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Finding Forever: The Dogs of Coastal German Shepherd Rescue
ISBN: 9781456398910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Animals are wise and wonderful teachers. They show us, among other things, what it means to love fully, deeply, and unconditionally; to live without judgment; and to forgive even those who have hurt us most. Anyone who has ever gazed into the soulful eyes of their animal companion and wondered what they were thinking will fall in love with the stories of these dogs and their journey to overcome adversity, sometimes against all odds. In Finding Forever, a collection of heartwarming dog stories by author Dobie Houson, you'll meet Gavin, a sensitive German Shepherd who tells the author, an...
Animals are wise and wonderful teachers. They show us, among other things, what it means to love fully, deeply, and unconditionally; to live without j...
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40,69 |
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Tilabrook Tales
ISBN: 9780648172628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Fifty Years on the Old Frontier
ISBN: 9780806117614 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "James Cook came west before he reached his teens, and his life encompassed most of the raw material that today comprises our mythology: trail driving, scouting, big-game hunting, Apaches, ranching, drought, desert and cow-country interest. All of these he not only saw but was actively engaged in."--San Francisco Chronicle
"James Cook came west before he reached his teens, and his life encompassed most of the raw material that today comprises our mythology: trail driving...
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Home on the Double Bayou: Memories of an East Texas Ranch
ISBN: 9780292757424 / Angielski / Miękka / 1961 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Once again, through a boy's eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt May strolling in her flower garden, moonlight filtering through treetops to cast patches of white light on a sandy woodland road. Again he catches odors once so familiar: of a mysterious attic, of burning salt grass in late summer, of mountain streams with their fresh green smell, of dark-roast coffee and of slab bacon sizzling in the pan. He hears again a panther's scream from the darkness surrounding a campfire, the scampering... Once again, through a boy's eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt... |
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Stories of Christmas and the Bowie Knife
ISBN: 9781023575430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Rattlesnakes
ISBN: 9780292770232 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures--rattlesnakes--their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies. Here are descriptions of actual fights to the death between rattlesnakes and other animals and accounts of the strange experiences human beings have had with them, as well as tips on where to find them and how to act when you see one. Dobie began systematically collecting lore about the rattlesnake world many years ago, using some of it in such regional... Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures--rattlesn... |
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Tales of Old-Time Texas
ISBN: 9780292780699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm of language and song, and his heart open to the simple truth of folk wisdom and ways, he movingly and unpretentiously spins the tales of our collective heritages. This he does in Tales of Old-Time Texas, a heartwarming array of twenty-eight stories filled with vivid characters, exciting historical episodes, and traditional themes. As Dobie himself says: "Any tale belongs to whoever can best tell it." Here, then, is a collection of... It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm... |
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Legends of Texas
ISBN: 9781023471039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Legends of Texas
ISBN: 9781023471060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781285052441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging critical perspectives, THEORY INTO PRACTICE provides extensive step-by-step guidance for writing literary analyses. This brief, practical introduction to literary theory explores core theories in a unique chronological format and includes an anthology of relevant fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to help bring those theories to life. Remarkably readable and engaging, the text makes even complex concepts manageable for those beginning to think about literary theory, and example analyses for each type of...
Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging critical perspectives, THEORY INTO PRACTICE provides ext...
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301,40 |
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Black Women Writers of Louisiana: Telling Their Stories
ISBN: 9781540250834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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A Texas Ranger
ISBN: 9780806129037 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas Rangers charged with border patrol under the command of L. H. McNelly. At this time the South Texas region was home to hundreds of outlaws and riffraff, and some three thousand Mexican guerrillas under Juan Cortina and others were raiding settlers on both sides of the Rio Grande. McNelly's Rangers stormed into this lawless area for two reasons, according to Jennings: "To have fun, and to carry out a set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans at every opportunity", which would gain them the...
Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas Rangers charged with border patrol under the co...
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Texian Stomping Grounds
ISBN: 9781574410891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.
A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.
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The Hunting of the Buffalo
ISBN: 9780803261372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1963 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Hunting of the Buffalo, originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gradual extermination is chronicled by E. Douglas Branch, who drew on rich materials, including Indian legends, old letters and diaries, and tales of frontier travelers. No one has ever written more memorably about the great herds, their habits and haunts, their importance to the Indians, their discovery by awed whites, their decimation by huge cultural and economic forces. E. Douglas Branch (1905-1954) is also the author of The Cowboy and His...
The Hunting of the Buffalo, originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gr...
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Coyote Wisdom
ISBN: 9781574410884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of materials, ranging from the simplest recording of single items, like anecdotes, folk remedies or sayings, through the skillfully retold primitive legend, to the scientific, though quite idiomatic, anthropological report, and to the scholarly analysis of the philosophy of the folk. The theme and hero of the volume, Old Man Coyote, is animal and folk character. Indian legends are well represented in Coyote Wisdom, a Publication of the Texas Folklore...
This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of materials, rang...
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Straight Texas
ISBN: 9781574410976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Texas place names, Roy Bean, anecdotes from Brazos River bottoms, Mexican ghosts from El Paso, comedy in folk superstitions, witching for water with the Bible, pioneer folk ways, old sayings from Texas, Irish fairies in Texas, Alabama Indian music, and tales from the Alabamas.
A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Texas place names, Roy Bean, anecdotes from Brazos River bottoms, Mexican ghosts from ...
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93,50 |
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The Mustangs
ISBN: 9780803266506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. J. Frank Dobie's history of the "mustang"-from the Spanish mestena, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spanish farmers-tells of its impact on the Spanish, English, and Native cultures of the West. J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964) was for many years secretary-editor of the Texas Folklore Society, taught at universities in Texas and Oklahoma as well as in England, Germany, and Austria, and wrote seventeen books on Texas and southwestern life, including The Voice of the Coyote, available in a Bison Books edition. Dayton O. Hyde is a rancher, conservationist,...
J. Frank Dobie's history of the "mustang"-from the Spanish mestena, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spa...
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Tall Tales From Texas
ISBN: 9781023478151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism
ISBN: 9780804751001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Building on the critical foundations established by Edward Said in Orientalism, Foreign Bodies examines the relationship between the Orientalist tradition in French art and literature and France's colonial history. It focuses on a central dimension of this exchange: the prevalent figure of the -oriental woman, - and the interplay of race and gender in both domestic and colonial history. It also offers a genealogy of contemporary French attitudes to Islamic culture, in which beliefs about sexuality and gender relations continue to occupy a privileged place. The author examines...
Building on the critical foundations established by Edward Said in Orientalism, Foreign Bodies examines the relationship between the Ori...
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119,49 |
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