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Author: Herb Boyd
Publisher: South End Press
Keywords: race, resistance, first, century, americans, african, twenty
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0896086526
ISBN-13: 9780896086524
In Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the Twenty-First Century, leading African-American scholars and activists discuss the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality. This broad, inclusive anthology makes a vital contribution to our understanding of racism and how it can be overcome. Contributors include Abdul Akalimat on "e-black studies;" Dan Aldridge on spirituality and activism; Amiri Baraka on wisdom and cultural expression; Cathy Cohen on the continuing impact of AIDS in the African-American community; Ron Daniels on race and globa
Author: Gilbert J. Kaufma
Publisher: ASM International
Keywords: fracture, resistance, toughness, tear, alloys, alumninum, notch
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0871707322
ISBN-13: 9780871707321
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: resistance
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-06-14
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 140007665X
ISBN-13: 9781400076659
From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fictiona passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly parties of interest to the government tell their stories.A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses to seek a new understanding of compassion rather than revenge. A carpenter traveling in India changes his life when he explodes in an act of violence
Author: Owen Sheer
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Keywords: novel, resistance
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-02-19
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 038552210X
ISBN-13: 9780385522106
1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, a German counterattack lands on British soil. Within a month, half of Britain is occupied. The seat of British government has fled to Worcester, Churchill to Canada. A network of British resistance cells is all that is left to defy the German army.Against this backdrop, Resistance opens with Sarah Lewis, a twenty-six-year-old farmers wife, waking to find her husband, Tom, has disappeared. She is not alone, as all the other women in the Welsh border valley of Olchon wake to find their husbands gone. With this sudden and unexplained
Author: H. Von Dach
Publisher: Paladin Pre
Keywords: resistance, total
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1992-07-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0873640217
ISBN-13: 9780873640213
This is a legendary work by the famed Swiss expert on guerrilla warfare, Major H. von Dach. Survivalists have rediscovered this important study on resistance and underground operations, some making it the keystone of their libraries. Well-written and illustrated with easy-to-understand drawings, Total Resistance analyzes and overviews the techniques needed to overcome an invading force, formation of guerrilla units, weapons, food and medical considerations, ambushes, sabotage and much more.
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Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: europe, western, resistance
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859732798
ISBN-13: 9781859732793
This book is the first comprehensive survey of resistance movements in Western Europe in World War II. Until now, most work on resistance has centred either on espionage networks, partisans and their external links, or on comparisons between national movements and theories of resistance. This book fills a major gap in the existing literature by providing an analysis of individual national historiographies on resistance, the debates they have engendered and their relationship to more general discussions of the occupation and postwar reconstruction of the countries concerned.Explaining the conte
Author: Bob Moore
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: europe, western, resistance
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 1859732747
ISBN-13: 9781859732748
This book is the first comprehensive survey of resistance movements in Western Europe in World War II. Until now, most work on resistance has centred either on espionage networks, partisans and their external links, or on comparisons between national movements and theories of resistance. This book fills a major gap in the existing literature by providing an analysis of individual national historiographies on resistance, the debates they have engendered and their relationship to more general discussions of the occupation and postwar reconstruction of the countries concerned.Explaining the conte
