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What That Pig Said to Jesus: On the Uneasy Permanence of Immigrant Life
ISBN: 9781607815495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Philip Garrison says his book of essays is "in praise of mixed feelings," particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. His neighborhood is the Columbia Plateau, one of many North American nodes of immigration. Following a meandering, though purposeful trail, Garrison catches hillbillies and newer Mexican arrivals in ambiguous, wary encounters on a set four hundred years in the making, built on a foundation of Native American displacement. Garrison is the product of the earlier surge of new arrivals: from the 1930s to the 1970s, those he calls... Philip Garrison says his book of essays is "in praise of mixed feelings," particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the plac... |
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Basic Structures
ISBN: 9781118950876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Basic Structures provides the student with a clear explanation of structural concepts, using many analogies and examples. Real examples and case studies show the concepts in use, and the book is well illustrated with full colour photographs and many line illustrations, giving the student a thorough grounding in the fundamentals and a 'feel' for the way buildings behave structurally. With many worked examples and tutorial questions, the book serves as an ideal introduction to the subject.
Basic Structures provides the student with a clear explanation of structural concepts, using many analogies and examples. Real examples and cas...
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214,52 |
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Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life
ISBN: 9780816525256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, settlements recent enough that it feels like these newly arrived immigrant mexicanos are pioneers, still getting used to the Anglos and to each other. This book looks at the inner lives of Mexican immigrants in a northwestern U.S. boomtown, a loose collection of families from Michoacan and surrounding states living a mere 150 miles from Canada. They are more isolated than most mexicano communities closer to home, and they endure severe winters...
For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, se...
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97,10 |
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The Permit that Never Expires: Migrant Tales from the Ozark Hills and the Mexican Highlands
ISBN: 9780816528318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Philip Garrison keeps his eyes and ears open. And he also keeps an open mind. It helps that he's bilingual, because a lot of his neighbors these days speak Spanish and he likes to know what's on their minds. Like his epileptic friend Pera, who asks him to write a note in English to explain to her supervisor that she probably shouldn't be cooking on a grill in case she has a seizure and falls into the flames. When Garrison asks her if she has a work permit, she replies,"Bueno. El que nunca vence." The kind that never expires. That's the sort of response he doesn't forget. There is a...
Philip Garrison keeps his eyes and ears open. And he also keeps an open mind. It helps that he's bilingual, because a lot of his neighbors these days ...
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67,96 |
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Anchored Together
ISBN: 9781950075157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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60,63 |
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