wyszukanych pozycji: 84
Not From Around Here, Are You?
ISBN: 9780615251950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In our third anthology, Not From Around Here, Are You?, The Cincinnati Writers Project explores the concept of the outsider, the stranger in our midst. Some pieces are funny, some sad, others are scary and unsettling. This new collection is a smorgasbord representing writers of literary fiction, mystery, poetry, humor, romance, and science fiction. If you are a reader with eclectic taste, take a bite. You'll hunger for more. All are guaranteed to have zero trans fat. Since 1987, Cincinnati Writers Project has existed to encourage and support writers of all genres. If you're an apprentice or...
In our third anthology, Not From Around Here, Are You?, The Cincinnati Writers Project explores the concept of the outsider, the stranger in our midst...
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93,33 zł |
Florida Seafood Cookery
ISBN: 9781410106667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. CONTENTS Acknowledgements Table of Weights and Measures Purchasing of Fish and Shellfish Lean and Fat Florida Fishes Sauces for Seafoods Fish-General Cooking Directions Special Florida Fish Recipes Precooked Fish Recipes Eels Clams Conchs Crabs Stone Crabs Crawfish Oysters Scallops Donal (Coquina) Shrimp Sea Mussels Turtle Terrapin Home Canning Quantity Servings Citations Index
CONTENTS Acknowledgements Table of Weights and Measures Purchasing of Fish and Shellfish Lean and Fat Florida Fishes Sauces for Seafoods Fish-General ...
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97,37 zł |
In the Land of Breathitt
ISBN: 9781948986267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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121,77 zł |
Outlaws & Desperados: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book
ISBN: 9780865346338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between 1936 and 1940, field workers in the Federal Writers' Project collected many accounts that provide an authentic and vivid picture of the early days of New Mexico. This volume focuses on outlaws and desperados.
Between 1936 and 1940, field workers in the Federal Writers' Project collected many accounts that provide an authentic and vivid picture of the early ...
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152,29 zł |
Arkansas Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves [Part 2, Volume 2]
ISBN: 9781514619186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,47 zł |
Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State
ISBN: 9780803269187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1939, Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State was collaboratively written by the Federal Writers Project (FWP). As part of the Works Project Administration, the FWP gathered together some of the best writers of the era. Collectively, they undertook a nationwide initiative to record information about America and create comprehensive guides to their respective states. The wonderful results were a well-written blend of travel guide, ethnography, local history, and cultural document. This guide to the Cornhusker State brought together Nebraska writers such as... First published in 1939, Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State was collaboratively written by the Federal Writers Project (FWP). As part... |
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95,64 zł |
The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves (Parts 1 & 2)
ISBN: 9781514666463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,30 zł |
The Wpa Guide to 1930s Kansas
ISBN: 9780700602490 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The WPA Guide, the first and only guidebook ever devoted to Kansas, was published in 1939. After six decades and more, its pages still provide a wealth of reliable historic, geographic, and cultural information on Kansas, as well as some intriguing lore that many modern-day readers will find new. Not the least of its contributions is the accurate picture it gives of Kansas between the Great Depression and World War II--of its industrial, agricultural, and natural resources. The book is divided into three sections: seventeen topical essays covering subjects such as Indians,...
The WPA Guide, the first and only guidebook ever devoted to Kansas, was published in 1939. After six decades and more, its pages still provide ...
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250,26 zł |
Wyoming: A Guide to Its History, Highways, and People
ISBN: 9780803268548 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 555 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in the famous American Guide Series of the Work Projects Administration in 1941, Wyoming: A Guide remains a distinguished survey of the state, its centers of interest, and its history. Now issued in paperback for the first time, it can introduce to new readers the geographic spectacle and pioneer history that continue to shape the character of Wyoming. A new introduction by T. A. Larson, author of History of Wyoming, updates the Guide and evaluates changes seen in the state since the book was first published. Valuable to the resident as a reference to the state's many...
First published in the famous American Guide Series of the Work Projects Administration in 1941, Wyoming: A Guide remains a distinguished survey of th...
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130,50 zł |
Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes
ISBN: 9780820308517 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, "Drums and Shadows" traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks living on the Georgia coast in the 1930s. In the later years of the depression, members of the Georgia Writers' Project visited and interviewed blacks, many of whose grandparents, smuggled into slavery as late as 1858, had passed on the customs and beliefs of their African past. Seeking evidence of African traditions, the project's workers questioned the blacks about conjure--the curses and potions responsible for turns of luck, illnesses, and even...
Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, "Drums and Shadows" traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks livi...
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202,87 zł |
Arkansas Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
ISBN: 9781514650332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,37 zł |
Los Angeles in the 1930s: The Wpa Guide to the City of Angels
ISBN: 9780520268838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A. s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associationsand the mystiquefor which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. It is also a compact coffee table...
Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A. s history...
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136,76 zł |
San Francisco in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City by the Bay
ISBN: 9780520268807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it, according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building s pyramid. This invaluable Depression-era guide to San Francisco relates the city s history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing its culture and highlighting the important tourist attractions of the time. David Kipen s lively introduction revisits the city s literary heritagefrom Bret Harte to Kenneth...
San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it, according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940....
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136,76 zł |
The North Carolina Slave Narratives Vol. 1 A-H: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews With Former Slaves
ISBN: 9781492977292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1935, as part of the WPA, President Roosevelt created the Federal Writers Project. This was a very ambitious program designed to put unemployed writers, editors, teachers and others to work. They were paid between $20 and $25 dollars per week on average. Over 6000 people were employed by the Federal Writers Project. Some later on became quite famous in the literary world. Among those were Conrad Aiken, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Anna Bontemps, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, Edward Dahlberg, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude Mckay, Kenneth Patchen, Phillip Rahv, Kenneth Rexroth,...
In 1935, as part of the WPA, President Roosevelt created the Federal Writers Project. This was a very ambitious program designed to put unemployed wri...
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68,59 zł |
Georgia: The Wpa Guide to Its Towns and Countryside
ISBN: 9780872497078 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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202,79 zł |
New York City Guide
ISBN: 9781565843219 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 1930s-buffs a look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride cost only a few cents, a room at the Plaza was $7.50, Dodger fans flocked to Ebbetts Field, and the new World's Fair was the talk of the town. The New York of 1939 was a city where adventures began under the clock at the Biltmore, the big liners sailed at midnight, and Times Square was considered the crossroads of the world.
Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 1930s...
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113,07 zł |
Oklahoma Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938
ISBN: 9781557090225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
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68,40 zł |
San Diego in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to America's Finest City
ISBN: 9780520275386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "San Diego in the 1930s" offers a lively account of the city s culture, roadside attractions, and historyfrom the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom. The guide is revealing both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy details it recordstidbits such as the bloodiest and most incompetently fought battle of the Mexican-American War, Emma Goldman s abruptly terminated speech to local Wobblies in 1912, and even a delightfully anachronistic way to beat a San Diego speeding ticket. Brimming with tours that can prove challenging to retrace, this book reminds us of the...
"San Diego in the 1930s" offers a lively account of the city s culture, roadside attractions, and historyfrom the days of the Spanish missions to the ...
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100,43 zł |
Wpa Guide to Philadelphia: A Guide to the Nation's Birthplace
ISBN: 9781512821222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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343,00 zł |
Alabama: A Guide To The Deep South
ISBN: 9780403021536 / Angielski / Twarda / 1941 / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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413,96 zł |