ilość książek w kategorii: 769
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Free to Fly: Wisdom for the Seasons in a Woman's Life
ISBN: 9780979238529 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inner strength of women that causes them to stand with confidence when thier wings have been broken is beautiful. Free to Fly: Wisdom for the Seasons in a Woman's Life is a celebration of this strength. The contributors to this collection have opened thier hearts to expose you to experiences that could have broken them, yet they emerged Free to Fly with a testimony. These writings will provoke discussion, inspire you to dream and encourage you to ponder your own freedom.
The inner strength of women that causes them to stand with confidence when thier wings have been broken is beautiful. Free to Fly: Wisdom for the Seas...
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63,11 zł |
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Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: 9780739122532 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries traces the historiography of literary and sociopolitical movements of the Black Diaspora in the writings of key political figures. It comparatively and dialogically examines such movements as Pan-Africanism, Garveyism, Indigenisme, New Negro Renaissance, Negritude, and Afrocriollo. To study the key ideologies that emerged as collective black thought within the Diaspora, particular attention is given to the philosophies of Black Nationalism, Black Internationalism, and Universal Humanism. Each...
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries traces the historiography of literary and sociopo...
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520,67 zł |
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Trod the Stony Road: A Young Man's Journey from the Mississippi to the Charles
ISBN: 9781419671272 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph F. West grew up amid a hopelessness that defined his childhood: the obstacles of poverty and violence, low expectations, and limited dreams. What was it that drove him, as a child, toward achievement, that urged him beyond depression to develop into a man certain of his potential and recognizing a future of success and accomplishment? In his stirring and poetic memoir, Trod the Stony Road: A Young Man's Journey from the Mississippi to the Charles, West shares his inspiring journey from small-town poverty to the Harvard School of Public Health. Along the way, he lost hope and found it,...
Joseph F. West grew up amid a hopelessness that defined his childhood: the obstacles of poverty and violence, low expectations, and limited dreams. Wh...
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30,98 zł |
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My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: 9781604442069 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,32 zł |
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A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader
ISBN: 9781604738636 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the course of his brief career, Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) became an important critical voice for African American scholarship as well as a widely read chronicler of the African American gay experience. His novels Trouble the Water and Vanishing Rooms still receive considerable attention, as do his collections of poetry and his major work of criticism, Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature. In A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader, scholars Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride have collected, for the first time in a single... Over the course of his brief career, Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) became an important critical voice for African American scholarship as well as a wide... |
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213,13 zł |
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I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays
ISBN: 9780822347576 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of Sonia Sanchez's plays along with a historicizing introduction and critical essays on Sanchez's work.
A collection of Sonia Sanchez's plays along with a historicizing introduction and critical essays on Sanchez's work.
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418,93 zł |
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The Nella Larsen Collection; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, The Wrong Man, Sanctuary
ISBN: 9781935785750 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Nella Larsen Collection is comprised of five Nella Larsen fiction including; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, The Wrong Man, and Sanctuary. Quicksand, Larsen's first novel, tells the story of Helga Crane who is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable with any of her white-skinned relatives, Helga travels America, visits Denmark searching for people she feels at home with. In Passing Clare and Irene are childhood friends who lose touch when Clare's father dies and...
The Nella Larsen Collection is comprised of five Nella Larsen fiction including; Quicksand, Passing, Freedom, The Wrong Man, and Sanctuary. Quicksand,...
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95,68 zł |
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T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928
ISBN: 9780813035482 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Alexander's important documentary edition restores T. Thomas Fortune's central place in African American thought and activism during the age of Jim Crow. His well-executed edition is essential for all college, university, and public library collections. --John David Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Fortune is one of the most significant figures in American history, not just African American history. Alexander has created a reader that permits all of us to hear from one of the most remarkable and contemporary-sounding voices black America has produced."--James P. Danky,... "Alexander's important documentary edition restores T. Thomas Fortune's central place in African American thought and activism during the age of Jim C...
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159,29 zł |
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Big Mama: The World Is a Playground--Enjoy It!
ISBN: 9781432711924 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big Mama
The World is a Playground - Enjoy it! "A harmonious life is a balance of respect for oneself and others, family involvement, loyal and wholesome friends, spirituality, a healthy social life, and participation in the community in which one chooses to live." -Gwendolyn Jevita Cheatham, Ph.D. This book is a compilation of the author's original quotes, her reflections on life, and her poetry. The literary content, herein, encompasses a variety of sentiments--from "Big Mama" offering advice to poetry that touches one's heart. The author shares a plethora of incredible... Big Mama
The World is a Playground - Enjoy it! "A harmonious life is a balance of respect for oneself and others, family involvement, loyal an... |
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79,99 zł |
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The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
ISBN: 9780307275967 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form. The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews t... |
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75,98 zł |
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Saved for a Season
ISBN: 9780979041402 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High school classmates reconnect at a wedding in the small town in Florida. Once grounded in friendship and faith, each have new struggles that threaten their friendships and marriages. These struggles that have the promise of leading to self-destruction. Will Lela, Jake, Tristan and Jeff make the choice to live and love without fear?
High school classmates reconnect at a wedding in the small town in Florida. Once grounded in friendship and faith, each have new struggles that threat...
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44,32 zł |
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Election: : My Ride With Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781440447723 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During this election Barack Obama has taken a campaign and built a movement from the ground up. Omar Dyer was the foundation and the base of this movement. Fresh off the tour called: A Literacy Tour on America: "A Poem for Joy and A Poem for Pain;" plus, an 8 time nominated Award finalist: two-time Nobel in Literature nominated to the third rounds of nominations - down to the creator of parts of the speech: Yes We Can. When Barack made is race relations' speech: Yes We can was the slogan.
During this election Barack Obama has taken a campaign and built a movement from the ground up. Omar Dyer was the foundation and the base of this move...
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79,74 zł |
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Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes of the Dirty Blues
ISBN: 9781905091898 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the Delta blues, Chicago blues, Memphis blues and Texas blues. Called "the Devil's music," the stories of the blues goes beyond jump turns, slow drag ditties, reel, jigs, minstrel songs, ragtime, or the buzzard lope. These lyrics connected to these stories celebrate heartache, separation, distrust, betrayal, lust, but they promise a healing love of revival and renewal. It's a celebration of the present, of the now, and it's totally mad at the past and suspicious of the future. But who are kidding? Let us tell the truth. Really, the themes of...
Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the Delta blues, Chicago blues, Memphis blues and Texas blues. Called "the Devil's music," the sto...
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88,98 zł |
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The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones
ISBN: 9780807869536 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850s. This version, published in 1885, includes not only Jones's account of his childhood and young adult life as a slave in North Carolina, but also a long additional section in which Jones describes his experiences as a minister in North Carolina, while still enslaved, and then on the abolitionist lecture circuit in Massachusetts and the Maritime Provinces of Canada after he stowed away on a ship bound for New York in 1849. The narrative's most prominent focus is...
Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850s. This version, pu...
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95,73 zł |
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The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina
ISBN: 9780807869550 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a "Christian" master and mistress. He offers a scathing review of white religious hypocrisy, criticizing those who could not see the contradiction between worshiping a merciful God on Sundays and holding slaves under inhumane conditions. Jackson details his escape from slavery into Massachusetts as a ship stowaway...
In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He sp...
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95,73 zł |
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Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself
ISBN: 9780807869598 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. The son of a slave and a white man, Brown recounts his years in servitude, his cruel masters, and the brutal whippings he and those around him received. He provides a detailed description of his failed attempt to escape with his mother; after their capture,...
By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it ...
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159,29 zł |
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The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
ISBN: 9780821420072 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At long last, critics, scholars, and lovers of fiction can experience the full range and imaginative powers of the collected novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906). In these four novels, readers can explore the characters, landscape, atmosphere, and visionary sensibilities of this preeminent African American writer.
In the prime of his literary career, between 1898 and 1902, Dunbar published "The Uncalled, " "The Love of Landry," "The Fanatics," and "The Sport of the Gods." Despite widespread critical interest, the novels have been largely subordinated to his short stories and poetry.... At long last, critics, scholars, and lovers of fiction can experience the full range and imaginative powers of the collected novels of Paul Laurence D...
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138,09 zł |
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Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (a Critical Biography)
ISBN: 9780984122899 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Waddell Takara writes with an uncanny ability to dissect the humanity of Frank Marshall DavisNjournalist, editor, poet, labor activist, and Renaissance man of the Black Chicago RenaissanceNand to explore the myths and legacy that he left to the world.
Waddell Takara writes with an uncanny ability to dissect the humanity of Frank Marshall DavisNjournalist, editor, poet, labor activist, and Renaissanc...
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84,21 zł |
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The Gathering Place: Ordinary Women; Extraordinary Lives
ISBN: 9781432770211 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,55 zł |
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Syrup Sandwich: a life of measured progression
ISBN: 9781448616503 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the storytelling tradition of Ellison & McCourt, with his first effort, Devlon E Waddell offers a collection of captions chronicling a creative life in process. Using essays, short stories and some poetry as the foundation for this work, he captures the essence of his own 'coming of age' tale. Witty, heart-rending and deeply honest, Syrup Sandwich: a life of measured progression offers the young adult a snapshot into the potential pitfalls & promise of the maturation process. And, for the more seasoned reader, this work breathes an air of nostalgia into life's doldrums.
In the storytelling tradition of Ellison & McCourt, with his first effort, Devlon E Waddell offers a collection of captions chronicling a creative lif...
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35,24 zł |