wyszukanych pozycji: 29
Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West
ISBN: 9781560373575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire--why they turned to prostitution, who they worked for, and what their lives were like. Author and historian Michael Rutter offers a thorough history of prostitution in the West, with chapters on notorious madams, the hierarchy of prostitution, from parlor girls to streetwalkers, and occupational hazards such as disease and addiction. Rutter also unveils the brutal Chinese sex trade, which was little more than slavery, with women being...
Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for...
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73,50 zł |
Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American West
ISBN: 9781560374626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging "bad girls," from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged in Nevada and Wyoming. Meet these fascinating characters, complete with their pistols and petticoats, their knives and knaves, their vices and victims.
Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging "bad girls," from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged...
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64,83 zł |
Autism: A Reappraisal of Concepts and Treatment
ISBN: 9781468407891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This volume aims to provide the reader with an up-to-date account of knowledge, research, education, and clinical practice in the field of au- tism, from an international perspective. The emphasis throughout is on the growing points of knowledge and on the new developments in prac- tice. We have tried to keep a balance between the need for rigorous research and systematic evaluation and the importance of expressing new ideas and concepts so that they may influence thinking at a stage when questions are being formulated and fresh approaches to treatment are being developed. The book had its...
This volume aims to provide the reader with an up-to-date account of knowledge, research, education, and clinical practice in the field of au- tism, f...
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191,40 zł |
Wild Bunch Women
ISBN: 9780762725854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch outlaw gang.
Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch outlaw gang.
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56,15 zł |
Antisocial Behavior by Young People: A Major New Review
ISBN: 9780521646086 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written by a child psychiatrist, a criminologist and a social psychologist, Antisocial Behavior by Young People is a major international review of research evidence on antisocial behavior. The book covers all aspects of the field, including descriptions of different types of delinquency and time trends, the state of knowledge on the individual, social-psychological and cultural factors involved, and recent advances in prevention and intervention. The authors bring together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives in order to provide a comprehensive account of antisocial behavior in youth....
Written by a child psychiatrist, a criminologist and a social psychologist, Antisocial Behavior by Young People is a major international review of res...
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212,64 zł |
Reversal: A Martial Arts Novel
ISBN: 9781440103872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,49 zł |
Psychosocial Disturbances in Young People: Challenges for Prevention
ISBN: 9780521598736 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Psychosocial Disturbances in Young People: Challenges for Prevention, top experts provide an overview of important areas in adolescence, ranging from delinquency to depression, addressing such key questions as whether or not problems have multiple causes and what the influences of individual, family and societal factors are in the rise of problems. They also consider to what extent there are similarities or differences in the presentation and cause of these problems in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood and whether there are continuities between life periods. It will be of importance to...
In Psychosocial Disturbances in Young People: Challenges for Prevention, top experts provide an overview of important areas in adolescence, ranging fr...
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188,07 zł |
Frontier Terror: Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West
ISBN: 9781493067725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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98,23 zł |
Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women
ISBN: 9781560376002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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64,83 zł |
Outlaw Tales of Utah: True Stories Of The Beehive State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780762759859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and trai...
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64,83 zł |
Kickback: A Fight Choreographer on Vacation Matches Wits and Romance with a Deadly Seductress.
ISBN: 9780595437887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Martial artist Michael Rutter delivers a hard-hitting adventure packed with tricky situations, unique characters, and witty dialogue.A high-octane blend of road trip and romance novel, KickBack pits a burnt-out fight-choreographer against a deadly seductress with intense results. With too many B-grade movies and bad relationships under his black belt, former karate champion Race Richards leaves Los Angeles on a "top-downall- the-way" journey to northern Minnesota for some camping and fishing on a friend's valuable backwoods lake property. Headed for the same location is Kendra Vaughn, a... Martial artist Michael Rutter delivers a hard-hitting adventure packed with tricky situations, unique characters, and witty dialogue.A high-octane ... |
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69,16 zł |
Utah Off the Beaten Path: Discover Your Fun, Sixth Edition
ISBN: 9781493044146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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76,39 zł |
Changing Youth in a Changing Society: Patterns of Adolescent Development and Disorder
ISBN: 9780674108752 / Angielski / Twarda / 1980 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Changing Youth in a Changing Society begins with a complete survey of the problems of youth, showing which disorderspeak during the teenage years. With thisbackground of fact firmly established, Rutter turns to the difficult historical questionsabout whether adolescent disorders aretruly becoming more frequent. Here Ruttershows that the news is not uniformly bad.Some psychosocial problems, such as teenage alcoholism and crime, are still on therise. But other problems, among them themuch heralded generation gap, turn out tobe largely mythical. Still others, like thedecline in educational...
Changing Youth in a Changing Society begins with a complete survey of the problems of youth, showing which disorderspeak during the teenage years. Wit...
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294,57 zł |
TakeDown
ISBN: 9781793074874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,15 zł |
Deprivation-Specific Psychological Patterns: Effects of Institutional Deprivation
ISBN: 9781444338393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study constituted an invaluable -natural experiment- in which there was a rapid, easily-timed transition from a profoundly depriving environment in Romanian institutions to generally well-functioning adoptive families in England. Multimodal methods of assessment were used throughout the assessments at 4, 6, 11, and 15 years of age. Four key findings were particularly striking. First, institutional deprivation was associated with an apparently deprivation-specific pattern of combinations of quasiautism, disinhibited attachment, cognitive impairment, and...
The English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) study constituted an invaluable -natural experiment- in which there was a rapid, easily-timed transition from ...
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234,51 zł |
Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and Their Effects on Children
ISBN: 9780674300262 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Can a good school help its students overcome the adverse effects of economic disadvantage and family adversity? Recent educational assessment suggests that the answer may be a painful no. Here, however, is a book that contradicts the prevailing pessimism about the possibilities of education. In Fifteen Thousand Hours, Michael Rutter and his colleagues show conclusively that schools can make a difference. In a three-year study of a dozen secondary schools in a large urban area, Rutter's team found that some schools were demonstrably better than others at promoting the academic... Can a good school help its students overcome the adverse effects of economic disadvantage and family adversity? Recent educational assessment sugge... |
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174,45 zł |
Psychosocial Disorders in Young People: Time Trends and Their Causes
ISBN: 9780471950547 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This text aims to provide a source of up-to-date information, not only on the psychosocial disorders (crime, substance abuse, depression, eating disorders, suicide), but also on wider societal changes considered as possible explanations for these disorders (developmental processes, family patterns, living conditions, media, values and morals). The study has been integrated to tackle a well-defined set of problems in a systematic way.
This text aims to provide a source of up-to-date information, not only on the psychosocial disorders (crime, substance abuse, depression, eating disor...
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1741,47 zł |
Genes and Behavior: Nature-Nurture Interplay Explained
ISBN: 9781405110617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this major new book, eminent scientist Professor Sir Michael Rutter gets behind the hype of the behavioral genetics debate to provide a balanced and authoritative overview of the genetic revolution and its implications for understanding human behavior.
In this major new book, eminent scientist Professor Sir Michael Rutter gets behind the hype of the behavioral genetics debate to provide a balanced an...
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158,07 zł |
The Life of a Racer Volume 2: Flesh and Blood POD
ISBN: 9781789632934 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this follow-up to his autobiography, Michael Rutter changes his focus and now reflects on his father's life - the victories, defeats, scrapes with the law and practical jokes. He also looks at his father's close brushes with death, including the horrific career-ending crash of 1985, and its aftermath. Tony Rutter (1942-2020) is best known for his four world TT-F2 championship wins, seven Isle of Man TT wins, nine North West 200 wins, and two British Championship titles during his twenty-two-year career - but the man himself has remained something of an enigma to everyone including his own...
In this follow-up to his autobiography, Michael Rutter changes his focus and now reflects on his father's life - the victories, defeats, scrapes with ...
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145,47 zł |