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Cow Stories
ISBN: 9781949066678 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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174,68 zł |
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The Death of Jim Loney
ISBN: 9780143105183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of Jim Loney is no exception. Jim Loney is a mixed-blood, of white and Indian parentage. Estranged from both communities, he lives a solitary, brooding existence in a small Montana town. His nights are filled with disturbing dreams that haunt his waking hours. Rhea, his lover, cannot console him; Kate, his sister, cannot penetrate his world. In sparse, moving prose, Welch has crafted a riveting tale of disenfranchisement and self-destruction....
James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of...
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65,52 zł |
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The Wayfarer (Revised Edition)
ISBN: 9781682565018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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113,53 zł |
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The Indian Lawyer
ISBN: 9780393329384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Raised in poverty on a Blackfeet reservation, prominent lawyer Sylvester Yellow Calf is now secure in the knowledge that his business and political success seems limitless--until a disgruntled convict, denied parole, threatens to destroy his career. A gripping suspense thriller . . . a complex psychological portrait".--San Francisco Chronicle.
Raised in poverty on a Blackfeet reservation, prominent lawyer Sylvester Yellow Calf is now secure in the knowledge that his business and political su...
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108,98 zł |
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Ten, který obelstil Vránu
ISBN: 9788074703553 / Czeski / Miękka / 2021 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. V okolí Řeky dvou medicín na území dnešní Montany žijí odvěkým způsobem Osamělí jedlíci, nepočetná tlupa Černonožců. Muži loví a vyrážejí na výpravy proti svým nepřátelům. Ženy činí kůže, našívají korálky a vychovávají děti. Ale píše se rok 1870, do jejich země se stěhuje stále více bílých osadníků a oni se musejí vyrovnat s velkými dějinnými změnami. O tom, že podlehnou, již není pochyb, a tak se v situaci, kdy je každé rozhodnutí špatné, rozbíhá hra o čas, která je současně posledním zápasem o přežití kmene.
Na... V okolí Řeky dvou medicín na území dnešní Montany žijí odvěkým způsobem Osamělí jedlíci, nepočetná tlupa Černonožců. Muži loví a...
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78,78 zł |
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Zima v krvi
ISBN: 9788074701955 / Czeski / 2018 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Westernová novela Zima v krvi, zasazená do šedesátých let 20. století, uvádí čtenáře do života indiánské komunity v rezervaci Fort Belknap v severoamerickém státě Montana. Protagonistou příběhu a současně jeho vypravěčem je bezejmenný indiánský mladík, odcizený své rodině i zemi, ubíjený pocitem existenciální prázdnoty, před níž marně uniká ke kerouacovsky nevázanému životu plnému divokých jízd, alkoholu či náhodného sexu. Jeho výpravy do nepřátelského světa mimo rezervaci, zpočátku motivované opětovným získáním odcizených...
Westernová novela Zima v krvi, zasazená do šedesátých let 20. století, uvádí čtenáře do života indiánské komunity v rezervaci Fort Belkn...
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66,07 zł |
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Smrt Jima Loneyho
ISBN: 9788074702501 / Czeski / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Smrt Jima Loneyho (1979) je po novele Zima v krvi (1974) druhou autorovou prózou věnovanou novodobým osudům původních obyvatel Severní Ameriky. Jim Loney je míšenec bělošského a indiánského původu. Odcizený oběma těmto společenstvím, vede v malém městečku v Montaně samotářský a bezútěšný život, naplněný nicneděláním a alkoholem. V dětství jej opustila matka i otec, a tak mu zůstala jen sestra Kate, která ale nechápe jeho svět. A také přítelkyně Rhea, která touží dát Loneyho životu nový cíl. Jeho existenci však může dát smysl jediné...
Smrt Jima Loneyho (1979) je po novele Zima v krvi (1974) druhou autorovou prózou věnovanou novodobým osudům původních obyvatel Severní Amerik...
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60,62 zł |
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Westlake Village: Tengo Amor
ISBN: 9781648018176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,14 zł |
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Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families
ISBN: 9781715902834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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58,97 zł |
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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
ISBN: 9780393329391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull. Telling of the pride and desperation of a people systematically stripped of their treaty rights, hounded from their ancestral hunting grounds, and herded into wretched reservations, Killing Custer reveals how this defining moment in American history was no more a "Last...
Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells t...
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78,58 zł |
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Steven Black and the Tales from Beyond: The Orb of Possibility
ISBN: 9780578721897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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20,92 zł |
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Between Worlds: The Promise of the Road
ISBN: 9781494710859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Between Worlds chronicles a real journey of discovery from the harsh winter of Georgia to the wilds of Mongolia by bicycle. A lone ride which began in Tbilisi and continued through Armenia, Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal ending in Mongolia. It is one man's exploration of place and space, full of detailed architectural observations which question the nature of the spaces we inhabit and encourage consideration of the profound effects of architecture on our thoughts and habits. The personal journey of discovery, which is interwoven with the factual observations, mirrors much of the landscape...
Between Worlds chronicles a real journey of discovery from the harsh winter of Georgia to the wilds of Mongolia by bicycle. A lone ride which began in...
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68,75 zł |
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Winter Wheat
ISBN: 9780803297418 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, within the space of a year and a half. But what a year and a half it is " Welch offers a brief biography of Walker, who wrote nine of her thirteen novels while living in Montana.
For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's viv...
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89,15 zł |
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If a Lion Could Talk
ISBN: 9780803297784 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With her husband, a Baptist minister, she seeks to convert the Blackfoot Indians to Christianity. But it is the Ryegates who are changed by their "journey into strangeness." Marcus Ryegate returns to Massachusetts obsessed by a beautiful Indian woman. For sermonizing about her, he pays a heavy price. Harriet, one of Mildred Walker's most fully realized characters, writes in her journal about "the effect of the Wilderness on civilized persons who are...
Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With...
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68,16 zł |
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Winter in the Blood
ISBN: 9780143105220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance, now adapted for film by Alex and Andrew Smith, starring Chaske Spencer and produced by Sherman Alexie
During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his... A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance, now adapted for film by Alex and Andrew Smith, starring Chaske Spenc...
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69,89 zł |
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Sprouting Valley: Historical Ethnobotany of the Northern Pomo from Potter Valley, California
ISBN: 9780988733022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the mid-nineteenth century the indigenous Potter Valley Pomo resided in large sedentary villages in Potter Valley, California, and travelled seasonally throughout an extensive territory in what are now Mendocino and Lake Counties. Beginning in 1890 what would become nearly a half century of ethnographic research among members of this community, homeopathic doctor and amateur anthropologist John W. Hudson witnessed the aftermath of their dislocation and dispersal from the valley following the arrival of non-indigenous settlers. Although never published, his fieldnotes contained an...
In the mid-nineteenth century the indigenous Potter Valley Pomo resided in large sedentary villages in Potter Valley, California, and travelled season...
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122,06 zł |
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The Case-By-Case Approach to Privatization: Techniques and Examples
ISBN: 9780821341964 / Miękka / 1998 / 27 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This paper provides practical guidance to government officials charged with managing case-by-case privatization programs. It identifies the key steps for privatization, describes sale options and the processes for carrying them out, and examines special conditions. It outlines how governments should undertake case-by-case privatization by identifying basic principles and common challenges, describes various methods for valuing state enterprises, and explains the role of financial advisers and sales agents in valuing candidates for privatization and developing sale options.
This paper provides practical guidance to government officials charged with managing case-by-case privatization programs. It identifies the key steps ...
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104,66 zł |
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When Is The Last Time You Were Naked?
ISBN: 9781729646069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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36,65 zł |
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For Eddie: Cancer Survivor
ISBN: 9781507590072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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30,68 zł |
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The Pursuer
ISBN: 9781491738085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Michael Kintner is on the run. As the sole survivor of the bombing of the Sistine Chapel where the pope and hundreds of others were killed during a disastrous war between Islam and Christianity, Kintner is already plagued with radiation sickness. Now he is being sought for the destruction of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the murder of tens of thousands of civilians. While Kintner stealthily moves across the desert, he knows that if he does not continue to outsmart his enemies, he will surely die. The intelligence organizations of France and the United States, along with the... Michael Kintner is on the run. As the sole survivor of the bombing of the Sistine Chapel where the pope and hundreds of others were killed during a... |
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87,14 zł |
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