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Living the Good Life Part I-My Stories: Reflections and Memories
ISBN: 9781477558959 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hi, Thanks for reading this description of my latest book. I am Robert E. Ballard from Zirconia, North Carolina and live with my wife, Jane and son Gary in the Green River community of Henderson County. Retiring in 2003 from General Electric Outdoor Lighting after almost 30 years of service I discovered that I liked to write and joined an on-line writing site called hub pages. The articles contained in Living the Good Life-Part I are all short stories which I wrote on my site and cover a broad range of topics. We all have memories created over the span of our life. In this volume I share many...
Hi, Thanks for reading this description of my latest book. I am Robert E. Ballard from Zirconia, North Carolina and live with my wife, Jane and son Ga...
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Dance, Coppelia, Dance
ISBN: 9781477523377 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paris, Fall 1942. Ten-year-old Fanny escapes in the midst of WWII from a Jewish orphanage supervised by the Nazis. She arrives at the door of a French woman and asks for her help. The woman, whose real identity is revealed only towards the end of the book, agrees to take her in, and Fanny becomes Annie Normand. Changing her name and identity is the first in a series of events, some brutal, that the child will encounter over the next four years in Vichy France. This is the story of a double journey: the actual journey of Fanny-Annie, a Holocaust survivor, to the places in Poland where her...
Paris, Fall 1942. Ten-year-old Fanny escapes in the midst of WWII from a Jewish orphanage supervised by the Nazis. She arrives at the door of a French...
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getting to Know Thyself: When you know where you belong, you belong anywhere.
ISBN: 9781477622926 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A personal account of growing up Greek in Australia and of finding identity through origins. Hilarious, poignant and soulful. Nike Azoros is a Greek voice, with a slight Australian accent. Born in Australia to Greek parents who told her nothing about Greece, so when the time to go to Greece for the first time, she had to become Greek fast. She did this by searching for the answer to one of the world's toughest questions, Who am I? It's the hardest question to answer but she found hers by going home to her roots. The Ancient Greeks inscribed the saying 'Know Thyself" on the great temple of...
A personal account of growing up Greek in Australia and of finding identity through origins. Hilarious, poignant and soulful. Nike Azoros is a Greek v...
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The Snake in the Vodka Bottle: Life Stories from Post-Soviet Lithuania Twenty Years after the Collapse of Communism
ISBN: 9781475056969 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty years after participating in Lithuania's independence movement as a student, Laima Vince returns on a Fulbright grant to post-soviet Lithuania with her three children. Over the course of four years, while living and teaching and raising her children as a single mother in Vilnius, she conducts interviews with a diverse range of people. In this book she records the life stories of traditional healers, who treat their patients using ancient verbal incantations; trafficked teenage girls and the activist social workers who shelter them; Baltic gay rights activists who fight, and win, the...
Twenty years after participating in Lithuania's independence movement as a student, Laima Vince returns on a Fulbright grant to post-soviet Lithuania ...
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The Roan
ISBN: 9781597131247 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Fictionalized Story Giving Voice to the Past by Retelling a Grandmothers History
A Fictionalized Story Giving Voice to the Past by Retelling a Grandmothers History
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107,90 |
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Radical Chapters: Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution
ISBN: 9780815610069 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler s Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the San Francisco Bay Area store in 1955, he led the way as a pioneer in the "paperback revolution." He popularized the once radical idea of selling affordable books in an intellectually bracing coffeehouse atmosphere. Paperback selling was not the only revolution Kepler supported, however. In Radical Chapters, Doyle sheds light on Kepler s remarkable... Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler s Books and Magazines is one of the m... |
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THE MAN WHO BROUGHT A Mountain of Soul to Houston, Texas: Autobiography of a Disc Jockey
ISBN: 9781466943483 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The man who brought a mountain of soul to Houston, Texas. The man who brought and promoted many Houston rhythm and blues performers. The man who brought and promoted many comedy shows including Amos &Andy. The man who watched the church he is a member of grow from 25 members to over 14,000 members.
The man who brought a mountain of soul to Houston, Texas. The man who brought and promoted many Houston rhythm and blues performers. The man who broug...
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The Man Who Brought a Mountain of Soul to Houston, Texas: Autobiography of a Disc Jockey
ISBN: 9781466943506 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The man who brought a mountain of soul to Houston, Texas. The man who brought and promoted many Houston rhythm and blues performers. The man who brought and promoted many comedy shows including Amos &Andy. The man who watched the church he is a member of grow from 25 members to over 14,000 members.
The man who brought a mountain of soul to Houston, Texas. The man who brought and promoted many Houston rhythm and blues performers. The man who broug...
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Airborne to Chairborne: Memoirs of a War Veteran Aviator-Lawyer of the Indian Air Force
ISBN: 9781469196565 / Angielski / Miękka / 700 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Airborne to Chairborne: Memoirs of a War Veteran Aviator-Lawyer of the Indian Air Force
ISBN: 9781469196572 / Angielski / Twarda / 700 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Magnificent Mays: A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays
ISBN: 9781611170771 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Civil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the twentieth century. He influenced the lives of generations of students as a dean and professor of religion at Howard University and as longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. In addition to his personal achievements, Mays was also a mentor and teacher to Julian Bond, founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; future Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson; writer, preacher, and theologian Howard Washington Thurman; and...
Civil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinian...
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Dawn of Desegregation: J. A. de Laine and Briggs V. Elliott
ISBN: 9781611171402 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the forefront of a new era in American history, Briggs v. Elliott was one of the five school-segregation lawsuits argued consecutively before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952. The genesis of Briggs was in 1947, when the black community of Clarendon County, South Carolina, took action against the abysmally poor educational services provided for their children. In a move that would define him as an early champion for civil rights justice, Joseph A. De Laine, pastor and school principal, led his neighbors to challenge South Carolina's "separate but equal" practice of racial segregation in...
At the forefront of a new era in American history, Briggs v. Elliott was one of the five school-segregation lawsuits argued consecutively before the U...
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Ivan & Me
ISBN: 9780985471002 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ivan Cooper was born in Killaloo, Northern Ireland to a working class Protestant family. In 1968 Ivan was elected to Parliament where he served until 1983. Committed to non-violence, Ivan became a prominent leader in Northern Ireland's civil rights movement. Ivan believed that Protestant and Catholic should work together to demand equal rights in employment, housing, and voting. A speaker, participant, and organizer of many civil rights marches in the late 60s and early 70s, Ivan was one of the organizers of the march slated for 30 January 1972. The first march to be held on a Sunday, it was...
Ivan Cooper was born in Killaloo, Northern Ireland to a working class Protestant family. In 1968 Ivan was elected to Parliament where he served until ...
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
ISBN: 9781439169827 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner shines a powerful light on race, politics, and the lives and legacies of Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington. In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner becomes a lens through which to examine race, politics, and the lives and legacies of two of America's most iconic figures. In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive mansion with the First Family. The next morning, news that the president had dined with a black man sent...
In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner shines a powerful light on race, politics, and the lives and legacies of Theodo...
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Egypt-Downunder: Becoming Australian
ISBN: 9780980814606 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author has lived in multicultural societies in both Egypt where she was born and Australia where she migrated. This book describes the process of adaptation of a migrant. The influence of different cultures is clearly depicted. The social, historical and cultural description of both countries provides interesting reading to people from both countries and also to first and second generation migrants from any country in the world. The book recounts personal events in the author's life, and talks about the emotional side connected to migration and displacement. Egypt is an important country...
The author has lived in multicultural societies in both Egypt where she was born and Australia where she migrated. This book describes the process of ...
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Buzzard's Myth: Adventures of a Free Spirit from Egg to Infinity
ISBN: 9780985715717 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nothing short of raging adventure and experimentation could stop young Alva Harris. Or older Alva Harris. Or Coast Guardsman Alva Harris. Or even Professor Alva Harris. A native of the North Carolina Coast, which he still calls home, he chronicles the wonders of these wetlands and small towns, and even a few decades fighting the seas of the Pacific in the Coast Guard and as a salmon fisherman. Alva's very nature is "adventure," and he lives it to the fullest. Starting with his youth as a Depression-era child in Hyde County, NC, he rekindles those memories, teaches some history lessons about...
Nothing short of raging adventure and experimentation could stop young Alva Harris. Or older Alva Harris. Or Coast Guardsman Alva Harris. Or even Prof...
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Crossing the Line: Traveling the Roads of Life and Health Care in the Footsteps of the Greatest Generation
ISBN: 9781478188766 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sometimes humorous, sometimes sentimental, and sometimes serious commentary on the dramatic difference between the author's expectations for life and what he has actually encountered. Using the fundamental values he was raised to believe in while growing up in the Midwest for comparison, the author focuses on the disparity found today in American business, politics and health care. This baby boomer's personally revealing story and unique perspective will challenge readers to reconsider the bottom line of their own beliefs.
A sometimes humorous, sometimes sentimental, and sometimes serious commentary on the dramatic difference between the author's expectations for life an...
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Memories, Another Place - Another Time
ISBN: 9781478223535 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the second in the author's collection of short stories about life in Aroostook County, Maine-some nearly true, some not-so-true, all entertaining and likely to leave the reader smiling.
This book is the second in the author's collection of short stories about life in Aroostook County, Maine-some nearly true, some not-so-true, all ente...
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Sam Flores
ISBN: 9781610120258 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,04 |
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Coming of Age in the Hip Hop Generation: Warrior of the Void
ISBN: 9780985502409 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do you get when a father, who came of age in the Black Power and Black is Beautiful Generation, attempts to raise a son coming of age in the Hip Hop Generation? You get two views of reality, psychological warfare, harmony, disharmony, hope, and ongoing transformation.
Coming of Age in the Hip Hop Generation: Warrior of the Void is a co-authored father-son memoir. It is written in the son's voice and covers the first 18 years of his life growing up African American and Puerto Rican in Brooklyn. The void is the space that exists between who we are and who we are called to... What do you get when a father, who came of age in the Black Power and Black is Beautiful Generation, attempts to raise a son coming of age in the Hip ...
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