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  • Men and masculinities in modern Britain
    Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men’s lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy in contemporary Britain. ...
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    42,57 €

  • The Politics of Safety
    Shannon King
    For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black 'thugs' throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. A...
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    126,51 €

  • The Politics of Safety
    Shannon King
    For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black 'thugs' throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. A...
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    37,65 €

  • Addressing Social Problems
    Sara Towe Horsfall
    Addressing Social Problems: Advocacy at Work’ offers invaluable learning tools, including study questions for comprehension reinforcement, thought-provoking questions to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, a glossary of key terms, and a research worksheet for investigating advocacy organizations. It is a call to action, as well as an invitation to analyze social issues ...
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    49,80 €

  • Addressing Social Problems
    Sara Towe Horsfall
    Addressing Social Problems: Advocacy at Work’ offers invaluable learning tools, including study questions for comprehension reinforcement, thought-provoking questions to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, a glossary of key terms, and a research worksheet for investigating advocacy organizations. It is a call to action, as well as an invitation to analyze social issues ...
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    59,48 €

  • Gorchest Gwilym Bevan
    T. Gwynn Jones / Thomas Gwynn Jones
    (Classic Welsh novel by T. Gwynn Jones)'Roedd llais torcalonnus Mrs. Tomos, a’i geiriau gwylltion, ’Dacw fo’r dyn starfiodd fy ngŵr i; i lawr â fo!’ yn swnio yn eu clustiau’n barhaus...'Mae Gwilym Bevan ar fin taflu’i hun i ddyfroedd y Tafwys pan gaiff ei achub gan ddieithryn, a chael ail gyfle ar fywyd. Dychwela i Gymru a chael gwaith yn y chwarel; a diolch i’w ddysg a’i hyfe...
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    19,35 €

  • Was I Your First?
    Derk R. Mattocks
    Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead of shying away, he learned to challenge the circumstances and not let them dictate how he would live his life. Of course, Derk would say while he does not consider himself a fighter, there was something innate that led him to the top of a career field that was ...
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    28,38 €

  • Was I Your First?
    Derk R. Mattocks
    Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead of shying away, he learned to challenge the circumstances and not let them dictate how he would live his life. Of course, Derk would say while he does not consider himself a fighter, there was something innate that led him to the top of a career field that was ...
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    24,65 €

  • Black Africa and the US Art World in the Early 20th Century
    P. A. Mullins
    This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939. ...
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    158,19 €

  • Únics
    Alba Olcina / Carolina Vives
    conèixer la discapacitat intel.lectual a través d’una bonica història real, d’uns personatges entranyables amb valors incalculables. Ells són els protagonistes d’una aventura plena d’emocions. Et faran somriure i t’atraparan per la seva capacitat de lluita i de superació. ...
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    13,47 €

  • Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
    Tom Navon
    An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question. ...
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    126,57 €

  • Poisoning the Wells
    In the United States, antisemitism has once again risen, and is spread in all our major institutions and political and cultural venues.  In a series of essays by leading scholars, this work provides a detailed analysis of contemporary antisemitism and examines its origins, development, and alarming implications for the future. ...
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    91,98 €

  • The Heartbeat of an Intentional Community
    Rhoda Walter
    This memoir describes the underlying spirit of the small intentional community that collectively participated in writing the New York Times best-selling manual for living a low-consumption, high-fulfillment lifestyle, Your Money or Your Life. It describes this close-knit group, known as the New Road Map Foundation, through the eyes of one of its members. It is the story of the ...
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    9,31 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    39,19 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    35,32 €

  • Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863
    Friedman Rebecca / Protsenko Nikolay
    ENGThis is the first book-length study of masculinity in Imperial Russia. By looking at official and unofficial life at universities across the Russian empire, this project offers a picture of the complex processes through which gender ideologies were forged and negotiated in the Nineteenth Century. Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 demonstrates how g...
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    41,25 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    127,19 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    38,33 €

  • The common writer in modern history
    Martyn Lyons
    This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ’ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical areas, historical periods and scholarly disciplines. ...
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    169,60 €

  • The Evolution Of Religion An Anthropological Study
    Farnell L. R.
    'The Evolution of Religion' is a substantial work with the aid of the British classical student, Lewis Richard Farnell (L. R. Farnell), This pioneering book explores the development and evolution of religious ideals and practices across specific civilizations and time intervals. Farnell’s complete look at delves into the origins of spiritual concept, rituals, and establishments...
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    12,17 €

  • The East Coasters
    Lois Nyman
    The major standard history of the first wave of settlers who arrived in Tasmania’s East Coast between 1821 and 1831 and who developed the wide area.First published in 1990 but long unavailable, it follows with humour and historical authenticity the pioneering struggles of the first settlers, their interaction with each other, their encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers, an...
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    40,66 €

  • The East Coasters
    Lois Nyman
    The major standard history of the first wave of settlers who arrived in Tasmania’s East Coast between 1821 and 1831 and who developed the wide area.First published in 1990 but long unavailable, it follows with humour and historical authenticity the pioneering struggles of the first settlers, their interaction with each other, their encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers, an...
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    71,58 €

  • The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
    Mária M. Kovács
    The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining-and discriminating again...
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    82,37 €

  • The Trouble with Kenya
    Lawi Sultan Njeremani
    The McKenzian Blueprint.Some lines are short; some lines are long. All lines are variable. Some appear parallel but connect in latency. Some appear linear. When held against the light they reveal dependence or independence; Freedom or constraints; Empowerment or strife; Subjugation or Justice.The Trouble with Kenya is a microcosm of any given country’s social and justice pillar...
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    21,48 €

  • 18
    Nora Gold
    This anthology contains 18 splendid Jewish stories, each translated into English from a different language. These compelling, humorous, and moving stories, written by eminent authors that include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isaac Babel, and Lili Berger, reflect both the diversities and the commonalities within Jewish culture, and will make you laugh, cry, and think and are enjoyable fo...
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    186,31 €

  • AN EXTRAORDINARY HISTORICAL EVENT
    Bryan Mitchell
    THIS BOOK LOOKS AT AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY. THE MAJORITY OF ITS PEOPLE WERE LOCATED IN PERSIA, NOT IN THEIR HOMELAND. GOD HAD USED HIS POWER OVER BABYLONIAN RULERS TO CAUSE THEM TO EXPAND THEIR EMPIRE. MANY JEWS WERE BROUGHT TO BABYLON AS CAPTIVES. IN A SHORT TIME THE PERSIAN EMPIRE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE BABYLONIAN, THUS THIS EPISODE OF JEWISH HISTORY. ...
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    20,62 €

  • Ancient Huntress
    Sara L. Weston
    The conventional portrayal of prehistoric gender roles has long depicted men as hunters and women as gatherers, perpetuating the notion that women played a passive role in early human societies. However, recent research and archaeological findings have challenged this narrative, revealing a more complex and nuanced understanding of prehistoric gender roles, women played an acti...
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    14,50 €

  • Born in 1944? What else happened?
    Ron Williams
    ABOUT THIS SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. I could have found out about the times they lived in. But I d...
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    16,03 €

  • Making of the World
    Mahbub H. Khan
    This book is 'a strong summary of world history and social evolution' (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).Humanity was once divided into thousands of small nomadic groups, hardly knowing each other. Each lived inside its bubble of myths and beliefs. The notion of one single global community, related by a common origin and similar as...
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    22,13 €

  • Up from Slavery
    Booker T. Washington
    'Up from Slavery' is an autobiography written by Booker T. Washington, an African American educator, author, and advisor to presidents of the United States. The book was first published in 1901 and provides a firsthand account of Washington’s life, from his childhood in slavery to his rise as a prominent and influential figure in American history. One of the key themes of 'Up f...
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    14,61 €


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