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From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism
ISBN: 9780803232938 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in journalism, but if she wanted to report on social issues instead of society news, she had no alternative. Her years as one of the first women reporters at the Omaha World-Herald, covering gender barriers even as she broke a few herself, give Wirth an especially apt perspective on the women profiled in this book: those Nebraskans who, over a hundred years, challenged traditional feminine roles in journalism and subtly but surely changed the world. The book features remarkable women journalists who worked in every... Eileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in journalism, but if she wanted to report on social issues instead of society news, ... |
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73,69 zł |
One Small Town, One Crazy Coach: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season
ISBN: 9780253010285 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he would accomplish, against enormous odds, one of the great small-town feats in Indiana basketball history. With no starters taller than 5'10," few wins were predicted for the Spuds. Yet, after inflicting brutal preseason conditioning, employing a variety of unconventional motivational tactics, and overcoming fierce opposition, Gill molded the Spuds into a winning team that brought home the town's first and only sectional and regional titles.... In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he wo... |
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112,08 zł |
Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City
ISBN: 9780804011426 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In chapters ranging from memoir to reportage to revisionist history, Rebein contrasts his hometown's Old West heritage with a New West reality that includes salvage yards, beefpacking plants, and bored teenagers cruising up and down Wyatt Earp Boulevard.Along the way, Rebein covers a vast expanse of place and time and revisits a number of Western myths, including those surrounding Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the Cheyenne chief... In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodg... |
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88,29 zł |
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
ISBN: 9780252079313 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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164,06 zł |
The Best Specimen of a Tyrant: The Ambitious Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand and the Wisconsin Insane Hospital
ISBN: 9781609381462 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published: Madison, Wis.: Spenser-Hoyt, c2007.
Originally published: Madison, Wis.: Spenser-Hoyt, c2007.
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98,20 zł |
Rise of the Phoenix: Voices from Chicago's Black Struggle 1960-1975
ISBN: 9780883783061 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rise of the Phoenix "is a collection of personal narratives that articulate the political, social, religious, and cultural experiences of many who participated in Chicago's black struggle for self-determination, self-reliance, and equality during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Contributors include Timuel Black, Carol Adams, John R. Porter, and Ellis Cose with a preface by Julieanna Richardson, director of The HistoryMakers.
Rise of the Phoenix "is a collection of personal narratives that articulate the political, social, religious, and cultural experiences of many who par...
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135,27 zł |
Luke Karamazov
ISBN: 9780814342886 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Luke Karamazov is the true story of two brothers who were convicted of serial murders. In 1964, Luke Karamozov (n?e Ralph Searl) confessed to killing five men over a three-month period; following in his grisly footsteps was his younger brother, Tommy Searl, who was sentenced for the rape and murder of four young women in or around the brothers' hometown of Kalamazoo. The events described in the book have the drama of fiction, but are very real events. Conrad Hilberry based his account on interviews with the two men, their friends, the woman whom they both married, and prison... Luke Karamazov is the true story of two brothers who were convicted of serial murders. In 1964, Luke Karamozov (n?e Ralph Searl) confessed t... |
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147,43 zł |
Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford
ISBN: 9780814331095 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fifty-five chapters of Friends, Families & Forays are bursting with details about the people and the pursuits that coloured the life of Henry Ford. Here the reader will meet prominent and diverse figures such as Thomas Edison, John Borroughs, George Washington Carver, Helen Keller, and Mahatma Gandhi - all of whose lives intersected that of Henry Ford at some point in his life.
The fifty-five chapters of Friends, Families & Forays are bursting with details about the people and the pursuits that coloured the life of Henry Ford...
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191,19 zł |
A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder
ISBN: 9781250118707 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AN OLD WAY OF LIFE A NEW KIND OF BETRAYAL--AND DEATH. . . AN OLD WAY OF LIFE |
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45,12 zł |
Bleeding Kansas: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border
ISBN: 9781138958548 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1854 and 1861, the struggle between pro-and anti-slavery factions over Kansas Territory captivated Americans nationwide and contributed directly to the Civil War. Combining political, social, and military history, Bleeding Kansas contextualizes and analyzes prewar and wartime clashes in Kansas and Missouri and traces how these conflicts have been remembered ever since. Michael E. Woods s compelling narrative of the Kansas-Missouri border struggle embraces the diverse perspectives of white northerners and southerners, women, Native Americans, and African Americans. This... Between 1854 and 1861, the struggle between pro-and anti-slavery factions over Kansas Territory captivated Americans nationwide and contributed dir... |
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197,43 zł |
Bleeding Kansas: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border
ISBN: 9781138958500 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1854 and 1861, the struggle between pro-and anti-slavery factions over Kansas Territory captivated Americans nationwide and contributed directly to the Civil War. Combining political, social, and military history, Bleeding Kansas contextualizes and analyzes prewar and wartime clashes in Kansas and Missouri and traces how these conflicts have been remembered ever since. Michael E. Woods s compelling narrative of the Kansas-Missouri border struggle embraces the diverse perspectives of white northerners and southerners, women, Native Americans, and African Americans. This... Between 1854 and 1861, the struggle between pro-and anti-slavery factions over Kansas Territory captivated Americans nationwide and contributed dir... |
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805,53 zł |
Maude (1883-1993): She Grew Up with the Country
ISBN: 9780996501316 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,94 zł |
The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival
ISBN: 9780803294936 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end, - Denise Low says, -as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible.-
Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry as she recovers the life story of her Kansas grandfather, Frank Bruner (1889-1963). She remembers her childhood in Kansas, where her grandparents remained at a distance, personally and physically, from their grandchildren, despite living only a few miles away. As an adult, she comes to understand her... -Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end, - Denise Low says, -as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see...
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143,48 zł |
American Mafia: Chicago: True Stories Of Families Who Made Windy City History, First Edition
ISBN: 9780762778447 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the past telling the stories of the men, women, and families and revealing the events behind the legends and the history of the families' beginnings and founding members. Featuring the most fascinating stories from the early days, when loosely-organized, incredibly secretive gangs terrorized neighborhoods with names like Little Hell, through the mob's...
Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chic...
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77,79 zł |
Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume IV, September 1864-June 1865
ISBN: 9780786475841 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864-and June 1865. It explores different tactics each side attempted during this time period to gain advantage over each other with regional differences as influenced by the differing personalities of local commanders. The author utilizes both well-known and obscure sources (including military and government records, private accounts, county and other local histories, period and later newspapers, and secondary sources published after the war) to identify which Southern partisan leaders and...
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864-and June 1865. It explores different tact...
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235,92 zł |
Old Slow Town: Detroit during the Civil War
ISBN: 9780814336038 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans. The virulently anti-Lincoln and anti-Black "Detroit Free Press" fanned the city's flames with provocative coverage of events. In ""Old Slow Town": Detroit during the Civil War, " award-winning author Paul Taylor contends that the anger within Detroit's diverse political and ethnic... Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, includ... |
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202,14 zł |
One House: The Unicameral's Progressive Vision for Nebraska
ISBN: 9780803235199 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Nebraskans voted to trade in their bicameral, partisan legislature for a one-house, nonpartisan body in 1934, it was a revolutionary decision. George Norris, a U.S. senator from Nebraska, argued that the new institution would be more open, efficient, responsible, and responsive to the people it was meant to serve. An ardent progressive, Norris convinced his fellow Nebraskans that a nonpartisan, unicameral legislature would take power from the elites and return it to the people. One House examines the forces at work behind the unicameral s creation and chronicles the lawmakers... When Nebraskans voted to trade in their bicameral, partisan legislature for a one-house, nonpartisan body in 1934, it was a revolutionary decision.... |
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102,43 zł |
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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187,09 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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102,43 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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81,90 zł |