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Labor in Israel: Beyond Nationalism and Neoliberalism
ISBN: 9781501717123 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a comprehensive analysis of the wave of organizing that swept the country starting in 2007, Labor in Israel investigates the changing political status of organized labor in the context of changes to Israel's political economy, including liberalization, the rise of non-union labor organizations, the influx of migrant labor, and Israel's...
Using a comprehensive analysis of the wave of organizing that swept the country starting in 2007, Labor in Israel investigates the changing political ...
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282,33 |
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Hillel at Michigan, 1926/27-1945: Struggles of Jewish Identity in a Pivotal Era
ISBN: 9781607854036 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,36 |
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In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military
ISBN: 9781612349671 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Theodore Roosevelt was not a wartime president, he took his role as commander in chief very seriously. In Command explores Roosevelt's efforts to modernize the American military. Matthew Oyos examines the evolution of Roosevelt's ideas about military force and explores his drive to promote new institutions of command, technological innovations, and militia reform.
Although Theodore Roosevelt was not a wartime president, he took his role as commander in chief very seriously. In Command explores Roosevelt's effort...
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140,45 |
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals
ISBN: 9781620973431 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a nineteen-year-old undergraduate in 1947, Noam Chomsky was deeply affected by articles about the responsibility of intellectuals written by Dwight Macdonald, an editor of Partisan Review and then of Politics. Twenty years later, as the Vietnam War was escalating, Chomsky turned to the question himself, noting that "intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments" and to analyze their "often hidden intentions." Originally published in the New York Review of Books, Chomsky's essay eviscerated the "hypocritical moralism of the past" (such as...
As a nineteen-year-old undergraduate in 1947, Noam Chomsky was deeply affected by articles about the responsibility of intellectuals written by Dwight...
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72,18 |
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Campaigns and Hurricanes: A History of Presidential Visits to Mississippi
ISBN: 9781496816467 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces presidential visits to Mississippi from William McKinley to Barack Obama, and sets each visit into its historical context. Readers will learn that of the forty-five visits made to Mississippi by sitting presidents, eighteen were for disaster recovery, eleven were to campaign, eight were in support of policy proposals, three were purely recreational, and five had singular purposes.
Traces presidential visits to Mississippi from William McKinley to Barack Obama, and sets each visit into its historical context. Readers will learn t...
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165,50 |
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That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical
ISBN: 9781496817334 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s. That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured.
Traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s. That...
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141,12 |
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Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9781496817525 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on interviews and personal memoirs, Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement traces the efforts of clergymen who - deeply moved by the struggle of African Americans - looked for ways to reconcile the history of discrimination and slavery with Christian principles and to help their black neighbours.
Based on interviews and personal memoirs, Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement traces the efforts of clergymen who - deeply moved by...
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442,97 |
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Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9781496817532 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on interviews and personal memoirs, Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement traces the efforts of clergymen who - deeply moved by the struggle of African Americans - looked for ways to reconcile the history of discrimination and slavery with Christian principles and to help their black neighbours.
Based on interviews and personal memoirs, Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement traces the efforts of clergymen who - deeply moved by...
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136,25 |
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Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America After World War II
ISBN: 9781496818263 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Steffen Hantke argues that these films have long been understood as allegories of the Cold War. Setting out to question, expand, and correct this critical argument, Hantke follows shifts and adjustments prompted by recent scholarly work.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fi...
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136,25 |
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Inside the White House
ISBN: 9781501196485 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 |
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The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
ISBN: 9780190905835 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,59 |
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Forgotten Tales of Idaho
ISBN: 9781540211705 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down: Tuskegee University's Advancements in Human Health, 1881-1987
ISBN: 9780817319892 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide. In To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down, Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell document Tuskegee University's medical and public health history with rich archival data and never-before-published photographs.
An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide. In To Raise ...
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163,97 |
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More Than Science and Sputnik: The National Defense Education Act of 1958
ISBN: 9780817359195 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sparked by dramatic Soviet achievements, particularly in nuclear technology and the development of the Sputnik space orbiter, the United States responded in the late 1950s with an extraordinary federal investment in education. This book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the National Defense Education Act.
Sparked by dramatic Soviet achievements, particularly in nuclear technology and the development of the Sputnik space orbiter, the United States respon...
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116,78 |
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The Language of Victory: Code Talkers of WWI and WWII
ISBN: 9780980027273 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,83 |
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Religion Around Billie Holiday
ISBN: 9780271080956 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the multiple religious influences on Billie Holiday's life and sound, combining elements of biography with the history of race and American music.
Explores the multiple religious influences on Billie Holiday's life and sound, combining elements of biography with the history of race and American m...
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91,39 |
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Reporting: The Tulsa Riot: 1921
ISBN: 9780990713753 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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118,99 |
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Latinasian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
ISBN: 9780813589855 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American and Latina/o presence in the United States, although often considered marginal in discourses of American history and nationhood, is in fact crucial to understanding how national identity has been constructed historically and continues to be constructed in the present day.
Thananopavarn creates a... LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroac...
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608,48 |
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My Life in Progressive Politics: Against the Grain
ISBN: 9781623496272 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,64 |
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Machineries of Persuasion
ISBN: 9783110557923 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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488,46 |
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