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Jason Reynolds | Ibram X. Kendi Stamped (for kids)
racism, antiracism, and you
Benieuwd hoe de ongelijkheid en racisme (in de Verenigde Staten) begon? Lees de geschiedenis vanaf de publicatie uit de 15e eeuw die slavernij liet focussen op huidskleur tot de Black Lives Matter beweging van nu. Met illustraties in grijstinten. Vanaf ca. 12 t/m 15 jaar.
Non-fictie
Engels | 164 pagina's | Little, Brown and company, New York | 2021
Gedrukt boek
Royal Netherlands Military Flying-School in United States of America
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 296 pagina's | E.W. Smith Company, New York, N.Y. | 1943
E-book
Eddie Rickenbacker Fighting the Flying Circus
"Fighting the Flying Circus" is fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker WWI memoir. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. The circus mentioned in the title refers to the German squadron commanded by the famous Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was an American World War I pilot. He was the most successful fighter ace in that war and received...
Engels | 10 uur (437 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
The king
De documentairemaker kocht op een veiling de Rolls Royce die eigendom was van Elvis Presley. Bekende en onbekende Amerikanen rijden mee en geven hun mening over het leven van Elvis Presley en over de Verenigde Staten tijdens en na zijn leven.
Non-fictie
Film
Political exile in the global twentieth century
Catholic Christian democrats in Europe and the Americas
This book focuses on the political exile of Catholic Christian Democrats during the global twentieth century, from the end of the First World War to the end of the Cold War. Transcending the common national approach, the present volume puts transnational perspectives at center stage and in doing so aspires to be a genuinely global and longitudinal study. Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century includes chapters on continental European exile in the United Kingdom and North America through...
Non-fictie
Engels | 319 pagina's (PDF, 5,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
E-book
Charles Rivers The Earp Brothers
"The Earp Brothers" weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West. Charles Rivers (Editors) in an independant publisher, which had created...
Engels | 2 uur 46 minuten (123 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Albert A. Anderson Anderson’s Reality and the Arts
Art is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creative act of imagining enables the mind to seek reality is to employ the kind of dialectical thinking that Plato used in his dialogues. Beginning with the shadows on the wall of the cave in which each person dwells, that process gradually enables us to grasp the essences that are manifested in individual works of art. Without...
Engels | 4 uur 7 minuten (179 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Joseph Norio Uemura Uemura’s Reflections on the Mind of Plato
"Plato was not a Platonist! I would like to show . . . that anyone who reads the dialogues of Plato without bias or an ax to grind will find a humorous, witty, pleasant friend; and not a desiccated scholarly mandarin. Plato was an open-minded, tolerant, reasonable individual, not a tight-lipped, pietistic, puritan. In a word, Plato was an Athenian, not a Spartan!" In the twenty-four centuries that have passed since the Athenians put Socrates to death, every generation has interpreted the meaning...
Engels | 4 uur 43 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
James Baldwin I am not your negro
Non-fictie
Engels | 118 pagina's | Penguin Books, New York | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Van Rossem in Amerika
Historicus Maarten van Rossem reist kriskras door de Verenigde Staten met de vraag waarom een 'Christelijk' land zoveel onrechtvaardigheid kent
Non-fictie
Film
Hans Krabbendam Saving the overlooked continent
American Protestant missions in Western Europe, 1940-1975
Among a wide spectrum of American Protestants, the horrors of World War II triggered grave concern for Europe's religious future. They promptly mobilised resources to revive Europe's Christian foundation. Saving the Overlooked Continent reconstructs this surprising redirection of Western missions. For the first time, Europe became the recipient of America's missionary enterprise. The American missionary impulse matched the military, economic, and political programs of the U.S., all of which positioned...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 7,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
E-book
Roosevelt Study Center A bouquet from the Netherlands
liber amicorum presented to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
Non-fictie
Engels | 85 pagina's | Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg | 1987
Gedrukt boek
Willem Post Obamawereld
Overzicht van de ideeën en opvattingen van Barack Obama en wat van hem als president van de Verenigde Staten verwacht mag worden.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 118 pagina's | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Hugh Brogan Longman history of the United States of America
Engels | 740 pagina's | Longman, London [etc.] | 1985
Gedrukt boek
Netherlands American Studies Association The American West
as seen by Europeans and Americans
Engels | 445 pagina's | Free University Press, Amsterdam | 1989
Gedrukt boek
Anna Jacoba Leenhouts The immoderate past
the image of the Southern gentleman in history and fiction, 1860-1980
Engels | 323 pagina's | 1982
Gedrukt boek
Craig Unger House of Trump, house of Putin
the untold story of Donald Trump and the russian mafia
Overzicht en analyse van de connecties van de Amerikaanse president Trump met de Russische president Poetin en zijn coterie van rijke oligarchen, de Russische maffia en de inlichtingendiensten.
Non-fictie
Engels | 337 pagina's | Bantam Press, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Dutch-American relations 1945-1969
a partnership; illusions and facts
Bibliografie : p. 206-214 Met reg. Survey of the Dutch-American relations, with special emphasis on the cultural relations (Chapter 4a), which behold a.o.: leisure and consumption (music, movies, television); youth culture and rock music; foreign cultural policy.
Non-fictie
Engels | 220 pagina's | Van Gorcum, Assen [etc.] | 1992
Gedrukt boek
Howard M. Sachar A history of the Jews in America
Engels | 1051 pagina's | Knopf, New York | 1992
Gedrukt boek