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  • Celebrating Love Across Borders
    Blaze X. Maverick
    Embark on a captivating journey through the intricate tapestry of love as we unravel the pages of 'Celebrating Love Across Borders: Controversies and Criticisms Worldwide.' This thought-provoking exploration transcends cultural boundaries, delving into the universal complexities of love’s global tapestry. Prepare to be swept away as we navigate through diverse customs, time-hon...
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    12,68 €

  • Shackled Again?
    Tony Watkins
    Tony Watkins, in his second book, brings us these powerful women who are in this incredible collection of first-hand accounts. Each have a unique fingerprint within the Civil Rights Movement. Their contributions to this country are impeccable, and it is time that we all learn who they are. In this historically accurate work, Tony, through interviews, recordings, and transcripti...
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    30,61 €

  • With Many Miracles
    Israel Cappell
    On April 27, 1944, Polish-born Israel Cappell was awakened by the dreadful knock on the door that he and his family had feared since they began to hide from the Nazis in their adopted city of Brussels two years earlier. Israel’s sister Fanny managed to flee, one of many consequential miracles that shape this riveting memoir of Holocaust survival.Israel takes the reader on a fut...
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    15,19 €

  • Tarnopol Volume (Ternopil, Ukraine)
    Moshe Kutten
    Tarnopol is a city in western Ukraine roughly 80 miles east of Lviv. During its history, it changed hands several times. It was annexed to Austria in 1772 as part of Galicia and remained under Austrian rule until 1918 when the empire collapsed. During World War I the city passed from German and Austrian forces to Russia several times. For a brief time at the end of 1918, it was...
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    49,33 €

  • Resistance Girl Renée
    Ruth Uzrad
    She will do anything to bring her family back together.Berlin, 1939. When her beloved hometown of Berlin falls under Nazi rule, 14-year-old Ruth takes her younger sisters by the hand and boards a train bound for Belgium. Courageous and resourceful, she vows to do all she can to keep the three of them safe and together.But as the war progresses swiftly through Europe, even Belgi...
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    22,59 €

  • The Pack Sweeps on Together
    John E. Turner
    Blackheath Harriers (now Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC) was founded in 1869, making it one of the oldest running clubs in the world. It’s Club magazine, the Gazette, was first produced in 1898. Following the success of his first book, ’Hurrah for the Squares Entwinéd’, piecing together extracts from the first 50 years (1898-1948), and his second book, ’The Badge we all hold ...
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    16,95 €

  • Men and masculinities in modern Britain
    Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men’s lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy in contemporary Britain. ...
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    42,57 €

  • The Politics of Safety
    Shannon King
    For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black 'thugs' throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. A...
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    126,51 €

  • The Politics of Safety
    Shannon King
    For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black 'thugs' throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. A...
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    37,65 €

  • Addressing Social Problems
    Sara Towe Horsfall
    Addressing Social Problems: Advocacy at Work’ offers invaluable learning tools, including study questions for comprehension reinforcement, thought-provoking questions to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, a glossary of key terms, and a research worksheet for investigating advocacy organizations. It is a call to action, as well as an invitation to analyze social issues ...
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    49,80 €

  • Addressing Social Problems
    Sara Towe Horsfall
    Addressing Social Problems: Advocacy at Work’ offers invaluable learning tools, including study questions for comprehension reinforcement, thought-provoking questions to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, a glossary of key terms, and a research worksheet for investigating advocacy organizations. It is a call to action, as well as an invitation to analyze social issues ...
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    59,48 €

  • Gorchest Gwilym Bevan
    T. Gwynn Jones / Thomas Gwynn Jones
    (Classic Welsh novel by T. Gwynn Jones)'Roedd llais torcalonnus Mrs. Tomos, a’i geiriau gwylltion, ’Dacw fo’r dyn starfiodd fy ngŵr i; i lawr â fo!’ yn swnio yn eu clustiau’n barhaus...'Mae Gwilym Bevan ar fin taflu’i hun i ddyfroedd y Tafwys pan gaiff ei achub gan ddieithryn, a chael ail gyfle ar fywyd. Dychwela i Gymru a chael gwaith yn y chwarel; a diolch i’w ddysg a’i hyfe...
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    19,35 €

  • Was I Your First?
    Derk R. Mattocks
    Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead of shying away, he learned to challenge the circumstances and not let them dictate how he would live his life. Of course, Derk would say while he does not consider himself a fighter, there was something innate that led him to the top of a career field that was ...
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    28,38 €

  • Was I Your First?
    Derk R. Mattocks
    Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead of shying away, he learned to challenge the circumstances and not let them dictate how he would live his life. Of course, Derk would say while he does not consider himself a fighter, there was something innate that led him to the top of a career field that was ...
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    24,65 €

  • Black Africa and the US Art World in the Early 20th Century
    P. A. Mullins
    This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939. ...
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    158,19 €

  • Únics
    Alba Olcina / Carolina Vives
    conèixer la discapacitat intel.lectual a través d’una bonica història real, d’uns personatges entranyables amb valors incalculables. Ells són els protagonistes d’una aventura plena d’emocions. Et faran somriure i t’atraparan per la seva capacitat de lluita i de superació. ...
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    13,47 €

  • Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
    Tom Navon
    An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question. ...
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    126,57 €

  • Poisoning the Wells
    In the United States, antisemitism has once again risen, and is spread in all our major institutions and political and cultural venues.  In a series of essays by leading scholars, this work provides a detailed analysis of contemporary antisemitism and examines its origins, development, and alarming implications for the future. ...
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    91,98 €

  • The Heartbeat of an Intentional Community
    Rhoda Walter
    This memoir describes the underlying spirit of the small intentional community that collectively participated in writing the New York Times best-selling manual for living a low-consumption, high-fulfillment lifestyle, Your Money or Your Life. It describes this close-knit group, known as the New Road Map Foundation, through the eyes of one of its members. It is the story of the ...
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    9,31 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    39,19 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    35,32 €

  • Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863
    Friedman Rebecca / Protsenko Nikolay
    ENGThis is the first book-length study of masculinity in Imperial Russia. By looking at official and unofficial life at universities across the Russian empire, this project offers a picture of the complex processes through which gender ideologies were forged and negotiated in the Nineteenth Century. Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 demonstrates how g...
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    41,25 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    127,19 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    38,33 €

  • The common writer in modern history
    Martyn Lyons
    This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ’ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical areas, historical periods and scholarly disciplines. ...
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    169,60 €

  • The Evolution Of Religion An Anthropological Study
    Farnell L. R.
    'The Evolution of Religion' is a substantial work with the aid of the British classical student, Lewis Richard Farnell (L. R. Farnell), This pioneering book explores the development and evolution of religious ideals and practices across specific civilizations and time intervals. Farnell’s complete look at delves into the origins of spiritual concept, rituals, and establishments...
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    12,17 €

  • The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
    Mária M. Kovács
    The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining-and discriminating again...
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    82,37 €

  • The Trouble with Kenya
    Lawi Sultan Njeremani
    The McKenzian Blueprint.Some lines are short; some lines are long. All lines are variable. Some appear parallel but connect in latency. Some appear linear. When held against the light they reveal dependence or independence; Freedom or constraints; Empowerment or strife; Subjugation or Justice.The Trouble with Kenya is a microcosm of any given country’s social and justice pillar...
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    21,48 €

  • The East Coasters
    Lois Nyman
    The major standard history of the first wave of settlers who arrived in Tasmania’s East Coast between 1821 and 1831 and who developed the wide area.First published in 1990 but long unavailable, it follows with humour and historical authenticity the pioneering struggles of the first settlers, their interaction with each other, their encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers, an...
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    40,66 €

  • The East Coasters
    Lois Nyman
    The major standard history of the first wave of settlers who arrived in Tasmania’s East Coast between 1821 and 1831 and who developed the wide area.First published in 1990 but long unavailable, it follows with humour and historical authenticity the pioneering struggles of the first settlers, their interaction with each other, their encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers, an...
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    71,58 €


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