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  • Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2d ed.
    Anita Price Davis / Marla J. Selvidge
    From the first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bertha von Suttner (1905), to the latest and youngest female Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai (2014), this book in its second edition provides a detailed look at the lives and accomplishments of each of these sixteen Prize winners. They did not expect recognition or fame for their work--economist Emily Greene Balch (1946) was...
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    58,64 €

  • New Deal Art in Alabama
    Anita Price Davis / Jimmy S. Emerson
    As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, 'artists had to eat, too,' and these funds aided people who needed emp...
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    42,68 €

  • North Carolina and World War II
    Anita Price Davis
    North Carolina did more than its part during World War II. This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one still find the military posts and shipyards, the cemeteries and memorials, the convalescent units and R&R facilities today? This volume describes in detail both the state’s 20-plus military sites and the eight little-known North Carol...
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    42,88 €

  • Katie Price M.A.D
    Anita Price
    This book is much more than the story of baby Katie’s arrival. She wasstillborn and she put in an appearance on 13th September 1993. Thegestation period for the book has taken a long time because it is not just acatalogue of the events before and after her delivery at the hospital. Shewas STILL BORN and she affected so many people in so many positiveways. Her arrival and premat...
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    16,78 €

  • The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia
    Anita Price Davis
    Atlanta writer Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) wrote Gone with the Wind (1936), one of the best-selling novels of all time. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was the basis of the 1939 film, the first movie to win more than five Academy Awards. Margaret Mitchell did not publish another novel after Gone with the Wind. Supporting the troops during World War II, assisting African-A...
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    109,78 €

  • New Deal Art in Virginia
    Anita Price Davis
    This book is the only record of federally-funded art projects in Virginia post offices during the Great Depression. It provides an historical overview of each city or town that is home to the artwork, information on federal structures housing the artwork, a photograph and description of the artwork itself, and a biographical sketch of the artist. Features 148 photographs. ...
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    58,54 €

  • Georgia During the Great Depression
    Anita Price Davis
    During the Great Depression, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell and his former Columbia student Roy Emerson Stryker spearheaded an effort to create a photographic portrait of the nation’s people and places. The result was a federal commission given to a number of photographers who traveled throughout the country to record the pride and perseverance, stre...
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    58,81 €

  • North Carolina During the Great Depression
    Anita Price Davis
    Through interviews with survivors of the Depression, the use of photographs taken by Federally supported photographers (many reproduced here) and research into the history of the period, the work provides an accurate and even uplifting portrait of the people of the mountains, piedmont and Coastal areas of North Carolina in the 1930s. The chapters include examinations of the ...
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    58,68 €