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We Are Not Animals
ISBN: 9781496238757 / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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165,67 zł |
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No Friday Night Lights
ISBN: 9781496231499 / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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108,66 zł |
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The Sugar King of California
ISBN: 9781496235114 / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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160,49 zł |
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City of Vice
ISBN: 9781496230263 / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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258,86 zł |
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Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion's Soul through Science and Story
ISBN: 9781496238474 / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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103,49 zł |
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Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land
ISBN: 9780060503079 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold "; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom. While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of... The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuab... |
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85,43 zł |
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
ISBN: 9780060572006 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it--and almost certainly... Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute lat... |
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81,15 zł |
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A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate
ISBN: 9780142003831 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Writing with a signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Marc Reisner leads us through California s improbable rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the success of this last great desert civilization hinges on California s denial of its own inescapable fate: Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to...
Writing with a signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Marc Reisner leads us through California s improbable rise from a large...
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102,56 zł |
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Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case
ISBN: 9780143036630 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects was scant and the trial ended in a hung jury. Outraged, Thalia's socialite mother arranged the kidnapping and murder of one of the suspects. In the spectacularly publicized trial that followed, Clarence Darrow came to Hawai'i to defend Thalia's mother, a sorry epitaph to a noble career.
It is one of the most sensational criminal cases... In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gan...
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102,56 zł |
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The Reader's Companion to Alaska
ISBN: 9780156003681 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly s footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck comments on the cruise from hell, and more. Map.
" The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glim...
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128,21 zł |
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Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
ISBN: 9780195154443 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Hailed as "a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same," Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now, in the eagerly anticipated conclusion, Lone Star Lawmen, Utley once again chronicles the daring exploits of the Rangers, this time as they bring justice to the twentieth-century West.
Based on unprecedented access to Ranger archives, this fast-paced narrative stretches from the days of the Mexican Revolution (where atrocities against Mexican Americans marked the nadir of... Hailed as "a rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same," Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice c...
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301,23 zł |
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Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
ISBN: 9780195163506 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths that are often obscured by both racism and political correctness. This engaging first-person account of historical detective work illuminates the methods of the serious historian who searches for the more complex truths behind the glorious myths.
Beginning with a personal prologue recalling both the pride and the prejudices that he encountered in the Texas of his youth, Crisp illustrates how he discovered documents... In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Tex...
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170,46 zł |
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Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
ISBN: 9780195168976 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following California in the years surrounding World War II.
During the 1940s California ascended to a new, more powerful role in the nation. Starr describes the vast expansion of the war industry and California's role as the "arsenal of democracy" (especially the significant part women played in the aviation industry). He examines the politics of the state: Earl Warren as the dominant... The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history--Kevin Starr's monumental Americans and the California Dream--Emba...
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87,17 zł |
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The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780195313093 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off a firestorm of protest. For the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve nature, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club, who sought to protect what they believed was the right of all Americans to experience natural beauty, particularly the magnificent mountains of the...
In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its ...
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177,91 zł |
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Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement
ISBN: 9780231135344 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift, tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and longshore workers eagerly joined the left-led International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and challenged their powerful employers. In this theoretically innovative study, Moon-Kie Jung explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame entrenched racial divisions and successfully mobilized...
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to ar...
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479,56 zł |
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The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925
ISBN: 9780252061554 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book began in 1982 when Catherine Dowling, a graduate student from Dublin, burst into my office with the news that she had found some Clan-na-Gael records at the World Museum of Mining in Butte. She used a part of those records to prepare her M.A. thesis. Later that year Michael Garrity uncovered some more 'Irish stuff' at the museum, incorporating it into his senior honors papers.
This book began in 1982 when Catherine Dowling, a graduate student from Dublin, burst into my office with the news that she had found some Clan-na-Gae...
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129,37 zł |
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The Anti-Chinese Movement in California
ISBN: 9780252062261 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Originally published in 1939, this book was the first objective study of the anti-Chinese movement in the Far West, a subject that is as much a part of the history of California as the mission period or the gold rush. Some historians of the Asian American experience consider it to be, more than half a century later, the most satisfactory work on the subject. For this reissue, Roger Daniels has updated the bibliography to 1991.
Originally published in 1939, this book was the first objective study of the anti-Chinese movement in the Far West, a subject that is as much a part o...
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87,96 zł |
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Mining Cultures: Gender, Work, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41
ISBN: 9780252065699 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Shows how the western city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew
Shows how the western city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as le...
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98,31 zł |
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Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth
ISBN: 9780252074271 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) We all know what happened at Wounded Knee . . . don't we? In this powerful and essential work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts the politics and policies of genocide that continue to destroy the land, livelihood, and culture of Native Americans. Anti-Indianism in Modern America tells the other side of stories of historical massacres and modern-day hate crimes, events that are dismissed or glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts alike. Cook-Lynn exposes the colonialism that works both overtly and covertly to silence and diminish Native Americans, supported by a... We all know what happened at Wounded Knee . . . don't we? In this powerful and essential work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts the politics and... |
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113,84 zł |
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Lost Butte, Montana
ISBN: 9781540206954 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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136,71 zł |
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