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The Obermayers: A History of a Jewish Family in Germany and America, 1618-2009, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780615388410 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of a family over many generations is put into an historical context. The first three chapters deal with very different communities in Germany: Creglingen, a rural community in Baden-Wuerttemberg; Fuerth, a city adjacent to Nuremberg which had a large Jewish population and important institutions; and Augsburg, where Jews, from 1438 until 1803, could not reside but lived in its suburb, Kriegshaber. The book interweaves the detail of the family's life with an explanation of the status and experience of Jews in Germany over the centuries, as well as the histories of the cities and towns...
The story of a family over many generations is put into an historical context. The first three chapters deal with very different communities in German...
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134,87 |
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Looking Up at the Bottom Line: The Struggle for the Living Wage
ISBN: 9781935514992 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Remarkable An energizing, engaging book that can lead to the end of homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum wage workers. This book takes off where all the other minimum wage, living wage books end.
Michael Stoops, National Civil Rights Organizer for the National Coalition for the Homeless ..". the only book on the subject that combines in such depth both personal stories of low wage workers and their families, on the one hand, and analytic arguments about the costs and benefits of living wages, on the other. The idea of indexing wages to housing costs just may be the right way to... Remarkable An energizing, engaging book that can lead to the end of homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum wage workers. This book takes off where a...
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88,44 |
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These Three and Me
ISBN: 9781450074346 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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These Three and Me
ISBN: 9781450074353 / Angielski / Twarda / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781453847657 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year was 1841. That "Peculiar Institution" of slavery was running full bore in the south. Solomon Northup, age 33, a well-educated black man who was born into freedom, resided with his wife and three children in his native state of New York. Solomon was kidnapped and sold into slavery in our nation's capital...Washington, D.C. The perpetrators of this crime, in order to sell Solomon, insisted he was an escaped slave from Georgia. Whenever Solomon protested and declared himself a free man, he was terribly beaten...once near to death. Solomon was sold and transported to Louisiana where he...
The year was 1841. That "Peculiar Institution" of slavery was running full bore in the south. Solomon Northup, age 33, a well-educated black man who w...
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60,49 |
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Snapshots of a Century in African American Lives
ISBN: 9781452005119 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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183,19 |
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The Grace of Silence: A Family Memoir
ISBN: 9780307475275 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star. |
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73,22 |
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Public Intellectuals and the Politics of Global Africa: Comparative and Biographical Essays in Honour of Ali A. Mazrui
ISBN: 9781906704742 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ali Mazrui has been described as one of the most original thinkers that Africa has produced, and one of the top 100 living public intellectuals in the world today. This volume uses Mazrui's life and work as a guide towards explaining the historical impact of black public intellectuals such as Julius K. Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba and Barrack Obama. The book explores not only politics and academics, but also religion, gender, class and civil-military relations, bringing together into the black experience both Plato's concept of the "philosopher King" and V.I. Lenin's notion of the...
Ali Mazrui has been described as one of the most original thinkers that Africa has produced, and one of the top 100 living public intellectuals in the...
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306,86 |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
ISBN: 9781612030395 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1841 he addressed a convention of the...
Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact ye...
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63,07 |
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Gonna Do Great Things: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
ISBN: 9781451643206 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major reappraisal of the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., Gonna Do Great Things is at once an intimate portrait and an exuberant celebration of a wholly American icon. Through his multifaceted talent and personality, Sammy became one of the most magnetic and contentious figures in modern entertainment history. His outstanding talents as a dancer, singer, actor, impressionist, and comedian, combined with his close association with megastars and his interracial marriage, made him a celebrity in the truest sense. Born in Harlem in 1925, Sammy debuted onstage with Will...
A major reappraisal of the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., Gonna Do Great Things is at once an intimate portrait and an exubera...
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107,86 |
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Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire
ISBN: 9780195369915 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2005, hurricane Katrina and its aftermath starkly revealed the continued racial polarization of America. Disproportionately impacted by the ravages of the storm, displaced black victims were often characterized by the media as "refugees." The characterization was wrong-headed, and yet deeply revealing. Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire traces the long history of this and related terms, like alien and foreign, a rhetorical shorthand that has shortchanged black America for over 250 years. In tracing the language and politics that have informed debates about African...
In 2005, hurricane Katrina and its aftermath starkly revealed the continued racial polarization of America. Disproportionately impacted by the ravages...
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456,37 |
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African Americans in South Texas History
ISBN: 9781603442299 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some especially interesting forms of racial and ethnic intersection, influenced by the relatively small number of blacks (especially in certain counties), the function and importance of the South Texas cattle trade, proximity to Mexico, and the history of anti-black violence. The essays in "African Americans in South Texas History "give insight into this fascinating history. The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some esp... |
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Three Suitcases and a Three Year Old
ISBN: 9781453845998 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Three Suitcases and a Three Year Old' is an optimistic account of how, out of tragedy, identity can be recalimed. It is one woman's story of emotion and love, a scientist's story of observation and analysis, and a storyof how anyone can find their way home at the most unexpected times and to places that may have only existed in the imagination and the heart. Ann Mihkelson's parent's fled their homeland of Estonia at the end of the Second World War, just days before the Soviets made any escape impossible. Ann, their only child, was born in Sweden. When she was three, the family left for...
'Three Suitcases and a Three Year Old' is an optimistic account of how, out of tragedy, identity can be recalimed. It is one woman's story of emotion ...
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80,92 |
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My Great-Grandmother's Lost, Banned, Burned Book: A Miraculous Find
ISBN: 9781453793824 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1926, my great-grandmother, Marie Dujka Jez, published a book in the Czech language, entitled Katechismus Manzelu. It reflects her progressive 1900s-era philosophy and advice about the purpose of life, marriage, birth control, parenting, natural home remedies, sexuality and other topics considered taboo or controversial at that time. My mother, Bessie Ann Jez Polasek, was intrigued by the book as a child because she was forbidden to read it. Eventually, all but a few copies were lost, banned or burned, because relatives and others fiercely objected to many of Marie's freethinking ideas. In...
In 1926, my great-grandmother, Marie Dujka Jez, published a book in the Czech language, entitled Katechismus Manzelu. It reflects her progressive 1900...
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48,35 |
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Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
ISBN: 9780816669882 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rap's critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the "hip-hop mayor" of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail.
A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip-hop are the basis of an influential new urban social movement. Simultaneously, black citizens evince concern with the effect that rap and hip-hop culture exerts on African American communities. According to a recent Pew survey conducted on the opinions of Black Americans, 71 percent of blacks... Rap's critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the "hip-hop mayor" of Det...
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97,90 |
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The Keenan Family History: Our Story
ISBN: 9781453885079 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the Keenan family of Brisbane, Queensland, as told by Victoria Callioni (nee Keenan).
The history of the Keenan family of Brisbane, Queensland, as told by Victoria Callioni (nee Keenan).
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161,81 |
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Racism Through the Eyes of a White Woman
ISBN: 9781456831578 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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My Journey: How One Woman Survived Stalin's Gulag
ISBN: 9780810127395 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first English translation of Olga Adamova-Sliozberg's mesmerizing My Journey , which was not officially published in Russia until 2002. It is among the best known of Gulag memoirs and was one of the first to become widely available in underground samizdat circulation. Alexander Solzhenitsyn relied heavily upon it when writing Gulag Archipelago, and it remains the best account of the daily life of women in the Soviet prison camps.
Arrested along with her husband (who, she would much later learn, was shot the next day) in the great purges of the thirties,... This is the first English translation of Olga Adamova-Sliozberg's mesmerizing My Journey , which was not officially published in Russia until 2...
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83,21 |
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The Pecan Orchard: Journey of a Sharecropper's Daughter
ISBN: 9780817356590 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the 20th century, lifted themselves out of poverty to achieve the American dream of property ownership. Descended from slaves and sharecroppers in the Black Belt region, this family of hard-working parents and their thirteen children is mentored by its matriarch, Moa, the author s beloved great grandmother, who passes on to the family, along with other cultural wealth, her recipe for moonshine.
Without rancor or blame, and even with occasional humor,... This is a true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the 20th c...
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88,11 |
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Land of the Dragonfly
ISBN: 9781419629747 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true story of a family that is divided by the events that follow the ending of a horrific Second World War and of a courageous young woman who is forcibly separated from her husband takes her four children on her own halfway across the world from to Europe and from Arabia to Turkey as a penniless refugee. The heroine has escaped from a Russia that is in the throes of a Soviet upheaval to live in Manchuria and then finds a haven in the peaceful prewar Japan. But when the clouds of war once again envelop the land, she is forced to live in Shanghai through the Second World War. As another...
A true story of a family that is divided by the events that follow the ending of a horrific Second World War and of a courageous young woman who is fo...
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56,61 |
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