wyszukanych pozycji: 90
Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
ISBN: 9780520277236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have reversed the losses they suffered and are growing exponentially. With powerful attachments to the past, mysticism, community, tradition, and charismatic leadership, Hasidism seems the opposite of contemporary Western culture, yet it has thrived in the democratic countries and culture of the West. How? Who Will Lead Us? finds the answers...
Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repr...
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138,34 zł |
A Pilot's Tale - Flying Helicopters In Vietnam
ISBN: 9781435711853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The 60's were a time of turmoil. A war was raging in Southeast Asia and across the country on college campuses, protests against the war were shutting down classes. The country was divided. The author recounts stories about becoming a helicopter pilot and flying two tours of duty in Vietnam during this period
The 60's were a time of turmoil. A war was raging in Southeast Asia and across the country on college campuses, protests against the war were shutting...
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134,48 zł |
Elevate Your Excellence: The Mindset and Methods that Make Champions
ISBN: 9781944749491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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212,94 zł |
An Engineering View of the Universe Vol V - Questions
ISBN: 9780359804849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,07 zł |
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning
ISBN: 9780765802781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief. It is a time when those left behind often seek to redress wrongs in themselves or in the relationships that death has shaken and upset. In both collective and individual responses to the trauma of encountering death, we witness efforts to counter the misfortune and to explain the meaning of the loss, to turn memory into blessing, to reconcile life with death, to regenerate life, and... An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the ... |
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709,67 zł |
An Engineering View of the Universe Vol IV - Gravity and More
ISBN: 9780359642700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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47,74 zł |
An Engineering View of the Universe Vol I
ISBN: 9780359449859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,78 zł |
A Pilot's Tale - Flying Helicopters In Vietnam
ISBN: 9781435711846 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 60's, a war was being fought in Vietnam. Helicopters were being used in many different rolls for the first time. The author recounts his experiences flying helicopters on two tours of duty in Vietnam.
In the 60's, a war was being fought in Vietnam. Helicopters were being used in many different rolls for the first time. The author recounts his experi...
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219,39 zł |
An Engineering View of the Universe Vol II a Solution for Pi
ISBN: 9780359480555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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38,20 zł |
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
ISBN: 9780691154428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change history. Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman paint an unforgettable portrait of Schneerson, showing how he reinvented himself from an aspiring French-trained electrical engineer into a charismatic leader... From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher m... |
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110,67 zł |
The World Pool: A Literary Variety
ISBN: 9780990868637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The World Pool is a literary variety show by award-winning author Robert Leo Heilman. These collected short works, culled from thirty years-worth of freelance writing for magazine and newspapers deal with a broad range of topics such as personal and Oregon history, the 1960's counterculture, manual labor, politics and war. The World Pool is a literary variety show by award-winning author Robert Leo Heilman. These collected short works, culled from thirty years-worth o... |
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76,16 zł |
Overstory: Zero: Real Life in Timber Country 2nd edition
ISBN: 9780990868606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Overstory: Zero Robert Leo Heilman portrays the working class life of loggers, miners, roofers, millworkers and tree planters in rural Oregon. This revised and expanded collection of his critically acclaimed award-winning essays and memoirs examines the complex relationships between work, nature, community and family in straight forward prose that goes beyond mere labels and issues. Drawing on his experiences from a lifetime of manual labor Heilman provides increasingly rare insight into the lives of the marginalized people he lives among and the land that sustains them. This classic of...
In Overstory: Zero Robert Leo Heilman portrays the working class life of loggers, miners, roofers, millworkers and tree planters in rural Oregon. This...
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104,80 zł |
Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780295974712 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Has America been a place that has preserved and protected Jewish life? Is it a place in which a Jewish future is ensured? Samuel Heilman, long-time observer of American Jewish life, grapples with these questions from a sociologist's perspective. He argues that the same conditions that have allowed Jews to live in relative security since the 1950s have also presented them with a greater challenge than did the adversity and upheaval of earlier years. The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all... Has America been a place that has preserved and protected Jewish life? Is it a place in which a Jewish future is ensured? Samuel Heilman, long-time... |
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126,12 zł |
Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
ISBN: 9780520308404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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111,68 zł |
Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895-1980
ISBN: 9780804770941 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, Before the Shining Path is the first long-term historical examination of the Shining Path's political, economic, and social antecedents in Ayacucho, the department where the Shining Path initiated its war. This study uncovers rural Ayacucho's vibrant but largely unstudied twentieth-century political history and contends that the Shining Path was the last and most extreme of a series of radical...
From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. ...
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343,08 zł |
The Trails of the Adirondacks: Hiking America's Original Wilderness
ISBN: 9781599621531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This official book published with the Adirondack Mountain Club celebrates America s original hiking destination through breathtaking contemporary photography, maps, rarely seen archival photos, and a text that brings the history of the trails to life.
This official book published with the Adirondack Mountain Club celebrates America s original hiking destination through breathtaking contemporary phot...
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191,84 zł |
An Interruption That Lasted a Lifetime: My First Eighty Years
ISBN: 9781434306746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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179,00 zł |
Synagogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interaction
ISBN: 9780765804334 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He illustrates how people come to the synagogue not only for spiritual purposes but also to find out where and how they fit into life in the neighborhood in which they share. In his new introduction, Heilman discusses what led him to write this book and the process of personal transformation through which...
Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assemb...
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231,25 zł |
Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter
ISBN: 9780415964845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, Second Edition draws on a wider range of intellectual traditions to explore the texts, including moral-theological analysis, psychoanalytic perspectives, and philosophy of technology. The Harry Potter novels engage the social, cultural, and psychological preoccupations of our times, and Critical Perspectives on... This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the ... |
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225,99 zł |
The People of the Book: Drama, Fellowship and Religion
ISBN: 9781138537385 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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709,67 zł |