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American Horror Fiction and Class: From Poe to Twilight
ISBN: 9781349709441 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,97 zł |
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The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines
ISBN: 9781793643728 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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422,85 zł |
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Thomas Pynchon's Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism
ISBN: 9781793655875 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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422,85 zł |
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The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language
ISBN: 9781632062659 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,01 zł |
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The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar
ISBN: 9781498547628 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,20 zł |
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Brutal Campaign: How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics
ISBN: 9781469673363 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember." It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one term, forever overshadowed in history by the man who made him vice president, by the man who defeated him, and even by his own son. The 1988 presidential race quickly receded into history, but it was marked by the beginning of the modern political sex...
At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the ou...
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611,71 zł |
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Brutal Campaign: How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics
ISBN: 9781469673370 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember." It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one term, forever overshadowed in history by the man who made him vice president, by the man who defeated him, and even by his own son. The 1988 presidential race quickly receded into history, but it was marked by the beginning of the modern political sex...
At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the ou...
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192,35 zł |
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The Multiverse of Office Fiction: Bartlebys at Work
ISBN: 9783031126871 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Multiverse of Office Fictionliberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction—fiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil servants, and company employees—as an underexplored genre of fiction, by addressing relevant issues such as evolution of office work, integration of work and life, exploitation of women office workers, and representation of the Post Office. In achieving this goal, Bartleby plays an essential role not as one of...
The Multiverse of Office Fictionliberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namel...
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467,99 zł |
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Prevailing Love
ISBN: 9781665574693 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,72 zł |
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Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton’s earlier recording, a giant but exclusively R&B hit. In Hound Dog Eric Weisbard examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis’s appropriation of a Black woman’s anthem. He rethinks the history and influences of rock music in light of Rolling Stone's replacement of Presley’s “Hound Dog” with Thornton’s version in its 2021 “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Taking readers...
Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew t...
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365,19 zł |
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Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton’s earlier recording, a giant but exclusively R&B hit. In Hound Dog Eric Weisbard examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis’s appropriation of a Black woman’s anthem. He rethinks the history and influences of rock music in light of Rolling Stone's replacement of Presley’s “Hound Dog” with Thornton’s version in its 2021 “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Taking readers...
Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew t...
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83,42 zł |
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Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes
ISBN: 9781978832510 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resilient Kitchens is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. It includes a vibrant mix of perspectives from food writers, restaurateurs, scholars, and activists, accompanied by delicious recipes, gorgeous photography and hand-drawn illustrations.
Resilient Kitchens is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, t...
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114,72 zł |
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Monuments and Memory-Making: The Debate over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1981-1982
ISBN: 9781469673899 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize what was at the time the longest military conflict in US history. As students engage in the historical process of memory-making, they will work to reconcile the varied and often contradictory voices that rose up after the fall of Saigon. Students will tackle questions such as How do we create a national memory of the past? How do we reckon with a war that was widely understood as a defeat for the United States? How do we remember the dead while...
Monuments and Memory-Making immerses students in the conversations and controversies that emerged as the nation grappled with how best to memorialize ...
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165,11 zł |
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The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle
ISBN: 9781793609854 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. The contributors analyze the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods into the communities and aspirations within.
The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. T...
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164,75 zł |
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
ISBN: 9781469670034 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture. The publication was filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors and featured interviews with community members. These oral histories quickly became the focal point of the magazine and, eventually, the material that generated the multivolume Foxfire book series. Now, pulled from the vast Foxfire archive comes the first volume in the series focused specifically on the lives of Appalachian women....
In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian ...
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cena:
109,20 zł |
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Vaccines War: Covid-19 Crisis
ISBN: 9798823080064 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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174,34 zł |
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Vaccines War: Covid-19 Crisis
ISBN: 9798823080057 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,01 zł |
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
ISBN: 9781469670027 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture. The publication was filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors and featured interviews with community members. These oral histories quickly became the focal point of the magazine and, eventually, the material that generated the multivolume Foxfire book series. Now, pulled from the vast Foxfire archive comes the first volume in the series focused specifically on the lives of Appalachian women....
In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian ...
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611,71 zł |
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Oh, Didn\'t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
ISBN: 9781469674995 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel to rock and reggae, Cajun to Celtic. It must encompass the work of artists as diverse as Alice Gerard and Alison Kraus, George Thorogood and Sun Ra, Bela Fleck and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the Blake Babies and Billy Strings. What do all these artists and music styles have in common? The answer is a record label born in the wake of the American folk revival and 1960s movement politics, formed around the eclectic tastes and audacious ideals of...
What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel...
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122,30 zł |
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Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics
ISBN: 9781469677415 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson, and others riveted the American public. Unconventional religious choices charted new ways of declaring an "authentic" identity amid escalating Cold...
Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods ...
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cena:
137,32 zł |
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