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Geography of Faith: Underground Conversations on Religious, Political and Social Change
ISBN: 9781893361409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A classic of faith-based activism updated for a new generation. Why was Daniel Berrigan wanted by the FBI? Why did Robert Coles harbor a fugitive? Listen in to the conversations between these two great teachers as they struggle with what it means to put your faith to the test. Discover how their story of challenging the status quo during a time of great political, religious, and social change is just as applicable to our lives today. Thirty years ago, at the height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest, was wanted by the FBI... A classic of faith-based activism updated for a new generation. Why was Daniel Berrigan wanted by the FBI? Why did Robert Coles harbo... |
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73,86 zł |
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Pursuing Alexander Pushkin: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781569028896 / Angielski / Miękka / 27-02-2025 Książka dostępna od: 27-02-2025 |
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92,07 zł |
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Doing Documentary Work
ISBN: 9780195124958 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sitting in his study, William Carlos Williams once revealed to Robert Coles what he considered to be his greatest problem in writing a documentary about his patients in New Jersey. "When I'm there, sitting with those folks, listening and talking," he said to Coles, "I'm part of that life, and I'm near it in my head, too.... Back here, sitting near this typewriter--its different. I'm a writer. I'm a doctor living in Rutherford who is describing 'a world elsewhere.'" Williams captured the great difficulty in documentary writing--the gulf that separates the reality of the...
Sitting in his study, William Carlos Williams once revealed to Robert Coles what he considered to be his greatest problem in writing a documentary abo...
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127,44 zł |
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Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage
ISBN: 9781683362982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant portrait of a beloved and controversial Simone Weil (1906-1943) was a writer and philosopher who devoted her life to a search for God while avoiding membership in organized religion. She wrote with the clarity of a brilliant mind educated in the best French schools, the social conscience of a grass-roots labor organizer, and the certainty and humility of a mystic and she persistently carried out her search in the company of the poor and oppressed. Robert Coles's study of this strange and compelling figure includes... A brilliant portrait of a beloved and controversial Simone Weil (1906-1943) was a writer and... |
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126,33 zł |
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The Story of Ruby Bridges
ISBN: 9780439472265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary, an all-white school, Ruby must face angry mobs of parents who refuse to send their children to school with her. Told with Robert Coles' powerful narrative and dramatically illustrated by George Ford, Ruby's story of courage, faith, and hope is now available in this special 50th anniversary edition with an updated afterword!
The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a ...
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34,82 zł |
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Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis
ISBN: 9780201622324 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Robert Cole's penetrating intellectual portrait gives us an entirely new view of Anna Freud. Far from the stereotype of the distant analyst, she was the warm guide, the ego ideal, the "good parent" for her young patients. Drawing on years of conversation and correspondence, and from a deep mutual concern for the inner lives of children facing adversity, Dr. Coles brings Anna Freud to life in each of her many roles: teacher, theorist, healer, leader, idealist, and writer.
Robert Cole's penetrating intellectual portrait gives us an entirely new view of Anna Freud. Far from the stereotype of the distant analyst, she was t...
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109,76 zł |
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The Spiritual Life of Children
ISBN: 9780395599235 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For 30 years Robert Coles has been talking and listening to children all over the world and recording their responses to crises, to hardship and sorrow and to moral and political pressure. In this one of eight volumes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Children of Crisis, he speaks to and for the religious and spiritual lives of children, conveying their views of salvation and righteousness, their experience of God and their ways of understanding the ultimate meaning of their own lives.
For 30 years Robert Coles has been talking and listening to children all over the world and recording their responses to crises, to hardship and sorro...
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95,64 zł |
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La Historia de Ruby Bridges (the Story of Ruby Bridges)
ISBN: 9781338767490 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2021 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,82 zł |
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Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
ISBN: 9780201079746 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life: the sophisticated Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism; the single mother who raised her child in a most unorthodox "family"; her struggles with sexuality, loneliness, and pride; her devout religious conservatism coupled with...
Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He re...
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109,76 zł |
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Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage
ISBN: 9781683362975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant portrait of a beloved and controversial Simone Weil (1906-1943) was a writer and philosopher who devoted her life to a search for God while avoiding membership in organized religion. She wrote with the clarity of a brilliant mind educated in the best French schools, the social conscience of a grass-roots labor organizer, and the certainty and humility of a mystic and she persistently carried out her search in the company of the poor and oppressed. Robert Coles's study of this strange and compelling figure includes... A brilliant portrait of a beloved and controversial Simone Weil (1906-1943) was a writer and... |
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74,04 zł |
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The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination
ISBN: 9780395528150 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A teacher and a child psychiatrist discusses the power of stories to affect others, recounting his exposure to many famous people and their stories and what this has told him about life.
A teacher and a child psychiatrist discusses the power of stories to affect others, recounting his exposure to many famous people and their stories an...
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65,14 zł |
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Black Writers Abroad: A Study of Black American Writers in Europe and Africa
ISBN: 9781138389571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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171,44 zł |
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The Mind's Fate
ISBN: 9780316151399 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of essays assesses the evolving fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The topics covered in this updated and expanded edition include the use of Prozac, the nature of white racism, William Styron's Darkness Visible and van Gogh's fever of genius.
This collection of essays assesses the evolving fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The topics covered in this updated and expanded edition inclu...
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108,90 zł |
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Flannery O'Connor's South
ISBN: 9780820315362 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Flannery O'Connor's South" offers a forceful analysis, both literary and philosophical, of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. First published in 1980, this study draws upon Robert Coles' personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, his brief acquaintance with Flannery O'Connor, and his careful readings of her works. The voices and gestures of the people Coles met in the South help illuminate the social scene that influenced one of the region's most valuable and interesting writers.
"Flannery O'Connor's South" offers a forceful analysis, both literary and philosophical, of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. First published i...
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153,46 zł |
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The Call of Service
ISBN: 9780395710845 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A moving and often inspiring account of how individuals try to be responsible for their world".--Washington Post. In this passionate book filled with profound stories, a Pulitzer Prize winner explores the compelling nature of idealism--what inspires it and sustains it, how it is expressed, and its importance to both individuals and society.
"A moving and often inspiring account of how individuals try to be responsible for their world".--Washington Post. In this passionate book filled with...
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126,15 zł |
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Children of Crisis, Volume II: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers
ISBN: 9780316151764 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 653 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the late 1950's, Robert Coles has been studying, living with, and, above all, listening to the American poor. The result is one of the most vigorous and searching social studies ever undertaken by one man in the United States. Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers is the second volume in Dr. Coles's award-winning series, Children of Crisis. In it, he listens to three groups: the migrant workers who travel the eastern coast of this country, picking crops day after day; the sharecroppers and tenant farmers who live on isolated southern plantations, just as their ancestors did as slaves;...
Since the late 1950's, Robert Coles has been studying, living with, and, above all, listening to the American poor. The result is one of the most vigo...
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189,25 zł |
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The Secular Mind
ISBN: 9780691088624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the mind. Interwoven into the story is Coles's personal quest for... Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-enco... |
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229,76 zł |
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Well of Sacrifice
ISBN: 9780595337156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "There would be many more human sacrifices-of that Char was sure." It never occurs to him that he or Quel might become one of those victims who meet their fate at the hands of the cruel warrior-priests
The Maya youth spots something unusual in the Sacred Well of Sacrifice and must satisfy his curiosity. After he goads his friend into helping him commit a forbidden and foolish act-secretly entering the Well-a series of calamities is unleashed on Chichen Itza. He's been in trouble with the priests before. If they find out, the gods (or is it the priests?) will only be satisfied with the... "There would be many more human sacrifices-of that Char was sure." It never occurs to him that he or Quel might become one of those victims who meet t...
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78,21 zł |
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The Moral Intelligence of Children
ISBN: 9780747538424 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume explores the question of how to raise a child whose moral intelligence and strong values will be the basis for a balanced and happy life. Drawing on his experience as a teacher and child psychiatrist, and pivotal events in his own life, the author shows how character develops from the earliest years, moulded by the often unselfconscious guidance of parents.
This volume explores the question of how to raise a child whose moral intelligence and strong values will be the basis for a balanced and happy life. ...
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82,01 zł |
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Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
ISBN: 9780375758355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others. Coles tells how to be a moral leader and shows how the intervention of one person can change the course of history, as well as influence the day-to-day quality of life in our homes, schools, communities, and...
In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, an...
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82,79 zł |
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