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  • Holy Enemies of Freedom
    A.J. Deus
    Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare how anti-Semitism finds its roots in deep-seated cultural trauma.The German Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Church. He wanted nothing more than to see the Jewish population exiled or terminated. In his time, the interactions between leaders of Jews, Christians, and Muslims fueled a march toward a world war. Their promise was to...
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    31,12 €

  • The Rhetorical Journey of Alcohol in Ancient Tales
    Ethan Andrews
    This dissertation focuses on how the Greek and Germanic cultures dealt with the krataphonic symbol of alcohol. It examines the literature to understand how the alcohol of each culture (wine, mead or ale) was handled. These two cultures were chosen because both exhibit a standard literary record as well as being relatively equivalent regarding technology and cultural influences ...
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    25,98 €

  • Enslavers of the Maritimes
    Brenda J Thompson
    A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada. Illustrated with images of ’runaway slave’ advertisements, letters from the powerful to each other about their dealings in the po...
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    13,25 €

  • On Cultural Islam
    Shahidi Islam
    In an Age of American Empire What Real Hope is There for Black People?On Cultural Islam: A Godbody Sociology of 1990s Black America Shahidi Collection Vol 3 takes a novel look at life in late modernity, with specific focus on the 1990s and the global events that occurred during that momentous decade. It also investigates the godbody movement and seeks to find ways to define the...
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    28,25 €

  • A Veritable Hell
    Gavin Scrimgeour
    During the Battle of Fromelles on one terrible night in July 1916, the 32nd Battalion from South Australia and Western Australia lost over 85% of its fighting strength.Using the words of those from the 32nd Battalion who survived, the course of the battle in their sector during that night is reconstructed, and the tragic experiences of brave men thrust into an impossible situat...
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    15,94 €

  • Death Smiles at All of Us
    Kayden Abley
    What happens when a child dies? How does society treat parents after they have lost a child?Was death any different in the Victorian era than in today’s world? This thoughtful analysis examines child death in Victorian Scotland.Questions around money, child safety, class prejudices, and societal shortcomings are examined here in depth, focusing on wide-ranging historical and li...
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    18,01 €

  • From Slavery to the Stars
    Andreea Kindryd
    This story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure. It’s about more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor’s love story; it’s a journey through history, loss, and triumph.Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the loss of friends like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She has navigated the complexities of love and fac...
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    41,97 €

  • Belfast Flashbacks
    Bill Meulemans
    Bill Meulemans is an American author with no ties to Ireland. He lived and worked with working-class folks on both sides of the sectarian walls of Belfast during some of the darkest days of the conflict, building extensive personal friendships with both Catholics and Protestants. Meulemans did not waste a minute of his 14 years in Belfast. He was out on the street every day t...
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    16,32 €

  • Gates County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1837-1842. (Volume #10)
    Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 2008, reprinted 2024, 182 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-206-4.  Gates County was created in 1778 from Hertford, Chowan and Perquimans counties, N.C. It is located in the Northeastern corner of the state bordering Virginia. It is surrounded by the counties of Camden, Chowan, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans counties N.C. and by Nansem...
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    48,32 €

  • Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future
    Abby Wallace / Lori Ann LaRocco
    In Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved, tell readers what life was like for those ancestors, and how their experiences shaped and influenced future generations. The authors worked with family historians, gathered volumes of historical documents, and worked with historians from Montpelier, Mount V...
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    21,77 €

  • A Revolutionary Woman
    Donna Tesiero
    At the end of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved widow and mother living in Massachusetts. Hearing the words of the new Massachusetts state constitution which declared liberty and equality for all, she sought the help of a young lawyer named Theodore Sedgwick, later Speaker of the House and one of America’s leading Federalist politicians. The lawsuit tha...
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    57,57 €

  • The First 100 Years 1907-2007
    Toni Barber
    The First 100 Years tells the story from 1907 to 2007 of the First Baptist Church of Passtown and the African American Community of Hayti in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The church members and residents tell their stories in words and pictures during the milestone 100th Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Passtown in 2007.There are many historical Hayti communities through...
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    133,87 €

  • República e civilização: um olhar brasileiro
    Gabriel Cohn
    São as exigências e dificuldades da vida civilizada e republicana em contexto como o brasileiro que formam o núcleo dos artigos aqui recolhidos, escritos em diferentes momentos. Isso se aplica desde o mais abrangente deles, sobre civilização, cidadania e barbárie, até o mais específico sobre o fascismo em sua possível versão brasileira, passando por uma mescla de reflexão mais ...
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    12,48 €

  • Responsa in a Historical Context
    Debby Koren
    This book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Topics include excommunication in Amsterdam, ʻagunot, inheritance rights of a converso son, obligatory contracts and breach of agreement, heresy and humanist sch...
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    42,60 €

  • Discovering My Southern Legacy
    Deirdre Foreman
    What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?For author Deirdre Foreman, this question is a very personal one: in this book, she explores the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethno-autobiographical reflection on her own African-American identity and family he...
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    24,29 €

  • El Libro de Marielle Franco
    Marielle Franco
    El libro Marielle Franco - A Photobiography es un documento esencial no sólo para comprender las principales cuestiones sociales de actualidad en Brasil, sino también la amplia lucha por los derechos humanos, para la población negra y para las personas LGBTQIAP+. Marielle Franco (1979-2018) fue una de las políticas brasileñas contemporáneas más importantes. Nacida en el Complex...
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    33,28 €

  • Black Firsts in Los Angeles
    Randal Henry
    Black Firsts in Los Angeles shines a spotlight on more than 200 extraordinary achievements by Black Angelenos.Black Firsts highlights the oft unheralded accomplishments of Black Angelenos which-despite their importance-are generally not included in school books or taught in classrooms. Organized into 83 areas of accomplishment alphabetically and chronologically, Black Firsts re...
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    44,19 €

  • Motherhood confined
    Rachel E. Bennett
    The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind. ...
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    43,12 €

  • 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 €

  • Mom, tell me your story ( Guided Journal and Keepsake)
    Lulu and Bell
    'Mom, Tell Me Your Story' is a heartfelt guided journal that provides a unique opportunity to deepen your bond with your mother and preserve her precious memories for generations to come. This beautifully designed journal is a tribute to the incredible woman who has shaped your life, offering a structured yet flexible format to capture her unique experiences, wisdom, and cheris...
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    18,05 €

  • Mom, tell me your story ( Guided Journal and Keepsake) Hardback
    Lulu and Bell
    'Mom, Tell Me Your Story' is a heartfelt guided journal that provides a unique opportunity to deepen your bond with your mother and preserve her precious memories for generations to come. This beautifully designed journal is a tribute to the incredible woman who has shaped your life, offering a structured yet flexible format to capture her unique experiences, wisdom, and cheris...
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    27,22 €

  • 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 €