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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter rose”
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  • The Hill We Climbed

    Prairie View A&M University

    by Phyllis Earles, Rebecca Hankins, Oscar H. Criner III, Ronald Lorenzo, Donna Hollie, Tabitha Morton, Whitney Stovall, Peter Rose, Coiette P. Morton, Camille Gibson, Deborah Johnson-Simon, Ikhlas Sabourni, Justin Lamar Bryant, Herman "Skip" Mason Jr., William A. Foster IV, Quinesha Bentley, Matthew G. Washington, Derek Blackwell ...
    Series series Prairie View A&M University Series
    Founded in 1876, Prairie View A&M University is the second-oldest public institution of higher learning in Texas, one of two Texas land-grant universities, and an “institution of the first class” within the Texas A&M University System. It is also the first public historically Black college or university (HBCU) in Texas. Prairie View A&M has played a pivotal role in the educational and economic ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Good War of Consul Reeves

    by Peter Rose ...
    Months before the start of the Pacific War in 1941, John Reeves – his career and marriage failing – is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao in southern China. The Japanese soon declare war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal is neutral, Macao is left alone and becomes a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Tropes of Intolerance

    Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear

    by Peter Rose ...
    Tropes of Intolerance is a Baedeker of bigotry, a short course on xenophobic racism and populist nationalism – both enduring threats to the social fabric of democratic societies.Each chapter is a self-contained commentary and a building block. In the first, the author considers the concepts of pride and prejudice and discusses patterns of discrimination and strategies of resistance. This is ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor

    by Peter Rose ...
    Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor describes the lucky journey of Peter Rose, an octogenarian sociologist, ethnographer, writer, teacher and world traveler. In the pages of this colorful memoir, the author comments on six decades of academic life in the U.S. and abroad, his work as researcher, editor and consultant, his excursions as a travel journalist, and some intimate portraits of those ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • As My Accountant Instructed and other writings

    by Peter Rose ...
      A collection of short stories and poetry   Adventure, history, thrills and intrigue all mixed with insight and meaning.   ... Read more

    $1.33 USD

  • Coincidence?

    A Romantic Thriller

    by Marianne Rose Peters ...
    Kidnapped by mistake from her hometown of San Diego, Hope Ryan is transported into the heart of a community under the control of a Mexican drug cartel.Cut o? from her beloved husband and family, she escapes death on more than one occasion, yet is unable to get back home. Frustrated by the lack of clues as to her whereabouts, John, her husband, remains con?dentwithout apparent reasonthat they will ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disasterWhy is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal ... Read more

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  • In the Time of the Butterflies

    by Julia Alvarez ...
    Set in the Dominican Republic during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship of the 1960s, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters—four women who opposed Trujillo, and became immortalized as Las Mariposas, "The Butterflies".It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of ... Read more

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  • Behind Japanese Lines

    With the OSS in Burma

    by Richard Dunlop ...
    In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the Father of Central Intelligence,” with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road linking Burma and China by performing guerilla operations behind the Japanese lines. Thus was born OSS ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of the Tower of London

    by G. Abbott ...
    Series series The Paranormal
    Tales of haunting from one of the world's most terrifying landmarks.The Tower of London's most horrific tragedies are well known; the gruesome deaths of the two boy princes in the Bloody Tower, Anne Boleyn's execution, the Jesuit priests and heretics who suffered the agonies of the rack and thumbscrew. Is it any wonder, then, that there are frequent reports of bloodcurdling screams and moans, of ... Read more

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  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

    by Julia Alvarez ...
    This beloved debut novel from New York Times bestselling author Julia Alvarez gives voice to four sisters growing up between two cultures when their family is forced to flee the Dominican Republic to New York City due to their father’s involvement in an attempt to overthrow a brutal dictator.The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

    by Dorothy Gilman ...
    Series Book 6 - Mrs. Pollifax
    “Absorbing and worthwhile . . . You won't want to put the book down.”—Portland TelegramThe cheerful Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, is once again plunged headfirst into a hair-raising CIA mission.Posing as a tourist in China, Mrs. Pollifax meets the sinister challenges of the Orient to safeguard a treasure for the CIA . . . and all but loses her life in the bargain. ... Read more

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