Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
ISBN: 9780745335322 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages: these could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived. Yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most important political activists of his generation, a crusader for freedom and equality who battled both Jim Crow and Joseph McCarthy.
In Paul Robeson, Gerald Horne discovers within Robeson s remarkable and revolutionary life the story of the... A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages: th...
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91,52 zł |
Reminiscences of Thirty Years in Baltimore: The Development of Women's Education
ISBN: 9781633912243 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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41,87 zł |
Nazis and Nudists
ISBN: 9781612965932 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like many baby boomers, David Haldane got swept into the turbulence of the late 1960s and early 70s, first as a radical activist and then a writer for an underground newspaper. Eventually, after self-imposed exiles in Europe and Mexico, he married, started a family and graduated to a significant position in mainstream journalism from which he chronicled many of the events that shaped an era. But Haldane always longed for something more, a "green leafy space" in which he could feel at peace. Finally, after a painful divorce, he found it in an unconventional way; with a dark-haired woman met... Like many baby boomers, David Haldane got swept into the turbulence of the late 1960s and early 70s, first as a radical activist and then a writer ... |
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From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia
ISBN: 9780807162651 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, started a family, and edited a newspaper. Even his life as a slave seemed exceptional: he described how his owners treated him and his family with respect, and he learned to read and write. Tucked into its back pages, the memoir included a handwritten tribute to Carter, written by his fellow teachers upon his... In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pag... |
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190,31 zł |
Tomas Young's War
ISBN: 9781608465910 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tomas Young s War is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars.
Based on hours of interviews with Young and those close to him, the book puts the reader alongside Young as he struggles with life as a paralyzed veteran, suffering frustration and humiliation as he attempts to reenter society and resume as normal an existence as possible. It shows his fight to balance his precarious health with his drive to speak out for veterans care and... Tomas Young s War is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with ...
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204,69 zł |
Tomas Young's War
ISBN: 9781608466504 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tomas Young s War is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars.
Based on hours of interviews with Young and those close to him, the book puts the reader alongside Young as he struggles with life as a paralyzed veteran, suffering frustration and humiliation as he attempts to reenter society and resume as normal an existence as possible. It shows his fight to balance his precarious health with his drive to speak out for veterans care and... Tomas Young s War is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with ...
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91,52 zł |
A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781784784560 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto's Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research...
An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in ...
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80,75 zł |
The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa
ISBN: 9781518743108 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Permit me, with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design of which is to excite in your august assemblies a sense of compassion for the miseries which the Slave-Trade has entailed on my unfortunate countrymen. By the horrors of that trade was I first torn away from all the tender connexions that were naturally dear to my heart; but these, through the mysterious ways of Providence, I ought to regard as infinitely more than compensated by the introduction I have thence obtained to the knowledge of the Christian religion, and of a...
Permit me, with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design of which is to excite in you...
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60,00 zł |
An Early Communist: Muzaffar Ahmad in Calcutta, 1913-1929
ISBN: 9788189487935 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From an occasionally employed, lower middle-class Bengali Muslim intellectual on the borderline of starvation in the city, he was to become 'the chief accused' at the Meerut communist trials started by the colonial government in 1929. What was the road travelled before challenging imperialism 'from the dock'? In 1913, Muzaffar Ahmad (1889-1973) was just one more in the sea of migrants to Calcutta. His ambition was to be a writer. Yet in the vortex of metropolitan upheaval his life would take a completely different turn. Taking Muzaffar Ahmad's early career (1913-1929) as its chronological...
From an occasionally employed, lower middle-class Bengali Muslim intellectual on the borderline of starvation in the city, he was to become 'the chief...
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96,90 zł |
I Am Woman: Surviving the Past, the Present, & the Future
ISBN: 9781522798606 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living the life of her dreams won't be easy-especially since she was born male. But her dream life may yet come true-if she truly wants it.
In this raw and emotionally charged memoir, Daliah Husu declares her trans womanhood with an honest and authoritative voice. Searching for her true identity, yearning for her mother's acceptance, and desperate to find love, Daliah shares her painful, yet enriching journey into self-actualization and womanhood-a journey that starts as a young boy growing up without a father or mother in the slums of Santo Domingo, and who later... Living the life of her dreams won't be easy-especially since she was born male. But her dream life may yet come true-if she truly wants it....
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44,36 zł |
Remember This: A Family in America
ISBN: 9780761867456 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mungellos were Italian-American children of Vesuvius. Moving to flee the threats of the Black Hand, their lives became no less turbulent. Throughout the generations, the Mungello's love affairs projected them up the ladder of American success as they damned one another to their deaths. This is a true story.
The Mungellos were Italian-American children of Vesuvius. Moving to flee the threats of the Black Hand, their lives became no less turbulent. Througho...
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163,33 zł |
Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness
ISBN: 9781498518185 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive intervention to understand black subjectivity. The epistemological shift of this book is not to be bogged down by the cataloging of events, something that is popular in the literature of Steve Biko and Black Consciousness. Rather, a theoretical imagination and conceptual invention is engaged upon in order to situate Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. The theoretical...
Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive...
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425,53 zł |
Survivor I Changed the Rules
ISBN: 9781495185984 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From hustling at fifteen, to pulling stick ups at sixteen, Shellman found himself at the age of seventeen being sentenced to four to twelve years in prison. In an honest and brutal way Shellman tells his life story from a powerless child to a power crazed misdirected youth, survival of the fittest on the streets and life within some of the roughest prisons in New York State. Throughout the story you witness his search for self peace and spiritual growth as he sought to balance his troubled life which would ultimately lead him through life threatening situations where by chance and little... From hustling at fifteen, to pulling stick ups at sixteen, Shellman found himself at the age of seventeen being sentenced to four to twelve years i... |
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67,97 zł |
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
ISBN: 9781451645910 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This "lively biography" (The New Yorker) is the first to tell the story of Julia Ward Howe as a powerful feminist pioneer. Julia Ward (1819-1910) was an heiress who married a handsome accomplished doctor who worked with the blind and deaf. But Samuel Howe wasted her inheritance, mistreated and belittled her, and tried to stifle her intellect and freedom. Nevertheless Julia persisted and wrote poetry and a mildly shocking sexual novel that was published to good reviews. She also wrote the words to probably the most famous anthem in the country's history--the Civil War anthem,...
This "lively biography" (The New Yorker) is the first to tell the story of Julia Ward Howe as a powerful feminist pioneer. Julia Ward (1819...
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77,68 zł |
Roza Luksemburgo. Biografieto
ISBN: 9782369600619 / Esperanto / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Konciza biografio de la virino, kiu internacie batalis kontrau milito, por socia revolucio cele al starigo de paca socio, en kiu la laborantaj homoj decidas pri la produktado kaj distribuado de la socia produkto. Kiel marksisto i salutis la Oktobran Revolucion, sed samtempe kritikis Leninon kaj Trockon pro iliaj pa oj kontraU demokratiaj principoj. Kiel komunisto i rekomendis la principon de libereco ankaU en la senco de "Libereco estas iam la libereco de la alipensanto." Fine i estis en 1919 inside murdita. iaj teorio pri la imperiismo kaj iaj principoj estas nuntempe de multaj... Konciza biografio de la virino, kiu internacie batalis kontrau milito, por socia revolucio cele al starigo de paca socio, en kiu la laborantaj homo... |
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Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest
ISBN: 9781501161940 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE FIGHTER. THE ACTIVIST. THE MAN. THE ICON. An officially authorized collection, Muhammad Ali Unfiltered is Jeter Publishing's intimate look at one of the most inspiring figures of our age. Celebrate the life of Muhammad Ali in these 200-plus pages of images, quotes, and tributes to the Greatest of All Time. Millions of words have been said about Muhammad Ali--at least half of those by the fighter himself. Brought to the world stage through boxing, he transcended the sport with his quick feet, quick fists, and even quicker mouth. Not content to be idolized as a celebrity, he...
THE FIGHTER. THE ACTIVIST. THE MAN. THE ICON. An officially authorized collection, Muhammad Ali Unfiltered is Jeter Publishing's intimate look ...
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151,04 zł |
Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
ISBN: 9781786632425 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic book that traces Muhammad Ali's political development in the sixties When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali was not only a boxer but a remarkable political figure in a decade of tumultuous change. Playful, popular, always confrontational, Ali refashioned the role of a political activist and was central, alongside figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, to the black liberation and the anti-war movements. Marqusee shows that sport and politics were...
A classic book that traces Muhammad Ali's political development in the sixties When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greates...
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69,97 zł |
Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781535587532 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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36,03 zł |
Community: The Missing Manual, Stage 1 (color): The Beginning
ISBN: 9781534722156 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community involves people...and bringing people together in an intentionally conscious, long-term sustainable way can be a challenge "Isn't there some kind of manual for this? " we of Kulana Artist Sanctuary often thought in the early years Join the adventures of building a creative/spiritual artist's retreat on an active Hawaiian volcano in tasty, illustrated stages from the ground on up...or get the complete Missing Manual Part personal tropical-adventure, part how-to manual, and lots of pix from our evolution Available in e-editions and color or b/w print paperback stages, or in the...
Community involves people...and bringing people together in an intentionally conscious, long-term sustainable way can be a challenge "Isn't there som...
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54,38 zł |
Appealing For Justice: One Lawyer, Four Decades and the Landmark Gay Rights Case: Romer v. Evans
ISBN: 9780997698404 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean Eberhart Dubofsky came of age when trouble was around every corner, fueled by one grave injustice or another. Appealing For Justice is the story of how this shy, unknown, and unheralded woman found her place at the table again and again, then led the way, broke down barriers and helped shape the direction and flow of history. At almost every step, Jean Dubofsky’s story mirrors, reflects, or reveals the depth of the injustice, discrimination, and inequality that lay hidden just beneath the surface of the country we thought ourselves to... Jean Eberhart Dubofsky came of age when trouble was around every corner, fueled by one grave injustice or another. Appealing For Justice i... |
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103,35 zł |