wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Fatty Liver: Recipes and Complete Guide to Prevent and Reverse Fatty Liver Disease and Lose Weight Instantly
ISBN: 9781985324091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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41,94 zł |
Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart
ISBN: 9780815411727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) provides a candid look at her tempestuous life. Born into poverty in St. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl became the sensation of Europe and the last century's first black sex symbol. A heroine of the French Resistance in World War II, she entranced figures as diverse as de Gaulle, Tito, Castro, Princess Grace, two popes, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet Josephine was also, as one critic put it, "a monster who made Joan Crawford look like the Virgin Mary."...
Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) provides a candid...
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99,52 zł |
Schizophrenia: Evolving from My Son's Suicide to the Classroom: A mother relates her life experience with her son's mental illness an
ISBN: 9781467900027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How does an unsuspecting parent cope with or even comprehend schizophrenia's stealth upon their child's developing brain? An unknown assailant moves into a young man's life and gradually steals it away, silently and relentlessly. Jean Baker tells her son Brian's story through his own words and her observations. She continues his legacy through teaching and advocating for special needs children, many of whom have multiple brain disorders and a variety of disabilities, including those who are schizo-affective as Brian's illness was diagnosed when he died by suicide at age 21.
How does an unsuspecting parent cope with or even comprehend schizophrenia's stealth upon their child's developing brain? An unknown assailant moves i...
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122,03 zł |
Family Secrets: Gay Sons--A Mother's Story
ISBN: 9781560239154 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As a clinical psychologist, Jean Baker had always considered herself open-minded and tolerant, but found she wasn t prepared for the revelation that her only two children were both gay. Family Secrets is an inspirational story of how she and her family learned to accept one another and overcome their internalized fears and prejudices as well as how they coped with a much greater challenge in their personal lives--HIV/AIDS. Family Secrets is more than a parenting memoir, however. It is a guide that draws upon research and scientific findings to capsize the myths and stereotypes that...
As a clinical psychologist, Jean Baker had always considered herself open-minded and tolerant, but found she wasn t prepared for the revelation that h...
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103,89 zł |
Letting Go: The (Sometimes Messy) Art of Relinquishment
ISBN: 9781514867488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) With vivid storytelling, self-deprecating humor and brutally honest tales of agonizing loss, Baker openly shares her life lessons about when and how to release the things, beliefs, and even people that are keeping you stuck. Journey with her as she learns to stop the emotional hoarding and the subsequent pain that comes from refusing to let go, replacing it instead with trust and a willingness to relinquish that which is no longer moving her forward.
With vivid storytelling, self-deprecating humor and brutally honest tales of agonizing loss, Baker openly shares her life lessons about when and how t...
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68,25 zł |
Family Secrets : Gay Sons - A Mother's Story
ISBN: 9780789002488 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tells the story of a mother's experience of having two gay children, one of which died from the AIDS disease, details his life before and after his illness was diagnosed, and how it affected the family.
Tells the story of a mother's experience of having two gay children, one of which died from the AIDS disease, details his life before and after his il...
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145,47 zł |
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
ISBN: 9780809087037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women were the first to picket the White House for a... How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony,... |
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95,40 zł |
Schizophrenia: Evolving from My Son's Suicide to the Classroom: A mother relates her story of surviving her son's mental illness and
ISBN: 9781481184557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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68,25 zł |
The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family
ISBN: 9780393315981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Baker's biography "affords Stevenson's] life a depth, historical and personal, that few other writers have acknowledged" Kirkus Reviews).
Baker's biography "affords Stevenson's] life a depth, historical and personal, that few other writers have acknowledged" Kirkus Reviews).
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142,88 zł |
Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion
ISBN: 9780809067572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our society to this day. Yet her star has waned. A frequent target of so-called family values activists, she has also been neglected by progressives, who cite her socialist leanings and purported belief in eugenics. In this captivating biography, the renowned feminist historian Jean H. Baker rescues Sanger from such critiques and restores her to the vaunted place in history she once held. Trained as a nurse, Sanger saw the dangers of unplanned... Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our so... |
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86,73 zł |
How Homophobia Hurts Children : Nurturing Diversity at Home, at School, and in the Community
ISBN: 9781560231639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tucson-based clinical psychologist Baker, a consultant to the state of Arizona on child abuse and neglect, let gay children tell their own stories of gradual discovery that they are different, and suggest to adults involved with children how to enhance the lives of children who will grow up to be ga
Tucson-based clinical psychologist Baker, a consultant to the state of Arizona on child abuse and neglect, let gay children tell their own stories of ...
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701,59 zł |
Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
ISBN: 9780190696450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Just as the revolutionaries of America sought to create a new society, so too did Benjamin Henry Latrobe seek to create buildings and oversee public works projects that would elevate the culture and society of the United States. This biography of Benjamin Henry Latrobe narrates the challenges to and triumphs of America's first professionally trained architect and engineer.
Just as the revolutionaries of America sought to create a new society, so too did Benjamin Henry Latrobe seek to create buildings and oversee public w...
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151,49 zł |
Viewpoints on American Culture
ISBN: 9780195130171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage. Each of the eleven essays illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920. From the movement's antecedents in the minds of women like Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright, to the historic gathering at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the civil disobedience during World War I orchestrated by the National Woman's Party, the essential elements of this tumultuous story emerge in...
In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrag...
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208,11 zł |
Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
ISBN: 9780823218653 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-eighteen hundreds lived their public lives. She begins with a psychobiographical explanation of how people became Democrats, weighing the importance of such influences as education and family life. She then discusses two major elements that set Democrats apart from members of other political organizations: a modified Republican ideology tailored to the circumstances of the Civil War, and a mordant racism...
Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which ...
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161,10 zł |
Women and the U.S. Constitution: 1776-1920
ISBN: 9780872291638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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69,21 zł |
How Homophobia Hurts Children: Nurturing Diversity at Home, at School, and in the Community
ISBN: 9781560231646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this compelling and sympathetic volume, the Chair of Arizona's Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues Committee and Co-Chair of Wingspan's Youth Services Committee breaks down the myths surrounding homosexuality that still pervade many schools and school playgrounds. Making her argument from the psychological perspective of the children involved, Baker presents successful practices and policies that can not only make schools a safer place, but can help GLBT youth to understand that they can grow up to lead normal, happy lives.
In this compelling and sympathetic volume, the Chair of Arizona's Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues Committee and Co-Chair of Wingspan's Youth Services Comm...
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207,83 zł |
Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited
ISBN: 9780195130164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage. Each of the eleven essays illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920. From the movement's antecedents in the minds of women like Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright, to the historic gathering at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the civil disobedience during World War I orchestrated by the National Woman's Party, the essential elements of this tumultuous story emerge in...
In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrag...
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282,01 zł |
Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
ISBN: 9780823218646 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-eighteen hundreds lived their public lives. She begins with a psychobiographical explanation of how people became Democrats, weighing the importance of such influences as education and family life. She then discusses two major elements that set Democrats apart from members of other political organizations: a modified Republican ideology tailored to the circumstances of the Civil War, and a mordant racism...
Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which ...
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426,15 zł |
where fancy led: A Collection of Poems
ISBN: 9781463400217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "where fancy led" is a collection of poetry with roots in the rolling hills of West Virginia. It blooms and blossoms from my travels and imagination. Writing has been a lifelong pursuit and poetry my literary love. I don't know what you will think or feel as you read; what is important is that you feel The beauty of poetry is the wide range of emotions one feels while reading a poem. I have delighted in many moments caught up in wordplay and hope that you share the magical flights with fancy while reading my poems.
"where fancy led" is a collection of poetry with roots in the rolling hills of West Virginia. It blooms and blossoms from my travels and imagination. ...
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87,68 zł |
where fancy led: A Collection of Poems
ISBN: 9781463400194 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "where fancy led" is a collection of poetry with roots in the rolling hills of West Virginia. It blooms and blossoms from my travels and imagination. Writing has been a lifelong pursuit and poetry my literary love. I don't know what you will think or feel as you read; what is important is that you feel The beauty of poetry is the wide range of emotions one feels while reading a poem. I have delighted in many moments caught up in wordplay and hope that you share the magical flights with fancy while reading my poems.
"where fancy led" is a collection of poetry with roots in the rolling hills of West Virginia. It blooms and blossoms from my travels and imagination. ...
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154,76 zł |