wyszukanych pozycji: 22
The Kiss: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780812979718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman s life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that begins when she, at age twenty, is reunited with the father whose absence had haunted her youth. Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation. A story both of transgression and of family complicity in breaking taboo, The Kiss is also about love about the most primal of love...
In this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman s life: an...
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80,40 zł |
Des mauvaises herbes dans le jardin de Mamie: Une touchante histoire d'amour qui t'expliquera la maladie d'Alzheimer et les autres démences dégénérati
ISBN: 9780994946737 / Francuski / Miękka / 2017 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Une petite fille et sa mamie sont unies par un lien particulier qui s'Epanouit dans le jardin magique de Mamie. Un jour, la petite fille dEcouvre des mauvaises herbes dans ce jardin. Peu aprEs, elle apprend que sa chEre mamie souffre de la maladie d'Alzheimer, une maladie faisant croItre dans le cerveau un enchevEtrement de fils qui gEne les pensEes, un peu comme les mauvaises herbes empEchent les fleurs de pousser. Le temps passant, les mauvaises herbes se rEpandent dans le jardin et la santE de Mamie dEcline, mais la petite fille accepte avec amour ces changements difficiles, tout en... Une petite fille et sa mamie sont unies par un lien particulier qui s'Epanouit dans le jardin magique de Mamie. Un jour, la petite fille dEcouvre d... |
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53,10 zł |
Ukrudt i Bedstes have: En lille hjertevarm historie skrevet til børn om kærlighed, Alzheimer og andre demensformer.
ISBN: 9781999235901 / Duński / Miękka / 2021 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
Weeds in Nana's Garden: A heartfelt story of love that helps explain Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.
ISBN: 9780994946706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A young girl and her Nana hold a special bond that blooms in the surroundings of Nana's magical garden. Then one day, the girl finds many weeds in the garden. She soon discovers that her beloved Nana has Alzheimer's Disease; an illness that affects an adult brain with tangles that get in the way of thoughts, kind of like how weeds get in the way of flowers. As time passes, the weeds grow thicker and her Nana declines, but the girl accepts the difficult changes with love, and learns to take-over as the magical garden's caregiver. Extending from the experience of caring for her... A young girl and her Nana hold a special bond that blooms in the surroundings of Nana's magical garden. Then one day, the girl finds many we... |
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53,10 zł |
Unkraut in Omi's Garten: Eine einfühlsame Geschichte einer besonderen Liebe, die hilft, die Alzheimer Krankheit und andere Demenzerkrankungen k
ISBN: 9780994946744 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ein junges Mädchen und ihre Omi haben eine besondere Verbindung, die in der Umgebung von Omi´s magischem Garten aufblüht. Dann eines Tages, bemerkt das Mädchen viele Unkräuter im Garten. Sie entdeckt bald, dass ihre geliebte Omi die Alzheimer-Krankheit hat; eine Krankheit, bei der sich ungesunde Wucherungen auf das Gehirn ablagern, und dadurch das Denken und Handeln beeinflussen, ähnlich wie Unkraut das Wachsen der Blumen behindert. Im Laufe der Zeit wächst das Unkraut dichter, und die Demenz ihrer Omi nimmt zu. Aber das Mädchen akzeptiert die... Ein junges Mädchen und ihre Omi haben eine besondere Verbindung, die in der Umgebung von Omi´s magischem Garten aufblüht. Dann eine... |
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53,10 zł |
The Mother Knot: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780812971507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a complex mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey through depression to greater understanding, acceptance, freedom, and love, . Spare and unflinching, The Mother Knot is Kathryn Harrison's courageous exploration of her painful feelings about her mother, and of her depression and recovery. Writer, wife, mother of three, Kathryn Harrison finds herself, at age forty-one, wrestling with a black, untamable force that seems to have the power to undermine her sanity and her safety, a darkness that is tied to her...
In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a complex mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey through depression to great...
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67,70 zł |
Passing the Buck: Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9780774805582 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, this book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
The first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, this book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the su...
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156,75 zł |
Global Commons, Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780262514316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Climate change represents a "tragedy of the commons" on a global scale, requiring the cooperation of nations that do not necessarily put the Earth's well-being above their own national interests. And yet international efforts to address global warming have met with some success; the Kyoto Protocol, in which industrialized countries committed to reducing their collective emissions, took effect in 2005 (although without the participation of the United States). Reversing the lens used by previous scholarship on the topic, Global Commons, Domestic Decisions explains international action... Climate change represents a "tragedy of the commons" on a global scale, requiring the cooperation of nations that do not necessarily put the Earth'... |
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243,26 zł |
The Seal Wife
ISBN: 9780812968453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by a writer of extraordinary gifts (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut, a woman who refuses to speak.
A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside convention. Kathryn Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War as she explores with deep... For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by a writer of extraordinary gifts (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal ...
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63,47 zł |
Ervas Daninhas no Jardim de Voinha: Uma sincera história de amor que ajuda a explicar a doença de Alzheimer e outras demências.
ISBN: 9780994946751 / Portugalski / Miękka / 2017 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,10 zł |
Racing to the Bottom?: Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation
ISBN: 9780774812252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The spectre of a ?race to the bottom? is increasingly prominent in debates about globalization and also within federal systems where the mobility of both capital and individuals prompts fears of interjurisdictional competition with respect to taxes and environmental and welfare standards. While there has been no shortage of either political rhetoric or academic theorizing on this subject, empirical studies have been in shorter supply. This volume seeks to fill that gap by asking: Are Canadian provinces engaged in a race to the bottom and, if so, what are the consequences? The... The spectre of a ?race to the bottom? is increasingly prominent in debates about globalization and also within federal systems where the mobility o... |
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454,74 zł |
Exposure
ISBN: 9780812973594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. -Luminous and affecting . . . Exposure] examines the often fine line between art and abuse. . . . Taut in plot, beautifully realistic, and intelligently disturbing.-
-Harper's Bazaar Ann Rogers appears to be a happily married, successful young woman. A talented photographer, she creates happy memories for others, videotaping weddings, splicing together scenes of smiling faces, editing out awkward moments. But she cannot edit her own memories so easily-images of a childhood spent as her father's model and muse, the subject of his celebrated series of controversial photographs.... -Luminous and affecting . . . Exposure] examines the often fine line between art and abuse. . . . Taut in plot, beautifully realistic, and intelligen...
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76,17 zł |
The Binding Chair, Or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society: A Novel
ISBN: 9780060934422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future.
In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home...
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71,89 zł |
Racing to the Bottom?: Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation
ISBN: 9780774812269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The spectre of a ?race to the bottom? is increasingly prominent in debates about globalization and also within federal systems where the mobility of both capital and individuals prompts fears of interjurisdictional competition with respect to taxes and environmental and welfare standards. While there has been no shortage of either political rhetoric or academic theorizing on this subject, empirical studies have been in shorter supply. This volume seeks to fill that gap by asking: Are Canadian provinces engaged in a race to the bottom and, if so, what are the consequences? The... The spectre of a ?race to the bottom? is increasingly prominent in debates about globalization and also within federal systems where the mobility o... |
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156,75 zł |
Wild Goose Chase Murders: A Lawson's Landing Mystery
ISBN: 9798475223512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,50 zł |
Passing the Buck: Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9780774805575 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, tracing the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and in federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Reveals that lack of public attention to th
A study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy, tracing the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental pol...
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407,69 zł |
Lady Chatterley's Lover
ISBN: 9780375758003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence's German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady Chatterley's Lover follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, Constance enters into a liaison with the gamekeeper Mellors. Frank Kermode called the book D. H. Lawrence's "great achievement," Anais Nin described it as "his best novel," and Archibald MacLeish hailed it as "one of the most important works of fiction of... Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence's German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady... |
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61,80 zł |
The House of the Five Henrys
ISBN: 9798449683212 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,38 zł |
Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces
ISBN: 9781439919958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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83,58 zł |
Risk, Science, and Politics: Regulating Toxic Substances in Canada and the United States
ISBN: 9780773512511 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Government regulation of toxic substances in Canada and the United States is examined and compared in Risk, Science, and Politics. Kathryn Harrison and George Hoberg report dramatically different approaches to regulatory science in the two countries.
Government regulation of toxic substances in Canada and the United States is examined and compared in Risk, Science, and Politics. Kathryn Harrison an...
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167,27 zł |