Ergebnis für "Pamela" in Kulturell & regional

Enjoy the warmth, spirit, and adventure of Kauai in 50 inspiring, humorous, and touching personal stories told by the island's people. Dance hula with an award-winning hula instructor who helps keep this cultural tradition alive. Make salt the traditional way Hawaiians have been making salt for centuries. Discover the aloha spirit of Kauai's people through their stories of growing up island-style, living in multicultural sugar plantation camps; going barefoot until high school and making toys with whatever was on hand, like Frisbees from car-flattened, sun-dried toads.

Capture the spirit and adventure of Kauai in this collection of 50 new personal stories about life on the Garden Island. Dance the Hula with teenage girls who were born to share this beautiful Hawaiian cultural tradition. Discover how two English-speaking residents became guardians of the Hawaiian language. String flower lei with ladies who keep this lovely art alive.

This powerful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety is a profound “testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit” (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans). Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood...

In Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP, Yvonne Ryan offers the first biography of this influential activist, as well as an analysis of his significant contributions to civil rights in America. While activists in Alabama were treading the highways between Selma and Montgomery, Wilkins was walking the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., working tirelessly in the background to ensure that the rights they fought for were protected through legislation and court rulings.