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The Grandchildren: The Hidden Legacy of 'Lost' Armenians in Turkey
ISBN: 9781412853910 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Grandchildren is a collection of intimate, harrowing testimonies by grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Turkey's "forgotten Armenians"--the orphans adopted and Islamized by Muslims after the Armenian genocide. Through them we learn of the tortuous routes by which they came to terms with the painful stories of their grandparents and their own identity. The postscript offers a historical overview of the silence about Islamized Armenians in most histories of the genocide. When Fethiye cetin first published her groundbreaking memoir in Turkey, My Grandmother,... The Grandchildren is a collection of intimate, harrowing testimonies by grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Turkey's "forgotten Armen... |
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783,64 |
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Andrei Tarkovsky: A Life on the Cross
ISBN: 9781782671015 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrei Tarkovsky died in a Paris hospital in 1986, aged just 54. An internationally acclaimed icon of the film industry, the legacy Tarkovsky left for his fans included Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Nostalgia and a host of other brilliant works. In the Soviet Union, however, Tarkovsky was a persona non grata. Longing to be accepted in his homeland, Tarkovsky distanced himself from all forms of political and social engagement, yet endured one fiasco after another in his relations with the Soviet regime. The Soviet authorities regarded the law-abiding, ideologically moderate Tarkovsky as an outsider...
Andrei Tarkovsky died in a Paris hospital in 1986, aged just 54. An internationally acclaimed icon of the film industry, the legacy Tarkovsky left for...
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115,56 |
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The Family: A Journey Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780143125891 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of theThe Children s Blizzarddelivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family
In tracing the roots of this family his own family Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers.The Familyis a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history. A century... The author of theThe Children s Blizzarddelivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary J...
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92,48 |
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John Brown
ISBN: 9780199384310 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and...
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black politica...
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103,69 |
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Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
ISBN: 9780199386710 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and...
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black politica...
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103,69 |
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The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
ISBN: 9780199387052 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and...
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black politica...
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140,82 |
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Twelve Years a Slave-Narrative of Solomon Northup: A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Pla
ISBN: 9781461192336 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Pl...
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80,88 |
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Twelve Years a Slave-Narrative of Solomon Northup: A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Pla
ISBN: 9781461193678 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twelve Years a Slave-Narrative of Solomon Northup: A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana
Twelve Years a Slave-Narrative of Solomon Northup: A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Pla...
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76,84 |
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12 Years a Slave
ISBN: 9781607963295 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton picker. This narrative reveals how Northup survived the harsh conditions of slavery, including smallpox, lashings, and an attempted hanging. Solomon Northup was among a select few who were freed from slavery. His account describes the daily life of slaves in Louisiana, their diet and living...
Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. No...
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38,49 |
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Crushing Soft Rubies: A Memoir, 10th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780975990810 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crushing Soft Rubies is the place where spirit, culture, and survival meet. It is the story of a Filipino-African-American who is caught between the death of her parents and the desperate need to define herself--not as an orphan, but as a strong woman who is willing to do whatever is necessary to ensure that her past does not become a barrier to her future. Janet, now a teacher and a married woman, leads us through the intense details of her story. From her childhood home being burned to the ground, to the joys and conflicts with her Filipino family, to seeking a connection to her...
Crushing Soft Rubies is the place where spirit, culture, and survival meet. It is the story of a Filipino-African-American who is caught between the d...
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60,65 |
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Ready for the next round: Tapping the Power Within
ISBN: 9780983927846 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the heart of this book lie the powerful universal forces of love/loss, determination, family and the value of tapping into the power that lies within each of us. "Ready for the Next Round" chronicles the journey of a poor sharecropper's son who migrates from the Deep South with his family for a better life in the North. But assimilating into the strange Philadelphia culture comes with its own challenges. Soon he gets caught up in the struggles and complexities of this new world and finds himself in trouble - time in prison, reformatory school and ostracized from family and friends. Later,...
At the heart of this book lie the powerful universal forces of love/loss, determination, family and the value of tapping into the power that lies with...
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80,72 |
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Old Creole Days
ISBN: 9781492344247 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few have been able to portray Creole life in New Orleans better than George Washington Cable (1844-1925). These eight colorfully told stories of post-Civil War life takes the reader back in time allowing them to feel and experience the events from the 1800's. Originally published in 1907, this work has been retypeset for this reprint edition.
Few have been able to portray Creole life in New Orleans better than George Washington Cable (1844-1925). These eight colorfully told stories of post-...
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72,63 |
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Over Three Hundred Years of Black People in Blounts Creek, Beaufort County, North Carolina: Book 1, by Bunyon Keys a Native Son of Blounts Creek
ISBN: 9781493178094 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,53 |
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Over Three Hundred Years of Black People in Blounts Creek, Beaufort County, North Carolina: Book 1, by Bunyon Keys a Native Son of Blounts Creek
ISBN: 9781493178100 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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Solomon Northup - 12 Years A Slave: The original story behind the Oscar Winning Best Picture.
ISBN: 9781783943401 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twelve Years A Slave is subtitled Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana. This subtitle accurately describes the book which is entirely based on the true story of Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. The book was published in 1853 and became a bestseller following Uncle Tom's Cabin which was set in the same kind of Louisiana cotton plantation that some of Twelve Years A Slave is set, but the book subsequently faded until the sixties and is now...
Twelve Years A Slave is subtitled Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853 from a ...
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41,43 |
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The Bilingual Cockatoo
ISBN: 9781925000269 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a study of biographies and autobiographies of Italian Australians. It looks at full-length life-writing texts, including accounts of the Italian Australian experience of war-time internment, success stories, narratives of trauma and grievance and life narratives as a form of ethnography. There is a variable zoom focus, ranging from a whole chapter devoted to a single text, to surveys of a dozen or more texts in each of four chapters. A final overview maps out a chronology and typology of Italian Australian life writing relating it to immigrant life writing generally. Given its...
This book is a study of biographies and autobiographies of Italian Australians. It looks at full-length life-writing texts, including accounts of the ...
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86,28 |
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Echoes of the Millstone: An Ethnographic Account of Life in a Village in Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9781494468989 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the mosaic of Maradankalla, a small village in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. The firsthand accounts of archaic marriage customs; ancient door locks in the village; ambush of game at the dry bed of the village tank (irrigation reservoir); killing of a majestic tusker; work at a buffalo kraal; noosing wild buffalos; rendezvous of 7-month old baby and a baby elephant in a jungle farm; public caning (spanking) in the village school; lay priest ascending to divine trance with hypnomantic convulsions; bali rituals for various deities and demons; folk theater in the village square;...
This is the mosaic of Maradankalla, a small village in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. The firsthand accounts of archaic marriage customs; ancient door loc...
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50,58 |
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Eyes & Ears & Islam
ISBN: 9781495323751 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eyes & Ears & Islam is an anti-Jihadi play based on the life and works of Maulana Rumi. It spans over 700 years of Western-Asian-Islamic history. It covers conversations of Rumi with his son and grandson and seamless blends of the works of his son and grandson, both authors. The play covers history from Genghis Khan to Pearl Harbor. Archived in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, this is an original masterpiece.
Eyes & Ears & Islam is an anti-Jihadi play based on the life and works of Maulana Rumi. It spans over 700 years of Western-Asian-Islamic history. It c...
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80,88 |
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Stuart's Memories: A Book That No One Will Want To Read
ISBN: 9781496041456 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Stuart's Memories" is for my children, and their children. It is the story of my life. I describe my school years at Webb, a private boarding school as well as at Vanderbilt for my undergraduate years. I chronicle the years through my pursuit to become a physician. Israel visits with stories that influenced my life. My trip through medical practice, divorce and illness. Those events that are not uncommon, but no less important for my children and grandchildren. Attempting to keep it with a positive spin.
"Stuart's Memories" is for my children, and their children. It is the story of my life. I describe my school years at Webb, a private boarding school ...
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40,47 |
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Brown American: Philippine Life, World War II and Survival in a White Man's World
ISBN: 9781496071927 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BROWN AMERICAN - (Gold Edition) ------------------------------------------------ (From the Author): -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Why 'Brown American?' ---------- On June 2, 1973, I married Millicent O. Pasaporte, a Filipina nurse on the Work Exchange Program, at the Our Lady of Help Christians Catholic Church in Chicago, Illinois. By March of 1974, our daughter, Kimberly, was born. --------- As has been the common practice of married young couples who have immigrated to America, petitioning for their parents is the next logical step they do after they...
BROWN AMERICAN - (Gold Edition) ------------------------------------------------ (From the Author): --------------------------------------------------...
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39,25 |
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