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Baby Boomer Confidential: A memoir
ISBN: 9781505826968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is the journey not the destination that composes your life song. In the early baby boomer era, when skirts were low and consensus was high, this traditionally raised youngster travels through his childhood and coming-of-age testing the borders of a rigid status quo, from race relations to sexual relations...adventures that illuminate a nostalgic but controversial time. Later, Terry leaves graduate school to follow counterculture sirens on a wanderlust sabbatical including odysseys as a political activist, half-hearted hippie, drug-smuggler, new age dilettante, and stand-up...
It is the journey not the destination that composes your life song. In the early baby boomer era, when skirts were low and consensus was high, this tr...
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56,40 zł |
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Duds: Notable Failures in the Land of Success
ISBN: 9781537410937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the most entertaining and insightful ways to view cultural/political history is through the prism of "failure." Is this an irony in the fabled land of success? Perhaps, but only at first reflection. The difference between failure and success is a cocktail of time and circumstance combined with a touch of (in) competence or (mis) judgment. Throw in a dash of dumb luck. Both are, as the author suggests, the flip side of the same coin and as American as Johnny Apple Seed; the seed, however it turns out, presupposes liberty, daring, and initiative. Hamburg explores in some detail over 300...
One of the most entertaining and insightful ways to view cultural/political history is through the prism of "failure." Is this an irony in the fabled ...
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34,80 zł |