America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, Hardcover - Elizabeth Hinton

Reducere. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...

'Groundbreaking, deeply researched and profoundly heart-rending' Peniel Joseph, New York Times A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of Am...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Elizabeth HintonNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 34Cover type: Paper...

A New York Times Notable BookBest Books of 2021: TIME, SmithsonianNew York Times Book Review * Editors' ChoiceA radical reckoning with the racial i...

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure...

Reducere. DescriptionDesigned to be accessible to young readers, these volumes offer a way of learning about the history of America. Each book includes infor...

Reducere. In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to sign...

Reducere. An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, ma...

Reducere. DescriptionViolence of Action brings to light the stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment during the Global War on Terror, from 911 to 2011. It's a raw...

Reducere. In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to sign...

DescriptionIn the 1960s and early 1970s, countercultural rebels decided that, rather than confront the system, they would create the world they wan...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Elliott CurrieNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 205 x 21Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration t...

Contributor(s): Author: Aldo MarchesiThis book examines the emergence, development, and demise of a network of organizations of young leftist milit...

The story of one of the world's most important crops From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those g...

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frye GaillardFrye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time...

DescriptionLondon, 1964. At three a.m. on a chilly autumn morning, Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard is called to a club in Greek Street where a you...

Reducere. Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the...

Reducere. A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was kn...

Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor(s): Kim KellyNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 236 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award longlist title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a ...

Reducere. This book takes a look the origin of policing in the United States, and its possible roots in the Slave Patrols of the south during slavery. It loo...

Reducere. The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth's secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times best...

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Reducere. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Paperback

Reducere. The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off...

Reducere. Now in paperback, the riveting story of the response of the heroic pilots and air traffic controllers who found themselves on the front lines of an...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, returns with a lacerating analysis of the history of st...

Reducere. "A League of Their Own for the softball set" (Lily Koppel, bestselling author of The Astronaut Wives Club), Fastpitch is hidden history at its most...

Reducere. This book explores Greek collaboration with the Nazis during the Axis occupation of Greece in the Second World War, a topic that continues to be on...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil ...

Reducere. Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and ...

Reducere. Winner of these international book awards (1st edition of "Police Wife"): - American Society of Journalists and Authors' Arlene Book Award for Writ...

A history of British theatre fires. Foreword by Matthew KellyPublisher: Headfield PublishingAuthor(s): Rodney HardcastleNumber of pages: 295Publica...

Reducere. The dark arts of satanic black metal have always fascinated, both by the music and the blasphemous imagery. In his novel "Black Metal Blasphemy: A ...

Reducere. DescriptionA part of Harper Perennial's special "Resistance Library" highlighting classic works that illuminate the "Age of Trump" Soren Kierkegaar...

Reducere. Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and soc...

The story of America's longest war, seen through the eyes of those who led it, The Long War uncovers the failures at the start that made long-term ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Treva B. LindseyNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 218 x 31Cover type:...

Reducere. Sonora Pass, located north of the famous Tioga Pass that leads to Yosemite, is not well known. Extremely steep, and carved into granite like much o...

Reducere. Moral treatment, the vogue of early American psychology, freed the mentally ill of their chains. They were, however, still relegated to separate in...

Reducere. For nearly a century, Japanese writers gave voice to the anxieties of a nation headed inexorably toward war. Not just any war, but one that in the ...

Reducere. The Queen's Faith describes Her Majesty's faith as found in her annual broadcasts. This book arranges excerpts from the broadcasts in ten themes. I...

Reducere. Organized crime was born in the back of a fruit store in Marion. Before America saw headlines about the Capone Mob, the Purple Gang and Murder Inc....

Reducere. About the Book Chapter I. God Chapter II. Jesus Christ Chapter III. Life in Christ Chapter IV. Revelation Chapter V. The Church Chapter VI. The Hum...