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Give My Poor Heart Ease - Voices Of The Mississippi Blues

by William Ferris

95,40€ + 10% CARD

 Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist Ferris documented the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Illustrated.
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Community Journalism - Relentlessly Local

by Jock Lauterer

112,63€ + 10% CARD

 The essential handbook for successful small newspapers.
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Worried Sick - A Prescription For Health In An Overtreated America

by Nortin M. Hadler M.D.

75,53€ + 10% CARD

 Nortin Hadlers clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson on the uses and abuses of common offerings, from screening tests to medical and surgical interventions. By learning to distinguish good medical advice from persuasive medical marketing, consumers can make better decisions about their personal health care and use that wisdom to inform their perspectives on health-policy issues.
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Say We Are Nations - Documents Of Politics And Protest In Indigenous America Since 1887

by Daniel M. Cobb

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Donald M. Cobb shows how tribal leaders, intellectuals, and activists deployed a variety of protest methods to demand Indigenous sovereignty.
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Cheddi Jagan And The Politics Of Power - British Guiana''S Struggle For Independence

by Colin A. Palmer

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the centre of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953.
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On Becoming Cuban - Identity, Nationality, And Culture

by Louis A. Pérez Jr.

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Provides a cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the United States and Cuba and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959.
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Give My Poor Heart Ease - Voices Of The Mississippi Blues

by William Ferris

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist Ferris documented the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Illustrated.
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American Liberalism - An Interpretation For Our Time

by John Mcgowan

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism's critics. This book offers an endorsement of American liberalism's basic principles, values, and commitments. It explains how America's founders rejected the simplistic notion that government or society is necessarily oppressive.
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In The Beginning - Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, And The Making Of The Antievolution Movement

by Michael Lienesch

37,09€ + 10% CARD

 Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design, this title analyzes the creationism movement, one of the most formidable political movements of the twentieth century. It tells the story of the 1925 Scopes 'monkey' trial and reinterprets its meaning.
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American Inquisition - The Hunt For Japanese American Disloyalty In World War Ii

by Eric L. Muller

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 When the US government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime.
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Community Journalism - Relentlessly Local

by Jock Lauterer

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 The essential handbook for successful small newspapers.
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School Resegregation - Must The South Turn Back?

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Public education at the crossroads.
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Joy Of Teaching - A Practical Guide For New College Instructors

by Peter Filene

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 Peter Filene lays out the advantages and disadvantages of various pedagogical strategies, inviting new teachers to make choices based on their own personalities, values, and goals. Filene tackles everything from syllabus writing and lecture planning to class discussions, grading, and teacher-student interactions outside the classroom.
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Rascally Signs In Sacred Places - The Politics Of Culture In Nicaragua

by David E. Whisnant

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 An analysis of the dynamic relationship between culture, power and policy in Nicaragua over 300 years. Spanning many forms - including literature, music, film - the book explores the evolution of Nicaraguan culture, its manipulation for political purposes and the opposition to cultural policy.
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Meaning Over Memory - Recasting The Teaching Of Culture And History

by Peter N. Stearns

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 In the midst of the heated battles swirling around American humanities education, Peter Stearns offers a reconsideration not of what we teach but of why and how we teach it. A humanities program, says Stearns, should teach students not just memorized facts but analytical skills that are vital for a critically informed citizenry.
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With Masses And Arms - Peru''S Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

by Miguel La Serna

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 Miguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and the link between political violence and the culture of communications in Latin America.
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Liberia, South Carolina - An African American Appalachian Community

by John M. Coggeshall

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 In 2007 anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Clarke family and their friends and neighbours.
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South In Color - A Visual Journal

by William Ferris

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Since the moment William Ferrisâ€™ parents him a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. This beautiful, provocative collection of 100 of Ferrisâ€™ photographs of the South, taken during his formative period, capture the power of his colour photography.
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Building The British Atlantic World - Spaces, Places, And Material Culture, 1600-1850

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism — or a shared "Atlantic world" experience — through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants'' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality.<br/><br/>By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.
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Cheddi Jagan And The Politics Of Power - British Guiana''S Struggle For Independence

by Colin A. Palmer

105,93€ + 10% CARD

 Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the centre of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953.
ENGLISH

School Resegregation - Must The South Turn Back?

165,63€ + 10% CARD

 Public education at the crossroads.
ENGLISH

Joy Of Teaching - A Practical Guide For New College Instructors

by Peter Filene

105,93€ + 10% CARD

 Peter Filene lays out the advantages and disadvantages of various pedagogical strategies, inviting new teachers to make choices based on their own personalities, values, and goals. Filene tackles everything from syllabus writing and lecture planning to class discussions, grading, and teacher-student interactions outside the classroom.
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Beyond Blackface - African Americans And The Creation Of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930

165,63€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of thirteen essays brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theatre and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American mass culture during the early twentieth century.
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Worried Sick - A Prescription For Health In An Overtreated America

by Nortin M. Hadler M.D.

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 Nortin Hadler’s clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of <i>Worried Sick</i> is an object lesson on the uses and abuses of common offerings, from screening tests to medical and surgical interventions. By learning to distinguish good medical advice from persuasive medical marketing, consumers can make better decisions about their personal health care and use that wisdom to inform their perspectives on health-policy issues.
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