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Lillian Carter: A Compassionate Life
ISBN: 9780786497195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his family, this books provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of the woman who - as nurse, mother and social justice activist in segregated southwest Georgia - made a lifelong habit of breaking the rules defining a woman's place in and out of the home and the status of blacks in society. As the only white nurse in her rural community who cared for black families, as a 68-year old Peace Corps Volunteer in India, as a fearless supporter of civil rights and as a First Mother unlike any other, Lillian Carter showed how individual...
Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his family, this books provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of the woman who - as n...
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166,12 |
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Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton
ISBN: 9780773542013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China,...
Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instea...
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136,80 |
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Mrs. Ziegfeld: The Public and Private Lives of Billie Burke
ISBN: 9781476665962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Broadway actress Billie Burke was one of the most sought after young stage beauties of her time, stealing the hearts of Enrico Caruso, Mark Twain, and, most importantly, famed Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who became her husband. Following Ziegfeld s death, the threats of financial ruin and encroaching age forced Burke to recreate herself as a Hollywood character actress. This biography benefits from the cooperation of the daughter and grandchildren of Burke and Ziegfeld, as well as from anecdotes provided by actors who performed with Burke on the stage and screen. In addition to...
Broadway actress Billie Burke was one of the most sought after young stage beauties of her time, stealing the hearts of Enrico Caruso, Mark Twain, and...
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139,70 |
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Staging Emily Dickinson: The History and Enduring Influence of William Luce\'s the Belle of Amherst
ISBN: 9781476689470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With a writer who had never written a play, an actress who had never taken the stage alone, and a director who had never headed a live performance, The Belle of Amherst managed to become an American theater classic. Despite being savaged by critics attending its opening night in April 1976, the play, which details the life of Emily Dickinson, survived its baptism by fire and went on to appear in theaters across the world. This is the remarkable untold story of "the little play that could." Covering the play's humble beginnings as well as its pioneers--like writer William Luce, director...
With a writer who had never written a play, an actress who had never taken the stage alone, and a director who had never headed a live performance, Th...
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272,84 |
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Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film
ISBN: 9780786429950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charlotte Greenwood never intended to become a comedienne, but she was unfashionably tall at 5' 10" and her early aspirations to become a great dramatic actress eventually led her to the field of comedy. Greenwood, whose early life had taught her nothing if not how to be optimistic, stifled her disappointment and used her considerable skill to become one of the greatest comedic actresses of the early twentieth century. Based on Greenwood's unpublished memoirs, this biography presents a personal, detailed look at her colorful life. Beginning with her early years in Philadelphia, Boston and...
Charlotte Greenwood never intended to become a comedienne, but she was unfashionably tall at 5' 10" and her early aspirations to become a great dramat...
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193,06 |
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From Stray Dog to World War I Hero: The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division
ISBN: 9781612347219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwanted street mutt, Rags became themascot to the entire First Division of the American Expeditionary Force and a friend to the American troops who had crossed the Atlantic to fight. Rags was more than a scruffy face and a wagging tail, however. The little terrier mix was with the division at the crucial battle of Soissons, at the Saint-Mihiel offensive, and finally in the blood-and-mud bath of the Meuse-Argonne, during which he and his guardian were...
On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwant...
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114,16 |
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Dorothy Brooke and the Fight to Save Cairo's Lost War Horses
ISBN: 9781612347691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Born in June 1883 to an aristocratic Scottish family, Dorothy Gibson-Craig was brought up with dogs and horses. In 1926 she married Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Brooke, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order in World War I and a writer on equine culture. She followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of malnourished and suffering former British war horses leading lives of backbreaking toil and misery.
Brought to the Middle East by British forces during the Great War, these ex-cavalry horses had been left behind at the war's end, abandoned like used equipment too... Born in June 1883 to an aristocratic Scottish family, Dorothy Gibson-Craig was brought up with dogs and horses. In 1926 she married Maj. Gen. Geoffrey...
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152,27 |
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Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me
ISBN: 9781772034615 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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95,10 |
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Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero
ISBN: 9781772033717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,48 |
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