wyszukanych pozycji: 92
The First Wave of Stories
ISBN: 9781452886664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 2008 I started to write some recollections of my youth. Having lost my father in 1941, when I was seven years old, I grew into adulthood yearning to know more about my father's early life. Unfortunately my father's friends and family were gone leaving me with only vague memories of my father. Not wanting my own sons to be left without tangible knowledge of their father's youth I began to write. Story by story, The First Wave of Stories evolved. During the writing of the first 19 stories I was encouraged by William Ward Martin, author of The Beachboys, and a true friend, with whom I grew up...
In 2008 I started to write some recollections of my youth. Having lost my father in 1941, when I was seven years old, I grew into adulthood yearning t...
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66,64 zł |
Juno's Ark
ISBN: 9781739250508 / Miękka / 2023 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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41,16 zł |
What's What And What To Do About It
ISBN: 9781500545512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Waldo Mellon knows What's What. His advice to the perplexed fills this wry, witty, and heartfelt book. Some three-dozen short chapters, each a Dear Waldo letter followed by Waldo's response, deal with the yearnings and fantasies of Everyperson. Death. God. Breasts. Stupidity. Hope. Marriage. Fighting. Forgiveness. But Waldo does more than advise and amuse. He offers memorable mechanisms for coping with the challenges of living. This unique book, part self-help parody, part sincere wisdom, contains enough hope and laugh-out-loud zaniness to earn a permanent position on your Favorite Books...
Waldo Mellon knows What's What. His advice to the perplexed fills this wry, witty, and heartfelt book. Some three-dozen short chapters, each a Dear Wa...
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66,60 zł |
Healing Storytelling: The Art of Imagination and Storymaking for Personal Growth
ISBN: 9781912480135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Nancy Mellon explores the secrets of what makes a good story and how to become a confident storyteller from scratch. The healing power of stories is a strong antidote to today's electronic screen world, and storytelling is an engaging, meaningful way of sharing our thoughts and feelings.
Nancy Mellon explores the secrets of what makes a good story and how to become a confident storyteller from scratch. The healing power of stories is a...
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77,26 zł |
Narra historias Y el arte de imaginar
ISBN: 9780938756774 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. > Leyendas, folklore, mitos, rituales, tradiciones, cuentos de hadas, misterios... La narracion en todas sus formas, ha sido transmitida durante miles de anos, de generacion en generacion, en cada rincon de habla hispana del mundo. Este libro te invite a honrar de lleno tu tradicion oral, tambien inspirara nuevos caminos para transmitir la sabiduria que te parezca imprescindible hoy, para aquellos que estan intimamente consustanciados con su lugar de origen, familia y cultura, y, sin embargo cada vez mas, se sienten ciudadanos del mundo que quieren nutrir la historia humana en continua...
> Leyendas, folklore, mitos, rituales, tradiciones, cuentos de hadas, misterios... La narracion en todas sus formas, ha sido transmitida durante miles...
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79,76 zł |
What's What and What to Do about It
ISBN: 9781644210383 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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123,61 zł |
Still Life, A Parent's Memoir of Life After Stillbirth and Miscarriage
ISBN: 9781632931917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author says, "Just as the light of a new star continues through the universe long after its explosive beginning, the experience of stillbirth accompanies parents through the years. Far beyond pain and grief, the story continues." In this touching and insightful memoir, Emma Mellon, PhD, breaks the silence that accumulates in the decades after a stillbirth, and explores those years for glimpses of her son, Zachary. The questions she asks will resonate with parents whove endured similar losses, and with the people who love them. Twenty-eight years after my childs death and birth, does the...
The author says, "Just as the light of a new star continues through the universe long after its explosive beginning, the experience of stillbirth acco...
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105,58 zł |
Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune
ISBN: 9780300167146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the nineteenth century. In the process, he became one of the city's most important business leaders, and he laid the foundation for a family that would contribute considerably to the city's growth and welfare for much of the next hundred years, becoming one of the world's most recognizable names in industry, innovation, and philanthropy. Through his in-depth examination of the extensive Mellon family archives, in The Judge James Mellon - a direct...
Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the n...
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563,17 zł |
Still Life, A Parent's Memoir of Life After Stillbirth and Miscarriage
ISBN: 9781632931344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author says, "Just as the light of a new star continues through the universe long after its explosive beginning, the experience of stillbirth accompanies parents through the years. Far beyond pain and grief, the story continues." In this touching and insightful memoir, Emma Mellon, PhD, breaks the silence that accumulates in the decades after a stillbirth, and explores those years for glimpses of her son, Zachary. The questions she asks will resonate with parents who've endured similar losses, and with the people who love them. Twenty-eight years after my child's death and birth, does the...
The author says, "Just as the light of a new star continues through the universe long after its explosive beginning, the experience of stillbirth acco...
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71,73 zł |
The Virgin Mary in the Perceptions of Women: Mother, Protector and Queen Since the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780786435029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book investigates perceptions of the Virgin Mary through several centuries of literature. Focusing especially on the depictions of the Virgin Mary in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, the author rediscovers a time when the Divine Female was very much in evidence, and good Christian women were taught to pray to a Holy Mother.
This book investigates perceptions of the Virgin Mary through several centuries of literature. Focusing especially on the depictions of the Virgin Mar...
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183,73 zł |
The Boogieman
ISBN: 9781796067057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,66 zł |
Cracking the Code
ISBN: 9781119963189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Everything you need to know about the most important trend in the history of the world
Within most people's lifetimes, the developments in the biotechnology sector will allow us to live increasingly long and healthy lives, as well as provide us with technological innovations that will transform the way we live. But these innovations offer more than just hope for a better life, but hope for better returns too. Financial returns of incredible magnitude await savvy investors and businesspeople who can see the massive changes on the horizon. This book details these... Everything you need to know about the most important trend in the history of the world
Within most people's lifetimes, the deve... |
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93,48 zł |
Brave Money
ISBN: 9781461006251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Harry Maddux, a former U.S. Army paratrooper during the Korean War, has retired from a successful career in the commercial real estate development business. At age sixty five he looks forward to enjoying his recreational pursuits; snow skiing in the high sierras and deep sea fishing off his wonderful sport-fisher LAZY BONES. While trying to help his old army friend, Gilbert Rios, who saved his life in Korea high on hill 602, Harry is thrust into the dangerous and deadly world of Korean gangs and the perils of borrowing street money. This sometimes violent story is painted over a back-drop of...
Harry Maddux, a former U.S. Army paratrooper during the Korean War, has retired from a successful career in the commercial real estate development bus...
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44,44 zł |
The New Cfos: How Financial Teams and Their Leaders Can Revolutionize Modern Business
ISBN: 9780749465179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. CFOs should ask themselves: -Do I have the strength of character to resist "groupthink" and, when necessary, to say the unsayable? -Can I act as a trusted adviser and strategic partner to the business to drive sustainable growth and profitability? -Have my financial capabilities, leadership style and process capabilities kept up with new demands? The successful CFOs in the coming years will be those who build the core capabilities needed to excel - leadership, process management ability and value creation. In The New CFOs: How Finance Teams and their Leaders... CFOs should ask themselves: -Do I have the strength of character to resist "groupthink" and, when necessary, to say the unsayable? -... |
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220,03 zł |
Moo's Law: An Investor's Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution
ISBN: 9780993047862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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77,22 zł |
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History
ISBN: 9780802138682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable compendium of selections from these extraordinary interviews, providing an unflinching portrait of the world of government-sanctioned slavery of Africans in America. Here are twenty-nine full narrations, as well as nine sections of excerpts related to particular aspects of slave life, from religion to plantation life to the Reconstruction era. Skillfully edited, these chronicles bear eloquent witness to the trials of slaves in America, reveal the...
In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable comp...
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84,63 zł |
Down By The Sea: And Other Tales of Dark Destiny
ISBN: 9781948318211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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42,27 zł |
Mental Muscle: 16 Weeks of Spiritual Boot Camp
ISBN: 9798986840703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,54 zł |
After the Smoke Clears: Struggling to Get By in Rustbelt America
ISBN: 9780822959151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "After the Smoke Clears" takes readers into Homestead and Braddock, Pennsylvania; Lewiston, Maine; Matewan, West Virginia; and Flint, Michigan to focus on the strife caused by the departure of industry. Again and again, men and women relate how the blows to their sense of self and sense of community were more hurtful than the economic damage. Through words and photographs, Steve Mellon explores the relationship between work, loss, and identity, and offers a cautionary tale on the hidden costs of economic policies and business decisions made by multinational corporations to abandon the small...
"After the Smoke Clears" takes readers into Homestead and Braddock, Pennsylvania; Lewiston, Maine; Matewan, West Virginia; and Flint, Michigan to focu...
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114,25 zł |