ilość książek w kategorii: 1929
Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, the Times and the Great War
ISBN: 9781107105492 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Repington was Britain's most influential military correspondent during the first two decades of the twentieth century. From 1914 to 1918, Repington's commentary in The Times, 'The War Day by Day', was read and discussed by opinion-shapers and decision-makers worldwide who sought to better understand the momentous events happening around them, and his subsequently published diaries offered a compelling portrait of England's governing class at war. This is the first major study of Repington's life and career from the Boer War to the end of the Great War. A. J. A. Morris presents unique...
Charles Repington was Britain's most influential military correspondent during the first two decades of the twentieth century. From 1914 to 1918, Repi...
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412,07 zł |
Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship
ISBN: 9780692556849 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I didn't know that people come into our lives, and sometimes, if we're terribly lucky, we get the chance to love them, that sometimes they stay, that sometimes you can, truly, depend on them. Cathie Beck was in her late thirties and finally able to exhale after a lifetime of just trying to get by. A teenage mother harboring vivid memories of her own hardscrabble childhood, Cathie had spent years doing whatever it took to give her children the stability-or at least the illusion of it-that she'd never had. More than that, through sheer will and determination, she had educated them and herself...
I didn't know that people come into our lives, and sometimes, if we're terribly lucky, we get the chance to love them, that sometimes they stay, that ...
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58,58 zł |
Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer
ISBN: 9781138786882 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black woman living in a time when little social power was available to people of her race or gender, Ida B. Wells made an extraordinary impact on American society through her journalism and activism. Best-known for her anti-lynching crusade, which publicly exposed the extralegal killings of African Americans, Wells was also an outspoken advocate for social justice in issues including women's suffrage, education, housing, the legal system, and poor... Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black wo... |
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183,09 zł |
Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer
ISBN: 9781138786875 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black woman living in a time when little social power was available to people of her race or gender, Ida B. Wells made an extraordinary impact on American society through her journalism and activism. Best-known for her anti-lynching crusade, which publicly exposed the extralegal killings of African Americans, Wells was also an outspoken advocate for social justice in issues including women's suffrage, education, housing, the legal system, and poor... Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black wo... |
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763,09 zł |
The Global Journalist in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781138134614 / Angielski / Twarda / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more than a dozen countries, and provides material on comparative research about journalists that will be useful to those interested in doing their own studies. The editors put together this collection working under the assumption that journalists'... The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional atti... |
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661,34 zł |
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
ISBN: 9781101872154 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2009, Anjan Sundaram began a journalist's training program in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Often held up as a beacon of progress and modernity in Central Africa, the regime of President Paul Kagame--which took over after the 1994 genocide ravaged Rwanda's population--has been given billions of dollars in Western aid. And yet, during Sundaram's time there, almost every reporter he instructed was arrested or forced to leave the country, caught in a tightening web of strict media control. With Bad News, Sundaram offers an incredible firsthand look at the rise of dictatorship and...
In 2009, Anjan Sundaram began a journalist's training program in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Often held up as a beacon of progress and modernity in...
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81,60 zł |
Literary Hasidism: The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson
ISBN: 9780815634478 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845 1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many transformations over the course of his life, most significantly from Hasidism to combative Haskalah to eventually anticipating the neo-Romantic trends of the early twentieth century. Throughout his career, Rodkinson s writing challenged the familiar genres of the literature of Hasidism and the Haskalah, shaping the religious realities of his readers... Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845 1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero ... |
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186,36 zł |
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
ISBN: 9780062342676 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman. In the mid-Sixties, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the groundbreaking Sex and the Single Girl, took over the ailing Cosmopolitan magazine and revamped it into one of the most successful brands in the world. At a time when magazines taught housewives how to make the perfect casserole, Helen reimagined Cosmo and womanhood itself, championing the... This female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and ... |
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72,96 zł |
Daniel Defoe: The original edition of 1879
ISBN: 9783959402149 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1879 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Extra large (+40 %). Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe." Daniel Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Samuel Richardson, and is among the founders of the English novel. He was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and...
Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1879 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Extra large (+4...
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67,19 zł |
All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780802126269 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rob Spillman, the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of Tin House, has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. In All Tomorrow's Parties, he takes us on a journey through the formative years of his youth in search of purposethrough Cold War to post-Wall Berlin and the gritty days of New York City's East Village in the eighties.
Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent backstage among the West Berlin cognoscenti, in a city two hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder... Rob Spillman, the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of Tin House, has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authent...
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68,71 zł |
Shrill
ISBN: 9780316348461 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:
NPR, ESQUIRE, The LA Times, and NEWSWEEK WINNER OF THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARD Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:
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68,71 zł |
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780814253830 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America. His first novel, Junkie, had just been published and he would soon be back in New York to meet Allen Ginsberg and together complete the manuscripts of what became The Yage Letters and Queer. Yet this notebook, the sole survivor from that period, reveals Burroughs not as a writer on the verge of success, but as a man staring down personal... In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burro... |
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85,68 zł |
Volunteer Bama Dawg
ISBN: 9781936442362 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A native of Bryant, Alabama, David Carroll has been a radio and TV personality in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for more than thirty years. He started his radio career in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, before becoming the first voice on Chattanooga's KZ-106 at the age of 21. Since then, he has reported on education issues and has anchored the evening news for almost thirty years. He is also the author of Chattanooga Radio and Television, which honors local broadcasting and the people who made it great. His columns are featured on ChattanoogaRadioTV.com, WRCBtv.com, and in several... A native of Bryant, Alabama, David Carroll has been a radio and TV personality in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for more than thirty years. He started hi... |
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95,96 zł |
Volunteer Bama Dawg
ISBN: 9781936442379 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volunteer Bama Dawg: a TV Guy's Love Letter to the South is a collection of David Carroll's popular stories, as seen on television, and read in newspapers and online. From family remembrances of growing up in a rural country store, to a long career in broadcasting, Carroll takes you on a journey with Southern characters you've known for years, and others you'll wish you had. Combining humor, history, trivia, and heartfelt memories, Carroll serves up more than sixty essays about growing up Southern, and how it has influenced his career. Drawing from his knowledge of news, music,... Volunteer Bama Dawg: a TV Guy's Love Letter to the South is a collection of David Carroll's popular stories, as seen on television, and re... |
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134,43 zł |
Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, the Times and the Great War
ISBN: 9781107512856 / Angielski / Miękka / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major study of the influential military correspondent, Charles Repington, and his daily column in The Times during the Great War.
Major study of the influential military correspondent, Charles Repington, and his daily column in The Times during the Great War.
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167,83 zł |
Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
ISBN: 9780253029607 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese on Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. While the marines courageously and doggedly confronted an enemy that at times seemed invincible,... In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing cr... |
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340,85 zł |
Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
ISBN: 9780253030368 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese on Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. While the marines courageously and doggedly confronted an enemy that at times seemed invincible,... In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing cr... |
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106,79 zł |
Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys
ISBN: 9781941184141 / Angielski / MiÄ™kka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel along many roads and witness simple and abstract forms of beauty. Featuring over 160 photos, “Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys” shows the wonder of nature such as in rainbows, birds, trees, leaves, raindrops, and the earth. It also reveals abstract views of architecture, urban settings, and found objects. Author/photographer Noel Fletcher shows how to find beauty in ordinary life and the world that surrounds us all. Travel along many roads and witness simple and abstract forms of beauty. Featuring over 160 photos, “Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys” ... |
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125,00 zł |
An Odd Book: How the First Modern Pop Culture Reporter Conquered New York
ISBN: 9780998699707 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Odd McIntyre's life is a fascinating story of how a shy high school dropout found fame and fortune writing about pop culture from New York during the Roaring Twenties. It's also a story of camaraderie and friendship between some of the most popular writers, musicians, artists and entertainers of the first decades of the twentieth century. It's a story of having the best of everything money can buy, while simultaneously suffering from an undiagnosed illness that resulted in severe physical and mental disabilities. But more than anything, Odd's story is about the power of the written word... Odd McIntyre's life is a fascinating story of how a shy high school dropout found fame and fortune writing about pop culture from New York during t... |
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81,55 zł |
Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two World War II Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific
ISBN: 9780062375216 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,67 zł |