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Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
ISBN: 9780822316633 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as "Silence of the Lambs," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "Candyman," "Skin Shows" understands the Gothic as a versatile technology, a means of producing monsters that is constantly being rewritten by historically and culturally conditioned fears generated by a shared sense of otherness and...
In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Movi...
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The Education of a Coach
ISBN: 9781401308797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves.
Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked by amazing success--most recently with the New England Patriots. In this... More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life a...
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Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam
ISBN: 9781401309909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment of talented and driven young men and women who do certain things with both skill and passion."
--David Halberstam David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American politics. He was also a sports writer. Everything They Had brings together for the first time his articles from newspapers and magazines, a wide-ranging collection edited by Glenn Stout, selected over the full scope of Halberstam's five... "Sometimes sports mirrors society, sometimes it allows us to understand the larger society a little better. But mostly, it is a world of entertainment...
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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
ISBN: 9780767904445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the inside knowledge of a dogged sportswriter, and the love of a fan to bear on some of the most mythic players and teams in the annals of American sport. With Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls he has given himself his greatest challenge and produced his greatest triumph. In Playing for Keeps, David Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordan's epic career, one of the great American stories of our time. A narrative of astonishing power and...
From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the inside knowledge of...
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The Breaks of the Game
ISBN: 9781401309725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves. The New York Times bestseller, now with a new introduction The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of...
More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life a...
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The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal
ISBN: 9780449910030 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Astonishing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport."
*Walter Clemons Newsweek "A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE." *David Guy Chicago Tribune In The Amateurs, David Halberstam once again displays the unique brand of reportage, both penetrating and supple, that distinguished his bestselling The Best and the Brightest and October 1964. This time he has taken for his subject the dramatic and special world of amateur rowing. While other athletes are earning fortunes in salaries and-or endorsements, the oarsmen gain... "Astonishing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport."
*Walter Clemons Newsweek "A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AN... |
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Ho
ISBN: 9780742559936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam, while highlighting the importance of nationalism in determining the war's outcome.
In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that inf...
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Lena feiert Pessach mit Alma
ISBN: 9783945530351 / Niemiecki / Book / 2021 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Diese Neuauflage hat einen hilfreichen Zusatz: Das Manischtana-Gebet ist im Anhang kindgerecht in Lautschrift, auf Deutsch übersetzt sowie original Hebräisch enthalten. Mit diesem Buch können alle Kinder bereits für Pessach üben. Mit Erklärung und Anleitung für den Sederteller.Alma feiert mit ihrer Familie das jüdische Pessach-Fest. Ihre beste Freundin Lena darf mitfeiern. Zuerst werden alte Krümel und Brotreste im ganzen Haus gesucht und im Hof verbrannt. Abends sitzen alle um den festlichen Seder-Tisch und es gibt leckereSpeisen. Es wird zusammen gesungen, erzählt und gelacht....
Diese Neuauflage hat einen hilfreichen Zusatz: Das Manischtana-Gebet ist im Anhang kindgerecht in Lautschrift, auf Deutsch übersetzt sowie original H...
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Ho
ISBN: 9780742559929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam, while highlighting the importance of nationalism in determining the war's outcome.
In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that inf...
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The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship
ISBN: 9780786888672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves.
The Teammates is the profoundly moving story of four great baseball players who have made the passage from sports icons--when they were young... More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life a...
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Summer of '49
ISBN: 9780060884260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat. The year was 1949, and a war-weary nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition. The awesome New York Yankees and the indomitable Boston Red Sox were fighting for supremacy of baseball's American League, and an aging Joe DiMaggio and a brash,... With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now a... |
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Ein Pferd zu Channukka
ISBN: 9783945530221 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Federalism and Legal Unification: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Twenty Systems
ISBN: 9789402407099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 559 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How and to what degree do federations produce uniform law within their system? This comparative empirical study addresses these questions comprehensively for the first time. Originally produced under the auspices of the International Academy of Comparative Law, this volume examines legal unification in twenty federations around the world. Each of the successive chapters presents the forces of unification through the lens of a particular federal system. A comparative overview chapter provides a detailed analysis of the overall results with compelling visual illustrations of legal... How and to what degree do federations produce uniform law within their system? This comparative empirical study addresses these questions comprehen... |
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The Best and the Brightest
ISBN: 9780449908709 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
" The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller." -- The Boston Globe "Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative . . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence,... "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times
" The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vie... |
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October 1964
ISBN: 9780449983676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR -October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the opportunity to relive that year's to-die-for World Series, when the dynastic but aging New York Yankees squared off against the upstart St. Louis Cardinals. It should be a hit with younger students of the game, who'll eat up the vivid portrayals of legends like Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees and Bob Gibson and Lou Brock of the Cardinals. Most of all, however, David Halberstam's new book should be a hit with anyone interested in... THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR -October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the oppo... |
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Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
ISBN: 9780520292697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism and political recognition. What happened in the last few decades to prompt...
This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. In the last d...
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The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
ISBN: 9780742560086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders...
Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign pol...
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Female Masculinity
ISBN: 9781478001621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinity-which features a new preface by the author-Jack Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities, cataloging the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.
In this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinity-which features a new preface by the author-Jack Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of fe...
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In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
ISBN: 9780814735848 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms'especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture. In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally... In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in ... |
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Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire
ISBN: 9781478011088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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