The Story of American Freedom, Paperback

Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945, Paperback - Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

364,99 RON

DescriptionLocal policy in the nation's capital has always influenced national politics. During Reconstruction, black Washingtonians were first to ...

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To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, Paperback - Joyce Lee Malcolm

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Reducere. Joyce Malcolm illuminates the historical facts underlying the current passionate debate about gun-related violence, the Brady Bill, and the NRA, re...

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Oregon Loves New York: A Story of American Unity After 9/11, Paperback - Sally Bourrie

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Reducere. The Best of America-Captured in Print for the First TimeSomething powerful happened in New York. We had a rare opportunity to experience the healin...

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Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture, Paperback - Britt Rusert

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

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Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Paperback - Jim Downs

250,99 RON 268,99 RON

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

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Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio, Paperback - Gary Kornblith

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Reducere. Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberli...

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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War, Paperback - David S. Cecelski

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Reducere. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

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Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, Paperback - Heather Andrea Williams

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

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Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752, Paperback - William A. Pettigrew

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their na...

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Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts, Paperback - Victor Daly

226,99 RON 242,99 RON

Reducere. Description Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts is the only World War I novel written by an African American veteran. In the book, Montgom...

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Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta After World War II, Paperback - Françoise N. Hamlin

226,99 RON

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle f...

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Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, Paperback - Jeffrey D. Gonda

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had...

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Once in a Promised Land, Paperback - Halaby

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. They say there was or there wasn't in olden times a story as old as life, as young as this moment, a story that is yours and is mine. Once in a Pro...

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Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution, Paperback - Judith L. Van Buskirk

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

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Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World, Paperback - Jon F. Sensbach

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon F. SensbachRebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspir...

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Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971, Paperback - Martin Deppe

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PU...

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Maria Baldwin's Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice, Paperback - Kathleen Weiler

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Maria Baldwin (1856--1922) held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New ...

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The Kentuckians, Paperback - Janice Holt Giles

201,99 RON 216,99 RON

Reducere. The Kentuckians of Janice Holt Giles's title were that hardy band of angels who straggled through Cumberland Gap in the 1770s and carved their farm...

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Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment, Paperback - Michael D. McNally

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rightsFrom North Dakota's Standing Ro...

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Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy, Paperback - Emma Christopher

194,99 RON

By 1808, both Britain and the United States had passed laws outlawing the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summ...

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Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, Paperback - Omid Scobie

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe first, epic and true story of the Duke and Duchess of ...

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Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900, Paperback - Stephen A. Vincent

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. Southern Seed, Northern Soil captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming com...

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Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War, Paperback - Henry James Bedinger

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger's first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and i...

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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War, Paperback - Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

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David Fagen: Turncoat Hero, Paperback - Phillip W. Hoffman

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. The remarkable story of David Fagen, an African-American "Buffalo Soldier" from Tampa, Florida, who is first sent to fight in the Spanish-American ...

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Contents of a WWII Footlocker: A Memoir of the U.S. Army Third Armored Division, Paperback - Col Oliver William Brackman Jr

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWWII was a war for freedom from tyranny that encompassed the entire globe. It literally turned innocent young American boys into men. Th...

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Island Queen, Paperback - Vanessa Riley

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Reducere. "Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read!"--Chane...

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Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma, Paperback - Karlyn Forner

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring a...

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This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, Paperback - Daegan Miller

164,99 RON

"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature, ...

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Cellini-Freedom Fighter: This is his true life story., Paperback - Mick J. Prodger

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. Vito "Tutuc" Cellini went from street gangster to soldier to resistance fighter to secret agent - all before he was 21 years of age. In World War T...

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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Paperback - Scott Ellsworth

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Scott EllsworthForeword by: John Hope FranklinWhen a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the even...

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The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Paperback - Harriet Ann Jacobs

155,99 RON

DescriptionNot only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slav...

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Cassius Marcellus Clay: Firebrand of Freedom, Paperback - H. Edward Richardson

154,99 RON

The most colorful member of Kentucky's most illustrious family, Cassius Marcellus Clay is a legendary figure in the Bluegrass. This lively biograph...

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The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Paperback - Sam Greenlee

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the...

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The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom, Paperback - W. Cleon Skousen

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. A timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller.Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist:...

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Southern Pacific Daylight Steam Locomotive (Traintech), Paperback - Kenneth G. Johnsen

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. Southern Pacific Daylight Steam Locomotives covers the Daylight's inception and glory years, the Warbaby era, the Western Pacific versions, the Ame...

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A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom, Paperback - David Williams

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it Bottom-up history at its ver...

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Eclipse: A Thriller, Paperback - Richard North Patterson

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against hi...

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Sketches of Slave Life and from Slave Cabin to the Pulpit, Paperback - Peter Randolph

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black...

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Stillbirth of a Nation: Caucasian Slavery in Plantation America: Part One, Paperback - James LaFond

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionStillbirth of A Nation is the story of America's birth as a slave nation. Among the author's startling claims are: -Slavery in the Engli...

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Sonju, Paperback - Wondra Chang

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. Sonju opens on a chilly day in November, 1946 in Seoul, Korea. Japan has ended its thirty-five-year occupation of Korea after the bombing of Nagasa...

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There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream (revised and updated), Paperback - Ben Sidran

140,99 RON 150,99 RON

Reducere. The first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award FinalistThis book is about the power of memory, the human need for narrative,...

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The Real Thomas Jefferson: The True Story of America's Philosopher of Freedom, Paperback - Andrew M. Allison

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. The Real Thomas Jefferson: The True Story of America's Philosopher of FreedomJefferson is the central figure in American history, and...he may yet ...

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Whatever Happened to Dagmar?: An Immigrant's Autobiography, Paperback - Dagmar (van Der Meer) Howe

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. This is the journey of a young European immigrant who was living the American dream--life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--until she found h...

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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Paperback - Raymond Arsenault

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through t...

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Rescue Heart: A Love Story, Paperback - Tane McClure Arendts

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. The dog let out a slight whimper as he scanned all around him."He's not here. I promise." Nina tried to comfort him.Nina could almost see his heart...

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Charm of Favor: A True Story of the Rise of the Clinton Crime Syndicate, Paperback - Brooks A. Agnew

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brooks A. AgnewFor nearly 5, 000 years, the world had been ruled from wooden ships by the Deep State. 241 years ago, the Fo...

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Desert Dust: One Man's Passion to Uncover the True Story Behind an Iconic American Photograph, Paperback - Paul W. Papa

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. TWO MEN-A WILD STALLION-A PHOTOGRAPH THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES FOREVERON THE MORNING OF JULY 12, 1945, as residents of Rawlins, Wyoming were waking ...

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The Song Each Bullet Sings: The Story of Operation Iraqi Freedom Through the Eyes of One Marine, Paperback - Matthew Bannon Craw

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. The Song Each Bullet Sings: The Story of Operation Iraqi Freedom Through the Eyes of One Marine is based on real events that occurred during the ma...

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Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on the Tragedy of Israel-Palestine, Paperback - Richard Forer

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity tells the true story of a lifelong supporter of Israel who underwent a remarkable spiritual awakening in which he...

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Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, Paperback - James McGrath Morris

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. New Mexico Book AwardsIn nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vande...

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The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--And Changed the History of Free Speech in America, Paperback - Thomas Healy

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century that freedom was still an unfulfilled ...

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Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Paperback - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. "My purpose, " Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha,...

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Born Into Freedom the Locus Lucas Family an American Saga, Paperback - Felecia Dianah Farmer

125,99 RON

DescriptionBorn Into Freedom The Locus Lucas Family is based on actual events. It covers over 200 plus years of family history. Many know the histo...

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The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976, Paperback - Paul, Jr. Robeson

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activ...

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Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

125,99 RON

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

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Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It, Paperback - J. Edgar Hoover

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation explains the startling facts about the major menace of our time, communism: what it ...

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From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family, Paperback - James H. Johnston

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South, Paperback - Ira Berlin

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWidely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berli...

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The World of William Penn, Paperback - Genevieve Foster

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Reducere. In The World of William Penn Foster explores the wide sphere of the humble Quaker, William Penn. From the courtyards of the Sun King to the royal c...

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Animal Town, Paperback - A. D. Ultman

122,99 RON

"Things have never been better in Animal Town. All animals are free, and animal does not kill animal." In an anthropomorphic world reminiscent of G...

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The Four Vision Quests of Jesus, Paperback - Steven Charleston

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven Charleston"A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of Native American t...

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Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil, Paperback - Caetano Veloso

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz ...

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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom, Paperback - John F. Baker

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook. When he learned that two...

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The Fort at Prospect Bluff: The British Post on the Apalachicola & the Battle of Negro Fort, Paperback - Rachael Conrad

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. The deadliest cannon shot in American history was fired at the "Negro Fort" at Prospect Bluff on Florida's Apalachicola River on July 27, 1816. The...

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Lakota Portraits: Lives Of The Legendary Plains People, First Edition, Paperback - Joseph Agonito

116,00 RON

A moving, thoughtful, beautifully illustrated look at the lives of men and women who helped shape the history of the Lakota people and the American...

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The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China, Paperback - Chen Guangcheng

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. " Chen's] story is a reminder that the desire for basic human rights . . . arises from the deep well of the human spirit."--The New York Times Book...

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This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience, Paperback - Juan Williams

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith isthe story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movementin American his...

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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Paperback - David McCullough

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

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Dimiter, Paperback - William Peter Blatty

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-bestseller The Exorcist. Now Blatty gives us Dimiter, a ri...

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