wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Violence
ISBN: 9780807872161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for capital punishment. With over 95 entries, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the most significant forms and many of the most harrowing incidences of violence that have plagued southern society over the past 300 years.
Following a detailed overview by editor Amy Wood, the volume explores a wide... Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its b...
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163,25 zł |
Zephyr Stone and the Moon Mist Ghost
ISBN: 9781948449090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,63 zł |
Zephyr Stone and the Frosty Phantom
ISBN: 9781948449199 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,63 zł |
Raising Healthy Children in an Alcoholic Home
ISBN: 9781467959186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a book written for parents in recovery from alcoholism, co-dependence, and other addictive problems. It helps recovering parents to understand the impact of parental alcoholism and co-dependency on family structure, and on the developing child. It also helps them to become "therapeutic " parents: active and compassionate listeners and sensitive guides to children in crisis.
This is a book written for parents in recovery from alcoholism, co-dependence, and other addictive problems. It helps recovering parents to understand...
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45,38 zł |
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
ISBN: 9780807871973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a variety of cultural practices and performances, both traditional and modern, including public executions, religious rituals, photography, and cinema, all which encouraged the horrific violence and gave it social...
Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching a...
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204,40 zł |
Sea Snow: the gentle haunting of a 19th century lighthouse
ISBN: 9781477411629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On her wedding night, Rose Martin, the young bride of a 19th century lighthouse keeper is awakened by a phantom fragrance, compelling her to leave her sleeping husband's side and climb the 102 steps of the light tower. What she encounters there startles her, but is just the beginning of the unnerving experiences that guide her through the unlocking of a secret that haunts not only the lighthouse, but many of the nearby villagers, as well. In SEA SNOW, we open Rose's journal and read the words of a southern woman transported by love and distance to a rocky island lighthouse, one mile off the...
On her wedding night, Rose Martin, the young bride of a 19th century lighthouse keeper is awakened by a phantom fragrance, compelling her to leave her...
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68,09 zł |
Zephyr Stone and the Haunted Beach House
ISBN: 9781948449151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,63 zł |
Sporting Cultures : Hispanic Perspectives on Sport, Text and the Body
ISBN: 9780415457620 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for the populations of Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. The scope of the volume is the exploration of the representation and interaction of sport / text / body in a variety of cultural forms in Latin America, Spain and the chicano population of the USA. As such, it opens a path for further study of an area that is experiencing significant growth in the international academic community. The book consists of 11 chapters by different... The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for the popula... |
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704,29 zł |