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Race to the truth volume 3
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English
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"The story of American from the Chinese American perspective"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
3) Emancipation of the mind: radical philosophy, the war over slavery, and the refounding of America
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English
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How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
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English
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"On July 1, 1916, witnesses watched in horror as twenty-three-year-old Charles Vansant was attacked and killed by a shark in shallow water at Beach Haven, New Jersey--the first recorded shark attack in American history. Scientists claimed a shark could not be responsible, but more deadly attacks soon followed along the Jersey Shore and up the freshwater Matawan Creek, setting off a nationwide panic that led the White House to declare a war on sharks"--...
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Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Great paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter ... [This book] spotlights the finer points a quick glance will almost certainly fail to reveal. These include subtle internal details, such as hidden symbols. Expert commentary reveals the technical tricks employed by the artist to achieve particular effects ... and also looks at the themes and external and personal factors influencing the creation of an artwork ..."--Jacket.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and politicians have always characterized smugglers-or coyotes,...
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Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
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Descifra los secretos y descubre el origen y el significado de mas de dos mil signos y simbolos, desde los antiguos jeroglificos hasta los logos actuales. Por que un corazon traspasado por una flecha es una simbolo del amor? Cuales son las raices de los simbolos de la fertilidad? Por que una balanza simboliza la justicia? Esta apasionante libro desentrana el significo oculto de las imagenes simbolicas --
"For centuries, symbols have been imperative...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Descubre la fascinante historia de la brujeria, la magia y la supersticion a lo largo de los siglos en este libro bellamente ilustrado. Magia, brujeria y ocultismo. Una historia ilustrada traza la extraordinaria historia de uno de los temas mas interesantes y a menudo controvertidos del mundo, desde el antiguo culto a los animales y el chamanismo, pasando por la alquimia y la adivinacion hasta la wicca o el resurgimiento del ocultismo en la literatura,...
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English
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"A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same...
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Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Como se diagnostican las enfermadades? Que es el cancer Por que algunas pandemias son tan mortiferas? Este libro responde estas y otras muchas preguntas, explorando y explicando los logros y hallazghos que han configurado nuestra vision moderna de la medicina y nos ayudan a proteger y promover nuestra salud. Con un lenguaje claro, El libro de la medicina desbroza la jerga cientifica y ofrece sencillas explicaciones de los hitos mas importantes de...
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Publisher
Vinyage Espanol
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Los quince anos de destierro que Jose Marti paso en Estados Unidos le proporcionaron una perspectiva que abarca tanto el norte como el sur del hemisferio, una vision reflejada en su ensayo "Nuestra America." La seleccion de textos de este volumen imprime a "lo nuestro" martiano, un giro contemporaneo que incluye a la comunidad hispanoamericana en los Estados Unidos, personificada en Marti durante un periodo migratorio--la segunda mitad del siglo XIX--...
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Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Hasta el siglo XX la Historia la escribieron los hombres. Eso explica por qué las mujeres apenas aparecemos como sujetos de las historias de la Historia. Sin embargo, la lista de aquellas que la protagonizaron es extensa: desde diosas hasta reinas, desde cortesanas hasta científicas, desde actrices hasta santas, desde escritoras hasta políticas... Hemos estado en todas partes, aunque un manto de silencio se empeñara en cubrirnos o ignorarnos....
20) Israel
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Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Israel is an important place for people of three major religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. This has given it a rich history, but it has also led to conflict. Readers take an informative look at what life is like in Israel for people of different groups as they explore meticulously researched text, which has been updated to discuss current events. Vivid, full-color photographs are found throughout chapters that focus on topics such as government,...
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