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Tombs of the Vanishing Indian
Talonbooks 2012; US$ 16.95Marie Clements' powerful multimedia dramas address difficult Aboriginal issues with sharp insight and critique. more...
ADS - Allgemeine Deutsche Seeversicherungs-Bedingungen
De Gruyter 1985; US$ 126.00ADS - Allgemeine Deutsche Seeversicherungs-Bedingungen more...
Making Sense of Place
National Museum of Australia 2008; US$ 23.99Exploring place from myriad perspectives, this volume presents evocative encounterssuch as the Great Barrier Reef experienced through touch or Lake Mungo encountered through soundwhile shedding light on the meaning of place for deaf people. Case studies include the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, Inuit hunting grounds in northern Canada, and the songlines... more...
Home Front Girl
Chicago Review Press 2012; US$ 15.99Wednesday, December 10, 1941 ?Hitler speaks to Reichstag tomorrow. We just heard the first casualty lists over the radio. . . . Lots of boys from Michigan and Illinois. Oh my God! . . . Life goes on though. We read our books in the library and eat lunch, bridge, etc. Phy. Sci. and Calculus. Darn Descartes. Reading Walt Whitman now.? This... more...
How to Start and Run a Holiday Cottage Business (2nd edition)
Constable & Robinson 2007; US$ 13.11Many people dream of buying a house in the country or near the coast, with outbuildings that can be converted into holiday lets; or of taking over an existing holiday cottage business. Gillean Sangster did it. She moved to Scotland with her husband where they started their own successful holiday cottage business. In this book, she tells you how you... more...
Discovering Black Vermont
University of Vermont Press 2010; US$ 24.99The search for an African American community in rural Vermont more...
Remaking Respectability
The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 28.95In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have been the male industrial workers who labored... more...
From the Bullet to the Ballot
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 52.50In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president... more...
Side-Yard Superhero
Five Star Publications, Inc. 2012; US$ 15.95Although life's journey takes him far from his childhood home, Rick D. Niece, Ph.D., never forgets the people he meets and the lessons he learns as a young man growing up in picturesque DeGraff, Ohio, population 900. A small-town newspaper boy who becomes a lifelong educator himself, Dr. Niece is deeply touched by the endearing residents of DeGraff... more...
Planning the Home Front
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 36.00Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a “date which will live in infamy”; before American soldiers landed on D-Day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of Detroit, the bomber plant at Willow Run and the community that grew up around it attracted... more...









