wyszukanych pozycji: 28
Waiting for Teddy Williams
ISBN: 9780618619030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In "one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory" (Publishers Weekly), Howard Frank Mosher returns to Kingdom Common, Vermont, to spin a touching coming-of-age tale in an America that has almost disappeared. From this remote village, noted for its fervent devotion to the Red Sox, comes Ethan E.A. Allen, a young man with a chance to change baseball history. Homeschooled, fatherless, and living on the wrong side of the tracks, E.A. is haunted by a dark mystery in his family s past until a drifter named Teddy arrives in his life, determined to teach E.A. everything he...
In "one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory" (Publishers Weekly), Howard Frank Mosher returns to Kingdom Common, Verm...
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79,35 zł |
Marie Blythe
ISBN: 9781684581375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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88,54 zł |
Walking to Gatlinburg
ISBN: 9780307450685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, Walking to Gatlinburg is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war.
Morgan Kinneson is both hunter and hunted. The sharp-shooting 17-year-old from Kingdom County, Vermont, is determined to track down his brother Pilgrim, a doctor who has gone missing from the Union Army. But first Morgan must elude a group of murderous escaped convicts in pursuit of a mysterious stone that has fallen into his possession. It's 1864, and the country is in the grip of the bloodiest war in American... A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, Walking to Gatlinburg is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love i...
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83,99 zł |
The Fall of the Year: A Novel
ISBN: 9780618082360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The lively stories of the eccentric inhabitants of the mountain community of Kingdom County are told through the eyes of the adopted son of a baseball-playing, trout-fishing priest. "Superb storytelling, a delightful novel filled with humor and grace".--Alice Hoffman.
The lively stories of the eccentric inhabitants of the mountain community of Kingdom County are told through the eyes of the adopted son of a baseball...
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74,93 zł |
Where the Rivers Flow North
ISBN: 9781684581399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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88,54 zł |
The Great Northern Express: A Writer's Journey Home
ISBN: 9780307450708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year-old Chevy Celebrity on a monumental road trip and book tour across twenty-first-century America. From a chance meeting with an angry moose in northern New England to late-night walks on the wildest sides of America's largest cities, The Great Northern Express chronicles Mosher's escapades with an astonishing array of erudite bibliophiles, homeless hitchhikers, country crooners and...
Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation ...
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83,99 zł |
A Stranger in the Kingdom
ISBN: 9780618240104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Howard Frank Mosher has earned both critical acclaim and a wide readership for his vivid historical portraits of northern New England residents in his fictional Kingdom County, Vermont. A Stranger in the Kingdom tells the unforgettable story of a brutal murder in a small town and the devastating events that follow. The town's new preacher, a black man, finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done in this powerful drama of passion, prejudice, and innocence suddenly lost . . . and perhaps found again.
Howard Frank Mosher has earned both critical acclaim and a wide readership for his vivid historical portraits of northern New England residents in his...
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92,79 zł |
Crisis Management in the Power Industry: An Inside Story
ISBN: 9781138304994 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book, originally published in 1995 is a study of crisis management in the electricity supply industry during the 20th century. The full implications of the vulnerability of the industry are examined, with special reference to past industrial action. The authors were well placed to know how close the industry came on more than one occasion to disaster. In the wake of privatisation challenging and controversial questions are asked, which are of fundamental importance to the economy, quality of life and political stability of the country. An account is also given of the past structure,... This book, originally published in 1995 is a study of crisis management in the electricity supply industry during the 20th century. The full implic... |
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630,82 zł |
Rethinking IT Outsourcing: The New IT Offshoring
ISBN: 9780999873205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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43,98 zł |
Budgetary Forecasting in Local Government: New Tools and Techniques
ISBN: 9780899307251 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Local governments are hard-pressed to balance their budgets in the 1990s. Part of any budget-balancing effort is accurate forecasting. In this new work, Howard Frank introduces time-tested forecasting techniques from the private sector and military in a local forecasting environment. In a lucid, user-friendly treatment, Frank shows how simple and complex methods can be put to use in the contemporary local government setting. Through examples--many of them from his own research--the author delineates the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative and non-quantitative forecasting methods.... Local governments are hard-pressed to balance their budgets in the 1990s. Part of any budget-balancing effort is accurate forecasting. In this new ... |
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387,35 zł |
On Kingdom Mountain
ISBN: 9780547053745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set in northern Vermont in 1930, "On Kingdom Mountain" is the story of a renowned local bookwoman who is the last remaining resident of a wild mountain on the U.S.-Canadian border.
Set in northern Vermont in 1930, "On Kingdom Mountain" is the story of a renowned local bookwoman who is the last remaining resident of a wild mountai...
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74,93 zł |
The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis & Clark & Kinneson Expeditions
ISBN: 9780618431236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Howard Frank Mosher introduces Private True Teague Kinneson, who sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, on an epic race to reach the Pacific before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis s expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea s Shoshone relatives; and outwit True s lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the devil himself. "
Howard Frank Mosher introduces Private True Teague Kinneson, who sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, on an epic race to reach the Pacific before Me...
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79,53 zł |
North Country: A Personal Journey through the Borderland
ISBN: 9780395901397 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In celebration of his first half century of life, Mosher set off on a journey, following America's northern border from coast to coast, to discover a harsh and beautiful region populated by some of the continent's most self-sufficient, independent-minded men and women.
In celebration of his first half century of life, Mosher set off on a journey, following America's northern border from coast to coast, to discover a ...
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83,95 zł |
Disappearances
ISBN: 9780618694068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the New England Book Award, Howard Frank Mosher's endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill Bonhomme, his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, and their whiskey-smuggling exploits along the Vermont-Canada border in 1932. On an epic journey through the wilderness, Bill and his father encounter a cast of wild characters--and live out magical escapades as they carve their way into legend.
Winner of the New England Book Award, Howard Frank Mosher's endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the ...
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79,35 zł |
The Serpent's Shadow
ISBN: 9781410447890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 521 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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146,93 zł |
A Lawyer's Examination of the Bible
ISBN: 9781507566787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume is another of the sincere efforts which earnest men are making to confront the reason of the time with the claim of Christianity. It has all the importance of such an attempt, and, added to this, it has the meaning of a chapter of autobiography. Its author was a lawyer, and met the difficulties of belief which come naturally to a lawyer's mind. While these may seem at first adverse to the discovery of the truth, these very experiences of mind gave to him a mental method, which, sooner or later, was sure to bring him and the truth together. His conclusion may not have been reached...
This volume is another of the sincere efforts which earnest men are making to confront the reason of the time with the claim of Christianity. It has a...
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41,73 zł |
Northern Borders
ISBN: 9780618240098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Northern Borders is Mosher's nostalgic novel of life in northern Vermont's Kingdom County, as told by a man remembering his boyhood. In 1948 six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves his widowed father to live with his paternal grandparents on their farm in the township of Lost Nation. Escapades at the county fair, doings at the annual family reunion and Shakespeare performance, and conflicts at the one-room schoolhouse are all recounted lovingly in this enchanting coming-of-age story filled with luminous memories and the deepest of childhood secrets, as a boy is molded into a man.
Northern Borders is Mosher's nostalgic novel of life in northern Vermont's Kingdom County, as told by a man remembering his boyhood. In 1948 six-year-...
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75,11 zł |
Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction
ISBN: 9781624669354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A comprehensive introduction to formal logic, Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction is a rigorous yet accessible text, appropriate for students encountering the subject for the first time. Abundant, carefully crafted exercise sets accompanied by a clear, engaging exposition build to an exploration of sentential logic, first-order predicate logic, the theory of descriptions, identity, relations, set theory, modal logic, and Aristotelian logic. And as its title suggests, Logic and Philosophy is devoted not only to logic but also to the philosophical debates that led to the development of...
A comprehensive introduction to formal logic, Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction is a rigorous yet accessible text, appropriate for students ...
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189,19 zł |
The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
ISBN: 9780312119089 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the central principles that all good screenplays share. The authors address questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics as they apply to the special art of filmmaking. Howard and Mabley also demonstrate how, on a practical level, the tools of screenwriting work in sixteen notable films, including Citizen Cane, E.T., One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,... In The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the ce... |
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88,37 zł |
The Lemon and the Snake
ISBN: 9781478296317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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55,46 zł |