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Jacqueline Jones
A "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labour history and urban history" (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning…
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Gene Kansas
Once the wealthiest Black neighborhood in the world, the Sweet Auburn Historic District in Atlanta, Georgia, now occupies a distinct place, both historically and geographically. It is at once the…
After being adopted at the age of 7, I grew up on a very large farm complete with a 9-acre lake. One day while exploring, I came upon a baby…
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Dr Jacqueline Jones
Discover daily inspiration and empowerment from within with "It's Okay to Love Yourself: A Daily Affirmation Devotional" by Dr. Jacqueline Jones. This journal offers the reader a journal of self-discovery…
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Jacqueline Horsfall
How do you make a kitchen sink? Throw it in the bath! What does a slice of toast wear to work? Jam-mies! A bumber collection of more than 600 hysterical…
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Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practice introduces the diversity of contemporary learning environments and uses a sociological lens to analyse relevant theoretical concepts, encouraging all educators to consider the impact…
Life is All About Choices shares one woman’s ideas about relationships and life experiences through an honest and stimulating exploration of the doubts, fears, and uncertainties that often accompany male/female…
This is a heartwarming children's book that takes young readers on an unforgettable journey of friendship, resilience, and finding one's true home. Packed with vibrant illustrations and an engaging storyline…
An acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South. Jacqueline Jones’s book, first published in 1980, focuses on the nearly three hundred women…
A roadmap for parents who are trying to navigate the medical system with their child.
A panoramic portrait of the city of Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, Saving Savannah offers a poignant story of the African-American freedom struggle in this prosperous Southern…
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This volume provides a guide to the Inland Waterways of Belgium.
A deeply researched examination of how race as a social invention has retained its power to organize, mark and harm the lives of Americans. -Pulitzer Prize Committee
Providing an historical account of American work, this text begins with the 17th century and examines all types of workers - the waged and unwaged, urban and countryside - framed…
[Jones’s] painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present. -David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun
From a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a biography of the American anarchist Lucy Parsons
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston
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The Bancroft Prize-winning classic, now completely revised and updated
Jacqueline Jones Royster
Traces of a Stream offers a scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers.
In Making the World a Better Place, Royster argues that African American women must be taken seriously as historical actors who were more consistently and more variously engaged in community…
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Jacqueline Jones LaMon delivers a stunning third collection that shows the elements of life that both unite us and create our greatest distances. What Water Knows transports the reader from…
Gain insight into the life of Ida B. Wells as Southern Horrors and Other Writings illustrates how events like yellow fever epidemic transformed her into a internationally famous journalist, public…
This is an affirmation book written to affirm who you are now and your future purposed self. The affirmations are written as Simple Confessions of Love designed to help you…
Andreas Georg Hilzensauer
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, Note: Gut, Universitat Wien (Neuzeit Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Literatur und Quellen zur nordamerikanischen Geschichte: Afroamerikanerinnen im 19. Jahrhundert , Sprache: Deutsch…
Jacqueline A. Jones
This guide includes chapter outlines, significant themes and highlights, a glossary, learning enrichment ideas, sample test questions, exercises for identification and interpretation and geography exercises based on maps in the…
Jacqueline Jones (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Focus: Music and Devotion in India creates a foundational framework for exploring musical expression in India, balancing coverage of a diverse range of traditions with in-depth analyses of specific genres…
Jacqueline P Jones
Jacqueline L Jones
Jacqueline M Jones
Aesthetic Words to Hold is a compilation of uplifting and inspiring poems written to express personal thoughts and emotions through the eyes of the author Jacqueline M. Jones. These poems…
Jacqueline B Jones
Have you ever felt like you were the only one going through something? Have you ever just wanted to know that you are not alone?
Well, guess what? You are…
Jacqueline D. Jones
A - Z CHRISTmas Coloring and Activity Book shares the marvelous story of the birth of Jesus in a fun-filled and hands-on way! Honoring God’s word, this book teaches kids…
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Jacqueline Jones-North
Over 800 beautiful color photos of perfume bottles ranging from the exquisite flacons of Lalique, Baccarat, Viard, Brosse, Jollivet, Cristal Nancy, Wheaton, C.K. Brenda, and Lucien Guillard to figural bottles…
During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose…
Cristina Devereaux Ramirez, Jacqueline Jones Royster
Considers the ways in which Mexican women journalists negotiated shifting feminine identities and the emerging national politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book reframes the conversation…
Beverly Falk
Provides an overview of the fundamentals of teaching in early childhood settings (pre-K-2), with a focus on what high-quality practices look like. The book details the features of developmentally appropriate…
Nonie K. Lesaux,Stephanie M. Jones
Aims to support the effort to simultaneously scale up and improve the quality of early childhood education by bringing together relevant insights from emerging research to provide guidance for this…
William A. Pelz,Robert Pesut,Jacqueline Jones
For today’s busy student, we’ve created a new line of highly portable books at affordable prices. Each title in the Books a la Carte Plus program features the exact same…
Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.
Jeremy
Regarded as the leading textbook in obstetrics and gynaecology for over 50 years, Fundamentals of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is an ideal introduction to the basic principles of this specialty for…
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Samara Jones, Jacqueline Haigh
Strap yourself in ...The astonishing true story of medical Arachnoiditis.
"It's impossible not to think of Henry Marsh's super-selling Do No Harm"- Positive TV
A young woman with big dreams…
Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson
Examines the need to integrate linguistically informed teaching into the secondary English classroom. It includes specific information about the language varieties students bring with them to school so that educators…
Ursula Prokop
The first book-length exploration of two pioneering Jewish designers of the Viennese Modern Movement, exiled in Britain after Nazi-occupation.
Jacqueline Wilson
April knows she was abandoned in a rubbish bin as a newborn baby, fourteen years ago. Now she’s happily settled with her foster mother, Marion - but there’s a part…
