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  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojour...
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    37,06 €

  • How the Other Half Lives (Esprios Classics)
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, 'muckraking' journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished ...
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    23,63 €

  • The Battle With the Slum (Esprios Classics)
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, 'muckraking' journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twentieth century. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished ...
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    25,96 €

  • Die Entstehung eines Amerikaners
    Jacob A. Riis
    Dieses klassische Buch wurde ursprünglich vor Jahrzehnten veröffentlicht als 'The Making of an American' . Es wurde jetzt von Writat für seine deutschsprachigen Leser ins Deutsche übersetzt. Bei Writat liegt uns die Bewahrung des literarischen Erbes der Vergangenheit sehr am Herzen. Wir haben dieses Buch ins Deutsche übersetzt, damit es heutige und zukünftige Generationen lesen...
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    16,84 €

  • La création d’un Américain
    Jacob A. Riis
    Ce livre classique a été initialement publié il y a des décennies sous le titre 'The Making of an American' . Il a maintenant été traduit par Writat en langue française pour leurs lecteurs francophones. Chez Writat, nous sommes passionnés par la préservation du patrimoine littéraire du passé. Nous avons traduit ce livre en français afin que les générations présentes et futures ...
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    16,45 €

  • A Ten Years’ War
    Jacob A. Riis
    A Ten Years’ War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reforma...
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    22,59 €

  • Nibsy’s Christmas and Other Christmas Stories
    Jacob A. Riis
    'Nibsy Christmas' is a short story set in the East Side streets of New York City. A poor newsboy shows his generous side when he buys two younger children a piece of cake each on Christmas Eve. But tragedy will strike later that evening when he flees from his drunken father’s wrath to hide in a hay factory where he falls asleep...  ' It was Christmas-eve over on the East Side. ...
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    8,98 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob Riis
    'How the Other Half Lives' by Jacob Riis sheds fascinating light on how our immigrants in the 1800’s lived in New York City. A must-read for Americans whose family has been in the U.S. for only a few generations, this book tells what it was really like in the slums. Whether Irish, Italian, Jewish, Chinese or Polish, German, Russian, hordes of refugees ended up in New York on th...
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    10,28 €

  • Nibsy’s Christmas
    Jacob A. Riis
    Nibsy’s Christmas, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scann...
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    13,50 €

  • Neighbors
    Jacob A. Riis
    Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half , has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. This book is not made of scanned copies and hence ...
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    14,13 €

  • The Making of an American
    Jacob A. Riis
    The Making of an American, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. This book is not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear...
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    17,71 €

  • Christmas Stories
    Jacob A. Riis
    Rediscovering the True Spirit of Christmas.Jacob A. Riis has collected over 13 short Christmas Stories for you to enjoy; stories to kindle your holiday spirit. He was focused on the true spirit of Christmas: generosity, kindness, and charity toward others. Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide-open heart that thinks of others first. The Christmas sp...
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    12,65 €

  • Christmas Stories
    Jacob A. Riis
    Rediscovering the True Spirit of Christmas.Jacob A. Riis has collected over 13 short Christmas Stories for you to enjoy; stories to kindle your holiday spirit. He was focused on the true spirit of Christmas: generosity, kindness, and charity toward others. Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide-open heart that thinks of others first. The Christmas sp...
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    24,35 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis
    2022 Hardcover Reprint of the 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. 'How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York' explained not only the living co...
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    25,07 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    Jacob Riis’s classic is an open window into a world unknown to most. Originally published in 1890, this classic inditement of slum life remains an outstanding example of the value of investigative journalism and its potential to change the world for the better. Riis was one of the earliest 'muck-rakers,' which President Theodore Roosevelt defined as, 'taking the rake to uncover...
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    10,31 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    A classic early example of 'muck-racking' journalism, or reporting by reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt, 'How the Other Half Lives' is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York endured at the end of the 19th century. Danish immigrant Jacob A. Riis saw first-hand the h...
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    11,04 €

  • The Making of an American, Illustrated
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it—but all that had gone before.” —Jacob Riis, The Making of an AmericanJournalist Jacob Riis wrote his autobiography, The Making ...
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    25,52 €

  • Theodore Roosevelt
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    “Of the President I am proud with reason, but the friend I love. And if I can make you see him so, as a friend and a man, I have given you the master-key to him as a statesman as well.” —Jacob Riis, Theodore Roosevelt—The CitizenTheodore Roosevelt—The Citizen (1904) was written by Jacob Riis, a journalist and good friend of Roosevelt’s. Riis explained that his book was not goin...
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    32,05 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    In this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" explained not only the living conditions in New York slums, but also in the sweatshops in some tenements which paid workers only a few cents a day. The book explains the plight of working child...
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    12,86 €

  • How the Other Half Lives - Studies Among the Tenements of New York
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of 'How the Other Half Lives' (1890) by Jacob Riis. This powerful collection of photographs depicts the slums of New York during the 1800s. As an émigré, Riis witnessed the poverty and crowded conditions of the city, and turned to photojournalism to document street life. Mastering the innovative use of flash, and being one o...
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    29,07 €

  • The Children of the Poor
    Jacob Riis
    Tenements, saloons, and streets — How did children survive the perils of New York City slums? When this book appeared in 1892, it shocked the privileged class. The evidence of misery and greed was undeniable.The author, Jacob Riis, was a muckraker and social documentary photographer. His exposé includes stories of survival, child abuse and neglect, orphans and outcasts. He wrot...
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    13,06 €

  • The Children of the Poor
    Jacob Riis
    Tenements, saloons, and streets - How did children survive the perils of poor New York City neighborhoods? When this book appeared in 1892, it shocked the privileged class. The evidence of misery and greed was undeniable.The author, Jacob Riis, was a muckraker and social documentary photographer. His book includes stories of survival, child abuse and neglect, orphans and outcas...
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    22,90 €

  • How the Other Half Lives (Studies Among the Tenements of New York)
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    A classic early example of “muck-racking” journalism, or reporting by reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt, “How the Other Half Lives” is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York endured at the end of the 19th century. Danish immigrant Jacob A. Riis saw first-hand the h...
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    11,04 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. 'How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York' explained not only the living conditions in...
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    11,65 €

  • How The Other Half Lives
    Jacob Riis
    Riis was among the first in the United States to conceive of photographic images as instruments for social change; he was also among the first to use flash powder to photograph interior views, and his book How the Other Half Lives was one of the earliest to employ halftone reproduction successfully. -- Lisa HostetlerEssential reading for every American.Jacob Riis, a police repo...
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    10,98 €

  • How The Other Half Lives
    Jacob Riis
    Riis was among the first in the United States to conceive of photographic images as instruments for social change; he was also among the first to use flash powder to photograph interior views, and his book How the Other Half Lives was one of the earliest to employ halftone reproduction successfully. -- Lisa HostetlerEssential reading for any American.Jacob Riis, a police report...
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    21,38 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojour...
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    14,89 €

  • Hero Tales Of The Far North (1920)
    Jacob August Riis
    Hero Tales of the Far North is a collection of stories about heroic figures from the Arctic regions, written by Jacob August Riis and first published in 1920. The book features tales of exploration, adventure, and survival, focusing on the bravery and resourcefulness of the people who lived in these harsh and unforgiving environments. Riis draws on his own experiences as a jour...
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    37,49 €

  • A Ten Year’s War
    Jacob August Riis
    A Ten Year’s War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York is a book written by Jacob August Riis, first published in 1900. The book provides a detailed account of the author’s experiences in fighting against the slums in New York City during the late 19th century. Riis was a social reformer and journalist who dedicated his life to improving the living conditions of t...
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    34,32 €

  • The Battle with the Slum
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    American journalist JACOB AUGUST RIIS (1849-1914) was the man for whom the term muckraker was coined, and the reason why is perfectly stark in this collection of true stories from the slums of late-19th-century New York City.As a police reporter and photographer for several newspapers in the 1870s, Riis became intimate with-and disgusted by-the most crime-ridden areas of the ci...
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    30,72 €


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