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  • Cesar Chavez

    Fighting for Farmworkers

    by Eric Braun ...
    Illustrated by Harry Roland, Al Milgrom, Steve Erwin, Charles Barnett III ...
    Series series Graphic Biographies
    A biography telling the life of labor leader Cesar Chavez and the boycotts that he led to gain fair working conditions for farmworkers. Written in graphic-novel format. ... Read more

    $19.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Journey Abroad

    Wartime Poems Serving with the FAU

    by Roland J. Harris ...
    Roland J. Harris (1919-1969) became a teacher and pioneering educational researcher, and author of textbooks and articles on the teaching of English grammar and poetry. On the Schools Council he was instrumental in raising the school-leaving age to sixteen. Together with his wife Martha Harris he conceived and started the Schools Counselling course at the Tavistock Clinic. Later he taught ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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  • The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

    Edited by Max Morris ...
    For myself I am an optimist,” said legendary British politician Winston Churchill. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.”Have you ever wanted to deliver the ultimate Churchillian wisecrack? Give sound advice to a peer on how to deal with life’s problems? Or contribute to a heated discussion on international politics? The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill is the perfect ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Great War and Modern Memory

    by Paul Fussell ...
    Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

    Edited by Matthew George Walter ...
    This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon there are poems rarely anthologised and a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Cesar Chavez

    A Hero for Everyone

    by Gary Soto ...
    Illustrated by Lori Lohstoeter ...
    Series series Milestone
    ¡Viva la causa!¡Viva César Chávez!Up and down the San Joaquin Valley of California, and across the country, people chanted these words. Cesar Chavez, a migrant worker himself, was helping Mexican Americans work together for better wages, for better working conditions, for better lives.No one thought they could win against the rich and powerful growers. But Cesar was out to prove them wrong -- and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Series series Beckett, Samuel
    Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing," the medium in which he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Carpenter's Gift

    A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree

    by David Rubel ...
    Illustrated by Jim LaMarche ...
    Family, friendship, and the spirit of giving are at the heart of this inspiring picture book. Opening in Depression-era New York, The Carpenter's Gift tells the story of eight-year-old Henry and his out-of-work father selling Christmas trees in Manhattan. They give one of their leftover trees to construction workers building Rockefeller Center. That tree becomes the first Rockefeller Center ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Great War And Modern Memory

    by Paul Fussell ...
    The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Who Was Cesar Chavez?

    by Dana Meachen Rau, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Ted Hammond ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist.When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. Along with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly

    by Alasdair Gray ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    In this volume of stories and illustrations, the author of Poor Things "perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements [that] characterized his work" ( Financial Times).In "The Crank that Made the Revolution," an enterprising inventor presents the world with his contribution to the Industrial Revolution: an "improved duck." When a man splits in two, it isn't long before his two selves come to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Modern Poets

    An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD