201 Ergebnisse für: giroux
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America - David Hajdu - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=U7B6EPG7vG8C&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&dq=mad+1952+machine+stops+blobs
The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.In the…
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Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the ... - Leonard Zeskind - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=6Yx1-sBC1VcC&pg=PA574&dq=pat+robertson+%22New+World+Order%22&hl=de&sa=X&ei=UEH_VIjAIsf4OqHMgdgD
More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history to date of the white supremacist movement as it has evolved over the past three-plus decades. Leonard Zeskind draws heavily upon court documents, racist…
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Leni Riefenstahl: A Life - Jürgen Trimborn - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Ql_FeGlS2oIC&pg=PT245
Dancer, actress, mountaineer, and director Leni Riefenstahl's uncompromising will and audacious talent for self-promotion appeared unmatched—until 1932, when she introduced herself to her future protector and patron: Adolf Hitler. Known internationally for…
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Einstein: A Biography - Jürgen Neffe - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=B8K6n177ZwcC&pg=PA45
Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and cosmology, and for his work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in…
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The Religion: A Novel - Tim Willocks - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=0MTazZni9DQC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=Tim+Willocks+Mollio&source=bl&ots=Wuppd0Pl1w&sig=Iw6mJpo5Fjop5o
This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, so poleaxed by a book that the breath is sucked right out of us. Brace yourselves.May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the…
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Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took On a Powerful Company - and the ... - Michael Shnayerson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=olx_X8KBeDwC&pg=PA258&dq=%22arch+Coal%22,+EPA,+spruce&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAWoVChMI6KGZh8r5x
One of America's most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are blasting the mountains, decapitating them for coal. The forested ridge tops and valley streams of Appalachia—one of the country's natural…
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War - Nicholas Lemann - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=nnl_RySqdl8C&lpg=PP1&dq=Nicholas%20Lemann,%20''Redemption:%20The%20Last%20Battle%20of%20the%20Ci
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them…
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Adventures of a Suburban Boy - John Boorman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=7IGW-EbHiH4C&pg=PT172&dq=John+Merritt+Film+Editor+john+boorman&hl=de&sa=X&ei=52RUU4uGJsrFtAbxz4G
John Boorman came of age as a filmmaker in the 1960s--the golden age of world cinema. Then as now, his celebrated films embrace the spirit of the era: challenging authority, questioning accepted morality, and examining the thin line between civilization…
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Sometimes There Is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider - Zakes Mda - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Ja4bRczEhIkC&pg=PT288&lpg=PT288&dq=Mabathoana+High+School+archbishop&source=bl&ots=uQWihTeV0i&s
Zakes Mda is the most acclaimed South African writer of the independence era. His eight novels tell stories that venture far beyond the conventional narratives of a people's struggle against apartheid. In this memoir, he tells the story of a life that…
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John Berryman | americana | Poetenladen
http://www.poetenladen.de/americana/john-berryman.htm
John Berryman: 22: Von 1826. americana im Poetenladen, herausgegeben von Christian Lux und Annette Kühn