wyszukanych pozycji: 19
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The Magic Curtain: The Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song
ISBN: 9780875652573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Borderlands--especially the United States-Mexico borderland--have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability, according to Thomas Torrans. And borders--or magic curtains--have readily been fashioned into exotic backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. The protagonists are equally at home in both societies, or, at worst, at home in neither.
True border novels form a literature that deserves a category all its own. There is an uneven quality--a coarseness sometimes mixed with polish, running the gamut of... Borderlands--especially the United States-Mexico borderland--have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability, according to Thomas Tor...
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128,00 zł |
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Silences and Solitude
ISBN: 9781039134959 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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115,34 zł |
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The Fox and the Leopard: A Story of the South
ISBN: 9781545464144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,74 zł |
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The Curtain Opens on the Cartels: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 2000-2015
ISBN: 9781516817375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 774 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A history of the U.S.-Mexico border, in song and politics during the brief rule of the National Action Party (PAN), when the cartels won the war on drugs.
A history of the U.S.-Mexico border, in song and politics during the brief rule of the National Action Party (PAN), when the cartels won the war on dr...
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157,05 zł |
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At the Edge of El Norte: Three short novels
ISBN: 9781490982830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fearsome Russian soldier, tragic European contact, and a naive college student reveal a hidden history of the U.S.-Mexico border region, the fictional frontier wherein sex, crime, and cultural change play out. Based on Mr. Torrans' personal scholarship, these three short novels, each set in its own historical time period spanning from the age of exploration to the modern era, are cultural histories, told through fiction. Because, sometimes fiction is the only means of getting at the truth of things.
A fearsome Russian soldier, tragic European contact, and a naive college student reveal a hidden history of the U.S.-Mexico border region, the fiction...
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58,11 zł |
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The Audret Dossier
ISBN: 9781727752212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 794 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,13 zł |
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Caddo Country: A story of the South
ISBN: 9781516870554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume 2 of the Track of the Cotton Belt series. Autobiography, fiction, history, a story of the South.
Volume 2 of the Track of the Cotton Belt series. Autobiography, fiction, history, a story of the South.
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112,18 zł |
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Land of the Rising Sea: Poems
ISBN: 9781516855230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,88 zł |
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Forging the Tortilla Curtain: Cultural Drift and Change Along the United States-Mexico Border from the Spanish Conquest to the Present
ISBN: 9780875652313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Some have called it the tortilla curtain. Others have viewed it as a Third World entity where primitive conditions and poverty exist alongside the latest marvels of the computerized Information Age. But the border region between Mexico and the United States is more dynamic than ever since its transition into a sort of Mexamerica--a world fueled by corporate colonialism, the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA) and contraband of every stripe, from illegal drugs to illegal aliens.
"Forging the Tortilla Curtain" reveals how the borderlands got to be that way. Thomas Torrans's... Some have called it the tortilla curtain. Others have viewed it as a Third World entity where primitive conditions and poverty exist alongside the lat...
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128,00 zł |
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Silences and Solitude
ISBN: 9781039134942 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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51,24 zł |
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The Fourth Card
ISBN: 9781974442935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,52 zł |
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The Cold Warrior's Way
ISBN: 9781516818129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mayhem, Bible salesmen, and Latin America, and why they are related, all in the Audret Dossier, and the only way to settle some accounts.
Mayhem, Bible salesmen, and Latin America, and why they are related, all in the Audret Dossier, and the only way to settle some accounts.
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112,18 zł |
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Commonplace Miracles: Poetry
ISBN: 9781545515457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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33,65 zł |
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Blue Eagles and Black Gold: A story of the South
ISBN: 9781516872145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Autobiographical novel of growing up in the South.
Autobiographical novel of growing up in the South.
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112,18 zł |
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A Culture Not One's Own
ISBN: 9781516858439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A young airman is unprepared for the life he finds overseas, but must leave. She is more realistic about their situation and knows how quickly promises fade.
A young airman is unprepared for the life he finds overseas, but must leave. She is more realistic about their situation and knows how quickly promise...
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121,15 zł |
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Ferrying
ISBN: 9781512239362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,52 zł |
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Forging the Tortilla Curtain: Cultural Drift and Change Along the United States-Mexico Border from the Spanish Conquest to the Present
ISBN: 9780875656984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The border region between Mexico and the United States is more dynamic than ever since its transition into a sort of Mexamerica - a world fueled by corporate colonialism, the North American Free Trade Agreement and contraband of every stripe. Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the borderlands got to be that way.
The border region between Mexico and the United States is more dynamic than ever since its transition into a sort of Mexamerica - a world fueled by co...
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106,63 zł |
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Sun Belt Stories: Travels in the South and Southwest
ISBN: 9781516843220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,80 zł |
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Law for K-12 Libraries and Librarians
ISBN: 9781591580362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This instructive guide provides an important survey of the many areas of the law that affect the daily operation of the library. Torrans, a practicing lawyer with a vast experience explaining these issues to librarians, presents the relevant law, focuses on key issues, and examines illuminating cases. This book is intended to alert the school librarian to the existence of legal issues that affect daily practices. Grades K-12.
This instructive guide provides an important survey of the many areas of the law that affect the daily operation of the library. Torrans, a practicing...
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215,70 zł |