wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Broken Glass: A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780826339973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Robert Hine's daughter, Elene, first showed signs of unhappiness as a little girl, no one dreamed she would grow up to have a serious personality disorder. As an early "baby boomer," Elene reached adolescence and young womanhood in the midst of the counterculture years. Her father, a respected professor of American history at the University of California, shares the story of his family's struggle to keep Elene on track and functional, to see her through her troubles with delusions, medication, and eventually to help her raise her own children.
Candid in its portrayal of the suffering... When Robert Hine's daughter, Elene, first showed signs of unhappiness as a little girl, no one dreamed she would grow up to have a serious personality...
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86,93 zł |
Second Sight
ISBN: 9780520208919 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted. "The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish. The emotion comes when sight returns; like a...
He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, ...
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182,91 zł |
A Dictionary of Biology
ISBN: 9780198821489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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76,50 zł |
In the Shadow of Fremont: Edward Kern and the Art of American Exploration, 1845-1860
ISBN: 9780806147963 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When first published under the title, Edward Kern and American Expansion, Ray Allen Billington called this book "one of the most readable, pleasant, exciting books about the West that I have ever known," and Allen Nevins called it "a contribution of the first importance to Western History." This absorbing account has become a classic, indispensable to understanding America's inexorable drive westward to the Pacific-and beyond. This second edition provides a new preface, additional maps and illustrations, and a revised bibliographical essay. In 1845, Edward Meyer Kern, a native Philadelphia...
When first published under the title, Edward Kern and American Expansion, Ray Allen Billington called this book "one of the most readable, pleasant, e...
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109,70 zł |
California's Utopian Colonies
ISBN: 9780393006780 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Behind the commune movement today lies an impulse for a simpler, less harried existence that has its roots deep in American history. During the last hundred years, California has contributed to the Utopian heritage more colonies than any other American state. From varied backgrounds--religious, secular, co-operative, socialistic, Theosophical, Marxian--each new society experimented with marriage, the raising of children, education, work, religion, or government.
Behind the commune movement today lies an impulse for a simpler, less harried existence that has its roots deep in American history. During the last h...
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95,64 zł |
Biology and Political Science
ISBN: 9780415757737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates the increasing interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics. It discusses the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science, reviews the growing literature in the field and presents a coherent view of biopolitics as a framework for structuring inquiry across the current subfields of political science.
This book demonstrates the increasing interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of life sciences in building a more in...
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280,58 zł |
The American West: A New Interpretive History
ISBN: 9780300185171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America
The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the... A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America
The newly revised second edition of this concise,... |
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150,44 zł |
Buying Swamp Land for God: First Lesson Sermons for Pentecost Last Third, Cycle C
ISBN: 9780788010347 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Robert Hines has a gift for bringing scripture down to earth where families bicker, where men and women get stressed out, where children fight over a toy, where reality is stranger than fiction. And into each situation he brings the hard-hitting message of the prophets.
Fascinating narrative stories and illustrations make this book great reading and an excellent resource for stimulating preaching. Chapters include: Buying Swamp Land For God (Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15) Accepting Responsibility (Lamentations 1:1-6) Coping With Heartache (Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7) Permission To... Robert Hines has a gift for bringing scripture down to earth where families bicker, where men and women get stressed out, where children fight over a ...
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53,45 zł |