Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South, Hardcover - Pam Kelley

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pam Kelley"This book would pair well with Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law. . . . Incisive. . . . Highly recommended."-...

DescriptionIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to set...

Heart-warming picture book story of hope triumphing over despair, for families touched by depression.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gordon GronkowskiHuge boys, huge dreams, huge success--how one family from Buffalo put five boys on the track to realizing ...

The author anticipated building an ordinary family. And that's what happened. But mental illness and grief also happened, undermining the security ...

One man's personal discovery of his family's involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider reckoning among the descendants of ...

One man's personal discovery of his family's involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider reckoning among the descendants of ...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): John David SmithIllustration(s): 87 illustrationsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2012...

Reducere. As seen on The Today Show and in the Washington Post's most inspiring stories of the year! "Important in helping us understand America's complex ra...

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. DescriptionBack in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction ...

Reducere. DescriptionC. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a sing...

Publisher: CIDEB s.r.l.Author(s): Jane Elizabeth CammackNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 169 x 241 x 6Cover type: Mixed media p...

Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

Reducere. New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title Based ...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn April 17, 1581, shots ring out in a Roman garden and a young man falls dead in an ambush. Within days, a powerful baron weds the love...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

Reducere. How do well-meaning people help a community move beyond its past when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit from maintaining t...

This is the colourful story of how Edinburgh rose to be one of the top 10 financial centres in Europe - and how the crisis of 2008 decimated its ba...

Reducere. In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing p...

Reducere. "Alex Heard has crafted a memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory." --Jon Meacham In this grippi...

Reducere. DescriptionA native New Englander, chef Bruce Moffett fell in love with the South. Founding chef of three Charlotte restaurants--Barrington's, Good...

Reducere. An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, ma...

DescriptionSouth Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depict...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

Reducere. When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends be...

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

Reducere. Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist G raldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandp...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

Reducere. A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive ac...

"Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end, " Denise Low says, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we ...

From bestselling author of The $100 Startup and Side Hustle comes Chris Guillebeau's engaging story about the power you have to create your own fin...

Reducere. For decades racism and social inequity have stayed at the center of the national conversation in the United States, sustaining the debate around pu...

Reducere. A riveting WWII account of survival at sea--Book 4 in the middle grade True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times...

Reducere. This remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarfs, bears witness to the best and worst of huma...

Reducere. Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African America...

Reducere. The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on January 26, 1788. Today there is a distinctive Austra...

Reducere. An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans--one black and one white. The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre, arguably the...

A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

Reducere. A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

Reducere. Dope Darling (1918) is a novel by David Garnett. Published using the pseudonym Leda Burke, Dope Darling is a story of sex, drugs, and music set jus...

Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution which has been hailed as the greatest advancement s...

Reducere. For the George family, there wasn't supposed to be hope for their newborn son, John Paul, born with a half-functioning heart that was unable to pum...

"This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed...

AN EVIL SPIRIT OUT OF THE WEST is the first novel in a trilogy set in one of the most turbulent and exciting periods of Ancient Egyptian history

This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble origins to bec...

Reducere. New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title This f...

57 Days: The Wait for a New Heart Sparks a Spiritual Journey of Faith and Love is written to tell my story while facing a medical challenge like ne...