Keep On Fighting: The Life and Civil Rights Legacy of Marian A. Spencer
ISBN: 9780821421710 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw an upsurge in race riots and lynchings. Following the example of her grandfather, an ex-slave and community leader, Marian joined the NAACP at thirteen and grew up to achieve not only a number of civic leadership firsts in her adopted home city of Cincinnati, but a legacy of lasting civil rights victories. Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw an upsurge i... |
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Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism
ISBN: 9780821421741 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christopher Lee has written a delightfully compelling introduction to Frantz Fanon. Well-researched and thoroughly grounded, Lee s study admirably situates Fanon in the broadest historical context, while subtly explaining Fanon s powerful legacy today. This book taught me many things, revealing in intriguing ways the works of a black thinker from Martinique who so passionately embraced the Algerian Revolution, and so ardently desired to be embraced by it.
Christopher Lee has written a delightfully compelling introduction to Frantz Fanon. Well-researched and thoroughly grounded, Lee s study admirably sit...
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75,66 zł |
Keep On Fighting: The Life and Civil Rights Legacy of Marian A. Spencer
ISBN: 9780821421949 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw an upsurge in race riots and lynchings. Following the example of her grandfather, an ex-slave and community leader, Marian joined the NAACP at thirteen and grew up to achieve not only a number of civic leadership firsts in her adopted home city of Cincinnati, but a legacy of lasting civil rights victories. Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the "Red Summer" of 1919 that saw an upsurge i... |
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106,63 zł |
Hrant Dink: An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey
ISBN: 9781412862554 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of his activism, Dink was assassinated by Turkish nationalists in 2007. As founder and editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos, in 1996, Dink was the first secular voice of Turkey's silenced Christian-Armenian minority. He fought for the democratization of the Turkish political system. This was a risky... This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citiz... |
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656,16 zł |
Hrant Dink: An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey
ISBN: 9781412862684 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of his activism, Dink was assassinated by Turkish nationalists in 2007. As founder and editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper, Agos, in 1996, Dink was the first secular voice of Turkey's silenced Christian-Armenian minority. He fought for the democratization of the Turkish political system. This was a risky... This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citiz... |
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216,98 zł |
Desde la sombra la luz: Pasajes de mi vida
ISBN: 9781512127218 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gesta sin precedentes La vida que nos narra en estas memorias William (Guillermo) Morales Correa, se desarrolla y nos muestra, desde su infancia, el complicado proceso de la formacion de un hombre, su sentido de pertenencia y los serios conflictos de afirmacion, autoestima y reconocimiento personal para identificar sus raices y su nacionalidad. Se trata de un hombre que ha logrado, en la historia de las luchas anticoloniales de finales del siglo XX en America, aportar un cumulo de actos heroicos liberadores. Acusado y convicto, sin reconocerle la legitimidad de las defensas que el Derecho...
Gesta sin precedentes La vida que nos narra en estas memorias William (Guillermo) Morales Correa, se desarrolla y nos muestra, desde su infancia, el c...
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102,98 zł |
One More Minute
ISBN: 9781507809549 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Becoming a man is not a straight forward process for anyone. Growing up in rural Nova Scotia, having been misdiagnosed as female at birth, Jesiah faced some unique challenges in his own path to adulthood. In this frank and funny conversational memoir, Jesiah reflects on painful events in his past and the strengths he's gained overcoming the obstacles life has thrown at him.
Becoming a man is not a straight forward process for anyone. Growing up in rural Nova Scotia, having been misdiagnosed as female at birth, Jesiah face...
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80,72 zł |
A Preacher Called Sinn: The Turbulent Life of a Protestant Minister
ISBN: 9781508997795 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The seeds of my undoing as a Protestant minister may have begun with my name." In 1995, Duane Sinn endured a brutal media attack that nearly destroyed him. How could this have happened to a young man who left the farm, served his country, and struggled twelve long years to get through seminary while working full time, and raising a family? Duane bares his soul in this raw, honest memoir, writing about the heartbreak of his first marriage, the highs and lows of his troubled ministry, and his unlikely entrance into the rough and tumble world of politics. A PREACHER CALLED SINN is a... "The seeds of my undoing as a Protestant minister may have begun with my name." In 1995, Duane Sinn endured a brutal media attack that nearly de... |
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Glimpses of Oneness, Facets of the Unity Perspective: The Global Awakening Series, Volume 3
ISBN: 9781941306062 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This overview volume-Glimpses of Oneness- presents a series of brief essays that sketch various facets of my own life's awakening. These often playful fables share inspiring nuances of the unity perspective, as seen in a daily life context that is easily recognizable to all. Each represents a pivotal moment in or aspect of my evolutionary development. Some are experience-based, and are presented more or less chronologically as they appeared during a fifty-year arc of my life's trajectory. Others chronicle some of the forms that have emerged for me as a direct result of these important oneness...
This overview volume-Glimpses of Oneness- presents a series of brief essays that sketch various facets of my own life's awakening. These often playful...
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76,53 zł |
Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom
ISBN: 9781608465774 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the summer of 2014, renowned American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita had his appointment to a tenured professorship revoked by the board of trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Salaita s employment was terminated in response to his public tweets criticizing the Israeli government s summer assault on Gaza.
Salaita s firing generated a huge public outcry, with thousands petitioning for his reinstatement, and more than five thousand scholars pledging to boycott UIUC. His case raises important questions about academic freedom, free speech on campus, and the... In the summer of 2014, renowned American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita had his appointment to a tenured professorship revoked by the board o...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers
ISBN: 9781515352754 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unabridged & Original version with all 196 pages
Includes: 15 Illustrations and Biography Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass An American Slave is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Following this liberation, Douglass, a former slave, went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and... Unabridged & Original version with all 196 pages
Includes: 15 Illustrations and Biography Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass A... |
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Unforgotten: Finding Hope In Bangkok Prisons
ISBN: 9780994825209 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While backpacking ten years ago through Thailand with her young daughter, Heather Luna-Rose visited a fellow Canadian in Bangkok's Bangkwang Prison, stumbling into what became her soul's calling. Founder of non-profit Luna-Rose Prisoner Support, this passionate humanitarian now spends many months each year bringing emotional support to incarcerated men from all over the world who are suffering isolation and loneliness in Bangkok's infamously hellish prisons. In this gripping memoir, Heather Luna-Rose reveals through raw journal entries and letters the personal challenges and struggles of...
While backpacking ten years ago through Thailand with her young daughter, Heather Luna-Rose visited a fellow Canadian in Bangkok's Bangkwang Prison, s...
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103,20 zł |
America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780520280830 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."--Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would "stay with his own kind," Fred Ross instead became one of the most influential community organizers in American history. His activism began alongside Dust Bowl migrants, where he managed the same labor camp that inspired John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. During World War II, Ross worked for the release of interned Japanese Americans, and after the war, he dedicated his life to building the political power of Latinos across California....
"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."--Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would "sta...
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132,83 zł |
Was die Pastoren von den Frauen denken
ISBN: 9781517474553 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hedwig Dohm: Was die Pastoren von den Frauen denken Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2015 Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie der Autorin bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger
Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Fotografie um 1870 Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 10 pt. Hedwig Dohm: Was die Pastoren von den Frauen denken Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2015 <... |
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Memoiren einer Sozialistin: Lehrjahre und Kampfjahre. Beide Bände in einem Buch
ISBN: 9781517429652 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 822 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lily Braun: Memoiren einer Sozialistin. "Lehrjahre und Kampfjahre Beide Bande in einem Buch" Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2015, 4. Auflage Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: Munchen (Albert Langen) 1909. Ein Grossteil der Namen historischer Personlichkeiten ist verschlusselt. Eine vollstandige Aufschlusselung ist noch nicht erarbeitet worden. Lily Braun = Alix von Kleve, Hans von Kretschman (ihr Vater) = Hans von Kleve, Georg von Gizycki (ihr erster Ehemann) = Georg von Glyzinski, Heinrich... Lily Braun: Memoiren einer Sozialistin. "Lehrjahre und Kampfjahre Beide Bande in einem Buch" Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe,... |
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Time Passages
ISBN: 9781935925637 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1964 Jay Hersch attended a Peace Corps forum sponsored by his political science instructor. Inspired by the stories of those returning from Peace Corps service, Hersch signed up, spending the next two years living with the disadvantaged Campesinos of rural Columbia. Two years may seem a short enough period in a life, but the experience influenced Hersch deeply, impacting his attitudes and career for the next fifty years. "Time Passages" collects many stories from Hersch's life both during and after his Peace Corps service. He relives the moments that forged his life, from his time... In 1964 Jay Hersch attended a Peace Corps forum sponsored by his political science instructor. Inspired by the stories of those returning from Peac... |
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So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
ISBN: 9780816699445 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "What kind of cancer is it?" was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: "You don't need to know that." Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, made knowing her business and spreading knowledge her mission. The power behind Breast Cancer Action(R) and its transformative Think Before You Pink campaign, Barbara Brenner brought an abundance of wit, courage, and clarity to the cause and forever changed the conversation. What had been construed as an individual crisis could now be seen for what it... "What kind of cancer is it?" was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His a... |
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100,89 zł |
A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy
ISBN: 9781469627953 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as "one of the best friends of the Afro-American people this country has ever produced" and reviled by white Southerners as a race traitor, Tourgee offers an ideal lens through which to reexamine the often caricatured relations between progressive whites and African Americans. He collaborated closely with African Americans in founding an...
During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist...
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258,20 zł |
The Strains of War
ISBN: 9781514259696 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Could Cannabis Be the Cure to Combat PTSD? The Strains of War Is the Provoking New TRUE STORY Release by a Veteran Struggling to Cultivate a Cure and Recover from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. A solider going to war knows to expect the unexpected, and R.'Doc' Gage Amsler encountered a lot of expected and unexpected trauma during his time in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan working in/in support of the United States military forces. But he also stumbled upon a legendary cure hidden in the mountains along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Hindu Kush. He'd heard plenty about this...
Could Cannabis Be the Cure to Combat PTSD? The Strains of War Is the Provoking New TRUE STORY Release by a Veteran Struggling to Cultivate a Cure and ...
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33,20 zł |
Breaking Through Barriers: The Journey
ISBN: 9781517662929 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever felt like life was beating up on you because you dared to be different or tried to defend what you felt was right? This author describes the painful details from her childhood as she pioneered during the most challenging times of her life-the times when schools in the South were being desegregated. Although the challenges described in this book took place during the Civil Rights Movement, the experiences shared by the author are by no means limited to color barriers. The author shares her story to encourage anyone who may be perceived as different-no matter if they are young or...
Have you ever felt like life was beating up on you because you dared to be different or tried to defend what you felt was right? This author describes...
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49,32 zł |