ilość książek w kategorii: 552
Modern America: 1964-Present
ISBN: 9781604133615 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times onwards. This title chronicles the people and events that have shaped the nation. It is suitable for students.
Covers the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times onwards. This title chronicles the people and events that have shape...
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The Scopes Monkey Trial : Debate Over Evolution
ISBN: 9781604136791 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the passage of the Butler Act, 24-year-old high school teacher John Scopes intentionally violated the law. Arrested and charged on May 5, 1925, Scopes became the centerpiece in the trial of this case. This title explains how this pivotal court case shaped the way evolution and creationism is approached in classrooms.
After the passage of the Butler Act, 24-year-old high school teacher John Scopes intentionally violated the law. Arrested and charged on May 5, 1925, ...
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184,59 zł |
The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II: Detention of American Citizens
ISBN: 9781604136814 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes the tragic tale of injustice and racial hatred against a minority caught in the crosshairs of a world war.
Describes the tragic tale of injustice and racial hatred against a minority caught in the crosshairs of a world war.
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184,59 zł |
The McCarthy Era: Communists in America
ISBN: 9781604137651 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No further information has been provided for this title.
No further information has been provided for this title.
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184,59 zł |
The Great Depression and the New Deal: America's Economy in Crisis
ISBN: 9781604137668 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1933, in his first inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, ... the only thing we have to fear is fear itself... Yet, Roosevelt knew that the fear he spoke of was grounded in reality. With one-third of the nation's workforce unemployed, grown men scrounged in garbage cans for discarded scraps to feed their families. Six thousand street-corner apple vendors sold their product in New York City alone. Fear, indeed, stocked the land of the 1930s during Great Depression a defining event of 20th-century America. With the introduction of Roosevelt's New Deal, many families...
In 1933, in his first inaugural address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, ... the only thing we have to fear is fear itself... Yet, Roose...
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184,59 zł |
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
ISBN: 9780791096413 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conditions were harsh in tenement factories all over New York City, but they were especially difficult at one in particular. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located near the city's Washington Square Park, made history on March 25, 1911, when a devastating fire destroyed the top three floors of the building in which it was located. One hundred and forty-six young women and several men died in what was the worst workplace disaster to take place in the United States to that date. The lack of fire sprinklers or extinguishers, a safe fire escape, and working elevators, coupled with cluttered and...
Conditions were harsh in tenement factories all over New York City, but they were especially difficult at one in particular. The Triangle Shirtwaist F...
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184,59 zł |
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
ISBN: 9780791096505 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This informative new title tells the true story of a powerful earthquake that roared through San Francisco in 1906.
This informative new title tells the true story of a powerful earthquake that roared through San Francisco in 1906.
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184,59 zł |
The Usa, 1917-1941
ISBN: 9780521568647 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A range of textbooks covering many of the options available on GCSE history specifications. The USA 1917-1941 looks at the history of the United States of America from the First World War to the entry of America into the Second World War in 1941, focusing on the boom-time years of the Roaring Twenties, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression, and Roosevelt's New Deal.
A range of textbooks covering many of the options available on GCSE history specifications. The USA 1917-1941 looks at the history of the United State...
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194,66 zł |
A Voice from the Civil Rights Era
ISBN: 9780313329982 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s. She was a farmer's daughter, one of eight children, who spent her summer vacations picking cotton in her father's fields. She wouldn't dare look a white person in the eye if she passed one on the street. Her high school was not integrated until 1980, 25 years after the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision stated segregated schools were illegal. Throughout her first-person memoir, Regis provides the history of the civil rights movement in an accessible manner to help... Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s. She was a farmer's daugh... |
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195,42 zł |
AMERICAN MODERNISM, 1910 - 1945, 2ND EDITION
ISBN: 9781604134889 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging, illustrated guide to the modernist movement in American literature provides a wealth of information on American modernism, the Lost Generation, modernism in the American novel, the Harlem Renaissance, modernism in poetry and drama, and the literary culture of the Moderns. This updated volume is in full color for the first time and features numerous resources, such as a new section covering the Great Depression, informative sidebars, a chronology, cross-references, and further reading suggestions, among others. Topics include: Surrealism, expressionism, and Freudian symbolism...
This engaging, illustrated guide to the modernist movement in American literature provides a wealth of information on American modernism, the Lost Gen...
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211,00 zł |
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1945 - PRESENT, 2ND EDITION
ISBN: 9781604134896 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on a variety of topics, from the violence of war and the struggle for civil rights to the social impact of technology and the moral significance of money, this colorfully illustrated guide to American literature from the postwar period to the present day has been expanded and fully updated. A new section titled Into the Future contains a discussion of the best young writers of recent years. A concise, engaging guide to American contemporary literature, this volume provides information on 21st-century writers; the 1950s, '60s, and beyond; contemporary American poetry; and the...
Focusing on a variety of topics, from the violence of war and the struggle for civil rights to the social impact of technology and the moral significa...
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211,00 zł |
SPORTS IN AMERICA: 1990 TO 1999, 2ND EDITION
ISBN: 9781604134568 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book lists the sports highlights for each year during the 1990's.
This book lists the sports highlights for each year during the 1990's.
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211,00 zł |
Sports in America: 1980-1989
ISBN: 9781604134551 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounts some of the big events, teams, and records that occurred in the years 1980-1989.
Recounts some of the big events, teams, and records that occurred in the years 1980-1989.
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211,00 zł |
Sports in America: 1970-1979
ISBN: 9781604134544 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Previous ed. cataloged under Gigliotti, Jim.
Previous ed. cataloged under Gigliotti, Jim.
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211,00 zł |
Sports in America: 1960-1969
ISBN: 9781604134537 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1960s, the Rock 'n' Roll Decade, saw the first televised Olympics, the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game, and the first Super Bowl. Students, researchers, and general readers alike will be enthralled by 1960 1969, Second Edition as they learn about these major milestones in sports through a vivid presentation and handy reference features. Highlights include: Runner Wilma Rudolph wins two gold medals in the 1960 Olympics, the first Olympic Games to be broadcast to millions on television Race car driver A.J. Foyt wins his first Indianapolis 500 race in 1961, the...
The 1960s, the Rock 'n' Roll Decade, saw the first televised Olympics, the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game, and the first...
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211,00 zł |
SPORTS IN AMERICA: 1900 TO 1919, 2ND EDITION
ISBN: 9781604134483 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounts two decades of sports highlights, covering historical high points, scandals, records, and championships.
Recounts two decades of sports highlights, covering historical high points, scandals, records, and championships.
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211,00 zł |
Sports in America: 1920-1939
ISBN: 9781604134490 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounts two decades of sports highlights, covering historical high points, scandals, records, and championships, including basketball, boxing, and hockey.
Recounts two decades of sports highlights, covering historical high points, scandals, records, and championships, including basketball, boxing, and ho...
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211,00 zł |
Sports in America: 1940-1949
ISBN: 9781604134506 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounts a decade of sports highlights, covering historical high points, scandals, records, and championships, including basketball, boxing, and hockey.
Recounts a decade of sports highlights, covering historical high points, scandals, records, and championships, including basketball, boxing, and hocke...
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211,00 zł |
Postwar America 1950 to 1969
ISBN: 9780816071814 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period following WW II was marked by great social change as a result of the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, and the youth opposition to the Vietnam War. The threat of nuclear annihilation and the cold war created a widespread sense of fear for many Americans, defining this as one of America's most tumultuous historical periods.
The period following WW II was marked by great social change as a result of the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, and the youth opposition...
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263,81 zł |
Contemporary America : 1970 to Present
ISBN: 9780816071821 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Changing International affairs and the forces of technological innovation shaped the lives of Americans. While the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to hopes of peaceful international relations, the Gulf War and the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York shattered these aspirations.
Changing International affairs and the forces of technological innovation shaped the lives of Americans. While the end of the Cold War and the collaps...
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263,81 zł |