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Night

AvElie Wiesel

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

(2)

129 kr

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No More Heroes: Madness and Psychiatry in War

AvRichard A. Gabriel

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

150 kr

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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

AvHarvey Pekar

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

172 kr

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In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. Over the course of a single day in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Pekar and the illustrator JT Waldman wrestle with the mythologies passed down to them. Combining his increasing disillusionment with Israel with an account of the Jewish people since biblical times, Pekar, aided by Waldman's protean art, weaves a personal and historical odyssey of uncommon power. Plainspoken and empathetic, Pekar had no patience for injustice and prejudice, and he arrives at the firm belief that all peoples should be held to the same universal standards of decency, fairness, and democracy. With an epilogue written by Joyce Brabner, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me is an essential book for fans of Pekar and anyone interested in the past and future of the Jewish state.

Under the Same Stars

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

AvLibba Bray

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

220 kr

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"Under the Same Stars will leave you shattered and wildly hopeful." E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud

"stirring and absolutely unforgettable" Samira Ahmed, New York Times-bestselling author of Internment and Hollow Fires

"full of banter, romance, humor and a little bit of magic" Gayle Forman, author of Not Nothing and After Life

From New York Times-bestselling author Libba Bray comes a propulsive historical mystery that examines truth, rebellion, reconciliation, and what must be sacrificed for a better world.

It was said that if you write to the Bridegrooms Oak, the love of your life will answer back. Now, the tree is giving up its secrets at last.

In 1940s Germany, Sophie is excited to discover a message waiting for her in the Bridegroom's Oak from a mysterious suitor. Meanwhile, her best friend, Hanna, is sending messages toobut not to find love. As World War II unfolds in their small town of Kleinwald, the oak may hold the key to resistance against the Nazis.

In 1980s West Germany, American teen transplant Jenny feels suffocated by her strict parents and is struggling to fit in. Until she finds herself falling for Lena, a punk-rock girl hell-bent on tearing down the wall separating West Germany from East Germany, and meeting Frau Hermann, a kind old lady with secrets of her own.

In Spring 2020, New York City, best friends Miles and Chloe are slogging through the last few months of senior year when an unexpected package from Chloes grandmother leads them to investigate a cold case about two unidentified teenagers who went missing under the Bridegrooms Oak eighty years ago.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

AvLori D. Ginzberg

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

260 kr

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In this subtly crafted biography, the historian Lori D. Ginzberg narrates the life of a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts who turned the limitations placed on women like herself into a universal philosophy of equal rights. Few could match Stanton's self-confidence; loving an argument, she rarely wavered in her assumption that she had won. But she was no secular saint, and her positions were not always on the side of the broadest possible conception of justice and social change. Elitism runs through Stanton's life and thought, defined most often by class, frequently by race, and always by intellect. Even her closest friends found her absolutism both thrilling and exasperating, for Stanton could be an excellent ally and a bothersome menace, sometimes simultaneously. At once critical and admiring, Ginzberg's book captures Stanton's ambiguous place in the world of reformers and intellectuals, describes how she changed the world, and suggests that she left a mixed legacy that continues to haunt American feminism.

Shadows of Youth

The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation

AvAndrew B. Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

287 kr

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Through the lives of Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Bob Zellner, Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and their contemporaries, "The Shadows of Youth" provides a carefully woven group biography of the activists who - under the banner of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - challenged the way Americans think about civil rights, politics, and moral obligation in an unjust democracy. A wealth of original sources and oral interviews allows the historian Andrew B. Lewis to recover the sweeping narrative of the civil rights movement, from its origins in the youth culture of the 1950s to the near present.

Commander

Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948

AvLaila Parsons

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

295 kr

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Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman army, he fought the British in World War I and won an Iron Cross. In the 1920s, he mastered the arts of insurgency and helped lead a massive uprising against the French authorities in Syria. A decade later, he reappeared in Palestine, where he helped direct the Arab revolt of 1936. When an effort to overthrow the British rulers of Iraq failed, he moved to Germany, where he spent much of World War II battling his fellow exile, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who had accused him of being a British spy. In 1947, Qawuqji made a daring escape from Allied-occupied Berlin and sought once again to shape his region's history. In his most famous role, he would command the Arab Liberation Army in the Arab-lsraeli War of 1948. In this well-crafted, definitive biography, Laila Parsons tells Qawuqji's dramatic story and sets it in the full context of his turbulent times. Following Israel's decisive victory, Qawuqji was widely faulted as a poor commander with possibly dubious motives.The Commander shows us that the truth was more complex: Although he doubtless made some strategic mistakes, he never gave up fighting for Arab independence and unity, even as those ideals were undermined by powers inside and outside the Arab world.

Saving Five

A Memoir of Hope

AvAmanda Nguyen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

210 kr

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Doorman

A Novel

AvChris Pavone

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

145 kr

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Search for Order, 1877-1920

AvRobert H. Wiebe

Häftad, Engelska, 1966

217 kr

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From Plantation to Ghetto

AvElliott Rudwick,August Meier

Häftad, Engelska, 1976

347 kr

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Amusing the Million

Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

AvJohn F. Kasson

Häftad, Engelska, 1978

244 kr

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"Camille" and Other Plays

AvS.S. Stanton,Stephen S. Stanton

Häftad, Engelska, 1957

339 kr

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The Transcendence of the EGO

An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness

AvJean-Paul Sartre

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

237 kr

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Big Sea

AvLangston Hughes

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

260 kr

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I Wonder as I Wander

AvHughes

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

292 kr

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Modern Temper

American Culture and Society in the 1920s

AvLynn Dumenil,Eric Foner

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

295 kr

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David Walker's Appeal

To the Coloured Citizens of the World

AvDavid Walker,Peter P. Hinks

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

161 kr

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Return of Simple

AvL. Hughes,Akiba Sullivan Harper

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

292 kr

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Manifest Destiny

AvA. Stephenson

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

176 kr

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Americans: a Collision of Histories

AvEdward Countryman

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

287 kr

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Short Stories

AvLangston Hughes,Akiba Sullivan Harper

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

236 kr

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Lyndon Johnson's War

America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968

AvMichael H. Hunt

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

116 kr

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Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century

AvCatherine Clinton

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

261 kr

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Changes in the Land

Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

AvWilliam Cronon

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

244 kr

Good Germs, Bad Germs

Health and Survival in A Bacterial World

AvJessica Snyder Sachs

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

243 kr

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Clash of Extremes

The economic origins of the civil war

AvMarc Egnal

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

329 kr

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"Clash of Extremes" takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury, however, all that changed as the rise of the Great Lakes economy reoriented Northern trade along east-west lines. Meanwhile, in the South, soil exhaustion, concerns about the country's westward expansion, and growing ties between the Upper South and the free states led many cotton planters to contemplate secession. The war that ensued was truly a 'clash of extremes'. Sweeping from the 1820s through Reconstruction and filled with colourful portraits of leading individuals, "Clash of Extremes" emphasizes economics while giving careful consideration to social conflicts, ideology, and the rise of the antislavery movement. The result is a bold reinterpretation that will challenge the way we think about the Civil War.

To Tell the Truth Freely

The Life of Ida B. Wells

AvMia Bay

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

243 kr

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Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells' refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a 'dangerous radical' in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. Though she eventually helped found the NAACP in 1910, she would not remain a member for long, as she rejected not only Booker T. Washington's accommodationism but also the moderating influence of white reformers within the early NAACP. In the richly illustrated "To Tell the Truth Freely", the historian Mia Bay vividly captures Wells' legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late-nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago.

Adam's Tongue

How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

AvDerek Bickerton

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

(1)

250 kr

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How language evolved has been called 'the hardest problem in science'. In "ADAM'S TONGUE", Derek Bickerton - long a leading authority in this field - shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species - our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units - words - automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton's lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first to thoroughly integrate the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved.Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.

Day

AvElie Wiesel

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

(1)

216 kr

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