wyszukanych pozycji: 6
An Immaculate Conception: Just when you thought it was safe to get on with your own life
ISBN: 9780980784855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'So your grandchild will be raised by two lesbians. How do you feel about that?' Cathy Connolly, a high-powered senior executive in the education department, is revelling in the new-found joys of being Sam's grandmother. Suddenly, within the space of two weeks, her life plunges into disarray. A colleague at work is trying to push her out of her job, her architect husband, Steve, says he wants to head for the Kimberleys in a 4-wheel drive, her daughter has given her boyfriend the boot: 'Its hard to find the right man nowadays. They're all either married, losers, or gay ' Her brother is leaving...
'So your grandchild will be raised by two lesbians. How do you feel about that?' Cathy Connolly, a high-powered senior executive in the education depa...
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Children of Blindness: A Brutal Exposé of Bigotry and Prejudice in Outback Australia
ISBN: 9780980784800 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Causing a storm of controversy on first publication, Children of Blindness, a powerful drama set in the small, fictional, but archetypal outback country town of Woongarra, depicts with stunning force, the violent interaction of a small group of people; black and white, over a period of little more than a week, in which three of them die. Based on actual events at the time, this searing novel opens with Dougo Foster returning from six months in prison to find his children taken into care because of gross neglect by his drunken, pregnant wife, Flo. Dougo's furious, spontaneous attack leaves Flo...
Causing a storm of controversy on first publication, Children of Blindness, a powerful drama set in the small, fictional, but archetypal outback count...
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The Silk Train: Riding The Rails Along The Ancient Silk Road
ISBN: 9780980784824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fascinating mix of adventure travel, ancient history, 21st century geopolitics and people. Veteran journalists Iain Finlay and Trish Clark set out to travel 21,000 kilometers from Singapore to Venice, hopping on and off trains up through South East Asia, across China and the sprawling steppes and deserts of Central Asia to the Caucasus, Turkey and the Balkans. Their route covers territory along which ancient Silk Road trails have wound their way over the past two thousand years. The rail lines they follow form part of an embryonic, UN-backed Trans-Asian Rail Network, that will eventually...
A fascinating mix of adventure travel, ancient history, 21st century geopolitics and people. Veteran journalists Iain Finlay and Trish Clark set out t...
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A School For Phoujong: An intimate insight into village life in remote northernLaos
ISBN: 9780980784893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A School For Phoujong tells the story of how a couple of veteran Australian journalists developed a project to build a new primary school for a remote and severely impoverished village in northern Laos. Phoujong Village has a population of about 300 mainly ethnic Yao and Hmong people.It has no electricity, just a rudimentary water supply and only primitive sewage facilities.The houses are mainly earthern-floored, with an open-hearth fire in the middle and the village had just one dilapidated hut used as a schoolfor more than thirty children aged from five to twelve, with only one teacher. Its...
A School For Phoujong tells the story of how a couple of veteran Australian journalists developed a project to build a new primary school for a remote...
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Good Morning Hanoi: A Year On The Airwaves In The New Vietnam
ISBN: 9780980784848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Iain Finlay and Trish Clark arrive in Hanoi on a one-year work assignment for the English language service of the communist government-run radio network, they can hardly foresee the intense and exceptional experiences that await them. Coming to Vietnam for an Australian aid agency, their intended role is to coach and instruct, or at least to share their knowledge, with a small group of young reporters. But they find that they learn more than they teach. As friendships with their colleagues grow, Iain and Trish are involved in developing and presenting a daily radio program - the first...
When Iain Finlay and Trish Clark arrive in Hanoi on a one-year work assignment for the English language service of the communist government-run radio ...
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The Road To NaLin: A Small Project...A World of Difference: Building a proper road to a remote village in northern Laos
ISBN: 9780980784879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the inspirational story of how an older Australian couple, Trish Clark and Iain Finlay...both authors in their seventies... built a proper road to a remote and impoverished village in Northern Laos. While working on an internet project of their own in Luang Prabang, the World Heritage-Listed former Royal Capital of Laos, they befriended a young waiter, Chanthy, who was studying at night school. They began helping him, first with his English, then with his college fees and accommodation. His parents, relatively poor subsistence rice famers, pleased at this unexpected boost for their...
This is the inspirational story of how an older Australian couple, Trish Clark and Iain Finlay...both authors in their seventies... built a proper roa...
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58,54 zł |