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by Philip Boehm  Publisher Comments For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Nagel Publisher Comments Nagel tells the captivating and irresistible story of Mary Nisbet, whose life and letters give readers an intimate and astonishing insider's look into the British aristocracy during the Romantic era.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J. Anthony Lukas 
Publisher Comments Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynne Withey Publisher Comments Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive with the ferment of a new nation, "Dearest Friend" is the first full biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia J. Williams Publisher Comments result is a testament of considerable beauty, a triumph of moral tactfullness, The result, as the title suggests, is magic.... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Borstelmann Publisher Comments The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. In so doing, it recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context,... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas S. Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Lorber Publisher Comments Is feminism dead, or has it gone mainstream? Are we into a third wave or still in the second wave? What did feminism accomplish in the past 40 years? What still needs to be done about persistent gender inequality? Do we need a new feminism? In Gender... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Moody Publisher Comments Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Clearman Blew Publisher Comments In language reminiscent of the wild beauty of Big Sky Country, the author gives readers a glimpse into the lives of her family as she traces their connection to Montana's natural and human landscape. Beginning with her great-grandparents' arrival in 1882... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jackie Robinson Publisher Comments A Dream Deferred My grandfather was born into slavery, and although my mother and my father, Mallie and Jerry Robinson, lived during an era when physical slavery had been abolished, they also lived in a newer, more sophisticated kind of slavery than the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruby Bridges Publisher Comments Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a 6-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. An icon of the Civil Rights movement, Ruby chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Louis, Jr. Gates
Publisher Comments From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Cummings Publisher Comments Left Behind in Rosedale is a stunning analysis of community and neighborhood decline. Through creative application of ethnographic analysis, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, Scott Cummings’ unique book breathes human life into one... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon D. Holtzman Publisher Comments This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. In... (read more) List Price $35.75 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lucy Grealy Publisher Comments This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Assata Shakur Publisher Comments This presents the life story of African American revolutionary Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mabel Barbee Lee Publisher Comments Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole place turn to gold. <BR>With his divining rod... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rachel Calof Publisher Comments In 1894, 18-year-old Rachel Kahn traveled from Russia to the U.S. for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof. As North Dakota homesteaders, Rachel and Abraham carved out a life, enduring many hardships. Never sentimental, her memoir is a vital record of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Elizabeth Hobgood Publisher Comments Class and race are often assumed to be natural, biologically determined categories when in fact they are social constructs. Together with gender, these distinctions are perpetuated and exploited by the most powerful social group -- white male elites... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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