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  • Nelson Mandela: pocket GIANTS

    de Colin Bundy ...
    Series series pocket GIANTS
    'Colin Bundy has given us an incredible insight into the person of Mandela. What a man and what a gift Madiba was to the world.' - Desmond TutuNelson Mandela's place in history is secure: he was one of the best known prisoners in the world even before his election as the first president of post-apartheid South Africa; secondly, he became a global icon, an elder statesman, with a degree of moral ... Leer más

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  • Govan Mbeki

    de Colin Bundy ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    Govan Mbeki (1910–2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political theorist and practitioner. Sentenced to life in prison in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela and others, ... Leer más

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  • Reassessing Mandela

    Edición de Colin Bundy, William Beinart ...
    Series series Southern African Studies
    Seven years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the global imagination. Internationally, Mandela’s renown seems intact and invulnerable. In South Africa, however, his legacy and his place in the country’s history have become matters of contention and dispute, especially amongst younger black South Africans. The essays in this book analyse aspects of ... Leer más

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  • Life of an American Slave

    "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is ... Leer más

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  • The Audacity to Win

    How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin

    de David Plouffe ...
    Enter The Audacity to Win Book Club Discussion ContestWatch David Plouffe discuss The Audacity to Win on "Meet the Press"David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. The Audacity to Win is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the ... Leer más

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  • Becoming a Man

    Half a Life Story

    de Paul Monette ...
    The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. "One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life" ( LA Weekly).Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving . . . and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of being a "homo" would routinely be beaten up, Monette kept his secret throughout his adolescence. He ... Leer más

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  • Stalin

    The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secr

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  • Healing

    A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun

    This extraordinary story takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang Nghiem took refuge. There she gained a deep understanding of the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness forged in the fire of her own life experience. Ordained as a nun by Thich Nhat Hanh, who gave her the name "Dang Nghiem," (adornment ... Leer más

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  • Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

    Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois; Including Essays, Spiritual Writings and Poems

    "I venture to write again on themes on which great souls have already said greater words, in the hope that I may strike here and there a half-tone, newer even if slighter, up from the heart of my problem and the problems of my people." William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868 – 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. ... Leer más

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  • Gerald R. Ford

    The American Presidents Series: The 38th President, 1974-1977

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    The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis.When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance ... Leer más

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  • Ivory's Ghosts

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    "[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest." — The Huffington PostPraised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker's Ivory's Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, ... Leer más

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