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Leander Perez
University Press of Mississippi 2006; US$ 25.00Leander Perez 1891-1969) was more than simply another Neanderthal segregationist. He was a political boss who held absolute power in Plaquemines Parish to an extent unsurpassed by any parish leader in Louisiana's history. Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta is his full history. A bit of a social reformer, a political figure of national stature, an... more...
Cholas in Bowlers
Exisle Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99With two grown-up sons, a satisfying job as a journalist, great friends and plenty of interests, life for Jane Mundy was humming along nicely when, out of the blue and in the most unlikely of places, she met Graham. In no time at all she had abandoned her comfortable life and run away with him to Bolivia. The so-called Tibet of the Americas is the... more...
Zeitoun
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An... more...
Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2009; US$ 12.00It seems over the years I have become something of a professional enthusiast, which is weird, because Im also kind of cynical and grumpy. Mostly, this all just makes me a typical New Orleanian of sorts. The cliché New Orleans gets into peoples blood happens to be very truejust not always convenient. For Cheryl Wagner... more...
Deep in the Heart
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 55.00Cowboy politics is in. When George W. Bush announced a new American policy of pre-emptive attack against potential enemies in 2002, he ushered in the triumph of Texas values over the American agenda. This book traces in lucid and engaging style the fascinating influence of the Texas warrior culture from the Alamo to the present day. This is not a history... more...
The Ballad of Little River
Free Press 2010; US$ 25.00Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. "We're stuck down here being poor together" is how one native described the hamlet of about two hundred... more...
Integrative indigene Bildungspolitik in Mexiko-Stadt
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung Im Buch wird der Frage nach gegangen, ob Bildung eine Bedeutung in der indigenen Integrationspolitik von Mexiko-Stadt einnimmt. In vielen anderen Sozialwissenschaftsstudien wird Bildung oft als der Faktor angepriesen, der Migranten zu einer erfolgreichen Integration in die Aufnahmegesellschaft verhilft. So werden im Buch verschiedene... more...
A Line in the Sand
Free Press 2001; US$ 24.95In late February and early March of 1836, the Mexican Army under the command of General Antonio López de Santa Anna besieged a small force of Anglo and Tejano rebels at a mission known as the Alamo. The defenders of the Alamo were in an impossible situation. They knew very little of the events taking place outside the mission walls. They did not have... more...
Rosa Parks TRG
Saddleback Publishing 2008; US$ 10.95Rosa Parks grew up in the strongly segregated Southern United States. One day, she had had enough. She would not give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus and was taken to jail. This act inspired the movement for equal rights in the U.S. Find out how this quiet, modest woman had a strong impact on the world. Learn about her struggle to fight for... more...
Fool's Paradise
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows?a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade?s best works of social portraiture. Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up barrier reef, Miami Beach... more...









