wyszukanych pozycji: 88
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Living a Human Life: Coping with What Comes Before Us
ISBN: 9781955603782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,03 |
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A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti Volume 1997
ISBN: 9780226032924 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph. With keen cultural and historical awareness, Gage Averill shows that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been one of the most highly charged instruments in this struggle one in which power, politics, and resistance are inextricably fused.
Averill explores such diverse genres as Haitian jazz, troubadour traditions, Vodou-jazz,... The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set agains...
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223,27 |
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The Niffits
ISBN: 9780999591505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
61,78 |
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Song & Error
ISBN: 9780374534325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A lush, lyrical debut from a vibrant new poetic voice A sparrow like a "fumbled punch line" is lost in an airport; a man translating Ovid is transfigured by witnessing a massacre in Jamestown in 1621; a woman smiles seductively as the skin on her back is opened out like a wing; a lizard upon a laptop shimmers with the true life, primitive and binary, of our modern information age. A lush, lyrical debut from a vibrant new poetic voice A sparrow like a "fumbled punch line" is lost in an airport; a man translating O... |
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61,99 |
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Ordinary Genius
ISBN: 9780803210684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Falling under the spell of these short stories by O. Henry Award winning author Thomas Fox Averill, a reader might well wonder: What in the world is ordinary? If there really are just plain folks anywhere at all, they d surely be in the solid Midwestern Kansas of Averill s fiction. And yet the ordinary people we meet in these stories lead us into one startling encounter after another with the mystery, the magic, and, yes, the transcendence that even the most mundane life secretly holds.In writing that has been called lyrical (New York Times), compelling (Kansas City Star), and...
Falling under the spell of these short stories by O. Henry Award winning author Thomas Fox Averill, a reader might well wonder: What in the world is o...
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116,05 |
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Within The Shadows
ISBN: 9780244912123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
76,64 |
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Living a Human Life: Coping with What Comes Before Us
ISBN: 9781480875968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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46,45 |
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Camp Songs, Folk Songs
ISBN: 9781493179114 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 714 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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161,32 |
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Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972
ISBN: 9781439924150 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
479,14 |
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The Kuiper Belt Deception
ISBN: 9781961254275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
66,94 |
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Dark Ship Hardback ed
ISBN: 9781291413670 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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135,39 |
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The Beautiful Land
ISBN: 9780425265277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Takahiro O Leary has a very special job
working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great gig until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world. If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school because her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak s... Takahiro O Leary has a very special job
working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines as many and as varied as an... |
cena:
92,99 |
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Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet
ISBN: 9780195116724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the popularity of this musical form in minstrel shows, black recreational singing, vaudeville, early recordings, and in the barbershop revival of the 1930s. In his exploration of barbershop, Averill uncovers a rich musical tradition--a hybrid of black and white cultural forms, practiced by...
Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in Ameri...
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418,77 |
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The Niffits
ISBN: 9781958004012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
87,55 |
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Mary Blachford Tighe: The Irish Psyche
ISBN: 9781443833875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Irish writer, Mary Blachford Tighe (1772-1810), is best known as author of the Spenserian epic Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, first printed privately in 1805. A year after her death, her literary reputation was firmly established when Longmans published Psyche, with Other Poems (1811), a collection that proved so popular that by 1816 it was in its fifth edition. Throughout the nineteenth century Tighe's popularity endured, but for much of the twentieth, Tighe, like many other women writers of the period, virtually disappeared from public view. Only since the 1970s, when feminist...
The Irish writer, Mary Blachford Tighe (1772-1810), is best known as author of the Spenserian epic Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, first printed priva...
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208,27 |
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Cameron
ISBN: 9781425712150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When is a zinnia not a zinnia? When the woman who plants it defies the canons of good taste. Add family squabbles, religious conflict, small town snobberies. A dash of the exotic, witches in Salem, gangsters in the streets. Mix with the pacing oa novel, the read-aloud style of Our Town, and you have Cameron. It grew in splendid isolation. Sure, it felt every economic downturn, and depended on outside technology to revive it. Yet, Cameron developed a main street, industry, and identity of its own. Then came the economics of scale, Racial, ethni, religious tensions escaled into confrlicts....
When is a zinnia not a zinnia? When the woman who plants it defies the canons of good taste. Add family squabbles, religious conflict, small town snob...
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150,49 |
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The Less Hurried Past: Poems for Grace
ISBN: 9780992373474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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103,06 |
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Smoke Component Yields from Room-scale Fire Tests
ISBN: 9781499160994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This report presents the methodology for and results from a series of room-scale fire tests to produce data on the yields of toxic products in both pre-flashover and post-flashover fires. The combustibles examined were: a sofa made of upholstered cushions on a steel frame, particleboard bookcases with a laminated finish, polyvinyl chloride sheet, and household electric cable. They were burned in a room with a long adjacent corridor. The yields of CO2, CO, HCl, HCN, and carbonaceous soot were determined. Other toxicants (e.g., NO2, formaldehyde and acrolein) were not found; concentrations...
This report presents the methodology for and results from a series of room-scale fire tests to produce data on the yields of toxic products in both pr...
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40,65 |
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Build Sell Retire
ISBN: 9781838091804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Everything you need to know about growing and selling a business: the opportunities, the pitfalls, advice to avoid, advice to seek, how to succeed and break free from today's struggles, who to trust and how to achieve your dreams. Chris Averill, successful entrepreneur, has been through it all and knows the inside tricks. In this time of crisis, his blueprint is the one all budding entrepreneurs need to read.; Over 50 practical tips from Chris and other successful business owners on how to get your business ready for sale, who to sell to and how to make the most money from the sale.; "I...
Everything you need to know about growing and selling a business: the opportunities, the pitfalls, advice to avoid, advice to seek, how to succeed and...
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50,52 |
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GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE Quadrangles
ISBN: 9781614740766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Gold Deposits of the Redding and Weaverville Quadrangles - by Chas V. Averill - Originally published as a report from the state mineralogist of California this rare publication contains great historical information along with localities and geology of the Gold Deposits in the Redding and Weaverville Quadrangles, in Trinity County California. Trinity county while not getting the same notoriety as the Mother Lode was as rich or richer in gold. Now back in print by Sylvanite Publishing.
Gold Deposits of the Redding and Weaverville Quadrangles - by Chas V. Averill - Originally published as a report from the state mineralogist of Califo...
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66,73 |