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  • Neighbor to Adirondack Wilderness
    Ed Zahniser
    Historian and Adirondack mountain poetEdZahniser has been a guide to the roots of Wilderness philosophy and history for over three decades. With hisNeighbor to Adirondack Wilderness, he shares his humble wisdom with readers and admirers from across the country. His latest collection will remind readerstothink more deeply about their own home places, the places on earth where th...
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    43,10 €

  • Alice Paul
    ZAHNISER
    This biography of Alice Paul, long an elusive figure in the political history of American women, offers the first in-depth examination of the sources of Paul’s ambition and the development of her political consciousness. Focusing on Paul’s early years and suffrage leadership, the authors bring fresh insights to the persistent questions about Alice Paul and her legacy. ...
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    36,00 €

  • The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity
    A. H. Mathias Zahniser / AHMathias Zahniser
    The common wisdom is that Christians and Muslims should dialogue only about what they agree on. This book takes a different approach. As the author observes, ''If we focus only on our common ground, we will miss some of the motivating force of our traditions, because that force derives not only from what we hold in common, but also from those convictions that keep us apart.''''...
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    28,49 €

  • Mexican Migration to the United States
    Steven S. Zahniser
    Contrary to the thinking of some U.S. policymakers, changing macroeconomic conditions in the both the U.S. and Mexico have little effect on Mexican migration. This book evaluates the importance of family networks and human capital accumulation in the migration decisions of Mexican households. Family networks substantially increase the likelihood that a Mexican head of househol...
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    66,32 €

  • AT THE END OF THE SELF-HELP ROPE
    Ed Zahniser
    Energetic, often wildly humorous, and self-critical, Ed Zahniser's poems tackle the scary work of hashing out inner conundrums and revising habituated but unhelpful self-talk. Humor and pathos share the stage. These poems speak to people working-whether alone, with a friend, counselor or therapist, or in a group setting-to reorient their personal and interpersonal compasses. T...
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    20,37 €

  • Alisonoward
    Howard Zahniser
    Howard Zahniser (1906-1964), primary author of the 1964 federal Wilderness Act, hailed from Tionesta, Pa., along the Allegheny River. In June 1937, Zahniser and his wife of one year, Alice (1918-2014), took a 14-day, 100-mile canoe trip down the Allegheny River from Olean, N.Y., to Tionesta. It was a continuous river trip then, there being no Kinzua Dam. North of Tionesta, the ...
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    17,26 €

  • Steel City Gospel
    Keith A. Zahniser
    Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an industrial city in a crucial era of change. ...
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    104,18 €

  • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
    Marvin R. Zahniser / Marvin RZahniser
    Pinckney’s lifetime as a leading member of the southern oligarchy is important to an understanding of that group’s assumptions about itself, its aspirations, and its exacting standards of public and private conduct for its leaders. It also provides insight into the development of the Federalist and Republican parties in the South and vividly demonstrates the effects of the nati...
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    64,11 €