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Looking Backward at Us
ISBN: 9781617038419 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Raspberry's syndicated columns give the voice of sanity to addressing some of the most controversial problems in America. Few Americans have tepid feelings about the multitude of subjects he assesses in his column in the Washington Post-- among them, education, poverty, drugs, racism, parenting. Because they are among our greatest concerns and because we are so deeply involved with them, we too often lack accurate perspective. But in thirty-five or forty years perhaps we will have put many of these issues into sharper focus and will wonder why they raged during our times... William Raspberry's syndicated columns give the voice of sanity to addressing some of the most controversial problems in America. Few Americans hav... |
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117,50 |
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Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
ISBN: 9781935978237 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an exceptional antebellum biography, chronicling Elleanor Eldridge's life from her birth through the first publication of almost yearly editions of the text between 1838 and 1847. Because of Eldridge's exceptional life as a freeborn woman of colour entrepreneur, it constitutes a counter-narrative to slave narratives of early 19th-century New England.
This is an exceptional antebellum biography, chronicling Elleanor Eldridge's life from her birth through the first publication of almost yearly editio...
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88,11 |
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Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
ISBN: 9781935978244 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an exceptional antebellum biography, chronicling Elleanor Eldridge's life from her birth through the first publication of almost yearly editions of the text between 1838 and 1847. Because of Eldridge's exceptional life as a freeborn woman of colour entrepreneur, it constitutes a counter-narrative to slave narratives of early 19th-century New England.
This is an exceptional antebellum biography, chronicling Elleanor Eldridge's life from her birth through the first publication of almost yearly editio...
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265,85 |
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A Biography of Charlie Christian, Jazz Guitar's King of Swing
ISBN: 9780773407923 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a biography on the career of jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, who was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma during the Depression era in the Southwestern region of the United States. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the details surrounding the events that shaped Christian's musical development, beginning with his early influences of 'Territory bands' and 'western swing' groups. The book documents Christian's performances in the urban area of Oklahoma City on Second Street, better known as 'Deep Deuce', as well as his travels with both Anna Mae Winburn and the Alphonso Trent...
This is a biography on the career of jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, who was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma during the Depression era in the Sout...
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409,75 |
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Remembering Rollo: Growing up in the Rocky Mountain West
ISBN: 9780981451879 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These memories of my father, Rollo W. Woodward, are written to be read aloud in mixed groups. 'Mixed' means, as the narrative explains, women, children and men. Our local version of the western story-telling tradition - now faded away - was a clear and colorful backdrop to my youth in Cache Valley, a swath of Rocky Mountain beauty carved into northern Utah and southern Idaho. If not reading aloud, but only to yourself, you will be most comfortable if you bring along your story-listening frame of mind. The pace of my father's stories falls in with the cadence of rural western speech - slow and...
These memories of my father, Rollo W. Woodward, are written to be read aloud in mixed groups. 'Mixed' means, as the narrative explains, women, childre...
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52,40 |
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9781414336374 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl's restroom she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history . . . and the turning point in a young girl's life.
While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of life in the Jim Crow South: from the bombings, riots, and assassinations to the historic marches and... On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just...
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69,32 |
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Coming to Canada: A Personal Odyssey
ISBN: 9781475977110 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,03 |
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Coming to Canada: A Personal Odyssey
ISBN: 9781475977196 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,56 |
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Escape to Riches: As Told to Martha Rose Woodward by Phillip Lim
ISBN: 9781479382194 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A biography of a Chinese-Malaysian American whose great-grandfather escaped brutality of war-torn China in 1899 by traveling on a small fishing boat to Malaysia. The book traces the life of Phillip Lim, owner of Asia Cafe in Knoxville, Tennessee and his ancestors.
A biography of a Chinese-Malaysian American whose great-grandfather escaped brutality of war-torn China in 1899 by traveling on a small fishing boat t...
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40,47 |
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Finding Hiphop, Looking for Jazz: Thoughts of a Modern Male Divorce
ISBN: 9781479766291 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,70 |
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Beirut and Back
ISBN: 9781481142816 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beirut and Back weaves Nick Boke's memories of the Beirut he knew as a boy in the late 1950s with the Beirut he found when he moved there to work there in 2007. Part memoir, part ethnography, the book chronicles Boke's effort to understand the ways living in Beirut influenced the person he became, while he tries to understand what it means to become a person--anywhere. His recollections of riding rickety trolleycars down Beirut's narrow streets as a teenager segue with descriptions of the major political players in contemporary Lebanon and the many problems facing this complex country. As he...
Beirut and Back weaves Nick Boke's memories of the Beirut he knew as a boy in the late 1950s with the Beirut he found when he moved there to work ther...
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72,83 |
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Death of a Dream: One Family's Experience of the 1862 Us/Dakota War
ISBN: 9781482578102 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story of sacrifice and tragedy fueled by the long-held immigrant's dream for a new beginning in a new land. In 1861, a large extended family of Swedes settles on the far northwest edge of the new state of Minnesota. One year later, as the late-summer harvest is in, a group of Dakota warriors declares war on all the settlers. In a surprise attack, 13 members of this family are killed. Left behind are eight others who flee for refuge, joining hundreds of other terrified residents of the state. This is the story of my family--my great, great grandparents, their children, their cousins...
This is a story of sacrifice and tragedy fueled by the long-held immigrant's dream for a new beginning in a new land. In 1861, a large extended family...
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48,55 |
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Distant Horizons; From Midwest to Middle East
ISBN: 9781936688579 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,21 |
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Got My Mind Set on Freedom Maryland's Story of Black & White Activism, 1663-2000
ISBN: 9780788422683 / Angielski / Miękka / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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189,90 |
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Bull City Survivor: Standing Up to a Hard Life in a Southern City
ISBN: 9780786474479 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emma Johnston (a pseudonym) is an African American resident of Durham, North Carolina, whose son was brutally murdered in 2007. Combining the voices of Emma and her coauthor Simon Partner, a professor at Duke University, the book recounts the postwar history of one of the South s fastest-growing communities through the eyes of one of its most disadvantaged residents. In the process, the book attempts to shed light on the social and economic conditions that led to the murder of Emma s son, one of 25 to 30 people (many of them African American young men) who fall victim to gun violence each...
Emma Johnston (a pseudonym) is an African American resident of Durham, North Carolina, whose son was brutally murdered in 2007. Combining the voices o...
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114,15 |
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Biography of Ng Wai Kun ( Bill Fong ): Great Power
ISBN: 9781482686623 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sounds of gunfire between the two rivaling forces could be heard in the near distance as the midwife placed the baby boy in the arms of Ng Won Kuk. A carefully chosen name was given shortly after sunset on this wonderful but muggy day. The name "Wei Kun " in English version means "Great Power," a name very suitable for Ng Won Kuk's second son. Ng Wai Kun (Bill Fong) was born during a tumultuous time in China's history that led him to forsake his duties as Head Clansman and immigrate to the United States where he became a successful restaurant operator. This Book is his story as told by him...
"Sounds of gunfire between the two rivaling forces could be heard in the near distance as the midwife placed the baby boy in the arms of Ng Won Kuk. A...
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48,55 |
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Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP
ISBN: 9780813143798 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) spent forty-six years of his life serving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led the organisation for more than twenty years. In Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP, Yvonne Ryan offers the first biography of this influential activist, as well as an analysis of his significant contributions to civil rights in America.
Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) spent forty-six years of his life serving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led the o...
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264,47 |
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In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma
ISBN: 9780813143866 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. At the young age of twenty-two, he assumed the directorship of the Alabama Voter Registration Project in Selma -- a city that had previously been removed from the organization's list due to the dangers of operating there. In this electrifying memoir, written... Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter si... |
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220,40 |
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Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989
ISBN: 9780803246904 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mildred Dee Brown (1905 89) was the cofounder of Nebraska s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha s Near North Side a historically black part of town and an iconic city leader. Her remarkable life, a product of the Reconstruction era and Jim Crow, reflects a larger American history that includes the Great Migration, the Red Scare of the post World War era, civil rights and black power movements, desegregation, and urban... Mildred Dee Brown (1905 89) was the cofounder of Nebraska s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American w... |
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156,72 |
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Scratching My Past
ISBN: 9781481053488 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A surprising journey from working class to middle class in the east end of London. From the Black Shirts to the Church, the author covers 70 years of his life in London.
A surprising journey from working class to middle class in the east end of London. From the Black Shirts to the Church, the author covers 70 years of ...
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