Look Out, Kid: A Tale of Tumult in the '60s
ISBN: 9781519165794 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erica McLane takes us on a profoundly personal and riveting journey navigating the sexual, racial and political tumult of the 1960s. Her revealing first hand accounts of many of the most well-known characters of the radical 60s will illuminate and inspire like few other retrospectives of this era.
Erica McLane takes us on a profoundly personal and riveting journey navigating the sexual, racial and political tumult of the 1960s. Her revealing fir...
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88,64 zł |
A life beautiful: biography
ISBN: 9781537659084 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A Life Beautiful' is the biography of a crusader for Justice who had to fight through the thick and thin of his life. He was born in the lurch and fought for his existence when he lost his mother in his childhood days followed by his father. It can appear to be the story of a common man in the vast ocean of faceless human beings who lived and died without any foot prints. It is virtually the biography of the author. Of course only some glimpses on his long life of about seventy years being unfolded from his mind's canvas. In everybody's life, some events stand out, defiant to get forgotten....
'A Life Beautiful' is the biography of a crusader for Justice who had to fight through the thick and thin of his life. He was born in the lurch and fo...
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25,68 zł |
Shattering Masks: Affirming Identity. Transitioning Faith
ISBN: 9780692773536 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,72 zł |
Invisible: A Memoir of the Rev. William B. Oliver III
ISBN: 9781502915870 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,44 zł |
Rescuing Children: Teachers, Social Workers, Nuns and Missionaries Who Stepped in the Shadows to Rescue Waifs
ISBN: 9781539176763 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rescuing Children is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who stepped into the shadows to liberate children from disease, destitution, and despair. Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto right under the Nazis' noses. Dr. Thomas Barnardo started orphanages for the children of London's East End. Bertha Bracey organized the Kindertransport during WWII, which saved ten thousand children from Nazi extermination. ...Rescuing Children is a powerful collection of biographical sketches centering on teachers, social workers, nuns, and missionaries in the lat... |
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23,91 zł |
What Happened? I Made A Promise
ISBN: 9781539516613 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the compelling true story of what one drunk driver can do in a split second. It can happen to anyone. It can happen to your children too. If you love your family and friends, take the time to read this book. It will help save lives.
This is the compelling true story of what one drunk driver can do in a split second. It can happen to anyone. It can happen to your children too. If y...
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66,64 zł |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
ISBN: 9781539724698 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States. The book encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass' life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is ...
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26,62 zł |
Mamie Who?: The Life and Times of a Colored Woman (An Autobiography)
ISBN: 9781539594437 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mamie Currie Hughes' Jacksonville, FL birth certificate carried the label "colored." After all, she was born in the late 1920s. Despite spending a lifetime advocating for Civil Rights, women's empowerment and ethnic equality, this octogenarian dismisses any attempt to assume a "politically correct" label like African American. She is adamant about a lot of things, especially equality and justice, and is revered as a model for social activism in her adopted city of Kansas City, where she came as a bride with her attorney husband. This autobiography is a microcosm of the Civil Rights movement...
Mamie Currie Hughes' Jacksonville, FL birth certificate carried the label "colored." After all, she was born in the late 1920s. Despite spending a lif...
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66,42 zł |
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9780997068375 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of the acclaimed Frank Meeink story includes a preface by the author, nine new chapters, an updated epilogue, and resource guides for substance abuse recovery and countering racism. Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink's raw telling of his descent into America's Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over hatred and addiction. Frank's violent childhood in South Philadelphia primed him to hate. He made easy prey for a small group of skinhead gang recruiters led by his older cousin. At fourteen, he shaved his head. By sixteen, Frank...
This new edition of the acclaimed Frank Meeink story includes a preface by the author, nine new chapters, an updated epilogue, and resource guides ...
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80,19 zł |
German Books: Drei Henkersknoten (German Edition)
ISBN: 9789655502787 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The breath taking novel, "Three Ropes for Hanging" describes the escape of its protagonist from three death sentences issued against him by Iran. This is a story of bravery and belief - about a man who grew up a in Shi'ite Iran and would become an uncompromising warrior against the fanatical Shi'ite regime. In his struggle with the regime, the book's hero is unwilling to compromise on his principles and his ambition to change the grim reality in Iran, which has darkened the region and threatens to plunge the entire world into catastrophe.This story is based on the life of its author, Dr....
The breath taking novel, "Three Ropes for Hanging" describes the escape of its protagonist from three death sentences issued against him by Iran. This...
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66,60 zł |
Three Ropes For Hanging
ISBN: 9789655502794 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The breathtaking novel, "Three Ropes for Hanging" describes the escape of its protagonist from three death sentences issued against him by Iran. This is a story of bravery and belief - about a man who grew up a in Shi'ite Iran and would become an uncompromising warrior against the fanatical Shi'ite regime. In his struggle with the regime, the book's hero is unwilling to compromise on his principles and his ambition to change the grim reality in Iran, which has darkened the region and threatens to plunge the entire world into catastrophe. This story is based on the life of its author, Dr....
The breathtaking novel, "Three Ropes for Hanging" describes the escape of its protagonist from three death sentences issued against him by Iran. This ...
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66,60 zł |
A Worker's Economist: John R. Commons and His Legacy from Progressivism to the War on Poverty
ISBN: 9781412865395 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John R. Commons is one of the few reformers of the past century whose major works are still actively read, whose ideas are still debated, and whose principles are still applied to the analysis of contemporary problems. His life spanned the years of America's -Great Transformation, - from a nation of shopkeepers, farmers, and small towns to one of giant corporations, landless laborers, and crowded cities. He became involved in almost every aspect of America's response to the damaging side effects of that transformation. A Worker's Economist begins with John Commons'... John R. Commons is one of the few reformers of the past century whose major works are still actively read, whose ideas are still debated, and whose... |
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558,51 zł |
Being There: My AIDS Buddy Story (1990-1996)
ISBN: 9781539847359 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,64 zł |
Deha Ban Gai Chandan
ISBN: 9781542684088 / Hindi / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,08 zł |
Dogs Are Better Than People: Encountering Good and Evil in the Animal Rescue World
ISBN: 9780692776315 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A mystery story, an animal rescue story and a feel-good story told with humor in the style of beloved veterinarian and author, James Herriot,"Dogs Are Better Than People" is the story of one woman's transformation from armchair sympathizer to animal activist. Powerful and humorous; it is part memoir, undercover report and love letter to companion animals everywhere. During one difficult year, Lori Bradley-Millstein's parents became terminally ill, she found herself in yet another new town after years of relocating for jobs with a busy husband often away at work and without any family nearby....
A mystery story, an animal rescue story and a feel-good story told with humor in the style of beloved veterinarian and author, James Herriot,"Dogs Are...
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88,86 zł |
Volevo fare lo YouTuber
ISBN: 9781540835031 / Włoski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Piccola storia di un ragazzo con la passione per i videogiochi
Piccola storia di un ragazzo con la passione per i videogiochi
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23,91 zł |
Memories
ISBN: 9789385020896 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1960, Lashio, Burma at 3 am, a 10 year old boy woke up crying inconsolably. When his nurse asked him why, he said that his mother had just died. Unknown to him, a few roads away his mother was, at that very minute, losing her life. Strange and curious happenings, prestige and paucity, moments of masti, achievements and brickbats - the stuff of ordinary life is narrated with frank vigour and charm in this exploration of a man's life, career and relationships. We feel his alienation and loss at the death of his mother, the troubles of an adolescence without money, the setbacks as promised...
In 1960, Lashio, Burma at 3 am, a 10 year old boy woke up crying inconsolably. When his nurse asked him why, he said that his mother had just died. Un...
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85,25 zł |
A Friendship, a Dime, and a Dream: The Biography of Willie Lee Buffington
ISBN: 9781929763702 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A chance meeting between a young white boy and an African American community mentor leads to an altruistic obsession in this one-of-a-kind biography. Willie Lee Buffington (1908-1988), even as a young lad, never understood the Jim Crow mentality of Deep South America in the first half of the twentieth century. As a dirt poor textile mill worker, he secures a dime to purchase five stamps, sending letters off requesting books for uneducated African Americans. Buffington also works hard to become highly educated himself, parlaying his studies into a professorship. Buffington's work ethic and...
A chance meeting between a young white boy and an African American community mentor leads to an altruistic obsession in this one-of-a-kind biography. ...
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79,76 zł |
Masquerade: Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Imposter
ISBN: 9780806157184 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,33 zł |
Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781542625975 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " ... From this night of slavery Douglass emerged, passed through the limbo of prejudice which he encountered as a freeman, and took his place in history. "As few of the world's great men have ever had so checkered and diversified a career," says Henry Wilson, "so it may at least be plausibly claimed that no man represents in himself more conflicting ideas and interests. His life is, in itself, an epic which finds few to equal it in the realms of either romance or reality." It was, after all, no misfortune for humanity that Frederick Douglass felt the iron hand of slavery; for his genius...
" ... From this night of slavery Douglass emerged, passed through the limbo of prejudice which he encountered as a freeman, and took his place in hist...
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40,88 zł |