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Memory of a Miner: A True-Life Story from Harlan County's Heyday
ISBN: 9780990551409 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Aaron Henry of Mississippi: Inside Agitator
ISBN: 9781557287595 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award
When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown chapter of the NAACP and relatively quickly became leader of the state chapter. From that launching pad he joined and helped lead an ensemble of activists who fundamentally challenged the system of segregation and the almost total exclusion of African Americans from the political... Winner of the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award
When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave ... |
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The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780817358365 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and six hundred followers set out on foot from Selma, Alabama, bound for Montgomery to demand greater voting rights for African Americans. As they crossed the city s Edmund Pettus Bridge, state and local policemen savagely set on the marchers with tear gas and billy clubs, an event now known as Bloody Sunday that would become one of the most iconic in American history.
King s informal headquarters in Selma was the home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson and their young daughter, Jawana. The House by the Side of the Road... On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and six hundred followers set out on foot from Selma, Alabama, bound for Montgomery to demand greater...
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"Your Probably from Worcester, If..."
ISBN: 9781494946746 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please note: this title is so expensive because all photographs are in full color. The same book with black and white photos is MUCH cheaper. And, if you buy that book, you get the eBook for free, which includes all photographs in full color. This is not a history of Worcester; it does not pretend to be. It is a collection of memories and stories of Worcester from the years immediately after WWII up to the present, years during which accelerating change has swept away much of historic New England's cities and towns. It is a book about things that Worcester people, wherever they may live,...
Please note: this title is so expensive because all photographs are in full color. The same book with black and white photos is MUCH cheaper. And, if ...
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172,89 |
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Through My Mother's Eyes
ISBN: 9781500673680 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." -Carl Jung Growing up in a family with a rich German heritage, Elizabeth Gross Mull and her brothers listened to her mother, Irene, relay stories of her colorful childhood and her parents' and husband's German origins and traditions. Filled with personal anecdotes and the various life experiences and heartbreaking tragedies that shaped each family member's life, "Through My Mother's Eyes" is the story of not only how one generation can affect the next but also how, in the end, each person... "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." -Carl Jung Growing up in a family with a rich Germ... |
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72,79 |
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White Schooldays: Coming-of-Age In Apartheid South Africa
ISBN: 9781500750084 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a young girl, Isme Bennie didn't realize how privileged she was. A white South African growing up during the apartheid era, her life was one of pleasure. She was a child at play under the warm African sun. As she grew, however, and became more aware of the suffering of the black community in her country, she began to understand the evils of apartheid in a way that only those who lived through it can. "White Schooldays" is a reflection on the relative normalcy of Bennie's life in the 1940s and 1950s-a life filled with her pets, family, sports, and friends. As a Jew, Bennie was a... As a young girl, Isme Bennie didn't realize how privileged she was. A white South African growing up during the apartheid era, her life was one of ... |
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Catching Butterflies
ISBN: 9781503150485 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The wonderful random memories of my Dad's life as told in my Pops unique and N'awlins gumbo style. The Spirit of Louisiana, and the Big Easiness of New Orleans, flows through these recollections reflecting his ever present joie de vivre. From 1999-2005, Dad sent 2 or 3 stories every other week to each of his 8 children in the mail. I've collected these together in this Kindle Book as a surprise for his 88th birthday this year in 2014. Come and "catch a butterfly" with my Dad as his life is captured one smile at a time.
The wonderful random memories of my Dad's life as told in my Pops unique and N'awlins gumbo style. The Spirit of Louisiana, and the Big Easiness of Ne...
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Reflections: Stories of Our Lives
ISBN: 9781503361782 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In January 2014, the Folsom CA Senior Center inaugurated a memoir writing class. The students drew on diverse backgrounds and research to write stunning, heartwarming stories of their childhoods, war experiences, ancestors, family memories and much more - preserving the history we never learn in school. This small book is a compilation of a few of those stories from our first year.
In January 2014, the Folsom CA Senior Center inaugurated a memoir writing class. The students drew on diverse backgrounds and research to write stunni...
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Unspoken History: The Untold Story of the Jackson/Curling Family and Their Lives as Canadian Home Children
ISBN: 9781503395954 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unspoken History is the story of tens of thousands of English children who, in the name of charity, were taken form England and shipped to the Empire's colonies as indentured servants. They were orphans and impoverished children sent abroad to be the labor force needed to build an empire. Their's is a story of neglect, abuse, servitude and rejection. Only now are the stories coming out about this program known as the Home Children. Unspoken History is the tale of one families struggles within this system. Follow the lives of Florence Gertrude, Alice and Albert Jackson as they go to a new life...
Unspoken History is the story of tens of thousands of English children who, in the name of charity, were taken form England and shipped to the Empire'...
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40,47 |
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As Country As It Gets: As Country As It Gets: Short stories from Appalachia
ISBN: 9781505478891 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take a journey with Cas as he shares his personal experiences and memories through his stories of a preserved way of life where it is, "As Country as it Gets;" an era where his Appalachian heritage and upbringing lifestyle is preserved for many generations to see through his work. The old world way of life, with wild ginseng hunting, mule logging, horses, mules and wagon riding, professional coon hunting, and yes, even the fine art of moonshiner is also a part of his heritage.
Take a journey with Cas as he shares his personal experiences and memories through his stories of a preserved way of life where it is, "As Country as ...
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Thanks to Our President Barack Obama USA Thrives: Praise for our commander in chief is long over due
ISBN: 9781505671254 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the hand book for everyone in America and in the world to say a word of Appreciation to Barack Obama our Great President of African Decent.
This book is the hand book for everyone in America and in the world to say a word of Appreciation to Barack Obama our Great President of African Decen...
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The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey
ISBN: 9781540204837 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art
ISBN: 9781442207943 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection. Paul Robeson was, at points in his life, an actor, singer, football player, political activist and writer, one of the most diversely talented members of the Harlem Renaissance. Swindall centers Robeson's story around the argument that while Robeson leaned toward Socialism, a Pan-African perspective is fundamental to understanding his life as an artist and political advocate. Many previous works on...
Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for...
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A Matter of Survival: The Story of Frances
ISBN: 9780615993607 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the time Frances was born, the odds were stacked against her. She was born to Italian immigrants in 1917; her father resented her for being a girl, and her mother resented her for being born at all. And when a rift in the family left the girl and her mother alone and penniless, things managed to get even worse: she was taken away to an orphanage, left in the care of stern nuns who never offered the hysterically crying six-year-old an ounce of comfort. But the same girl who spent her formative years facing feelings of abandonment and isolation managed to grow into a woman... From the time Frances was born, the odds were stacked against her. She was born to Italian immigrants in 1917; her father resented her for being a ... |
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Where Love Could Take Me
ISBN: 9780692270479 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. True account of a womans adventures from refugee childhood in Germany at the end of WW II to emigration to Canada and to the United States. Her travels led her back to Germany, to Greece and to India in search of everlasting love and Meher Baba. Written in prose and poetry.
True account of a womans adventures from refugee childhood in Germany at the end of WW II to emigration to Canada and to the United States. Her travel...
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57,80 |
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The Last Decade of Innocence: Thoughts From a 1940s Boyhood
ISBN: 9781477559567 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Life of Isaac Mason As a Slave
ISBN: 9781481919388 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,47 |
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Dalmore - Tales of a Lewis Village
ISBN: 9781482691764 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Sernett Story: In Search of My Bohemian (Czech) Heritage
ISBN: 9781499320299 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the search for my Czech or Bohemian heritage. My father was of Czech ancestry, but his death in 1950 when I was only seven created a situation where my mother's German American heritage was more intact. Beginning with a sketch of the history of the Kingdom of Bohemia, I trace the sojourn of my Czech Srnec (Sernett) ancestors from the Old Country to America where they eventually settled in Iowa. Most became farmers in Pocahontas County. My father Lee Louis Sernett (1892-1950) moved to Hampton, Iowa, in 1927 and two years later began operating a gas station. So it was that...
This is the story of the search for my Czech or Bohemian heritage. My father was of Czech ancestry, but his death in 1950 when I was only seven create...
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The Illusion of Me: Rediscovering my identity with the rest of the world
ISBN: 9781502303721 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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