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  • I Woke Up Black | What My Eyes Have Seen, My Ears Have Heard, and My Heart Has Felt
    Marvin Michael O’Bryant
    'I Woke Up Black' by Marvin Michael O’Bryant is a story inspired by real-life experiences. It follows the life of Marvin, who has witnessed decades of depression, poverty, and a lack of motivation in a nation struggling with love and respect. Despite these challenges, Marvin believes in the importance of respecting one another and finding value in every individual to bring out ...
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    32,34 €

  • The Moorish Guide
    Gov V Taylor El - Minister Khnum / Gov V Taylor El / Minister Khnum
    Wake UpAll ascended masters whom common men call prophets have concluded that the vast majority of humanity are sleeping their way through life, never experiencing the true reality of life. Most people’s beliefs are falsely assumed and even more corruptly practiced while the truth about life is kept locked away in secret societies for both of their preservation. Ignorance is on...
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    34,55 €

  • Black Trivia Book
    Lance D. Williams
    This book has 38 rounds of wide-ranging information about Black history, sports, entertainment, business, education, politics, and many other things with African Americans and Black people worldwide. You can do the 800 multiple-choice trivia by yourself to see how much you know. Or do this activity with others to see how much they know. ...
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    21,76 €

  • ​India​
    F. Max Muller
    'India: What Can it Teach Us?' is a collection of lectures delivered by Friedrich Max Müller, a prominent 19th-century German philologist and Orientalist. The book was first published in 1882 and is a compilation of seven lectures where Müller delves into the ancient sacred texts and philosophical traditions of India. He explores the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of Ind...
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    30,05 €

  • Grace O’Malley
    History Nerds
    Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte von Grace O’Malley - der Piratin, Ehefrau, Mutter und Kriegerin, die in einer Zeit, in der Frauen unterdrückt wurden, ihren eigenen Weg ging. In diesem Buch finden Sie eine spannende Zusammenfassung von Graces Leben und ihrem Vermächtnis, das bis heute als Symbol für Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit steht.Erfahren Sie, wie Grace ihr Leben a...
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    10,57 €

  • W. E. B. Du Bois’ Africa
    Taharka Ade
    W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois’s writings on Africa and Pan-Africanism. ...
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    158,60 €

  • Our Better Nature
    Philip J. Dreyfus
    A historical approach to reintegrating the city with its natural environmentFew cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco-the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our ...
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    24,37 €

  • Growing Up Canadian
    Clyde Woolman
    The generation that came of age from 1960 to 1980 had front-row seats to the events and personalities that laid the foundation for the Canada we know today. As the generation matured, so too did the country.Chapters range from TV to sports, music to business, and stage to screen. A section includes the lengths individuals went to be 'cool.' Another features Canada’s attempts to...
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    21,18 €

  • Old Lady Somerset
    Duncan Carmichael
    Old Lady Somerset is a fiercely stubborn old bird. In her lifetime she has successfully resisted five attempts at eviction. Within living memory there are two aborted attempts to relocate to Heathfield. Outwith living memory there are failed attempts to move to Carrick Street Oval (1894) and Dam Park (1914 and again in 1919). The lessons of history have been learned. It is not ...
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    22,18 €

  • Roots of Freedom
    Tashlultum ( Sozo Keys )
    Harnessing the Power of Self-Sufficiency and HeritageRoots of Freedom: The One-Acre Debt-Free Blueprint - Harnessing the Power of Self-Sufficiency and Heritage is a well-rounded guide dedicated to African Americans intending to transform a small piece of land into a thriving market garden. By combining sustainable farming with cost-effective strategies, it enlightens readers on...
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    18,65 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias
    The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias’s ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today. ...
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    238,51 €

  • Women on the Yiddish Stage
    The integration of women into public Jewish performance (Yiddish-language theater by 1877 and Hebrew-language theater by about 1918) was a revolution in modern Jewish culture. While a great deal of seasoned Yiddish-speaking male talent preexisted theater in the form of cantors, choristers, and tavern singers, East European Jewish women had no experience participating in public ...
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    129,64 €

  • Building Modern Jewish Culture
    In the midst of the violent conflicts of 1918 ambitious plans for new cultural formations emerged on the territory of the former Russian Empire. The most important Jewish community organization was the Kultur-Lige. Founded to ’organize the Jewish masses and develop Yiddish culture’, the association’s first meeting took place at the Kyiv apartment of the Yiddish writer David Ber...
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    138,91 €

  • Activism in the Name of God
    Jami L Carlacio
    Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, P. Jane Splawn, Laura L. Sullivan, and Hettie V. Williams Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present re...
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    157,86 €

  • Activism in the Name of God
    Jami L Carlacio
    Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, P. Jane Splawn, Laura L. Sullivan, and Hettie V. Williams Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present re...
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    42,41 €

  • From City to Valley
    Chris Andrews
    In 1940, groups of children travelled from The East End of London to a small Welsh village away from the Blitz - leaving their families behind to experience a rural life far from anything they had previously known.Chris Andrews, who grew up in the East End just after the end of World War II, has created a compelling narrative based on the imagined experiences of some of these e...
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    15,80 €

  • From City to Valley
    Chris Andrews
    In 1940, groups of children travelled from The East End of London to a small Welsh village away from the Blitz - leaving their families behind to experience a rural life far from anything they had previously known.Chris Andrews, who grew up in the East End just after the end of World War II, has created a compelling narrative based on the imagined experiences of some of these e...
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    27,08 €

  • Conflicts in History Education in Europe
    The heightened resonance of identity-driven politics in many states across twenty first century Europe emphasizes the critical role of history in shaping public contestation of the idea of the nation, and accordant manifestations of nationalism and national identity. How the past is interpreted or what and how is remembered has proven increasingly febrile, contentious, and divi...
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    128,13 €

  • Conflicts in History Education in Europe
    The heightened resonance of identity-driven politics in many states across twenty first century Europe emphasizes the critical role of history in shaping public contestation of the idea of the nation, and accordant manifestations of nationalism and national identity. How the past is interpreted or what and how is remembered has proven increasingly febrile, contentious, and divi...
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    71,85 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein
    The Anthem Companion to Immanuel Wallerstein explores many of the topics central to Wallerstein’s understanding of the modern world-system and offers a comprehensive guide to the full range of his work. ...
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    238,72 €

  • NOT LIBERAL ANYMORE
    Raul Chao
    Reflections on the suicidal degradation of the Liberal Minds ...
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    39,81 €

  • The Great Good Place
    Karen Christensen / Ray Oldenburg
    Embark on a journey that will change your perspective on community and individual well-being. In The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg gave the term 'third places,' where people gather for the pleasure of good company and conversation, and explained just how important they are. Discover the benefits of informal public and civic life and how it contributes to community health and ...
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    37,39 €

  • Lightwaves
    Bill Thompson
    'Lightwaves: A Film Critic’s Odyssey' is a hand-picked collection of the best interviews, reviews, movie histories, and weekly columns written by Bill Thompson during his 19 years as film critic for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier, accompanied and amplified by new thematic essays. ...
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    32,69 €

  • It’s About Time
    Paul R. Lehman
    This book takes a look at the history of ethnic bias beginning in 1137 when Geoffrey of Monmouth in a book of myths entitled, History of the Kings of Britain, identified the Anglo-Saxons as the best people in Britain based on their character and behavior. although that claim of the best was a myth, the Anglo-Saxons continued to promote it. Over several hundred years, the claim ...
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    21,89 €

  • Racism
    Michael Nelson
    Michael Nelson accentuates the discrimination prevalent in the colonial period of Africa, Asia, and America. She highlights how black people suffered under colonization. They were deprived of rights, no fair play, no justice. She regrets on the concept of racism which deprives equality to black people. There was a difference between the white and black community under which the...
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    12,97 €

  • It’s About Time
    Paul R. Lehman
    This book takes a look at the history of ethnic bias beginning in 1137 when Geoffrey of Monmouth in a book of myths entitled, History of the Kings of Britain, identified the Anglo-Saxons as the best people in Britain based on their character and behavior. although that claim of the best was a myth, the Anglo-Saxons continued to promote it. Over several hundred years, the claim ...
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    15,41 €

  • Sonic Histories of Occupation
    This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the wo...
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    51,03 €

  • The imperial Commonwealth
    Wm. Matthew Kennedy
    The Imperial Commonwealth examines what empire meant to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australian settler colonists, how it seemed to entail special obligations for white settlers of British heritage, and how, in developing settler colonial categories of empire, Australian itself became an empire. ...
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    157,28 €

  • KANMO Dossier
    Ronald E Harlow
    The FBI hid crucial information about this shooting, made critical documents disappear, even failed to properly account for weapons recovered at the shooting scene. For many decades people have tried to 'solve' the shooting, but I did. Even though the FBI concealed vital evidence. If they can prove me wrong, they will. Don’t bet on it though. Because they can’t.----------------...
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    45,53 €

  • Reinventing Tradition
    Klavdia Smola
    Klavdia Smola explores how the Jewish tradition was reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust and decades of Communism. The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day. ...
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    199,65 €


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