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My Absaroka Mountain Lodge: The Fred Garlow Jr. Story
ISBN: 9781500482640 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fred H. Garlow Jr. was a grandson of Buffalo Bill Cody and was a well-known well liked guide in the Absaroka Mountain Range near Yellowstone national park. He owned the B4 Ranch by Cooke, Montana and the Absaroka Mountain Lodge near Cody, Wyoming near the east entrance of Yellowstone. Fred continued in his grandfather's footsteps and his story is an inspiration to everyone who wishes to learn more about life in the West.
Fred H. Garlow Jr. was a grandson of Buffalo Bill Cody and was a well-known well liked guide in the Absaroka Mountain Range near Yellowstone national ...
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22,22 |
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Hiawassee - Child of the Meadow
ISBN: 9780991503315 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An historic novel, Hiawassee - Child of the Meadow by Doris Gaines Rapp, is written for middle-school and all ages. Hiawassee learned balance from the Cherokee legends of her childhood, peace and forgiveness in the Christianity of her adulthood. She was a Cherokee girl who left the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina before the army forced her people off their land and into the Indian Territory that is now Oklahoma.
Into the mist of time, my heart reaches back to this free and cherished child of the Cherokee Nation. Buckskin clothes and moccasin feet, she ran along the trail next to the... An historic novel, Hiawassee - Child of the Meadow by Doris Gaines Rapp, is written for middle-school and all ages. Hiawassee learned balance from t...
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50,05 |
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The (Re-)Making of a Black American; Tracing the Racial and Ethnic Socialization of Caribbean American Youth
ISBN: 9781433120732 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historically, Blacks in the United States have been treated as a homogenous group with little regard for distinctions in ethnicity and immigrant status. However, the growing number of Black immigrants to the United States, and their location at the intersection of immigrant opportunity and racial barriers, has prompted increased interest in the group s integration experiences. Grounded in the notion that racism is an inescapable marker of the Black experience in the United States, The (Re-)Making of a Black American explores the ways children of Black immigrants from the...
Historically, Blacks in the United States have been treated as a homogenous group with little regard for distinctions in ethnicity and immigrant statu...
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212,28 |
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From the Avenue - A Memoir: Life Experiences and Indiana Avenue History Told from the Perspective of One Who Was There
ISBN: 9781481070843 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,69 |
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Wrapping up: Second part of An Enjoyable Journey
ISBN: 9781492373049 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,92 |
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From the Avenue: A Memoir, 2nd edition: Life Experiences and Indiana Avenue History Told from the Perspective of One Who Was There
ISBN: 9781500675615 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,69 |
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Interviews with Neville Alexander: The Power of Languages Against the Language of Power
ISBN: 9781869142773 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of interviews conducted between 2006 and 2010, activist and scholar Neville Alexander reflected on how the languages he had used throughout his life shaped his world and his relationships with his immediate and wider communities. A version of these conversations was published in German in 2011 by Drava Verlag. In this reconstruction, which is the only extensive (auto)biographical work about Neville Alexander in English text, his belief in the emancipatory potential of multilingualism frames, his vividly recalled life, and his incisive observations about language in post-apartheid...
In a series of interviews conducted between 2006 and 2010, activist and scholar Neville Alexander reflected on how the languages he had used throughou...
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146,88 |
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Love Imagined: A Mixed Race Memoir
ISBN: 9781615992331 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Love Imagined" is an American woman's unique struggle for identity.
"Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories, Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. ... Quan Lee crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota life set within the backdrop of racial segregation, the Cold War, the sexual revolution while navigating it all through the lens of her multi-layered identities. A true demonstration of the power of an intersectional perspective." --Kandace Creel Falcon, Ph.D., Director of Women's and... "Love Imagined" is an American woman's unique struggle for identity.
"Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space ... |
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69,17 |
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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research
ISBN: 9781137293558 / Angielski / Twarda / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world. Furthermore it establishes and develops through its various sections and chapters an accessible and clearly presented vision of heritage as a cultural process designed for use by students, advance scholars and practitioners alike. This book provides both critical insight and food for thought, directing the reader to key texts in the various aspects of the field and...
This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the...
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1127,15 |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
ISBN: 9781138781610 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Ling's acclaimed biography of Martin Luther King Jr provides a thorough re-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing how King grew into his leadership role and kept his faith as the challenges facing the movement strengthened after 1965. Ling combines a detailed narrative of Martin Luther King's life with the key historiographical debates surrounding him and places both within the historical context of the Civil Rights Movement. This fully revised and updated second edition includes an extended look at Black Power and a detailed analysis of the memorialization...
Peter Ling's acclaimed biography of Martin Luther King Jr provides a thorough re-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing ho...
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759,15 |
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Through My Green Years: Legacy - Volume One
ISBN: 9781500709808 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many details of life in rural America around the turn of the last century will be lost as those who experienced them pass away. Born in 1927, author Mary Ruth Hoffman Heine shares stories of her family and times, weather and war, and gives folks today a taste of what some will find hard to believe. The impact of extended family in earlier days was far different than it is today. Life in the late 19th century played a real role in the author's life because she was blessed to live with grandparents in her family home. Her lilting "voice" entertains as it informs. Written as a gift for her...
Many details of life in rural America around the turn of the last century will be lost as those who experienced them pass away. Born in 1927, author M...
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24,08 |
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The Way We Were - The Way We Are
ISBN: 9781500719975 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An appropriate way to characterize the content of this book, "The Way We Were - The Way We Are," would be to say that it is a collection of heritage stories about people, places and happenings Vahe H. Apelian has known of or experienced mostly first hand. It is a colorful tapestry of such stories that depict the life-experiences and encounters emanating mostly if not wholly from Kessab, the mostly Armenian inhabited ancient enclave in Northwestern Syria. Each story is unprecedented, each encounter is unique, and each character is a remarkable real life people. The stories are woven in such...
An appropriate way to characterize the content of this book, "The Way We Were - The Way We Are," would be to say that it is a collection of heritage s...
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72,83 |
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Biography of Rev. David Smith, of the A.M.E. Church (1881): Being A Complete History, Embracing Over Sixty Years' Labor in the Advancement of the Rede
ISBN: 9781500776428 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While titled Biography of Rev. David Smith (1881), the main portion of this work contains Smith's autobiography. This autobiography is followed by a brief history of Wilberforce University by Daniel Alexander Payne (1811-1893), who was an African- American educator and minister and who became Wilberforce University's president in 1863. He also served as chancellor and dean of its theological school from 1876 until his death. Payne was a forceful supporter of education within the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and an effective proponent for reforming and standardizing the course of...
While titled Biography of Rev. David Smith (1881), the main portion of this work contains Smith's autobiography. This autobiography is followed by a b...
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40,26 |
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A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George White, An African: Written by Himself, and Revised by a Friend
ISBN: 9781500785185 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Brief Account of the Life was published in 1810 and focuses on White's struggle to win ordination as a Methodist preacher. Shortly after White's conversion in 1805, he dreams vividly of hell and "the torments of the damned; out of whose mouths and nostrils issued flames of fire" (pp. 9-10). In his dream, the guide who shows White the various features of hell tells him to "Go, and declare what you have seen"; instructions that make him believe he should become a preacher (p. 10). White applies to become an exhorter but is initially rejected because of his "inability and ignorance," lacking...
A Brief Account of the Life was published in 1810 and focuses on White's struggle to win ordination as a Methodist preacher. Shortly after White's con...
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52,40 |
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My Two Italies: A Personal and Cultural History
ISBN: 9780374535391 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in "My Two Italies" to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an awa... |
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69,36 |
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Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup: A Spirited Black Woman in a White World
ISBN: 9780472052370 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn t just lived through the progression of multicultural considerations she has been singularly instrumental in the creation and acceptance of multicultural education. InHot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup, she shares her memories and experience of a lifetime spent serving and leading the causes for multicultural education."
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and abo...
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87,38 |
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Summary of Life of Walter Caldwell Robinson
ISBN: 9781499039320 / Angielski / Twarda / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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Summary of Life of Walter Caldwell Robinson
ISBN: 9781499039337 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,03 |
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
ISBN: 9781500878177 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, manner conditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day.
This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about by the race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but ...
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23,67 |
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Booker T. Washington
ISBN: 9781500879068 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is not a biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive "Life and Letters of Booker T. Washington" remains still to be compiled. In this more modest work we have simply sought to present and interpret the chief phases of the life of this man who rose from a slave boy to be the leader of ten millions of people and to take his place for all time among America's great men.
This is not a biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive "Life and Letters of Booker T. Washington" remains still to be compiled. In this more mo...
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