wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people
ISBN: 9781984801456 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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95,40 zł |
Mountains Beyond Mountains
ISBN: 9780812973013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the master of the non-fiction narrative. This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor,... Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoo...
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78,06 zł |
Mountains Beyond Mountains: One doctor's quest to heal the world
ISBN: 9781846684319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. As a medical student, Paul Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. The author's account shows how, from achieving this modest dream, one person can make a difference in solving global problems.
As a medical student, Paul Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those ...
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65,84 zł |
My Detachment: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780812976168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. This extraordinary memoir is destined to become a classic.
Kidder was an ROTC intelligence officer, just months out of college and expecting a stateside assignment, when his orders arrived for Vietnam. There, lovesick, anxious, and melancholic, he tried... My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial ...
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82,39 zł |
The Soul of a New Machine
ISBN: 9780316491976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder memorably records the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market.
Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in... Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder memorably records the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to mar...
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86,69 zł |
House
ISBN: 9780618001910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges, and triumphs.
Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, te...
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82,35 zł |
Among Schoolchildren
ISBN: 9780380710898 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher -- sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and... Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House --... |
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78,02 zł |
Home Town
ISBN: 9780671785215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this fascinating book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder takes us inside the everyday workings of Northampton, Massachusetts -- a place that seems to personify the typical American hometown. Kidder unveils the complex drama behind the seemingly ordinary lives of Northampton's residents. And out of these stories he creates a splendid, startling portrait of a town, in a narrative that gracefully travels among past and present, public and private, joy and sorrow.
A host of real people are alive in these pages: a tycoon with a crippling ailment; a criminal whom the place has... In this fascinating book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder takes us inside the everyday workings of Northampton, Massachusetts -- a place th...
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121,38 zł |