ilość książek w kategorii: 735
These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship
ISBN: 9780813060224 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Powerfully connects the history of war and peace with the long black freedom struggle in the United States, illuminating as never before the relationship between war and citizenship in the African American experience. Timothy Patrick McCarthy, coeditor of The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition
A rich, provocative compilation that will stimulate important discussions on African Americans fraught relationship with the military. Venetria Patton, editor of Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature From enslaved people who... Powerfully connects the history of war and peace with the long black freedom struggle in the United States, illuminating as never before the relations...
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547,10 zł |
The Negro in Illinois: The Wpa Papers
ISBN: 9780252080937 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration programs. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro in Illinois employed Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine Dunham, Fenton Johnson, Frank Yerby, Richard Durham, and other major black writers living in Chicago.
The authors chronicled the African American experience in Illinois from the beginnings of slavery to the Great Migration. Individual chapters discuss various aspects of... The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration ...
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122,04 zł |
Granta 131: The Map Is Not the Territory
ISBN: 9781905881871 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories. Ludmila Ulitskaya's diary of cancer treatment in Russia and Israel Raja Shehadeh on emptying his mother's house in Ramallah Janine di Giovanni remembers Iraq before and after the American invasion Charles Glass on the jihadist occupation of an Armenian village in Syria Fiction by Jesse Ball, Kevin Canty, Jon Fosse,...
This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired unde...
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72,96 zł |
Verbatim: Living, Loving, Surviving
ISBN: 9781484819548 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,10 zł |
I Am a Youngstar and I Love Me Some Me!: Positivity Poems! Young Adult Version
ISBN: 9781482397253 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I am a YoungStar and I Love Me Some Me Positivity Poems for Young Adults book contains 50] poems for youth to help them process their experiences as they approach adulthood. It will help them sort out their feelings and make sense of what can be understood. It will help them cope with the difficulties we all face. It will positively improve their spirits, minds, and bodies with inspiration and personal growth Encourage OUR YOUTH They all have gifts to share with the world Popular Tameka has a talent for getting along well with all of the girls in class, even those in tight cliques. She...
I am a YoungStar and I Love Me Some Me Positivity Poems for Young Adults book contains 50] poems for youth to help them process their experiences as ...
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40,36 zł |
Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America
ISBN: 9781627200585 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I want you to be fully present in your own life, a change agent who is not afraid to dare to be who you are. I wonder though, my dear sweet child, how I can mother you when I have not been able to mother myself? How can I give you the tools to survive this brutal world when I have not been able to craft these tools to save myself? How can I stand up for you when my whole life has been spent trying so hard to stand up for myself? I am not perfect. I am flawed. I am pregnant. And in nine months, I will be your mother." And so begins Karsonya Wise Whitehead's first letter to her oldest son. For...
"I want you to be fully present in your own life, a change agent who is not afraid to dare to be who you are. I wonder though, my dear sweet child, ho...
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72,96 zł |
Granta 132: Possession
ISBN: 9781905881895 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in Texas; Molly Brodak remembers her father, a compulsive gambler and failed bank robber; and Bella Pollen describes being visited - repeatedly - by an incubus. Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory - and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits. Also featuring fiction by Marc Bojanowski, Patrick deWitt, Greg Jackson, Daisy Jacobs, Alan Rossi, Hanan al-Shaykh and Deb... In this issue, Oliver Bullough travels to Ukraine and Crimea in the wake of revolution; Kerry Howley writes about cage fighting and giving birth in... |
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72,96 zł |
And This is For You....
ISBN: 9781514331675 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A compilation of stories from different women going through similar pain and their individual outcomes.
A compilation of stories from different women going through similar pain and their individual outcomes.
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31,34 zł |
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century
ISBN: 9780190461973 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels, and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the aesthetic, sensory, and emotional legacies of petroleum, from its rise to the preeminent modern fossil fuel during World War I through the current era of so-called "Tough Oil." LeMenager explores the uncomfortable, mixed feelings produced by oil's omnipresence in cultural artifacts such as books, films, hamburgers, and Aspirin...
Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil indu...
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167,71 zł |
Black Nationhood: Resurgence of African Consciousness
ISBN: 9781517488925 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HOTEP BELOVED Caution, this Pocket Edition Book "BLACK NATIONHOOD" perhaps, contains information that may stimulate independent thinking. We must endeavor to embark upon this life altering voyage of The Resurgence of African Awareness and African Consciousness and culture. Some of you are many moons into this journey. But, for some, this journey will be challenging, as taking a final exam, while standing on one leg and a barking dog in the background. For others, it will be like trying to walk on a broken leg without assistance of a pair of crutches. In any event, a successful completion is...
HOTEP BELOVED Caution, this Pocket Edition Book "BLACK NATIONHOOD" perhaps, contains information that may stimulate independent thinking. We must end...
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51,23 zł |
Becoming Midnight: Rise of the Black Vampires
ISBN: 9780996829601 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Midnight: Rise of the Black Vampires is a modern, multicultural twist on vampire stories of old Ambrosia Wharton is a little faster and a little stronger than her classmates. She has all the problems of the average teenager, except for her daily need to consume blood. Ambrosia Wharton, Amber, is a vampire. Vampires have remained hidden from humans for good reason, and it's not easy to keep a growing race of blood drinking beings secret in the middle of a metropolis. Amber loves her father, but his odd habits have always... Midnight: Rise of the Black Vampires is a modern, multicultural twist on vampire stories of old Am... |
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70,86 zł |
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
ISBN: 9780822361961 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube, reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, discussing visual artist Kara Walker or writer Clarence Major, or analyzing the ties between Afro-futurism, Black feminism, and social movements, Tate's resounding critical insights...
Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black...
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124,33 zł |
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
ISBN: 9780822361800 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past thirty years of Tate's influential work. Whether interviewing Miles Davis or Ice Cube, reviewing an Azealia Banks mixtape or Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, discussing visual artist Kara Walker or writer Clarence Major, or analyzing the ties between Afro-futurism, Black feminism, and social movements, Tate's resounding critical insights...
Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black...
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493,47 zł |
Take My Breath Away: Orlando Nights
ISBN: 9780692723128 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Don't wait to exhale... De'Lure will take your breath away" Ex-high school football star Keldrick "K.C." Cole finds himself trapped in a relationship that used to mean the world to him. His high school sweetheart and the mother of his child, Whitney Powell has always been his heart and spine. Back then everybody knew K.C. was going to the NFL. But at the end of his senior year he suffered a bone shattering injury that put an abrupt halt to all his dreams of NFL stardom. After dropping out of high school, and serving a short prison term K.C. came home to Whitney. Ever since he was sixteen...
"Don't wait to exhale... De'Lure will take your breath away" Ex-high school football star Keldrick "K.C." Cole finds himself trapped in a relationship...
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58,58 zł |
Take My Breath Away 2: When Love Calls
ISBN: 9780692723180 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Steamy unforgivable sex, Ignited by Lies, Blood, Money, and True Love can only lead to one thing... Breathtaking Drama" NFL superstar Keldrick "Kool Hands" Cole has had everything he ever dreamed of over the course of the past five years, except true love. On the brink of some unforeseen money issues, K.C. is offered a multi-million-dollar check to relinquish custody of his five-year-old son, KJ. With his career possibly coming to an end soon, he's worried about securing his family's future. All K.C. truly wants is faith, family, and unconditional love. The two women he loves most, Whitney...
"Steamy unforgivable sex, Ignited by Lies, Blood, Money, and True Love can only lead to one thing... Breathtaking Drama" NFL superstar Keldrick "Kool ...
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Take My Breath Away 3: Save Me From My Past
ISBN: 9780692727324 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Love's have a Legacy all their own..." Keldrick Cole and Whitney Powell's lives have never been perfect together or apart. K.C. is married to Cameron Jiles and Whitney hopes to be Charlie's wife soon, but the unfaithfulness amongst them all is at an all-time high. In spite of them, their daughter Jazemene Cole is growing into a beautiful young woman blessed and cursed with a loving heart. Sometimes the most beautiful faces are just masks for the most tortured souls. With all of her academic and athletic success Jaze has still struggled with the thought that her father's NFL fame and fortune...
"Love's have a Legacy all their own..." Keldrick Cole and Whitney Powell's lives have never been perfect together or apart. K.C. is married to Cameron...
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67,59 zł |
The Tar Baby: A Global History
ISBN: 9780691172637 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have surfaced in many other places throughout the world, including Nigeria, Brazil, Corsica, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines. The Tar Baby offers a fresh analysis of this deceptively simple story about a fox, a rabbit, and a doll made of... A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was ... |
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149,94 zł |
Serendipity's Trace
ISBN: 9781537146720 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teodrose Fikre is a visionary author who is passionate about justice for all irrespective of our differences. Teodorse is named after and is the grandson five generations removed of Emperor Atse Teodrose II-the greatest king and visionary leader of Ethiopia. Teodrose writes of the hope possible in unity while addressing the very issues that lead to the scale of inequity that is pervasive in our society. Born in Ethiopia the same year Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in 1974, Teodrose Fikre is a prolific writer whose speech idea was incorporated into Barack Obama's South Carolina primary...
Teodrose Fikre is a visionary author who is passionate about justice for all irrespective of our differences. Teodorse is named after and is the grand...
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72,10 zł |
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
ISBN: 9781496813077 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy of these collaborations or conversations between Bambara (1939-1995) and her interviewers provides an excellent and necessary resource for those interested in scholarly approaches to her fiction, especially her novels The Salt Eaters and the posthumously published Those Bones Are Not My Child, and her acclaimed short story collection Gorilla, My Love. The collection reveals the passion, humor, and real-life... Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and fi... |
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186,67 zł |
Brown Skin and the Brand New Day
ISBN: 9781498489164 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brown Skin and the Brand New Day: A Poet's Renaissance is the third volume in Terry's series of poetic reflections and brings his love of poetry, art, music, Black culture, and God full circle. In this collection, the rhymes flow freely and love is the message throughout. His purpose is to inspire, educate, and entertain, while celebrating a life-long commitment to living and believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.Terry E. Carter is a professional writer who's been developing his craft for decades. He is also a classically-schooled poet whose literary influences range from Shakespeare to the...
Brown Skin and the Brand New Day: A Poet's Renaissance is the third volume in Terry's series of poetic reflections and brings his love of poetry, art,...
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74,51 zł |