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Heard and Overheard: Words Wise (and Otherwise) with Politicians, Statesmen, and Real People
ISBN: 9780991504701 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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155,37 |
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From Darband (Dorood) To Washington DC
ISBN: 9781434925473 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,51 |
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Llano Gold
ISBN: 9781498441193 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LLANO GOLD is a book for young adults in the midst of launching their lives' adventures. It is a story of consequences resulting from choices and commitments made with care, sometimes careless, reasoning. The story is universal. Told initially as a desire to share treasured family stories of pioneers of great courage who settled the vast plain known as the Llano Estacado, the author envisioned a thoroughly objective, historical account of Christian courage with God as the silent, central character. In an effort to include her personal testimony, the manuscript took on an unexplainable energy...
LLANO GOLD is a book for young adults in the midst of launching their lives' adventures. It is a story of consequences resulting from choices and comm...
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77,65 |
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The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65
ISBN: 9781515256168 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,00 |
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Georgia Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
ISBN: 9781515277118 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,79 |
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Growing Up In Old Franklin
ISBN: 9781515288510 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,49 |
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We Must Wake Up: Tome 1: A notice to the Congolese nation: The time of change has come
ISBN: 9781925353396 / Angielski / Miękka / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,44 |
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology
ISBN: 9781472456762 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "
The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology" provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America. Beginning with an examination of the project of Black Sociology, it offers studies of recent events, including the Stand Your Ground killing of Trayvon Martin, the impact of Hurricane Katrina on emerging adults, and efforts to change voting requirements that overwhelmingly affect Blacks, whilst engaging with questions of sexuality and family life, incarceration, health, educational outcomes and racial wage disparities. Inspired by W.E.B. Du... "
The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology" provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America... |
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721,77 |
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If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780743296847 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An unsung hero of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s inner circle reveals the true story behind the Citizenship Education Program--a little-known training program for disenfranchised citizens--reflecting on its huge importance to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and explaining its indisputable relevance to our nation today. "Nobody can ride your back if your back's not bent," Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., famously proclaimed at the end of a Citizenship Education Program (CEP), an adult grassroots training program born of the work of the Tennessee Highlander Folk School, expanded by King's...
An unsung hero of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s inner circle reveals the true story behind the Citizenship Education Program--a little-known training ...
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84,74 |
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Faith, Family, Friends, Freedom: The Life and Legacy of Daisy Harris Wade
ISBN: 9780986166075 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,47 |
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The Driveway Diaries
ISBN: 9780990442851 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When my family moved out from Burlington, Vermont, to a dirt road in rural Essex Center, our life immediately began to suffer the series of challenges and small disasters that quickly sort out the clueless city guy from the true Vermonter. This collection of stories is mainly about those challenges, almost all of which I failed - and about the most important, most evil challenge of all: our driveway. A gravel driveway, especially a steep one, is an umbilicus between home and the outside world, an index of change that can wash out or burst into flower overnight, and the cause of more sweat and...
When my family moved out from Burlington, Vermont, to a dirt road in rural Essex Center, our life immediately began to suffer the series of challenges...
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77,07 |
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Tales From The Mountains: Recollections of My Youth
ISBN: 9781514735510 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. J. T. Oney is the author of several fictional novels about the Morgan family from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and books of non-fiction dealing with such varied subjects as war, politics, science, religion, and Islam. In this book the author tells of growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Under Part 1, Tales from the Mountains, the author begins with a series of stories about growing up in the mountains of Southeast Kentucky in the 1940s. The period in which the stories occur encompasses the end of the Depression, and was bookended by World War II and the Korean War. They were...
J. T. Oney is the author of several fictional novels about the Morgan family from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and books of non-fiction dealing w...
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39,45 |
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Never Trust a $20 Motel.: Life on the road
ISBN: 9781494821869 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories from the life of a middle aged Englishman in the USA. Many of the stories are based on his youth, but many are from more recent times, investigating the paranormal. Very easy read and very entertaining.
A collection of short stories from the life of a middle aged Englishman in the USA. Many of the stories are based on his youth, but many are from more...
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40,47 |
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Shadows and Sunshine: Memories of a Jamaican Past
ISBN: 9781478762188 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prepare to be entertained by these recollections of the misadventures of a young girl growing up in semi-rural and urban Jamaica in the 1960s. 'Shadows and Sunshine' takes you back to a magical time when children found pleasure in their own inventions, when the world was simple and enchanting, and childhood perceptions often resulted in amusing distortions of reality. Each adventure is a mixture of mischief, magic, and wonder, from bungling a simple baby-sitting task to escaping from a machete-wielding madman. If you remember the rolling calf, the nanny goat, or your obsession with mangoes,...
Prepare to be entertained by these recollections of the misadventures of a young girl growing up in semi-rural and urban Jamaica in the 1960s. 'Shadow...
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42,95 |
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Behind The Scenes
ISBN: 9781329430907 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House is both a riveting slave narrative and a fascinating insider's look at the First Family during the Lincoln administration. Keckley was the First Lady's seamstress and confidante and the publication of her memoirs in 1868 caused a storm of controversy. The press excoriated Keckley for revealing the intimate secrets of her employers and Mary Todd Lincoln cut off her friendship with Keckley. Lincoln's eldest son had the book suppressed.
Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House is both a riveting slave narrative and a fascinating...
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69,06 |
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My Bondage And My Freedom: Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman.
ISBN: 9781469992495 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,98 |
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The Life of an African Peace Corps Child: The Life and Experiences of a Peace Corps Child of Kom, Cameroon
ISBN: 9781491771587 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My autobiography recounts my life from 1980 as an African Peace Corps child until I became a US citizen in 2012. I lived a full life as a needy child from a poverty-stricken nuclear family of nine and believe I have something fascinating to share with the world. Despite my pennilessness, I made great strides in my endeavors and thrived. I call myself a Peace Corps child of Africa because American Peace Corps volunteers, with benevolent and philanthropic gestures, encouraged my growth into an authentic adult. Mr. Alan Lakomski whisked me away from my job as bartender and manager of a... My autobiography recounts my life from 1980 as an African Peace Corps child until I became a US citizen in 2012. I lived a full life as a needy chi... |
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76,88 |
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Stepping Into the River: An American Psychologist in Mother India
ISBN: 9781512223453 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. INDIA: Home to the greatest beauty and most appalling poverty in the world. Come on a journey with American psychologist Marc Nemiroff and meet saints and sinners, the poor, Untouchables, and others who are a part of the Indian tapestry, and discover the soul of this deeply moving country. Nemiroff and his Indian colleague, Asha Dutia, spent one month each winter for 9 years working with the disenfranchised of India: abandoned elderly blind, children and their families in the Mumbai slums, street children, young adults kidnapped as children for the sex trade, parents of deepest poverty living...
INDIA: Home to the greatest beauty and most appalling poverty in the world. Come on a journey with American psychologist Marc Nemiroff and meet saints...
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68,74 |
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I Remember . . .: True Memories of a Little Girl Who Grew Up in the Tennessee Mountains in the Twenties
ISBN: 9781514373354 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains the childhood memories of Frances Hamby Presswood who was born and raised in the mountains of Southeast Tennessee. Her recollections provide a vivid portrayal of mountain life during the early part of the 20th century, including the Great Depression. Her story entertains through her funny narration, but also inspires as she tells of how her family dealt with tragedy and severe economic times with hard work and dependence on the Lord.
This book contains the childhood memories of Frances Hamby Presswood who was born and raised in the mountains of Southeast Tennessee. Her recollection...
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40,43 |
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The Life Stories: Pregnant Women at Sea
ISBN: 9781631357350 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life stories to be told reflect the total panorama of the Vietnamese people and its author. This book was written by a witness who lived, worked, and suffered during the different stages of the country, from colonial French to the democratic government of South Vietnam, and later living under the ruthless regime of the communists who took over after the war. Author Nhan Thieu Nguyen remembers his incarceration, as well as living in the re-education period and his escape. His trauma has never been forgotten. The Vietcong used re-education for revenge after the Khmer Rouge bloodbath that...
The life stories to be told reflect the total panorama of the Vietnamese people and its author. This book was written by a witness who lived, worked, ...
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40,47 |
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