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The Times and Tales of a Sixties Freak - (Standard Size)
ISBN: 9781517288709 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. I wrote this a long time ago. It is a memoir of my early Hippie days back in the sixties when everything was possible. This is a document of those times, the things that happened, the things we believed in and the things that were going on around us. Those were good days. The music was great, friends were brilliant and there was magic in the air. We really felt we could change this juggernaut of a society and make the world a better place. We wanted an alternative to the greedy, shallow, warmongering, selfish and incredibly boring life we saw everyone being channelled into. We created an...
I wrote this a long time ago. It is a memoir of my early Hippie days back in the sixties when everything was possible. This is a document of those tim...
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28,23 zł |
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Bringing the Movement Home: A Civil Rights Story of the Midwest
ISBN: 9781517060718 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This story is part history and part memoir. It concerns my father, a Presbyterian minister, and what he went through during the period 1957 to 1970, when he gave himself wholeheartedly to move his middle-class, Midwestern congregations into action on behalf of the oppressed. In the course of events, my father was arrested, with twelve other white ministers from the North, in 1964, in Pike County, Mississippi, while protesting the county's refusal to register black voters. He spent one night in jail. The protest was in and out of the national news quickly, but it had a large impact on the town...
This story is part history and part memoir. It concerns my father, a Presbyterian minister, and what he went through during the period 1957 to 1970, w...
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24,83 zł |
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
ISBN: 9781451642261 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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118,94 zł |
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Married: But It Can Happen
ISBN: 9780615861609 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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95,77 zł |
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...and Justice for All? an American Illusion: My Life as a Freedom Fighter
ISBN: 9780692800430 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Americans are living in the "Land of Make Believe." That's what Freedom Fighter, Rights Activist and Whistleblower, Cheryl A. Kennedy discovered while going through an amicable divorce in 2004 that turned into a horrible nightmare. She found herself fighting back against brutal gangs comprised of corrupt judges and attorneys, insurance company representatives and criminally-organized judicial regulatory agencies who fabricated numerous cover-ups. Since NO oversight existed, she contacted NO Jurisdictional political Honest Service Fraud stooges that were running... Americans are living in the "Land of Make Believe." That's what Freedom Fighter, Rights Activist and Whistleblower, Cheryl ... |
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89,25 zł |
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The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race
ISBN: 9781613320211 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Carl Anthony's memoir offers a new worldview to people of color. His work is both a personal story and an exposition of ideas that will appeal to those who appreciate thoughtful writing on issues of race, including individuals exploring their own identity and activists interested in democratizing power and advancing equitable policies for historically disenfranchised communities. Anthony interweaves urban history, racial justice, and cosmology with his experiences as an architect, regional planner, environmentalist, and Black American. These include life as an African American child... Carl Anthony's memoir offers a new worldview to people of color. His work is both a personal story and an exposition of ideas that will appeal to t... |
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123,97 zł |
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Betsy Mix Cowles: Champion of Equality, 1810-1876
ISBN: 9780813347714 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych.
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95,57 zł |
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Durruti: The People Armed
ISBN: 9780919618749 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A history of the Spanish revolution, as well as being the story of Buenaventura Durruti, uncompromising anarchist, intransigent revolutionary. "Durruti talks new courage into men. When things go bad, he puts himself at the head. Wherever you go it's Durruti and Durruti again, spoken of as a wonder man."--"Toronto Daily Star"
A history of the Spanish revolution, as well as being the story of Buenaventura Durruti, uncompromising anarchist, intransigent revolutionary. "Durrut...
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154,65 zł |
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The ANC Youth League
ISBN: 9780821420447 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Glaser's book provides a well-written analysis of the competition between ideologies and strategies within the ANC. ... Throughout, Glaser highlights the tensions between those leaders who stood for ideological purity as Africanists and those who gravitated to a more pragmatic approach that stressed ideological pluralism. ... He] ...perceptively analyzes] the ways in which South African youth have ignited and fueled the nationalist cause in South Africa over the last seventy-five years." --African Studies ReviewThis brilliant little book tells the story of the African National...
"Glaser's book provides a well-written analysis of the competition between ideologies and strategies within the ANC. ... Throughout, Glaser highlig...
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63,87 zł |
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It's Ok to Leave the Plantation: The New Underground Railroad
ISBN: 9781530949519 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,47 zł |
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Daddy King: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807097762 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From coming of age under poverty and the looming threat of racial violence to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., candidly reveals his life inside the civil rights movement, illustrating the profound influence he had on his son.
Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers in Stockbridge, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Sr., came of age under the looming threat of violence at the hands of white landowners. Growing up, he witnessed his family being crushed by the weight of poverty and racism, and escaped to Atlanta to answer the calling to become a preacher.... From coming of age under poverty and the looming threat of racial violence to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., candid...
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68,42 zł |
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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. 22 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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84,83 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. 16-18 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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402,30 zł |
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Growing to One World: The Life of J. King Gordon
ISBN: 9780773542617 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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215,87 zł |
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Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste
ISBN: 9781780936635 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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505,10 zł |
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Biko: A Life
ISBN: 9781780767857 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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80,65 zł |
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Paul Robeson: A Watched Man
ISBN: 9781781681312 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Timely and brilliant new portrait of the singer, campaigner and leading radical.
Timely and brilliant new portrait of the singer, campaigner and leading radical.
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105,84 zł |
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That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O'Connor Power
ISBN: 9781845886981 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The story of John O'Connor Power is the story of Ireland's struggle for nationhood itself. Born into poverty in Ballinasloe in 1846, O'Connor Power spent much of his childhood in the workhouse. From here he rose rapidly through the ranks of the Fenian Movement to become a leading member of the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. In 1874 he was elected Member for Mayo to the British House of Commons where he was widely acknowledged to be one of the outstanding orators of his day. His speeches, both in Parliament and to the US House of Representatives, secured crucial...
The story of John O'Connor Power is the story of Ireland's struggle for nationhood itself. Born into poverty in Ballinasloe in 1846, O'Connor Power sp...
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156,63 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. 16-18 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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146,37 zł |
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Antima Geluvina Bennu Hatti: Asaadhyavaadaddu Enoo Illa
ISBN: 9788175110939 / Kannada / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Whatever it takes...' sounds like an overused phrase, once we become familiar with the life story of Navin Gulia, an adventurer, writer and social worker, as it dawns on us that he's a genuine field-example of the phrase. His is a story of grit and determination, meticulousness and discipline, love and compassion. Above all, he stands out as an individual who has the ability and willingness (And, this is very important ) to inspire millions.
'Antima Geluvina Bennu Hatti...', is a narration of this inspiring story and the narrator is none other than the man himself Yes, it is Navin... Whatever it takes...' sounds like an overused phrase, once we become familiar with the life story of Navin Gulia, an adventurer, writer and social wor...
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45,21 zł |
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