Five Miles Away, a World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America, Paperback

This ancient tale about brotherly love could not be more timely. Told for centuries by Jewish, Christian and Muslim people, its theme of peaceable ...

Racism is a problem deeply rooted in American society. Slavery and segregation may no longer be legal, but their legacies still influence the way B...

In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half la...

More than a retelling of the origin story of a democracy born from an intimate connection with the land, this book wagers that socially responsible...

Reducere. Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place...

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Reducere. DescriptionDangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national an...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra M. SufianIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 368Pub...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Nina M. (Inaugural fellow, Inaugural fellow, McKinsey Center for the Future of Work) YancyNumber o...

Explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This book includes shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues...

Research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark must uncover the traitor within in this gripping World War II mystery. May 1945. Harry S. Truman has become pre...

The inspiring true story of identical twin teenage brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California as undocumented immi...

Untold stories of overseas evacuees in their own wordsPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Penny StarnsIllustration(s): 19 Illustrations, bla...

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Reducere. Racial bias, both implicit and explicit, is easy to see in American news media. Race and the Media in Modern America explores differences in report...

From the author of the Lucinda Pierce series, comes a thrilling new mystery, set during the Second World War . . . Oak Ridge, Tennessee, otherwise ...

Reducere. We live in a crazy time. On top of that, you're trying to figure out who you are and how to find your place in this ever-changing world. You're bui...

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A funny and intimate travelogue of one woman's unexpected adventures in Japan. French illustrator Julie Blanchin-Fujita arrived in Tokyo for what s...

DescriptionFor many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog an...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Natalie WarrenIllustration(s): 22 black and white plates, 1 mapNumber of pages: 248Publication d...

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

Reducere. The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immi...

Stephen R Covey shows how to apply his famous 7 Habits to our youngest citizens

Reducere. William C. Davis, "one of the best and most prolific historians of the American Civil War" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom), o...

Reducere. "Miles Away In The Caribbean" is a poetically written story about a Canadian boy named Miles. In his magical spaceship, he visits Antigua and Barbu...

Reducere. Have you ever wished you could run away and leave your life behind? Born on the "Day of the Wanderer, " Lisa Dailey has always been filled with wan...

Memoirs of a music industry maverick, from growing up in the Middle East to managing Sting and The Police to launching the careers of Jools Holland...

Reducere. "One of Ten Best History Books of 2021." --Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably resea...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

Reducere. In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily, "Morgen" Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungari...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe author of Mesmerized delivers another fascinating glimpse into history, this time the story of two brave suffragists on a trek acros...

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren groun...

Reducere. Torn apart by war. Reunited through faith.In this remarkable true story of the Holocaust, we follow David Goldberger from the concentration camps o...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel C. HeilmanHasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it wa...

In 1918, Rebecca Goldberg--a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Wilmington, Massachusetts--lost her husband, Nathan, to a rai...

A fascinating and lively history of Hollywood and WWII. Now a NETFLIX original, featuring interviews with some of the best directors of our generat...

Reducere. As the Fourth Industrial Revolution barrels forward and the pace of disruption accelerates, all organizations must operate with agility. But this u...

Reducere. The Florida Trail stretches the length and breadth of the Sunshine State, from Gulf Islands National Seashore in the panhandle to Big Cypress Natio...

Explore the frontier, young pioneer! Inside, find two choose your own trail books in one: The Search for Snake River and The Road to Oregon, and th...

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country's leading organizers and a c...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

Reducere. Told by Annabel Bower after her fourth child Miles was stillborn, Miles Apart offers heartfelt advice on navigating grief and heartache after the l...

Everyone has heard of Winnie-the-Pooh, but not everyone knows about the real Canadian bear who lent him her name. Find out all about how she travel...

From pre-war murmurings to postwar memorials, John Fidler's engaging account of Lancaster in World War II draws on first-hand recollections, newspa...

Longlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, a trenchant and thought-provoking account of the death of empire by one of our finest historians

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Gigi GeorgesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 134 x 28Cover type: Paper...

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