Rooted Resistance. Agrarian Myth in Modern America, Paperback - Jeff Motter

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reducere. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and there is great racial inequality in the criminal justice system. Race and Po...

Reducere. From the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, Americans have protested against police brutality. Protesting Police Violence in Modern America ...

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...

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, U.S.Author(s): Dean MotterIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 229Publication date: 2017Dime...

Within a broader frame, they speak to the double-edged nature of modern life.Illustrations: 24 Halftones, black and white

Conservative skepticism of scientific authority-contesting evolution and the climate change consensus-is constantly in the news. But liberal humani...

Radical Pacifism in Modern America illuminates the complex relationships between gender, race, activism, and political culture, identifying critica...

An examination of how corporate managers and public policymakers addressed the consequences of market power in mid-twentieth-century AmericaPublish...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra M. SufianIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 360Pub...

Reducere. "I Love my Motter" is a beautiful story about the unconditional love between mother and child. Adorbale pictures combined with sweet rhyme come tog...

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...

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. The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe...

Reducere. Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From ...

Reducere. Jeff Fletcher has written a best seller. "Marilyn Across America". A life changing cross country journey where dirt roads rule, fair maidens are wo...

DescriptionFolklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the ...

Reducere. Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From ...

Reducere. Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact ...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Lori RogersNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 12Cover type: Paperba...

Since 1910 the Boy Scouts of America have always a Handbook and over 110 million youth have grown up with a Scout Handbook. This book provides the ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Jason was born a prince of the kingdom of Argos. But when Jason was a child, his uncle Pelias stole the throne and sent Jason into hiding. Now a yo...

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...

DescriptionA life-changing journey from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection. If Women Rose Rooted has been des...

As authors and publishers, individuals and collectives, women significantly shaped the modernist movement. The essays in this volume explore formal...

The first Lent book from the Bishop of London, exploring the ways in which we can live the Christian life to the full today.

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Mukulika (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Anthropology, London School ...

Exploring popular culture and national identity in post-revolutionary Iran, this accessible and innovative book based on multi-disciplinary researc...

For nearly seventy years, the Modern Language Association has helped student writers choose trustworthy sources and use them to support their own i...

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

The Rebecca Riots in west Wales began in the summer of 1839. They ceased as suddenly as they had started, and for three and a half years the countr...

How American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism: a creative challenge in 10 case studiesReconstructions: Architecture and Blacknes...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 24Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Christopher ...

Reducere. The third edition of the MLA's widely used Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures features sixteen completely new essays b...