wyszukanych pozycji: 18
some assembly required: but be adaptable
ISBN: 9781096432432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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37,93 zł |
ARC of CONFLICT
ISBN: 9781514726211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 1970s, a mysterious "will" hinting at a "treasure" gets the attention of a Norwegian engineer and his American friend in the petroleum industry. The will is hand-inscribed by a German officer on a World War II German poster, indicating a treasure had been hidden for his de facto Norwegian wife. So the two "detectives" team up to solve the mystery of an undreamed-of treasure and its secret location.
In the 1970s, a mysterious "will" hinting at a "treasure" gets the attention of a Norwegian engineer and his American friend in the petroleum industry...
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26,48 zł |
Poor Richard's TIPS from the Great Depression
ISBN: 9781976366161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,89 zł |
Nordic Kith & Kin: Scandinavians--All the Same?
ISBN: 9781722784232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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29,53 zł |
DAVID & Goliath as metaphor for Lynd basketball: Iconic 1946 Lynd
ISBN: 9781976052125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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27,26 zł |
Oregon Glacier
ISBN: 9781494438197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As a distance-runner and track coach and trainer--known as the "Oregon Glacier--Sandy Sandstrom runs into surprising opposition to his participation in a sports-medicine symposium. Players, coaches, fans, university officials, alumni and gamblers worry about change to their athletic status quo. But the Oregon Glacier moves steadily on, in face of threats about sports and the other aspects of his life.
As a distance-runner and track coach and trainer--known as the "Oregon Glacier--Sandy Sandstrom runs into surprising opposition to his participation i...
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44,19 zł |
Kick-Start
ISBN: 9781522795599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As place-kicker Walt Wickstrom witnesses the challenges of other players, he leads in the development of a cooperative organization called HUDDLE. He applies an algorithm, as he does for place-kicking, to maximize opportunities for continuing education, investment and insurance. HUDDLE also provides legal services and negotiating leverage for the approved members of HUDDLE. His attempts to enlist Kristina Ness of the Cone Fund as a consultant fail, but their friendship does grow. But resentment from the sports establishment also grows--as players, coaches, fans, sports media, owners and...
As place-kicker Walt Wickstrom witnesses the challenges of other players, he leads in the development of a cooperative organization called HUDDLE. He ...
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26,11 zł |
Whistle-Blower
ISBN: 9781535279673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,34 zł |
Whistle-Stop: Great Northern runs through this small town
ISBN: 9781493718962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Whistle-Stop is a fitting description for the fictional small town of Lincoln, Minnesota. The Great Northern (sometimes called the Jim Hill locally) rumbles through the town, usually not stopping. Unless to unload or pick up a package or passenger. Or to sidetrack for handling boxcars at the grain elevator. When a new young and attractive teacher arrives on the Jim Hill, she helps transform the small school into a place of creative learning. And she quickly spots an outstanding student, who just wants to be a basketball star. But he's the runt of his class and team. Slowly he grows physically...
Whistle-Stop is a fitting description for the fictional small town of Lincoln, Minnesota. The Great Northern (sometimes called the Jim Hill locally) r...
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93,58 zł |
Wood flies to WAR
ISBN: 9781530953004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When war threatened in the late 1940's, the Army Air Force commissioned Ford to switch its factory in Upper Michigan to manufacturing plywood gliders. The Army Air Corps also enlisted the Scanlin Furniture Company in nearby Stevens Point, Wisconsin to switch from supplying the Ford plant with wood pieces for the Ford "Woodie" station wagons to providing wood parts for the military gliders. Eventually, the Scanlins also helped locate sources of lumber and plywood for manufacturing gliders. After the war, the Scanlins switched back to making furniture, with recent architecture graduate Kristin...
When war threatened in the late 1940's, the Army Air Force commissioned Ford to switch its factory in Upper Michigan to manufacturing plywood gliders....
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24,98 zł |
Mind your p's and q's
ISBN: 9781542807173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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25,44 zł |
Home to the HOMESTEAD
ISBN: 9781508480082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Civil War Homestead Act starts this saga in a Danish community in Iowa. A great-grandson restores the Homestead and uses a radio program to help the people of the Midwest deal with the threat and opportunity associated with ongoing change. That change affects him, too, as widower Krag connects with the female director of the Department of Rural Economics at Iowa State University. But a "firebug" related to a past conflict with Krag threatens the Homestead and all associated with it.
The Civil War Homestead Act starts this saga in a Danish community in Iowa. A great-grandson restores the Homestead and uses a radio program to help t...
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34,29 zł |
Rail Kid: Great Depression novel
ISBN: 9781492926740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Overcome by the loss of family and loss of hope in the middle of the Great Depression, 13-year-old Sven Johnson caught a freight-car in Minnesota to head west. Via the Great Northern train and the hobo jungles along the line, he expanded his education and his chance for opportunity. In Montana, he was thrown off by the railroad "bulls" and toward a fresh start in a new family, community and school. Applying his talents and tenacity, he grew in character and capabilities toward remarkable associations and accomplishments.
Overcome by the loss of family and loss of hope in the middle of the Great Depression, 13-year-old Sven Johnson caught a freight-car in Minnesota to h...
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45,38 zł |
signZ of the timeZ
ISBN: 9781984263803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,57 zł |
Art Sleuths: Trails & Trials of Tracking Missing Art
ISBN: 9781492773511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While studying art and architecture at the University of Wisconsin during the Great Depression, Karl Nelson wanted to make some extra money by joining the Reserve Officer Training Corps. But he got more than he bargained for when his unit was called to active duty in the Army. Then the Army Secret Services saw his art training as a springboard for his studying in Sweden as a cover for his spying on art being looted by the Nazis. There he enlisted a Swedish woman art student to join him as a spy. After the war, these Art Sleuths continued to investigate ownerhip of art, to the dismay of varied...
While studying art and architecture at the University of Wisconsin during the Great Depression, Karl Nelson wanted to make some extra money by joining...
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45,38 zł |
Country Store
ISBN: 9781547103492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Country Store in rural Minnesota during the Great Depression became a focus of the community, along with the one-room Country School and Prairie Lutheran Church. Then a binge of publicity occurred when a 4th grade student wanted to get a 1-cent candy bar as a birthday present for his younger brother. Lacking a penny, he had to sign an I.O.U. (though not seriously expected to be redeemed by the Country Store). Meanwhile, more news when a desperate young hobo from the freight train was found hiding in the basement of the nearby Country School, and he was captured in a "stakeout." But in the...
The Country Store in rural Minnesota during the Great Depression became a focus of the community, along with the one-room Country School and Prairie L...
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27,26 zł |
Double Trouble
ISBN: 9781500178895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For school and community photo-journalist Sarah Karlstrom, her accidental double-exposure when using her new Argus C3 35mm camera caused frustration. And determination not to make that mistake again. Later, that double-exposed negative proved to be a threat to cause a new trial about a Black-Market business in California. And Sarah learned to create intentional multiple-exposures while reporting about post-World War II veterans in college because of the G.I. Bill for education. Sarah also shifted from her own self-centered focus to a new understanding of her relationship with others. And she...
For school and community photo-journalist Sarah Karlstrom, her accidental double-exposure when using her new Argus C3 35mm camera caused frustration. ...
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31,79 zł |
Artful Forger
ISBN: 9781494704780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,03 zł |