Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC. Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Hardback - Paula C. Austin

"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in ...

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`Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel

Reducere. The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic, Paperback

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remar...

Reducere. Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights...

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Reducere. Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors--some eminent, some less well known--who grew u...

Seen through the eyes of an intellectually ambitious son of immigrant parents, Concrete Steps is the story of a boy growing up in the 1940s and '50...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

A darkly funny, big-hearted and moving memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel.

Reducere. It's June 1953 and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother's car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his...

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Media, Millennials, and Politics scrutinizes the media's narration and coverage of political participation of the millennial generation in the 2008...

Description"Corn-Fed" is a nostalgic romp through growing up in the Midwest. Poignant, humorous, and honest, "Corn-Fed" will take you from childhoo...

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

Why have CEOs become the cultural icons of the 21st century?

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 ...

A journey through the evolution of Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants, in fifteen scenes.Illustratio...

Featuring some of the most iconic images of our time, this unique combination of photojournalism and commentary offers a probing and comprehensive ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Jesica Siham FernandezIllustration(s): 2 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Critical P...

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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtua...

The stories and poems in my book tell of my life growing up in a small Mexican barrio, or neighborhood, in Modesto, California, during the 1940s, 1...

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The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's...

Reducere. From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and ...

Reducere. With Worn-Out Tools is the story of a fiftyish black call center executive who, at the height of his career, in one year is struck down with a seri...