Man Who Cycled the Americas, Paperback - Mark Beaumont

In 2008, Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the world, by an astonishing 81 days.

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A collection of fictional biographies of right-wing writers, Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas presents an alternative world of 20th...

Reducere. Lives of fifteen Saints from North America, Central America, and South America, illustrated in full color.

An examination of how Pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumber o...

From the author of The Man Who Cycled The World, this is the story of a world record-breaking cycling adventure across Africa, from Cairo to Cape T...

Reducere. Long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, long before the Vikings discovered the New World, the indigenous cultures of the America...

This edited collection brings together an impressive and international array of coaching supervisors to highlight the unique cultural and contextua...

Reducere. Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand sold...

Tom is a boy from England who dreams of being an adventurer. Everyone tells him he's crazy, so he decides to prove them wrong by going around the w...

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PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark BeaumontIn the winter of 2006 Justin Vernon - aka Bon Iver - picked up a guitar, a laptop and some basic recording equ...

Handbook of Comparative Educational Law: Selected European from Africa and the Americas, Volume 4 provides detailed analysis of education law in Br...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas ...

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... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

Throughout American history, people of combined African and Native American descent have often struggled for acceptance, not only from dominant cul...

Examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the 1910s), and proposes a n...

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Reducere. DescriptionCommanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Afr...

Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

Reducere. DescriptionIndigenous and non-Indigenous voices come together in this volume to discuss both the wounds of colonial history and the opportunities f...

Reducere. Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, L...

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The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideologica...

Reducere. This is the story of a legendary expedition across four thousand miles of the future United States, led by an explorer searching for an illusionary...

This book utilizes an intersectional feminist approach to analyze reproductive and gendered violence against women across the Americas with case st...

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From anti-war walkouts to anarchist youth newspapers, rallies against educational privatization, and workshops on fair trade, teenage girls are act...

Reducere. Art of the Non-Western World: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gives students the tools to better understand and appreciate the arts in a gl...

DescriptionIn Postcolonial Grief Jinah Kim explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politic...

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Reducere. African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of theAmericas. An...

Reducere. The inspiring story of one man's record-breaking cycle around the world. On Monday 18th September 2017, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de T...

- "A must read... Goes beyond generalities and sheds light." - Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University "An important scholarly work... a testament." -...

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Ame...

In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge a...

La Merica (la mer'.e.ca) Ancient Portuguese name for America. Meaning: "The Western Star" This book is made possible by the re-discovery of an anci...

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction I...

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