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Robert Frank's 'The Americans'

In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted inĂ‚Â

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Domestic Manners of the Americans

Domestic Manners of the Americans is an entertaining, witty, and often scathing account of Trollope's travels in America between 1827 and 1832 and her

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Fossil Legends of the First Americans

Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly writte

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Various: Songs of the Native Americans - CD (7619943022722)

Hudební CD - Výběr písní domorodých Američanů. Výběr písní domorodých Američanů. Seznam stop CD 1 / Heya-Hee (The Inter-Tribal Song To Stop The Rain) / Yeha-Noha (Wishes Of Happiness And Prosperity) / Ta-Was-Ne (Elevation) / Canto Chamamico (Heal The Soul) - (Navajo) / How The West Was Lost (Navajo) / Ly-O-Lay Ale Loya (The Counter Clockwise Circle) / Dawa (The Credele ...

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I Was More American than the Americans - Sylvere Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien Grau

A personal take on French Theory by one of the people who invented it.

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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - Scott Anderson

<p>‘A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washington’s fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate today.’ New York Times At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing – seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear – to ...

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Lebanese Americans

This book explores the story of Lebanese Americans. Readers will learn about what prompted Lebanese to move to the United States. Entertaining text wi

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Quiet Americans

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA’s covert battles a

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Documenting Americans

This is the first comprehensive political history of national ID card proposals and developments in identity policing in the United States. Examining

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Real Americans

'Khong masterfully explores a family splintered by science, struggling to redefine their own lives after uncovering harrowing secrets. Real Americans is a mesmerizing multigenerational novel about privilege, identity and the illusions of the American dream' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing HalfHOW FAR WILL WE GO TO BELONG? On the precipice of Y2K, unpaid intern Lily ...

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Becoming Americans in Paris

Overturning the old American clich©s about "Gay Paree" or the "City of Lights," Becoming Americans in Paris offers a darker and more nuanced portrait

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Book of Unknown Americans

A deeply moving novel about the many different voices of the immigrant experience, inspired by the story of the author's father

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Politics of Asian Americans

Through the perspectives of mass politics, this book challenges popular misconceptions about Asian Americans as politically apathetic, disloyal, fragm

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Italian Americans on Screen

This book challenges past definitions of Italian American cinema and media studies by introducing fresh critical models into the discourse. Proposing

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Americans and the Making of the Riviera

From the inception of American tourism in the late 18th century, this volume explores over 200 years of American fascination with the French Riviera.

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Book of Awesome Black Americans

This book aims to teach the hidden contributions of Black Americans to American culture at large. Who is the book for : Primarily Black and African Am

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Makings and Unmakings of Americans

Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern

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Studying African-Native Americans

This book examines the academic study of the African and Native American contact, African cultural change in Native America, as well as the existence

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Studying African-Native Americans

This book examines the academic study of the African and Native American contact, African cultural change in Native America, as well as the existence

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Only Americans Burn in Hell

A despairingly hilarious satire of the modern world, from #MeToo to Trump, by the bestselling author of I Hate the Internet.

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Mammoth Book of Native Americans

Truth, tragedy and magic, the story of America's original inhabitants

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Americans from the Ardennes to VE Day

Launched in December 1944, the Nazis' Ardennes offensive, known as the Battle of the Bulge, cost the lives of more US soldiers than in any battle in A

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Americans and Germans in Bastogne

Detailed narrative unfolds in words of the men who were actually there. De-classified interviews with the German unit commanders who took part.

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Hands on History: Native Americans

Step back in time to a North America when the Sioux, Blackfoot and other tribes roamed the Great Plains. Learn more about how they lived, their custom

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Native Americans in Children's Literature

Build high-interest theme lesson plans that accurately portray Native peoples and cultures with this authoritative guide to the best children's fictio

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First Americans: A History of Native Peoples

Now in its third edition, First Americans has been fully updated to trace Native experiences through the 2020 election and the Biden administration, t

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Americans on Xanax Shooting Each Other

Wolff's date just got shot. He's losing students at a furious pace and might just lose his online teaching job for Jack Welch Online/Liberty University (Go Liberty Bells). And he's just run out of anti-depressants. A near-future satire by the author of The

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Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen

Perfect for readers interested in film, American history, and Black entertainment history, Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Scree

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Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. The current emphasis on racial iden

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Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts

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Americans on D-Day and in Normandy

Using superb colour and B aW images, the book describes the contribution of US forces in Operation OVERLORD.

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Bowie David: Young Americans (2016 Remaster) - LP (9029599034)

LP vinyl - Young Americans je deváté studiové album anglického hudebníka Davida Bowieho vydané 7. března 1975. Young Americans je deváté studiové album anglického hudebníka Davida Bowieho vydané 7. března 1975. Hudební chameleon patří k nejinovativnějším a nejinspirativnějším umělcům hudební historie. Ovlivnil mnoho následovníků včetně řady českých muzikantů. Když v ro...

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Impacts of Racism on White Americans In the Age of Trump

In this third iteration of the classic work The Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981, 1996), a new generation of scholars make the case that rac

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Native Americans of the United States: Focus on Alaskan Tribes (Eskimo, Inuit, Aleut and More)

Native Americans in the United States are defined as the indigenous peoples of North America that are within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. This book, part of a series, focuses on the culture and history of American Indians with a specific focus on the tribes of Alaska including the Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Inuit, T...

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Captives and Cousins

An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities througho

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More Civil War

During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveals h

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Down the Warpath to the Cedars

In May 1776 more than 200 Indian warriors attacked Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In three days' fighting, the Native Americans a

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Lucky Luke 21 - The 20th Cavalry

The Cheyenne are convinced that newly-arrived settlers have been killing the buffalo they traditionally depend on. When the Native Americans surround

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Walking on Cowrie Shells

Walking on Cowrie Shells focuses on the lives ofâ€hyphenated-Americans with a multi-cultural heritage in the USA and Africa. The book spans genre

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Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians

The American Romantic artist George Catlin (1796–1872) travelled widely during the 1830s, documenting the vanishing cultures of the Native Americans.

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How Our Days Became Numbered

Explains how life insurance corporations shaped how we understand American life spans and Americans as risks

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North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

Details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Hu

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Aftermath of the Battle of Little Big Horn

This is the second of two books dealing with the circumstances that arose leading the native americans on a collision course with the US Army that fat

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That's Not English

A transatlantic survival guide, that examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language. It shows why Americans

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White Slaves, African Masters – An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives

A selection of 19th-century Barbary Coast captivity narratives. The accounts range from 1798 to 1904 and tell the stories of enslaved white Americans,

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Border Within

An eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans.

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How Partisan Media Polarize America

Drawing on experiments and survey data, this title shows that Americans who watch partisan programming do become more certain of their beliefs and les

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Guardians of the Galaxy

Tracklist: 1. "Mr. Blue Sky" - Electric Light Orchestra 2. "Fox on the Run" - Sweet 3. "Lake Shore Drive" - Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah 4. "The Chain" - Fleetwood Mac 5. "Bring it On Home to Me" - Sam Cooke 6. "Southern Nights" - Glen Campbell 7. "My Sweet Lord" - George Harrison 8. "Brandy You're a Fine Girl" - Looking Glass 9. "Come a Little Bit Closer" - Jay and the Americ...

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Tarawa 1943

This title examines the 76-hour battle to take Tarawa by the Americans in 1943. It recounts how a garrison of 3700 Japanese soldiers withstood the ons

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William Klein

The latest addition to Thames a Hudson’s acclaimed ‘Photofile’ series surveys William Klein, best known for The Americans and New York.

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Men from Miami

An exhilarating real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution - then switched sides to try to br

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Atom Station

When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout

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The Bad Angel Brothers - Theroux Paul

Anotace: A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America`s most distinctive writersThere`s sibling rivalry and then there`s the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger.Enemies since childhood, the small town of Littleford just isn`t big enough to hold them both. So, Cal strikes out for the world`s wild places - a gifted geol...

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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Maté

Anotace: We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world?Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live.In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author ...

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The Myth of Normal : Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Maté Gabor

Anotace: Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is `normal` when it comes to health?Over four decades of clinical experience, renowned physician and addiction expert Dr Gabor Mate has seen how health systems neglect the rol...

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Colored Travelers

Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in America, freedom of movement has historically been a right

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Rites of Retaliation

Blending military and cultural history, Lorien Foote's rich and insightful book sheds light on how Americans fought over what it meant to be civilized

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White Philanthropy

Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma as a defining text on US race relations. Here, Maribe

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Midnight in America

In this innovative study, Jonathan White explores what dreams meant to Civil War-era Americans and what their dreams reveal about their experiences du

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Interpreting Our Heritage

Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefield areas, historic houses, and museums. For a

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