wyszukanych pozycji: 7
COME SEPTEMBER, Journey of a High School Teacher
ISBN: 9781477631409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The word "teacher" conjures up so many conflicting images, because it is a word so rich in meaning, that revealing you're a teacher, without the chance to expound a bit on what that signifies, is like being thirty-nine years and eleven months old but telling people you're thirty-something. Too much has to be left out, which is why I wrote this book to share what it meant to me working in a public school all those years. Education in America is a huge topic, but I don't believe that enough is said in personal ways right from the trenches. Books like UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE by Bel Kaufman, and...
The word "teacher" conjures up so many conflicting images, because it is a word so rich in meaning, that revealing you're a teacher, without the chanc...
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31,95 zł |
Mum's the Word: : Secrets of a Family
ISBN: 9781490451053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of a family and their outrageous attempts to hide the fact that the patriarch is an alcoholic. Though the issue of alcoholism is addressed seriously and sympathetically, the book is also filled with humor about the father's shenanigans and the family's cover-ups.
This is the story of a family and their outrageous attempts to hide the fact that the patriarch is an alcoholic. Though the issue of alcoholism is add...
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37,34 zł |
COME ON, FLUFFY, THIS AIN'T NO BALLET, a Novel on Coming of Age
ISBN: 9781477651124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. See or perhaps remember what it was like to be a teenager in the 1960's, facing the quest to fit in while finding your own identity at school and at home...making good and bad choices, dealing with siblings, finding your way in a world that was only outwardly simpler than today's world, encountering unforgettable characters along the way and finding that life is overall pretty wonderful. See Indiana of the 1960's, what college life was like, friendships, laughable conflicts we thought were catastrophic, the world through a teen's eyes, and maybe discover that there are certain universals that...
See or perhaps remember what it was like to be a teenager in the 1960's, facing the quest to fit in while finding your own identity at school and at h...
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25,56 zł |
Come September, Journey of a School Teacher,: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781535183024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alternately funny and touching, COME SEPTEMBER, conveys the story of every high school teacher's struggle to enlighten both himself and his pupils, encountering along the way, battles with colleagues, administrators, and parents through a parade of characters that include a freshman boy for whom the faculty code name is "Spawn of Satan," to a senior girl whose water breaks during a pop-quiz over THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Through social change and the relentless march of technology, the human element remains constant in the book's personal, entertaining, and sympathetic portraits of faculty,...
Alternately funny and touching, COME SEPTEMBER, conveys the story of every high school teacher's struggle to enlighten both himself and his pupils, en...
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48,29 zł |
Growing Old in America: Notes from a Codger
ISBN: 9781500101992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is one man's view of what it means to age in this country and to seek meaning in that process by looking at both the joy and the pain of growing old. There is practical advice for the elderly, there are vignettes of humor and wisdom as well as a prevailing respect and affection for those who are entering or who have been in their golden years.
This book is one man's view of what it means to age in this country and to seek meaning in that process by looking at both the joy and the pain of gro...
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44,18 zł |
Resisting Gravity: A Ghost Story
ISBN: 9781720686729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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29,67 zł |
Hodgepodge: A Feast for Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781489598615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I'd like to think that I see the optimism of modern life and its humorous side, despite the frustrations that all of us endure. The items of writing in this book were selected by friends as the -best- from my blog entries of the past two years. I hope that they will trigger thoughts, passions, and the love of life in readers. Hodgepodge seemed a good title, because that's often what life is, a wonderful but often bewildering series of thoughts and experiences. How to outline those experiences posed a challenge, but I enjoyed it. The topics are everything from people to pets, holidays,...
I'd like to think that I see the optimism of modern life and its humorous side, despite the frustrations that all of us endure. The items of writing i...
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34,60 zł |