Black Legend. The Many Lives of Raul Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina, New ed, Hardback - ***

This novel-like tale of the life of, and legends surrounding, a remarkable Black celebrity and his ancestors and community, who engaged in a multig...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Tom RostonNumber of pages: 272Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 x 217 x 29Cover type: ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The Many Lives of Andy Warhol is more than a biography: it's a look into Warhol's greatest creation: himself. Warhol was known as the king of pop a...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Devon W. CarbadoNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 223 x 148 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ferdinand MountNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and tragic loner. The Many Lives of Ma...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on math...

A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West's most notorious woman: Calamity Jane

Reducere. A thriller that will make you question reality from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's hi...

An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the ...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Clyde W. FordNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 237 x 161 x 39Cover type: Hard...

A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris.

In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial pro...

Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several di...

This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the...

This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bang...

DescriptionWhen Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his persona...

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilto...

Maria Baldwin held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New England schoo...

Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a uniqu...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Mark EdlitzIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White ...

A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris.Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressAuthor(s): James (Author)...

Publisher: Historic New EnglandAuthor(s): Kirk F. MohneyIllustration(s): 498 illus. (446 colour)Number of pages: 198Publication date: 2012Dimension...

This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma associated with exploitation, hom...

Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretati...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

DescriptionMy Nine Lives is a powerful and stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era--an inspiring tale of courage, compas...

DescriptionWith a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infam...

Interwoven with Garza's experience of life as a Black woman, The Purpose of Power is the story of how she responded to the persistent message that ...

In the wake of national tragedies, it matters who is mourned and who is overlooked. Focusing on Protestant sermons, Melissa Matthes argues that, si...

Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

Publisher: Astra Publishing HouseAuthor(s): Maya MacGregorNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 34Cover type: HardbackR...

Reducere. How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particular...

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particular...

Publisher: Legend Press LtdAuthor(s): Lilian ThuramTranslator: Cristina JohnstonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 2...

Reducere. MAVERICK: LEGEND OF THE WEST is a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic Emmy Award-winning Western series that turned the genre inside out, featurin...

DescriptionActivists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil righ...

Reducere. Maria Baldwin (1856--1922) held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New ...

Reducere. Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership, state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind laws that trap black Ameri...

Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...