Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Timothy R. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
The compiler Timothy Jenkins in his 1883 book "The Ten Tribes of Israel" gathers together a vast array of different facts, stories, legends, anecdotes, archaeological discoveries, language comparisons, etc., from a vast array of different sources to support the claim first propounded by...
Strange Sounds
Music, Technology and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
In Strange Sounds, Timothy D. Taylor explains the wonder and anxiety provoked by a technological revolution that began in the 1940s and gathers steam daily. Taylor discusses the ultural role of technology, its use in making music, and the inevitable concerns about "authenticity" that arise...
Voyage d'un faux musulman à travers l'Afrique
Tombouctou, le Niger, Jenné et le désert
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Extrait : "Supposons que vous ayez sous les yeux une carte du globe ; que, sur cete carte, vous établissiez à l'un des points qui représentent Brest, Nantes, Rochefort ou Bordeaux, à la droite du petit carré qui représente la France ; que de là, votre doigt se promène au large sur cet espace...
by Christopher F. Small
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
As it ravaged the world, the influenza epidemic of 1918 devastated Boston's congested North End and left hundreds of orphans in its wake. Touched by this crisis, a Roman Catholic priest and a group of Italian Americans founded the first home for Italian children in Massachusetts. Franciscan Sisters devoted...
by Paul Michael Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
At the turn of the 20th century, Chicago was home to the largest Swedish population of any city in the world outside of Stockholm. In the 1920s, Sweden experienced an economic depression and population growth that sparked another rush of Swedish immigration to America and Chicago, where they settled...
Native Spirit
The Sun Dance Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
The words of Thomas Yellowtail, a revered Sun Dance chief of the Crow Indian tribe, are brought to life by the internationally known American Indian actor, Gordon Tootoosis. The book is illustrated with over 100 previously unpublished color and sepia photographs from as early as 1903 and traditional...
Lupe Velez
The Life and Career of Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire"
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Vélez (1908–1944). Over the years many crude myths have surfaced about Vélez, the most notorious that she “died with her head in the toilet.” This biography not only studies...
by Joseph Roth
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Joseph Roth: Juden auf Wanderschaft Erstdruck: Berlin, Die Schmiede, 1927. Aus der Reihe: Berichte aus der Wirklichkeit, Band 4. Inhaltsverzeichnis Juden auf Wanderschaft Vorwort I. Ostjuden im Westen II. Das jüdische Städtchen III. Die westlichen Ghettos I. Wien II. Berlin III. Paris IV. Ein Jude...
by Gauguin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Intimate Journals of Paul Gaugui, depicts the experiences of the French artist while living on a Polynesian island and discusses the culture of the natives of the island.
The Right Wing Mexican - the Chronicles of Minutemando
Featuring the Cabrone's Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Written by: Americans, American/Mexicans and People who know Americans, Mexicans and Mexican Americans AKA: Chicanos, Coconuts, Hispanics, Democrats, Right Wing Mexicans, Conservative Mexicans, Mexican Republicans, Uncle Thomas The book that nobody wants you to read. ? Laugh your way through the end...
A Peculiar Mixture
German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They...
The Buddhist Unconscious
The Alaya-vijñana in the context of Indian Buddhist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
This is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to an extraordinary degree. They not only explicitly differentiated this dimension of mental processes from conscious cognitive processes, but also offered...
A History of the Jews
The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three books on Jewish heritage from the author of Jews, God, and History, “the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language” (Los Angeles Times).
With over a million and a half copies sold, Jews, God and History introduced readers to “the fascinating reasoning” of...
Trace
Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
**Winner of the ASLE Creative Writing Award
Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
Finalist for the PEN American Open Book Award
Finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Book Award
Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Shortlisted for the Orion...