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History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian M... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
This is the story of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America. Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author ofMy Face Is Black Is True(“An essent... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
"My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man. " -Callie House (1899) In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother
In a landmark, historical perspective on parenthood in America, the author of Why ERA Failed reveals how recent our definition of "good" parenting really is, and argues that what matters is not who cares for the children, but the quality of the care.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1993 -
Black Resistance, White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America
How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence while... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption--and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participationThough voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with limi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Power in Words
Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons. In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)
Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1978 -
Animal Welfare
by Richard Bennett • Paul Thompson • David Fraser • Georgia Mason • Clare Palmer • Peter Sandøe • Christine Nicol • Daniel Weary • Michael Appleby • Anna Olsson • Ignacio Viñuela-Fernández • Michael Cockram • Paul Hemsworth • Joy Mench • Ilias Kyriazakis • Linda Keeling • Marek Spinka • Birte Nielsen • Francisco Galindo • Barry Hughes • Dominique Blache • Alain Boissy • Bryan Jones • Andrew Butterworth • Charlotte C. Burn • Grahame J. Coleman • Richard B. D’Eath • Ian J.H. Duncan • Cathy M. Dwyer • Paul Flecknell • Paul M. Hocking • Stella Maris Huertas • Joergen B. Kjaer • Ute Knierim • Shane K. Maloney • Professor Michael Mendl • Ruth C. Newberry • Edmond A. Pajor • Jeff Rushen • Sally L. Sherwen • Claudia Terlouw • Bert Tolkamp • Natalie K. Waran • Francoise Wemelsfelder • Nadja Wielebnowski • Hanno WürbelUpdated and revised, this bestselling textbook continues to provide a broad introduction to the key topics in the welfare of animals both large and small, farm and companion, wild and zoo. It retains all the popular features of the previous editions with coverage of key issues such as ethics, anima... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Enjeux et défis du développement international: Acteurs et champs d'action. Édition nouvelle et actualisée (Études en développement international et mondialisation)
by Naomi Klein • Stephen Brown • Leo Panitch • Mamadou Barry • Étienne Hainzelin • Sanni Yaya • Michel Warschawski • Nora Nagels • Lauchlan T. Munro • Sylvie Paquerot • Maristella Svampa • Lucie Lamarche • David Sogge • Philippe Régnier • Walden Bello • François Polet • Francine Mestrum • Gilbert Rist • Sophie Brière • Charmain Levy • Albert Ze • Alejandro Marreros Lobato • Alexa Conradi • Amélie Nguyen • Arnaud Zacharie • Aurélie Arnaud • Carmen Diaz • Cédric Jourde • Christophe Aguiton • Déo Niyonkuru • Diane Alalouf-Hall • Dominique Plihon • Emilio Taddei • Éric Allina • Éric Toussaint • Flora Pidoux • Florent Song-Naba • François Audet • Francoise Montambeault • Geneviève Talbot • Ghislaine Raymond • Gustave Massiah • Hélène Pellerin • Jean-François Rousseau • Jean-Philippe Leblond • Jean-Philippe Thérien • Jonathan Durand-Folco • Katina Binette • Laurence Hamel-Charest • Leila Celis • Luis Klein Juan • Maika Sondarjee • Mamadou Ndoye • Manon Boulianne • Marie Brodeur-Gelinas • Marie-Éve Bertrand • Marie-Pierre Bousquet • Marie-Pierre Leroux • Mathieu Perron-Dufour • Matthieu Boussichas • Michel Husson • Moussa Dembélé Dembélé Demba • Mylène Gaulard • Nailya Okda • Pascale Dufour • Philippe Fournier • Pierre Beaucage • Pierre Jasmin • Raphael Canet • Rino Levesque • Robert David • Roromme Chantal • Ryoa Chung • Samantha McGavin • Sarah Charland-Faucher • Stéphanie Maltais • Thomas Chiasson-Lebel • Thomas Collombat • Yves-Marie AbrahamInternational development is a contested territory. As emergencies grow in number and scale, international aid is increasingly unable to respond to the desperate need arising from them. In spite of the objectives established by the United Nations in 2000, global poverty persists, and worse still, th... More
Language: FRECopyright: 2019