wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History
ISBN: 9780807062050 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this wonderful exploration of the meaning of laughter, Barry Sanders queries its uses from the ancient Hebrews to Lenny Bruce, turning up evidence of its age-old power to subvert authority and give voice to the voiceless.
In this wonderful exploration of the meaning of laughter, Barry Sanders queries its uses from the ancient Hebrews to Lenny Bruce, turning up evidence ...
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169,03 zł |
Unsuspecting Souls: The Disappearance of the Human Being
ISBN: 9781582435893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when care for human beings began to disappear slowly, and ending with the modern era, when societal events require less person-to-person interaction and introduce radical changes in common attitudes toward death and life, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying. Our days are filled with a continuous bombardment of "information" that demands our attention and brings us out of our world and into a sterile one of inhumanity and...
In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when c...
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77,28 zł |
A Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age
ISBN: 9780679742852 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The twin crises of illiteracy and youth violence haunt our age; the failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimal levels of literacy signals a catastrophe at the deepest levels of our culture.
A is for Ox is an important and impassioned work that both proves this conclusion and suggests what can be done to change it. Sanders argues that because of the omnipresence of electronically generated images and sounds in contemporary culture, children grow up lacking the oral experience of language crucial to attaining true literacy; without the technologies of... The twin crises of illiteracy and youth violence haunt our age; the failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimal levels of lit...
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73,19 zł |
Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games
ISBN: 9781531675158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984, reimagined the Olympic Games and reinvigorated a troubled Olympic movement. Its innovations included the following: a nationwide torch relay that yielded millions for children's charities; an arts festival that surpassed any prior efforts; the first Opening Ceremony featuring a professional theatrical extravaganza; new sports disciplines, such as distance races for women, windsurfing, synchronized swimming, heptathlon, and rhythmic gymnastics; an army of volunteers; vast increases in sponsorship and television revenue while avoiding...
The Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984, reimagined the Olympic Games and reinvigorated a troubled Olympic movement. Its innovations include...
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137,72 zł |
A. B. C. - Alphabetization of the Popular Mind
ISBN: 9780714528915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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76,13 zł |
American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination
ISBN: 9781597976817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United States's image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with a false impression that foreigners' views of America are normally negative and impervious to change. In fact they are complex, emotional, frequently internally contradictory, and often change quickly.
Barry A. Sanders corrects this misimpression with a rigorous and insightful textual analysis of the roots of people's views of the United States and what can be done to alter them. According to Sanders, the attitudes a person expresses about... Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United States's image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with...
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134,81 zł |
Seasons of Light
ISBN: 9781625494481 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,54 zł |
Kiss Me Good-Bye: Finding Love Among the Ashes of the Civil War
ISBN: 9781572493865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the War Between the States, James McCormick, an Irish-Catholic immigrant in Potsdam, New York, works for a carriage manufacturer and wants to marry Annie Cutting, the boss's daughter. Cutting hires James to take his place in the war, promising that James and Annie can marry when James returns. Tensions build when it appears Cutting will not keep his word, James becomes jealous of another man, typhoid fever strikes James's regiment, and the battles rage on. Can love survive? The actual history of the 60th New York State Volunteer Regiment and accounts of its battles at Antietam,...
During the War Between the States, James McCormick, an Irish-Catholic immigrant in Potsdam, New York, works for a carriage manufacturer and wants to m...
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77,28 zł |
Severely Disturbed Youngsters and the Parental Alliance
ISBN: 9781138962248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) |
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388,97 zł |