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Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism
ISBN: 9780252082061 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community and civil rights leader. His victories in two Supreme Court decisions paved the way for dismantling all-white political primaries across the South. Will Guzman delves into Nixon's lifelong struggle against Jim Crow. Linking Nixon's activism to his independence from the white economy, support from the NAACP, and the man's own indefatigable courage, Guzman also sheds light on Nixon's presence in symbolic and literal borderlands--as an educated...
In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community an...
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97,70 zł |
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The Life of an Activist: In the Frontlines 24/7
ISBN: 9780761861355 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Life of an Activist is a non-fiction narrative that describes key steps on how to become and evolve into an effective activist and community leader. The book describes social movements and provides useful advice on how to successfully manage non-profits to accomplish positive social change that truly improves people's lives. The author is a lifelong activist who was born in the United States but was deported to El Salvador as a baby. He spent his childhood in El Salvador but moved back to the United States and grew up in South Central Los Angeles during the tumultuous and violent decades...
The Life of an Activist is a non-fiction narrative that describes key steps on how to become and evolve into an effective activist and community leade...
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378,72 zł |
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Growing to One World: The Life of J. King Gordon
ISBN: 9780773542617 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. J. King Gordon's story is one of youthful vision and high ideals sustained throughout a life of concrete action at home and abroad. Grounded in his father's social gospel and given intellectual heft and hue by exposure to radical politics at Oxford and in New York, he returned to Canada as a self-described "Christian radical" and threw himself into the emerging social and political ferment of the 1930s. In Growing to One World, Eileen Janzen details a life spent championing progressive politics in Canada and a commitment to peace and diplomacy on the international stage. As a founding member...
J. King Gordon's story is one of youthful vision and high ideals sustained throughout a life of concrete action at home and abroad. Grounded in his fa...
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215,06 zł |
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Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste
ISBN: 9781780936635 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Women's History Network Prize 2014
Winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2015 Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste provides the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Impey and her radical political magazine, Anti-Caste. Published monthly from 1888, Anti-Caste published articles that exposed and condemned racial prejudice across the British Empire and the United States. Editing the magazine from her home in Street, Somerset, Impey welcomed African and Asian activists and made Street an important stop on the... Winner of the Women's History Network Prize 2014
Winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2015 Empire, Race a... |
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668,85 zł |
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Biko : A Life
ISBN: 9781780767857 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history. As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement, the grassroots organization which would mobilize a large proportion of the black urban population. His death in policy custody at the age of just 30 robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Although the rudimentary facts of his life - and death - are well known, there has until now been no in-depth book on this major political figure and the impact of his life and tragic death. Xolela...
Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history. As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, B...
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122,15 zł |
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The Divine New Order And The Dawn Of The First Stage Of Light And Life
ISBN: 9780964735781 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is obvious that life as we know it is reaching critical mass-environmentally, socially, politically, and spiritually. For thousands of years there have been prophecies of a planetary "shift" of great magnitude, moving us into a higher and brighter new world. This is the autobiography of one of the world's most significant spiritual leaders, with visions of the future of our planet's destiny-of the evolution of benevolent celestial and human leadership into a truly Divine Administration. The Divine New Order And The Dawn Of The First Stage Of...
To anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is obvious that life as we know it is reaching critical mass-environmentally, socially, politically, a...
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124,95 zł |
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The Divine New Order And The Dawn Of The First Stage Of Light And Life
ISBN: 9780964735798 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is obvious that life as we know it is reaching critical mass-environmentally, socially, politically, and spiritually. For thousands of years there have been prophecies of a planetary "shift" of great magnitude, moving us into a higher and brighter new world. This is the autobiography of one of the world's most significant spiritual leaders, with visions of the future of our planet's destiny-of the evolution of benevolent celestial and human leadership into a truly Divine Administration. The Divine New Order And The Dawn Of The First Stage Of...
To anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is obvious that life as we know it is reaching critical mass-environmentally, socially, politically, a...
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172,42 zł |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview
ISBN: 9781612196169 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., whose insistence on equality and peace defined the Civil Rights Movement and forever changed the course of American history.
This collection ranges from an early 1961 interview in which King describes his reasons for joining the ministry (after considering medicine), to a 1964... As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen<...
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70,57 zł |
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Whistleblowers: A Comprehensive Reference Source & Overview
ISBN: 9781532989162 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,72 zł |
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Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
ISBN: 9781935646235 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace is a harvest of creative, redemptive storytelling-nonfiction, fiction, and poetry-spanning five wars and written by those most profoundly affected by it. This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as medics in the thick of war, or...
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace is a harvest of creative, redemptive storytelling-nonfiction, fiction, and poetry-spanning five wars...
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116,32 zł |
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Stirring The Pot - Personal thoughts on politics, religion and more!
ISBN: 9781633020436 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,88 zł |
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The Divine New Order and the Dawn of the First Stage of Light and Life
ISBN: 9781937919054 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is obvious that life as we know it is reaching critical mass-environmentally, socially, politically, and spiritually. For thousands of years there have been prophecies of a planetary "shift" of great magnitude, moving us into a higher and brighter new world. This is the autobiography of one of the world's most significant spiritual leaders, with visions of the future of our planet's destiny-of the evolution of benevolent celestial and human leadership into a truly Divine Administration. The Divine New Order And The Dawn Of The First Stage Of...
To anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is obvious that life as we know it is reaching critical mass-environmentally, socially, politically, a...
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86,10 zł |
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The Divine New Order and the Dawn of the First Stage of Light and Life
ISBN: 9781937919061 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is obvious that life as we know it is reaching critical mass-environmentally, socially, politically, and spiritually. For thousands of years there have been prophecies of a planetary "shift" of great magnitude, moving us into a higher and brighter new world. This is the autobiography of one of the world's most significant spiritual leaders, with visions of the future of our planet's destiny-of the evolution of benevolent celestial and human leadership into a truly Divine Administration. The Divine New Order And The Dawn Of The First Stage Of...
To anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, it is obvious that life as we know it is reaching critical mass-environmentally, socially, politically, a...
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129,27 zł |
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Paid Servant
ISBN: 9781480457713 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. E. R. Braithwaite, the acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love, poignantly recounts his time as a social worker dedicated to London's abandoned minority children Despite his Cambridge education and a sterling record with the British Royal Air Force during World War II, E. R. Braithwaite, a black man, was unable to find employment as an engineer in post-war London. Instead he accepted a position as a teacher in a tough East End school and wrote of his experiences in his classic bestseller To Sir, With Love. Nine years later, Braithwaite once again found himself assuming an unfamiliar...
E. R. Braithwaite, the acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love, poignantly recounts his time as a social worker dedicated to London's abandoned minority...
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84,74 zł |
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My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power
ISBN: 9780295993645 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lu Hsiu-lien's journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan's evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of Democratic Progressive Party leader Chen Shui-bian to the presidency, with Lu as his vice president, ended more than fifty years of rule by the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). Taiwan's painful struggle for democratization is dramatized here in the life of Lu, a feminist leader and... Lu Hsiu-lien's journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independen... |
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205,29 zł |
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I Believe in Zero: Learning from the World's Children
ISBN: 9781250060280 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First-hand, human stories of hope, resilience, determination, and family: a call to see the world's children as our own, by the President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF In I Believe in ZERO, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl M. Stern draws on her travels around the world, offering memorable stories that present powerful and sometimes counter-intuitive lessons about life. I Believe in ZERO reflects her--and UNICEF's--mission to reduce the number of preventable deaths of children under the age of five from 19,000 each day to zero. Each of the... First-hand, human stories of hope, resilience, determination, and family: a call to see the world's children as our own, by the President and CEO o... |
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84,78 zł |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: A Library of America Paperback Classic
ISBN: 9781598533514 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Frederick Douglass was born. It brought him to the forefront of the antislavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause. Written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave, the...
One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slav...
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30,64 zł |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781496174789 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is gen...
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28,29 zł |
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Growing (Up) at 37
ISBN: 9781590772911 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jerry Rubin, co-founder of the Yippie movement and a member of the Chicago Seven, traces his personal odyssey from radical activist of the 60 s to a practitioner in the growth potential movements of the 70 s 'Working to change in me the things I opposed externally in the streets.' Finding himself categorized by the press as erstwhile and aging at thirty-four and oppressed by his own lack of inner peace, Jerry Rubin turned his energy inward, seeking a self redefinition through various forms of New Consciousness. Growing (Up) at Thirty-Seven is a very personal and candid account of his...
Jerry Rubin, co-founder of the Yippie movement and a member of the Chicago Seven, traces his personal odyssey from radical activist of the 60 s to a p...
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61,69 zł |
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This Is Paradise: An Irish Mother's Grief, an African Village's Plight and the Medical Clinic That Brought Fresh Hope to Both
ISBN: 9780989237291 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your brakes fail and your car plunges from a pier into a February-frigid harbor. You are thrown to safety but your four-month old daughter, trapped in her car seat, drowns. Four years after that horror, you return from a trip to the shore and lift your four-month-old son from his carrier only to realize he's dead, too, a victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Twenty-two years later, your 25-year old son drowns while swimming in a Malawi, Africa lake. How do you survive that first death, never mind the second, or the third? Ask Mags Riordan of County Kerry, Ireland. Only the blessing of her...
Your brakes fail and your car plunges from a pier into a February-frigid harbor. You are thrown to safety but your four-month old daughter, trapped in...
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73,15 zł |
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