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A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.
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This is a coming-of-age novel about Oklahoma boy Willi Males who goes off to Yale to get educated and become a man. It takes place during the Vietnam War American Style which ate up the 60s and went on and on. Willi never experiences Vietnam but does experience Sweden, which is where he ends up after deserting his army…
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Kategorier: Amerikas historia Andra tekniker och tillämpade vetenskaper Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Etnicitet Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Historia Historia och arkeologi Rymdforskning Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
The #1 New York Times bestseller
-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARD
The phenomenal true story of the…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Urbana samhällen
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for…
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Kategorier: Alternativa terapier, healing och hälsa Ande, kropp och själ Biografi: allmänt Biografi: naturvetenskap, teknik och medicin Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Medicin och omvårdnad Medicin: allmänt Medicinhistoria
A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of…
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From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s future
The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of ”spreading democracy” – except wreak havoc in country after country and…
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Kategorier: Fantasy Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor Urban fantasy
Skulle du tro att alla gamla gudar som människor någonsin har föreställt sig, Oden och Czernobog, Anansi och Ibis, Mama-Ji och baron SamediKali och leprechauner och demoner och alla de andra …
… att de fortfarande finns kvar idag? Här i vårt land?
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Och att detta land har skapat nya gudar åt sig, kreditkortens…
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A ”powerful text” (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern America
American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those…
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From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies.
A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly…
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Popular Evangelicalism in American Culture explores the controversies, complexities, and historical development of the evangelical movement in America and its impact on American culture. Evangelicalism is one of the most dynamic and growing religious movements in America and has been both a major force in shaping…
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Beautifully illustrated throughout in full-colour, Architects Studios: Creative Working Spaces provides an intimate and informative glimpse into the stunning architecture and design of 35 architects studios from around the globe.
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Why is so little heard about John Cotton, who was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest Puritan preacher in America? Why has he alone remained an enigma among the founding fathers of American protestantism? Professor Ziff examines Cotton’s career as a teacher and preacher, both in England and New…
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In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete. But how did an institution like the Catholic Church, so often seen as…
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From a small group of devout Puritan settlers, the USA ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world. Yet it is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, offers a unique historical, cultural and characterological analysis of…
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From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars
Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control–sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts,…
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The Francis Effect explores how a church once known as a towering force for social justice became known for a narrow agenda most closely aligned with one political party, and then looks at the opportunities for change in the “age of Francis.” Pope Francis has become an unlikely global star whose image has graced the…
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American Unitarians were not onlookers to the drama of Protestantism in the nineteenth century, but active participants in its central conundrum: biblical authority. Unitarians sought what other Protestants sought, which was to establish the Bible as the primary authority, only to find that the task was not so simple…
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As Americans rethought sex in the twentieth century, the Catholic Church’s teachings on the divisive issue of contraception in marriage were in many ways central. In a fascinating history, Leslie Woodcock Tentler traces changing attitudes: from the late nineteenth century, when religious leaders of every variety…
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Now in an updated second edition, African American Religion remains an invaluable overview of the great diversity of religious groups within the modern African American community. This plethora of forms reflects a tension that has characterized African American religion since its beginnings—a tension between…
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Popular Evangelicalism in American Culture explores the controversies, complexities, and historical development of the evangelical movement in America and its impact on American culture. Evangelicalism is one of the most dynamic and growing religious movements in America and has been both a major force in shaping…
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Kategorier: Etnicitet Etniska minoriteter och mångkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Ursprungsbefolkningar
A book in which various well-known and lesser-known Native Americans talk about life from the indigenous perspective, their views on white people, and the problems of not respecting nature and other people in an ever-changing world.
The most essential part of the book is presentations of quotes by Geronimo, Sitting…
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Kategorier: Alternativa trossystem Ande, kropp och själ Etnicitet Filosofi och religion Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Religion och tro Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
• A celebration of the journey of African-American women toward a new spirituality grounded in social awareness, black American tradition, metaphysics, and heightened creativity. • Features illuminating insights from Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Lucille Clifton, Dolores Kendrick, Sonia Sanchez, Michele…
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Kategorier: Etnicitet Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
Explores Native American spirituality to show how you can live a simple and reverent life in a complex world.
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Kategorier: Etnicitet Etniska minoriteter och mångkultur Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria Ursprungsbefolkningar
Provides a basic reference work on the history of the interactions in North America between the Native American peoples and those, primarily from Europe and Africa, who arrived after 1492. Includes essays on: national policies; military situation; political relations; economic relations; religious relations; and the…
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This book is a readable compendium of patents, diagrams and explanations of the many incredible inventions of the originator of the modern era of electrification. In Tesla’s own words are such topics as wireless transmission of power, his towers for transmitting electrical power, death rays and radio-controlled…
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Kategorier: Amerikas historia Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Historia Historia och arkeologi Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Conspiracy theories are not new to our modern time. They date back to biblical times when Moses sent his spies out to check out what the Egyptians were doing. Espionage is, also, linked to various conspiracies and is all mixed up in the same bag of tricks and form any decent conspiracy or theory.
In this new, fact…
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First edition is out-of-print – this new expanded edition brings back this title with a bang.
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Kategorier: Alternativa trossystem Eklektiska och esoteriska religioner och trossystem Filosofi och religion Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Magi, alkemi och ockult tänkande Ockulta studier Religion och tro Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
· Explains how the Rothschild family began the War of 1812 because Congress failed to renew a 20-year charter for their Central Bank as well as how the ensuing debt of the war forced Congress to renew the charter
· Details Andrew Jackson’s anti-bank presidential campaigns, his war on Rothschild agents within the…
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Inside Shelby American is a firsthand account of the iconic sports car builder and racing team from John Morton, champion racer, and personal friend of Carroll Shelby.
In the late 1950s, a young John Morton was transfixed with sports car racing. By 1962, his dreams had led him to enrolling in the Shelby School of High…
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government. Democracy is still a work in progress, but it is at the core of our nation’s political,…
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In this remarkable book, Brad Steiger shows how to enter a dimension of reality between the physical and the nonphysical, between the world of spirits and the world of humans. Drawing upon information relayed to him by shamans from many tribes during thirty years of research and study, Steiger teaches easy-to-master…
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Kategorier: Etnicitet Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
SMITHSONIAN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HISTORY, ART, AND CULTURE IN 101 OBJECTS invites readers to experience both well-known and untold stories through influential, controversial, and meaningful objects. Thematic chapters explore complex history and shared experiences: navigation, intersections, labour, innovation,…
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR – ”Sublime.” –New York Times Book Review
”Brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world.” -Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe
Broke English teacher Penelope…
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Kategorier: Amerikas historia Antropologi Etnicitet Etniska minoriteter och mångkultur Historia Historia och arkeologi Kulturantropologi och socialantropologi Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Sociologi och antropologi Ursprungsbefolkningar
A book in which various well-known and lesser-known Native Americans talk about life from the indigenous perspective, their views on white people and the problems of not respecting nature and other people in an ever-changing world.
The most essential part of the book is presentations of quotes by Geronimo, Sitting…
This ongoing series was developed and written by the faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Weaving the complexities of individual historical conflicts into a broader perspective, these volumes chronicle the turbulent periods of civilization. Utilizing their expertise as scholars and soldiers, the…
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The National Museum of American History-our country’s largest history museum and one of the Smithsonian’s most visited preserves three million objects that capture the American story. From this vast collection, curators have handpicked more than 150 of the Museum’s most valued and amazing treasures…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: humor Barn och ungdom: tecknade serier Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Now a hit TV show on Disney + starring Michelle Yeoh! A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling creator Gene Yang, American Born Chinese is a groundbreaking graphic novel about race, friendship and the American Dream, with full-colour artwork.
All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. But when his family moves to a new…
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Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: historia, politik och försvar Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER ”A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”-Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE WINNER – The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one…
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The definitive guide to creating the most mouthwatering hamburgers by America’s leading burger expert-expanded and updated with new and improved recipesThe Great American Burger Book was the first book to showcase a wide range of regional burger styles and cooking methods. In this new, expanded edition, author…
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