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Pre-Owned My Father s Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders--An Intimate History of Damage and Denial (Paperback) by Norbert Lebert Stephan Lebert

9780316089753. Pre-owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Unspecified. In 1959 the German journalist Norbert Lebert interviewed the children of prominent Nazis: Hess... more

Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian (Paperback)

Rogin shows us a Jackson who saw the Indians as a menace to the new nation and its citizens. This volatile synthesis of liberal egalitarianism and an assault on the American Indians is the source of continuing interest in the sobering and important book. more

Family and Property in Sung China: Yuan Ts ai s Precepts for Social Life (Paperback)

Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class Yuan Ts ai s twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns of managing a family from rearing children and arranging their marriages... more

Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India (Hardcover)

This monograph breaks new ground by weaving stories of fathers and children into the history of gender family and nation in colonial India. Focusing on the reformist Bengali Hindu and Brahmo communities the author contends that fatherhood assumed new... more

Hitler My Father : A Novel of World War Two Hitler s Unknown Lover and Son. (Paperback)

An adoring young woman encounters Adolph Hitler when her youth group sings for him. He demands her company in private and she becomes pregnant bearing his child but never being contacted by Hitler again. The plot follows her life as an outcast believed... more

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo: By Birth or Consent: Children Law and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (Paperback)

In mid-sixteenth-century England people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property or serve in Parliament while children of the poorer sort might be forced to sign labor... more

Pre-Owned My Dear Wife and Children: Civil War Letters from a 2nd Minnesota Volunteer (Paperback 9781681812908) by Nick K Adams

9781681812908. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Annotated. Language: English. Pages: 352. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. What does a father write to his wife and young children when he s gone to war? Does he explain why he left... more

Cultural Histories: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (Paperback)

The Enlightenment 1650-1800 was a time when people began to take stock of their intrinsic worth as individuals. Of course slaves were still property servants and apprentices were indentured daughters belonged to fathers and brothers wives to husbands... more

Stranger to History: A Son s Journey Through Islamic Lands (Paperback)

As a child all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi his father a Pakistani Muslim remained a distant figure. It was a fractured upbringing which left Aatish with many... more

Loeb Classical Library: Discourses 61-80 (Hardcover)

The man with the golden mouth. Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120) of Prusa in Bithynia Asia Minor inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to... more

War Is Over (Hardcover)

Transcending its time and period this moving and lyrical story beautifully illustrated explores the fear and hope of children in time of war. I am just a child. How can I be at war? It s 1918 and war is everywhere. John s father is fighting in the... more

Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives (Hardcover)

The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today s women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children s... more

Thrown Among Strangers : The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Every California schoolchild s first interaction with history begins with the missions and Indians. It is the pastoralist image of course and it is a lasting one. Children in elementary school hear how Father Serra and the priests brought civilization... more

Home is Where the Army Sends You - Fort Liberty North Carolina (Hardcover)

Sgt. Rockwell Mrs. Rockwell Kristy and Steven are an Army family. It is a very special day for the Rockwell children as they discover where their father will be stationed next. Kristy and Steven are super excited when they learn that they will soon... more

Diamonds and Dominators: How to Feel Free in a World of Slavery (Paperback)

A hard-hitting and brutally honest book for free-thinking parents who want to prepare their children to live and feel free. Diamonds and Dominators is a love letter from a father to his daughter to help her understand this crazy world and how to... more

Early American Studies Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Paperback)

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother s master. In... more

Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian His: Ta Tsing Leu Lee; Being the Fundamental Laws and a Selection from the Supplementary Statutes of the Penal Code of China (Paperback)

The sinologist George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859) learned Chinese as a child and accompanied his father on a trip to China in 1792 where though the Ambassador s page he was the only member of the delegation who could speak to the emperor in Chinese. A... more

Pre-Owned Royal Flying Doctor Service 1: Remote Rescue (Paperback) 085798876X 9780857988768

A high-octane adventure series for children written in partnership with the Royal Flying Doctor Service An isolated location and last-minute complications put this rescue in danger! Sam Dawson and Emma are taking a road trip with their dad along the... more

Pre-Owned Almost Innocent (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) Paperback

Clay-Lee Calvert is the love child of two people who are as beautiful as models in a magazine but whose similarity ends there. Her father Rand is an artist - easygoing dreamy principled and chronically jobless. Her mother Constance is the blue-blooded... more

Visit Pakistan (Paperback)

Nadia and Nadir are a pair of young Muslim-American siblings living in Houston Texas with their mom and dad. Like all kids they enjoy staying busy. Nadia and Nadir are quick to make learning fun in their day-to-day lives. And with grandparents coming... more

Blood Redemption (Paperback)

Sheriff Jack Joseph Towns is struggling with the sudden death of his father when five local children mysteriously disappear. To worsen matters a fracking company is setting up test drills in the area risking the chance of finding them alive. It s not... more

Pre-Owned The Scars of War : Tokyo During World II: Writings Takeyama Michio 9780742554795 /

Takeyama Michio the author of Harp of Burma was thirty-seven in 1941 the year of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Husband father of children born during the war and teacher at Japan s elite school of higher education in Tokyo he experienced the war... more

The Punishing Journey of Arthur Delaney (Paperback)

For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson a 19th-century tale of a father s greatest regret and path to redemption Devastated at his wife s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax... more

Stranger To History: A Son s Journey Through Islamic Lands

A subtle and poignant work by a young writer to watch - V.S. Naipaul An amazing narrative a kind of Muslim Odyssey - Antonia Fraser As a child all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh... more

The Peddler and the Prince (Paperback)

This book is a spiritual allegory about a Father who gives His children good gifts. After giving His son Saul a treasure box a peddler comes to tempt him with a counterfeit box which appears better. Unfortunate consequences follow for Saul but the... more

Curiosities: An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity (Hardcover)

The Cabinet of Curiosities is our fully illustrated 88-page hardcover storybook. It tells the story of a pair of kids who inherit a spooky old house from a long lost uncle. The house is full to bursting with mysterious doo-dads and trinkets. Each room... more

This Is the Last Time!: To the Seven City (Churches) Which Are in Asia (Paperback)

Dear children of LORD GOD I am trying to be LORD GOD JESUS CHRIST S son. JESUS will seat me in his throne like my GRANDFATHER sat my FATHER LORD GOD in his seat. I will get a stone with a new name and more. I m running in the race for the prize in the... more