wyszukanych pozycji: 20
Knock on the Sky
ISBN: 9780983415053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On a warm summer day, six-year-old Danny Mercer races into the street to retrieve a soccer ball when the unthinkable happens. With the screech of tires and a sickening thud, his world and that of his family shifts on its axis. Doctors deliver a shattering diagnosis in the form of an acronym: TBI. Traumatic Brain Injury. As months pass, with Danny in a prolonged coma and hope for recovery fading, the emotional trauma to his family escalates. Desperate to heal their son, parents Colt and Rachel Mercer turn to doctors Jon David and Sara Luke, a husband-and-wife medical team, for help. Their...
On a warm summer day, six-year-old Danny Mercer races into the street to retrieve a soccer ball when the unthinkable happens. With the screech of tire...
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58,00 zł |
Julius: Fun Facts About Lions For Kids
ISBN: 9780997878813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Perfect Book for Children Who Love Lions In a fun, engaging tale packed with whimsical illustrations, Julius the lion and Ed, his goofy brother, take children on a delightful journey through the fascinating world of African lions. Easy to read and understand, this book will delight children as they learn all about the "King of Beasts," including where lions live, how large they grow, what they eat, how they hunt ... and much, much more. Appropriate for children ages 6 - 10. For younger children, viewing Julius with a parent... The Perfect Book for Children Who Love Lions In a fun, engaging tale packed with whimsical illustrations, Julius the lion a... |
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44,43 zł |
After the Purple Heart
ISBN: 9780983415039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Horribly injured in a firefight in Iraq, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Jon David Luke is a broken man. Unable to cope with everyday reality and racked with pain and unyielding nightmares, Jon David decides to end his life in a remote Alaska cabin. Sara Riley, a trauma physician, finds her life spiraling downward after discovering an unfaithful husband. Increasingly, her life is haunted by an incessant, recurring dream. Though thousands of miles apart, startling events at the cabin inexorably draw Jon David and Sara together. Beautifully written and candidly told, After the Purple Heart takes...
Horribly injured in a firefight in Iraq, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Jon David Luke is a broken man. Unable to cope with everyday reality and racked wi...
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44,60 zł |
Park Bench Stories: A Tapestry of Humanity
ISBN: 9780997878882 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,60 zł |
Untangling Claire
ISBN: 9780983415077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,54 zł |
Howling Across Bridges
ISBN: 9780983415015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. U.S. Army Ranger Colt Mercer calls it quits after three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he continues to be tormented by images of the killings he's seen and done. Stuck in an emotional no-man's land full of anger and guilt, believing no one could love him and even God has abandoned him, Colt heads to Alaska to try and fill the void. On a hike, he discovers and adopts a wounded castoff mutt. When the dog recovers, they head out by motorcycle in search of Colt's elusive "noble purpose" in life. Across North America, he lives simply, reflects deeply, and struggles with the demons of...
U.S. Army Ranger Colt Mercer calls it quits after three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he continues to be tormented by images of the killin...
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58,00 zł |
Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family
ISBN: 9780820323794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ""Dear Master"" is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance--reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. The letters, dating from 1834 to 1865, fall into two groups. The first were written by Peyton Skipwith and his children from Liberia, where they settled after being freed in 1833 by... ""Dear Master"" is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record lef... |
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187,27 zł |
Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making
ISBN: 9780823243457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th president--making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of the more studied figures of American history. The book explores Lincoln's leadership through essays focused, respectively, on Lincoln as commander-in-chief, deft political operator, and powerful theologian. Taken together, the essays suggest the interplay of military, political, and religious factors informing Lincoln's thought and action and guiding the dynamics of his leadership. The contributors, all respected scholars of the Civil War era, focus on several...
Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th president--making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of the more studied figur...
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104,88 zł |
Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making
ISBN: 9780823243440 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th president--making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of the more studied figures of American history. The book explores Lincoln's leadership through essays focused, respectively, on Lincoln as commander-in-chief, deft political operator, and powerful theologian. Taken together, the essays suggest the interplay of military, political, and religious factors informing Lincoln's thought and action and guiding the dynamics of his leadership. The contributors, all respected scholars of the Civil War era, focus on several...
Lincoln and Leadership offers fresh perspectives on the 16th president--making novel contributions to the scholarship of one of the more studied figur...
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262,34 zł |
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery: Updated, with a New Introduction and Bibliography
ISBN: 9780275957995 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1988 Greenwood Press published the "Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery" to wide acclaim by the library community and scholars in the field. The "Dictionary" was issued at a time when the study of slavery commanded a central place in American historical thinking and, increasingly, in a host of other disciplines as well. Interest in slavery has not abated. Yet, despite a growing sophistication in methodology and complexity of analysis, the basic contours of the study of slavery remain much the same as when the "Dictionary" first appeared. To take the latest scholarship into account, the... In 1988 Greenwood Press published the "Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery" to wide acclaim by the library community and scholars in the field. The... |
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231,91 zł |
The Healer And Me
ISBN: 9780997878851 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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49,07 zł |
Crows at Twilight: An Omnibus of Tales
ISBN: 9780615897479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here, for the first time in one volume, are Scaring the Crows and On the Edge of Twilight, Gregory Miller's first two collections of powerful, often wondrous short stories. Together, these 43 tales create a dusky landscape where, in part, the elderly are gifted with otherworldly youth, spiders hide in human form, and ghosts outlast the Earth...where trees remember past lives, scarecrows walk at midnight, and millions of people live through one man's breath. It is a magic place. And a haunted one. Effortlessly spanning numerous genres and styles, Miller imbues his tales with terror and warmth,...
Here, for the first time in one volume, are Scaring the Crows and On the Edge of Twilight, Gregory Miller's first two collections of powerful, often w...
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53,36 zł |
The Hidden History of the Main Line: From Philadelphia to Malvern
ISBN: 9781540225115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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136,04 zł |
The Uncanny Valley: Tales from a Lost Town
ISBN: 9781494852870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Uncanny Valley... ..".is a macabre serenade to a small town that may or may not exist, peopled with alive and dead denizens who wander about the hills and houses with creepy fluidity. Told by individual inhabitants, the stories recount tales of disappearing dead deer, enchanted gardens, invisible killer dogs, and rattlesnakes that fall from the sky; each contribution adds to a composite portrait that skitters between eerie, ghoulish, and poignant. Miller is a master storyteller, clearly delighting in his mischievous creations." Thirty-Three Tales. Thirty-Three Tellers. One Lost Town.
The Uncanny Valley... ..".is a macabre serenade to a small town that may or may not exist, peopled with alive and dead denizens who wander about the h...
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31,21 zł |
Women's Rights
ISBN: 9780313311352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Women's rights issues have been a part of the political and social fabric of the United States since the Declaration of Independence. In fact, women's rights activists have often wielded principles enunciated in the Declaration as they struggled to secure equality. This reference source examines 15 controversial issues concerning women's rights in the United States. A historical overview introduces each issue, followed by the presentation of primary documents that illustrate the various positions women and men have taken in support of or opposition to the issue at hand. Chapters... Women's rights issues have been a part of the political and social fabric of the United States since the Declaration of Independence. In fact, wome... |
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303,77 zł |
The Northern Home Front During the Civil War
ISBN: 9781531501938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,87 zł |
The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780823219353 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this lively and well-documented book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau's agents state by state. They offer insight into the actions and thoughts, not only of the agents, but also of the southern planters and the former slaves, as both of these groups learned how to deal with new responsibilities, new advantages and disadvantages, and altered relationships. The period of...
The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruct...
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162,66 zł |
Everybody's Problem: The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina
ISBN: 9780813054971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching and operating antipoverty programs."--Marisa Chappell, author of The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America "Hawkins has done a remarkable job of mining the sources and reconstructing the reality of what was going on in eastern North Carolina."--Frank Stricker, author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It While many scholars have argued that confrontation and protest were the most effective ways for the...
"Offers a new interpretation of the war on poverty by demonstrating the centrality of moderate local leadership (both white and black) in launching an...
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512,05 zł |
Religion and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780195121292 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
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319,45 zł |
Religion and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780195121285 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
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789,19 zł |