington and responds to a call to battle. An aide to George Washington recounts his feelings as he ... |
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Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life
ISBN: 9780815606222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a chronicle of a life in photography. Detailing the adventures of Dorthea Lange, the book raises questions about the uses and effectiveness of the medium and examines her images of anxious mothers and hungry infants and sullen men waiting in long city breadlines.
This is a chronicle of a life in photography. Detailing the adventures of Dorthea Lange, the book raises questions about the uses and effectiveness of...
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107,42 zł |
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Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780064461184 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe between the years 1933 and 1945. What can that number mean to us today? We can that number mean to us today? We are told never to forget the Holocaust, but how can we remember something so incomprehensible?
We can think, not of the numbers, the statistics, but of the people. For the families torn apart, watching mothers, fathers, children disappear or be slaughtered, the numbers were agonizingly comprehensible. One. Two. Three. Often more. Here are the stories of thode people, recorded in letters... Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe between the years 1933 and 1945. What can that number mean to u...
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64,53 zł |
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Underground Man
ISBN: 9780152055240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this classic novel, Josh, a teenage logger on the Ohio River, discovers his life's true mission as an abolitionist after his first encounter with a runaway slave.
Josh first attempts to spread the abolitionist message by lecturing in remote towns about the evils of slavery--but his views often ignite strong disapproval. Frustrated, he makes a more daring choice and becomes an agent of the Underground Railroad. After dozens of successful rescues, Josh is captured by Kentucky slave owners and convicted of -enticing slaves to leave their owners.- Locked away, he struggles to hold on... In this classic novel, Josh, a teenage logger on the Ohio River, discovers his life's true mission as an abolitionist after his first encounter with a...
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68,84 zł |
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Starting from Home: A Writer's Beginnings
ISBN: 9780595089031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,06 zł |
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Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780064461177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between the years 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler organized the Murder of six million Jews while the world looked on silently. But not all people stood back in fear. In every Nazioccupied Country, at every level of society, there were non-Jews who had the courage to resist. From the king of Denmark, refusing to force Jewish Danes to wear yellow stars, to the Dutch student, registering Jewish babies as Gentiles and hiding children in her home, a small number of people had the strength to reject the inhumanity they were ordered to support. Here are their stories: thrilling, terrifying,... Between the years 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler organized the Murder of six million Jews while the world looked on silently. But not all people stood... |
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A History of Jewish Life from Eastern Europe to America
ISBN: 9781568214337 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Historian and biographer Milton Meltzer draws heavily upon eye-witness accounts, memoirs, letters, diaries, poems, and songs to graphically depict the dramatic history of the Jews of Eastern Europe and their journey to America. This award-winning writer offers a well-researched history of this important era in American Jewish history.
Historian and biographer Milton Meltzer draws heavily upon eye-witness accounts, memoirs, letters, diaries, poems, and songs to graphically depict the...
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Slavery: A World History
ISBN: 9780306805363 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some periods and declined in others, human bondage for profit has never been eradicated completely.In Slavery: A World History renowned author Milton Meltzer traces slavery from its origins in prehistoric hunting societies; through the boom in slave trading that reached its peak in the United States with a pre-Civil War slave population of 4,000,000; through the forced labor under the Nazi regime and in the Soviet gulags;...
Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it ha...
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168,97 zł |
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Lincoln in His Own Words
ISBN: 9781328895745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A renowned orator and writer, Lincoln believed that he must speak plainly so that every American, regardless of their level of education or literacy, would understand the complicated issues affecting the country during his presidency. He overcame a very humble childhood to become our nation's sixteenth president and a trailblazer in the fight to abolish slavery. In addition to the accomplishments of his lifetime, it is Lincoln's simple but elegant words--in everything from the Emancipation Proclamation to compassionate and often humorous letters to family and friends--that are his legacy....
A renowned orator and writer, Lincoln believed that he must speak plainly so that every American, regardless of their level of education or literacy, ...
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55,92 zł |
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