A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices, Paperback - Ronald T. Takaki

Reducere. A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to ...

Reducere. Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beg...

Reducere. A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically diverse group of ordinary Americans struggling for equality at home...

Reducere. In the first edition of this book, I began by saying that my purpose was not to write a typical municipal history. That still stands. Too often suc...

Reducere. WWII veteran Rollins Edwards sat before the Federal Board of Veterans Appeals wearing a long overcoat, black beret, and dark glasses. It wasn't a f...

Reducere. This is an entirely new kind of garden book, rather than a homage to contemporary gardens, a survey of historic gardens or a "how-to" manual. Throu...

When the foes are inside you, the only option left is to fight. Here you have the story of an uncanny part of my life. It is a true story told with...

Reducere. Karen is a self-professed organizational change management rebel with a cause. She is prepared to push the boundaries of the profession and challen...

Reducere. The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government officia...

Reducere. Miracle is a gift follows in line with the work of well-known authors like Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) and Sid Roth (It's Supernatura...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a reprint of and English translation of the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Riteve, Lithuania, also called by...

Reducere. In 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to record the recollections of as many people as possible -- civilia...

Reducere. This unprecedented volume shows how and why mid-twentieth-century decolonization transformed societies and cultures and continues to shape today's ...

Reducere. DescriptionHigh on a hill in Northwest Washington, overlooking the Key City of Port Townsend, lies Manresa Castle. Built in 1892 by area pioneer Ch...

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our ...

The fascinating story of how premodern Anatolia's multireligious intersection of cultures shaped its literary languages and poetic masterpiecesPubl...

Reducere. In this in-depth look at the heated debates over paying college athletes, Ronald A. Smith starts at the beginning: the first intercollegiate athlet...

A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic work on the history of modern pagan witchcraft.Illustrations: Black and white images

An illuminating, lively history of paganism in the West.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Liz WilliamsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021D...

ESSENTIAL ANTIRACIST READING "We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing wor...

This clear and concise text offers undergraduate students a brief but solid introduction to the fundamental concepts of cognitive psychology. Integ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a short treatment of a long history. Nebraska has been inundated by ancient seas, carved by glaciers, and settled by ancien...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Poetic Edda, also known as The Elder Edda or Saemund's Edda, is a magnificent and magical collection of thirty-four Icelandic poems,...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN - A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN.. With original illustrations.The famous 19th century English designer,...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE SONG OF THE NIBELUNGS - With Original Illustrations. A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. The Song of the Nibelungs (Nibelunglied), a thirt...

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as...

The City of Abraham is a journey to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and an account of the shared roots of the three great monotheist...

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 ...

New in paperbackWhere do pebbles come from? How were they made? This book tells the story of a pebble, from its origins in a fiery volcano 480 mill...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward O. WilsonView a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities""In...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Angela BourkeNumber of pages: 44Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 233 x 281 x 5Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. ``On the morning of 26 April 1607, three small ships carrying 143 Englishmen arrived off the Virginia coast of North America, having spent four mon...

Within these pages are the memories of Palestinians - housewives, pastors, physicians, prisoners, professors, refugees, researchers, students, teac...

First-generation Palestinian refugees recall life before and after the NakbaPublisher: Pluto PressIllustration(s): 6 Halftones, black and white; 1 ...

When, in 1940, Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them for the duration of the war, no one knew how long it would last...

A heartwarming novel about the impact 'Songs of Praise' has on an idyllic village in rural Suffolk.

Reducere. Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament critic...

The history inscribed in New England's meetinghouses waits to be told. There, colonists gathered for required worship on the Sabbath, for town meet...

DescriptionThe rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shap...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Nancy M. (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Northern Illinois Univer...

Reducere. The University of Nebraska Press is utilizing Docutech technology to make some out-of-print books available again. All on-demand titles are produce...

DescriptionCharles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the sole Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In this mon...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): T. H. MeyerIllustration(s): 16 black & white platesTranslator: Ian BassNumber of pages: 436Publication...

Reducere. Millions of people have problems with anger, and best-selling authors and anger experts Ronald and Patricia Potter-Efron are out to do something ab...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv--today the second-largest city in B...

DescriptionCinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks ...

Reducere. "You expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Un...

Advances our understanding of diversity in organisations. This volume features renowned scholars who are unabashedly pushing the field by raising t...

Designed as an introduction to the Holocaust, this book presents the origins and history of anti-Semitism, beginning with the year 70 A.D., when th...