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The Princess Rancher
ISBN: 9781939930569 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,80 |
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Bless This Bite
ISBN: 9780986165931 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is your legacy? How would you be described by those who know you best? Is it time to do some good deeds? What happens when you leave this existence? Jo-Jo Tabayoyong Murphy sketches the personalities of souls who have impacted her life in significant ways. Seemingly ordinary gestures and simple acts of kindness are elevated when seen through grateful eyes. Do you recognize yourself or your family members in these pages?
What is your legacy? How would you be described by those who know you best? Is it time to do some good deeds? What happens when you leave this existen...
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48,55 |
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Memories of Two Generations: A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
ISBN: 9780817319038 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas. In 1935, in his seventies, Gurwitz composed a retrospective autobiography, Memories of Two Generations, that recounts his personal story both of the rich history of the lost Jewish world of Eastern Europe and of the rambunctious development of frontier Jewish communities in the United States. In both Europe and America, Gurwitz inhabited an almost exclusively Jewish world. As a boy,...
In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukrai...
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244,89 |
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Dust and Memories: Memoirs of a Survivor
ISBN: 9781480906129 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As World War II (in 1939) overtook Poland, Chaim Silberstrom began a nightmarish flight and fight for survival. The Polish Army refused to allow Jews to join the battle, so Chaim became an easy target. First arrested and force-marched to Germany, he escaped the Nazis, only to be arrested by the Russians. Accused of being a German spy, he was sent to Siberia as a slave laborer.
With more lives than a cat, Chaim managed to survive to tell his story of cruelty and viciousness, but also perseverance, kindness, and courage in the face of impossible odds. About the Author At nineteen,... As World War II (in 1939) overtook Poland, Chaim Silberstrom began a nightmarish flight and fight for survival. The Polish Army refused to allow Jews ...
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57,80 |
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My Triumph Over Prejudice: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781496806031 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age during some of the most crucial and dangerous years of the civil rights movement. She examines those years and what happened when the movement upended her small town of Fayette. She describes the conditions under which blacks lived during segregation and how those oppressive rules changed, despite massive resistance from whites. Wyatt-Rossignol faced racial hatred when she was chosen for an early school desegregation... My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha W... |
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141,98 |
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The Mitford Society: Vol. III
ISBN: 9781517121372 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrate all things Mitford with stories, features and essays on the Mitford girls and their contemporaries, including the much loved Mitford Tease. With contributions from: Meems Ellenberg; Lyndsy Spence; Kathy Hillwig; Jeffrey Manley; Tessa Arlen; Kerin Freeman; Louisa Treger; Kim Place-Gateau; Virginie Pronovost; Leia Clancy; Robert Wainwright; Terence Towles Canote; Anna Thomasson; Sonia Purnell; and Barbara Leaming.
Celebrate all things Mitford with stories, features and essays on the Mitford girls and their contemporaries, including the much loved Mitford Tease. ...
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40,43 |
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The Gifts of Frank Cobbold
ISBN: 9781925416220 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped the cannibals' cook pot and survived one of the worst hurricanes in living memory. In Australia he learned the skills of a surveyor and quickly became a sought-after and trusted station manager. Despite problems that would have defeated a less resolute man he took droughts, cheats and unyielding land tenure regulations in his stride to become one of Australia's great pioneering pastoralists. Admired by fellow bushmen, trusted by his partners and...
This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped ...
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99,23 |
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Alma Guerrera: Biografia Novelada de Martha Monroy Ornelas
ISBN: 9780989260480 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biografia Novelada de Martha Monroy Ornelas
Biografia Novelada de Martha Monroy Ornelas
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31,68 |
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Doreen Valiente Witch
ISBN: 9780992843069 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A personal biographical account of the life of Doreen Valiente, described by Professor Ronald Hutton as "the greatest single female figure in the modern British history of witchcraft." Author Philip Heselton draws on first hand testimony and Doreen's own personal papers to reveal previously unknown details of her life with fascinating and sometimes startling insights. Adding to the still-emerging story of how an underground cult, described by some as Britain's only living indigenous religion, became a worldwide spiritual movement in the course of a few decades. While Gerald Brosseau Gardner...
A personal biographical account of the life of Doreen Valiente, described by Professor Ronald Hutton as "the greatest single female figure in the mode...
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87,08 |
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Fighting Spirits: Crossing the divides of culture, religion, and language
ISBN: 9781502442727 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A love story of a Palestinian man and an Italian woman who met, fell in love, married, had children, and lived happily, but not ever after. Memorable moments include surgery on a rooster, surviving Wold War II, standing up to the Syrian Secret Police, and finding love in a foreign land.
A love story of a Palestinian man and an Italian woman who met, fell in love, married, had children, and lived happily, but not ever after. Memorable ...
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60,65 |
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Hazim Beg Shemdin Agha: A Kurdish Personality: A Social History of His Life & Times, 1901-1954
ISBN: 9781516989539 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long before the Ottoman Empire, Kurdistan existed. Tucked among the Zagros and Taurus mountains and beyond, the people of Kurdistan lived as their ancestors had until the splintering of their lands following World War I. Hazim Beg Shemdin Agha foresaw the changes that would come during his lifetime, and after. Born in 1901 to a distinguished Kurdish family in Zakho, Iraq, he passionately believed in education as the foundation of liberty and social justice. As the leader of his tribe and a senator in the Iraqi parliament during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century, he used... Long before the Ottoman Empire, Kurdistan existed. Tucked among the Zagros and Taurus mountains and beyond, the people of Kurdistan lived as their ... |
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Behind the scenes
ISBN: 9781519450395 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years int he White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and poignant slave narratives.
Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years int he White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and ...
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Miles Standish
ISBN: 9781519481856 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Miles Standish is a biography of the famous pilgrim.
Miles Standish is a biography of the famous pilgrim.
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Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave
ISBN: 9781519535733 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a slave narrative written in the mid-19th century before the Civil War. From the preface: " THE present Narrative was first published in Boston, (U.S.) in July, 1847, and eight thousand copies were sold in less than eighteen months from the time of its publication. This rapid sale may be attributed to the circumstance, that for three years preceding its publication, I had been employed as a lecturing agent by the American Anti-slavery Society; and I was thus very generally known throughout the Free States of the Great Republic, as one who had spent the first twenty years of his life...
This is a slave narrative written in the mid-19th century before the Civil War. From the preface: " THE present Narrative was first published in Bosto...
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60,65 |
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Shahaama: Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9780815610618 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager. Through personal interviews over the course of several years, Atiya intimately captured the everyday triumphs and struggles of these young men in a rapidly changing Egyptian society. These tender stories of childhood experiences in the rural countryside, of the rigors of schooling, and of the many challenges in navigating adulthood shed light on both the rich diversity of Egyptian society and the values and...
Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a busin...
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39,13 |
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Shahaama: Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9780815634348 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager. Through personal interviews over the course of several years, Atiya intimately captured the everyday triumphs and struggles of these young men in a rapidly changing Egyptian society. These tender stories of childhood experiences in the rural countryside, of the rigors of schooling, and of the many challenges in navigating adulthood shed light on both the rich diversity of Egyptian society and the values and...
Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a busin...
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205,71 |
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Doreen Valiente Witch
ISBN: 9780992843076 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,33 |
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The Last Real Cowboy: An Anecdotal Biography
ISBN: 9781482592863 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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24,23 |
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Of Roots and Wings: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781491778722 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This family story begins in the colonial days of Myanmar (then called Burma), and it's an important historical account that sheds light on the country's people, history, and place in the world. Continuing the account she began in A Journey in Time, Wai Wai Myaing picks up with her family's return to Myanmar's capital city of Yangon after allied forces reoccupied the country in the aftermath of World War II. They discovered their family home had been torched to the ground, but they bravely put themselves to the task of rebuilding their lives and celebrated as the country regained its...
This family story begins in the colonial days of Myanmar (then called Burma), and it's an important historical account that sheds light on the country...
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80,73 |
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Of Roots and Wings: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781491782873 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This family story begins in the colonial days of Myanmar (then called Burma), and it's an important historical account that sheds light on the country's people, history, and place in the world. Continuing the account she began in A Journey in Time, Wai Wai Myaing picks up with her family's return to Myanmar's capital city of Yangon after allied forces reoccupied the country in the aftermath of World War II. They discovered their family home had been torched to the ground, but they bravely put themselves to the task of rebuilding their lives and celebrated as the country regained its...
This family story begins in the colonial days of Myanmar (then called Burma), and it's an important historical account that sheds light on the country...
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