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A Short History of Migration
ISBN: 9780745661865 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translated by Carl Ipsen.
This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures of migratory groups. Separate chapters deal with the migration flows between Europe and the rest of the world in the 19th and 20th centuries and with the turbulent and complex migratory history of the Americas. Livi Bacci shows that, over the centuries, migration has been a fundamental human... Translated by Carl Ipsen.
This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of hum... |
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TO the RAMPARTS!: Religion vs. Science --The Battle
ISBN: 9781477610787 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TO THE RAMPARTS All of us know of the great benefits that science (including engineering and medicine) has bestowed upon us, both at work and in the home. Refrigerators, air conditioners, automobiles, computers, smart phones, prosthetic appliances, inoculation against diseases, etc. Many, however, are not aware of the battles that religion has waged against scientific developments for hundreds of years. Many books cover different aspects of this subject. Christopher Hitchens argues that the battle of religion against science helped turn him to atheism. Charles Kimball, a Baptist Minister and...
TO THE RAMPARTS All of us know of the great benefits that science (including engineering and medicine) has bestowed upon us, both at work and in the ...
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A Gentlewoman's Home: The Whole Art of Building, Furnishing, and Beautifying the Home
ISBN: 9781108053013 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jane Ellen Panton (1847 1923) was the second daughter of the artist William Powell Frith, and an expert on domestic issues. First published in 1896, this is her guide to creating the 'dream house'. In it she draws on the experiences of Deborah and Dick, clients who sought her advice after looking unsuccessfully for a suitable home. The book is based on the notion that turning an existing building into a dream house is impossible, and begins by offering advice on finding land and building on it to create a home that could be 'the cradle of the race', passed on to successive generations. Panton...
Jane Ellen Panton (1847 1923) was the second daughter of the artist William Powell Frith, and an expert on domestic issues. First published in 1896, t...
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The Face of the City: Civic Portraiture and Civic Identity in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780719089077 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our conventional understanding of English portraiture from the age of Holbein and Henry VIII on to Reubens, VanDyck and Charles I clings to the mainstream images of royalty and aristocracy and to the succession of known practitioners of 'Renaissance' portraiture. Projection of the royal or aristocratic persona, the self-fashioning of the individual, remained the main objective of these works, and the steady development towards more sophisticated stylistic conventions, as imported by prominent foreign-trained artists, remains the traditional art historical context in which they have been...
Our conventional understanding of English portraiture from the age of Holbein and Henry VIII on to Reubens, VanDyck and Charles I clings to the mainst...
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Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's Ngos and Global Governance, 1925-85
ISBN: 9780719088988 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Available in paperback for the first time, and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Shaping a global women's agenda documents international women's history through the lens of the long-established Western-led international organisations that defined and dominated women's involvement in global politics from the 1925 founding of the Joint Standing Committee of Women's International Organisations up through the UN Decade for Women (1976-85). Documenting specific global campaigns in episodes that span the twentieth century, Garner includes biographical information about lesser known...
Available in paperback for the first time, and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Shaping a global women's agenda documents international wo...
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The Dove and the Eagle
ISBN: 9781443840835 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book represents research conducted over a two-year period on the politico-diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States in the mid-Sixties and Seventies. Based on conspicuous archival materials from Italian, American and British sources, and on a great amount of secondary literature, it traces an accurate panorama of the Italian political, social and diplomatic developments - from the student and worker protests of 1968, to the killing of Aldo Moro in 1978; from the behind-the-scenes bargains between parties, to the fear of the Communist Party's growth - during the Premiership...
This book represents research conducted over a two-year period on the politico-diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States in the mid-Six...
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On This Date March 2: A Unique Collection of What ELSE Happened on YOUR Birthday!
ISBN: 9781542863896 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Evils of the World
ISBN: 9781470125400 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a narration of the evils in the world. Starting with religion, war, power, money, and their adjunct maladies. The narration goes back to the Genocide of the Armenians during World War I and continues through the trials and tribulations of the young making a success in America. The book elaborates on the evils and brings out personalities and organizations that are responsiblie for them.
This book is a narration of the evils in the world. Starting with religion, war, power, money, and their adjunct maladies. The narration goes back to ...
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from Fjord to Floathouse: one family's journey from the farmlands of Norway to the coast of British Columbia
ISBN: 9781478254973 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1898 Vancouver, British Columbia, the flip of a coin sends one young man to the Klondike gold rush leaving his partner, Andy Forberg, to carve a living from trees growing along the rocky coastline of remote British Columbia. One hundred years later his granddaughter, driven by a need to explore her family heritage, experiences a heart-warming welcome at the farm Andy left so long ago. from Fjord to Floathouse is the saga of hardy West Coast pioneers, who lived in snug floating homes and were sustained by surrounding sea and forest. Water transportation, written communication, semi-weekly...
In 1898 Vancouver, British Columbia, the flip of a coin sends one young man to the Klondike gold rush leaving his partner, Andy Forberg, to carve a li...
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Why Do Good Things Happen To People Like Me?: Memoirs of Bob Ross
ISBN: 9781450571777 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memoirs of the author, James Robert (Bob) Ross
Memoirs of the author, James Robert (Bob) Ross
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A Tear for Sarah: Young Woman Goes on an Incredible Civil War Journey
ISBN: 9781479138418 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the true story of a young Kentucky woman whose husband joins the Union Army in the Civil War but finds she cannot manage their little farm without him. She learns he has been wounded and decides to travel nearly 200 miles on foot and horseback through primitive country to try to rescue him from the war. She takes her 3-year-old daughter with her and finds several serious obstacles on her long journey, including trying to swim across a flooded river, warding off a bear attack and dealing with soldiers who try to commandeer her horse and goods. The story speaks from the point of view of...
This is the true story of a young Kentucky woman whose husband joins the Union Army in the Civil War but finds she cannot manage their little farm wit...
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Korea 2012: Politics, Economy and Society
ISBN: 9789004236288 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Korea 2012: Politics, Economy and Society contains concise overview articles covering domestic developments and the economy in both South and North Korea as well as inter-Korean relations and foreign relations of the two Koreas in 2011. Additional papers deal with topics such as South Korea's foreign trade drive, the death of Kim Jong Il, South Korea as a middle power, the portrayal of North Koreans in ROK cinema, graphic novel representations of food issues in post-famine North Korea, and North Korean views of foreigners. A detailed chronology complements the articles.
Korea 2012: Politics, Economy and Society contains concise overview articles covering domestic developments and the economy in both South and N...
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Some Early and Later Houses of Pity (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415820790 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From around the eleventh century until the Reformation, a close connection between the Church and hospitals was formed as they became a refuge for the ill, ostracised and poor. First published in 1926, John Morrison Hobson presents a fascinating survey of the hospitals and almshouses found throughout medieval England. Full of photographs and illustrations, Hobson surveys the almshouses by geographical location and provides a social and historical context for each. This practical and interesting study will be of use to students and academics with an interest in English hospitals and...
From around the eleventh century until the Reformation, a close connection between the Church and hospitals was formed as they became a refuge for the...
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The Bride's Trunk: A Story of War and Reconciliation
ISBN: 9780993508028 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. “An extraordinary narrative” “Carefully pieced together from personal and official documents, oral testimony and material objects” “A gripping and moving story, with excellent illustrations.” A TRUE STORY OF LOVE AND RECONCILIATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR Minny leaves Germany on a bitterly cold morning in December 1946. She travels to England to marry Jim, a British Intelligence Corps soldier in the Allied armies that defeated the Nazi regime in 1945 and... “An extraordinary narrative” “Carefully pieced together from personal and official documents, oral t... |
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Other Voices, Other Times ....Hungry Hill Remembered
ISBN: 9781470045777 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Other Voices, Other Times...Hungry Hill Remembered is about travelers in time who spent part of their journey and in some cases, all of it, on Hungry Hill in Springfield, Massachusetts. It covers a 50-year span in a neighborhood that was home to both native and foreign born who coexisted peacefully. Common themes in that time period were hard work, sacrifice and personal responsibility, tempered by a strong faith and sense of humor.
Other Voices, Other Times...Hungry Hill Remembered is about travelers in time who spent part of their journey and in some cases, all of it, on Hungry ...
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Facts and Documents Connected with the Late Insurrection in Jamaica: With a Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834
ISBN: 9781108053143 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Christmas Rebellion (1831 2) saw the uprising of 60,000 Jamaican slaves, many of them followers of one Baptist preacher. Initially intended only as a peaceful strike, it escalated as estates were burned down and plantation owners killed. This 1832 pamphlet details the violence and persecution directed against nonconformists and missionaries, who were regarded as having been sympathetic towards the revolt. The materials were published by William Knibb, a Baptist minister, who in 1832 was summoned to appear before parliamentary committees investigating the state of the Caribbean colonies....
The Christmas Rebellion (1831 2) saw the uprising of 60,000 Jamaican slaves, many of them followers of one Baptist preacher. Initially intended only a...
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False Prophets
ISBN: 9781480093775 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in the Mayan Calendar, and their predictions of the end of the world. Some question their wisdom. Many false prophets claim to know the end of time. There is only one being that knows the end of time and he ain't telling. This book takes a rational look at some of those claims and gives a different and humorist look at those claims.
Interest in the Mayan Calendar, and their predictions of the end of the world. Some question their wisdom. Many false prophets claim to know the end o...
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Citizen
ISBN: 9781878964090 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A stirring personal narrative that follows a young newspaper couple and three families through the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Actual editorials are used and life in Camp Manzanar is vividly depicted.
A stirring personal narrative that follows a young newspaper couple and three families through the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Actua...
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63,33 |
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Regulating Passion: Sexuality and Patriarchal Rule in Massachusetts, 1700-1830
ISBN: 9780199928422 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sexuality was critical to how individuals experienced, learned, and contested their place in early America. Regulating Passion shows the sweeping changes that affected the social and political morass centered on sexual behavior during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Massachusetts-even as patriarchy remained important to those configurations of power. Charting the government's and society's management of sexuality, Kelly A. Ryan uncovers the compelling stories of the individuals charged with sexual crimes and how elites hoped to contain and exploit "illicit"...
Sexuality was critical to how individuals experienced, learned, and contested their place in early America. Regulating Passion shows the swee...
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344,33 |
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The Mission at South Phoenix: The history of San Francisco Xavier Mission
ISBN: 9781480127807 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A pictorial history of San Francisco Xavier Mission in Phoenix, Arizona.
A pictorial history of San Francisco Xavier Mission in Phoenix, Arizona.
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