wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Thoreau′s Botany – Thinking and Writing with Plants
ISBN: 9780813949482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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147,48 |
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Vermilion Parish
ISBN: 9781531654559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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122,26 |
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Thoreau’s Botany
ISBN: 9780813949475 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bringing together critical plant studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, James Perrin Warren argues that Thoreau’s botanical excursions establish a meeting ground of science and the humanities that is only now ready to be recognized by readers of American literature and environmental literature.
Bringing together critical plant studies, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, James Perrin Warren argues that Thoreau’s botanical excursions...
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491,77 |
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Other Country: Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists
ISBN: 9780816500550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The award-winning American environmental writer Barry Lopez has traveled extensively in remote and populated parts of the world. Lopez s fiction and nonfiction focus on the relationship between the physical landscape and human culture, posing abiding questions about ethics, intimacy, and place.
Other Country presents a full-scale treatment of Lopez s work. James Perrin Warren examines the relationship between Lopez s writing and the work of several contemporary artists, composers, and musicians, whose works range from landscape photography, painting, and graphic arts to earth art,... The award-winning American environmental writer Barry Lopez has traveled extensively in remote and populated parts of the world. Lopez s fiction and n...
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206,55 |
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Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America
ISBN: 9780271025032 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Americans of the early Republic valued the art of eloquence, upholding the ideal that an impassioned, intelligent, and moral speaker will provide essential truths to a democratic audience. Drawing on nonfiction prose of the 1830s-1850s--especially orations, lectures, and addresses--James Perrin Warren sketches a cultural history of the reforming power of language. Antebellum America truly defined itself as a culture of eloquence. This disposition could be seen in the creation of new cultural spaces, such as the lyceum and popular lecture system, for speakers who were then measured... Americans of the early Republic valued the art of eloquence, upholding the ideal that an impassioned, intelligent, and moral speaker will provide e... |
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157,12 |
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Iberia Parish
ISBN: 9781531661946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the mid-1700s, the French explored the area that is now Iberia Parish. By 1765, many Acadians arrived, and the Spanish settled along the Bayou Teche in 1779. They named the area Nueva Iberia after the Iberian Peninsula in Spain. Sugarcane plantations along Bayou Teche attracted Anglo-Americans and their slaves. In the mid-19th century, with the second Francophile migrations, French became the dominant language. By the end of Reconstruction, distinctions between Acadians and neighboring groups blurred, giving rise to a new people--the Cajuns. Today, Iberians stay true to their agrarian...
In the mid-1700s, the French explored the area that is now Iberia Parish. By 1765, many Acadians arrived, and the Spanish settled along the Bayou Tech...
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122,26 |
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St. Landry Parish
ISBN: 9781531668440 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. St. Landry Parish, one of the oldest European settlements in Louisiana, has a fascinating history and culture. By the 15th century, the Appalousa Indians were known to be in residence. In 1720, the French established le Poste des Opelousas. Traditionally an area of settlement by French Creoles and Acadians, the parish was named for St. Landry, an early bishop of Paris. In the late 1700s, les gens de couleur libres (free people of color) began arriving to take advantage of Spanish land grants. Soon, the government post developed into a commercial center. In the present-day parish, Native...
St. Landry Parish, one of the oldest European settlements in Louisiana, has a fascinating history and culture. By the 15th century, the Appalousa Indi...
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122,26 |