wyszukanych pozycji: 58
Scandal in the Family: What happens when a family secret changes your life for good? Or bad.
ISBN: 9781530039210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Danisha is a middle-grade African-Canadian girl whose strict grandmother reveals (through her failing memory) an exotic past life. As Gram's memory drifts, she thinks she is a jazz singer in a Detroit lounge in the 1940's, a time when mixed relationships were frowned on and gangsters ruled the music scene. When Danisha's father tells her he thinks there's a scandal in his mother's life, Danisha sets out to solve the mystery. Parallels between her own life and her grandmother's come together; an unhealthy attraction to bad boys, an amazing singing talent and a stubbornness that prevents...
Danisha is a middle-grade African-Canadian girl whose strict grandmother reveals (through her failing memory) an exotic past life. As Gram's memory dr...
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45,60 zł |
Cash From Your Clutter
ISBN: 9781891440731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It seems that we spend the first half of our life collecting stuff and then we spend the second half of our life trying to getting rid of stuff. As a professional organizer, I have helped many individuals organize their homes. Often times, they didn't want to just toss the things they had, so from their experiences came the birth of Cash From Your Clutter. What can we do with things other than toss them? Is it possible to make some money? How hard is it? Where do I go? Who do I ask? So where do I start? There are many ways and it may depend on how the stuff arrived at your front door. Did you...
It seems that we spend the first half of our life collecting stuff and then we spend the second half of our life trying to getting rid of stuff. As a ...
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68,47 zł |
But Enough about Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives
ISBN: 9780231125239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to explore the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. The evolution she chronicles was lived by a generation of literary girls who came of age in the midst of profound social change and, buoyed by the energy of second-wave feminism, became writers, academics,...
In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a fe...
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201,04 zł |
Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death
ISBN: 9780253213792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "In a book that will change the ways we think about autobiography and criticism, Nancy K. Miller produces poignant revelations about what it means to live with a dying parent as a son or daughter, as well as the difference that gender makes in such a painful situation. In Bequest and Betrayal, she develops an original feminist perspective by counterpointing lyrical introspection about her own grief with critical insights into memoirs by Simone de Beauvoir, Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, Susan Cheever, Carolyn Steedman, and Annie Ernaux." Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, co-authors of The... "In a book that will change the ways we think about autobiography and criticism, Nancy K. Miller produces poignant revelations about what it means ... |
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87,98 zł |
Hold On
ISBN: 9781365499289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is a rich and varied collection, with touches of humor, personal anguish, and compassion for others.
This is a rich and varied collection, with touches of humor, personal anguish, and compassion for others.
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63,05 zł |
Breathless: An American Girl in Paris
ISBN: 9781580054881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all.
Breathless is the story of a girl who represents those who rebelled against conventional expectations. Paris was a magnet for those eager to resist domesticity, and like many young women of the decade, Nancy K. Miller was enamored of everything Frenchfrom perfume and Hermes scarves to the writing of Simone de Beauvoir and the New Wave films of Jeanne Moreau. After graduating from Barnard College in 1961, Miller set... In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs....
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86,90 zł |
What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past
ISBN: 9780803243903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize
After her father s death, Nancy K. Miller discovered a minuscule family archive: a handful of photographs, an unexplained land deed, a postcard from Argentina, unidentified locks of hair. These items had been passed down again and again, but what did they mean? Miller follows their traces from one distant relative to another, across the country, and across an ocean. Her story, unlike the many family memoirs focused on the Holocaust, takes us back earlier in history to the world of pogroms and mass emigrations at the turn of the twentieth... Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize
After her father s death, Nancy K. Miller discovered a minuscule family archive: a handful of photogr... |
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73,12 zł |
What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past
ISBN: 9780803230019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize
After her father s death, Nancy K. Miller discovered a minuscule family archive: a handful of photographs, an unexplained land deed, a postcard from Argentina, unidentified locks of hair. These items had been passed down again and again, but what did they mean? Miller follows their traces from one distant relative to another, across the country, and across an ocean. Her story, unlike the many family memoirs focused on the Holocaust, takes us back earlier in history to the world of pogroms and mass emigrations at the turn of the twentieth... Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize
After her father s death, Nancy K. Miller discovered a minuscule family archive: a handful of photogr... |
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104,49 zł |
My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism
ISBN: 9780231190541 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women's bonds.
My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book ...
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137,55 zł |
Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts
ISBN: 9780415903240 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Considers the ways in which identity and location shape academic argument and academic life. Getting Personal explores the new territory of feminist cultural studies. Organized around a number of academic scenes which analyze feminist critical performance, Miller focuses on occasions, from the the conference and seminar to the professional colloquium, to produce an autobiographical perspective on the mini-drama of institutional politics. As a feminist critic, Miller describes the dilemmas of a responsible pedagogic practice: the contradictory demands of authority and complicity for a feminist...
Considers the ways in which identity and location shape academic argument and academic life. Getting Personal explores the new territory of feminist c...
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198,57 zł |
My Personal and Final Wishes: Things You Need to Know
ISBN: 9781468538076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When someone dies the family is in a grief mode. They have no idea what kind of clothes to put on the deceased, what bills have to be paid or even what bank accounts the deceased had. Nancy L. Miller wrote this book so family members would know of their loved one's last wishes. It has everything a family needs to know right down to the last details with no guessing. -I believe this book is very valuable to everyone.- --- Nancy L. Miller ---
When someone dies the family is in a grief mode. They have no idea what kind of clothes to put on the deceased, what bills have to be paid or even wha...
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77,33 zł |
How To Sell Your Inventions For Cash
ISBN: 9781793883216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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159,53 zł |
Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community
ISBN: 9780252070549 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How do we come to terms with what can't be forgotten? How do we bear witness to extreme experiences that challenge the limits of language? This remarkable volume explores the emotional, political, and aesthetic dimensions of testimonies to trauma as they translate private anguish into public space. Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw have assembled a collection of essays that trace the legacy of the Holocaust and subsequent events that have shaped twentieth-century history and still haunt contemporary culture. Extremities combines personal and scholarly approaches to a wide range of texts that...
How do we come to terms with what can't be forgotten? How do we bear witness to extreme experiences that challenge the limits of language? This remark...
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94,03 zł |
Clutterology: Getting Rid of Clutter and Getting Organized
ISBN: 9781891440892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Most of the books on getting organized tell you that you have to change. Well, guess what? YOU'RE NOT GOING TO CHANGE Instead, the information contained in this book will help you to change your environment (home and work) to meet your needs. You'll find some of the simplest, easiest and most practical advice on how to get rid of clutter and get organized. This book is designed to get you to ask questions about the whats and whys in your life so you can change things to suit your individual style. "Helpful hints I would have never thought of on my own" "Practical ideas, workable and simple"...
Most of the books on getting organized tell you that you have to change. Well, guess what? YOU'RE NOT GOING TO CHANGE Instead, the information contai...
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68,47 zł |
Shadow Of The Master
ISBN: 9781469936253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) SHADOW OF THE MASTER is a short novel that provides a unique and fresh perspective on the greatest story ever told-the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. This perspective is viewed through the eyes of a "thirteenth disciple," a dog that accompanied Him along the way. The story takes you through the travels of Jesus and His disciples from the point-of-view of Shadow, a stray dog that takes up with the group after Jesus shows him kindness. Scripturally based and written to appeal to all ages, SHADOW OF THE MASTER will warm your heart with its special view on the Gospels.
SHADOW OF THE MASTER is a short novel that provides a unique and fresh perspective on the greatest story ever told-the life and ministry of Jesus Chri...
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41,08 zł |
My Personal and Final Wishes: Things You Need to Know
ISBN: 9781468538069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When someone dies the family is in a grief mode. They have no idea what kind of clothes to put on the deceased, what bills have to be paid or even what bank accounts the deceased had. Nancy L. Miller wrote this book so family members would know of their loved one's last wishes. It has everything a family needs to know right down to the last details with no guessing. -I believe this book is very valuable to everyone.- --- Nancy L. Miller ---
When someone dies the family is in a grief mode. They have no idea what kind of clothes to put on the deceased, what bills have to be paid or even wha...
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124,10 zł |
The Path Back: The Wealth of My Family
ISBN: 9781479190843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For many years I stayed away from family keeping a safe distance emotionally and only appearing briefly at family events. My memories of childhood, my inability to make healthy connections in relationships set me up for failure. When a little at a time I began to explore the past and take a risk on rebuilding relationships with my family my life began to change in a beautiful way.
For many years I stayed away from family keeping a safe distance emotionally and only appearing briefly at family events. My memories of childhood, my...
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31,72 zł |
COMBAT by TRIAL: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers
ISBN: 9780595505913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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180,79 zł |
DIANA SAVILLE McCORKLE
ISBN: 9781480211810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Indian wars, gold rushes, family disapproval, and the looming clouds of civil war color the true story of Diana Saville and Will McCorkle. The book tells of the coming of the Savilles and the McCorkles to 17th century North America, their settlement in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, and the extension of one 'lost' branch of the family to the wild West coast in Washington state. Included as background to the story of Diana and Will are thumbnail descriptions of public events that formed their times, and the opportunity to reflect on the values of faith, love, persistence, and commitment in the...
Indian wars, gold rushes, family disapproval, and the looming clouds of civil war color the true story of Diana Saville and Will McCorkle. The book te...
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45,60 zł |
Puzzles!: The Power of Love over Pain
ISBN: 9781665738040 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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160,10 zł |