Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: V. 2: Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780765607980 / Angielski / Twarda / 796 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by scores of China scholars from around the world. Volume II: Twentieth Century includes a far greater range of women than would have been previously possible because of the enormous amount of historical material and scholarly research that has become available recently. They include scientists, businesswomen, sportswomen, military officers, writers, scholars, revolutionary heroines, politicians,...
The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women is the product of ...
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Autobiographical Writings on Mexico: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources
ISBN: 9780786422456 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the definitive bibliography of autobiographical writings on Mexico. The book incorporates works by Mexicans and foreigners, with authors ranging from disinherited peasants, women, servants and revolutionaries to more famous painters, writers, singers, journalists and politicians. Primary sources of historic and artistic value, the writings listed provide multiple perspectives on Mexico's past and give clues to a national Mexican identity. This work presents 1,850 entries, including autobiographies, memoirs, collections of letters, diaries, oral autobiographies, interviews, and...
This is the definitive bibliography of autobiographical writings on Mexico. The book incorporates works by Mexicans and foreigners, with authors rangi...
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308,08 zł |
Teachers' Stories: From Personal Narrative to Professional Insight
ISBN: 9780787900489 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how teachers and educators can use stories of their professional experiences to reflect on their own practice, articulate values and beliefs, give shape and form to teaching theory, and better understand decision-making processes.
This book shows how teachers and educators can use stories of their professional experiences to reflect on their own practice, articulate values and b...
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212,67 zł |
The 100 Most Notable Cornellians
ISBN: 9780801439582 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Cornell is unique among American research universities and in the Ivy League. . . . It aspires to the ideals of Ezra Cornell, who founded an institution 'where any one person could find instruction in any study.' . . . Cornell has played a distinctive role in democratizing higher education, while helping to shape the American university's post-Civil War commitment to useful service to American society and to the world. The undergraduate experience has been the heart of life on East Hill, 'far above Cayuga's Waters.' Its undergraduates have lived the ideals carved into the Eddy Street gate:...
"Cornell is unique among American research universities and in the Ivy League. . . . It aspires to the ideals of Ezra Cornell, who founded an institut...
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Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807847824 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crises and cannot even assume authoritative, first-person narration. Susanna Egan finds such autobiographies dialogic in form, involving the reader in generic experimentation in their pursuit of shifting, uncertain meanings. After tracing the literary experimentation of contemporary genres to the inventiveness of modernism, she explores the generic contributions of drama, film, quilting, comics, and blended literary...
Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiograp...
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258,28 zł |
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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350,12 zł |
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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350,12 zł |
The Lunatic Fringe
ISBN: 9780837166803 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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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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226,23 zł |
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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997,85 zł |
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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1158,10 zł |
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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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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Nigel Holmes: Perfiles de la Comunicación Gráfica
ISBN: 9780977472451 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this text, written in Spanish, Heller presents a compilation of interviews that show Nigel Holmes's views on graphic communications and the importance of "information design" which partners words and images for effective design.
In this text, written in Spanish, Heller presents a compilation of interviews that show Nigel Holmes's views on graphic communications and the importa...
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90,39 zł |
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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129,47 zł |
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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90,63 zł |
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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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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125,15 zł |
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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123,00 zł |
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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123,82 zł |