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Don't Let It Get You Down(2022) NOLAN, SAVALAA powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces-between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Democracy, Race, and Justice(2021) ALEXANDER, SADIE T. M.The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander – the first Black American economist.Vezava: Trda42,78 € -
Heroes(2001) PILGER, JOHNThe heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union;Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Fen, Bog and Swamp(2022) PROULX, ANNIEA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!' Bill McKibben'I learned something new - and found something amazing - on every page' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See23,27 € -
Places I've Taken My Body(2021) MCCULLY BROWN, MOLLY'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful . As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the world's oldest anatomical theater, Eugenics, aVezava: Trda18,21 € -
Frances Burney and the Doctors(2019) WILTSHIRE, JOHN (LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, VICTORIA)This book advocates Frances Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern genre of pathograhy, or the illness narrative. It will appeal to readers with an interest in Frances Burney (both her writings and biographically), in medical history and literatuVezava: Trda123,83 € -
Matter of Black Lives(2022) COBB, JELANI,REMNICK, DAVIDA collection of the New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and moreVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Matter of Black Lives(2021) COBB, JELANI,REMNICK, DAVIDA collection of the New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and moreVezava: Trda33,27 € -
Lives of Houses(2022)A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.Vezava: Mehka24,22 € -
On Violence and On Violence Against Women(2022) ROSE, JACQUELINEA blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Strange Career of Jim Crow(2002) WOODWARD, C. VANN,MCFEELY, WILLIAM S.This is a commemorative edition for C. Vann Woodward, who died in December 1999, of his classic work on the history of segregation and American race relations. Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer and former Woodward student, William McFeely contributes a spVezava: Mehka18,91 € -
Language of Food(2014) JURAFSKY, DAN (STANFORD UNIVERSITY)Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food.Vezava: Trda34,92 € -
Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels(1997)The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D.Vezava: Mehka60,57 €
