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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Temple University Press 2009; US$ 29.95In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation,... more...
American Lion
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy.... more...
Behind the Scenes
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 14.00Originally published in 1868?when it was attacked as an ?indecent book? authored by a ?traitorous eavesdropper?? Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom at the age of thirty-seven and set up a successful dressmaking... more...
Indian Boyhood
The Floating Press 1902; US$ 4.99Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh), was a Native American author, doctor and reformer who also helped to establish the Boy Scouts of America. His autobiographical Indian Boyhood , popular in Boy Scout programs, is a 1902 recollection of life growing up among the Sioux. more...
Handbuch Arbeits- und Unternehmenssicherheit in Kreditinstituten
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 66.60Hauptbeschreibung Technischer Wandel, aber auch gravierende gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Entwicklungen führten in den letzten Jahren bei Kreditinstituten zu veränderten Anforderungen an Arbeitsschutz und Notfallmanagement. Dieses völlig neu bearbeitete Handbuch bietet viele praktische Umsetzungsvorschläge für erfolgreiche Prüfungen des Sicherheitsmanagements... more...
Peyote und andere psychoaktive Kakteen
Nachtschatten Verlag 2012; Not AvailableSeit fast 3000 Jahren verwenden die Ureinwohner Amerikas Peyote in Zeremonien als geistige und körperliche Medizin. Über diesen meskalinhaltigen Kaktus wurden schon viele Berichte verfasst und enorm viel geforscht. Dieses einzigartige Fachbuch ist nun endlich in Deutsch erschienen. Mit einem Vorwort von Dr. Dicht, einem Kakteen-fachmann aus der Schweiz... more...
Campaign for President
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013; US$ 28.99In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2012 race for the Republican nomination and general election, guiding us through each candidate's campaign from the time each candidate announced his or her intention to seek the presidency through the primaries, conventions,... more...
Dawn in Arctic Alaska
University of Minnesota Press 1957; US$ 67.50"The Karluk had disappeared. Whether the vessel had freed itself from the ice and steamed eastward, or whether, still imprisoned, it had been carried by the ice westward, we could not know. In any case it was gone, leaving our hunting party of six men marooned on a sandy islet surrounded by thin ice and open water. The wind finally died away,... more...
The Education of Henry Adams
The Floating Press 1918; US$ 7.99The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates... more...
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.99Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple became celebrities in the abolitionist struggle. Their daring and risky plan meant passing the light-skinned Ellen off as a white male traveling with 'his' slave, William,... more...









