Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780691122731 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Josephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, she shaped the founding legislation of the U.S. welfare state and generated the national conversation about health-care policy that Americans are still having today. In this gripping biography, Robyn Muncy offers Roche's persistent progressivism as evidence for surprising continuities among the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Muncy explains that Roche became the second-highest-ranking woman... Josephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. ... |
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186,69 zł |
Battleground New Jersey: Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justice
ISBN: 9780813569727 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Jersey's legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground New Jersey, historian and author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson chronicles reforms to the system through the dramatic stories of Arthur T. Vanderbilt--the first chief justice of the state's modern-era Supreme Court--and Frank Hague--legendary mayor of Jersey City. Two of the most powerful politicians in twentieth-century America, Vanderbilt and Hague clashed on matters of public policy and over the need to reform New Jersey's...
New Jersey's legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground N...
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Inside the Presidency: The Trials & Tribulations of a Zambian Spin Doctor
ISBN: 9781926906362 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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If Not Me Who?: What One Man Accomplished in His Battle for Equality
ISBN: 9781622880720 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If Not Me, Who? What One Man Accomplished in His Battle for Equality covers the life of civil rights activist and civic leader Wendell H. Baker Sr. from his birth to eighty plus years of age. Both Baker's life and his book were singularly critical achievements.
This newly edited edition of Baker's If Not Me, Who? includes materials from two other authorsretired Texas Southern University scholar Naomi W. Lede, whose work originally was also published in Baker s original book, and political leader and consultant James A. Baker, who learned from Wendell Baker and his brother that... If Not Me, Who? What One Man Accomplished in His Battle for Equality covers the life of civil rights activist and civic leader Wendell H. Baker...
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125,65 zł |
Rick Turner : Choosing to be free
ISBN: 9781431408313 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rick Turner was one of South Africa's most original and powerful thinkers and is remembered today as a remarkable teacher and activist. For almost ten years, from 1968, when he returned to South Africa from his studies at the Sorbonne, to 1978, when he was shot by an unknown assassin, Rick Turner played an important role in the opposition to apartheid, especially by provoking whites to expand their vision of what South Africa could be. Believing in the 'necessity of utopian thinking', he wrote a short book, The eye of the needle (1972), that sought to envision a very different kind of...
Rick Turner was one of South Africa's most original and powerful thinkers and is remembered today as a remarkable teacher and activist. For almost ten...
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90,42 zł |
Meet Amazing Americans Workbook: W.E.B. Dubois
ISBN: 9781500368005 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LIKE TEST PREP presents its workbook series for "Meet Amazing Americans," a website created by US Library of Congress on many great American heroes and heroines. Great for Teachers and Students This book contains -Comprehension Questions -Vocabulary Practice -Critical Thinking Questions *www.americaslibrary.gov which owns Meet Amazing Americans, was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
LIKE TEST PREP presents its workbook series for "Meet Amazing Americans," a website created by US Library of Congress on many great American heroes an...
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24,71 zł |
Memoirs of my Life and Writings
ISBN: 9781500418403 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, af...
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Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
ISBN: 9781250069634 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A MASTER CLASS IN SPYCRAFT FROM ONE OF ITS GREATEST PRACTITIONERS Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when Allende fell; he ran Charlie Wilson's war in Afghanistan; he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it; he oversaw the effort to run down Pablo Escobar in Colombia. Devine served America's interests for more than thirty years in a wide range of covert operations, ultimately overseeing the Directorate of Operations, a CIA component that watches over thousands of American covert operatives... A MASTER CLASS IN SPYCRAFT FROM ONE OF ITS GREATEST PRACTITIONERS Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile... |
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The Charismatic Leader-Quaid-i-Azam M.A. Jinnah and the Creation of Pakistan
ISBN: 9780199069200 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second, revised edition of the book is an updated version, covering the most recent writings on the subject, especially in India, and provides a detailed and systematic analysis of the charismatic leadership of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of Indian Muslims during the crisis-ridden decade of 1937-47.
Based on the concept of charisma formulated by Max Weber and developed by recent writers, the study concentrates on the "personality-related" and "situational" factors that led to the emergence of Jinnah as the charismatic leader of the Muslims and sustained him in that... This second, revised edition of the book is an updated version, covering the most recent writings on the subject, especially in India, and provides a ...
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313,86 zł |
The Obama Nation
ISBN: 9781416598077 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished and divided, why Obama must be defeated -- and how he can be.Barack Obama stepped onto the national political stage when the then-Illinois State senator addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, author Jerome Corsi began researching Obama's personal and political...
In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Aga...
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124,50 zł |
Arthur St. Clair: The Invisible Patriot
ISBN: 9781491737804 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in New Jersey and had lost ninety percent of his army. Brigadier General, Arthur St. Clair answered the call with fresh troops, took over the leadership of a brigade and suggested the strategies of stealth which enabled Washington's army to win the next three battles over the British in just nine days after Christmas in 1776. This drove the British out of New Jersey and avoided what could have been the end of the American Revolution. St. Clair...
During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in N...
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85,68 zł |
Arthur St. Clair: The Invisible Patriot
ISBN: 9781491737828 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in New Jersey and had lost ninety percent of his army. Brigadier General, Arthur St. Clair answered the call with fresh troops, took over the leadership of a brigade and suggested the strategies of stealth which enabled Washington's army to win the next three battles over the British in just nine days after Christmas in 1776. This drove the British out of New Jersey and avoided what could have been the end of the American Revolution. St. Clair...
During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in N...
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128,63 zł |
Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey
ISBN: 9781632203465 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features a new foreword by the author and a heartfelt endorsement of the book and its mission by Washington State's First Lady, Trudi Inslee Once a happily married businessman, avid golfer, and the proud owner of several luxury cars and three boats, conservative-minded Richard LeMieux saw his fortune change almost overnight. In this astonishingly heartfelt memoir, he describes his descent into homelessness and his struggle to survive personal and economic disaster. Evicted from his home in 2002 and living with his dog, Willow, in a beat-up old van, LeMieux finds himself penniless...
Features a new foreword by the author and a heartfelt endorsement of the book and its mission by Washington State's First Lady, Trudi Inslee <...
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77,26 zł |
H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China
ISBN: 9780813160023 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations... Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Cust... |
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Accidental Diplomat, The: The Autobiography of Maurice Baker
ISBN: 9789814618304 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. “For the life of a diplomat is often a variation of routine boredom and exhilarating crises.”Maurice Baker is an academic and one of Singapore's pioneer diplomats. Growing up in colonial-governed Malaya and Singapore, his profound love for great literature works inspired him to obtain an honors in English from King's college, London in 1948 despite the cruelties faced during and after the Second World War. Baker's humble beginnings and political consciousness earned him the friendship and respect of many diplomats during his missions to India in 1967,...
“For the life of a diplomat is often a variation of routine boredom and exhilarating crises.”Maurice Baker is an academic and one of Sin...
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202,69 zł |
Accidental Diplomat, The: The Autobiography of Maurice Baker
ISBN: 9789814618311 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. “For the life of a diplomat is often a variation of routine boredom and exhilarating crises.”Maurice Baker is an academic and one of Singapore's pioneer diplomats. Growing up in colonial-governed Malaya and Singapore, his profound love for great literature works inspired him to obtain an honors in English from King's college, London in 1948 despite the cruelties faced during and after the Second World War. Baker's humble beginnings and political consciousness earned him the friendship and respect of many diplomats during his missions to India in 1967,...
“For the life of a diplomat is often a variation of routine boredom and exhilarating crises.”Maurice Baker is an academic and one of Sin...
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116,55 zł |
Normal: Stories from My Life
ISBN: 9781478732440 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: From Isolation to International Engagement
ISBN: 9780813160559 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advised. After World War II, however, Americans became more inclined to break with the past and take a prominent place on the world stage. Much has been written about the influential figures who stood at the center of this transformation, but remarkably little attention has been paid to Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884--1951), who played a crucial role in moving the nation from its isolationist past to an internationalist future. Vandenberg served... The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advi... |
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Joseph Fouche
ISBN: 9781502853660 / Francuski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Auteur Stefan Zweig Joseph Fouche, dit Fouche de Nantes, duc d'Otrante, comte Fouche, homme politique francais ne le 21 mai 1759 au Pellerin pres de Nantes et mort le 26 decembre 1820 a Trieste, a toujours fascine historiens et ecrivains par sa longevite dans une periode particulierement troublee de l'histoire de France et de l'Europe ou bien peu d'hommes ont survecu aux purges qui se sont succede. Stefan Zweig ne faillit pas a la regle et est tour a tour emerveille par l'attitude de marbre que gardera le plus souvent Fouche devant ses deboires et les avanies que lui a fait subir Napoleon Ier...
Auteur Stefan Zweig Joseph Fouche, dit Fouche de Nantes, duc d'Otrante, comte Fouche, homme politique francais ne le 21 mai 1759 au Pellerin pres de N...
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85,23 zł |
Ernst Jünger - A Portrait
ISBN: 9780987559876 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ernst JUnger - A Portrait is a book about Ernst JUnger (1895-1998), Germany's greatest author since Goethe. This is a popular JUnger biography for the English speaking world, a personal portrait painted by an avid JUnger reader. The book starts out with a thorough biography of JUnger's life. Then the author examines the controversial aspects of the man, and discusses JUnger's role as an outsider, mentioning the reception of his works in the modern post-war era. After examining JUnger's books on war, the author proceeds to describe JUnger's other literary works such as... Ernst JUnger - A Portrait is a book about Ernst JUnger (1895-1998), Germany's greatest author since Goethe. This is a popular JUnger biogr... |
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95,96 zł |