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  • Responsa in a Historical Context
    Debby Koren
    This book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Topics include excommunication in Amsterdam, ʻagunot, inheritance rights of a converso son, obligatory contracts and breach of agreement, heresy and humanist sch...
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    42,60 €

  • El Libro de Marielle Franco
    Marielle Franco
    El libro Marielle Franco - A Photobiography es un documento esencial no sólo para comprender las principales cuestiones sociales de actualidad en Brasil, sino también la amplia lucha por los derechos humanos, para la población negra y para las personas LGBTQIAP+. Marielle Franco (1979-2018) fue una de las políticas brasileñas contemporáneas más importantes. Nacida en el Complex...
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    33,28 €

  • Black Firsts in Los Angeles
    Randal Henry
    Black Firsts in Los Angeles shines a spotlight on more than 200 extraordinary achievements by Black Angelenos.Black Firsts highlights the oft unheralded accomplishments of Black Angelenos which-despite their importance-are generally not included in school books or taught in classrooms. Organized into 83 areas of accomplishment alphabetically and chronologically, Black Firsts re...
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    44,19 €

  • Motherhood confined
    Rachel E. Bennett
    The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind. ...
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    43,12 €

  • Celebrating Love Across Borders
    Blaze X. Maverick
    Embark on a captivating journey through the intricate tapestry of love as we unravel the pages of 'Celebrating Love Across Borders: Controversies and Criticisms Worldwide.' This thought-provoking exploration transcends cultural boundaries, delving into the universal complexities of love’s global tapestry. Prepare to be swept away as we navigate through diverse customs, time-hon...
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    12,68 €

  • Shackled Again?
    Tony Watkins
    Tony Watkins, in his second book, brings us these powerful women who are in this incredible collection of first-hand accounts. Each have a unique fingerprint within the Civil Rights Movement. Their contributions to this country are impeccable, and it is time that we all learn who they are. In this historically accurate work, Tony, through interviews, recordings, and transcripti...
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    30,61 €

  • With Many Miracles
    Israel Cappell
    On April 27, 1944, Polish-born Israel Cappell was awakened by the dreadful knock on the door that he and his family had feared since they began to hide from the Nazis in their adopted city of Brussels two years earlier. Israel’s sister Fanny managed to flee, one of many consequential miracles that shape this riveting memoir of Holocaust survival.Israel takes the reader on a fut...
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    15,19 €

  • Tarnopol Volume (Ternopil, Ukraine)
    Moshe Kutten
    Tarnopol is a city in western Ukraine roughly 80 miles east of Lviv. During its history, it changed hands several times. It was annexed to Austria in 1772 as part of Galicia and remained under Austrian rule until 1918 when the empire collapsed. During World War I the city passed from German and Austrian forces to Russia several times. For a brief time at the end of 1918, it was...
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    49,33 €

  • Resistance Girl Renée
    Ruth Uzrad
    She will do anything to bring her family back together.Berlin, 1939. When her beloved hometown of Berlin falls under Nazi rule, 14-year-old Ruth takes her younger sisters by the hand and boards a train bound for Belgium. Courageous and resourceful, she vows to do all she can to keep the three of them safe and together.But as the war progresses swiftly through Europe, even Belgi...
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    22,59 €

  • The Pack Sweeps on Together
    John E. Turner
    Blackheath Harriers (now Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC) was founded in 1869, making it one of the oldest running clubs in the world. It’s Club magazine, the Gazette, was first produced in 1898. Following the success of his first book, ’Hurrah for the Squares Entwinéd’, piecing together extracts from the first 50 years (1898-1948), and his second book, ’The Badge we all hold ...
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    16,95 €

  • 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 €

  • Return of the Fallen Ones
    Jason M. Breshears
    In ancient times there are stories of the gods who appeared on Earth and brought knowledge and civilization to mankind. The oldest stories were from ancient Sumer and these gods were called the Anunnaki, or Nephilim, also known as the Fallen Ones. They were considered fallen after co-mingling with the daughters of men, so their realm became the Earth rather than the 'heaven' fr...
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    24,04 €

  • 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 €

  • Growing Up Kingsborough
    Carrol Arnold
    Growing up Kingsborough (KB) is a non-fictional work that chronicles the lives of group of former residents who grew up in a Brooklyn, New York Public Housing Project - The Kingsborough Houses. Told from a first-person perspective of the author and friends, the work focuses on two decades - the mid-1960s and 1970s - and the impact the two decades had on our lives. Beginning wit...
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    18,99 €

  • 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 €

  • Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls
    Richard Hogan
    After the Civil War, as Black freedmen prepared to exercise their new voting rights in Georgia, white supremacist groups rose to restrict their ability. Georgians faced a new prospect for brokering a class-based electoral coalition of white yeomen and Black freedmen. The failure of Reconstruction echoes today as Georgia remains a voting rights battleground. This book details ...
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    109,66 €

  • 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 €


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