ilość książek w kategorii: 6343
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
ISBN: 9781476737997 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, underprivileged, and anxious thirteen-year-old to become one of America's most groundbreaking dancers . A true prodigy, she was attempting in months roles that take most dancers years to...
Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes h...
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77,45 zł |
Tell Them We Are Rising: A Memoir of Faith in Education
ISBN: 9781620456033 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. tell them we are rising ""The inspiring story of how one woman gave back.""--Ed Bradley ""This is a heartwarming story about struggle, survival, and achieve ment. If we didn't know people like this in our lives, we would want to invent them. What more could one ask? A good story told with a deft hand.""--William H. Gray III President, United Negro College Fund ""An inspiring account of an African American educator determined to make a difference in the lives of indifferent students.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Tell Them We Are Rising is a wonderful, inspiring story of service,...
tell them we are rising ""The inspiring story of how one woman gave back.""--Ed Bradley ""This is a heartwarming story about struggle, surviva...
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150,47 zł |
My One Good Nerve
ISBN: 9781620457788 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""My One Good Nerve"" is an exuberant collection of writings in the down-home tradition by that incomparable icon of the human spirit, Ruby Dee. Married for 50 years to fellow actor Ossie Davis, Dee has led an astonishingly full life. But she has never forgotten where she comes from as an African American woman. Fans who have admired and drawn strength over the years from Dee's outspoken human rights advocacy and unforgettable characters are rewarded here with many glimpses into her memories and convictions. This book is an inspiration and a blessing.
""My One Good Nerve"" is an exuberant collection of writings in the down-home tradition by that incomparable icon of the human spirit, Ruby Dee. Marri...
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116,03 zł |
Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York
ISBN: 9780814724156 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. The infrastructure and vibrant history of Weeksville, an African American community that had become one of the largest free black communities in nineteenth century United States, were virtually wiped out by Brooklyn's exploding population and expanding urban grid.
Weeksville was founded by African American entrepreneurs after slavery ended in New York State in 1827. Located in eastern Brooklyn,... In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: fo...
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402,99 zł |
My Naked Soul
ISBN: 9781496903075 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Bottle, a bag, a rock you feast from the womb to the tomb, in the belly of the Beast, the County Morgue and a Life of Crime As you S c r e a m for a Hit, One more time, A Bottomless pit trapped with scorn, a Dopefiend Dies but another one... was born...
A Bottle, a bag, a rock you feast from the womb to the tomb, in the belly of the Beast, the County Morgue and a Life of Crime As you S c r e a m for a...
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143,39 zł |
My Naked Soul
ISBN: 9781496903099 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Bottle, a bag, a rock you feast from the womb to the tomb, in the belly of the Beast, the County Morgue and a Life of Crime As you S c r e a m for a Hit, One more time, A Bottomless pit trapped with scorn, a Dopefiend Dies but another one... was born...
A Bottle, a bag, a rock you feast from the womb to the tomb, in the belly of the Beast, the County Morgue and a Life of Crime As you S c r e a m for a...
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86,84 zł |
Anschluss Der Normale Der Deutschen Maasse Und Gewichte an Die Neuen Prototype Des Meter Und Des Kilogramm
ISBN: 9783642519048 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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199,97 zł |
Vorläufiger Katalog Kirchenslavischer Homilien Des Beweglichen Jahreszyklus: Aus Handschriften Des 11.-16. Jahrhunderts Vorwiegend Ostslavischer Prove
ISBN: 9783663199144 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 795 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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199,97 zł |
Ethnologische Studien an Indonesischen Schöpfungsmythen: Ein Beitrag Zur Kultur-Analyse Südostasiens
ISBN: 9789401501460 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben."
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen...
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199,97 zł |
My Berlin: Childhood Reflections
ISBN: 9781941048016 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of stories and songs through the eyes of Lina Bhero, a young girl who survives the desperate times of Berlin during World War II. Written by Christel Alexander, these stories tell of Lina's suffering and loss but how, in each bittersweet experience, she finds hope and lessons that help her survive. The book includes vocal and chord arrangements for 13 songs inspired by Lina's life.
A collection of stories and songs through the eyes of Lina Bhero, a young girl who survives the desperate times of Berlin during World War II. Writ... |
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96,19 zł |
Bronx Faces and Voices: Sixteen Stories of Courage and Community
ISBN: 9780896728882 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century"
In "Bronx Faces and Voices, "sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City boroughbefore, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx itself: elected officials, religious leaders, and activists who were determined to preserve the beauty of their parks and stability of their community. They had the courage to stay and fight... "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century"
In "Bronx Faces and Voices, "si... |
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128,94 zł |
Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780374535025 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions |
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77,49 zł |
The Rhizome of Blackness: A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming
ISBN: 9781433126024 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a social imaginary where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment. No longer is plain Canadian English a site of investment, but instead, Black English as a second language (BESL) and Hip-Hop all da way baby (as one student put it)....
The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North A...
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310,66 zł |
Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha
ISBN: 9781590774663 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in the shadows of a railroad yard, of a wandering mother who took her lovers where she found them and a father who was scarcely conscious of her arrival in the world, Bertha Thompson took to 'the road' as soon as the restless impulses of adolescence stirred in her. She was more interested in wanders than those who settled down in homes, more interested in criminals than law-abiding citizens. She wanted to see how they lived, live as they did, know what they were like. As a result of her restlessness and curiosity, she became, in fifteen years of wandering, a hobo, treveling from one end...
Born in the shadows of a railroad yard, of a wandering mother who took her lovers where she found them and a father who was scarcely conscious of her ...
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79,49 zł |
The Life and Death of Gus Reed: A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780821421048 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship. Reed became known as a petty thief, appearing time and again in the records of the state's courts and prisons. In late 1877, he burglarized the home of a well-known Springfield attorney-and brother of Abraham Lincoln's former law partner-a crime for which he was convicted and... Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, ... |
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362,69 zł |
Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
ISBN: 9780812223231 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Cosmopolitanism Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo "Black Cosmopolitanism seeks to tell a story about the complex hemispheric context in which multiple public discourses of blackness emerged in the work of black intellectuals, writing and publishing throughout a nineteenth century shaped by the cataclysmic impact of the Haitian revolution . . . The book reflects] the richness of new pathways in a hemispheric American studies, moving outward to explore philosophies of race and histories of racial identity that...
Black Cosmopolitanism Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo "Black Cosmopolitani...
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151,07 zł |
Silvan Leaves
ISBN: 9780989001311 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One in four Californians is foreign born. The term, Hawaiian Spaniards, alludes to those Spanish immigrants who braved the unknown to leave their homeland for the sugar cane fields of Hawaii and eventually settle in California. SILVAN LEAVES: Out on a Limb is the second in the Spanish Pearls Series, a biographical history following the immigration story of the Silvan family's trek from Spain, their 1911 sailing to Hawaii's sugar plantations and continuing on to California where most of their descendants have remained. This book documents their history and biographical chapters with photos,...
One in four Californians is foreign born. The term, Hawaiian Spaniards, alludes to those Spanish immigrants who braved the unknown to leave their home...
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86,55 zł |
From Cradle to Grave: Journey of the Louisiana Orphan Train Riders
ISBN: 9781936707003 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do three nuns, two mayors, a Baptist preacher, and the founder of a car dealership all have in common? They all rode an orphan train from New York City to Louisiana as small children What is an orphan train? Who determined its passenger list and their ultimate destination? What criteria were used to decide who would get the adventure of a lifetime? Who were these young passengers in this little-known chapter of American and Louisiana history? These orphans arrived in early twentieth century Louisiana - a foreign world and culture unlike anything these children had ever seen. It was a...
What do three nuns, two mayors, a Baptist preacher, and the founder of a car dealership all have in common? They all rode an orphan train from New Yor...
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162,70 zł |
Postcards from Cookie: A Memoir of Motherhood, Miracles, and a Whole Lot of Mail
ISBN: 9780062103185 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother--Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole--and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards. Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful, secret, and sealed. While she wondered about her biological parents, she kept her curiosity in check, until a series of small health problems raised concerns about her genetic heritage and its... Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her b... |
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77,45 zł |
Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780062293299 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TV's reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes about her personal life decisions and their impact on her health, family and career. While Braxton appears to be living a gilded life--selling 60 million records, appearing in sold-out Las Vegas performances and hit shows like Dancing with the Stars, and starring in her own reality series--hers is in fact a tumultuous story, a tale of triumph over a life filled with obstacles, including two bankruptcy filings. The mother of an... In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TV's reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes a... |
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81,75 zł |