wyszukanych pozycji: 16
The Last Matriarch: A Novel
ISBN: 9781504079341 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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70,01 zł |
Standing In The Light: My Life A A Pantheist
ISBN: 9780997416206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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71,26 zł |
When the Land Was Young
ISBN: 9781504079365 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An award-winning science and nature writer “presents a lively, confident, and free-flowing history of archaeology in America” (Booklist). Digging up the relics of the past is not without controversy. With insight and eloquence, Sharman Apt Russell reveals here that when it comes to archaeological study, there is more than one way to examine history. Raising provocative questions anew about subjects such as the role of humans in the extinction of the large land mammals of the Pleistocene epoch and the repatriation of Native American graves, Russell, winner of the John Burroughs...
An award-winning science and nature writer “presents a lively, confident, and free-flowing history of archaeology in America” (Booklist). Diggin...
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78,77 zł |
Songs of the Fluteplayer
ISBN: 9781504079358 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Filled with “honest” writing and “wise” observations, “Russell’s well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural Southwest” (Library Journal). In 1981, newlywed Sharman Apt Russell moved with her husband to an agricultural valley in southwestern New Mexico, hoping to create a simpler life. From building their adobe house to the home-birth of their firstborn to growing their own food and navigating the seasonal flooding of the Mimbres River, these luminous essays chart Sharman’s journey toward self-sufficiency in a land as mythical and remote as the...
Filled with “honest” writing and “wise” observations, “Russell’s well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural ...
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65,64 zł |
The Humpbacked Flute Player
ISBN: 9780997416220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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68,96 zł |
Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers
ISBN: 9780738206691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Anatomy of a Rose, Sharman Apt Russell eloquently unveils the "inner life" of flowers, showing them to be more individual, more enterprising, and more responsive than we ever imagined. From their diverse fragrances to their nasty deceptions, Russell proves that, where nature is concerned, "wonder is not only our starting point; it can also be our destination." Throughout this botanical journey, she reveals that the science behind these intelligent plants--how they evolved, how they survive, how they heal--is even more awe-inspiring than their fleeting beauty. Russell helps us imagine what...
In Anatomy of a Rose, Sharman Apt Russell eloquently unveils the "inner life" of flowers, showing them to be more individual, more enterprising, and m...
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87,53 zł |
What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs
ISBN: 9780231215985 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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464,81 zł |
An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect
ISBN: 9780465071609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary collectors and dedicated scientists who have obsessively catalogued new species of Lepidoptera. A luminous journey through an exotic world of passion and strange beauty, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever experienced the enchantment of butterflies.
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, bu...
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87,53 zł |
Kill The Cowboy
ISBN: 9780997416213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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45,93 zł |
What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs
ISBN: 9780231215992 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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103,72 zł |
Hunger: An Unnatural History
ISBN: 9780465071654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. In Hunger, Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience. Step by step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to three days to seven days to thirty days. In quiet, elegant prose, she asks a question as big as history and as everyday as skipping lunch: How does hunger work?
Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. In Hunger, Sharman Apt R...
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141,10 zł |
Diary of a Citizen Scientist
ISBN: 9781504083003 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A critically acclaimed nature writer explores the citizen scientist movement through the lens of entomological field research in the American Southwest. Award-winning nature writer Sharman Apt Russell felt pressed by the current environmental crisis to pick up her pen yet again. Encouraged by the phenomenon of citizen science, she decided to turn her attention to the Western red-bellied tiger beetle, an insect found widely around the world and near her home in the Gila River Valley of New Mexico. In a lyrical, often humorous voice, Russell shares her journey across a wild, rural landscape...
A critically acclaimed nature writer explores the citizen scientist movement through the lens of entomological field research in the American Southwes...
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91,91 zł |
An Obsession With Butterflies
ISBN: 9780099471332 / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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88,48 zł |
The Tenants of East Harlem
ISBN: 9780520247475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, The Tenants of East Harlem is an absorbing and unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian holdouts; Jose, a Puerto Rican; and Lucille, an African American. Side by side with these representatives of a century of ethnic succession are the newcomers: Maria, an undocumented Mexican; Mohamed, a West African...
Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, The Tenants of East Harlem is an absorbing and unconventional biography of a neighborhood to...
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189,89 zł |
Nightshift NYC
ISBN: 9780520252714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace, Nightshift NYC weaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting photographs to trace the inverted logic of the city at night. Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman spent a year interviewing and shadowing fry cooks and coffee jockeys, train conductors, cab hacks, and dozens of others who keep...
New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a h...
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527,34 zł |
Up from the Bottomless Pit
ISBN: 9781945427176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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98,08 zł |