wyszukanych pozycji: 12
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Last Words: Stories
ISBN: 9781550964868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hugh Graham captures the passage of years, the progression of accumulation and recurrence, the present as dammed up history. Without warning, a world on the road to epiphany. And that world, threatened with disaster. Figures emerge, often from twilight. Children who do not fear death, travelers doomed to inertia, concupiscent women, bloody-minded intellectuals, haunted drunks, decaying diplomats, and Death as the man in the attic room. In the end, the gaze of a child become a man. Eleven stories of clarity and dark empathy.
Hugh Graham captures the passage of years, the progression of accumulation and recurrence, the present as dammed up history. Without warning, a world ...
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95,37 zł |
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The Early Irish Monastic Schools A Study Of Ireland'S Contribution To Early Medieval Culture
ISBN: 9789361151569 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,14 zł |
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I Still Miss Someone: Friends and Family Remember Johnny Cash
ISBN: 9781581823981 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More than forty people who knew Johnny Cash best offer their remembrances of the Man in Black and provide an insider's view of the heart and soul of the friend they knew simply as John. The tapestry they weave reveals both the public and private sides of a wonderfully adept and complex man.
More than forty people who knew Johnny Cash best offer their remembrances of the Man in Black and provide an insider's view of the heart and soul of t...
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126,25 zł |
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Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American Politics, 1960-1972
ISBN: 9780195073225 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now abridged for courses, this edition of Hugh D. Graham's groundbreaking history of national policy during the battle for civil rights recreates the intense debates in Congress and the White House that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banning discrimination against minorities and women. Following the implementation of these policies through a thickening maze of federal agencies and court decisions, the text reveals how the classic liberal agenda of non-discrimination evolved into the controversial program of affirmative action, surprisingly enough, under...
Now abridged for courses, this edition of Hugh D. Graham's groundbreaking history of national policy during the battle for civil rights recreates the ...
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616,53 zł |
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The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years
ISBN: 9780807896730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Using the Kennedy and Johnson archives to analyze the evolution of educational policy from the perspective of the executive branch, Graham finds that the central theme was executive planning through presidential task forces. Mission agencies, clientele groups, and congressional committees produced a cascade of education programs in the 1960s as the administration was collapsing under the weight of the Vietnam war, inflation, and collective violence, yet the last two decades have witnessed a decline in test scores and basic literacy.
Originally published in 1984. A UNC Press... Using the Kennedy and Johnson archives to analyze the evolution of educational policy from the perspective of the executive branch, Graham finds that ...
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256,66 zł |
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Civil Rights in the United States
ISBN: 9780271025537 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thirty years ago, in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr., appealed to the American people to support a "constructive nonviolent" struggle to create a racially integrated society. Although legal segregation has been outlawed, America today seems in many ways even more fragmented by racial and ethnic divisions. And, despite the passage of landmark legislation in 1964 and 1965, the controversy surrounding civil rights seems to have grown, with the extension of civil rights protection to "new" groups including the disabled only creating further disputes in American... Thirty years ago, in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr., appealed to the American people to support a "constructive nonvi... |
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182,83 zł |
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Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America
ISBN: 9780195168891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform. Yet today affirmative action is foundering in the great waves of immigration from Asia and Latin America, leading to direct competition for jobs, housing, education, and government preference programs.
In Collision Course, Hugh Davis Graham explains how two such well-intended laws came into conflict with each other when employers, acting under affirmative action plans, hired millions of new immigrants ushered in by the Immigration Act, while... When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform. Yet to...
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68,42 zł |
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Urban Wildlands Fire- Pebble Beach, California
ISBN: 9781482707793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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55,57 zł |
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The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A.D.
ISBN: 9780806130002 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This classic work of scholarship scrutinizes all aspects of Roman military forces throughout the Roman Empire, in Europe, North Africa, and the Near and Middle East. Graham Webster describes the Roman army's composition, frontier systems, camps and forts, activities in the field (including battle tactics, signaling, and medical services), and peacetime duties, as well as the army's overall influence in the Empire. First published in 1969, the work is corrected and expanded in this third edition, which includes new information from excavations and the finding of contemporary scholars. Hugh...
This classic work of scholarship scrutinizes all aspects of Roman military forces throughout the Roman Empire, in Europe, North Africa, and the Near a...
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137,88 zł |
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The Spy's Bedside Book
ISBN: 9780099519607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A classic compendium of espionage stories - fiction, memoir and autobiography - from the pens of some of the greatest writers and most famous spies.
A classic compendium of espionage stories - fiction, memoir and autobiography - from the pens of some of the greatest writers and most famous spies.
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84,96 zł |
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The Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, S.J.
ISBN: 9780822985976 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and Jesuit Antonio Possevino S.J., who was sent to negotiate a peace between Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
This translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and...
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256,66 zł |
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Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction
ISBN: 9781421435183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This is a history of southern political life since the New Deal and World War II, encompassing a crucial epoch: an attempted Second Reconstruction of the South. The authors focus on the electoral response to candidates and issues. The authors contend that, despite the nationalizing and homogenizing forces that eroded much of the South's distinctiveness during the postwar years, the region's historical legacy perpetuated its distinctive patterns of cultural and political life. Further, the authors contend that despite the virtual destruction of the South's four inherited institutions of...
This is a history of southern political life since the New Deal and World War II, encompassing a crucial epoch: an attempted Second Reconstruction of ...
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207,21 zł |