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Longview Farm: Biography of a Dream Come True
ISBN: 9781463699000 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Longview Farm was simply amazing in both its scope and design. It was picturesque in its winding scenic country lanes - twenty five miles of glistening white rail fencing set against lush green pastures - leading to a multitude of strikingly grand red-tiled roofs and white stucco buildings. The barns, as well as the residences, were likewise magnificent in their exterior construction and in their landscaping of vines, flowers, shrubs, and trees. It was a symbol of security and serenity, and by every account, the epitome of splendor. Longview Farm was the realization of the childhood dream of...
Longview Farm was simply amazing in both its scope and design. It was picturesque in its winding scenic country lanes - twenty five miles of glistenin...
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87,28 zł |
Mad Money: The Steamboat Era on the Kansas-Missouri Border
ISBN: 9781467936354 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The steamboat was the great civilizer of the West. This transportation source was responsible for moving emigrants, settlers, and freight from the edge of the frontier. The Missouri River was the highway. For twenty years, 1840-1860, the frontier line of settlement moved up the Missouri River to the Kansas-Missouri border. Here it stopped briefly. In those two decades, a boom occurred that was fuelled by a variety of factors. Towns were established along every bend of the Missouri River that catered to the whims of everyone that stopped at their banks. This was the Golden Age of steamboat...
The steamboat was the great civilizer of the West. This transportation source was responsible for moving emigrants, settlers, and freight from the edg...
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56,54 zł |
History of DuPage County, Illinois
ISBN: 9781596412125 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,82 zł |
Haunted Akron
ISBN: 9781609493677 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Run down the apparitions that float about Rubber City streets and facades like the shadow of a passing blimp. Stroll along forgotten canals amid the restless chatter and clank of spirits cut down before their hard lives became easier. Catch a show at the Civic Theater with a former engineer who prophesied that death wouldn t keep him from work. A more restive spirit is that of John Tedrow, a twenty-something mauled and murdered during a drunken brawl in 1882; he wails for help and resolution. In this ghostly tour through Akron s haunted and sometimes brutal past, paranormal specialist and...
Run down the apparitions that float about Rubber City streets and facades like the shadow of a passing blimp. Stroll along forgotten canals amid the r...
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91,43 zł |
Teamster Rebellion
ISBN: 9780873489737 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,53 zł |
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Search for a Child Killer
ISBN: 9780814319895 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1976 and 1977, over the course of a thirteen-month period, two boys and two girls, ages ten through twelve, were brutally murdered in Michigan's Oakland County. Their violent deaths triggered the largest murder investigation the state had seen. In 1976 and 1977, over the course of a thirteen-month period, two boys and two girls, ages ten through twelve, were brutally murdered in Michigan's... |
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100,37 zł |
Altgeld's America: The Lincoln Ideal Versus Changing Realities
ISBN: 9780910129480 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work focuses on Chicago from 1892-1905, describing the forces that had remodelled America from the rural society of Lincoln's day. Here are the business leaders, labour organizers and politicians, and new immigrants, all exposing the follies of a generation lusting for material success.
This work focuses on Chicago from 1892-1905, describing the forces that had remodelled America from the rural society of Lincoln's day. Here are the b...
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116,19 zł |
Kent Letters
ISBN: 9780982376669 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An English teacher on faculty at Kent State when the student massacre occurred in 1970 gave her students the opportunity to write to her about their feelings of what happened on campus that infamous day. She had 32 responses in the format of essays and poems and is now sharing them with the world.
An English teacher on faculty at Kent State when the student massacre occurred in 1970 gave her students the opportunity to write to her about their f...
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58,00 zł |
Queen City Gothic: Cincinnati's Most Infamous Murder Mysteries
ISBN: 9781449018900 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,74 zł |
Quaday's Quotes; 70 Years on a Blue Earth River Valley Farm
ISBN: 9780984480029 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using excerpts from Quaday's 20-year span of weekly newspaper columns, this edition traces life on the Quaday Minnesota family farm from 1938 through the Great Depression years to 2008. Packed with humor and down-home wisdom, this story portrays a way of life that vanished with the growth of modern agriculture.
Using excerpts from Quaday's 20-year span of weekly newspaper columns, this edition traces life on the Quaday Minnesota family farm from 1938 through ...
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93,14 zł |
Sauerkraut, Suspenders, and the Swiss: A Political History of Green County's Swiss Colony, 1845-1945
ISBN: 9781475907506 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,58 zł |
Sauerkraut, Suspenders, and the Swiss: A Political History of Green County's Swiss Colony, 1845-1945
ISBN: 9781475907520 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,16 zł |
Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-1867
ISBN: 9780803240902 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a pool of barely nine thousand men of military age, Nebraska still a territory at the time sent more than three thousand soldiers to the Civil War. They fought and died for the Union cause, were wounded, taken prisoner, and in some cases deserted. But Nebraska s military contribution is only one part of the more complex and interesting story that James E. Potter tells in Standing Firmly by the Flag, the first book to fully explore Nebraska s involvement in the Civil War and the war s involvement in Nebraska s evolution from territory to thirty-seventh state on March 1,... From a pool of barely nine thousand men of military age, Nebraska still a territory at the time sent more than three thousand soldiers to the Civil... |
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124,53 zł |
Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota
ISBN: 9780816676453 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For too long, LGBTQ communities--including Minnesota's--have been maligned, misrepresented, and often outright ignored. Myths regarding the queer experience have grown and become embedded in local and national consciousness. The absence of queer stories over time in local historical and popular writing only served to further this ignorance, but great strides have been made in recent decades to celebrate Minnesota's vibrant queer history. Add to this rising chorus an enchanting new voice: Land of 10,000 Loves, Stewart Van Cleve's wide-ranging and unprecedented illustrated history of... For too long, LGBTQ communities--including Minnesota's--have been maligned, misrepresented, and often outright ignored. Myths regarding the queer e... |
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113,84 zł |
Archaeology of Minnesota: The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region
ISBN: 9780816679096 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeology reveals that Native Americans lived in the region at least 13,000 years before such European incursions. Archaeology of Minnesota tells their story--or as much as the region's wealth of artifacts, evidence of human activity, and animal and plant remains can convey. From archaeological materials, Guy Gibbon reconstructs the social, economic, and political systems--the lifeways--of those who inhabited what we now call Minnesota for...Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeol... |
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155,26 zł |
Hawk Ridge: Minnesota's Birds of Prey
ISBN: 9780816681198 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was Caesar like the eagle because of his aquiline (from aquila, for "eagle" in Latin) nose, or does the eagle seem imperial because of his Caesar-like beak? Does the sharp vision of a "hawk-eyed" observer have any basis in nature? And what the heck is "kettling" to a bird-watcher, or, for that matter, a bird? Raptors have captured the imagination from time immemorial and have an especially rich history in Minnesota. The ancient peoples whose pictographs adorn the rock faces of Lake Superior's North Shore may well have witnessed the first hawk movements along Lake Superior--the same annual... Was Caesar like the eagle because of his aquiline (from aquila, for "eagle" in Latin) nose, or does the eagle seem imperial because of his Caesar-l... |
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113,84 zł |
Experiences on the Prairie: : The Story of Andrew and Jeannie
ISBN: 9781432786298 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,31 zł |
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
ISBN: 9780875804675 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard s genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as Chicago Shakes, this vanguard of Chicago s rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics. "Chicago Shakespeare Theater "unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and... The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard s genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of l... |
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144,90 zł |
Somalis in Minnesota
ISBN: 9780873518673 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying jobs in the city of Marshall, Minnesota. Soon the war, news, traveled that not only was employment available but the people in this northern state, so different in climate from their African homeland, were generous in martisoor, hospitality, just like the Somali people themselves.
The diaspora began in 1992, and today more than fifty thousand Somalis live in Minnesota, the most of any... The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of...
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74,63 zł |
Black White Blue: The Assassination of Patrolman Sackett
ISBN: 9780873518703 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On May 22, 1970, responding to a bogus emergency call to help a pregnant woman, St. Paul patrolman James Sackett was killed by a sniper's bullet fired from a high-powered rifle.
The white officer's assassination was the most shocking event in an era of shocking, racially charged events, punctuated by bombings at Dayton's Department Store and elsewhere, police harassment and shootings of young black men, an alleged hijacking plot, and random acts of urban violence. a once peaceful, close-knit community, St. Paul's summit-university neighborhood had reached a boiling point, heated by... On May 22, 1970, responding to a bogus emergency call to help a pregnant woman, St. Paul patrolman James Sackett was killed by a sniper's bullet fired...
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103,74 zł |