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Flashback Katrina 10 Years After
ISBN: 9781514206546 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join Kim on this fantastic exploration which she still feels was so real. This book delves into the scary and chilling details of that fateful day of August 29, 2005 when in a blink of Katrina's eye, her world and life as she knew it changed. Follow her 10 year quest for survival along a bumpy road struggling for some sense of stability. Kim's staying power makes her a survivor. Her sometimes irreverent but always refreshing look at a true life catastrophe is thought - provoking. Luckily, Kim never loses her sense of humor. What gives this book a shelf life much longer than 10 years is the...
Join Kim on this fantastic exploration which she still feels was so real. This book delves into the scary and chilling details of that fateful day of ...
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60,03 |
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The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
ISBN: 9781514333204 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In presenting to the general reader a newly-written Life of so extraordinary a person as St. Frances of Rome, together with the biographical sketches contained in the present volume, it may be useful to introduce them with a few brief remarks on that peculiar feature in the histories of many Saints, which is least in accordance with the popular ideas of modern times. A mere translation, or republication of a foreign or ancient book, does not necessarily imply any degree of assent to the principles involved in the original writer's statements. The new version or edition may be nothing more...
In presenting to the general reader a newly-written Life of so extraordinary a person as St. Frances of Rome, together with the biographical sketches ...
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29,98 |
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Cowper
ISBN: 9781514380901 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Cowper" from Goldwin Smith. British historian and journalist (1823-1910).
"Cowper" from Goldwin Smith. British historian and journalist (1823-1910).
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59,63 |
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The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
ISBN: 9781514398029 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen" from Leslie Stephen. English author, critic and mountaineer (1832-1904).
"The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen" from Leslie Stephen. English author, critic and mountaineer (1832-1904).
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83,64 |
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Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptures 1885-1965
ISBN: 9781906270896 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring the works of key Scottish painters and sculptors between 1885 and 1965.
Featuring the works of key Scottish painters and sculptors between 1885 and 1965.
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126,06 |
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Eugen Fink (1905-1975): Lebensbild Des Freiburger Phanomenologen
ISBN: 9783495487020 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 1072 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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720,15 |
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Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time: I. Los, a Chapter
ISBN: 9781509500543 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. H?l?ne Cixous has dreamed for years of -The Book-I-Don't-Write, - but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. When Jacques Derrida told her the Book would get written one day, but differently, Cixous tells us she would see it -shining behind a veil, its indecipherable back, upright on heaven's bookshelf, its elegant silhouette, utterly foreign, utterly familiar, of future revenant. I've always thought it would come, naturally. When? After all my deaths? Just before, or just after, the last of my deaths.-
One day, when she is no... H?l?ne Cixous has dreamed for years of -The Book-I-Don't-Write, - but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just...
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179,71 |
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The Broke Ass Brigade: The savage side of the American dream
ISBN: 9780692443668 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Broke Ass Brigade is a sarcastic account of the author's employment in one of the largest retail chains in the world. Don entered the workforce as a young man barely out of high school, full of enthusiasm and idealism. He soon received a reality check about corporate America. Raised in the middle class, he believed in the value system of an honest day's work for an honest wage. That by doing what was "right" and working hard, he would succeed. The Company Store, however, had other plans for him and his coworkers-the American working class. Terrorized by crazy and vindictive bosses, Don...
The Broke Ass Brigade is a sarcastic account of the author's employment in one of the largest retail chains in the world. Don entered the workforce as...
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55,83 |
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Happy Felsch: Banished Black Sox Center Fielder
ISBN: 9780786494873 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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166,12 |
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Iowa Baseball Greats: Sixteen Major Leaguers Who Were in the Game for Life
ISBN: 9780786498949 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the world of sports, Iowa is probably best known for wrestling but the state has also produced more than 200 major league baseball players. Sixteen of them are profiled here, including six Hall of Famers, the game's brightest star of the 19th century, an American League batting champion, the only pitcher to lead the National League in strikeouts seven years in a row, the only catcher to catch two back-to-back no-hitters and one of the most dominant pitchers in American League history.
They made their presence felt off the field, too. One helped fortify the game's racial barriers. One...
In the world of sports, Iowa is probably best known for wrestling but the state has also produced more than 200 major league baseball players. Sixteen...
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166,12 |
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En Torno Al Homre Y a Los Monstruos
ISBN: 9780916379384 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions
Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Prem...
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254,00 |
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La Místlca Ciudad de Dios (1670)
ISBN: 9780916379674 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book introduces readers to literary links between this seventeenth-century prose of Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda and other Spanish Baroque masterpieces. The author reexamines the original text and discovers significant dimensions regarding its historical, religious, and literary importance. His research of the novelesque form and "dialogical principles" operative in La mistica ciudad de Dios provides convincing evidence of substantive prose literature."
The book introduces readers to literary links between this seventeenth-century prose of Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda and other Spanish Baroque masterp...
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241,20 |
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Sofía Casanova (1862-1958): Spanish Woman Poet, Journalist and Author
ISBN: 9780916379957 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poet, journalist of world wars and the Russian Revolution, prolific novelist, translator, playwright, respected society figure: Sofia Casanova intrigued and influenced the Spanish reading public for over fifty years. Sofia Casanova's unique achievements should have drawn considerable critical and scholarly notice. Yet today her life and works remain unexamined or ignored. It is the purpose of this book, researched in Spain and Poland, to reintroduce Sofia Casanova to the scholarly and general public."
Poet, journalist of world wars and the Russian Revolution, prolific novelist, translator, playwright, respected society figure: Sofia Casanova intrigu...
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232,66 |
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The Listening Project: Lessons of Life, Love & Listening to God
ISBN: 9780996366311 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Story About Listening to God The Listening Project tells the true story of a woman who decides to make an unusual and quirky deal with God to become a better listener. What starts out as a step-by-step business model approach to learn about listening to the Divine voice within, soon turns into a far more personal and unexpected journey of loss, grief, healing, and love. An inspiring and at times irreverent book, The Listening Project makes you laugh, cry, and think about the many opportunities we have to hear God in our daily lives, especially when life gives us hurdles too big to jump on...
A Story About Listening to God The Listening Project tells the true story of a woman who decides to make an unusual and quirky deal with God to become...
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53,32 |
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Queen Victoria
ISBN: 9780415720915 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paula Bartley's Queen Victoria examines Victorian Britain from the perspective of the Queen. Victoria's personal and political actions are discussed in relation to contemporary shifts in Britain's society, politics and culture, examining to what extent they did - or did not - influence events throughout her reign. Drawing from contemporary sources, including Queen Victoria's own diaries, as well as the most recent scholarship, the book contextualises Victoria historically by placing her in the centre of an unparalleled period of innovation and reform, in which the... Paula Bartley's Queen Victoria examines Victorian Britain from the perspective of the Queen. Victoria's personal and political actions are d... |
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195,06 |
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Jean Ternant and the Age of Revolutions: A Soldier and Diplomat (1751-1833) in the American, French, Dutch and Belgian Uprisings
ISBN: 9781476662138 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean Ternant's life (1751-1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life. Born when men were still subject to judicial torture, he lived to see the dawn of the railroad age. It was an era of political upheaval: the American Revolution, the "patriot" movement of the Dutch Republic, the Vonckist uprising in the Austrian Netherlands, the French Revolution, the Polish rebellion against Imperial Russia, the Greek war for independence and the struggle for independence in Spain's South American colonies all occurred during Ternant's lifetime. He was an active participant in four of...
Jean Ternant's life (1751-1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life. Born when men were still subject to judicial torture, he lived t...
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166,12 |
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Will To Live: A Noble Cause
ISBN: 9781497469136 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Words do matter, regardless of what some folks may want us to believe. After all, the Scriptures tell us that God created the world with the power of spoken words. As human, we often under-estimate the power of words, especially those with the possibility of bringing into existence that which otherwise would not be, or to reinforce destiny. That was how the biggest movement of change in recent history gained the kind of momentum required to turn the son of a single mother into the President of the United States of America. In other words, we can become a summation of our thought processes and...
Words do matter, regardless of what some folks may want us to believe. After all, the Scriptures tell us that God created the world with the power of ...
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51,99 |
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The In-Between: The Story of African-Oromo Women and the American Experience
ISBN: 9781500707415 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The In Between is a story that transcends cultures, borders, nationality, religion and an identities for which one see's themselves rather than the one imposed on them. More importantly it is about African Women who wonder where they fit between conservative African values with double standards for boys and girls and/or fantasy land with feminist ideology and the American democracy. The author uses Winnie Mandela, who gave so much to her people, for the pursuit of justice but seems to end up in a different place than her counterpart, male. It is also about immigrants who are born in one place...
The In Between is a story that transcends cultures, borders, nationality, religion and an identities for which one see's themselves rather than the on...
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79,84 |
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Depressed People Make Me Sleepy: My Curriculum Vitae
ISBN: 9781504903899 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the death of a loved one, M. J. Rex loses focus, drive, and all hope that she will ever be the person she has always dreamed of becoming. Forced to make a life-altering decision about whether to move on with her own life or die in a figurative sense, she stumbles through life one soap opera at a time. Depressed People Make Me Sleepy follows M. J. through her childhood from about the age of fifteen into adulthood and the beginnings of her career as a forensic psychologist. Her struggle to be the best at what she does, however, places her face-to-face with unresolved matters that if left...
After the death of a loved one, M. J. Rex loses focus, drive, and all hope that she will ever be the person she has always dreamed of becoming. Forced...
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76,88 |
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El Rey Anglada
ISBN: 9781514738054 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considerado el show man de la segunda base por su inteligencia, rapidez, ingenio y una distintiva e irrepetible personalidad, Rey Vicente Anglada ha sido uno de los peloteros mas espectaculares del beisbol cubano. A traves de estas paginas conoceremos al Rey Anglada que defendio el beisbol en Industriales y la seleccion nacional, pero ademas la epoca de oscuridad del idolo, acusado -a todas luces injustamente- de vender juegos junto a un grupo de peloteros y entrenadores. De manera exclusiva, el lector podra encontrarse con una historia vedada por decadas. El Rey Anglada obtuvo mencion en el...
Considerado el show man de la segunda base por su inteligencia, rapidez, ingenio y una distintiva e irrepetible personalidad, Rey Vicente Anglada ha s...
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59,83 |
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