The Organ Thieves. The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in America's Segregated South, Paperback - Chip Jones

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.Pub...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James-Brent StyanIn this new biography of Chris Barnard we not only learn about the life of South Africa's most famous surg...

Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Sarah C...

Reducere. "How that man was able to go out to that storage shed, time after time, and bury one more dead boy is something I'll never understand. You get clos...

A sexual sadist, the Zodiac's pleasure was torture and murder. He taunted the authorities with mocking notes telling where he would strike next. Th...

Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history .

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 ...

Through the Gate explores the story of the first recorded mass shooting in the United States.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Ellen J....

The Annotated Joseph and His Friend: The Story of America's First Gay Novel contains the original novel by Bayard Taylor, with annotations and comm...

Gravel and Grit recounts not only a rural boyhood in a period of racial hostility and class exclusion but also of simple country pleasures and stro...

Reducere. Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addresse...

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

Reducere. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what ...

Reducere. This is the journey over five decades of Peg Wyant who navigated from Mad Men through Me Too and motherhoodYounger women trying excel at being a wo...

Reducere. In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beaut...

Reducere. In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war"...

Reducere. The novel, Widow of the Free State of Jones, is about the courage of one woman who managed to survive the ravages of the Civil War as well as the w...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander...

Reducere. Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five...

Reducere. Through 24 narratives, How We Got Over captures Black life in compelling first-person accounts from childhood and teen years in mid-twentieth centu...

Reducere. 2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during...

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...

Reducere. This is the journey over five decades of Peg Wyant who navigated from Mad Men through Me Too and motherhoodYounger women trying excel at being a wo...

What role did the remote satellite tracking station near Woomera South Australia play during the First Gulf War? What was it like when Aussies and ...

Reducere. DescriptionA triumph of historical detective work, Crossing the Continent is the remarkable, never-before-told story of the first black explorer an...

Reducere. LIKE THE FEMALE SCIENTISTS PORTRAYED IN HIDDEN FIGURES, MARY SHERMAN MORGAN WAS ANOTHER UNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE--NOW HER STORY IS FINALLY T...

Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Mass...

Reducere. Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune and became the first black man to serve a full term in...

Every four years presidential hopefuls and the national media travel the primary election circuit through Iowa and New Hampshire. Once the dust set...

Reducere. A 2014 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist They became America s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tany...

This picture book was created for young children who are in need of a solid organ transplant. It was developed by two dedicated Social Workers at t...

Reducere. The inspiring story of a Puritan woman whose passion for writing poetry broke barriers. Late at night, with her children tucked into bed and her hu...

Reducere. Without knowing and expressing our needs, relationship with God and others suffers. As a complement to The Voice of the Heart, Chip Dodd invites re...

Since the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt from the national Democratic Party, rural white southerners have experienced a painstakingly slow transformational ...

Reducere. Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman becam...

In September 1910, the human rights activist and anti-imperialist Roger Casement uncovered an appalling catalogue of abuse: nearly 30, 000 Indians ...

Reducere. 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 story of a former slave and America's first Black Episcopal priest is an inspiring model for living a full life of service and love. This book,...

As Scarlett's life is torn apart by a vicious grooming gang, she begins to believe this is just how her world should be. In her darkest hour, will ...

Reducere. After a brief survey of the great empires in Afghanistan--the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the British in the era of Kipling, and the late Sov...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIBSYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals it...

Reducere. A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to ...

The Future is Uninscribed.What has been forgotten? What are we here to remember?The Uninscribed: Initiation into the Heart of Time takes readers on...

The story of potjiekos is about a popular South African speciality food usually cooked in a cast iron pot over an open fire. The book provides a si...

Reducere. On Christmas night, 1951, a bomb exploded in Mims, Florida, under the home of civil rights activist and educator Harry T. Moore. Harry and his wife...

Reducere. For many, Detroit is the crunch capital of the world. More than forty local chip companies once fed the Motor City's never-ending appetite for salt...

Reducere. Martin Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an eloquent memoir replete with t...