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Wie die Europäer ihre Zukunft sehen
Primus Verlag 2011; US$ 26.08Hauptbeschreibung Wie wird Europa im Jahr 2030 aussehen? Wie wird sich die Arbeit entwickeln? Wie die Bildung? Welche Familienformen wird es geben? Wird die Spaltung der Gesellschaft in Arm und Reich weiter fortschreiten? Auf diese und andere Fragen antworten 20 Zukunftsforscher aus ganz Europa. Basis der Untersuchung sind Repräsentativbefragungen... more...
Stuck in Place
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the last several... more...
Not Your Mother's Book . . . On Being a Woman
Publishing Syndicate LLC 2013; US$ 8.99Each title in the Not Your Mother's Book series contains approximately 60 real-life stories dedicated to a unique theme, drawn from the passion and experience of dozens of writers in a whimsical and entertaining mix of irreverence and humor. Founded by former coauthors and editors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, this similarly styled anthology... more...
Beyond the Wave
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 24.50A poignant and inspirational story that personalised the overwhelming devastation of the tsunami for all Australians. more...
Historical Gazetteer of the United States
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 200.00The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States. more...
The Black Power Movement
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors around to write original essays on the Black Power Movement. Taken together they provide a... more...
The Somali Diaspora
University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 34.95Since 2003, photographer Abdi Roble and writer Doug Rutledge have been documenting the lives of Somali immigrants in the United States and of the people forced into the vast refugee camps that were set up in Kenya in the wake of the 1991 civil war in Somalia. In The Somali Diaspora, Roble, who immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 1989, and... more...
The Great Depression and World War II
Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 60.00Two major historical events dominated the period from 1929 to 1949: the Great Depression and World War II. When the stock market crashed in October of 1929, economic hardship struck many American citizens. Over the next 10 years the economy fell into a deep depression, alleviated only by vast government expenditures on wartime materials manufactured... more...
Latino in America
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 17.00The definitive tie-in to one of the most heavily anticipated CNN documentaries ever, Latino in America, from top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O?Brien. Top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O?Brien brings readers closer to today?s Latino experience as well as her own journey in the definitive tie-in to one of the most heavily... more...









