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  • Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?

    Teaching Lessons from the Bronx

    de Ilana Garon ...
    According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the “hero teacher”—the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness. The students are then “saved” by the teacher’s idealism, empathy, and willingness to put faith ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Unsettled Ground

    The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

    de Cassandra Tate ...
    **"By turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place."—**Seattle TimesIn this rigorously researched and incisively written account, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate challenges generations of received wisdom about the 1847 killing of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and eleven others at their Presbyterian mission on Cayuse land near present-day Walla Walla.Far from a ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Battle Elephants and Flaming Foxes

    Animals in the Roman World

    de Caroline Freeman-Cuerden ...
    From the hooves of chariot horses pounding the dust of the racetrack to the cries of elephants charging the battlefields, animals were a key part of Roman life. On memorials left to beloved dogs or in images of arena animals hammered onto coins, their stories and roles in Roman history are there for us to find.Why did the emperor Augustus always have a seal skin nearby?What was the most dangerous ... Leer más

    $17.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Year of No Garbage

    Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

    de Eve O. Schaub ...
    "Eve’s brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we’ve become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better.” —Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free JulyYear of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental movement.In this book Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Props: A History of Power in 7 Lessons

    de Norm Coady ...
    Are you nostalgic for simpler times? Do you miss your favorite history teacher, the one that gave you perspective and kept you laughing? Come back to class. Buy Props and let Norm Coady take you on a trip from Caesar to Kennedy, from Wittenberg to St. Petersburg.Learn how seashells led to the first global conflict. Discover how a piece of chalk laid the groundwork for totalitarianism. Follow an ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Pathology of Normalcy

    de Erich Fromm ...
    The legendary social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author meditates on ideas of mental health and normalcy in contemporary society.At the beginning of the 1950s, Erich Fromm increasingly questioned whether people in contemporary industrial society were mentally healthy. Eventually the topic of various lectures, Fromm's new social psychoanalytic approach enabled him to further develop ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Confidante

    The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

    de Christopher C. Gorham ...
    **Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes the first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, the Hungarian Jewish immigrant who became FDR’s closest advisor during World War II and, according to Life, “the most important official woman in the world”—a woman of many firsts, whose story, forgotten for too long, is extraordinary, inspiring, and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings

    de Michele Morrical ...
    This examination of six usurper kings of England, and the people and circumstances surrounding them, is "a masterpiece of academic scholarship" ( Midwest Book Review).In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy—and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England's reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Fall of Berlin

    The final days of Hitler's evil regime

    de Anthony Tucker-Jones ...
    In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighting was fierce as soldiers fanatically loyal to the Nazi party - and those afraid of the vengeance their opponents might enact - sought to stave off the end of the regime as long as possible.Even as it became clear that defeat was inevitable, Hitler and his subordinates determined to fight to the ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Windward Family

    An atlas of love, loss and belonging

    de Alexis Keir ...
    ‘A powerful meditation on what it means to belong.’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘Deeply moving.’ David Lammy ‘Honest, poetic and deeply researched excellence.’ Paterson Joseph ‘It took two decades for me to go in search of the parts of myself I had left behind in the Caribbean. What ghosts were waiting for me there? There was a thick, black journal in my flat, stuffed with letters, ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • You'll Never Find Us

    A Memoir

    de Jeanne Baker Guy ...
    In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he declares that he has fled to Germany and she will never see him, or her children, again ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  •  A Letter in the Wall

    A Novel

    de Eileen Brill ...
    It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead—but her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter about her predicament, she revisits her past.Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in 1915 and raised with privilege and opportunity, Joan wrestles with her turbulent thoughts and unfulfilled ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD