wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth
ISBN: 9780700615230 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eulogized and ostracized, James Butler Hickok was alternately labeled courageous, affable, and self confident; cowardly, cold-blooded, and drunken; a fine specimen of physical manhood; an overdressed dandy with perfumed hair; an unequaled marksman; a poor shot. Born in Illinois in 1837, he was shot dead in Deadwood only 39 years later. By then both famous and infamous, he was widely known as "Wild Bill." Excavating the reality behind the myth, Joseph Rosa delves into the exploits and ego that defined Hickok and shows how the man was overtaken by his own legend. Rosa exposes a...
Eulogized and ostracized, James Butler Hickok was alternately labeled courageous, affable, and self confident; cowardly, cold-blooded, and drunken; a ...
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157,65 zł |
Douglas Garofalo
ISBN: 9780300120585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Announcing A+D (Architecture and Design), a new series from the Art Institute of Chicago, which highlights the work of important architects and designers from around the world. Innovatively designed by the New York firm 2x4, the titles are either historical in nature or investigate current critical thinking and practice in architecture and design.
This handsome book presents the oeuvre of Douglas Garofalo, principal of Garofalo Architects, internationally renowned for its innovative residential, commercial, institutional, and public building projects. With an impressive list of... Announcing A+D (Architecture and Design), a new series from the Art Institute of Chicago, which highlights the work of important architects and...
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54,76 zł |
Louis I. Kahn
ISBN: 9783836543842 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Brilliant buildings
Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist language Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his structures with a monumental and breathtaking spirituality. Kahn was born in Estonia in 1901 but emigrated with his family to Philadelphia,... Brilliant buildings
Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist language Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 19... |
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77,08 zł |
Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter: A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri
ISBN: 9780806135359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) was a Civil War spy and scout, Indian fighter, gambler, and peace officer. He was also one of the greatest gunfighters in the West. His peers referred to his reflexes as "phenomenal" and to his skill with a pistol as "miraculous." In Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter, Joseph G. Rosa, the world's foremost authority on Hickok, provides an informative examination of Hickok's many gunfights. Rosa describes the types of guns used by Hickok and illustrates his use of the plains' style of "quick draw, " as well as examining other elements of the Hickok legend. He even...
Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) was a Civil War spy and scout, Indian fighter, gambler, and peace officer. He was also one of the greatest gunfighters in...
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94,95 zł |
They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok
ISBN: 9780806115382 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. His contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope that "Hickok emerges as a man and not a legend."
For this comprehensive revision of his earlier biography of Wild Bill the author was allowed to work from newly available materials in the possession of the Hickok family. He also discovered new material pertaining to Wild Bill s Civil War... His contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George A...
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116,58 zł |
The Gunfighter: Man or Myth
ISBN: 9780806115610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The gunfighter was a man bred in a lawless and violent era of civil war, range wars, and greed for land and gold. He played a real and deadly part in a period when men were conditioned to settle differences with gunplay. He shot and fought and killed throughout Texas in its struggle with Mexico, along the Kansas-Missouri border, and up and down the cattle trails. Black powder smoke from his guns darkened the Kansas cow towns and the Far West mining camps. What part of the gunfighter legend is true, and what part a novelist's or screenwriter's fantasy? What has been the gunfighter's... The gunfighter was a man bred in a lawless and violent era of civil war, range wars, and greed for land and gold. He played a real and deadly part ... |
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119,65 zł |
West of Wild Bill Hickok
ISBN: 9780806126807 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa s exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one volume nearly all the known portraits of Wild Bill, together with photographs of his family, his friends, his foes, and the places that knew him."
Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This boo... |
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107,93 zł |
Joel, Nahum, and Malachi: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary
ISBN: 9781839732652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,83 zł |
Why the West Was Wild: A Contemporary Look at the Antics of Some Highly Publicized Kansas Cowtown Personalities
ISBN: 9780806135267 / Angielski / Skórzana / 2003 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nyle H. Miller and Joseph W. Snell's Why the West Was Wild is the unabridged and unsurpassed collection of material assembled on the famous and infamous personalities of Kansas cowtowns, including legendary figures such as "Wild Bill" Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and such locales as Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, and Dodge City. First published in the Kansas Historical Quarterly, these portraits are based on research in newspapers, legal records, letters, and diaries contemporary to these legendary figures. This anniversary edition is the first complete edition to appear in forty...
Nyle H. Miller and Joseph W. Snell's Why the West Was Wild is the unabridged and unsurpassed collection of material assembled on the famous and infamo...
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217,97 zł |
Why the West Was Wild: A Contemporary Look at the Antics of Some Highly Publicized Kansas Cowtown Personalities
ISBN: 9780806135304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 706 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nyle H. Miller and Joseph W. Snell's Why the West Was Wild is the unabridged and unsurpassed collection of material assembled on the famous and infamous personalities of Kansas cowtowns, including legendary figures such as "Wild Bill" Hickok, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and such locales as Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, and Dodge City. First published in the Kansas Historical Quarterly, these portraits are based on research in newspapers, legal records, letters, and diaries contemporary to these legendary figures. This anniversary edition is the first complete edition to appear in forty...
Nyle H. Miller and Joseph W. Snell's Why the West Was Wild is the unabridged and unsurpassed collection of material assembled on the famous and infamo...
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157,41 zł |
Ezra and Nehemiah: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary
ISBN: 9781783681556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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103,78 zł |
Ezra and Nehemiah: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary
ISBN: 9781839731570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,74 zł |
Fright Night: Bilingual Reading: English/Spanish
ISBN: 9781505352221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fright Night is the story of two little sisters who love Halloween and the New Mexico International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta. They live in Las Golondrinas, a small town in northern New Mexico, surrounded by family and love. The sisters, Rosalia and Lucia, prepare for trick-or-treating, carving their pumpkins, cutting out their masks, and off they go from house to house. They visit the homes of their aunties and uncles for treats. When they are almost ready to go home and enjoy their treats, the girls decide not to heed their mother's warning to stay away from one particular street. What happens...
Fright Night is the story of two little sisters who love Halloween and the New Mexico International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta. They live in Las Golondrin...
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45,19 zł |
Candy City: Ciudad de Dulces
ISBN: 9781511787529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,82 zł |
Palm Springs Modern: Houses in the California Desert
ISBN: 9780847844104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This classic volume, now available at a lower price, showcases jet-set homes designed by the likes of Neutra, Frey, Lautner, and others. Palm Springs is famous as a mecca for the international jet set. But the city has also attracted its share of eccentrics and mavericks who have left an architectural legacy that remains unsurpassed for its originality and international influence. This book examines the impact that architects and designers have had on the desert oasis, primarily from the 1940s to the 1960s. Palm Springs Modern features examples of midcentury modernism at its most glamorous,...
This classic volume, now available at a lower price, showcases jet-set homes designed by the likes of Neutra, Frey, Lautner, and others. Palm Springs ...
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280,91 zł |
Rowdy Joe Lowe: Gambler with a Gun
ISBN: 9780806139623 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,24 zł |
The Peripatetic Journey of Teacher Preparation in Canada
ISBN: 9781839822391 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Peripatetic Journey of Teacher Preparation in Canada situates teacher training, preparation and education in Canada within national and global histories. The authors lead the reader through an exploration of the objectives of schooling, the contextual role of teachers, and the political undercurrents sustaining various educational conceptions and policies. Taking a ‘longue durée’ approach, the authors begin by considering traditional practices in Indigenous nations encountered by the colonizers of Canada, including the role of the community as an educator. Tracing teacher...
The Peripatetic Journey of Teacher Preparation in Canada situates teacher training, preparation and education in Canada within national and global his...
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400,06 zł |