East Harlem: The Postwar Years (Goldstein Leo)(Pevná vazba)

East Harlem: The Postwar Years (Goldstein Leo)(Pevná vazba)

For some 70 years, Leo Goldstein's East Harlem body of work remained mostly untouched and unseen. The silver gelatin prints were catalogued in 2016, and a selection is gathered here for the first time. The photographs were taken over a number of years, beginning in 1949 when Goldstein was a member

I've Lived In East London For 86 1/2 Years (Usborne Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Resisting Sectarianism: Queer Activism in Postwar Lebanon (Nagle John)(Paperback)

The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and homophobic. Yet, in recent years the region has become a vibrant and important arena for feminist and LGBTQ activism. This book provides an insight into this emerging politics through a unique analysis of feminist and LGBTQ social

Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan (Hasegawa Kenji)(Pevná vazba)

1. Introduction.- 2. From Shinjinkai to Zengakuren: Petit Bourgeois Students and the Postwar Revolution, 1945-1950.- 3. 'Impressionable Students and Excitable Koreans': Internal Factors in the JCP's Anti-American Radicalization, 1945-1952.- 4. Guerilla Warfare in Postwar Japan: The Ogōchi sanson

Waterland (Swift Graham)(Pevná vazba)

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek

Hoxton Childhood & The Years After (Jasper A.S.)(Pevná vazba)

AS Jasper's memoir of growing up in the East End of London before the First World War was acclaimed as a classic when it was described by the Observer as 'Zola without the trimmings.' In this definitive new edition, it is accompanied by the first publication of the sequel detailing the author's

Julia Watson. Lo--Tek. Design by Radical Indigenism (Watson Julia)(Pevná vazba)

Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Today, we have slowly come to realize

Lighthouses of the North East Coast (Jones Robin K.)(Pevná vazba)

Tales from the Frontline: Middle East Hunters (Deacon Ray)(Pevná vazba)

Having passed-out from Boy Entrant training in December 1959, Ray spent the following two years servicing Vampire trainers at the Central Flying School (CFS), RAF Little Rissington. In April 1962, Ray left Little Rissington and joined thirty fellow airmen for a voyage out to Aden aboard HMT Nevassa

East Ended(Pevná vazba)

Far East & Australasia 2000(Pevná vazba)

A systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This book keeps up to date with economic and political developments. It presents over 1300 pages of statistics, directory material and

Adriatic Pilot - Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, East Coast of Italy, Albania (Imray)(Pevná vazba)

In publication for over thirty years, Adriatic Pilot remains the only single volume to cover the whole region, from Albania and the heel of Italy in the south to Venice and Slovenia in the north. The ever-popular cruising ground of Croatia is covered extensively in four separate

Neuropsychology (Goldstein Gerald)(Pevná vazba)

In this volume of the series Human Brain Function: Assessment and Rehabilitation we cover the area of how brain function is assessed with behavioral or neuropsycholog- ical instruments. These assessments are typically conducted by clinical neuropsy- chologists or behavioral neurologists, and so we

Containment in the Middle East (Eilam Ehud)(Pevná vazba)

National security affairs analystEhud Eilam examines the strategy of containment in the Middle East as it is currently pursued. For the United States, containment is a way to avoid war with Iran and thwart its nuclear weapons program. For Israel it has been a way to prevent a confrontation with the

Going East (Tjandra Rudolf)(Pevná vazba)

East German Modern (Engels Hans)(Pevná vazba)

This visually arresting tour through the former East Germany shows the best examples of modernist architecture still standing there today. The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the

Ten Days in Harlem (Hall Simon)(Pevná vazba)

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionized the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. New York City, September 1960. Fidel Castro - champion of the oppressed, scourge of colonialism, and leftist revolutionary - arrives for the opening of the United

Art of the Middle East (Eigner Saeb)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive guide to modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world since 1945. Includes more than 500 colour illustrations, a guide to Arabic script and biographies of the 200-plus featured

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing (Goldstein Jacob)(Pevná vazba)

The co-host of the popular NPR podcast 'Planet Money' provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein

Leaving Berlin (Kanon Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

A sweeping novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught betwen political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet

Memory and Postwar Memorials: Confronting the Violence of the Past (Silberman M.)(Pevná vazba)

The twentieth century witnessed genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced population expulsions, shifting borders, and other disruptions on an unprecedented scale. This book examines the work of memory and the ethics of healing in post authoritarian societies that have experienced state-perpetrated

The Setting Sun (Dazai Osamu)(Paperback)

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made people of the setting sun a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his

Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology (Habu Junko)(Pevná vazba)

The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural differences and commonalities

Feasts From the Middle East (Comptoir Libanais)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of authentic Middle Eastern food, Feasts from the Middle East is packed with over 100 deliciously fresh, fragrant and flavourful dishes, inspired by the souks of