wyszukanych pozycji: 171
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Marrow: Love, Loss, and What Matters Most
ISBN: 9780062367655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant--one the donor and one the recipient--begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love. A mesmerizing and courageous memoir: the story of two sisters uncovering the depth of their love through the life-and-death experience of a bone marrow transplant. Throughout her life, Elizabeth Lesser has sought understanding about what it means to be true to oneself and, at the same time, truly connected... The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the fa... |
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77,66 |
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Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil
ISBN: 9780822322924 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite s efforts to craft the nation s identity in its own image white, Christian, and European. In "Negotiating National Identity" Jeffrey Lesser explores the crucial role ethnic minorities from China, Japan, North Africa, and the Middle East have played in constructing Brazil s national identity, thereby challenging dominant notions of nationality and citizenship.
Employing a cross-cultural approach, Lesser examines a variety of... Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the rulin...
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140,56 |
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Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North
ISBN: 9781138778368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North, is a provocative, engaging and interesting collection of real-world case studies in development and globalization focusing on under-emphasized threats to growth and human welfare worldwide. Created by two of America's top development sociologists, it targets undergraduates, graduates, academics and development professionals. Crises such as falling state capacity, declining technological innovation, increasing class inequality and persisting gender inequality are considered, along with their... Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North, is a provocative, engaging and interesting collec... |
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183,02 |
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Fathead
ISBN: 9781413456776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,49 |
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The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue
ISBN: 9781400033232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser's call for original essays on the subject of language-the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the Chinese language with which she grew up. Leonard Michaels spoke only Yiddish until he was five, and still found its traces in his English language writing. Belgian-born Luc Sante loved his French Tintin and his Sartre, but only in English could he find -words of one syllable- that evoke American bars and...
Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser's call for original essays on the subject of language-the one they grew up with, and the Engl...
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69,93 |
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Cage, Nono and 1960s Hauntology: Sonic Ghosts
ISBN: 9781009487979 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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264,10 |
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Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
ISBN: 9780812223569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically new--or rather, old--Hamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed. Q1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a shorthand piracy, a memorial reconstruction, and a...
In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were fi...
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140,56 |
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That Obscure Subject of Desire: Freud's Female Homosexual Revisited
ISBN: 9780415916707 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An interdisciplinary collection of papers on Freud's sixth and final case psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman. To date this case has received very little attention, which can be seen as a sign of the marginalization of lesbians in both psychoanalytic theory and culture. This text seeks to rectify this neglect, providing a forum where questions surrounding this case can be discussed.
An interdisciplinary collection of papers on Freud's sixth and final case psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman. To date this case has r...
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692,66 |
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Own the Future: 50 Ways to Win from The Boston Consulting Group
ISBN: 9781118591703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The world faces social, political, and economic turmoil on an unprecedented scale--along with unsettling levels of turbulence and volatility. Market leadership today is less of a predictor of leadership tomorrow. Therefore, senior executives today must strive to own the future. In Own the Future, The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's most prestigious and innovative management consulting firms, offers a roadmap. Drawing on the firm's experience advising organizations on how to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, this book offers 50 ideas to help readers chart... The world faces social, political, and economic turmoil on an unprecedented scale--along with unsettling levels of turbulence and volatility. Marke... |
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135,79 |
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Knowledge and Social Capital
ISBN: 9781138155084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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766,88 |
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The Sexocrats
ISBN: 9781425727161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,43 |
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Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza
ISBN: 9781512101096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA is a completely different kind of book. It can be read as a novel or used as a stage play or made into a movie. Never before has this been done to the printed word It is unique. It is the long, sad, funny laughable life of Anna Maria, a Chicago mother, with four unmarried, unmarriageable daughters--fat, ugly, mean, and nasty--who will never be able to find husbands she fears and will be stuck inside her home forever. Her passion, bordering on insanity, is to get them married and out of her house--Now Even though, as pointed out by her husband, they are ten, eleven,...
PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA is a completely different kind of book. It can be read as a novel or used as a stage play or made into a movie. Never before h...
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182,87 |
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Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade
ISBN: 9780521039994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication re-imagines the reception and meaning of plays by reading them through the eyes of their earliest publishers. Since success in the book trade required specialization, locating a play within its publisher's output allows us to see how the publisher read it and speculated that customers would read it. Their readings often differ radically from...
Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Sha...
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277,39 |
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Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes
ISBN: 9781512826081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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119,73 |
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Intelligent Manufacturing: Reviving U.S. Manufacturing Including Lessons Learned from Delphi Packard Electric and General Motors
ISBN: 9781466564046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton wrote that "not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufacturers." Centuries later, U.S. manufacturing jobs continue to be outsourced at an all-too-rapid pace. Examining the current U.S. manufacturing environment, including the unsustainable trade imbalance, Intelligent Manufacturing: Reviving U.S. Manufacturing Including Lessons Learned from Delphi Packard Electric and General Motors outlines concrete suggestions that can help to stop...In 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton wrote that "not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materi... |
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252,27 |
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The Woman in Black
ISBN: 9781092936217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,75 |
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Who's Going to Watch My Kids?: Working Mothers' Humorous and Heartfelt Struggles to Find and Hold on to the Elusive Perfect Nanny
ISBN: 9781618520944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Who's Going To Watch My Kids? is the true story of working mom Rachel Levy Lesser's struggles to find and hold on to a nanny for her two young children. It also includes the stories of 15 other working moms and their humorous and heartfelt nanny tales. Each mother longs to employ the modern day Mary Poppins - that perfect nanny who they soon learn doesn't exist. This book explores the unique relationships that develop between working mothers (and fathers) and the nannies and the kids they care for. These relationships are more than professional yet not as intimate as familial ones (or...
Who's Going To Watch My Kids? is the true story of working mom Rachel Levy Lesser's struggles to find and hold on to a nanny for her two young childre...
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69,74 |
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Charley's Computer
ISBN: 9781690794226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,75 |
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Robin T4
ISBN: 9781694371065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,75 |
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Inner Peace
ISBN: 9781420866407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This very short story adapted from a poem, is about how to find happiness in life. It brings you to a place called Inner Peace. It is geared for young children because it allows a child to think about ways to find inner peace in life. It reflects on how to be, who to look to for as a role model in your life and ways to be that will bring you inner peace. Once you are at the place of Inner Peace, you should be happy. Children love to romanticize and this book is a bit of a romantic journey. The journey is all about preparing yourself to be happy in life. Enjoy!
This very short story adapted from a poem, is about how to find happiness in life. It brings you to a place called Inner Peace. It is geared for young...
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107,69 |