wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s
ISBN: 9780241958049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures; a promised land of batch-baking, maraschino cherries and brightly hued plastic. A world where the darker side of the decade encompassed rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes reconstructs the real...
In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and tw...
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115,93 zł |
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
ISBN: 9780060548469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats. They were the bohemians. Virginia Nicholson -- the... They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explor... |
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69,85 zł |
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
ISBN: 9780140289787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand experiment. Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, broke and hungry but they were rebels. In this fascinating book Virginia Nicholson examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives. 'Interesting, gorgeous,...
Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand ...
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88,32 zł |
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
ISBN: 9780349014319 / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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129,35 zł |
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War
ISBN: 9780141020624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped change society. This title is about those women, and about how they were forced, to stop depending on men for their income.
Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helpe...
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56,87 zł |
How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s
ISBN: 9780241975183 / Miękka / 2020 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,70 zł |
All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960
ISBN: 9781639367061 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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130,82 zł |
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War
ISBN: 9780141037899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. This title tells the story of the women's Second World War.
We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War"...
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67,22 zł |
Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
ISBN: 9780195378221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast.
Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed, the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the ancient past after her soldier love was... Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, lea...
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127,75 zł |
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden
ISBN: 9780711239319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden is a fascinating personal account by Quentin Bell and his daughter Virginia Nicholson of the extraordinary Bloomsbury Group country house, its history and the lives of those who lived in it.
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden is a fascinating personal account by Quentin Bell and his daughter Virginia Nicholson of the extraordinary Blo...
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103,44 zł |