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Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!: The Story of December 7, 1941
ISBN: 9780152164218 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On December 7, 1941, Americans were stunned to learn that Japanese forces had launched an attack on Pearl Harbor. In this engrossing and extensively researched account, Theodore Taylor examines both sides of the battle, taking a close look at the events leading up to it and providing compelling insight into the motives and operations of the brave men and women swept up in the fight.
On December 7, 1941, Americans were stunned to learn that Japanese forces had launched an attack on Pearl Harbor. In this engrossing and extensively r...
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43,43 zł |
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Subordination or Empowerment?: African-American Leadership and the Struggle for Urban Political Power
ISBN: 9780195075694 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why have Blacks won political empowerment in some cities and in others remained subordinated or had their achievements rolled back? Why do some cities have many Black leaders with multi-racial appeal while other cities have none? Subordination or Empowerment answers these questions through detailed historical examinations of the Black struggle for political power in Chicago, Gary, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. Keiser argues that electoral competition among White factions has created opportunities for Black leaders to win genuine political empowerment and avoid subordination. When...
Why have Blacks won political empowerment in some cities and in others remained subordinated or had their achievements rolled back? Why do some cities...
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286,93 zł |
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Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle
ISBN: 9780195094503 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is an illustrated history of the civil rights movement, written and designed for ages 10 to adult, that clearly and effectively brings the turbulent years of struggle to life, and gives a vivid and powerful experience of what it was like not so very long ago. Provides a brief overview of black history in the US, discussing the civil-rights movement chronologically through stories and photos.
Here is an illustrated history of the civil rights movement, written and designed for ages 10 to adult, that clearly and effectively brings the turbul...
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62,85 zł |
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A History of Us: War, Peace, and All That Jazz: 1918-1945 a History of Us Book Nine
ISBN: 9780195327236 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games a plenty. But alongside... Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
From wo... |
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82,51 zł |
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Rosa
ISBN: 9780312376024 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective. Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in... |
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43,43 zł |
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A Voice from the Civil Rights Era
ISBN: 9780313329982 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s. She was a farmer's daughter, one of eight children, who spent her summer vacations picking cotton in her father's fields. She wouldn't dare look a white person in the eye if she passed one on the street. Her high school was not integrated until 1980, 25 years after the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision stated segregated schools were illegal. Throughout her first-person memoir, Regis provides the history of the civil rights movement in an accessible manner to help... Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s. She was a farmer's daugh... |
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202,41 zł |
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Togo
ISBN: 9780399233814 / Angielski / Twarda / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Togo wasn't meant to be a sled dog. He was too feisty and independent to make a good team member, let alone a leader. But Togo is determined, and when his trainer, Leonhard Seppala, gives him a chance, he soon becomes one of the fastest sled dogs in history His skills are put to the ultimate test, though, when Seppala and his team are called on to make the now-famous run across the frozen Arctic to deliver the serum that will save Alaska from a life-threatening outbreak of diphtheria. In the style of Akiak, winner of the Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's...
Togo wasn't meant to be a sled dog. He was too feisty and independent to make a good team member, let alone a leader. But Togo is determined, and when...
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86,90 zł |
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Thirteen Days/Ninety Miles: The Cuban Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9780595156542 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,29 zł |
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Volume 1: From Colonial Times to Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780737731859 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique two-volume set combines selected pairs of documents from Greenhaven's < I>Opposing Viewpoints: American History< /I> Series with other carefully chosen primary source viewpoints to explore the rich history of disputation that has formed and informed American history. The books thus provide a comprehensive reference tool for exploring America's past.
This unique two-volume set combines selected pairs of documents from Greenhaven's < I>Opposing Viewpoints: American History< /I> Series with other car...
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297,17 zł |
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Volume 2: From Reconstruction to the Present
ISBN: 9780737731873 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique two-volume set combines selected pairs of documents from Greenhaven's < I>Opposing Viewpoints: American History< /I> Series with other carefully chosen primary source viewpoints to explore the rich history of disputation that has formed and informed American history. The books thus provide a comprehensive reference tool for exploring America's past.
This unique two-volume set combines selected pairs of documents from Greenhaven's < I>Opposing Viewpoints: American History< /I> Series with other car...
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297,17 zł |
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29 Missing: The True and Tragic Story of the Disappearance of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780870134463 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On November 10, 1975, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a giant freighter, sank with its entire crew of 29 aboard, in one of the most violent storms ever witnessed on Lake Superior. In 29 Missing, Kantar tells the "Fitz's" story from the christening in 1958 as the largest ship on the Great Lakes to the expedition in 1995 to recover the ship's bell in what proved to be a moving memorial to the lost crew. Using information from government investigative reports, the book provides a dramatic hour-by-hour account of what transpired during that terrible voyage, including dialogue from actual radio... On November 10, 1975, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a giant freighter, sank with its entire crew of 29 aboard, in one of the most violent storms ever witne... |
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73,68 zł |
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Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine
ISBN: 9781575052274 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduce young readers to history through the stories of both real and fictionalized people. By focusing on a single important episode that describes a historical event, these books engage readers' interests and imaginations. Written in a story format, each account relates events that really happened, often followed by a brief summary of the historical event to further explain the significance it had on history.
Introduce young readers to history through the stories of both real and fictionalized people. By focusing on a single important episode that describes...
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34,73 zł |
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A History of Us: War, Peace, and All That Jazz: 1918-1945 a History of Us Book Nine
ISBN: 9780195307382 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games a plenty. But alongside this post WWI spree... Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
From woman's suffrage to... |
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182,73 zł |
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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
ISBN: 9780823421954 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white man. This refusal to give up her dignity sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, a yearlong struggle, and a major victory in the civil rights movement. Source notes, map, bibliography, index.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white man. This refusal to give up her dignity sparke...
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65,16 zł |
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The Great Depression: A Nation in Distress
ISBN: 9781878668462 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Great Depression brought devastation to America's economy and its people. Excerpts from interviews, magazine and news articles, letters, and historic photographs give a vivid picture of the suffering brought on by the economy's massive breakdown. Selections from Maya Angelou and John Steinbeck's works are also included."
"The Great Depression brought devastation to America's economy and its people. Excerpts from interviews, magazine and news articles, letters, and hist...
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38,70 zł |
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Lily's Victory Garden
ISBN: 9781585364503 / Angielski / Twarda / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Lily learns about a lottery for land plots to grow Victory Gardens, she tries to apply. But when the garden club president tells her she's too young to participate, Lily refuses to give up. Illustrations.
When Lily learns about a lottery for land plots to grow Victory Gardens, she tries to apply. But when the garden club president tells her she's too yo...
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73,68 zł |
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A History of Us: All the People: Since 1945 a History of Us Book Ten
ISBN: 9780199735532 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. A History of US is a 10-volume, award-winning series about the birth and development of the United States as related by master storyteller Joy Hakim. All the People, the last volume in the series, covers US History from the end of World War II to the present. This updated fourth edition covers, for the first time, events that have taken place in the past 6 years, including the 2008 election of Barack Obama and the signficance of this election. All the...
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. A Histo...
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75,18 zł |
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A History of Us: All the People: Since 1945 a History of Us Book Ten
ISBN: 9780199735020 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
A History of US is a 10-volume, award-winning series about the birth and development of the United States as related by master storyteller Joy Hakim. All the People, the last volume in the series, covers US History from the end of World War II to the present. This updated fourth edition covers, for the first time, events that have taken place in the past 6 years, including the 2008 election of Barack Obama and the signficance of this election. All the People focuses on... Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
A History of US is a 10-... |
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182,73 zł |
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Children of the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780547480350 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose families found themselves struggling for survival . . . all Depression-era young people faced challenges like unemployed and demoralized parents, inadequate food and shelter, schools they couldn t attend because they had to go to work, schools that simply closed their doors. Even so, life had its bright...
As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children a...
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56,09 zł |
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Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights
ISBN: 9780140384321 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,78 zł |
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