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Down at the Docks
ISBN: 9780385720137 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the opening pages of Moby Dick, Herman Melville called New Bedford, Massachusetts, the dearest place to live in, in all of New England. But the old fishing port and manufacturing center once one of the richest cities in New England has withered in the modern economy. Its once-prosperous fishermen now struggle with government regulations and fished-out seas, while its empty factories now offer more work to the Fire Department than anyone else.
In Down at the Docks, Rory Nugent tells the riches to rags story of this iconic American town through beautifully told and... In the opening pages of Moby Dick, Herman Melville called New Bedford, Massachusetts, the dearest place to live in, in all of New England. But ...
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City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined
ISBN: 9780525561958 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
ISBN: 9780143122029 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ANew RepublicBest Book of the Year The GlobalistTop Books of the Year Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction
Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven nations that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey... ANew RepublicBest Book of the Year The GlobalistTop Books of the Year Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction |
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My Two Italies: A Personal and Cultural History
ISBN: 9780374535391 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in "My Two Italies" to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an awa... |
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I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
ISBN: 9780143135289 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,42 |
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The Jungle
ISBN: 9781739267599 / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,26 |
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Middle East Reviews: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781633916975 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,64 |
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Rough Waters: Alaska to Oregon: Small Fishermen's Battle
ISBN: 9780967884288 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,84 |
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Cornish Identity: A Passion to Exist
ISBN: 9781999721596 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,04 |
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Africa in The Sixties
ISBN: 9789987160341 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,64 |
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British Honduras to Belize: Transformation of a Nation
ISBN: 9789987160471 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,64 |
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Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World
ISBN: 9780674988170 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do India’s millennials want and how are they transforming one of the youngest, most populous nations in the world? More than half of India is under the age of twenty-five, but India’s millennials are nothing like their counterparts in the West. In a country that is increasingly characterized by ambition and crushing limitations, this is a generation that cannot—and will not—be defined on anything but their own terms. They are wealth-chasers, hucksters, and fame-hunters, desperate to escape their narrow prospects. They are the dreamers. Award-winning journalist Snigdha Poonam...
What do India’s millennials want and how are they transforming one of the youngest, most populous nations in the world? More than half of India is ...
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Tamilnadu A Journey in Time Part II: People, Places and Potpourri
ISBN: 9781638065197 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,80 |
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Bolívar: la Utopía frustrada: ¿Cómo recobrar la identidad de pueblo?
ISBN: 9781514791325 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conjunto de escritos sobre historia venezolana y situacion social actual, donde se realiza un ensayo sobre El Libertador, apocado por sus amigos de armas."
Conjunto de escritos sobre historia venezolana y situacion social actual, donde se realiza un ensayo sobre El Libertador, apocado por sus amigos de ar...
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Come to the Edge: Arrival and Survival in Del Norte County
ISBN: 9781945824210 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,84 |
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Being Kammu
ISBN: 9780877271307 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining autobiography and ethnography, Damrong Tayanin examines the lifestyles, customs, practices, and beliefs of the Kammu people by describing his own early...
Combining autobiography and ethnography, Damrong Tayanin examines the lifestyles, customs, practices, and beliefs of the Kammu people by describing hi...
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
ISBN: 9780998904146 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign promises. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and problems of the region. The book analyzes trends in contemporary writing on Appalachia, presents a brief history of Appalachia with an eye toward unpacking Appalachian...
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to...
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We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World
ISBN: 9781517912215 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
ISBN: 9781610396004 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorship--far subtler than twentieth-century strains--that is rapidly rising to challenge the West. When British producer...
In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin ...
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Africa Is Not a Country - Notes on a Bright Continent
ISBN: 9781324065890 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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