wyszukanych pozycji: 61
Tracing the Consequences of Child Poverty: Evidence from the Young Lives Study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
ISBN: 9781447348313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22 growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years. It examines how poverty affects children's development in these countries, and how policy has been used to improve their lives.
This book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22 growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15...
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83,42 zł |
Questions in the Balance
ISBN: 9781613792827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,89 zł |
Powwow's Coming
ISBN: 9780826342652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Powwow's coming, hear the beat? Frustrated as a schoolteacher not being able to find good instructional materials on American Indians, Linda Boyden has bypassed the tired stereotype of Indians on horseback or hunting game and placed them in today's setting of a powwow. Powwow's Coming provides children with a foundation for understanding and celebrating the enduring culture and heritage of American Indians. Boyden's exquisite cut-paper collage and engaging poem... Powwow's coming, hear the beat? |
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86,30 zł |
I Got the Dog: A Memoir of Rising
ISBN: 9781944884833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,56 zł |
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
ISBN: 9781847486776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the Second World War breaks out, young Lisette is sent from her hometown to spend the summer with the Drewery family in the Lincolnshire Wolds - and begins a love affair that will last a lifetime.
Helping out on Manor Farm, Liz quickly becomes best friends with Barbara - a serious-minded young woman with academic aspirations - and her down- to-earth cousin, Walter. Barbara and Liz go to university together but lose touch after Liz and Walter marry... until, years later, Lisette receives a letter from Barbara asking if she can come to stay. Now in their late sixties, Lisette, Walter... When the Second World War breaks out, young Lisette is sent from her hometown to spend the summer with the Drewery family in the Lincolnshire Wolds - ...
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111,39 zł |
The Orenda: Winner of the Libris Award for Best Fiction
ISBN: 9781780744407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 1640s, The New World In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl's captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In the girl, Snow Falls, he recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter, but as he fights for her heart and allegiance, small battles erupt into bigger wars as both tribes face a new, more dangerous threat from afar. Travelling with the Huron is Christophe,...
1640s, The New World In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift bet...
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66,76 zł |
Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850-1950
ISBN: 9789089645289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Traditionally, migration has been studied at either the beginning or the end of the journey. Surprisingly little research has been devoted to what actually happens to people in between. The contributors to this collection draw on a variety of primary and secondary sources, including travel writings, fiction, and diaries, to explore immigrants' liminal experiences on ships and in exit ports on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining scholarship from the field of transportation history with that of social history and translation studies, "Tales of Transit" reveals the complexity of what people...
Traditionally, migration has been studied at either the beginning or the end of the journey. Surprisingly little research has been devoted to what act...
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234,50 zł |
Giveaways: An ABC Book of Loanwords from the Americas
ISBN: 9780826347268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Did you know that the okra plant and the word "okra" were introduced to the Americas from Africa? Or that "squash" was first a word from the language of the Narragansett tribe of New England? According to etymologists--people who study words, languages, and word histories--many languages grow by adopting words from other languages, or loanwords. American English is a giant stew, simmering with loanwords like "okra" and "squash." In her latest book, Linda Boyden shares an alphabet list of indigenous loanwords from North, South, and Central America that have found their way into common... Did you know that the okra plant and the word "okra" were introduced to the Americas from Africa? Or that "squash" was first a word from the langua... |
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86,30 zł |
Wenjack
ISBN: 9788075151063 / Czeski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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51,32 zł |
Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 13: Grow, Don't Mow: Gardening for the Planet
ISBN: 9781382041676 / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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46,13 zł |
I Got the Dog: A Memoir of Rising
ISBN: 9781944884819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,30 zł |
Through Black Spruce
ISBN: 9780143116509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A haunting novel of love, identity, and loss-from the internationally acclaimed author of Three Day Road
Beautifully written and startlingly original, Through Black Spruce takes the considerable talents of Canadian novelist Joseph Boyden to new and exciting heights. This is the story of two immensely compelling characters: Will Bird, a legendary Cree bush pilot who lies comatose in a remote Ontario hospital; and Annie Bird, Will's niece, a beautiful loner and trapper who has come to sit beside her uncle's bed. Broken in different ways, the two take silent communion... A haunting novel of love, identity, and loss-from the internationally acclaimed author of Three Day Road
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95,17 zł |
Portrait of a Century
ISBN: 9781844017041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. History is not only about royalty and politicians. Few written histories adequately address the true human response to the tumultuous events they describe. In Portrait of a Century, Betty Boyden looks back over the twentieth century and reveals how major national and international events affected several generations of her own family. The book shows how her world was altered by global conflict, uneasy peace, and the wide-ranging social changes that accompanied the end of the Second World War. Viewing such a turbulent century through the eyes of one family allows us to see not a bygone world...
History is not only about royalty and politicians. Few written histories adequately address the true human response to the tumultuous events they desc...
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92,01 zł |
Through Black Spruce
ISBN: 9780753823323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Suzanne and Annie may be sisters but sometimes they feel worlds apart. Suzanne longs to escape their decaying homestead, but for Annie, the Canadian wilderness is all she needs. Yet when Suzanne vanishes Annie feels their bond tugging at her irresistibly, calling her away from home.
Suzanne and Annie may be sisters but sometimes they feel worlds apart. Suzanne longs to escape their decaying homestead, but for Annie, the Canadian w...
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51,35 zł |
Gifting Fire
ISBN: 9781984805485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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66,76 zł |
Boyden Strong: A Life of Heart and Courage
ISBN: 9781698098340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,98 zł |
Children and Youth on the Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement
ISBN: 9781571818836 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations ... especially] to those who wish to make a black and white distinction between children and adults." -Children, Youth and Environments War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers of young people,... "This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations ... especially] t... |
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516,47 zł |
Children and Youth on the Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement
ISBN: 9781845450342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations . . . especially] to those who wish to make a black and white distinction between children and adults." ?- Children, Youth and Environments War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers of young people, undermines...
"This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations . . . especially] to th...
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145,81 zł |
Love, Delivered
ISBN: 9798440092433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,00 zł |
Climate and American Literature
ISBN: 9781108484879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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470,83 zł |