Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Paperback

Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of...

Reducere. The Holocaust in American Life, Paperback

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and com...

Reducere. The third edition of author Richard O. Davies highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive r...

Reducere. "Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."--P...

This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishm...

Reducere. A revelatory look at the life of the great American author--and how it shaped his most beloved worksJack London was born a working class, fatherles...

An anthology of true stories, edited by Paul Auster and chosen from 4, 000 entries sent in to his programme on National Public Radio, which come to...

Reducere. A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California b...

Part memoir and part description of the creative process, this is an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John Adams, one of today's ...

Reducere. This memoir celebrates the Sicilian life in America, while providing a sociological portrait of the immigrant experience in the US. The author remi...

Reducere. Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audien...

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and po...

"This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man." - The New Republic; "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biogr...

Reducere. Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America's most beloved and controversial political figures. Now wi...

Reducere. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime, and police forces, arms makers, po...

History is recorded in many ways. According toauthor James Deetz, the past can be seen most fullyby studying the small things so often forgotten.Ob...

Savor the richness and beauty of wool appliqué—its texture, depth, color, and design. Well-known, award-winning folk artist Rebekah L. Smith will i...

Reducere. From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is main...

Reducere. In this hybrid memoir, Alberto Ledesma wonders, At what point does a long-time undocumented immigrant become an American in the making? From undocu...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Bay Area Book of the Year A book unlike anything ever written by a comp...

Millions of people see themselves as spiritual, but not religious and they have very specific needs that most societies either ignore or even put d...

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tyler CowenNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 23Cover type: Paper...

DescriptionAn against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen.We love to hate the 800-pound gor...

When Dr. Ellen Einterz first arrives in the town of Kolofata in Cameroon, the situation is dire: patients are exploited by healthcare workers, unst...

Reducere. From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a pow...

This Element expands on alternative political identifications as a result of decaying party identification to better understand different levels of...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which bui...

Reducere. New York Times bestseller from member of Oprah's Super Soul 100 - one of World Economic Forum's "Most Recommended Books of 2016" Now in paperback, ...

DescriptionEach biography ties the present generation to the past through a concise, but fact-filled manner. These men and women are inspirations, ...

Reducere. Living with the Torpedo is the only World War II memoir written by a US Navy officer who fought the years-long Battle of the Atlantic against Hitle...

This book draws from the author's nearly three-decade career of being "the only one in the room". Cecile Shellman builds a process for individualiz...

Examining the extent to which trade adversely affects domestic workers, Making Sense of Anti-Trade Sentiment documents statistical relationships be...

Publisher: Princeton University PressIllustration(s): 72 color illus.Number of pages: 136Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 238 x 289 x 18Cover type...

Inflammation is a normal and essential part of the body's defense system. It signals that damage is present and that the rest of the immune system ...

Reducere. Harriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chroni...

Reducere. For some in our society, diversity is a threat. Others feel society should be more inclusive, if only out of fairness. But as Johnnetta Cole argues...

Political and civil discourse in the United States is characterized by "Truth Decay, " defined as increasing disagreement about facts, a blurring o...

The book traces the history of ACT UP/LA, whose members battled government and institutional neglect of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and 1990s....

Rachana Kamtekar offers a new understanding of Plato's account of the soul and its impact on our living well or badly, virtuously or viciously. She...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

Description"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo In this un...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Brian AlexanderNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 210 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. After barely making it out of the Congo War alive and experiencing South Africa right after apartheid, Yves and his family fled their homeland and ...

As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focu...

Having completed the revision of his series of British Secret Projects titles, Tony Buttler has now begun the same treatment for his early volumes ...

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