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Chinese Laundries: Tickets To Survival On Gold Mountain
ISBN: 9781430329794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the...
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 18...
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90,38 zł |
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Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South
ISBN: 9781466218925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This memoir conveys the experiences of our family, the only Chinese in Macon, Georgia from 1928 to 1956. It describes our isolation running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice, explains why we moved to San Francisco's Chinese community, and how we adjusted to new challenges and opportunities. This edition adds an afterword describing the book's impact on readers and audiences at book talks and how it led to my writing four more books on Chinese American history. Some Review Excerpts .."fascinating and insightful account of Chinese-American family life...charming and...
This memoir conveys the experiences of our family, the only Chinese in Macon, Georgia from 1928 to 1956. It describes our isolation running a laundry,...
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66,42 zł |
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A Chinese American Odyssey: How a Retired Psychologist Makes a Hit as a Historian
ISBN: 9781502473653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public historian of Chinese in America... a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, publishing, and promoting books. Writers of books on any topic will find useful information. Academic Reviews John Jung is a phenomenon: a career academic turned "outsider" scholar, he has managed to reshape our understanding of the Chinese American experience by his novel historical studies.. Part memoir, part how-to book, it...
This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public histori...
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66,42 zł |
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A Sound in the Night
ISBN: 9798201695750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,52 zł |
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Chinese Laundrymen, Macon, Georgia 1884-1956
ISBN: 9781729085837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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26,62 zł |
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A Chinese American Odyssey
ISBN: 9781312590687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,07 zł |
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All Around the Circle
ISBN: 9798201380274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,04 zł |
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Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain
ISBN: 9781466302051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,42 zł |
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Sweet and Sour
ISBN: 9780615345451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Sweet and Sour" examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business around the end of the 19th century? What conditions made it possible for Chinese to open and succeed in operating restaurants after they emigrated to North America? How did Chinese restaurants manage to attract non-Chinese customers, given that they had little or no acquaintance with the Chinese style of food preparation and many had vicious hostility toward Chinese immigrants? The goal of "Sweet and Sour" is to understand how the small Chinese...
"Sweet and Sour" examines the history of Chinese family restaurants in the U. S. and Canada. Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business aroun...
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66,42 zł |
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Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers
ISBN: 9780615185712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their liVietnameseng with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity? "Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton"is a social history of the lives of these pioneering families and the unique and valuable role they played in their communities for over a century.
The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their liVietnameseng with small ...
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77,53 zł |
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Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South
ISBN: 9781411640344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,07 zł |
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Escape...Beyond the Lindens
ISBN: 9798215188347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,96 zł |
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Black Rock
ISBN: 9798201145781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,00 zł |
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Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Behavior: Psychological Research Perspectives
ISBN: 9781412967648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Providing a psychological perspective on the use and abuse of alcohol and other psychoactive drugs, this Second Edition includes more coverage of the theories of alcohol and other drug use and abuse, as well as broad conceptual issues related to the nature of addiction and recent developments in research methods.
Providing a psychological perspective on the use and abuse of alcohol and other psychoactive drugs, this Second Edition includes more covera... |
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966,98 zł |
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Last Tree Standing
ISBN: 9798201617448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,04 zł |
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Seizing Our Destiny: 2012's best communities to live, work, grow and prosper in - and how they got that way
ISBN: 9781477635797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2012 - named by the Intelligent Community Forum - have created uniquely powerful innovation ecosystems on a foundation of information and communications technology. This book provides in-depth profiles of the Top Seven and depicts how they bring together business, government and institutions in a dynamic partnership that produces results ranging from better and cheaper service delivery to citizens to the birth and growth of entrepreneurial businesses and vital new institutions. Intelligent Communities are pioneers in the complex collaboration that...
The Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2012 - named by the Intelligent Community Forum - have created uniquely powerful innovation ecosystems on a f...
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66,42 zł |
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Four Days - At Woodstock in the Summer of '69
ISBN: 9798223675259 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,74 zł |
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Joseph Shepherd
ISBN: 9780976097310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,28 zł |
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Community-Based Service Delivery: Theory and Implementation
ISBN: 9781032004822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Addressing the failure of initiatives in community-based service delivery to look beyond practicalities or to consider the tensions in thinking about service delivery, this book explores the significant philosophical shift that is necessary to implement community projects, discussing questions of data, methodology, power and communication.
Addressing the failure of initiatives in community-based service delivery to look beyond practicalities or to consider the tensions in thinking about ...
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198,57 zł |
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Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease
ISBN: 9783642076657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The first book to bring together experts in epilepsy, bio-engineering and dynamical systems theory, to discuss the possibility of treating epilepsy by controlling mechanisms that cause seizures. It includes a unique reference database with more than 1000 references, including hard-to-access references in the Russian literature. The first book to bring together experts in epilepsy, bio-engineering and dynamical systems theory, to discuss the possibility of treating epilepsy... |
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583,65 zł |
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