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A Book Lover in Texas
ISBN: 9780929398891 / Angielski / Twarda / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A personal and professional memoir of a major literary catalyst in the stateon radio and the lecture platform, as author, agent, teacher, and book collector. Her review broadcasts hold the national record for fifty years on the air.
Oppenheimer pulls no punches in her evaluation of books, writers, and the society and organizations related to them, including anecdotes about such literary and artistic stars as Irving Stone, Willie Morris, Peter Hurd, Agatha Christie, Herman Wouk, Leon Uris, James Michener, Jacqueline Susann, and Alistair Cooke. She also tells of her own life and that of a... A personal and professional memoir of a major literary catalyst in the stateon radio and the lecture platform, as author, agent, teacher, and book col...
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78,32 |
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Texfake: An Account of the Theft and Forgery of Early Texas Printed Documents
ISBN: 9780935072204 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Texfake" is the result of three years of investigation into the scandal surrounding the 1988 discovery of forged copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence. "The New York Times, Texas Monthly," and "The New Yorker" all carried articles on the affair, but this is the definitive account of the history and impact of the Texas forger and his wares.
Austin rare book dealer Taylor lays out the facts concerning the forgeries: who made them; when and how they were made; how they were discovered; and whether or not the dealers involved know what they were selling. He also reveals for the... "Texfake" is the result of three years of investigation into the scandal surrounding the 1988 discovery of forged copies of the Texas Declaration of I...
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166,52 |
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General Forrest
ISBN: 9780937130063 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early life, career, and later life of Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Reprint of the 1902 edition.
Early life, career, and later life of Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Reprint of the 1902 edition.
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86,10 |
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Vinegar Pie and Chicken Bread: A Woman's Diary of Life in the Rural South, 1890-1891
ISBN: 9780938626251 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From June 11, 1890, to April 15, 1891, Nannie Stillwell Jackson recorded with pencils in a small ledger the best and meanest moments of her life on a small farm in southeast Arkansas.
From June 11, 1890, to April 15, 1891, Nannie Stillwell Jackson recorded with pencils in a small ledger the best and meanest moments of her life on a ...
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88,11 |
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Myth, Media and the Southern Mind
ISBN: 9780938626411 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,81 |
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Looking for Hogeye
ISBN: 9780938626626 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the always compelling yet simple style that made Roy Reed one of the country's foremost journalists, he shows us--as we share with him delightful moments and rich insights on the way to Hogeye, Arkansas--Southerners still different for being Southerners, and country Southerners who are even more so. This book is a special admission into those hills, to Vacation Bible School, tent meetings, sale barns, back roads and pool halls, to dog days--to the special place that Reed calls home.
In the always compelling yet simple style that made Roy Reed one of the country's foremost journalists, he shows us--as we share with him delightful m...
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107,70 |
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The Sunflower Sinner
ISBN: 9780939391462 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,06 |
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Community, Continuity and Change: New Perspectives on Staten Island History
ISBN: 9780944473467 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,48 |
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World of the Founders: New York Communities in the Federal Period
ISBN: 9780945660026 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays analyzing a variety of communities in New York offer a unique and multifaceted view of the Empire State during the Federal period.
Essays analyzing a variety of communities in New York offer a unique and multifaceted view of the Empire State during the Federal period.
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97,90 |
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Early Inns and Taverns of East Tennessee: A Photoessay
ISBN: 9780964774827 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the days of earliest settlement through the period when the stagecoach reigned supreme, the inns and taverns of East Tennessee played a unique role in the region's history. The earliest overnight stopping places in the wilderness country were merely crude cabins. When the trickle of settlers built up to a flood, however, more elaborate accommodations arose to meet the demand. By the early days of the nineteenth century, some of these structures offered amenities comparable to those found in hostelries on the eastern seaboard.
These oases cared not only for the needs of the traveler but... From the days of earliest settlement through the period when the stagecoach reigned supreme, the inns and taverns of East Tennessee played a unique ro...
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39,13 |
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Paddling Across the Peninsula: An Important Cross-Michigan Canoe Route During the French Regime
ISBN: 9780965723039 / Angielski / Miękka / 63 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the prehistoric era, native travelers discovered a series of interconnected rivers which formed a water highway across the entire Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Frenchmen arrived in the Great Lakes region during the 1600s, they were guided along this crucial canoe route by their native hosts. Through meticulous research, the author has assembled a full array of maps from the French era which depict the eastern and western halves of the route, as well as the overland portage which connected the two halves. In addition, he has located these water and land features on modern maps.... During the prehistoric era, native travelers discovered a series of interconnected rivers which formed a water highway across the entire Lower Peni... |
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39,13 |
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Rendezvous at the Straits, Volume II: Fur Trade and Military Activities at Fort de Buade and Fort Michilimackinac, 1669-1781
ISBN: 9780965723046 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For well over a century during the colonial era, the Straits of Mackinac, at the junction of Lakes Huron and Michigan, served as the very epicenter of activities in the northern interior of North America. At this locale, great numbers of native people and Europeans congregated each summer to trade. In addition, fur trade personnel acquired birchbark canoes, equipment, and provisions here for their far-flung journeys to other regions, and here they stored large amounts of westbound merchandise and eastbound furs and hides. From this central location at the Straits, native and European... For well over a century during the colonial era, the Straits of Mackinac, at the junction of Lakes Huron and Michigan, served as the very epicenter... |
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367,33 |
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Turn South at the Second Bridge
ISBN: 9780965746809 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this little gem of a book Leon Hale reacquaints us with the back road individualists who have given Texas much of its character over the past century.
A novelist and columnist for fifty years, Hale has built his reputation on an exceptionally smooth writing style combined with a sharp eye for what's unusual and remarkable hidden among the otherwise ordinary people and places of Texas, for example, the alligator that slept by the stove at Scheller's Place; the ghost of Fiddler's Island; or the billboard newspaper of Tillie Roome. "Turn South at the Second Bridge" chronicles a... In this little gem of a book Leon Hale reacquaints us with the back road individualists who have given Texas much of its character over the past centu...
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61,66 |
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Nashville: An American Self Portrait
ISBN: 9780970670212 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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166,52 |
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Rockland County Scrapbook
ISBN: 9780971232648 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,52 |
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Rockland County Scrapbook
ISBN: 9780971232655 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,36 |
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Chem Engineering At
ISBN: 9780971347007 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,40 |
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History of South Dakota, 4th Edition, Revised
ISBN: 9780971517134 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herbert S. Schell provides a picture of South Dakota's political, economic, social, and environmental history, identifying the local, regional, national, and global forces that shaped the fortieth state through World War II. John E. Miller picks up the story at the beginning of the Cold War and chronicles the rest of the twentieth century.
Herbert S. Schell provides a picture of South Dakota's political, economic, social, and environmental history, identifying the local, regional, nation...
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96,15 |
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Gold, Gals, Guns, Guts: A History of Deadwood, Lead, and Spearfish, 1874-1976
ISBN: 9780971517189 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with the gold rush of 1876, the northern Black Hills became home to an assortment of prospectors, entrepreneurs, gamblers, and criminals. Gold brought them to the area. Gals, many of them prostitutes, followed the miners. Guns often ruled in the rough-and-tumble communities where it took guts to succeed. Through the photographs, newspaper accounts, and a lively text, Gold, Gals, Guns, Guts recounts the history of the Black Hills communities of Deadwood, Lead, and Spearfish from the Custer Expedition in 1874 to the United States Bicentennial in 1976. Bob Lee's new introduction...
Beginning with the gold rush of 1876, the northern Black Hills became home to an assortment of prospectors, entrepreneurs, gamblers, and criminals. Go...
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102,81 |
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The YMCA at 150: : A History of the YMCA of Greater New York 1852-2002.
ISBN: 9780971785700 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1852, a group of young men met in the neighborhood now known as SoHo and formed an association to help newcomers adapt to the bustling metropolis of New York. They formed the Young Men's Christian Association of New York. A year later, another YMCA took root across the East River in the sister city of Brooklyn. In 150 years, the YMCA has grown from its initial evangelical orientation to serve New Yorkers of all faiths, races, and classes, men and women alike. Today, in its many branches and in many more programs in neighborhoods and schools, the YMCA offers everything from health and...
In 1852, a group of young men met in the neighborhood now known as SoHo and formed an association to help newcomers adapt to the bustling metropolis o...
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166,52 |
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