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American Social Leaders and Activists
ISBN: 9780816045358 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring over 250 entries on important American activists and social leaders from colonial times to the present, this A-Z biographical dictionary is composed of entries on figures who have been at the head of social reform and, to a lesser extent, those who have directed reactionary movements.
Featuring over 250 entries on important American activists and social leaders from colonial times to the present, this A-Z biographical dictionary is ...
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262,86 zł |
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Vice Presidents : A Biographical Dictionary
ISBN: 9780816046454 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political and historical, Vice Presidents is a first-rate look at the second in command. The book addresses the state of the country at the time these men were in office and features: * An analysis of prevailing political conditions * The opposition * The relationship between the vice president and the president * The political machinations of these men, some of whom became president * A full chronology of the political history of the United States from 1789 to 2000. Vice Presidents has been updated to include a biography of the vice president newly elected in fall 2000 and information on Al...
Political and historical, Vice Presidents is a first-rate look at the second in command. The book addresses the state of the country at the time these...
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262,86 zł |
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The Lunatic Fringe
ISBN: 9780837166803 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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358,68 zł |
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The Human Tradition in America from 1865 to the Present
ISBN: 9780842051293 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Calhoun (history, East Carolina U., Greenville) offers a reader of 19 biographical essays from a series surveying modern US history from the perspective of a diversity of citizens: e.g. a former slave, interned Japanese immigrants, and champions of various causes. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Por
Calhoun (history, East Carolina U., Greenville) offers a reader of 19 biographical essays from a series surveying modern US history from the perspecti...
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204,45 zł |
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Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 II: Pipe Rolls to `Cartae Baronum'
ISBN: 9780851158631 / Angielski / Twarda / 1179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second volume of persons named in English records between 1066 and 1166 follows on from its predecessor Domesday People: (Of) undoubted importance...in understanding the nature of Norman aristocratic society and the forces within it... a monumental effort. HISTORY Drawn from extensive and wide-ranging research in British and French archives, the 7500 entries in this volume provide the first authoritative prosopographical key to over 60,000 names found in English administrative documents such as the Pipe Rolls and the Cartae Baronum, as well as various Surveys and thousands of royal and...
This second volume of persons named in English records between 1066 and 1166 follows on from its predecessor Domesday People: (Of) undoubted importanc...
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949,22 zł |
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Talking on Paper
ISBN: 9780870713774 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These writings by ordinary Oregonians reveal a personal side of Oregon history, filled with the concrete details of everyday life.
These writings by ordinary Oregonians reveal a personal side of Oregon history, filled with the concrete details of everyday life.
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165,50 zł |
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Notable British Novelists
ISBN: 9780893562045 / Angielski / Twarda / 3 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This three volume set has been designed to reflect the British novelists most often studied at high school and in undergraduate literature courses. Included are profiles of 89 English authors, six Scottish, and nine Irish, arranged alphabetically for easy access. The novelist's birth dates and significant places are listed, along with a glossary of useful term and techniques.
This three volume set has been designed to reflect the British novelists most often studied at high school and in undergraduate literature courses. In...
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876,20 zł |
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World Leaders of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780893563370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One hundred key global leaders are presented here for those needing essential bibliographical reference. The volumes include historical photographs covering key figures from the US Presidency to war-mongering dictators, plus visionaries, ideologues and revolutionaries from around the world.
One hundred key global leaders are presented here for those needing essential bibliographical reference. The volumes include historical photographs co...
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486,78 zł |
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International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia
ISBN: 9780948875595 / Angielski / Twarda / 810 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Profiles the careers of leading and emerging poets and the poetic form
Profiles the careers of leading and emerging poets and the poetic form
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997,90 zł |
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The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook, 1907
ISBN: 9780955393631 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reprint of Wills' colonial reference book contains the details of nearly 2,000 prominent men and women of Edwardian Africa. The astonishing work includes biographies of settlers, warriors, explorers, invaders, politicians, and traditional leaders from every corner of the continent.
This reprint of Wills' colonial reference book contains the details of nearly 2,000 prominent men and women of Edwardian Africa. The astonishing work ...
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154,74 zł |
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A Zummerset Lad. His Luck! His Laughs! His Loves!
ISBN: 9781412001328 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young lad struggles through puberty, then fights hard to uphold a promise made to his father to remain a virgin until marriage which results in many humorous sexual scenarios requiring great self-discipline.
A young lad struggles through puberty, then fights hard to uphold a promise made to his father to remain a virgin until marriage which results in many...
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115,29 zł |
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Bama Boy
ISBN: 9781412041409 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bama Boy depicts the author's humble beginnings on a sharecropper's farm in North Carolina. This is a story of Americana, coming-of-age, and personal achievement.
Bama Boy depicts the author's humble beginnings on a sharecropper's farm in North Carolina. This is a story of Americana, coming-of-age, and personal ...
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80,70 zł |
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Stonewalled
ISBN: 9781412093941 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Rybolt masterfully portrays real life events through carefully sculpted word pictures in this one of several of his writings. Having personally lived through the Stonewalled experience, Stonewalled makes a statement all its own about the author, a man of faith, whom you shall remember long after you have read this stirring account.
William Rybolt masterfully portrays real life events through carefully sculpted word pictures in this one of several of his writings. Having personall...
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96,03 zł |
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Bama Boy
ISBN: 9781412200318 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bama Boy depicts the author's humble beginnings on a sharecropper's farm in North Carolina. This is a story of Americana, coming-of-age, and personal achievement.
Bama Boy depicts the author's humble beginnings on a sharecropper's farm in North Carolina. This is a story of Americana, coming-of-age, and personal ...
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111,45 zł |
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One from the Least and Disappearing Generation- A Memoir of a Depression Era Kid
ISBN: 9781412200622 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true story of a boy born just months before the "Crash of 1929." Young Oliver "hawked" newspapers as a seven-year old, learned important life skills, and became "the eyes" for a loving, blind grandfather who taught the young man how to "see with the mind's eye."
A true story of a boy born just months before the "Crash of 1929." Young Oliver "hawked" newspapers as a seven-year old, learned important life skills...
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109,53 zł |
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Why Me?
ISBN: 9781412200875 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How Alonzo overcame the adversities of life and slowed his aging process.
How Alonzo overcame the adversities of life and slowed his aging process.
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110,26 zł |
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Knowing Miss Chen
ISBN: 9781412201766 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This tale interweaves the day-to-day living and working of two Canadians in China with the life story of their interpreter, Chen Yu Hua, a Chinese woman who could not be dominated by ancient traditions.
This tale interweaves the day-to-day living and working of two Canadians in China with the life story of their interpreter, Chen Yu Hua, a Chinese wom...
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126,63 zł |
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Just Now
ISBN: 9781420862225 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ''Just Now'' is an autobiography which moves back and forth in time and place, chronicling moments which stand out in the author''s memory. The themes of Disability, Jewish Life, Injustices and the Law will provoke shock or empathy. The author provides a unique and candid glimpse of human interaction in the latter part of the Twentieth Century. Full of poetry and lyrical commentaries, interspersed with letters and diary entries the book contains sharp edges of humour, sometimes cynicism and sometimes controversy, bordering on the absurd. ''Just Now'' is an unforgettable memoir which echoes...
''Just Now'' is an autobiography which moves back and forth in time and place, chronicling moments which stand out in the author''s memory. The themes...
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121,14 zł |
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The Journey of My Life from Rwanda: The Amazing True Story of an African Woman's Life
ISBN: 9781425973124 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, the author presents a riveting account of her life in short story form which provides the reader with a thorough understanding of her extraordinary existence. Beginning with her father's heroic and harrowing flight from the barbaric tribal warfare waged between Hutus and Tutsis, the reader learns of the monumental obstacles her family encountered in their most noble quest of raising a wholesome family under normal circumstances. However, the author's family consistently was forced to evade and navigate dangerous and often unforeseen events just to survive. Composed in a...
In this book, the author presents a riveting account of her life in short story form which provides the reader with a thorough understanding of her ex...
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84,56 zł |
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Extraordinary People in Extraordinary Times: Heroes, Sheroes, and Villains
ISBN: 9781563086113 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men, women, and events that have been overlooked in mainstream American history are the focus of this new multicultural collection. Engaging stories inform us about Americans who performed incredible deeds but have been ignored by traditional literature. Dozens of unsung heroes and unusual characters, from the first woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor to the black man who broke precedence to fire a gun during the attack on Pearl Harbor, take center stage in this intriguing work. The book also contains little-known facts about well-known personalities. A great supplement for... Men, women, and events that have been overlooked in mainstream American history are the focus of this new multicultural collection. Engaging storie... |
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117,80 zł |