wyszukanych pozycji: 11
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Overcoming the Odds
ISBN: 9780801480188 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists, pediatricians, public health professionals, and social workers. Werner and Smith trace the impact of a variety of biological and psycho-social risk factors and stressful events on the development of these individuals, most of whose parents did not graduate from high school and worked as semiskilled or unskilled laborers. Incorporating vivid case...
Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kau...
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142,39 zł |
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Passages to America: Oral Histories of Child Immigrants from Ellis Island and Angel Island
ISBN: 9781597972963 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the -Guardian of the Western Gate, - the detention center on Angel Island in California that was designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the United States. Based on the oral histories of fifty children who came to the United States before 1950, this book chronicles their American odyssey against the backdrop of World Wars I and II, the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich, and the hardships of the Great Depression. Ranging in age from four to...
More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the ...
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142,76 zł |
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Pioneer Children on the Journey West
ISBN: 9780813320274 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between 1841 and 1865, some 40,000 children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this book, Emmy Werner gives 120 of these young emigrants, aged between four and seventeen, a chance to tell the stories of their journeys west.
Between 1841 and 1865, some 40,000 children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Paci...
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81,65 zł |
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Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II
ISBN: 9780813338682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume is a first-hand account of the horrors World War II inflicted upon children around the world, based on journals, diaries, and letters. World War II was the first modern war in which more civilians than soldiers were killed. By August 1945, more than 39 million civilians had died as a direct result of the war, about half of them children.
This volume is a first-hand account of the horrors World War II inflicted upon children around the world, based on journals, diaries, and letters. Wor...
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89,82 zł |
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Overcoming the Odds
ISBN: 9780801425844 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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590,12 zł |
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In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution
ISBN: 9781597972680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies' transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. This historical account of the American Revolution tells the story of the -forgotten- youngsters who engaged in the boycott of British goods and the battles that led up to the Declaration of Independence. It recounts their courageous exploits in eight years of warfare on land and sea and amid changing social forces that shaped and transformed their postwar lives. While the Revolution disrupted and risked their world, it also gave them an unprecedented degree of...
The voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies' transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. This historical a...
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89,66 zł |
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Journeys from Childhood to Midlife: A Guide to International Stories in Classical Literature
ISBN: 9780801487385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the Odds, Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith continue their longitudinal study of approximately five hundred men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A third of...
In a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the Odds, Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith continue their longitudinal study of approx...
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142,39 zł |
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Journeys from Childhood to Midlife
ISBN: 9780801439162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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590,12 zł |
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Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices from the Civil War
ISBN: 9780813328232 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on eyewitness accounts of 120 children, 'Reluctant Witnesses' tells their story of the US Civil War, their experience of the hardships they endured and how they managed to cope.
Based on eyewitness accounts of 120 children, 'Reluctant Witnesses' tells their story of the US Civil War, their experience of the hardships they endu...
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80,27 zł |
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In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution
ISBN: 9780275993061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the events that transformed the colonies to an independent nation have seldom been heard in historical accounts of the American Revolution. This book tells the story of the forgotten youngsters who engaged in the boycott of British goods and the battles that led up to the Declaration of Independence; the story of their courageous exploits in eight years of warfare on land and sea, and the story of the social forces that shaped and transformed their post-war lives. The Revolution challenged the notions of patriarchal authority. It... The voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the events that transformed the colonies to an independent nation have seldom been heard in ... |
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396,27 zł |
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A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II
ISBN: 9780813342788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The dramatic and compelling rescue of the Danish Jews from the hands of the Nazis, told through firsthand accounts and personal stories. The people of Denmark managed to save almost their countrys entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy Werner tells the story of the rescue of the Danish Jews from the vantage-point of living eyewitnesses- the last survivors of an extraordinary conspiracy of decency that triumphed in the midst of the...
The dramatic and compelling rescue of the Danish Jews from the hands of the Nazis, told through firsthand accounts and personal stories. The people of...
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80,27 zł |