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  • !Basta!

    by Pilar Rahola ...
    Translated by Ana Mata Buil ...
    La tolerancia de Occidente con las dictaduras y la opresión de la mujer, la connivencia con Qatar y el dinero del petróleo, la incapacidad de denunciar el islamofascismo…Este es un libro para señalar los errores, para sacarnos los colores de vergüenza y ayudar a poner fin, de una vez por todas, a tanta estupidez, tanta tontería, tanta inoperancia, tanta incapacidad. Cinco años después de La ... Read more

    R211,00

  • "Aid and Comfort"

    Jane Fonda in North Vietnam

    Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never charged by the American legal system. Instead, she has made millions, been the ... Read more

    R285,76

  • "All Labor Has Dignity"

    Series Book 5 - King Legacy
    An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justiceCovering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to ... Read more

    R282,54

  • "All the Real Indians Died Off"

    And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

    Series Book 5 - Myths Made in America
    Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: ... Read more

    R201,70

  • "Are You Calling Me a Racist?"

    Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change

    Shows why diversity workshops fail and offers concrete solutions for a path forwardDespite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations, schools, and nonprofit organizations, racial conflict has only increased in recent years. “Are You Calling Me a Racist?” reveals why these efforts have failed to effectively challenge racism and offers a new way forward.Drawing from her ... Read more

    R376,61

  • "B" Movies, Bad Movies, Good Movies

    In the days when cinema audiences insisted that movie programs include two features, plus shorts, plus a newsreel, plus trailers, plus a cartoon, the supporting feature was known in the film trade as a "B". On many occasions, the unheralded "B" movie turned out to be more entertaining than the "A" attraction. Many of Hollywood’s biggest stars, like John Wayne, Clark Gable, Alan Ladd and Carole ... Read more

    R69,34

  • "Beyond This Narrow Now"

    Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois

    In “Beyond This Narrow Now” Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand as fundamental references for the whole itinerary of his thought. Opening with a distinct approach to the legacy of Du Bois, Chandler proceeds through a series of close readings of Du Bois's early essays, previously unpublished or seldom studied, with ... Read more

    R389,49

  • "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?"

    Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade

    This intimate social history of family life in 1990s Serbia considers how emigration effects the elders left behind.The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for better, more stable lives elsewhere. For the older generations, however, this wasn’t an option. In this powerful work, Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic reveals the impact that waves of emigration from Serbia had on family ... Read more

    R242,06 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Charity Signs for Herself"

    Gender and the Withdrawal of Black Women from Field Labor, Alabama 1865-1876

    The withdrawal of black women from field labor in the postwar South is the historical question being addressed with a gender analysis as the theoretical framework. Primary sources used have been drawn from Somerset plantation, North Carolina and Faunsdale plantation, Alabama. This book adds to the literature of women's history, gender studies, black history, and the Reconstruction era of Alabama. ... Read more

    R114,18

  • "Children from Heaven"

    An Israeli journalist, B. Rosenthal, unearthed in German records a letter written during the Third Reich from the Irgun, an outlawed army in Israel’s early days. In this letter the writer entreated Hitler to join forces with the Irgun and Stern Gang, also a notorious and outlawed Israeli terrorist group, and work together with Hitler who would create a totalitarian state in Europe, while the Irgun ... Read more

    R58,98

  • "Cut from the Same Cloth"

    A Collection of Smith Family Stories 1841 - 2006

    by C.A. Hawkins ...
    Cynthias parents migrated, during the 1940s, moving from Texas to California, shortly after World War II. She was born in 1948, growing up in Berkeley, California. She came from a close-knit, hardworking family. She grew up hearing stories of family members and of times long ago in the lumber mill towns located in East Texas. She writes about the little known, experiences of her relatives who ... Read more

    R98,08

  • "Daddy's Gone to War"

    The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children

    Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but ... Read more

    R658,94

  • "Die arbeiten nichts"

    Eine kleine Polemik gegen den "Wirtschaftsflüchtling"

    by Armin Nassehi ...
    Armin Nassehi denkt über die Ressentiments nach, die Flüchtlingen entgegenschlagen, und über die Gründe, die dahinter stecken. Er regt an, über unseren Kategorienapparat nachzudenken, in dem letztlich nur politische Fluchtgründe vorkommen, obwohl man die Gründe empirisch in vielen Fällen gar nicht unterscheiden kann. Unsere unpassenden Kategorien zwingen in Europa Gestrandete dazu, irgendwie ... Read more

    R35,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "For the Good of Their Souls"

    Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country

    Series series Native Americans of the Northeast
    In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened its mission near present-day Albany, New York, and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Within three years, about one-fifth of the Mohawks in the area began attending services. They even adapted versions of the service ... Read more

    R295,77

  • "Greed Is Good" and Other Fables

    Office Life in Popular Culture

    by Tony Osborne ...
    This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit.The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as "managerial styles" and comically ... Read more

    R751,05

  • "Heimat ist da, wo man verstanden wird"

    Junge VietnamesInnen in Deutschland

    Für gewöhnlich hat jeder Mensch nur eine Heimat. Aber schon seit langem ist mir bewusst geworden, dass ich in zwei verschiedenen Welten lebe. Und es gibt Tage, an denen ich nicht genau sagen kann, wohin ich eigentlich gehöre - ein Konflikt, in welchem ich mich zwischen zwei Welten zu entscheiden habe ... Bin ich eine Vietnamesin oder doch mehr eine ausländisch aussehende Berlinerin? Einerseits bin ... Read more

    R211,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "I Am Not Your Black, America!"

    Forget Every "Black" book you ever read; this Book is NOT "your black" book!This is the story of a first time author, who calls himself "Uncle Meshorn", as he debunks every label by which "uncle sam" has branded him with, including "uncle tom"!If MeShorn is NOT "your black", America, then who is he?As soon as you think you can "box" MeShorn into "one of yours", you will have to embarrassingly pull ... Read more

    R58,33

  • "I fart in your general direction!"

    Flatulence in Popular Culture

    This exhaustive work on flatulence breaks new wind on every aspect of abdominal gas in popular culture. A definitive taxonomy of farts details the characteristics of each variety, including barking spiders, cheek squeakers and green apple dirties. Philosophical positions on colonic expression are examined, from Confucius, Hume, Voltaire and the existentialists. Chapters cover a wide range of fart ... Read more

    R285,76

  • "I Hear America Singing"

    Folk Music and National Identity

    Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simper past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings of community and belonging. It celebrates the shared traditions that define a group or nation. In America, folk music--from African American spirituals to English ballads and protest songs--renders the imagined community more tangible and comprises a critical component of our ... Read more

    R483,56

  • "I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour

    by gal-dem ...
    “A radical, beautiful, world-changing collection of writing that we all need to read.” Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don’t Wear Pinkgal-dem, the award-winning online and print magazine, is created by women and non-binary people of colour. In this life-affirming, moving and joyous collection of fourteen essays, gal-dem's talented writers use raw material from their teenage years – diaries, poems and ... Read more

    R141,44

  • "I'm Not Gonna Die in This Damn Place"

    Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War

    Series series Latinos in the United States
    By the time of the Vietnam War era, the “Mexican American Generation” had made tremendous progress both socially and politically. However, the number of Mexican Americans in comparison to the number of white prisoners of war (POWs) illustrated the significant discrimination and inequality the Chicano population faced in both military and civilian landscapes. Chicanos were disproportionately ... Read more

    R402,83

  • "In Case Atom Bombs Fall"

    An Anthology of Governmental Explanations, Instructions and Warnings from the 1940s to the 1960s

    Edited by Michael Scheibach ...
    With the very real possibility of nuclear war looming on the horizon from 1945 to the early 1960s, both federal and local governments took on the responsibility of educating Americans on how to survive the expected blasts, residual fallout, and radiation poisoning. Duck and cover drills, bomb shelters, and evacuation plans became an integral part of every citizen's daily life. This book provides a ... Read more

    R285,76

  • "Jamás he estado en casa"

    La iglesia anglicana y los ingleses en la Argentina

    by Paula Seiguer ...
    Series series La Argentina Plural
    En 1929 el obispo anglicano en la Argentina informaba entusiasmado que, al preguntarles a niños de las escuelas sostenidas por la Iglesia cuándo habían venido de Inglaterra, a menudo recibía la respuesta: "Jamás he estado en casa". Este libro explora el rol de la Iglesia Anglicana en la construcción de una identificación nacional para los inmigrantes de origen inglés durante el período de la ... Read more

    R196,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Können Sie denn gar nichts mehr für mein Kind tun?"

    Therapiezieländerung und Palliativmedizin in der Pädiatrie

    Mit Beiträgen von U. Baier-Schröder, G.D. Borasio, C. Burkhard, A. Duroux, W. Eisenmenger, A. Enders, A. Faschinger, G. Fröhlich, M. Führer, M. Griese, R.J. Jox, S. Müller, T. Nicolai, D. Niethammer, K. Reiter, A. Renz, T. Roser, I. Schmid, A. Schulze, M. Silc, C. Sommerauer, I. Wermuth, S. Zang, S. Zehentmeier Diese im deutschen Sprachraum bisher einmalige Monographie gibt einen Einblick in die ... Read more

    R534,00 or Free with Kobo Plus