This book is geared toward all ages and gives step-by-step instructions on scores of crafts and outdoor skills cultivated by various Native American tribes over the centuries.
A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century.
**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**Two Native American leaders who left a lasting legacy, Geronimo and Sitting Bull.
African Americans have risen from the slave plantations of nineteenth-century Florida to become the heads of corporations and members of Congress in the twenty-first century.
Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseballs color line.
Following an extraordinary debut17th place in the 1911 Boston MarathonPenobscot Indian Andrew Sockalexis returned to run a spectacular Boston Marathon on a muddy, rainy course on April 19, 1912.
Developed in response to the events of September 11, 2001, these 14 articles from prominent Muslim thinkers offer a provocative reassessment of Islam's relationship with the modern world.
This beautifully illustrated book presents a vivid account of the American Indian experience as seen through the eyes of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), the first and greatest of the Native American authors.
El libro Tü natüjalakat wayuu: Lo que saben los wayuu, como su nombre lo indica, es un encuentro de voces, un diálogo de saberes, en el cual confluyen la visión que emerge desde seno del mundo wayuu y la mirada del blanco (alijuna) respecto a un mismo propósito: destacar la enriquecida cosmovisión de los indígenas wayuu en medio de la realidad a la que se enfrentan como habitantes de uno de los territorios más olvidados de la geografía colombiana, la península de la Guajira.
Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene radically re-interprets Buster Keaton''s iconic 1924 film, The Navigator, through the combined lenses of posthumanism and critical race theory.
Stefan Plaggenborg untersucht die Bedeutung der Gerechtigkeit (pravda) im politischen Leben Altrusslands zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit und beschreibt einen Typus über Russland hinausgehender monarchischer Herrschaftsgeschichte.
With gentle humour and fun illustrations, this book confidently combines faith and science as God-the-chef helps readers navigate through the Big Bang, Inflation Theory, and getting to know your Goldilocks stars from your supermassive black holes.
Based on the bestselling seminar by the American Management Association, this book gives readers practical advice on how to assess, train, and develop the characteristics associated with top leaders.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'.
With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation of readers, the first volume in Arthur Ashes epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United Statesa major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of this legendary sports star and global activists lifelong dream.
Patía, de la tierra de nadie a las grandes haciendas es una metáfora envolvente que nos sumerge en la rica narrativa histórica sobre los descendientes de los grandes propietarios negros.
'Witty, energising and refreshing' Jeffrey BoakyeTake a step through the looking-glass to a strange land, one where Piers Morgan is a voice worth listening to about race, where white people buy self-help books to help them cope with their whiteness, where Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are seen by the majority of the population as 'the right (white) man for the job'.
Este texto parte de una delimitación de los conceptos "patrimonio" y "paisaje" para analizarlos a la luz de la confrontación intertextual de documentos oficiales con las voces de los lugareños de Tilcara, Purmamarca, Humahuaca y Volcán.
La sociedad monocultural es una falacia, es inviable, porque obligaria a las minorias a integrarse asimilandose: significaria imposicion de una cultura sobre las demas con el objetivo de conseguir una uniformizacion social que facilitara la dominacion de un grupo sobre los demas y la eliminacion de toda diferencia.
Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulous voices including more than fifteen mini-memorists, telling stories, offering perceptions on subject matter as far back as memory allows up to the exciting headlines of today.
Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the postWorld War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust.
Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas.
