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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 €

  • 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 €

  • Helter Skelter
    Terence A Newman
    Helter Skelter is the story of one man’s improbable journey down the long, twisting slide of English history - from Alfred the Great at the very top to a housing estate in Leicester. With curiosity as his compass and humour as his safety rail, Terry Newman sets out to discover where he really comes from, and how a thousand years of chaos, conquest, scandal, migration, and sheer...
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    13,43 €

  • James Madison’s World
    John T Schlotterbeck
    How James Madison and the milieu of the Virginia countryside he called home shaped one anotherJames Madison’s World is a time-lapse of life in two central Virginia counties that captures two centuries of continuity and change. From the time that the first white settlers arrived in the early 1700s to the early 1900s some things--like agricultural cycles and the rhythm of life on...
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    49,52 €

  • Contradictory Cookbooks
    Ellen Barth
    Contradictory Cookbooks offers a historical exploration of how women merged their voluntary, professional, and political interests through DIY cookbook publishing. Although cookbooks are often associated with the domestic and traditional, Barth reveals that the production of community cookbooks in the second half of the twentieth century was increasingly taken up by working wom...
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    33,73 €

  • Hard Women, Hard War
    Laura Mammina
    Hard Women, Hard War establishes a new interpretation of Southern women’s wartime behavior by examining their interactions with the Federal army. From the very beginning of the war to the bitter end of the conflict, women negotiated military policy toward civilians, motivated by their political loyalties, which were grounded in their ideas of home. Free and enslaved Black women...
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    33,59 €

  • A History of La Sal, Utah
    Lee Bennett
    Since 1878 the La Sal area has attracted settlers, but its path from settlement to community has been anything but straightforward. Along the way, ranching became an important and enduring part of life in the area. Dry farming held great promise but proved difficult to sustain. Mining brought booms, and with each one, new occupations and new people.The community assembled aroun...
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    12,75 €

  • The African Called Carr
    Velma Maia Thomas
    In April 1866, Charles Carr entered the Freedman’s Savings and Trust in Savannah, Georgia, to open an account. With the help of an agent, he completed the commonly asked questions on the application. His answers were most intriguing and, in at least one regard, perhaps like none other. According to Carr, he was born in the Congo and, like his father and sister, arrived in the U...
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    29,11 €

  • The Future of Humanity (Third edition)
    Zhouying Jin
    From the perspective of sublating Eastern and Western cultures and civilizations, this approach argues for the urgency of industrial civilization’s transformation; based on the dimension of civilization, it explores the future trajectories of humanity, the world, and human civilization; it puts forward for the first time the concepts of 'global civilization' and 'great civiliza...
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    64,49 €

  • The Transatlantic Slave Trade
    Bill Tinglin / Dennis Humphrey
    The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Africa, the Middle Passage, Slavery in the Americas, Resistance, Abolition, and the Road to ReconciliationDiscover the history of one of humanity’s most consequential systems of exploitation in this comprehensive, richly illustrated examination of the transatlantic slave trade and its enduring impact on the modern world.Written by Dennis Humphrey ...
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    66,39 €

  • Astronomy Before the Telescope
    Nicholas T. Bobrovnikoff
    Before the telescope, humanity still reached for the stars. You know the broad strokes of astronomical history, but how much has been lost in translation, filtered through secondhand summaries and Western-centric narratives? The original sources, written in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and other ancient languages, hold a richer and more surprising story than most modern histories dare...
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    11,62 €

  • 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 €


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