wyszukanych pozycji: 562
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A Light in the Wilderness
ISBN: 9780800722319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read--as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come west with him. Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she is so deeply in love with her husband that she knows she will follow him anywhere--even when the trek exacts a terrible cost. Betsy is a Kalapuya...
Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, b...
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62,19 |
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What Unites Presbyterians: Common Ground for Troubled Times
ISBN: 9780664500078 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) often seems to relish its division more that it celebrates the unity that exists within the denomination. In What Unites Presbyterians, Clifton Kirkpatrick and William Hopper compellingly call attention to the ties that bind Presbyterians together as a community of faith. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) often seems to relish its division more that it celebrates the unity that exists within the denomination. In Wh... |
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To Chase the Glowing Hours: A Novel of Highclere and Egypt
ISBN: 9781646036271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,67 |
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Competing for Honor: A Social-Scientific Reading of Daniel 1-6
ISBN: 9789004144873 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Using social-scientific criticism, this work presents a reading of Daniel 1-6 as literature of resistance. The characters and episodes of these tales are read against a backdrop of social competition for the cultural value of honor. Each of the tales of Daniel 1-6 is analyzed, revealing a comparison that is sustained throughout the compilation and that pits the Judean tradition in competition with a dominant foreign tradition. The dynamics of comparison and competition are explored in each tale with the help of social-scientific models depicting honor and exploring the related dynamics of...
Using social-scientific criticism, this work presents a reading of Daniel 1-6 as literature of resistance. The characters and episodes of these tales ...
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597,70 |
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English Language Education Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9783319835839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Coming Home
ISBN: 9781481749770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lt. Kevin Nicholas is flying a spy mission for the US Navy along the east coast of Russia when he encounters a large storm and must eject over Russia. Since his grandfather taught him the Russian language, he assumes the identity of a translator and works his way along the Trans-Siberian Railroad toward Novosibirsk in order to make his escape through European countries.
Lt. Kevin Nicholas is flying a spy mission for the US Navy along the east coast of Russia when he encounters a large storm and must eject over Russia....
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68,37 |
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A Name of Her Own
ISBN: 9781578564996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman's fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war, protect her sons and raise them well and, despite an abusive, alcoholic husband, keep her marriage together. With two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Louis when her husband heads West with the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition of 1811. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition...
Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictiona...
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69,17 |
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New Blood: A Bloody Little Secrets Novel
ISBN: 9781500933777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,38 |
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Messages from Gaia: Wisdom and Love from Our Earth Mother
ISBN: 9781452500928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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111,26 |
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Beneath the Bending Skies
ISBN: 9780800742195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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167,65 |
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Domenico Scarlatti
ISBN: 9780691027081 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Again available in paperback, this definitive work on the genius of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is the result of twelve years of devoted effort by America's foremost harpsichordist and one of the principal authorities on eighteenth-century harpsichord music. Mr. Kirkpatrick traveled extensively to collect material that has tripled the known facts about Scarlatti's life, providing the first adequate biography of one of the greatest harpsichord composers of the eighteenth century and one of the most original composers of all time. The second half of his book is an illuminating study of... Again available in paperback, this definitive work on the genius of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is the result of twelve years of devoted effort ... |
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354,80 |
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I Know Who I Am And Whose I Am: Beauty For Ashes
ISBN: 9798644783595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,31 |
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Final Chapters: Writings about the End of Life
ISBN: 9781849054904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "The milkman cried when I told him you were dead. 'Last night, ' I said, 'Mark died.'" This collection brings together 30 short stories and poems about dying and bereavement. Written by mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, wives, husbands and dying people, these moving pieces talk honestly about how it feels to care for someone who is dying, to grieve for a loved one, and to face death oneself. A candid story about a daughter's relationship with her mother's carer; an internal monologue on dementia; a deeply moving poem about losing a son to cot death; and a heartfelt story about a mother's end...
"The milkman cried when I told him you were dead. 'Last night, ' I said, 'Mark died.'" This collection brings together 30 short stories and poems abou...
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72,57 |
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A Full Plate
ISBN: 9781646544172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,99 |
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Farewell Doesn't Mean Forever
ISBN: 9781393466208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,83 |
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Psychovertical
ISBN: 9780099519522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. As one of the world's most accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, Andy Kirkpatrick goes vertically where other climbers fear to tread. His 13-day ascent of Reticent Wall on El Capitan in California - the hardest big-wall climb ever soloed by a Briton - frames a challenging autobiography.
As one of the world's most accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, Andy Kirkpatrick goes vertically where other climbers fear to tread. His 1...
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60,63 |
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Cold Mountain Review - Retrospective Issue: Volume 52, Number 1, Fall & Winter 2024
ISBN: 9781469691619 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist
ISBN: 9780800736118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on a true story, pioneer Abigail Scott denies herself the joys of a simpler life to achieve her dream of securing rights for women. But running a controversial newspaper and leading suffrage efforts in the Northwest carry a great personal cost. A tender, powerful story of a woman's conflicts--with society and herself.
Based on a true story, pioneer Abigail Scott denies herself the joys of a simpler life to achieve her dream of securing rights for women. But running ...
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62,19 |
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Records of the Closeburn Kirkpatricks
ISBN: 9780902664784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally written for private distribution in 1954, this account of the Closeburn Kirkpatricks was, theauthor says,"a story that needed to be told."The Kirkpatricks of Closeburn, in Dumfries-shire, Scotland, trace their family back to Ivone, whowitnessed a Charter for Robert Brus (or Bruce), firstLord of Annandale.Roger 'mak siccar' Kirkpatrickwas a close associate of the later Robert Bruce, whobecame King of Scotland.The family's connections extend through the Isle of Wight to France and Spain.
Originally written for private distribution in 1954, this account of the Closeburn Kirkpatricks was, theauthor says,"a story that needed to be told."T...
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