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  • A progressive education?
    Laura Tisdall
    A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. ...
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    44,11 €

  • R. Saadia Gaon
    Eliezer Schlossberg
    R. Saadia Gaon (882-942) was unquestionably one of the most important if not the most important medieval Jewish thinker. He dealt with biblical exegesis, philosophy, grammar, poetry, prayer, and Halakha, and in many of these fields he is considered an innovator and a trailblazer, paving new paths for his followers. Many of the sages who lived after him cited from his writings. ...
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    186,09 €

  • Jewish Culture and Creativity
    Jewish Culture and Creativity honors the wide-ranging scholarship of Prof. Michael Fishbane with contributions of his students on subjects that cover the gamut of Jewish studies, from biblical and rabbinic literature to medieval and modern Jewish culture, and concluding with case studies of the creative application of Prof. Fishbane’s thought and theology in contemporary Jewish...
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    199,73 €

  • Gaols Gallows and Ghosts
    Richard Blacklee
    I first met Richard through a shared interest in the history of local buildings in Northampton, though I was already familiar with his excellent work on the Culworth Gang. Northampton has a significant number of older attractive buildings which should be appreciated. This book provides an excellent introduction to the history of some of the most interesting and intriguing of th...
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    17,06 €

  • Let’s spend the night together
    Subcultures Network
    It is often unmentioned and sometimes only implied, but sex provided much of the charge that infused post-war youth culture. This collection seeks to locate the sex in the well-known trilogy of ’sex & drugs & rock ’n’ roll’. From the masculine swagger of the Teds to the sensual fetishization of all things Goth, the essays here locate the sexual performance and implications of B...
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    181,57 €

  • Black Tech
    Theresa Merritt-Watson
    Black Tech is designed to be the first of several books in a series to help African Americans learn and appreciate more about Black participation in the development of the United States.Black Tech is written for first- to third-grade readers, but its content is applicable to all ages. In the book, a young narrator presents Black inventors and their unique inventions in a colorf...
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    14,73 €

  • Loggerheads
    Bruce Hornidge
    'For a decade, the issue of forest and land use in British Columbia raged like a forest fire . . .'Shamed by demonstrators as a 'tree-killer,' Clayoquot Sound tree faller Bruce Hornidge faced soul-searing losses of identity and family livelihood. This gripping, irony-laden memoir of a life spent harvesting in the beauty of the forest deals frankly with the nearly invisible huma...
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    21,02 €

  • 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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    17,70 €

  • African American Almanac
    Lean’tin Bracks
    Courage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history! African Americans helped build the United States. Their contributions, deeds, and influence are interwoven into the fabric of the country. Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American Almanac: 400 Years of Blac...
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    75,67 €

  • The Last Boy in Auschwitz
    Moshe (Mjetek) Bomberg
    Meeting his brother in Auschwitz, he understood that they are all aloneA young boy’s world falls apart! He can trust no one and does not know what his tomorrow holds or if he will live to see it.Poland 1944, Mjetek finds himself in Auschwitz after taking part in Zionist underground activities trying to fight against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. He meets his brother and unders...
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    21,13 €

  • Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24
    This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War. ...
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    169,37 €

  • Olukumi Kingdom
    George Benin Nkemnacho
    In a world that is increasingly being aware, in a political and cultural sense, of issues surrounding marginalised communities, this book gives a riveting account of the history, culture and politics of the Olukumi people, a marginalised Yoruba community unlike others that had hitherto been the subject of mainstream literature and debates.The Olukumi people are a bilingual (bot...
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    26,92 €

  • Exile From Argentina
    Eduardo D. Faingold
    Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his family history from the time whe...
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    72,06 €

  • Exile From Argentina
    Eduardo D. Faingold
    Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his family history from the time whe...
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    128,33 €

  • The Radical Isaac
    Adi Mahalel
    Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz’s alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics. ...
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    46,98 €

  • Pieces of Us
    Rob Sheffield
    Shops, churches, pubs, social clubs, libraries, parks, schools, streets, windowsills, gardens, pavements... These public spaces can have an extraordinary effect on well-being in a community. They bring people together and form the bonds that lead to people supporting each other. With vivid descriptions and heartfelt anecdotes, Pieces of Us is a moving tribute to the people who ...
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    14,44 €

  • The Back Stories of History featuring Freedmen’s Town
    Priscilla T Graham
    Historic Freedmen’s Town, Fourth Ward is a living laboratory of African American History and Life. The Historic 5 square mile District was founded after the Civil War on June 19, 1865. The Freedmen migrated to Houston from the small farms and plantations south and southwest of Houston along the Brazos River by way of San Felipe Road. Many Freedmen settled on the uninhabitabl...
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    64,26 €

  • The Shochet
    Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn
    This unique book is the memoirs of a kosher slaughterer, a Jewish functionary, who lived in Ukraine and Crimea from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. For the first time, it gives us a snapshot of Jewish life from a functionary’s point of view in the last century of Tsarist rule, and at the same time deals with the eternal questions of antisemitism,...
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    30,27 €

  • The Shochet
    Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn / Michoel Rotenfeld
    This unique book is the memoirs of a kosher slaughterer, a Jewish functionary, who lived in Ukraine and Crimea from the middle of the nineteenth century until the First World War. For the first time, it gives us a snapshot of Jewish life from a functionary’s point of view in the last century of Tsarist rule, and at the same time deals with the eternal questions of antisemitism,...
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    219,13 €

  • Invisible Activists
    Lee Sartain
    Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the organization but actually helped it thrive in the early twentieth-century South. In Invisible Activists, Lee Sartain examines attitudes toward the gender, class, and citizenship of ...
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    38,34 €

  • Shalom, Berlin!
    Howard M. Berlin
    Shalom, Berlin! is a comprehensive 391-page travel guide for the Jewish traveler visiting those places that are linked to Berlin’s historical Jewish origins and its fall and rise of its Jewish population from the ashes of the Holocaust. In 12 chapters, historical information is provided for 140 sites that cover 10 of 12 Berlin’s Bezirke, or municipal districts. These sites cove...
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    57,43 €

  • Secularism and Its Ambiguities
    Carlo Ginzburg
    In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history. This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus of Central European University had in 2019 listening to Ginzburg’s eloquent and e...
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    17,70 €

  • In the Land of Marvels
    Paola Bertucci
    How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.In 1749, the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of electricity. At the end of his nine-month tour, he published a highly influential account ...
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    67,37 €

  • They’ve Left Us Behind
    Maureen Francesconi-Carroll
    Stanley Lawrence Carroll and Doreen McGlinn were ordinary West Australians who lived through the Great Depression and World War II and went on to raise a close and loving family.Their ancestors came to Australia between 1830 and 1871 as free settlers, convicts, military men, and others, all wanting to make a new life in a new country. The stories outline the hardships this fami...
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    24,79 €

  • The Roman Catholic Bishops of Lancaster
    Paul Severn
    In a series of biographical portraits Paul Severn tells the story of the seven diocesan and one auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic diocese of Lancaster. ...
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    20,44 €

  • Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials
    Kateryna Dysa
    Accusations and beliefs lying beneath the Ukrainian witchcraft trials of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ...
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    35,32 €

  • Dandelion Wishes
    Lisa King
    'Choice is power, and Coral has none.'For nine-year-old Coral, life revolves around her family. Dad says finding the old boarding house in Fitzroy is fortuitous, given war is just around the corner. Coral doesn’t know what that word means, only that they’re together. But Melbourne in 1940 is anything but predictable, and Coral and her brothers find themselves in the care of the...
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    20,72 €

  • The 7 Deadly Myths
    Alex Ryvchin
    This revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author’s most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time.'With clarity and penetrating insight, Alex Ryvchin unravels the mystery of antisemitism… Mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the ethical fate of the human race.' ― Isaac Herzog, President of the State of IsraelTh...
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    21,25 €

  • The Famous Lady Lovers
    Cookie Woolner
    Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black l...
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    31,79 €

  • The Famous Lady Lovers
    Cookie Woolner
    Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black l...
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    127,17 €


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