ilość książek w kategorii: 5817
Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989
ISBN: 9780803246904 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mildred Dee Brown (1905 89) was the cofounder of Nebraska s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha s Near North Side a historically black part of town and an iconic city leader. Her remarkable life, a product of the Reconstruction era and Jim Crow, reflects a larger American history that includes the Great Migration, the Red Scare of the post World War era, civil rights and black power movements, desegregation, and urban... Mildred Dee Brown (1905 89) was the cofounder of Nebraska s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American w... |
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165,98 zł |
River City Empire: Tom Dennison's Omaha
ISBN: 9780803248335 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, the Rogue who ruled Omaha, was a master of the devious. Unlike his contemporaries outside the Midwest, he took no political office and was never convicted of a crime during his thirty-year reign. He was a man who managed saloons but never cared for alcohol; who may have incited the Omaha Race Riot of 1919 but claimed he never harmed a soul; who stood aside while powerful men did his bidding. His power came not from coercion or nobility but from delegation and subterfuge. Orville D. Menard... More than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, the Rogue who ruled Omaha, was a master of the devious. Unlike ... |
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104,00 zł |
Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of an Ex-Senator
ISBN: 9780803248588 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advise and Dissent is the personal odyssey of James Abourezk, from his coming of age as the son of Lebanese immigrants in South Dakota, through his hardscrabble days as a farmhand, bartender, bouncer, and cook, to his entrance into and voluntary exit from the U.S. Senate. His is a quintessentially American story that entertains as it challenges the thinking of our nation. Abourezk refused to compromise his beliefs. He championed Native American self-determination and demanded the creation of a Palestinian state. He challenged the flow of special interest money... Advise and Dissent is the personal odyssey of James Abourezk, from his coming of age as the son of Lebanese immigrants in South Dakot... |
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83,16 zł |
Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry
ISBN: 9780816683321 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Drawing on rare archival documents, photographs, and a wealth of oral histories, Digital State unveils the remarkable...
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134,81 zł |
Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu
ISBN: 9780810129740 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of 1997 Carl Sandburg Award On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu, award-winning investigative reporter Ted Anton shows that the murder is what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil.
Winner of 1997 Carl Sandburg Award On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crim...
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112,34 zł |
Hands Upon the Rock
ISBN: 9780988426801 / Angielski / Twarda / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A man kneels in the sun, places his left hand upon the red quartzite. He outlines it, then chips its likeness into the rock. A child, on her knees, lays both her hands upon the same warm stone and whispers, "I feel ...hope " Perhaps several thousand years have passed between these two incidents at the Jeffers Petroglyphs site. Whatever place or time or culture we inhabit, our hands define us as humans. We are alike.
A man kneels in the sun, places his left hand upon the red quartzite. He outlines it, then chips its likeness into the rock. A child, on her knees, la...
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168,03 zł |
Widow's Peak
ISBN: 9780984554515 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widow's Peak is the story of a woman brought into the world in the Roaring Twenties, raised in the depths of the Great Depression, who came of age as World War II raged and who grew up and matured during the greatest peacetime boom in the nation's history. It offers glimpses into the history of Detroit, Michigan during its years of prosperity. It is also the story of every woman. Elizabeth Radcliffe refused to be bound by the roles into which society had cast her. She learned and grew wiser with each passing day of her rich and full lifetime. She proved that no one is defeated until the game...
Widow's Peak is the story of a woman brought into the world in the Roaring Twenties, raised in the depths of the Great Depression, who came of age as ...
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62,32 zł |
The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt
ISBN: 9781451692747 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many aspects of Midwestern culture and life from an insider's perspective. In The Hard Way on Purpose, David Giffels takes us on an insider's journey through the wreckage and resurgence of America's Rust Belt. A native who never knew the good times, yet never abandoned his hometown of Akron, Giffels plumbs the touchstones and idiosyncrasies of a region where industry has fallen, bowling is...
Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection...
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70,86 zł |
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
ISBN: 9780252036392 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance comprehensively explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance, a creative movement that emerged from the crucible of rigid segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the 1960s. Heavily influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers, its participants were invested in political activism and social change as much as literature, art, and aesthetics. The revolutionary writing of this era produced some of the first great accolades for African American literature and set up much of... Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance comprehensively explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance, a creative movement th... |
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580,94 zł |
Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'n' Roll in America's Loudest City
ISBN: 9780306820656 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms, studios, and in the audience, blasting the music out and soaking it up, in every scene from 1967 to today. From fabled axe men like Ted Nugent, Dick Wagner, and James Williamson jump to Jack White, to pop flashes Suzi Quatro and Andrew W.K., to proto punkers Brother Wayne Kramer and Iggy Pop, Detroit slices the rest of the land with way more than its share of the Rock Pie. Detroit Rock City is the story that has never before been...
Detroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms, studi...
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91,67 zł |
Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains
ISBN: 9780316199841 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in South Dakota, Garrett-Davis always knew he would leave. But life always brought him back. With this beautifully written narrative, he has reclaimed his childhood, his unusual family, and the seemingly empty, but rich Great Plains.
Growing up in South Dakota, Garrett-Davis always knew he would leave. But life always brought him back. With this beautifully written narrative, he ha...
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204,84 zł |
Body Geographic
ISBN: 9780803239852 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich s Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and wheredislocation means finding oneself. One coordinate of Borich s story is Chicago, the prototypical Great Lakes port city built by immigrants like her great-grandfather Big Petar, and the other is her own port of immigration, Minneapolis, the combined skylines of these two cities tattooed on Borich s own back. Between Chicago... A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich s Body Geographic turns personal history into an ins... |
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88,13 zł |
Minnesota Railroads: A Photographic History, 1940-2012
ISBN: 9780816675913 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Great Northern Railway, in the eventful year of 1941, met every requirement made of it as the Nation hurriedly prepared for war." So Great Northern's president spoke of the Minnesota railroad that transported the tanks and airplanes, materiel and troops, that were critical to America's military success. This illustrated volume offers an enlightening--and irresistibly entertaining--look at Minnesota railroads from that shining moment, near the end of the romantic era of steam locomotives and luxury passenger lines, to the reemergence of railroads as one of the few profitable... "The Great Northern Railway, in the eventful year of 1941, met every requirement made of it as the Nation hurriedly prepared for war." So Great Nor... |
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169,26 zł |
Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780816680818 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz's radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite gale-force winds and thirty-foot seas, there was no reason to think the Fitz wouldn't find safe harbor at Whitefish Point, Michigan. The last words from the Fitz's captain, Ernest McSorley, was "We are holding our own." By all indications, the crew had no idea they were in mortal danger before they plunged to Lake Superior's bottom with no chance to call for... The Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fit... |
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67,38 zł |
Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism: How Bureaucracies Reacted to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
ISBN: 9780826430731 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For that reason, the government must be better prepared to respond to acts of terror. One critical element is to understand what constitutes an "effective response." To answer this key question, the author examined the existing literature and interviewed thirty-one elite participants in the emergency... Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City o... |
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129,62 zł |
Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism: How Bureaucracies Reacted to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
ISBN: 9780826462657 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Terrorism is a complex threat, and the American government is expected to deter or intervene in every attack. For that reason, the government must be better prepared to respond to acts of terror. One critical element is to understand what constitutes an "effective response." To answer this key question, the author examined the existing literature and interviewed thirty-one elite participants in the emergency... Emergency Response to Domestic Terrorism analyzes the emergency response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City o... |
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726,18 zł |
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
ISBN: 9781439909980 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uncovering the history of gender and sexual nonconformity in rural America during the first half of the twentieth century
Uncovering the history of gender and sexual nonconformity in rural America during the first half of the twentieth century
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145,18 zł |
Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland
ISBN: 9780691160894 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the state is a hotbed of antiabortion protest--and churches have been involved in all of these efforts. Yet in 1867 suffragist Lucy Stone could plausibly proclaim that, in the cause of universal suffrage, "Kansas leads the world " How did... No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is a... |
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152,88 zł |
The Dangerous Class
ISBN: 9780674428577 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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300,03 zł |
Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital
ISBN: 9780984893119 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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62,49 zł |