wyszukanych pozycji: 12
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Weekend in the Luberon and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781468094312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. These stories are arranged by the age of the principal characters from youngest to oldest. Time Zones follows the cross-country love affair of a young couple, one of whom lives and works in New York and the other in San Francisco. Although they are unsuited for each other, under the spell of the affair they mismanage their paths and plans, leading to a richly appropriate outcome. In Still Life Tom, an artist, meets Kate, a photographer, at an all-night diner. They both recognize their complementary interests and begin an affair. Then Kate discovers that breast cancer, which she thought she...
These stories are arranged by the age of the principal characters from youngest to oldest. Time Zones follows the cross-country love affair of a young...
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cena:
39,86 |
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Connections
ISBN: 9781499133493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It's the spring of 2008, and the distant rumblings of a global economic crisis are barely audible on the peaceful campus of Mead College in rural western Massachusetts. The author has assembled some forty characters from five previous novels and one novella. Some are the faculty, spouses and administrators who form the personnel of the college. Others are financial professionals in New York and San Francisco, loyal to Mead through experience and commitment. Still others are friends, family and lovers Some live and work in the south of France or in metropolitan Tokyo. A few are in their...
It's the spring of 2008, and the distant rumblings of a global economic crisis are barely audible on the peaceful campus of Mead College in rural west...
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cena:
50,37 |
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Brothers
ISBN: 9781453729823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brother is an exploration of the persistent power of family to shape and liberate the human spirit. It is a story of linked histories, inner conflicts, and adult sibling rivalries. Two brothers with dramatically different career paths find their lifelines crossing in their choice of mates and the complexities they encounter. The story moves through time and across continents, enriched by the author's insightful rendering of Japanese, French, and American settings.
Brother is an exploration of the persistent power of family to shape and liberate the human spirit. It is a story of linked histories, inner conflicts...
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cena:
62,80 |
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Sea of Troubles
ISBN: 9781491257500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Harald Hanson becomes president of a small Ohio college while still young and inexperienced. Stebbins College has built its curriculum around environmental issues: Harald is recruited on the strength of his popular book about the environment, Greening Up. Once in office, he views the job as a larger version of the Poly Sci department he formerly headed. But Harald misunderstands the views and expectations of the faculty, particularly those of ambitious department chairs and senior professors who are determined to bring him down. In the midst of this upheaval his wife, Clarissa, leaves to...
Harald Hanson becomes president of a small Ohio college while still young and inexperienced. Stebbins College has built its curriculum around environm...
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cena:
46,17 |
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Running Without Lights
ISBN: 9781451569612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Arthur Hirschman is a talented and ambitious young professor of politics at Mead College in New England, specializing in Japanese government. His graduate school colleague, Victor Malinowski, now an analyst at the National Security Council, persuades Arthur to go to Tokyo to find out who may be collaborating with Sewall Travers, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, to secretly provide advanced aircraft and tactical nuclear weapons to the Japanese self-defense forces. Travers in convinced this step will ultimately lead to the destruction of the network of military alliances around the world, freeing...
Arthur Hirschman is a talented and ambitious young professor of politics at Mead College in New England, specializing in Japanese government. His grad...
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cena:
62,97 |
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A Very Rich Man
ISBN: 9781439230565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
67,17 |
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Foreign Affairs
ISBN: 9781530107698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
56,71 |
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Love, Maybe
ISBN: 9781481829960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tom Harper, a successful businessman, lives in Cleveland Heights with his wife Holly, a talented amateur chef and horsewoman, and their teenage daughter Rachel. Tom has made money in local ventures, and he now plays a lot of tennis and works part time with his father, managing an office products company in downtown Cleveland. He wakes up one morning, to hear Holly say that she can't go on with the marriage. She offers no explanation, and goes out the door a few hours later with her yoga teacher. Tom soon learns that Holly has left him for a woman, a bank manager from Cleveland's West Side...
Tom Harper, a successful businessman, lives in Cleveland Heights with his wife Holly, a talented amateur chef and horsewoman, and their teenage daught...
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cena:
50,37 |
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Olive Street
ISBN: 9781500479039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Andy Roberts has lost his wife Beth and their unborn child in a car crash during a bad winter storm. Afterwards he immerses himself in teaching and coaching at Huntsburg High school, trying to forget the horror and the loss. Many months later his son Jeremy leaves high school in his senior year to drive in demolition derbies in small towns across the south. Andy struggles alone with his grief and the emptiness of his home, until Jeremy comes back one night with Karen, who is young, pretty, and pregnant. Jeremy asks if he can leave her with his father in the house on Olive Street until the...
Andy Roberts has lost his wife Beth and their unborn child in a car crash during a bad winter storm. Afterwards he immerses himself in teaching and co...
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cena:
48,94 |
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Pictures of Slavery in Church and State: Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes on Slavery by John Wesley and Richard Watson
ISBN: 9788027334124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pictures of Slavery in Church and State" written by a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.S. abolitionist at the time, John Dixon Long (1817 – 1894), is considered to be one of the most influential readings in abolitionist circles. Dixon debated in his book the issue of slavery, breaking the silence on what was openly discussed as hypocrisy and cowardice of the Methodist religious hierarchy, given their founders' adamant prescriptions against slavery in the early doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Contents: What Is Southern Slavery, and Who Are Slaves...
Pictures of Slavery in Church and State" written by a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.S. abolitionist at the time, John Dix...
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cena:
53,60 |
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Pictures of Slavery in Church and State
ISBN: 9788028370756 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In 'Pictures of Slavery in Church and State' by John Dixon Long, readers are taken on a compelling journey through the deeply embedded practices of slavery within the religious and governmental institutions of America. Long's writing style is both informative and poignant, offering readers a glimpse into the harsh realities faced by slaves and the conflicting moral justifications used by those in power. This book serves as a crucial piece of literature that sheds light on the intersection of race, religion, and politics in 19th century America. Long's detailed descriptions and insightful...
In 'Pictures of Slavery in Church and State' by John Dixon Long, readers are taken on a compelling journey through the deeply embedded practices of sl...
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cena:
60,02 |
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Preaching In and Out of Season
ISBN: 9780664251499 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This excellent resource provides help for ministers who must plan their sermons not only according to the liturgical church year but also in response to the secular calendar of national holidays and public ceremonies, and in response to the program calendar of local and denominational emphases. Individual chapters discuss preaching about racial relations; family, church, and nation; the global witness of the church; work; evangelism; stewardship; and giving thanks. Suggestions for sermons on each theme are provided as well. This excellent resource provides help for ministers who must plan their sermons not only according to the liturgical church year but also in respon... |
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92,01 |