Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice, Hardcover - Pam Fessler

Reducere. The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America's most painful secre...

A UN official's brave first-hand account of how the organisation failed 850, 000 people in Rwanda, featuring original artwork by Spike Zephaniah St...

Reducere. In the United States, Black men are almost six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men. This disproportionate impact can be traced back t...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Jenny CarsonNumber of pages: 312Collection: Working Class in American HistoryPublication date: 20...

Reducere. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe...

New Jersey's legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground N...

A thrilling narrative that introduces a key but underreported moment in World War II: The Doolitte Raids and the international war crimes trial in ...

Reducere. The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime ...

DescriptionThe young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--soon to be both a major motion picture starring Mi...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Wolfson History Prize 2019 A single word--"Auschwitz"--is sometimes used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and su...

A colourful cast of characters from Roman mythology are brought to life in this series of adventures with a fesity female heroine. Percy Jackson fo...

Reducere. From war-torn Olympus to New York City, mythology and reality collide in a breathtaking adventure.

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Reducere. This Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader with more than 30 sparkling stickers is based on Disney's new animated film Raya and the Last Dragon--...

Reducere. Among similar countries, the United States has a unique problem with gun violence. Gun-related deaths and injuries happen at high rates every year....

A reception history of William Blake's 'Jerusalem' that traces the hymn's increasing associations with national identity and explores how different...

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, ra...

Reducere. "As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for ou...

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In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood. Walt Whitman knew a great dea...

When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly disco...

Reducere. Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin t...

Reducere. The Gifford sisters, Grace (later Plunkett), Muriel (later MacDonagh), Nellie (later Donnelly), and Sydney (later Czira) were key figures in the Re...

DescriptionDiana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish re...

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Reducere. In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course o...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Michael MassingNumber of pages: 1008Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 48Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

Reducere. When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuver...

Description"He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him fi...

'This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.' - Adam GrantHuge corporations ar...

Reducere. An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion ...

Reducere. DescriptionParade has loved Jay her whole life but when he makes a big bet, which yields zero benefits, their picture perfect family begins to crum...

Reducere. Among similar countries, the United States has a unique problem with gun violence. Gun-related deaths and injuries happen at high rates every year....

Reducere. The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller [The] authors' finest work to date. --Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the le...

The struggle for Catholic emancipation in 19th century Britain and the shattering of the traditional flow of power that came with the crumbling of ...

'This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.' - Adam Grant Huge corporations a...

Reducere. On the morning of February 13, 1969, members of Duke University's Afro-American Society barricaded themselves inside the Allen administration build...

In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight fo...

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Reducere. Throughout history and into the modern day, people have moved from place to place to flee danger and seek out better lives. But immigrants and refu...

Reducere. Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015), professor at Claremont McKenna College and Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, was one of the most influen...

A landmark reckoning with air pollution, diagnostic of the scope and origin of the current problem, while suggesting ways to alleviate the pervasiv...

Reducere. Queen Avala must take all that she has learned from her parents and defend the kingdom. Her parents taught her that girls can do whatever they want...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncAuthor(s): Olugbemisola Rhuday-PerkovichIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Pub...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Karen BlumenthalNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 32Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans...

Reducere. 2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau o...

Reducere. Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refu...

Suffrage and Struggle in Manchester' celebrates the struggle for the recognition of female rights, the centenary of female suffrage and the 90th an...

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