wyszukanych pozycji: 44
Chwile wieczności
ISBN: 9788367515160 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Na chwile wieczności składają się dwie przejmujące, pełne gorzkiego humoru powieści, które stanowią bezkompromisowe rozliczenie z życiem w późnej starości.
Niemal wszyscy, których Birgitte znała, już nie żyją. Jej świat zaczyna zawężać się do czterech ścian. Ale starość nie oznacza dla niej rezygnacji z życia - tego, które już za nią i do którego wraca pamięcią, ani tego, które skrywa przed nią niespodziewaną miłość po dziewiędziesiątce. Birgitte wspomina swą karierę kardiochirurżki w środowisku zdominowanym przez mężczyzn, rozmyśla o rodzinie,... Na chwile wieczności składają się dwie przejmujące, pełne gorzkiego humoru powieści, które stanowią bezkompromisowe rozliczenie z życiem w p...
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41,36 zł |
Running For Mental Health: A How-To Guide
ISBN: 9781734160604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,28 zł |
Where Humans and Spirits Meet: The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar
ISBN: 9781845450557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the phenomenon of spirit possession in Zanzibar Town and the relationships created between humans and spirits; it provides a way to apprehend how society is constituted and conceived and, thus, discusses Zanzibari understandings of what it means to be human. Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion,... |
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513,51 zł |
The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am
ISBN: 9781564787026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she is now. Afraid that her life will be over before anyone knows that she lived, Mathea digs out her old wedding dress, bakes some sweet cakes, and heads out into the world--to make her mark. She buries a time capsule out in the yard. (It gets dug up to make room for a flagpole.) She wears her late husband's watch and hopes people will ask her for the time. (They never do.) Is it really possible... Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she re... |
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78,21 zł |
Green Day: A Musical Biography
ISBN: 9780313365973 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Green Day is almost certainly the world's most popular pop-punk band. How they got there is the subject of Green Day: A Musical Biography, the first book to follow the band from their beginnings through the spring 2009 release of 21st Century Breakdown. Tracing the band's evolution from fiercely independent punks to a global powerhouse, Green Day starts with the members' earliest musical influences and upbringing and the founding of the punk club 924 Gilman Street that shaped their sense of community. Discussion of their conflicted feelings about signing... Green Day is almost certainly the world's most popular pop-punk band. How they got there is the subject of Green Day: A Musical Biography, t... |
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185,64 zł |
The Child
ISBN: 9781783785469 / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Narrated by a woman to her new-born, meandering between her enchanted present and her memories of a more difficult past, The Child is a modern exploration of the territory of motherhood.
Narrated by a woman to her new-born, meandering between her enchanted present and her memories of a more difficult past, The Child is a modern explora...
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66,14 zł |
Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy
ISBN: 9781845202071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. There is a hidden legacy of war that is rarely talked about: the children of native civilians and enemy soldiers. What is their fate? This book unearths the history of the thousands of forgotten children of World War II, including its prelude and aftermath during the Spanish Civil War and the Allied occupation of Germany. It looks at liaisons between German soldiers and civilian women in the occupied territories and the Nazi Lebensborn program of racial hygiene. It also considers the children of African-American soldiers and German women. The authors discuss the policies adopted towards... There is a hidden legacy of war that is rarely talked about: the children of native civilians and enemy soldiers. What is their fate? This book une... |
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176,31 zł |
Igniting Identity
ISBN: 9783639063899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The brutal rape of a twelve-year-old Okinawan girl in 1995 enraged the local population and led to a chain of unprecedented events, which endangered the relationship between the US and Japan. International media soon reported on the outrage as merely an expression of anti-US sentiments, but although the violent crime was acted out by three US servicemen, Tokyo was to receive the blame. Igniting Identity reveals a hidden meaning of the raped girl as a powerful symbol of identity and challenges the notion of Japan as an homogenous nation. Strommen explores how Okinawans emphasize post- material...
The brutal rape of a twelve-year-old Okinawan girl in 1995 enraged the local population and led to a chain of unprecedented events, which endangered t...
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307,73 zł |
The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate
ISBN: 9780367365820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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228,18 zł |
The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate
ISBN: 9781138209596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines, by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres. The book focuses on key linguistic themes, including linguistic polyphony, lexical choices, metaphors, narration, and framing, and uses examples from diverse forms of media, including scientific documents, policy reports, op-eds, and blogs, to shed light on how information and knowledge on climate change can be... This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines, by exploring the myriad l... |
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700,25 zł |
An Ideal Bread - A Literature Review
ISBN: 9783659467974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Bread can be said to be embedded in several food cultures, but currently bread is also one of our most hotly debated foods. While some claim we are better off without it, others, among them the health authorities, recommend whole grain bread as an important component of a balanced and healthy diet. The grocery stores offer a wide range of breads and many actors claim they have the recipe for the "ideal" bread. But whos right? What is actually an "ideal" bread? Or should we eat bread at all? The main objective of the present book is to present a literature review and use this to develop a...
Bread can be said to be embedded in several food cultures, but currently bread is also one of our most hotly debated foods. While some claim we are be...
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325,38 zł |
For when the guests come
ISBN: 9783639161410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. International languages of management, therapy,
marketing and advertising have their own jargon, specialized terminology and global standard phrases. In the development discourse, "sustainability", "rights based", "participatory" are some frequently used terms. The "right for children to participate" is among the development concepts that travel from an NGO in a Western country, to (in this case) youth and project workers in rural Ethiopia, and back to the donor - seemingly unaffected by the many local adaptations that the concept has undergone on the way. In the daily lives of village... International languages of management, therapy,
marketing and advertising have their own jargon, specialized terminology and global standard p... |
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267,00 zł |
The Child
ISBN: 9781948830409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,50 zł |
Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy
ISBN: 9781845202064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. There is a hidden legacy of war that is rarely talked about: the children of native civilians and enemy soldiers. What is their fate? This book unearths the history of the thousands of forgotten children of World War II, including its prelude and aftermath during the Spanish Civil War and the Allied occupation of Germany. It looks at liaisons between German soldiers and civilian women in the occupied territories and the Nazi Lebensborn program of racial hygiene. It also considers the children of African-American soldiers and German women. The authors discuss the policies adopted towards... There is a hidden legacy of war that is rarely talked about: the children of native civilians and enemy soldiers. What is their fate? This book une... |
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570,57 zł |
Knowledge, Renewal and Religion
ISBN: 9789171066350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Societies on the East African coast and of Swahili culture resist simplistic definition as well as the imposition of clear boundaries. Hence Swahili society and culture have a common mooring, and this book studies specificity in space and time within a broader comparative framework.
Societies on the East African coast and of Swahili culture resist simplistic definition as well as the imposition of clear boundaries. Hence Swahili s...
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131,78 zł |
Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights Ngos in International Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9780198818748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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433,82 zł |
Čím jdu rychleji, tím jsem menší
ISBN: 9788025710944 / Czeski / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Každé ráno si Mathea Martinsenová v novinách pročítá úmrtní oznámení. Už jen ze zvyku. A představuje si, že mezi nimi brzy najde to svoje. Jaký verš by si vybrala? Žila pro svého manžela a teď zůstala sama. S ostatními lidmi neměla nikdy moc co do činění, nebyla mezi nimi totiž vidět. A teď nechce zemřít, dokud se někdo nedozví, že žila. Jenže co by o sobě světu vlastně měla říct? Čím jdu rychleji, tím jsem menší je tragikomický příběh o tom, jak se také žije naplno, o strachu ze smrti a strachu ze života, o samotě ve dvou a samotě mezi...
Každé ráno si Mathea Martinsenová v novinách pročítá úmrtní oznámení. Už jen ze zvyku. A představuje si, že mezi nimi brzy najde to svo...
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41,92 zł |
Weihnachten im Himmelfjell Hotel
ISBN: 9783455018318 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Nach Jahren als Bergsteigerin und Expeditionsleiterin, die mit einem Lawinenunglück ein dramatisches Ende fanden, kehrt Ingrid Berg in ihre Heimat zurück, um die Leitung des seit Generationen familiengeführten Himmelfjell Hotels zu übernehmen, malerisch gelegen in den norwegischen Bergen. Weihnachten naht, man erwartet zahlreiche Gäste aus dem In- und Ausland. Doch es scheint, als würde das Schicksal - oder jemand? - nicht wollen, dass Ingrids Arbeit im Hotel Erfolg hat. Noch dazu kommt Ingrid einem Familiengeheimnis auf die Spur, und sie entwickelt Gefühle für ihren Kindheitsfreund...
Nach Jahren als Bergsteigerin und Expeditionsleiterin, die mit einem Lawinenunglück ein dramatisches Ende fanden, kehrt Ingrid Berg in ihre Heimat zu...
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81,46 zł |
Resisting Reform: Reclaiming Public Education through Grassroots Activism
ISBN: 9781681230818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is a poignant celebration of grassroots empowerment as our contributors, people who just a short time ago thought of themselves as ordinary citizens, document their call to action when their children and their profession are on the line. Practicing teachers and parents who see the direct impact of education reform on young people and are looking for straightforward and accessible information to help them understand what is happening and acquire the tools for resistance will find direction in this text. Providing inspiration, as well as practical guidance on how to become active in...
This book is a poignant celebration of grassroots empowerment as our contributors, people who just a short time ago thought of themselves as ordinary ...
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165,70 zł |