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  • Somerset
    Daniel Donaghy
    Somerset is an elegy for the Kensington section of Philadelphia in which the author was raised. Using a variety of styles and forms, it remembers people and cultures struggling to survive in the aftermath of deindustrialization and, now, an opioid epidemic. It is also a study in how our past continually informs our present, how we never fully leave those places in which our you...
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    15,52 €

  • We Are The Blessings Of Africa
    Dr. Queen Blessing Itua
    'This book is endorsed by the First Lady of Nigeria, Her Excellency, Dr. (Mrs.) Buhari.'We Are The Blessings of Africa is a reawakening call on every African, home and abroad to unite in turning their diversity into a powerful solution for African issues.  When we see ourselves as the blessings of our communities, our attitude about our individual roles changes. We see ourselve...
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    23,31 €

  • Thousand Cricket Song
    Catherine Strisik
    The keen eye of compassion in each detail, the steady touch of its cadence in each unfolding line. Olga Broumas Author of Rave: Poems Here is a perfect, clean and delicate (powerful and often terrifying) work of art. In its simplicity lies profound emotion, both beautiful and laden with sadness. These masterful slim poems speak with...
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    15,05 €

  • Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis
    Misconceptions regarding gender identity and issues of inequality that women around the world face have become a predominant concern for not only the citizens impacted, but global political leaders, administrators, and human rights activists. Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis explores how an analysis of language us...
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    242,72 €

  • Gay Children, Straight Parents
    Richard Cohen
    Hope and Healing for Families. Out of his own experience and the experience of many of those he has served in his counseling practice, Richard Cohen sets out a step-by-step plan that offers a path toward renewed family relationships grounded in love, faith and mutual respect. “Richard is movingly candid about the brokenness in his own family life, and he’s not afraid to get d...
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    18,55 €

  • Impact of Communication and the Media on Ethnic Conflict
    Throughout the world, cultural and racial clashes remain a major hurdle to development and progress. Though some areas are experiencing successful intercultural communications which pave the way for peaceful negotiations, there are still many regions experiencing severe turmoil. Impact of Communication and the Media on Ethnic Conflict focuses on both the positive and negative o...
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    242,92 €

  • If you look at it long enough...
    Paul Hallam
    Originally written for an academic journal, If you look at it long enough... is primarily a personal account of Paul Hallam’s recollections of “self-abuse” through the consumption of porn over several decades. Challenging the familiar form of an “academic essay,” this autobiographical narrative raises several questions in relation to our contemporary morals related to sex in ge...
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    11,30 €

  • Contemporary Global Perspectives on Gender Economics
    Susanne Moore
    The rise of women in the workforce has led to many campaigns for wage equality and the impartial treatment of both sexes as they pursue careers previously designated as either a man’s or a woman’s job. The impact of these campaigns has been felt, but a sense of gender stereotyping still affects not only the social and cultural well-being of the modern organization, but the driv...
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    256,04 €

  • Terms of Inclusion
    Paulina L. Alberto / Paulina LAlberto
    In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black press of the era, and focusin...
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    57,15 €

  • Lynching and Spectacle
    Amy Louise Wood
    Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a...
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    47,56 €

  • Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation
    Online education has the potential to utilize cutting-edge technologies in order to bring together learners, e-facilitators, and e-contents. The Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality discusses the potential for transformative models to liberate online education. With a focus on the societal, social, political, economi...
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    348,20 €

  • Gender and Information Technology
    Mary Kirk
    The exponential growth of technology and concurrent information revolution is creating a tremendous cultural shift on a global scale. However, the direction of that shift is being determined by those privileged few who participate. Women and people of color remain underrepresented as developers, users and beneficiaries of technology. Using gender as a starting point, Gender and...
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    216,73 €

  • Stark Truths
    Gillian P. Herbert
    “These linked stories trace a lesbian’s progress through the slowly changing face of homophobia in our lifetimes. From illegal lives filled with potential violence to the superficial equality that masks lingering prejudice, Gillian Herbert speaks bravely and honestly about one of the great issues of our time and how it impacted one woman’s life. This is a vital record that must...
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    11,45 €

  • Apsara in New York
    Sokunthary Svay
    Poetry collection by Sokunthary Svay, Khmer writer and musician from the Bronx, New York. She and her family were refugees from Cambodia who survived the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. “Sokunthary Svay’s Apsara in New York is truly like no other poetry collection I’ve read. Transnational and pan-ethnic in scope, the book begins in a refugee camp in Thailand, settles in the Bronx...
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    13,78 €

  • Barack Obama
    Ben Arogundade
    Dramatic and startling — The GuardianWitness Barack Obama as you’ve never seen him before — as feminist, communist, fashion model, Jew, Muslim terrorist, Messiah, Superman, George Washington, President Roosevelt, Julius Caesar and Hindu deity Lord Shiva.Obama: 101 Best Covers shows America’s ex-president in all these guises and more, on the front pages of the world’s leading pr...
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    58,22 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • I Promised Not to Tell
    Cheryl B Evans
    A Readers' Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner.  Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: 'You can be anything and do anything you want in life.' They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw and, deeply personal story as one family invites you to b...
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    14,94 €

  • Speaking Out
    Alan Berman / Berman Alan / Shirleene Robinson
    Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to violence and harassment ever undertaken in Australia, this book gives voice to the many victims who have suffered in the state once recognised as Australia’s most homophobic. It tells of the barriers people face in dealing with the legal system, the reasons why some do not report...
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    41,71 €

  • Faster Towards My Own Destruction
    Micazilin Rhoady
    a man becomes a recluse when the world becomes infected with a deadly plague. ...
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    21,62 €

  • Men, War and Film
    Steve Hawley
    The story and analysis of the Calling Blighty series of films made by the Combined Kinematograph Service in Burma and India between 1943 and 1946. These are remarkable and moving documents, a one-way Skype of their day, where men - and a very few women - sent spoken messages home to be shown to families and sweethearts in local cinemas. 42 illus. ...
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    51,52 €

  • Frederick Douglass (Esprios Classics)
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 - November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. F...
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    26,03 €

  • Sfumature di viola volume 1-2
    Cenere Poppy
    Ipnotica ed enigmatica come sempre,Cenere Poppy ci porta nel suo mondo attraverso l’energia delle sue parole, attraverso quello che ci dice e sopratutto quello che ci tiene nascosto. ...
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    59,37 €

  • Don’t Let Stress Keep You from Success!
    Dr. Rosie Ramos
    This collection of poems and stories was written through genuine, heartfelt testimonies shared by young people who, through their documented life experiences, hope to help others feel less alone. Through poetry and storytelling, communities can be unified, and families and individuals can heal. ...
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    20,13 €

  • The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays (Esprios Classics)
    Charles W. Chesnutt
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 - November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. F...
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    37,02 €

  • How To Be Human
    Shelby Stisser
    Being human is complicated. When you are lost inside your own mind, every situation becomes harder to navigate. Life is a long and enduring journey to reach an authentic self. A self that was buried from the start. If you’re growing up questioning why you are so different, thinking that you are somehow wrong, I made this book for you. There’s nothing to fix. There never was. ...
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    12,81 €

  • The Mirage
    Hayden Dow
    Fitz is a demigod. His father, the god of fire, wants him to be the strongest warrior the world has ever seen. Fitz’s new friend, a sorcerer, wants him to decide who he wants to be for himself. In this war-torn world, Fitz searches for everything he has lost, and everything he has already found. ...
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    33,46 €

  • Let’s Get This Straight
    Perry Perry
    'Let’s Get This Straight' is a thought-provoking novel that weaves together the lives of diverse characters from various cultures, each connected to the powerful symbol of the rainbow. Exploring its biblical roots and spiritual significance alongside its modern reinterpretation in the LGBTQ+ rights movement, this compelling narrative invites readers to reflect on identity, the ...
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    44,74 €

  • Stardust
    Rocco Pink
    'A journey through the glittering wreckage of becoming.'STARDUST is a radiant mosaic of memory, survival, and soul, stitched together with bold essays, poetic confessions, and stories too wild not to be told. In STARDUST, Rocco Pink lays it all bare-the heartbreaks that broke him open, the stardust moments that made him shine, and the in-between spaces where humor, lust, grief,...
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    46,04 €

  • Stardust
    Rocco Pink
    'A journey through the glittering wreckage of becoming.'STARDUST is a radiant mosaic of memory, survival, and soul, stitched together with bold essays, poetic confessions, and stories too wild not to be told. In STARDUST, Rocco Pink lays it all bare-the heartbreaks that broke him open, the stardust moments that made him shine, and the in-between spaces where humor, lust, grief,...
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    88,68 €

  • The Black Atlantic’s triple burden
    Adekeye Adebajo
    This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity. ...
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    192,67 €