ilość książek w kategorii: 62
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The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir
ISBN: 9781623543501 / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,79 zł |
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
ISBN: 9781250034274 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off--when a Constitutional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol was ratified, it was hailed as the end of public drunkenness, alcoholism, and a host of other social ills related to booze. Instead, it began a decade of lawlessness, when children smuggled (and drank) illegal alcohol, the most upright citizens casually broke the law, and a host... It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to ou... |
cena:
66,58 zł |
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To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9781250040626 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded the grounds of the Capitol to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. Among the masses was Charlayne Hunter-Gault. She had flown from South Africa for the occasion, to witness what was for many the culmination of the long struggle for civil rights in the United States. In this compelling personal history, she uses the event to look back on her own involvement in the civil rights movement, as one of two black students who... A personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. On January 20, 2009, 1.8 milli... |
cena:
62,14 zł |
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The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue
ISBN: 9781250044235 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. Now a major motion picture from Disney, starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck. On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod... This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias a... |
cena:
35,49 zł |
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The Freedom Summer Murders
ISBN: 9781338115895 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In June of 1964, three idealistic young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. They were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to the South. Their disappearance and murder caused a national uproar and was one of the most significant incidents of the Civil Rights Movement, and contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Freedom Summer Murders is the first book for young people to take a comprehensive look at the brutal murders of James Chaney, Andrew... In June of 1964, three idealistic young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. They were trying to register Af...
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48,81 zł |
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
ISBN: 9780147512161 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide.
As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to... A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide.
As the youngest ... |
cena:
48,81 zł |
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The Concept of America
ISBN: 9780578178318 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world would not be the same if there were no America. Americans have sacrificed the blood of our youth to insure liberty and freedom whenever and wherever such God-Given rights are challenged by tyrants, dictators and countries that wish to impose their will on others. From America, which has lead the world in unique and innovative discoveries, inventions, and means of production, we have been able to achieve unbelievable levels of comfort, health, safety, and manufacturing/agricultural capabilities, even to the point of landing men on the moon. We gladly shared all this with the rest... The world would not be the same if there were no America. Americans have sacrificed the blood of our youth to insure liberty and freedom whenever a... |
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106,38 zł |
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Tommy: The Gun That Changed America
ISBN: 9781250115409 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fascinating and topical nonfiction story of how one gun changed American courtrooms, streets, and homes, told for a YA audience by award-winning author Karen Blumenthal John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds--but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon.... The fascinating and topical nonfiction story of how one gun changed American courtrooms, streets, and homes, told for a YA audience by award-win... |
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66,58 zł |
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Expedition to the Exposition - 1915
ISBN: 9781480911000 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1915 Cynthia Canfield Barnes' grandparents took their six sons by train from Oklahoma to the San Francisco Exposition celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. These brothers' stories were always a source of "discussion," as each differently experienced any given event. Using her grandmother's postcards collected on this trip and the stories her sons told, Cynthia created this book of fiction based on fact. The events happened, but not in the same way for each one.
In 1915 Cynthia Canfield Barnes' grandparents took their six sons by train from Oklahoma to the San Francisco Exposition celebrating the opening of... |
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102,15 zł |
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You Are There! Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
ISBN: 9781493839285 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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62,14 zł |
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You Are There! March on Washington, August 28, 1963
ISBN: 9781493839292 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
62,14 zł |
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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
ISBN: 9780451478726 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. The kidnapping and violent murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 was and is a uniquely American tragedy. Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi, when he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Three days later, his brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. In clear, vivid detail Chris Crowe investigates the before-and-aftermath...Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of ... |
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48,81 zł |
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Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
ISBN: 9781101931462 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,67 zł |
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Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells
ISBN: 9781937306601 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
59,01 zł |
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Tell It to the Future: Have I got a Story For You...About the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780967625683 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,13 zł |
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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
ISBN: 9781644210093 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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177,66 zł |
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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
ISBN: 9781644210109 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
96,48 zł |
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Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown V. Board of Education (Scholastic Focus)
ISBN: 9781338592832 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
84,35 zł |
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A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War
ISBN: 9780525644293 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
112,62 zł |
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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
ISBN: 9781250149015 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
88,79 zł |