wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President, 1841
ISBN: 9780805091182 / Twarda / 2012 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest office William Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but as Gail Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are worth a closer look. The son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Harrison was a celebrated general whose exploits at the Battle of Tippecanoe and in the War of 1812... The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking... |
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136,87 zł |
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Inner Canyon: Where Deep Time Meets Sacred Space
ISBN: 9781953340122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,30 zł |
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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
ISBN: 9780061227226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America. By culling the most fascinating characters -- the average as well as the celebrated -- Gail Collins, the editorial page editor at the New York Times, charts a journey that... America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peer... |
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82,91 zł |
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
ISBN: 9780316014045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual -sly wit and unfussy style- (People).
When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation. A comprehensive mix... Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, wi...
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95,35 zł |
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Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics
ISBN: 9780061139628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians and the press and the blurring of the lines between politicians and celebrities. Supported by extensive research and written with an entertaining flair, she speculates on how gossip reflects the current moral compass of the time, noting how a rumor, like an unpredictable summer... From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wi... |
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62,17 zł |
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Loving Colt Carter
ISBN: 9781723274893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,40 zł |
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The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past
ISBN: 9780813530222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "This important study is the first to confront head-on the avoidance of the visual that has plagued black studies in the United States. The Art of History opens the often hermetic world of black visual culture to a much broader realm in which questions central to contemporary feminism, black studies, and cultural theory are brought to bear."--Judith Wilson, University of California, Irvine"The Art of History is an important book that expands the significance of visual culture to African American studies debates. It provides cogent and insightful explorations of the work of...
"This important study is the first to confront head-on the avoidance of the visual that has plagued black studies in the United States. The Art of ...
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227,58 zł |
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Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee\'s Bend Quilt
ISBN: 9780295751603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself, readily recalled the cover made by her grieving mother within the small African American farming community of Gee's Bend, Alabama. At once a story of grief, a quilt, and a community, Stitching Love and Loss connects Missouri Pettway's cotton covering to the history of a place, its residents, and the work of mourning. Interpreting varied sources of...
In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later...
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124,22 zł |
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The Feminine Mystique
ISBN: 9780393346787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of the problem that has no name: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how...
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published i...
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74,45 zł |