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Father, I Must Go
ISBN: 9781450280730 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about Jorge Frias, a Mexican from the Yucatan Peninsula. For almost twenty years he lived and worked in the United States without proper papers and was, therefore, an illegal alien. After being caught, he was allowed to "voluntarily depart" our country a couple of years ago. This is a story of how he managed to gain entry to this country illegally on many occasions, why he did it and what he did while here. In writing the book my intention was, in large part, to shed some light on the immigration issue, since it is a topic being hotly debated in Congress and across the country at...
This book is about Jorge Frias, a Mexican from the Yucatan Peninsula. For almost twenty years he lived and worked in the United States without proper ...
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69,17 |
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Don't Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country
ISBN: 9780292709294 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many people dream of "someday buying a small quaint place in the country, to own two cows and watch the birds," in the words of Texas ranchwoman Amanda Spenrath Geistweidt. But only a few are cut out for the unrelenting work that makes a family ranching operation successful. Don't Make Me Go to Town presents an eloquent photo-documentary of eight women who have chosen to make ranching in the Texas Hill Country their way of life. Ranging from young mothers to elderly grandmothers, these women offer vivid accounts of raising livestock in a rugged land, cut off from amenities and... Many people dream of "someday buying a small quaint place in the country, to own two cows and watch the birds," in the words of Texas ranchwoman Am... |
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141,98 |
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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana: A Personal Biography
ISBN: 9780807137932 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A More Noble Cause presents both the powerful story of one man's lifelong battle for racial justice and the very personal biography of a black professional and his family in the Jim Crow--era Louisiana. During a career that spanned more than forty years, A. P. Tureaud was at times the only regularly practicing black attorney in Louisiana. From his base in New Orleans, the civil rights pioneer... Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the... |
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173,22 |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
ISBN: 9781108028127 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederick Douglass (c.1818 1895) was born into slavery but escaped in 1838, quickly becoming involved in the abolitionist movement. Following publication in 1845 of this autobiography he risked recognition and recapture by his owner, and so fled the United States. This reissue is of the Dublin edition of 1845, with a preface by Douglass explaining his reasons for his journey to Britain. Opening with a touching explanation of how he doesn't know his birthday, Douglass describes his early life and the growing awareness of the injustices he suffered. The beatings he witnessed and received...
Frederick Douglass (c.1818 1895) was born into slavery but escaped in 1838, quickly becoming involved in the abolitionist movement. Following publicat...
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184,51 |
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My Father's Hands: A Secret Daughter's Story of Courage, Forgiveness, Discovery, and Reconciliation
ISBN: 9781432767693 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One woman's journey to find her family, and ultimately herself.
A secret revealed in childhood and nearly forgotten, was awakened after more than fifty years, sending the author on a compelling and revealing journey that would forever change her life, as well as the lives of those around her. One woman's journey to find her family, and ultimately herself.
A secret revealed in childhood and nearly forgotten, was awakened after more than ... |
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57,61 |
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Harnessing a Heritage
ISBN: 9781453791325 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harnessing a Heritage by D. E. FitzGerald is essentially a memoir with two twists. First, it is not chronological but rather topical, using items on a wall unit as recollections of events in the life of a man who attended five colleges or universities, spent 25 years in the U.S. Navy and Marines, completed 20 years as a Dentist in the corporate world, had first-hand experiences in the Beat Generation and has avocations in theater and literature. Second, each shelf or chapter is followed by a a How Toa page with suggestions on how the reader may influence children or grandchildren in...
Harnessing a Heritage by D. E. FitzGerald is essentially a memoir with two twists. First, it is not chronological but rather topical, using items on a...
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56,61 |
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I Am Royalty (Volume 2): Profiles In Black History
ISBN: 9781456486891 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are positive alternatives in our communities, and by making these alternatives visual, we can begin to build our people through our stories. These are our stories and our history in written form. Our communities are full of people that are positive examples, but we are not always aware of the people that are making the changes. I Am Royalty was created to represent these people and to introduce them to youth as the positive role models that they are. The stories in "I Am Royalty" are being shared to serve as examples of what we would like to see our children become. It is sometimes...
There are positive alternatives in our communities, and by making these alternatives visual, we can begin to build our people through our stories. The...
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52,40 |
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Recollections of my Childhood: The true story of a childhood lived in the shadow of Napoleon Bonaparte
ISBN: 9781456495060 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true story of a childhood lived in the shadow of Napoleon Bonaparte. Transcribed from the original manuscript written by Frances Sophia McLellan nee Rainsford circa 1880
The true story of a childhood lived in the shadow of Napoleon Bonaparte. Transcribed from the original manuscript written by Frances Sophia McLellan n...
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40,26 |
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A Dying People
ISBN: 9781456859763 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,70 |
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Twenty-Two Years for Twenty-Two Seconds
ISBN: 9781450511339 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Toby Dawson is the American Dream. Lost at an orphanage in Pusan, South Korea at the age of 3, he was adopted by ski instructor parents in Vail, Colorado and went on to win the Olympic Bronze in Men's Moguls Freestyle Skiing. His incredible journey, recounted here with his wife, Leah, took 22 years, countless injuries and broken bones, and at the pinnacle of his career, he reconnected with his birth father as a result of the Olympic coverage. Toby has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, and The Today Show.
Toby Dawson is the American Dream. Lost at an orphanage in Pusan, South Korea at the age of 3, he was adopted by ski instructor parents in Vail, Color...
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60,69 |
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The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family
ISBN: 9780307744531 / Angielski / Miękka / 505 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty--a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published. It is the epic story of the Sanchez family, told entirely by its members--Jesus, the 50-year-old patriarch, and his four adult children--as their lives unfold in the Mexico City slum they call home. Weaving together their extraordinary personal narratives, Oscar Lewis creates a sympathetic but ultimately tragic portrait that is at once...A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the stud... |
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80,92 |
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The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
ISBN: 9780393310153 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s and became a member of the Communist Party as well as president of a CIO union local. It was a hard, dangerous life, to be black and communist and pro-union, and Hudson talked about that life to Nell painter, who brilliantly recreates it in this collaborative oral autobiography.
Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and 1940...
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107,71 |
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Twice My Child: The Stories of Five Generations of Island Women
ISBN: 9780615421247 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "My child's child is twice my child," I heard my mother, Maria, say in Greek, her only language, in referring to her English-speaking grandchildren. She had heard these same words from my grandmother and my grandmother heard them from her grandmother, back through the generations of my Greek island origins. Who were these strong women, who maintained family continuity and identity through the turbulence that dramatically changed the face of Greece through the 19th and 20th Centuries? My story follows them, three named Triantafyllia, my given name, and two named Maria, my mother's name, from...
"My child's child is twice my child," I heard my mother, Maria, say in Greek, her only language, in referring to her English-speaking grandchildren. S...
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89,02 |
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Elmer's Ethics
ISBN: 9781596300644 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Story of Elmer Barron is more than the story of one man. It is an extraordinary example of a man raised in a simple environment who lived 96 years of a full and wholesome life encapsulating virtues that we should all emulate. This book, by Elmer's Pastor, Rev. Peter Unger, is a tribute--and an attempt to capture the unique Spirit of a close friend, mentor, father figure, and church member all rolled into one. The lessons that flow from Elmer's life are day-to-day examples of ethical living. The biography is skillfully woven into a theological context as an uplifting example worth studying...
The Story of Elmer Barron is more than the story of one man. It is an extraordinary example of a man raised in a simple environment who lived 96 years...
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76,67 |
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A Dying People
ISBN: 9781456859770 / Angielski / Twarda / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,34 |
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Musa Dagh Girl
ISBN: 9781612155517 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Musa Dagh Girl: Daughter of Armenian Genocide Survivors is a book for both the young and old. Written by the daughter of Armenian Genocide survivors, it is a must purchase. Dr. Thomas Brown President Emeritus Union County College, N.J. Virginia (Matosian) Apelian has been a psychologist/educator and experienced assertiveness trainer and lecturer for 26 years. She and her husband Henry M. Apelian live in Parsippany, N.J. She is listed in various professional encyclopedias for her outstanding works; also, she has received many local, state, national and international accolades.
Musa Dagh Girl: Daughter of Armenian Genocide Survivors is a book for both the young and old. Written by the daughter of Armenian Genocide survivors, ...
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120,80 |
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Musa Dagh Girl
ISBN: 9781612155524 / Angielski / Twarda / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Musa Dagh Girl: Daughter of Armenian Genocide Survivors is a book for both the young and old. Written by the daughter of Armenian Genocide survivors, it is a must purchase. Dr. Thomas Brown President Emeritus Union County College, N.J. Virginia (Matosian) Apelian has been a psychologist/educator and experienced assertiveness trainer and lecturer for 26 years. She and her husband Henry M. Apelian live in Parsippany, N.J. She is listed in various professional encyclopedias for her outstanding works; also, she has received many local, state, national and international accolades.
Musa Dagh Girl: Daughter of Armenian Genocide Survivors is a book for both the young and old. Written by the daughter of Armenian Genocide survivors, ...
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172,59 |
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Please God, Be with Us
ISBN: 9781613791530 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please God, Be With Us answers the question, "What was it like to grow up in the Brazil of the 1960's?" The sixties are a decade of turmoil for Americans, but most of it happened in the U.S. in the last half of the decade. In Brazil the turmoil was during the first half. The McAfee's were there, living it with the people they ministered to. The McAfee family has had a continuous missionary presence in Brazil for the past fifty years, so this book commemorates the beginning of that faith endeavor. Steve McAfee is a husband and father of one daughter, Amy Beth, who lives in Des Moines. He is...
Please God, Be With Us answers the question, "What was it like to grow up in the Brazil of the 1960's?" The sixties are a decade of turmoil for Americ...
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75,48 |
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if my soul be lost: a self portrait
ISBN: 9780719959158 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Nandi S. Crosby currently works as a Professor of Sociology and Multicultural Studies. If My Soul Be Lost chronicles her experiences growing up in a emotionally troubled home, as the daughter of an addict, as a female correctional officer in a maximum-security prison for men; and it examines her struggles with sex and pregnancy prior to the age of 15. From a feminist perspective, the author discusses how she emerged as a scholar, activist, and writer. As a seasoned African American sociologist from the lower working class, she was able to unabashedly link the politics of sex, race, and...
Dr. Nandi S. Crosby currently works as a Professor of Sociology and Multicultural Studies. If My Soul Be Lost chronicles her experiences growing up in...
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40,43 |
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
ISBN: 9781604444599 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,00 |
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