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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
ISBN: 9781401300234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows of WWII, Osgood is just a nine-year-old boy living in Baltimore. As the war rages somewhere far beyond the boundaries of his hometown, he spends his days delivering newspapers, riding the trolley to the local amusement park, going to Orioles' baseball games, and goofing around with his younger sister. With a sharp eye for details, Osgood captures the texture of life in a very different era, a time before the polio vaccine and the atomic bomb. In his neighborhood of Liberty Heights, gaslights still glowed on every...
The year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows of WWII, Osgood is just a nine-year-old boy living in Baltimore. As the war rages ...
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130,73 zł |
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
ISBN: 9780786888351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From beloved broadcaster Charles Osgood, a poignant memoir about one unforgettable childhood year during World War II, now in paperback Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack is a gloriously funny and nostalgic slice of American life and a moving look at World War II from the perspective of a child far away from the fighting, but very conscious of the reverberations. With a sharp eye for details, Osgood captures the texture of life in a bygone era.
From beloved broadcaster Charles Osgood, a poignant memoir about one unforgettable childhood year during World War II, now in paperback ...
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109,76 zł |
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Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II
ISBN: 9780786866618 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An inspiring collection of humor writing from World War II is edited and introduced by one of America's most respected broadcast journalists. From the best of "Stars and Stripes" magazine to classic lines from the immortal "Mister Roberts", this compilation celebrates the good humor that buoyed American spirits throughout the war.
An inspiring collection of humor writing from World War II is edited and introduced by one of America's most respected broadcast journalists. From the...
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181,19 zł |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail
ISBN: 9781401322298 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Charles Osgood, one of America's favorite news personalities, offers a hilarious compendium of anecdotes from the last seventy years of presidential campaigns. With anecdotes from Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House captures the wit and humor of the campaign trail. Culled from speeches, interviews, press conferences, as well as articles written by and about the candidates--no source is left untapped. From Bob Dole telling reporters after a loss in the primary that "I slept like a baby--every two hours I woke up and cried," and...
Charles Osgood, one of America's favorite news personalities, offers a hilarious compendium of anecdotes from the last seventy years of presidential c...
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225,92 zł |
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Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781979896702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,04 zł |
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Explorations in Semantic Space
ISBN: 9789027931146 / Angielski / Twarda / 1979 / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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473,79 zł |
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
ISBN: 9781508528791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,51 zł |
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Life of Johnson
ISBN: 9781508999539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the de...
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75,50 zł |
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Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II
ISBN: 9780786885749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Inspired by a ubiquitous piece of graffiti that U.S. servicemen had left behind during World War II, Emmy Award-winning television journalist Osgood presents an assortment of classic stories and comic tales that had buoyed the spirits of Americans who have served on land, at sea, and in the air.
Inspired by a ubiquitous piece of graffiti that U.S. servicemen had left behind during World War II, Emmy Award-winning television journalist Osgood p...
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128,25 zł |
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Civility in America: Essays from America's Thought Leaders
ISBN: 9780983900702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In every sector of American society, civility has declined-from vicious political rhetoric to attacks in the blogosphere and lack of personal decency. In 2011, The Dilenschneider Group, a strategic communications firm, sponsored a series of lectures on civility in conjunction with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Collected in this volume are the thoughts of some of the nation's most insightful minds as they explore this crisis and offer their opinions as to how we can restore civility in society. Featuring: HENRY KAUFMAN on Civility in the Financial Sector CHARLES...
In every sector of American society, civility has declined-from vicious political rhetoric to attacks in the blogosphere and lack of personal decency....
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31,98 zł |
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The Elements of Style
ISBN: 9780205309023 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 105 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book's unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of "the little book" to make a big impact with writing.
You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style man...
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43,53 zł |
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The Measurement of Meaning
ISBN: 9780252745393 / Angielski / Miękka / 1967 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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119,48 zł |
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The Artist of the Beautiful
ISBN: 9781544087726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Artist of the Beautiful" follows Owen Warland as he works on an unknown project. The story begins with Peter Hovenden, a retired watchmaker and Owen's former master, walking by with his daughter Annie. Peter scoffs at Owen for working on something other than a watch, and tells his daughter that the more practical work of the blacksmith Robert Danforth is more admirable. Working with such strength, Peter believes, "takes the nonsense out of a man." Owen has overheard this conversation and wonders if Annie agrees with her father. Robert presents Owen with a tiny anvil he had requested and...
"The Artist of the Beautiful" follows Owen Warland as he works on an unknown project. The story begins with Peter Hovenden, a retired watchmaker and O...
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26,31 zł |
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The Celestial Railroad
ISBN: 9781544089478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Celestial Railroad" is short story written as an allegory by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. In it, Hawthorne parodies the seventeenth-century book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, which portrays a Christian's spiritual "journey" through life. In this story, the pilgrim journeys by iron horse rather than by foot, the burden of sin that Bunyan portrays is pulled by the same train...
"The Celestial Railroad" is short story written as an allegory by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. In it, Hawthorne parodies the seventeenth-centu...
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26,31 zł |
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Fanshawe
ISBN: 9781544090535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dr. Melmoth, the President of fictional Harley College, takes into his care Ellen Langton, the daughter of his friend, Mr. Langton, who is at sea. Ellen is a young, beautiful girl and attracts the attentions of the college boys, especially Edward Walcott, a strapping though immature student, and Fanshawe, a reclusive, meek intellectual. While out walking, the three young people meet a nameless character called "the angler," a name he gets for appearing an expert fisherman. The angler asks for a word with Ellen, tells her something in secret, and apparently flusters her. Walcott and Fanshawe...
Dr. Melmoth, the President of fictional Harley College, takes into his care Ellen Langton, the daughter of his friend, Mr. Langton, who is at sea. Ell...
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37,75 zł |
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