River of Mystery
ISBN: 9780692491409 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Wisconsin River, Paul Seifert, Bogus Bluff, Richland City, and the ancient cultures that once thrived there, all have something in common: mystery. For 10,000 years humans have occupied the delta at the confluence of the Wisconsin and the Pine Rivers; inhabitants of distinctly different eras have left behind clues to their existence. The most recent-the Native American Indians-have given us a bounty of lore and legend. A mysterious letter in the hands of German emigrant Paul Seifert in the Nineteenth Century helps set the scene for another one of the river valley's most puzzling secrets....
The Wisconsin River, Paul Seifert, Bogus Bluff, Richland City, and the ancient cultures that once thrived there, all have something in common: mystery...
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Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas
ISBN: 9781138945562 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to examine the spatial arrangement of prehistoric settlement patterns across the Americas. Positioned at the intersection of geography, human ecology, anthropology, economics and archaeology, this diverse collection showcases successful applications of the settlement ecology approach in archaeological studies and also discusses associated techniques such as GIS, remote sensing and statistical and modeling applications. Using these methodological...
In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to ex...
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The American Revolution
ISBN: 9781517061111 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the seventy years which elapsed between the overthrow of the Stuart dynasty and the victory of Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham, the relations between the American colonies and the British government were, on the whole, peaceful; and the history of the colonies, except for the great and romantic struggle with New France, would have been almost destitute of striking incidents. In view of the perpetual menace from France, it was clearly unwise for the British government to irritate the colonies, or do anything to weaken their loyalty; and they were accordingly left very much to...
During the seventy years which elapsed between the overthrow of the Stuart dynasty and the victory of Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham, the relations b...
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Cypress Trees in the Garden: The Second Generation of Zen Teaching in America
ISBN: 9781896559261 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Bryan McDaniel's "Cypress Trees in the Garden" continues the history of North American Zen which he began in "The Third Step East: Zen Masters of America" (Sumeru Press, 2015). The earlier book described the pioneers who established Zen practice in North America; this new book focuses on the heirs and successors of those teachers and the challenges they faced. Between March 2013 and September 2014, McDaniel traveled from San Francisco to Portland, Maine, from Montreal to Albuquerque, interviewing 75 prominent Zen teachers and their senior students. The result is a book which describes...
Richard Bryan McDaniel's "Cypress Trees in the Garden" continues the history of North American Zen which he began in "The Third Step East: Zen Masters...
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147,53 zł |
Youth on the Santa Fe Trail
ISBN: 9780996675406 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young people, little known and well known, like Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wootton, Josiah Gregg, Susan Shelby Magoffin, Francis Parkman Jr., and others come to life in this anthology of their adventures on the Santa Fe Trail. The trail was the road to the southwestern part of the continent becoming a part of our sea-to-sea nation as envisoned by Thomas Jefferson. Trade with the northern provinces of Mexico in the early 19th century opened a road that led to the Mexican War and the United States acquisition of California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of other western states. Between 1826,... Young people, little known and well known, like Kit Carson, Uncle Dick Wootton, Josiah Gregg, Susan Shelby Magoffin, Francis Parkman Jr., and other... |
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The Confucian Cycle: China's Sage and America's Decline
ISBN: 9781622879625 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2,500 years ago, the Chinese sage, Confucius, observed that all governments follow a cycle: from unity, through prosperity to stagnation, then to collapse and anarchy. 2,500 years ago, the Chinese sage, Confucius, observed that all governments follow a cycle: from unity, through prosperity to stagnation, then to c... |
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The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America
ISBN: 9781138167933 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the... Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts... |
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657,46 zł |
James B. Eads
ISBN: 9781514725665 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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30,98 zł |
Homesteading and Stump Farming on the West Coast 1880-1930: Powell River, Lund, Stillwater & Mysterious Horseshoe Valley
ISBN: 9781460277744 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine obtaining one hundred and sixty acres of land for FREE Then comes the real payment: the sweat and toil of living in a remote wilderness and clearing a landscape where the stumps left behind are so large and so numerous the best bet is to use dynamite to remove them. Beginning in 1859 such homesteading typified the arrival of white settlers in British Columbia. The Land Act set out rules by which British subjects could, for agricultural purposes only, pre-empt land. Along the Upper Sunshine Coast, of those who took up the challenge, only some succeeded in carving a life out of this...
Imagine obtaining one hundred and sixty acres of land for FREE Then comes the real payment: the sweat and toil of living in a remote wilderness and c...
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181,97 zł |
Homesteading and Stump Farming on the West Coast 1880-1930: Powell River, Lund, Stillwater & Mysterious Horseshoe Valley
ISBN: 9781460277751 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine obtaining one hundred and sixty acres of land for FREE Then comes the real payment: the sweat and toil of living in a remote wilderness and clearing a landscape where the stumps left behind are so large and so numerous the best bet is to use dynamite to remove them. Beginning in 1859 such homesteading typified the arrival of white settlers in British Columbia. The Land Act set out rules by which British subjects could, for agricultural purposes only, pre-empt land. Along the Upper Sunshine Coast, of those who took up the challenge, only some succeeded in carving a life out of this...
Imagine obtaining one hundred and sixty acres of land for FREE Then comes the real payment: the sweat and toil of living in a remote wilderness and c...
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Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine: The Curious Stories of 43 Amazing North American Native Plants
ISBN: 9781612126609 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner
History, literature, and botany meet in this charming tour of how humans have relied on plants to nourish, shelter, heal, clothe, and even entertain us. Did you know that during World War II, the US Navy paid kids to collect milkweed's fluffy white floss, which was then used as filling for life preservers? And Native Americans in the deserts of the Southwest traditionally crafted tattoo needles from prickly pear cactus spines. These are just two of the dozens of tidbits that Tammi Hartung highlights in the tales of 43 native North... 2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner
History, literature, and botany meet in this charming tour of how humans have relied on plan... |
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84,21 zł |
Pod sztandarem nieba. Wiara, która zabija
ISBN: 9788380492400 / Polski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stany Zjednoczone to kraj proroków. Jednym z nich był Joseph Smith, któremu pewnej nocy 1823 roku ukazał się anioł Moroni. Boży posłaniec opowiedział mu o świętym tekście, wyrytym na złotych płytach, który od wieków spoczywa ukryty pod kamieniem na pobliskim wzgórzu. Od tego zaczęła się historia Kościoła Jezusa Chrystusa Świętych w Dniach Ostatnich.
24 lipca 1984 roku zamordowane zostały kobieta i jej piętnastomiesięczna córeczka. Według policji zabójstwo mogło być następstwem „objawienia” religijnego. Ogłaszając wyrok, sędzia przyznał, że nigdy nie... Stany Zjednoczone to kraj proroków. Jednym z nich był Joseph Smith, któremu pewnej nocy 1823 roku ukazał się anioł Moroni. Boży posłaniec opow...
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Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847-1861
ISBN: 9781610352772 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Gold Rush era California, gunfighters weren t outlaws or desperadoes they were were prominent journalists, legislators, governors, and judges. Choose Your Weapon brings to life a now-forgotten time, when California was a raw new state with politics as violent as any banana republic. This was the Golden Age of dueling, when prominent citizens would settle their political and personal disputes with gunfire, according to the venerable law of the code duello. Choose Your Weapon documents every notable duel to have occurred in California, from the arrival of U.S.... In Gold Rush era California, gunfighters weren t outlaws or desperadoes they were were prominent journalists, legislators, governors, and judges. <... |
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The Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
ISBN: 9789176371213 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE GREAT GATSBY is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been...
THE GREAT GATSBY is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West...
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Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918
ISBN: 9781498537384 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918 is a history of the city's classical-music culture in the period that begins a decade before the American Civil War and extends to the close of the Great War. The book provides insights into the intellectual foundation of Boston's musical development as revealed in the writings of its significant critics and thinkers, including John Sullivan Dwight, John Knowles Paine, William Foster Apthorp, and others. It also examines the influence of outsiders--Patrick Gilmore, Theodore Thomas, Richard Wagner, New York's Metropolitan Opera, and...
Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918 is a history of the city's classical-music culture in the period that begins a decade before ...
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415,23 zł |
Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas
ISBN: 9781138646155 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas reveals the dynamism of the ancient past, where social relations and long-term history were created posthole by posthole, brick by brick. This collection shifts attention away from the elite and monumental architectural traditions of the region to instead investigate the creativity, subtlety and variability of common architecture and the people who built and dwelled in them. At the heart of this study of vernacular architecture is an emphasis on ordinary people and their built environments, and how these everyday spaces were... Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas reveals the dynamism of the ancient past, where social relations and long-term histo... |
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Les derniers Iroquois
ISBN: 9781530366507 / Francuski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La nuit est noire, profonde: rares sont les etoiles qui, comme des diamants fixes a un dais de velours bleu fonce, scintillent ca et la dans l'immensite des cieux. Pas un rayon de lune pour eclairer l'espace. Cependant des bruits etranges, des chants bizarres s'elevent du mont Baker, limite septentrionale de la chaine des Cascades, dans la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Cette chaine, composee de collines reliees par les pics Baker, Rainier1, Sainte-Helene, Hood, Jefferson et Jackson, ourle le littoral du Pacifique, a quelque vingt lieues des cotes, et se deploie presque parallelement a elles, comme un...
La nuit est noire, profonde: rares sont les etoiles qui, comme des diamants fixes a un dais de velours bleu fonce, scintillent ca et la dans l'immensi...
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A Fraternity Of Gunslingers: True Stories of Wild West Gunmen
ISBN: 9781530570775 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The time now called the wild west began shorty after the ending of the Civil War and lasted a decade. The gunslingers is the book, came out of the Civil War. They were men who had learned to shoot, to kill, and they were good at it. The country was in turmoil, many from the South had no home to go back too; their farms and ranches were in ruin so they resettled in Texas taking on jobs as hired hands, cow drovers. Some became gamblers, others police officers. Of these many crossed over that line, between enforcing the law and breaking it as outlaws. The wild west was really about commerce --...
The time now called the wild west began shorty after the ending of the Civil War and lasted a decade. The gunslingers is the book, came out of the Civ...
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88,42 zł |
Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North America Arctic
ISBN: 9781504029254 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought-and found-a great diamond mine on the last frontier of the far north. From a bloody 18th-century trek across the Canadian tundra to the daunting natural forces facing protagonists Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson as they struggle against the mighty DeBeers cartel, this is the definitive account of one of the world's great mineral discoveries. Combining geology, science history, raw nature, and high intrigue, it is also a tale of supreme adventure, taking the reader into a magical-and now fast-vanishing-wild...
First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought-and found-a great diamond mine on the last frontier of the far n...
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75,94 zł |
Borderline Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914
ISBN: 9781487501273 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border. Limited by the power of territorial sovereignty, officials were unable to simply retrieve fugitives and refugees from foreign territory. Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada. For nearly a century, officials ranging from high court judges to local police officers embraced the ethos of transnational enforcement of criminal law. By focusing on... From 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border. ... |
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282,09 zł |