wyszukanych pozycji: 19
If Jack's in Love
ISBN: 9780425247785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Every neighborhood has that house: The one with the broken down cars in the front yard; the one where the father is always out of work and starting fights with other dads;the one no one wants to go near. Twelve-year-old Jack Witcher lives in that house. And that's just where his problems begin. It is 1967 and Jack's father has lost his job, yet again. The war in Vietnam is perpetually on the news, and Jack is in love with a girl named Myra. But Myra's family is the opposite of Jack's. Her father is well dressed and well spoken. Her brother is the town's golden boy. Jack schemes to win...
Every neighborhood has that house: The one with the broken down cars in the front yard; the one where the father is always out of work and starting fi...
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89,63 zł |
Ora et pokora
ISBN: 9788378645269 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 2019 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Pochodzący z piątego wieku przewodnik autorstwa świętego Benedykta oferuje doskonałe antidotum na współczesną epidemię stresu i depresji, przytłaczające tak wielu współczesnych młodych i dorosłych. Jednak język Reguły świętego Benedykta jest średniowieczny, zaś jej najbardziej namiętnymi zwolennikami są klauzurowi mnisi i mniszki. Jak zatem przełożyć tę starożytną mądrość na rady dla zwykłych ludzi naszych czasów?
Ze szczerością, humorem i wyjątkowym podejściem do klasycznej sztuki, ojciec Augustine, nauczyciel angielskiego i łaciny, trener rugby i... Pochodzący z piątego wieku przewodnik autorstwa świętego Benedykta oferuje doskonałe antidotum na współczesną epidemię stresu i depresji, pr...
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28,41 zł |
Humility Rules: Saint Benedict's Twelve-Step Guide to Genuine Self-Esteem
ISBN: 9781621641490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Saint Benedict's fifth-century guide to humility offers the antidote to the epidemic of stress and depression overwhelming modern young adults. But the language of The Rule by Saint Benedict is medieval, and its most passionate advocates are cloistered monks and nuns. How then does this ancient wisdom translate into advice for ordinary people? With candor, humor, and a unique approach to classical art, Father Augustine, a high school teacher and coach, breaks down Saint Benedict's method into twelve pithy steps for finding inner peace in a way that can be applied to... Saint Benedict's fifth-century guide to humility offers the antidote to the epidemic of stress and depression overwhelming modern young adults. But... |
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73,13 zł |
An Artist's World: Tricks of Illusion
ISBN: 9780692499757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eighty-seven-year-old lifetime artist Dan Wetta, a career accountant (who lived a distinctly different life through his art work, put his dreams and unique vision of the world to canvas and paper throughout his life. With watercolor, oil, acrylics, pen and ink, and even crayons, the artist recorded the life he saw, a life framed by a childhood in New Orleans and an education in a Louisiana seminary. He entered St. Joseph's seminary just before the start of World War II where he received his high school and junior college education. He joined the Army after graduation and continued college...
Eighty-seven-year-old lifetime artist Dan Wetta, a career accountant (who lived a distinctly different life through his art work, put his dreams and u...
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170,90 zł |
Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi: How Hollywood Turns Military Defeats into Moral Victories
ISBN: 9781138819559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi examines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country s military past. Examining twenty-three representative war films and locating them in their cultural and military landscape, the authors argue that Hollywood s view of American military history has evolved in two phases. The first phase, extending from the very beginnings of filmmaking to the Korean War, projected an essential patriotic triumphalism. The second phase, from the Korean and Vietnam Wars to the present, reflects a retreat from consensus and reflexive patriotism. In... Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi examines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country s military past. Examining twenty-three r... |
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696,20 zł |
An Artist's Vision: Twenty-twenty
ISBN: 9780692428887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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170,90 zł |
Pray. Think. Act.: Make Better Decisions with the Desert Fathers
ISBN: 9781621645818 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,13 zł |
Caminos de Fuego
ISBN: 9780692062814 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2018 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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38,50 zł |
The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory
ISBN: 9780415894647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Today, Americans are still dealing with the legacy of both the Civil War and of Reconstruction, and the many myths and legends that have grown up around these events. This book addresses important issues of Reconstruction and its legacy.
Today, Americans are still dealing with the legacy of both the Civil War and of Reconstruction, and the many myths and legends that have grown up arou...
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696,20 zł |
The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory
ISBN: 9780415894654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A century and a half after the Civil War, Americans are still dealing with the legacies of the conflict and Reconstruction, including the many myths and legends spawned by these events. The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory brings together history and popular culture to explore how the events of this era have been remembered. Looking at popular cinema across the last hundred years, The Long Reconstruction uncovers central themes in the history of Reconstruction, including violence and terrorism; the experiences of... A century and a half after the Civil War, Americans are still dealing with the legacies of the conflict and Reconstruction, including the many myth... |
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190,76 zł |
Sport's Alien Fantasy
ISBN: 9780692882535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sport has memories of multiple births. She remembers flights through space and vistas of vibrant silo cities in colorful, faraway lands. People she invents in imagination come alive. Her parents and educators think she's crazy. Her 1986 road trip is disastrous, and Sport, the cheerful school teacher, is refused help again and again. People gossip that she ages too slowly. Her admirers have questions to which Sport has no answers. But a child savant helps her understand her destiny.
Sport has memories of multiple births. She remembers flights through space and vistas of vibrant silo cities in colorful, faraway lands. People she in...
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42,57 zł |
The Louisiana Scalawags: Politics, Race, and Terrorism During the Civil War and Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780807147467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the pejorative term "scalawag" referred to white southerners loyal to the Republican Party. With the onset of the federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, scalawags challenged the restoration of the antebellum political and social orders. Derided as opportunists, uneducated "poor white trash," Union sympathizers, and race traitors, scalawags remain largely misunderstood even today. In The Louisiana Scalawags, Frank J. Wetta offers the first in-depth analysis of these men and their struggle over the future of Louisiana. A significant assessment of... During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the pejorative term "scalawag" referred to white southerners loyal to the Republican Party. With the onset... |
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218,16 zł |
Skeads: A Decent Sort of Man
ISBN: 9780578483313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,48 zł |
The Last Steps of Christopher
ISBN: 9780692925294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,96 zł |
Gemstones and Dimes
ISBN: 9780692997161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,44 zł |
Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi: How Hollywood Turns Military Defeats Into Moral Victories
ISBN: 9781138819566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi examines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country s military past. Examining twenty-three representative war films and locating them in their cultural and military landscape, the authors argue that Hollywood s view of American military history has evolved in two phases. The first phase, extending from the very beginnings of filmmaking to the Korean War, projected an essential patriotic triumphalism. The second phase, from the Korean and Vietnam Wars to the present, reflects a retreat from consensus and reflexive patriotism. In... Last Stands from the Alamo to Benghazi examines how filmmakers teach Americans about the country s military past. Examining twenty-three r... |
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195,92 zł |
Double Feature: Just Call Me Mom and the Purple Bathrobe
ISBN: 9780692121528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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42,78 zł |
Corvette Nightfire
ISBN: 9780692028926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Can Just One Dance Change Destiny? As Corvette Nightfire approaches the casino in Las Vegas, the doors burst open to the sound of gunfire. A beautiful woman rushes to him and thrusts a heavy bag into his arms. Instructing him in Spanish, which he doesn't understand, she runs past him to a waiting car. A professional poker player in town to play in the Final Nine in the World Series of Poker, Corvette soon discovers that he is inexorably connected to Valentina, this exotic woman who has just put his life into a tailspin. He disappears into an international vortex of intrigues, a complex world...
Can Just One Dance Change Destiny? As Corvette Nightfire approaches the casino in Las Vegas, the doors burst open to the sound of gunfire. A beautiful...
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76,79 zł |
Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film: One Hundred Years of Hollywood Mythmaking
ISBN: 9780807169728 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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231,00 zł |