wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Come Again No More
ISBN: 9781416598503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the award-winning author of the acclaimed Sun Going Down comes an intimate portrait of a marriage and a family struggling to survive turbulent times that echo our own. THE PAINT FAMILY built an American empire on the legendary strength of their character, their wit, and their resolve, but the foreclosures, bank failures, and joblessness of the Great Depression may bring their world down around them. The family's foundation is further weakened by a rift running through two generations, scarred over by stubbornness and pain. Come Again No More is a uniquely...
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed Sun Going Down comes an intimate portrait of a marriage and a family struggling to survive tu...
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87,38 |
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Desertion in the Time of Vietnam: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780803239814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1969 Jack Todd was twenty-three and happy beyond his dreams. He had left behind a hardscrabble youth in a small Nebraska town, had an exciting job as a reporter for the Miami Herald, and was in love with his beautiful Cuban American girlfriend. As the war in Vietnam drew closer, he assumed that he would fight, as the men in his family had always fought, though he was increasingly troubled by America s role there. His oldest friend, who had just returned from Vietnam, pleaded with Jack to dodge the draft and go to Canada, but Jack entered the army. He had almost completed basic...
In 1969 Jack Todd was twenty-three and happy beyond his dreams. He had left behind a hardscrabble youth in a small Nebraska town, had an exciting job ...
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72,96 |
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Sun Going Down
ISBN: 9781416550495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From an award-winning author whose ancestors lived the adventures in this novel comes a spectacular new epic about the American West. Part history, part romance, and part action-adventure novel, Sun Going Down follows the fortunes of Ebenezer Paint and his descendants -- rough and tough individuals who are caught up in Civil War river battles, epic cattle drives through drought and blizzards, the horrors of Wounded Knee, the desperation of the dust bowl, and the prosperity of the roaring 1920s. The page-turning plot is peopled by a vibrant, unforgettable cast of characters:...
From an award-winning author whose ancestors lived the adventures in this novel comes a spectacular new epic about the American West. Part...
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129,19 |
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A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design
ISBN: 9781559637800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Explores the birth and development of ecological design. In the late 60's, a research and education organization was founded, to explore the ways a more sustainable world could be created. This book covers the story of that journey. It looks to what must be done to integrate human ingenuity and the evolutionary intelligence of the natural world.
Explores the birth and development of ecological design. In the late 60's, a research and education organization was founded, to explore the ways a mo...
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133,22 |
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The Road
ISBN: 9780813538075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. His adventure was an exaggerated version of the unemployed migrations made by millions of boys, men, and a few women during the original "great depression" of the 1890s. By taking to the road, young wayfarers like London forged a vast hobo subculture that was both a product of the new urban industrial order and a challenge to it. As London's experience suggests, this hobo world was born of equal parts desperation and fascination....
In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-...
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136,25 |
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The Road
ISBN: 9780813538068 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. His adventure was an exaggerated version of the unemployed migrations made by millions of boys, men, and a few women during the original "great depression" of the 1890s. By taking to the road, young wayfarers like London forged a vast hobo subculture that was both a product of the new urban industrial order and a challenge to it. As London's experience suggests, this hobo world was born of equal parts desperation and fascination....
In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-...
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608,48 |
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Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach
ISBN: 9789814644259 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and "something it is like to be" remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an objective brain produces subjective experience.This volume unites the creme de la creme of physicists, neuroscientists, and...
The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and "something it is like to be" remains one of the greatest challenges to a complet...
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1022,24 |
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The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You
ISBN: 9780143109730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thousands of business books are published every year-- Here are the best of the best
After years of reading, evaluating, and selling business books, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten are among the most respected experts on the category. Now they have chosen and reviewed the one hundred best business titles of all time--the ones that deliver the biggest payoff for today's busy readers. The 100 Best Business Books of All Time puts each book in context so that readers can quickly find solutions to the problems they face, such as how best to spend The First 90 Days in... Thousands of business books are published every year-- Here are the best of the best
After years of reading, evaluating, and selling busin... |
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95,03 |