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  • Coming Around
    Richard Rose
    While researching family history for his semibiographical opera Monte and Pinky, Richmond-based poet and songwriter Richard Rose came face to face with the fact of his ancestors’ involvement in the local slave trade. As a social and environmental activist, Rose became determined to explore and come to terms with the many consequences of the injustices in which his family took p...
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    11,32 €

  • The Uniqueness of Israel
    Lance Lambert
    Woven into the fabric of Jewish existence there is an undeniable uniqueness. There is bitter controversy over the subject of Israel, but time itself will establish the truth about this nation's place in God's plan. For Lance Lambert, the Lord Jesus is the key that unlocks Jewish history He is the key not only to their fall, but also to their restoration. For in spite of...
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    15,18 €

  • Tea
    Velina Hasu Houston
    It’s 1968.  Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own.  Having come from Japan at the end of World War II and landed in a small Kansas town because of her marriage to an American soldier, she is at odds with the culture that she left behind and the one in which she is trying to survive. In the midst of this turmoil is her beautiful mixed...
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    31,79 €

  • Girlhood in America
    Suzanne Sherman
    Collected stories from fifty-six women and young girls around the country reveal the times and tensions of a wider world, from a first ride in a Model T in 1911 to leading a school campaign against bullying in 2011.Girls' lives change in expected—and surprising—ways when indoor plumbing and electricity come into homes in the 1920s. Antibiotics replace mustard plasters, Worl...
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    12,78 €

  • Deep Denial
    David Billings
    Deep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.Part I takes a broad historical view, from seventeenth century Virginia through World War II., examining the origins of white supremacy as a structural feature of US society and describing its evolution over time.Part II features the Civil Rights Movement, how it emerged i...
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    20,70 €

  • The Worst Country in the World
    Patsy Trench
    “Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, 'The Worst Country in the World' is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the ’luckiest’ countries in the world.” Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine.In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow an...
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    14,92 €

  • 50 Afrikans You Must Know, Vol. 2
    Nikala Asante / Samori Camara
    This is Volume 2 of Kamali Academy's Bestselling Reading Comprehension book. This book will grow comprehension skills and knowledge about some of our Greatest Warriors.This Book is for Middle to High School Warrior Scholars 3 ...
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    14,52 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • Mamá Domitila
    Fernando Jesús Soria Laborda
    Mamá DomitilaO la sabiduría de los antepasadosMamá Domitila llega a España porque siente que su hijo la necesita, aunque él no lo sepa. Es una mujer intuitiva, que luchará para conseguir la felicidad de su familia con armas tan potentes como el amor, la inteligencia y la sabiduría que le transmitieron sus antepasados.Fernando Soria ensalza la figura de la madre a través de la p...
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    18,20 €

  • The Story Of Ms. Gertie King
    Tammy Lockamy
    Y’all, let me tell you my story!When I wuz born, I wuz given the name Gertrude Ida Rollins, but as I grew, folks be callin’ me Ms. Gertie. I wuz born in Mobile, Alabama, in the year eighteen eighty-eight. Yes, that’s a long time ago for most of y’all, but I think it’s good to be learnin’ ’bout the history that came before you were born. The days of slavery wuz twenty years in t...
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    13,70 €

  • Marie Laveau
    Jeffrey Pipes Guice
    New Orleans never reveals all her secrets. But these come close.You have walked the French Quarter, listened to the jazz, and tasted the gumbo. But have you truly felt the pulse beneath it all? The spirits, the rituals, the legends whispered from Congo Square to the tombs of St. Louis Cemetery No.1? If New Orleans has ever called to something deeper inside you, something you co...
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    33,50 €

  • Cumberland Rising
    Rickey L. Hampton
    Cumberland Rising is the extraordinary story of Ted Rhodes Golf Course in Nashville, Tenn., toldthrough the eyes of Rickey Hampton, an award-winning sports columnist.Ted Rhodes Golf Course opened in 1954 as Cumberland Golf Course for ’Negroes’ under thesupposedly ’separate but equal’ laws of the day. Of course, there was nothing equal about thenew Cumberland Golf Course. The co...
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    16,74 €

  • The Senses of Silence
    LaMar Vinson
    Port Chicago. 1944. A blast that shook the nation - and a silence that shaped a family.Lloyd Anthony McKinney survived the explosion but carried its aftermath in his body, his posture, his quiet. For decades, his story lived in gestures and shadows, passed down without words. In The Senses of Silence, his grandson follows those traces - the tension in a photograph, the absence ...
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    16,00 €

  • The Life & Times of Job Berry
    Elizabeth Eidenier
    The Life & Times of Job Berry: Hillsborough, North Carolina, 1865-1890 is a richly researched collection of essays exploring the life of Reverend Job Berry and the people, institutions, and events that shaped Hillsborough during the turbulent years following the Civil War.Born into slavery and later emerging as a respected minister, community leader, educator, and advocate, Job...
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    31,31 €

  • Punks and Skins United
    Aimar Ventsel
    Germany has one of the liveliest and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany, such as social segmentation, east-west tensions and local politics. Punk in eastern Germa...
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    33,66 €

  • The Great Refusal
    Casey Gerald
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    26,60 €

  • The Death Census of Black ’47
    Donald M. MacRaild / Lewis Darwen / Liam Kennedy
    The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fill...
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    42,41 €

  • End Game
    Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
    The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the chain of events leading up to it, arguably constitute one of the most thoroughly documented episodes in recent history. Nonetheless, most accounts have focused predominantly on high-level politics and diplomacy along with the most dramatic and photogenic public displays. End Game, a rich, sweeping account of the autumn of 1989 as it was expe...
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    38,97 €

  • Nälkätalvena
    Väinö Kataja
    Pureva tuuli pyyhkii yli lumipeitteisten peltojen ja kantaa mukanaan nälän ja epävarmuuden vallassa olevan maan hiljaisuutta. Suomen maaseudun sydämessä jokapäiväisen elämän rytmit järkkyvät armottoman nälänhädän otteessa, koetellen kokonaisen yhteisön kestävyyttä ja mielenlujuutta. Elävällä kerronnalla ja tinkimättömällä realismilla tämä suomalainen historiallinen romaani upot...
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    18,95 €

  • White Gold
    Ronald R. Switzer
    The mineral that built a nation, forgotten by history until now.You know salt as a kitchen staple, something you shake over dinner without a second thought. But what if the story of American expansion, warfare, and survival hinged on this humble white crystal more than on gold itself? From the settlement of the frontier to the desperation of the Civil War, salt shaped economies...
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    16,39 €

  • TALL TALES OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HILLS
    Ken Fowler
    In the hills of West Virginia, the past never stays buried.Beneath the mist-covered ridges and deep Appalachian hollers lies a history shaped by coal, conflict, catastrophe, folklore, and extraordinary resilience.In Tall Tales of the West Virginia Hills, Dr. Ken Fowler journeys into the stories that helped shape the Mountain State, preserving the history and storytelling tradit...
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    30,82 €

  • Four Days of Terror
    J. Mitchell
    Four days. A disputed police encounter. A manhunt. A city overtaken by racial violence.In July 1900, New Orleans entered four days of crisis after a late-night encounter between police and Robert Charles, a Black laborer and advocate of Black emigration. Gunfire left Charles and a police officer wounded. Hours later, two officers were dead, Charles was on the run, and authoriti...
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    12,95 €

  • The Jews and the Third Reich
    Samuel M. Goldstein
    A Definitive, Accessible, and Deeply Human History of the Twentieth Century’s Darkest Hour.The Holocaust was not an inevitable natural disaster, nor did it begin with the construction of gas chambers. It was a human event, designed by human minds, and executed by a highly educated, culturally sophisticated nation. How did a modern democracy collapse so rapidly into a totalitari...
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    27,85 €

  • From Covenant to Kingship
    SALAH EL SAYED
    From Covenant to Kingship: Journey of Transformation from Formation to Establishment of State in History of Children of IsraelThis book presents a comprehensive historical study of the Children of Israel, from the divine covenant to the establishment of their kingdom. It traces their journey through formation, trials, and transformation into a structured state.Based on authenti...
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    10,43 €

  • The Birth of the Zionist Movement
    Daniel Rosenberg / Muhammad M
    How did Zionism develop from an emerging nineteenth-century political idea into one of the most influential and debated movements of the modern age?The Birth of the Zionist Movement offers an accessible historical account of Zionism’s origins, development and lasting global impact. Beginning with the experiences of Jewish communities in Europe, the book examines how persecution...
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    20,24 €

  • The Dirt They Paid For
    AJR
    In the quiet citrus country of central Florida, a Black community built something that was never supposed to belong to them: land, homes, businesses, churches, and a political voice.Then came Election Day.On November 2, 1920, Black citizens in Ocoee, Florida, attempted to exercise their constitutional right to vote. What followed was a night of violence, arson, killings, and fo...
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    12,71 €

  • Resilience in Action
    Robert Hall
    Resilience in Action is about the indomitable human spirit in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.It follows ten individuals separated by more than three thousand years of history who confronted - and ultimately rose above - the defining challenges of their age.Each comes from the politico-military sphere, familiar with the demands of conflict, leadership and adversity. T...
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    9,45 €

  • Fakes, Frauds, and F*ckers-A History of History’s Greatest Liars
    Craig Gerard Ferguson
    *Fakes, Frauds, and F*ckers* is a rollicking, unflinching tour through thirty-one of history’s greatest liars: the impostors, hoaxers, forgers, and swindlers who convinced kings, scientists, bankers, and entire nations to believe things that were never true. Along the way you’ll meet the insurance man who built his own Stonehenge, the forger who fooled the Nazis with a fake Ve...
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    24,17 €


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