wyszukanych pozycji: 19
The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly: The Populist Who Debunked Shakespeare and Found Atlantis
ISBN: 9781501776939 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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140,81 zł |
The Links of Evalon
ISBN: 9780984508303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "It is not uncommon for fathers and sons to come to blows if the two love one another." So says Dr. Harlan Cragg, an ageless, cantankerous golf pro determined to probe the differences between Robert and Jack Johannes, a loving father and son grown distant. When the pair answer the doctor's summons to the Evalon Island Golf Academy, they sign on to a series of mystical tests of their essential nature, their true mettle. Storm-stayed, the duo must confront golfing angels and demons while unearthing the startling legacies of golfers before them. Soon father and son have passed every exam save...
"It is not uncommon for fathers and sons to come to blows if the two love one another." So says Dr. Harlan Cragg, an ageless, cantankerous golf pro de...
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110,09 zł |
Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom
ISBN: 9781570036118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Heralding the seventy-fifth anniversary of the quintessential agrarian anthology I'll Take My Stand, Zachary Michael Jack, himself a fourth generation farmer's son, has assembled North America's foremost contemporary writers on the present rural experience to provide their own twenty-first-century insights.
Heralding the seventy-fifth anniversary of the quintessential agrarian anthology I'll Take My Stand, Zachary Michael Jack, himself a fourth generation...
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214,89 zł |
Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the Long March for Women's Rights
ISBN: 9781476681160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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250,60 zł |
Love of the Land: Essential Farm and Conservation Readings from an American Golden Age, 1880-1920
ISBN: 9781934043332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Love of the Land: Essential Farm and Conservation Readings from an American Golden Age, 1880-1920 features an unprecedented collection of historical, interdisciplinary essays that reconstruct for the contemporary reader the dynamic dialogue between agriculturist and ecologist. Reflecting the contemporary convergence of agricultural and environmental histories into a larger, land-centered narrative, the highly readable essays in this nearly five-hundred-page anthology present the pioneering words of the academics and agriculturalists, capitalists and conservationists, ecologists and...
Love of the Land: Essential Farm and Conservation Readings from an American Golden Age, 1880-1920 features an unprecedented collection of historical, ...
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464,51 zł |
Let There Be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf
ISBN: 9780803233577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It was scary, Jack Nicklaus said of Pebble Beach, and gave him nightmares so acute he famously woke his wife on the eve of his 1972 U.S. Open victory totally spooked. It s not a golf course, sportswriter Jim Murray wrote, it s a hellship. Golf writer Dan Jenkins once joked that the famed venue of the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am should be dubbed Double Bogey-by-the-Sea.
A one-time failed Division One golf walk-on, Zachary Michael Jack opts to stare down an early midlife crisis by chronicling a U.S. Open year spent at Pebble Beach, object of his ailing father s fantasies and site of the... It was scary, Jack Nicklaus said of Pebble Beach, and gave him nightmares so acute he famously woke his wife on the eve of his 1972 U.S. Open victory ...
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146,02 zł |
Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game on
ISBN: 9780803259973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Most of us will never know what it s like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it s our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover returning with firsthand tales from inside the ropes. Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sportswriting at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of today s best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game behind the...
Most of us will never know what it s like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest,...
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104,29 zł |
Participatory Sportswriting: An Anthology, 1870-1937
ISBN: 9780786439539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long before George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field. This anthology collects 38 essays from the Gilded and Golden Age greats.
Long before George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field. This anthology collects 38 essays from th...
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250,60 zł |
The Inanity of Music and Wings
ISBN: 9781595409614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,03 zł |
The Haunt of Home: A Journey Through America's Heartland
ISBN: 9781501751790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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78,20 zł |
Uncle Henry Wallace: Letters to Farm Families
ISBN: 9781557534934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Back in print for the first time in over a century, the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace is revealed in his open letters to America's farm families. These homespun, secular epistles show that Wallace never lost sight of his roots even as he hobnobbed with U.S. Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson, anchored the prestigious Country Life Commission, and edited the most famous agricultural magazine of its day, Wallaces' Farmer. Who better to yoke the sacred, agrarian arts of stewardship, husbandry, and parenting than...
Back in print for the first time in over a century, the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace is revealed in his open letters to America's f...
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87,14 zł |
Student Body: A Benefit Mystery Novella
ISBN: 9780595412693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,93 zł |
The Midwest Farmer's Daughter: In Search of an American Icon
ISBN: 9781557536198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter unearths the untold history and renewed cultural currency of an American icon at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned. From farm women bloggers, to back-to-the-land homesteaders and seed-savers, to rural graphic novelists and, ultimately, to the seven generations of farm daughters who have animated his own family since before the Civil War, the author travels across the region to shine new documentary light on this seedbed for American virtue, energy, and ingenuity....
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter unearths the untold history and renewed cultural currency of an ...
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95,88 zł |
The Plowman Sings
ISBN: 9780761842828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Editor Zachary Michael Jack reintroduces contemporary agrarian writers, poets of place, and eco-critics to Sigmund's essential oeuvre in a jam-packed collection featuring eight Sigmund short stories, more than fifty poems, and a complete one-act play.
Editor Zachary Michael Jack reintroduces contemporary agrarian writers, poets of place, and eco-critics to Sigmund's essential oeuvre in a jam-packed ...
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312,00 zł |
The Art of Public Writing
ISBN: 9781643172170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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146,72 zł |
Farewell to Sport
ISBN: 9780803267619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America s ace sportswriters. He saw them all the stars and the hams, the immortals and the phonies in boxing, wrestling, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and every other field of muscular endeavor in which men and women try to break hearts and necks for cash or glory. Then in 1937, at the height of his game (and the height of the payroll), Gallico suddenly and famously called it quits and left the New York Daily News. But before he departed the world of sports, he left his legions of fans one last hurrah: a...
For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America s ace sportswriters. He saw them all the stars and the hams, the i...
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95,88 zł |
The Furrow And Us
ISBN: 9780761833178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Released here in a sixtieth anniversary edition and updated and introduced by Walter Thomas Jack's great-grandson Zachary, this new edition of The Furrow and Us serves as a clarion call to steward the natural and familial heritage of the soil.
Released here in a sixtieth anniversary edition and updated and introduced by Walter Thomas Jack's great-grandson Zachary, this new edition of The Fur...
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281,42 zł |
Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings
ISBN: 9781501705670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a revelation, a symbol of the nature-minded agrarianism Berry himself...
Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a re...
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104,29 zł |