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The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer: Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits
ISBN: 9781416575207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime. What has been missing in all this self-examination, until now, is a book about the greatest national obsessions of all: the hobbies we pursue, the collections and amateur sports to which we devote so much of our lives. The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer chronicles the amazing variety of ways in which we relax, compete with others and ourselves, and indulge some of our richest fantasies. Here are...
We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime....
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90,20 zł |
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Dying Words: Talking Points for Mortals
ISBN: 9781505253160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While poignant and wrenching, dying, like all of life, presents precious gifts to those who are willing and able to engage in its process. Nothing brings existential questions to the fore like impending death. As much as death leaves in its wake deep loss, dying itself can be an experience as vital as any other part of life: thinking gets focused, priorities are ordered and relationships gain clarity. Shards of light pierce the darkness. Dying Words is both the true story of one couple in the last 10 days of life and the impetus for talking points for other mortals. Each chapter both educates...
While poignant and wrenching, dying, like all of life, presents precious gifts to those who are willing and able to engage in its process. Nothing bri...
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76,80 zł |
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Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System
ISBN: 9780679754503 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too young to marry, and her mother was addicted to heroin and cocaine. So under the law, Crystal and Daquan became wards of New York State s foster-care system a sprawling, often slipshod web of boarding facilities, halfway houses, and paid surrogates that cares for almost 60,000 children.
Life for Me Ain t Been No Crystal Stair is the story of what happened to Crystal and Daquan, as well as to Crystal s mother, who herself... On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she...
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77,49 zł |
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
ISBN: 9780804169189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia now reissued with a new postscript follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness. Sylvia Frumkin was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with... This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia now reissued with a new postscript follows a flamboyant an... |
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86,10 zł |
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Do Less Be More: Ban Busy and Make Space for What Matters
ISBN: 9781401955052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,84 zł |
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