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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
ISBN: 9780307453433 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coming Apart - an acclaimed bestseller that explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity. Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and...
Coming Apart - an acclaimed bestseller that explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class. In <...
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The National Forgotten League: Entertaining Stories and Observations from Pro Football's First Fifty Years
ISBN: 9780803243439 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first fifty years of America s most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the complete story of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that complete story has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis? Or the two one-armed players who suited up for NFL teams in 1945? Or Steelers owner Art Rooney postponing a game in...
The first fifty years of America s most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the complete story of pro...
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Rhetorics of Motherhood
ISBN: 9780809332205 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Becoming a mother profoundly alters one s perception of the world, as Lindal Buchanan learned firsthand when she gave birth.Suddenly attentive to representations of mothers and mothering in advertisements, fiction, film, art, education, and politics, she became intrigued by the persuasive force of the concept of motherhood, an interest that unleashed a host of questions: How is the construct defined? How are maternal appeals crafted, presented, and performed? What do they communicate about gender and power? How do they affect women? Her quest for answers has produced "Rhetorics of...
Becoming a mother profoundly alters one s perception of the world, as Lindal Buchanan learned firsthand when she gave birth.Suddenly attentive to repr...
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151,83 |
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Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason
ISBN: 9781451655438 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A former U.S. Intelligence analyst shines a fresh light on accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss, providing "a solid look at the specifics of the case as well as a useful overview of the ideological debate gripping America" (Kirkus Reviews). In 1948, former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy. Because the statute of limitations on espionage had run out, he was convicted only of perjury. Decades later--after the Hiss trial had been long forgotten by most--archival evidence surfaced confirming the accusations: a public servant with...
A former U.S. Intelligence analyst shines a fresh light on accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss, providing "a solid look at the specifics of the case as w...
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84,74 |
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
ISBN: 9780061792267 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law. It brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the world has never seen before. As Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns did for the story of America's black migration, Gilbert King's Devil in the Grove does for this great untold story of American legal history, a dangerous and uncertain case from the days... Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the... |
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The Life of Herbert Hoover: Keeper of the Torch, 1933-1964
ISBN: 9780230103108 / Angielski / Twarda / 537 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this monumental contribution to Hoover scholarship, eminent historian Gary Dean Best chronicles the post-presidential decades of this important historical figure, and the achievements of a distinguished career that extended far beyond Herbert Hoover's presidency.
In this monumental contribution to Hoover scholarship, eminent historian Gary Dean Best chronicles the post-presidential decades of this important his...
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201,24 |
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Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends
ISBN: 9780810884830 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rock 'n' roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but for the first, complete generation of rock 'n' roll fans--baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964--it holds a special kind of value, playing a social personality-defining role that is unique to this group. Based on 18 years of sociological research and 52 years of rock 'n' roll fandom, Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends draws on data collected from participant observations and interviews with artists, fans, and producers to explore our aging rock culture through the filter of symbolic interactionist theory....
Rock 'n' roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but for the first, complete generation of rock 'n' roll fans--baby boomers born between...
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Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
ISBN: 9780199863174 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society-- indeed, American society--in the second half of the twentieth century. Author of The Crucible of Race and William Faulkner and Southern History, Joel Williamson is a renowned historian known for his inimitable and compelling narrative style. In this tour de force biography, he captures the drama of Presley's career set against the popular...
In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. Th...
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Letters Home: From a World War II Black Panther Artilleryman
ISBN: 9781475900835 / Angielski / Twarda / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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History of the American Negro in the Great World War. Fully Illustrated
ISBN: 9781781392546 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully illustrated history of the involvement of African Americans in the First World War is very accessible and provides a wealth of information. But above all it shows the hope that the valiant fighting would bring recognition to black Americans. The optimism that pervades the book is, in the author's own words: -That a NEW day is dawning; HAS dawned for the Negro in America. A NEW liberty; broader and BETTER. A NEW Justice, unshaded by the spectre of: -Previous condition - That the unpaid toil of thirty decades of African slavery in America is at last to be liquidated.-
This fully illustrated history of the involvement of African Americans in the First World War is very accessible and provides a wealth of information....
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The Absolute and the Cold War: Discourses of Abstract Expressionism
ISBN: 9783631606674 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes art criticism on Abstract Expressionism, lauded as -the triumph of American painting.- It traces the ways in which the movement s meaning has been construed and constructed in reference to the changing cultural and political framework. Starting from the purely formal analyses of the 1950s and early 1960s, through the radical political statements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, until the later interpretations inspired mainly by gender and postcolonial studies, this book cuts across the domains of politics, philosophy and art criticism. The question of whether Abstract...
This book analyzes art criticism on Abstract Expressionism, lauded as -the triumph of American painting.- It traces the ways in which the movement s m...
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Quo Vadis America?: Conceptualizing Change in American Democracy
ISBN: 9783631614679 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is possible to identify at least three ways of conceptualizing change in American democracy. First, change is seen as a product of development. Here change is linear, it signifies progress. The second model sees change as coming from the reflection of the relationship between values and their institutional manifestations. It has a distinctly conservative character. The third approach sees change as an innovation, often a product of technological advancement. Each conceptualization of change stipulates a different set of problems which need to be addressed. The first functional approach is...
It is possible to identify at least three ways of conceptualizing change in American democracy. First, change is seen as a product of development. Her...
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William James and the Art of Popular Statement
ISBN: 9781611860832 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist William James. Sought after around the country, James developed his ideas in lecture halls and via essays and books intended for general audiences. Reaching out to and connecting with these audiences was crucial to James so crucial that in 1903 he identified popular statement, or speaking and writing in a way that animated the thought of popular audiences, as the highest form of art. Paul Stob s thought-provoking history traces James s art of popular...
At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist Willia...
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: The Unlikely Hero of the Lusitania
ISBN: 9780761855064 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire. With no interest in business matters, the youth squandered his wealth on horses and women on two continents. None of the Vanderbilts gave as much fuel for gossip to the curious public as Alfred. By the time the extravagant playboy boarded the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, he was the subject of numerous scandals, including the suicide of four different women. But as the ship went down, he spent the last minutes of his life rescuing women and children and forgoing his own...
At a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire. With no interest in bus...
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Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam
ISBN: 9780801450617 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided substantial economic aid and advice to the RVN. Because of this, Diem is often viewed as a mere puppet of the United States, in service of its Cold War geopolitical strategy. That narrative, Jessica M. Chapman contends in Cauldron of Resistance, grossly oversimplifies the complexity of South... In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly c... |
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225,30 |
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Alienation: My Life in Saudi Arabia and America
ISBN: 9781475942590 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Alienation: My Life in Saudi Arabia and America
ISBN: 9781475942606 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,30 |
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Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima
ISBN: 9780425257425 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1944, the U.S. Marines were building the 5th Marine Division--also known as "The Spearhead"--in preparation for the invasion of the small, Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima. . . When Chuck Tatum began Marine boot camp, he was just a smart-aleck teenager eager to serve his country. Little did he know that he would be training under a living legend of the Corps--Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone, who had almost single-handedly fought off a Japanese force of three thousand on Guadalcanal. It was from Basilone and other sergeants that Tatum would learn how to fight like a...
In 1944, the U.S. Marines were building the 5th Marine Division--also known as "The Spearhead"--in preparation for the invasion of the small, Japan...
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'Abdu'l-Bah in New York
ISBN: 9780969802440 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
ISBN: 9780226012452 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In"Purging the Poorest," Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the deserving poor.
In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country s first public housing. Six decades later, these same cities also led the way in clearing public housing itself. Vale s groundbreaking history of these twice-cleared communities provides... The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. I...
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