wyszukanych pozycji: 19
Village: A Novel
ISBN: 9781945652950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set in the early 1990s, Village is a gentle, loving satire that explores a day in the life of the fictional Northern New Mexico village of San Marcos, through the points of view of a dozen colorful and eccentric characters: an aging mayordomo, the owners of the village store, the postmaster and his Spanish teacher wife, a teenager, two Anglo couples, a state water office attorney, a spinster weaver, a junkyard owner, a village tough, and the son of a funeral home owner. Besides the Hispanics and Anglos, the village itself, with its long history, is also a character, along with...
Set in the early 1990s, Village is a gentle, loving satire that explores a day in the life of the fictional Northern New Mexico village of San ...
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111,93 zł |
Determine Persist Achieve
ISBN: 9781678101480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,78 zł |
Dr. Virgil Hart: Man on a Mission
ISBN: 9780991608218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Virgil Hart was the Superintendent for the New York Methodist Missions in China and later the Canadian Methodist Missions in Sichuan Province. He built Western hospitals and girls' schools along the Yangtze and Min Rivers from 1866-1901. He overcame many obstacles the officials from the Imperial Qing Dynasty and local populations. Inspired by his faith, Dr. Hart desired to bring medical care and education to the Chinese masses in cities where the native Chinese gentry denied their own people basic accommodations. His final year in China saw many of his efforts destroyed, due to superstitions...
Virgil Hart was the Superintendent for the New York Methodist Missions in China and later the Canadian Methodist Missions in Sichuan Province. He buil...
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107,42 zł |
Some Instructions to My Wife: Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage, and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood
ISBN: 9780916583156 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From "Putting Things Away" to "The Marriage Almanac" (not to mention the pedantic "Index," in itself a comic wonder), Stanley Crawford gives the married, the unmarried, and the formerly married a classic satire on all the sanctimonious marriage manuals ever produced. Starting with the complete title, "Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage, and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood," a boorish narrator sets down some seventy-three pieces of advice to his wife, young son, and two-year-old daughter, intended to foster and... From "Putting Things Away" to "The Marriage Almanac" (not to mention the pedantic "Index," in itself a comic wonder), Stanley Crawford gives the ma... |
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51,45 zł |
The Middle Kingdom's Miracle Maidens
ISBN: 9780991608249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mary Stone and Ida Kahn were the first female Chinese doctors educated in Western medicine. Both women changed China forever. This story shares their lifelong contributions to the China of their day, and how patient by patient they ended ancient traditions by producing positive results. Binding feet fell from fashion, surgery became the best solution for tumors, and female medical education saved many lives. Both physicians were born in Kiukiang, now called Jiujiang, one of many pearls along the sometimes over-flowing Yangtze River. Both were "entrusted" to missionaries. Both children had...
Mary Stone and Ida Kahn were the first female Chinese doctors educated in Western medicine. Both women changed China forever. This story shares their ...
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96,19 zł |
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
ISBN: 9780826314451 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the authors experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.
Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the authors experience as a mayo...
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85,89 zł |
Dr. Virgil Hart: Man on a Mission
ISBN: 9780991608201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Virgil Hart was the Superintendent for the New York Methodist Missions in China and later the Canadian Methodist Missions in Sichuan Province. He built Western hospitals and girls' schools along the Yangtze and Min Rivers from 1866-1901. He overcame many obstacles the officials from the Imperial Qing Dynasty and local populations. Inspired by his faith, Dr. Hart desired to bring medical care and education to the Chinese masses in cities where the native Chinese gentry denied their own people basic accommodations. His final year in China saw many of his efforts destroyed, due to superstitions...
Virgil Hart was the Superintendent for the New York Methodist Missions in China and later the Canadian Methodist Missions in Sichuan Province. He buil...
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85,89 zł |
Travel Notes (from Here--To There)
ISBN: 9781940853024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fiction. Originally published in 1967, TRAVEL NOTES is a hallucinogenic dream journey thru the incomparable mind that subsequently brought us Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine, then dropped off the grid to become a garlic farmer in New Mexico. TRAVEL NOTES could indeed read like Stanley Crawford's private travelogue, yet no real-world places or people are explicitly mentioned. Instead we're taken on a rompish tromp thru wild and often absurd landscapes in a bus that gets dismantled & reassembled to get around a broken-down car, in a biplane that only flies in the mind of the naked pilot, or...
Fiction. Originally published in 1967, TRAVEL NOTES is a hallucinogenic dream journey thru the incomparable mind that subsequently brought us Log of t...
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60,27 zł |
The Canyon
ISBN: 9780826355614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ScottyAEs family owns a lodge near their silver mine in the Colorado Rockies. Summers at the lodge are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of business and adult dysfunction, but the boys are more interested in the complications of puberty, especially when Rosalind, the teenage daughter of family friends, is on hand. To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible. Readers...
ScottyAEs family owns a lodge near their silver mine in the Colorado Rockies. Summers at the lodge are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The g...
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85,89 zł |
The Middle Kingdom's Miracle Maidens
ISBN: 9780991608256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,37 zł |
Cinquains: Volume I
ISBN: 9781435797116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cinquains: Volume I, is a childrens book of poems. The poems are accompanied by illustrations that engage students in the learning process.
This book has been prepared with two purposes in mind. First, the book provides a source of enjoyment for the reader. This is accomplished by using the cinquain poem format for communicating about various topics. There are various forms of cinquain poems. I have stuck fairly close to the Adelaide Crapsey process of writing cinquains. This is mainly in the use of the syllable count. Second, to provide an additional resource for anyone involved... Cinquains: Volume I, is a childrens book of poems. The poems are accompanied by illustrations that engage students in the learning process. |
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67,45 zł |
A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
ISBN: 9780826319609 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it. The book is a favourite not only for its assemblage of garlic and farming lore but for what it tells us about how to live a satisfying life. This beloved book, first published in 1992, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press.
From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it. The book is a favourite not only ...
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85,89 zł |
Building Instructional Capacity
ISBN: 9781329913080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After discussing the importance of leadership, Dr. Crawford presents the three key strategies for building instructional capacity.
Leadership: Leadership is important to the success of any endeavor in public education. Increase Applied Personnel Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Possessing knowledge, skill and ability are only the beginning to an increase in student learning and student achievement. The application piece must be nurtured. Improve the Curriculum Program and Supporting Aspects: Parts of the curriculum program should be given special attention by school and... After discussing the importance of leadership, Dr. Crawford presents the three key strategies for building instructional capacity.
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96,19 zł |
The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780826328571 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Crawford's thoughtful and witty essays explore his experiences as a farmer, activist and observer in rural New Mexico. In his third non-fiction book he writes, among other topics, about the river which irrigates his land and the animals and plants which touch his life.
Crawford's thoughtful and witty essays explore his experiences as a farmer, activist and observer in rural New Mexico. In his third non-fiction book h...
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64,37 zł |
The Continuing Relevance of Wesleyan Theology
ISBN: 9781608995387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What does the Wesleyan message have to say to the greater theological world? This is a question that Laurence Wood has taken up as his concern throughout his career. In order to honor his work, this collection takes up this question through a series of essays designed to show how Wesleyan Theology, while distinctive, has a continued relevance to the wider world of theological scholarship. This collection does this in two ways. First, by showing how the Wesleyan distinctives have been present throughout the history of theology. And secondly, the collection brings the Wesleyan distinctives into...
What does the Wesleyan message have to say to the greater theological world? This is a question that Laurence Wood has taken up as his concern through...
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183,23 zł |
Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine
ISBN: 9781564785121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas..." So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as "Mrs. Unguentine," the chronicler of their sad, fantastical tale. For forty years, they sail the seas together, alone on a giant land-covered barge of their own devising. They tend their gardens, raise a child, invent an artificial forest--all the while steering clear of civilization. "Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine" is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of... "Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas..." So begins the c... |
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49,90 zł |
Wuhu Missionaries
ISBN: 9780991608225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,89 zł |
The Continuing Relevance of Wesleyan Theology
ISBN: 9781498256681 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What does the Wesleyan message have to say to the greater theological world? This is a question that Laurence Wood has taken up as his concern throughout his career. In order to honor his work, this collection takes up this question through a series of essays designed to show how Wesleyan Theology, while distinctive, has a continued relevance to the wider world of theological scholarship. This collection does this in two ways. First, by showing how the Wesleyan distinctives have been present throughout the history of theology. And secondly, the collection brings the Wesleyan distinctives into...
What does the Wesleyan message have to say to the greater theological world? This is a question that Laurence Wood has taken up as his concern through...
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270,01 zł |
The History of Lushan & Kuling
ISBN: 9780991608263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,89 zł |