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Michael A. Musmanno: Lawyer, Legislator, Judge, and Showman
ISBN: 9781611463538 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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534,09 |
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The Camp Abilities Story: The Global Evolution of Sports Camps for Children Who Are Visually Impaired
ISBN: 9781438491943 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,23 |
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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City
ISBN: 9781640126022 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2020–21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner 2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher meat that they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every kosher butcher shop in New York’s Jewish quarter. What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the...
2020–21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner 2020 National Jewish Book Award, F...
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102,39 |
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Conrad Weiser and the Indian Policy of Colonial Pennsylvania
ISBN: 9781934597873 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,15 |
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Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
ISBN: 9781335449368 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,12 |
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The Pinchots: A Family Saga
ISBN: 9781620069509 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,42 |
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On a Great Battlefield: The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933-2013
ISBN: 9781621908449 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of the more than seventy sites associated with the Civil War era that the National Park Service manages, none hold more national appeal and recognition than Gettysburg National Military Park. Welcoming more than one million visitors annually from across the nation and around the world, the National Park Service at Gettysburg holds the enormous responsibility of preserving the war’s “hallowed ground” and educating the public, not only on the battle, but also about the Civil War as the nation’s defining moment. Although historians and enthusiasts continually add to the shelves of...
Of the more than seventy sites associated with the Civil War era that the National Park Service manages, none hold more national appeal and recogniti...
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117,02 |
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Ghosts in Residence: Stories from Haunted Hudson Valley
ISBN: 9781493075591 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the hauntings of dilapidated country manors and castles, unexplained phenomena along the Valley hillsides, and strange apparitions found lingering within ancient Quaker cemeteries, this collection of stories reveals the otherworldly legacy of the Hudson Valley as a place of ancient spirits.
From the hauntings of dilapidated country manors and castles, unexplained phenomena along the Valley hillsides, and strange apparitions found lingerin...
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86,87 |
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In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
ISBN: 9780226824857 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris...
A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understan...
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410,76 |
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Vanishing Point: The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home Front
ISBN: 9781501769641 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,42 |
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A National Park for Women\'s Rights: The Campaign That Made It Happen
ISBN: 9781501771651 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A National Park for Women's Rights chronicles a little-known story in American history: the establishment of the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York; the first "idea park" in the National Park system. As told by Judy Hart, its visionary founder and first superintendent, the park's story is one of struggle and perseverance, opposition and solidarity. Hart narrates the uphill battle she fought to secure the park's location—on the site of the first women's rights convention in 1848—and to gain respect for the idea of a park dedicated to women's rights from...
A National Park for Women's Rights chronicles a little-known story in American history: the establishment of the Women's Rights National Historical Pa...
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111,56 |
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Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change
ISBN: 9780262048545 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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181,59 |
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Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham
ISBN: 9781531504410 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love–hate relationship with New York City. By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J. R. R. Tolkien as the most influential genre writer of the twentieth century. His reputation as an unreformed racist and bigot, however, leaves readers to grapple with his legacy. Midnight Rambles explores Lovecraft’s time in New York City, a crucial yet often overlooked...
A micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love–hate relationship with New York City. By the end of his life and near ...
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121,89 |
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Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic
ISBN: 9781531504519 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, The David R. Coffin Publication Grant A vibrant exploration of the everyday life of one of the most diverse places in the world: Queens, New York. Remade by decades of immigration, Queens, New York, has emerged as an emblematic space of social mixing and encounters across multiple lines of difference. With its expansive subdivisions, tangled highways, and centerless form, it is also New York’s most enigmatic borough. It can feel alternately like a big city, a tight-knit village, a featureless industrial zone, or a sprawling suburban community. Through more than 200 contemporary...
Winner, The David R. Coffin Publication Grant A vibrant exploration of the everyday life of one of the most diverse places in the world: Queens, Ne...
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cena:
141,40 |
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A Genealogical Index of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1752-1802.
ISBN: 9781639140947 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,53 |
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The Philadelphia House: Organic Architecture and Placemaking in Chestnut Hill
ISBN: 9781538172568 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the very beginning of the interwar period, a small collection of formally trained architects created a distinctive residential type which can undoubtedly be recognized as a Philadelphia landmark. They surpassed the conventional pseudo-classic or neo-Gothic eclectic solution by a unique adaptation of the principles and criteria of design to suit the expression of the exclusive cultural tradition of the clients and to respond to the natural environment. The works of three Philadelphia architectural firms -- Mellor, Meigs and Howe, McGoodwin, and Willing and Sims -- are analyzed to explore...
At the very beginning of the interwar period, a small collection of formally trained architects created a distinctive residential type which can undou...
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448,76 |
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Winfield-Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths
ISBN: 9781899694075 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,59 |
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In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
ISBN: 9780226824871 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris...
A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understan...
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112,96 |
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I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
ISBN: 9781421446592 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when, nine months later, Major Rufus Dawes learned another Antietam battle might be on the horizon, he wrote, "I hope not, I dread the thought of the place." In this definitive account, historian D. Scott Hartwig chronicles the single bloodiest day in American history, which resulted in 23,000 casualties. The Battle of Antietam marked a vital turning point in the war: afterward, the conflict could no longer be understood as a limited war to...
The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory of the Battle of Antietam was so haunting that when,...
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218,22 |
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Harlem World: How Hip Hop\'s Super Showdown Changed Music Forever
ISBN: 9781421446882 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever. July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America's newest art form: hip hop. In New York's Harlem World Club, the Fantastic Romantic Five and the Cold Crush Brothers competed, with an unprecedented $1,000—and their reputations—on the line in a highly anticipated rap battle. The show drew hundreds of fans to settle a question that still dominates hip hop circles: Who's the best? In Harlem World, journalist Jonathan Mael chronicles this fateful night of hip hop rivalry and...
A thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever. July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the futur...
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107,82 |
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