wyszukanych pozycji: 24
Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers
ISBN: 9780691614236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting... To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns we... |
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300,30 zł |
Reflective Caring: Imaginative Listening To Pastoral Experience
ISBN: 9780281064137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Arising from the work of a pastoral team in a hospice, this book is an invitation to reflect on what happens in our innermost being when we listen to another person in need. The lived experience of a hospice chaplain, dialogues with different parts of the self and an imaginative approach to the Bible are at the heart of the writing. Reflective Caring describes the art of 'soul reflection', which is a way of transformation. It is the process of paying attention, without judgement, to our inner reactions, which bubble up from the different selves within us. Through this practice we, and the...
Arising from the work of a pastoral team in a hospice, this book is an invitation to reflect on what happens in our innermost being when we listen to ...
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61,06 zł |
Voices from the Hospice
ISBN: 9780334054269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hospice chaplain Bob Whorton takes us deep into the human experience of suffering and waiting. Framed as a train journey, we are invited to travel through various stations and stop for a while in many different station waiting rooms. The counter-cultural message is that there are difficult situations in our lives which we cannot escape from and must be lived; there are no short-cuts, and the stations must be travelled through one by one. However, in following this path we will find a new orientation to life, and we will find ourselves mirroring the way of Christ.
In these pages we listen... Hospice chaplain Bob Whorton takes us deep into the human experience of suffering and waiting. Framed as a train journey, we are invited to travel thr...
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116,24 zł |
Angela Sloan
ISBN: 9781451624403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his latest novel, universally acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr., delivers a curious Nixon-era caper of broken men and stoic runaways who learn just how much there is to gain, and lose, when you go undercover. Angela Sloan, a seemingly average teenager living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is left to lie low and fend for herself when her father, a retired CIA officer, skips town in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Driving a Plymouth Scamp she has just learned to operate, Angela encounters strangers literally at every turn. A fugitive Chinese waitress won't get out of the car. A...
In his latest novel, universally acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr., delivers a curious Nixon-era caper of broken men and stoic runaways who learn ju...
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68,84 zł |
Una Vista Española
ISBN: 9781088054727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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33,71 zł |
Teachers' Unions and Education Reform in Comparative Contexts
ISBN: 9781138085893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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155,56 zł |
General Patton Speaks: How to Get Control of Your Life
ISBN: 9781717796165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,76 zł |
Teachers' Unions and Education Reform in Comparative Contexts
ISBN: 9781138860186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Teachers' unions have long been controversial and divisive organizations, but criticism and distrust of them may be at an all-time high. This volume considers the prevailing assumption that unions successfully block change in education because they are primarily motivated to protect members' interests. It challenges the conceptualization of teacher union motivation and provides a more nuanced account of unions' interests, power and impact. Through a series of international cases from the United States, Finland and the Canton of Zurich, this volume examines the hot-button issue of... Teachers' unions have long been controversial and divisive organizations, but criticism and distrust of them may be at an all-time high. This volum... |
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570,57 zł |
Frankland
ISBN: 9780743244497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carson McCullers. He sharpens his cutting wit to a keen edge in Frankland, following the misadventures of a wannabe academic who goes hunting for a secret history and gets much more than he bargained for. John Tolley is a bumbling college dropout who yearns to become a bowtie-wearing, pipe-smoking historian. When he hears that Andrew Johnson's lost papers may have been preserved by an heir in Tennessee, he grabs his tweed jacket and heads...
With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carso...
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85,89 zł |
Windigo Falls
ISBN: 9786137386408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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90,06 zł |
Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers
ISBN: 9780691641898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting... To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns we... |
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956,18 zł |
The dark of hangman's wynd
ISBN: 9781500705404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edinburgh, 1826: Corpses begin to turn up in Hangman's Wynd, one of the many dank alleyways that coil through the city's Old Town. Initially, the deaths are attributed to cholera morbus, an intestinal ailment rife among the residents of the Old Town's squalid tenements. But to David Arnesen, a professor at the city's medical school, it seems beyond chance that the victims are all prostitutes and that they die of the same symptoms in the same out-of-the-way location. He is certain the women are being murdered. But how? And why? And by whom? Using the tools of the new science of forensic...
Edinburgh, 1826: Corpses begin to turn up in Hangman's Wynd, one of the many dank alleyways that coil through the city's Old Town. Initially, the deat...
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63,05 zł |
Peril in Paradise
ISBN: 9780830857340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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133,41 zł |
Making New Mexico: Then and Now
ISBN: 9781465392435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,28 zł |
Taming Texas
ISBN: 9781441525017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,36 zł |
Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America
ISBN: 9780195171624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton shows in Nature Cures, the recent explosion in alternative medicine actually reflects two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream medicine and numerous unorthodox systems.
This is the first comprehensive history of alternative medicine in America, examining the major systems that have emerged from 1800 to the present. Writing with wit and with fairness to all sides, Whorton offers a fascinating look at alternative... From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton sho...
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124,18 zł |
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
ISBN: 9780691645308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book examines the period before the publication of Rachel Carson's famous Silent Spring, tracing the origins of the residue problem and exploring the complicated network of interest groups that formed around the issue. The author shows how... Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced t... |
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775,32 zł |
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
ISBN: 9780199605996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.
Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and... Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth centu...
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84,87 zł |
Approximately Heaven
ISBN: 9780743244473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From prizewinning short story writer James Whorton, Jr., Approximately Heaven is a marvelously rambunctious debut novel about one hapless man's pursuit of happiness -- or at least another six-pack. Preferably both.
Don "Wendell" Brush is an unemployed 32-year-old Tennessee electrician who likes a few beers before lunch. Mary, his long-suffering wife, has decided to leave him, but Don, heartsick at the thought, beats her out the door. He reasons that if he leaves, Mary will have to stay behind in their ramshackle house to take care of their dog and cat. At least he'll know where... From prizewinning short story writer James Whorton, Jr., Approximately Heaven is a marvelously rambunctious debut novel about one hapless man's...
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72,98 zł |