wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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Nelson Mandela: A Life Inspired
ISBN: 9781503292345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Nelson Mandela's legacy is known worldwide, and his life has been widely documented. His memory is preserved in statues, paintings, feature films, history books, and biographies. Yet to many Americans, Mandela may be somewhat unknown. Many people around the world consider Mandela one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century. He received hundreds of honors during his lifetime-among them the Nobel Peace Prize-for his work in helping free the peoples of South Africa from the oppression of apartheid. He earned the respect and love of people from all walks of life.
Nelson Mandela's legacy is known worldwide, and his life has been widely documented. His memory is preserved in statues, paintings, feature films, his...
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43,74 |
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Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet : On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas
ISBN: 9780299219444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.
After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey wi...
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87,03 |
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Notes from the Strangers' Corridor: A Hansard Editor's Lament: A Story of Editing, Insomnia, and Minor Mental Illness
ISBN: 9781923068810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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Something to Declare : Good Lesbian Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780299233549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Editor Gillian Kendall has brought together in Something to Declare a collection of impressionistic, literary travel essays that explore the sense of place and the pull of wanderlust, and reveal what happens when a traveler follows her heart. On these pages, established and emerging lesbian travel writers present accounts ranging from the poetic and internal to the exhilarating and life-altering.
Rather than reporting on places to stay, local fare, or politics, these women share personal stories of exploration and adventure. Lucy Jane Bledsoe and her partner camp out and negotiate... Editor Gillian Kendall has brought together in Something to Declare a collection of impressionistic, literary travel essays that explore the se...
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77,35 |
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How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence
ISBN: 9780299184308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) September 1955. Six-year-old Mark O Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a thirty-day coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life.
How I Became a Human Being is Mark O Brien s account of his struggles to lead an independent life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955, he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from the neck down. O Brien describes growing up without the use of his limbs, his adolescence struggling with physical rehabilitation and suffering the... September 1955. Six-year-old Mark O Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a thirty-day coma to find himself enclosed from th...
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120,90 |