wyszukanych pozycji: 29
Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism
ISBN: 9781138864283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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251,80 zł |
Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism
ISBN: 9780815320166 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors consider race and American nationalism from a variety of historical and disciplinary vantage points. Beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War and unfolding chronologically though to the present, the essays examine a multitide of different groups - Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, whites, Jews, Irish Americans, German Americans - by examining race and nationlaism represented in public memorials, photography, film, classic and...
This study addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors consider race and American na...
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708,33 zł |
Journey Deeper: Spiritual Depth Takes Us to a Place We're Not Expecting
ISBN: 9781512719710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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160,87 zł |
Thomas Basille and Mr. Pib Beagle: Brainshark Tale There be vampires and werewolves
ISBN: 9781478242710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Tom Basille and Mr Pib beagle. Moved with his parents from the big city to get away from the stress of city life. While two clans of vampires and werewolves battle for the crossover rock, while he meets the protectors of the rock some secrets start to get revealed. Part 1 the first day in the rural town to start the less stress life turns a bit hectic.
Tom Basille and Mr Pib beagle. Moved with his parents from the big city to get away from the stress of city life. While two clans of vampires and were...
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27,47 zł |
Journey Deeper: Spiritual Depth Takes Us to a Place We're Not Expecting
ISBN: 9781512719703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) As a scuba diver and pastor, author Scott Reynolds had heard the same phrase on dives and in church: "I want to go deeper." Divers always want to push the limits to go a litter deeper, wanting to explore different reefs and wrecks found in the deeper waters. Followers of Christ use the same language and find themselves constantly saying, "I want to go deeper." In Journey Deeper, Reynolds offers a scriptural answer to the burning question for many seeking more from their relationship with Jesus Christ: how can I go deeper in my faith? Its a great question, with a very different... As a scuba diver and pastor, author Scott Reynolds had heard the same phrase on dives and in church: "I want to go deeper." Divers always want to p... |
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72,51 zł |
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
ISBN: 9780195341195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains. Using census data, penitentiary reports, and railroad company reports, Nelson reveals how John...
The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster...
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74,17 zł |
Lipstick Six: Sensuality brushed in lust, passion paid
ISBN: 9781494228361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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54,99 zł |
Trid Pothman: The missing Gnome King gem
ISBN: 9781512004892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Trid Pothman the 14yr old with his enchanted snail Sobe has had their share of some magical adventures. Now becoming a future overseer of the magical woods that his family has been doing many years starts sooner than he has planned for. The gnome king gem has been taken and the time has come for it to be put in the wall of the kings to keep balance to magic and normal life in the world. Having some help from friends and new ones that is met along the way the adventure gets more magical. Only Trid and his friends can solve and stop this. No one can call armies or any super powers, just some...
Trid Pothman the 14yr old with his enchanted snail Sobe has had their share of some magical adventures. Now becoming a future overseer of the magical ...
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54,99 zł |
A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
ISBN: 9780307474322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Pundits will argue that the 2008 financial crisis was the first crash in American history driven by consumer debt. But in this spirited, highly engaging account, Scott Reynolds Nelson demonstrates that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation's history. From William Duer's attempts to profit off the country's post-Revolutionary War debt to an 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the 1857 crash: in each case, the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that... Pundits will argue that the 2008 financial crisis was the first crash in American history driven by consumer debt. But in this spirited, highly eng... |
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100,46 zł |
Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780807848036 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson.
Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence,... During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate...
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233,91 zł |
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
ISBN: 9781541646469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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139,78 zł |
"The Things that Come Out of My Mouth": The strange and bizarre things that parents find themselves saying when they have kids. True, hilarious, and s
ISBN: 9781493560684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Life with 10+ kids means you hear yourself saying things out loud that seem odd. Exceptionally odd. Things like, "No, I have never thought about what it would be like to drink my own pee," or "Do not let her take that dead mole to school." Then you will hear yourself asking many strange questions and you will get no legitimate answers. Things like "Why are their tennis shoes in the freezer?," "Whose underpants are in the driveway?"or "Why would you invite boys to your slumber party without asking me first?" You will have to explain things that should need no explanation. Such as, "You can't...
Life with 10+ kids means you hear yourself saying things out loud that seem odd. Exceptionally odd. Things like, "No, I have never thought about what ...
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64,17 zł |
A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War
ISBN: 9780195146554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions. This book shows how average Americans coped with despair as well as hope during this vast upheaval.
A People at War brings to life the full humanity of the war's participants, from women behind their plows to their husbands in army camps; from refugees from slavery to their former masters; from Mayflower descendants to freshly recruited Irish sailors. We discover how people confronted their own feelings... Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it br...
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105,66 zł |
"I Can't Poop If God Is Watching": We knew we were in trouble when she started kindergarten. She made the Down Syndrome boy spit on the mean boy for h
ISBN: 9781518776885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Kindergarten she had the boy with Down Syndrome in her class fill his mouth with water and spit it all over the mean boy for her. In 1st grade she got in trouble for telling her teacher to "just get on with it," in 2nd grade she told her friend that we were poor and the next day came home with a crisp, real $100 bill in her backpack. In 3rd grade she got "engaged" with a real, store bought, gold ring and a written proposal from a boy and took a dead mole in a Ziplock bag to school for show and tell. No, Giana Jane is not your typical grade schooler, not even close. These hilarious stories...
In Kindergarten she had the boy with Down Syndrome in her class fill his mouth with water and spit it all over the mean boy for her. In 1st grade she ...
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63,98 zł |
A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War, 1854-1877
ISBN: 9780195146547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions. This book shows how average Americans coped with despair as well as hope during this vast upheaval.
A People at War brings to life the full humanity of the war's participants, from women behind their plows to their husbands in army camps; from refugees from slavery to their former masters; from Mayflower descendants to freshly recruited Irish sailors. We discover how people confronted their own feelings about the... Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it br...
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145,43 zł |
Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find The Real John Henry (16pt Large Print Edition)
ISBN: 9780369317636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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132,04 zł |
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
ISBN: 9781250159939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,96 zł |
Ain't Nothing But a Man:: My Quest to Find The Real John Henry
ISBN: 9781459676107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African - American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the ''''true story'''' of the man behind the myth. Nelson presents the famous folk song as a mystery to be unraveled, identifying the embedded clues within the lyrics, which he examines to uncover many surprising truths. He investigates the legend and reveals the real John Henry in this beautifully illustrated book. Nelson's narrative...
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African - American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the ...
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92,90 zł |
Agent Slumberman Walter: Serpent Arrives
ISBN: 9781546610427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This can happen in any neighborhood. Dreams, nightmares glimpses of another reality. The Dream Department opened the portal again. Now besides some mischievous ones there is also the Dreamlins. They torture and murder for alpha and beta waves. This is only to find the ones who can mate with their masters. This has become new of something that mythology tried to explain many years ago. Slumberman agent of the Dream Department faces these beings with help of the council from one of the friendly dimensions. Agent Walter returning from a near death with some dreamlins, gets a new recruit and help...
This can happen in any neighborhood. Dreams, nightmares glimpses of another reality. The Dream Department opened the portal again. Now besides some mi...
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41,23 zł |
A Think Five Compilation: Poems and Muses
ISBN: 9781481117623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A Think Five Compilation of poems and muses. The last few years of the writings all in one book bringing the free verse style out of me. The edge of abstract to get people to use their imagination has been the way I have always written. "Coffee in Friendship" using the metaphors to the edge of sanity. Write to use words as a mirror for others imagination. Since my childhood I have always used metaphors to deal with living in rural Maine. For the imagination really can take you anywhere you want to be in dreams and reality.
A Think Five Compilation of poems and muses. The last few years of the writings all in one book bringing the free verse style out of me. The edge of a...
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34,36 zł |