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  • Jim Crow Wisdom
    Jonathan Scott Holloway
    How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary fil...
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    44,54 €

  • Nicholas Nickleby
    Charles Dickens / Jonathan Holloway
    Nicholas Nickleby is newly employed as a teacher at Dotheboys’ Hall in Yorkshire thanks to his manipulative and avaricious uncle Ralph, a businessman. There he witnesses the cruel treatment of boys at the hands of despotic headmaster Wackford Squeers and his wife. In coming to the defence of one boy, Smike, Nicholas assaults Squeers. Thinking he has killed him, he escapes with ...
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    18,91 €

  • The Railway Siding
    Jonathan Holloway
    Out of work, out of luck, and out of favor with his wife, architect Jack Webb retreats to a cottage in Wales to concentrate on a new design project for a friend’s business. With the deadline imminent, Jack takes the overnight train from Haverfordwest back to London to deliver his drawings. On the otherwise deserted train Jack encounters first an unusually friendly guard and the...
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    14,12 €

  • Confronting the Veil
    Jonathan Scott Holloway
    In this book, Jonathan Holloway explores the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche — three black scholars who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, together, formed the leading edge of American social science radicalism.Harris, Frazier, and Bunche represented the vanguard of th...
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    50,95 €

  • Darkness Falls
    Jonathan Holloway / W.W. Jacobs / W.WJacobs
    The perils of ambition lie at the heart of this double-bill of supernatural tales. In The Monkey’s Paw a family is granted three wishes, all of which come true but in a macabre and unexpected way. In The Dark a successful and ambitious novelist meets his Mephistopheles and is dispatched to a sinister fate.1 woman, 4 men ...
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    18,27 €