wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes
ISBN: 9780812992526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, headstrong woman who was proud of her successes, unabashed by her failures, and the architect of her own legend. Florence "Pancho" Barnes was a California heiress who inherited a love of...
Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and...
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82,11 zł |
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
ISBN: 9780870714177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1903, Masuo Yasui came to America and eventually became a successful orchardist and father of eight children. But the "relocation" of Japanese Americans during World War II caused Yasui to take his own life. The Yasui family opened its records and memories to Lauren Kessler, who writes a social history that rings with truth and drama. Photographs.
In 1903, Masuo Yasui came to America and eventually became a successful orchardist and father of eight children. But the "relocation" of Japanese Amer...
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81,90 zł |
A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life
ISBN: 9781684350780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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107,77 zł |
Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story
ISBN: 9780143113683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Previously published in Hardcover as Dancing With Rose
One journalist's riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer's Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity even before claiming her life. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates wiped blank. Suppose they experience friendship and loss, romance and jealousy, joy and sorrow? To better... Previously published in Hardcover as Dancing With Rose
One journalist's riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view o... |
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98,53 zł |
My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
ISBN: 9780143119456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Straight from the trenches, a mom's tale of weathering her daughter's transformation from sweetheart to snark mouth." - People
With the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the open-and sometimes wounded-heart of a mother, award-winning author Lauren Kessler launches an eighteen-month mission, embedding herself in her about-to-be-teenage daughter Lizzie's life. Everywhere from middle school classrooms to the mall, from summer camp to online chat groups, Kessler observes and chronicles-and sometimes participates in-the vibrant, dynamic, and scary life of... "Straight from the trenches, a mom's tale of weathering her daughter's transformation from sweetheart to snark mouth." - People
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98,53 zł |
The Dissident Press: Alternative Journalism in American History
ISBN: 9780803920873 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kessler challenges the idea that the worlds of media and journalism have ever conformed to a 'free marketplace' image. This present volume investigates a handful of the many fringe groups who, denied access to the mainstream, started marketplaces of their own. Journalistic efforts in six groups are explored: Black Americans; utopians and communitarians; feminists; non-English speaking immigrants; populists, anarchists, socialists, communists; and pacifists, non-interventionists, and resisters from World Wars I and II. The result is an impressive study which shows that such groups have a...
Kessler challenges the idea that the worlds of media and journalism have ever conformed to a 'free marketplace' image. This present volume investigate...
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535,29 zł |
Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
ISBN: 9781728236513 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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110,81 zł |