wyszukanych pozycji: 29
Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers
ISBN: 9780801449871 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A devoted reader of autobiographies and memoirs, Roger J. Porter has observed in recent years a surprising number of memoirs by adult children whose fathers have led secret lives. Some of the fathers had second families; some had secret religious lives; others have been criminals, liars, or con men. Struck by the intensely human drama of secrecy and deception played out for all to see, Porter explores the phenomenon in great depth. In Bureau of Missing Persons he examines a large number of these works eighteen in all placing them in a wide literary and cultural context and... A devoted reader of autobiographies and memoirs, Roger J. Porter has observed in recent years a surprising number of memoirs by adult children whos... |
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197,11 zł |
Self-Same Songs: Autobiographical Performances and Reflections
ISBN: 9780803287679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Self-Same Songs constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, and Eugene Delacroix, Roger J. Porter offers a broad-based examination of the autobiography and the varied techniques used by its practitioners over time. In a style that is both graceful and erudite, Porter focuses on the diverse motivations and rhetorical functions that the act of self-writing serves for particular writers. He reflects on the texts not only as an exploration of... Self-Same Songs constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, ... |
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103,69 zł |
Analytical Calorimetry: Volume 4
ISBN: 9781461564454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Thermal analysis cuts a broad swathe through contemporary science. Within this domain, advances in instrumentation permit the application of quantitative calorimetry to the full spectrum of modern materials. This can be illustrated perhaps no better than by the set of contributions which make up this Volume 4 of Analytical Calorimetry. The research supported in this fourth volume of Analytical Calorimetry covers a wide variety of topics. The range indicates the sophistication which thermal analysis is reaching and additional ly the ever-widening applications that are being developed. The...
Thermal analysis cuts a broad swathe through contemporary science. Within this domain, advances in instrumentation permit the application of quantitat...
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191,40 zł |
Finding Myself
ISBN: 9781494780883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A time to reflect on my seventy years of life. Maybe some folks will be interested in my life and the folks I have met, or maybe not. This is a non-tradiitonal memoir, filled with alphabetical vignettes nit chronological ones. I have made a foray into fiction with an asterisk: in those cases where I have marked the vignette as fictional, it might be 100 percent not true, but in many cases I knew of, was part of, or heard from others about the story itself. At any rate, the entire book is my recollection of things past, and as in all recollections, the more distant the memory the clearer the...
A time to reflect on my seventy years of life. Maybe some folks will be interested in my life and the folks I have met, or maybe not. This is a non-tr...
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113,79 zł |
The Reunion: A Tale of Vegas, Reunions and Redemption
ISBN: 9781470048266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Reunions--a word that conjures up many images in our mind. It is a time to make new friends and even remember the old ones. A time to reflect on the good and the bad times many years ago. Take for example Jack Williams, a man with substance abuse problems who is living a life of drunkenness and solitude. Jack gets an invitation to Las Vegas from a high school friend whose intentions are not pure, and he begins a chase through Sin City to find among other things, redemption. Meet the underworld at the largest casino on the Vegas strip. Watch as the players, each with an agenda, come in contact...
Reunions--a word that conjures up many images in our mind. It is a time to make new friends and even remember the old ones. A time to reflect on the g...
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81,91 zł |
Presidential Decision Making
ISBN: 9780521233378 / Angielski / Twarda / 1980 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This inside account of decision making in the White House describes the organizational challenges the President faces.
This inside account of decision making in the White House describes the organizational challenges the President faces.
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448,56 zł |
Analytical Calorimetry: Volume 3
ISBN: 9781475745115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 818 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The research reported in the third volume of Analytical Calorimetry covers a wide variety of topics. The variety indicates the sophistication which thermal analysis is reaching and addition ally the ever widening applications that are being developed, Advances in instrumentation include: microcalorimeter design, development and refinement of titration calorimetry, definition of further theory of scanning calorimetry, studies of the temperature of resolution of thermistors, and a refinement of the effluent gas analysis technique and its application to agricultural chemicals as well as organic...
The research reported in the third volume of Analytical Calorimetry covers a wide variety of topics. The variety indicates the sophistication which th...
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382,84 zł |
Analytical Calorimetry: Proceedings of the American Chemical Society Symposium on Analytical Calorimetry, San Francisco, California, April 2-5
ISBN: 9781475700039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Proceedings of the American Chemical Society Symposium on Analytical Calorimetry San Francisco Cali.
Proceedings of the American Chemical Society Symposium on Analytical Calorimetry San Francisco Cali.
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382,84 zł |
The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Grain Agreement
ISBN: 9780521070249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This study of the 1975 US-USSR Grain Agreement negotiations illuminates the parameters and constraints faced by policy makers in a democratic, pluralistic political system.
This study of the 1975 US-USSR Grain Agreement negotiations illuminates the parameters and constraints faced by policy makers in a democratic, plurali...
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216,69 zł |
Presidential Decision Making: The Economic Policy Board
ISBN: 9780521271127 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presidential Decision Making describes two organizational challenges the President faces - the interrelatedness of the issues he is expected to address and the fragmented structure of the executive departments and offices he presides over. The dynamics and problems of the Presidency are illuminated in this inside account of decision making in the White House. Newly elected presidents invariably proclaim their commitment to an enlarged role for cabinet, department, and agency heads but often abandon the effort after a few months in office. The Economic Policy Board, a cabinet-level body...
Presidential Decision Making describes two organizational challenges the President faces - the interrelatedness of the issues he is expected to addres...
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158,58 zł |
Analytical Calorimetry: Proceedings of the Symposium on Analytical Calorimetry at the Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Held in Chicag
ISBN: 9781461586234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Thermal analysis cuts a broad swath through contemporary science. Within this domain, advances in instrumentation permit the application of quantitative calorimetry to the full spectrum of modern materials. This can be illustrated perhaps no better than by the set of contributions which make up this Volume II of Analytical Calorimetry. Comprehensive studies are included on an array of polymers, copolymers, and polyblends. Calorimetry is also reported on biopolymers, gels, liquid crystals, alloys, and on a variety of inorganic compounds and materials including moon rocks. Applica- tions of...
Thermal analysis cuts a broad swath through contemporary science. Within this domain, advances in instrumentation permit the application of quantitati...
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191,40 zł |
Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium
ISBN: 9780815771630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The multilateral trading system stands at a crossroads. Despite its widely acknowledged contribution to global prosperity over the past half century, the movement toward further liberalization has increasingly been challenged. These essays by leading scholars and trade officials honor Raymond Vernon, one of the architects of the international economic institutions established following the Second World War. The book examines several key issues at the heart of the debate over the multilateral trading system. What are the global efficiency gains from further liberalization? How can... The multilateral trading system stands at a crossroads. Despite its widely acknowledged contribution to global prosperity over the past half centu... |
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194,50 zł |
Seachange
ISBN: 9781500345518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The world of Andy Reid is in chaos as he suffers from amnesia, and frequent mental lapses. His wife and daughter have struggled to keep him on track and functioning. His life is far from simple, as well-meaning friends from the past attempt to help and in some case, hinder his progress. Follow Andy as he navigates the technological progress of the mid 1990's.
The world of Andy Reid is in chaos as he suffers from amnesia, and frequent mental lapses. His wife and daughter have struggled to keep him on track a...
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100,17 zł |
Scatteree
ISBN: 9781480272521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the third installment in the saga of Andy Reid, a young man with a mission to uncover the truth about secrets, some long held, in out of the way locations, such as Cape Cod.
This is the third installment in the saga of Andy Reid, a young man with a mission to uncover the truth about secrets, some long held, in out of the w...
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91,02 zł |
Skunk's Neck, A Novel
ISBN: 9781479196111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,02 zł |
The Gathering: A Novel of the Home Front in World War II
ISBN: 9781508836896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It's 1942, and the news from the war front is not good. For Ethan Doane who is still too young to fight, it is a struggle to keep up with the rationing and government directives that flow into his little town. New faces appear in the village, not all of them friendly. His inquisitive nature thrusts him into a situation as dangerous as most of those men on the battlefield face. The war is coming home. Everyone has a part to play, even the teenagers like Ethan.
It's 1942, and the news from the war front is not good. For Ethan Doane who is still too young to fight, it is a struggle to keep up with the rationin...
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113,83 zł |
Anadyr: The End of the Cuban Revolution
ISBN: 9781470111564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,91 zł |
Stepping Stones, A Novel: 2013 edition
ISBN: 9781484108727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,02 zł |
Birds of KwaZulu-Natal and Their Zulu Names
ISBN: 9781920602062 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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114,04 zł |
Batman: Shadow War
ISBN: 9781779517975 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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182,44 zł |