wyszukanych pozycji: 116
Legend And Mysteries Of The Maori
ISBN: 9781406789188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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165,01 zł |
Race and Racism in Literature
ISBN: 9780313328206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Issues of race and racism permeate American society and are of central concern to students and teachers. The chapters in this reference explore how these issues have been addressed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Native Son, The House on Mango Street, Ceremony, and other major novels widely read by high school students. The works discussed reflect racial issues from a range of cultural perspectives. Each chapter is devoted to a particular novel and provides a plot summary, an overview of the work's historical background, a literary analysis, and... Issues of race and racism permeate American society and are of central concern to students and teachers. The chapters in this reference explore how... |
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377,66 zł |
The Gardener's Hint Book
ISBN: 9780824602109 / Angielski / Twarda / 1978 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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179,20 zł |
Liberty or Death!
ISBN: 9781425158521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Friar Nebot fought against Napoleon, against the feudal system and against the King. In 1823 he fled to London where he continued to fight for liberty for the oppressed.
Friar Nebot fought against Napoleon, against the feudal system and against the King. In 1823 he fled to London where he continued to fight for liberty...
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126,19 zł |
A Bridge of Years
ISBN: 9780765327420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge--a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is the present. At the other end--New York City, 1963. His journey back to the early 1960s seems to offer him the chance to start over in a simpler, safer world. But he finds that the tunnel holds a danger far greater than anything he left behind: a human killing machine escaped from a bleak and brutal future, who will do anything to protect... Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge--a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happines... |
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84,17 zł |
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory
ISBN: 9780807856925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.
The 95 entries here represent a substantial revision and expansion of the material on historical memory and manners in the original edition.... This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historic...
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158,90 zł |
In This Vale of Tears
ISBN: 9781876262075 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,22 zł |
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
ISBN: 9781250163950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,38 zł |
The Recovery of Jerusalem
ISBN: 9783382140786 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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353,24 zł |
Shears of Fate / Ciseaux du Destin
ISBN: 9781849212175 / Francuski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The impact of coincidence on what would otherwise have been ordinary lives. L'impact de coïncidence sur des vies qui, autrement, auraient été ordinaires. "You know some people make a habit of this," I whispered into her ear, my lips close enough for kissing. "You might be my sixth or seventh victim." "I don't think so," she said, moving her head gently in a negative. She knew beyond shadow of doubt that she was the first and the last. "Tu sais, certaines personnes en font une habitude", lui ai-je murmuré à l'oreille, mes lèvres assez près pour l'embrasser. "Tu pourrais être ma...
The impact of coincidence on what would otherwise have been ordinary lives. L'impact de coïncidence sur des vies qui, autrement, auraient été ordin...
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141,48 zł |
Search for the Native American Purebloods
ISBN: 9780806132853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Over several decades, renowned Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson sought out "purebloods" (that is, Indians of a single tribal heritage) of each of Oklahoma's tribes to create a gallery of American Indian portraits. "Search for the Native American Purebloods "captures the state's visual heritage in a series of seventy-seven remarkable pencil drawings, each accompanied by a narrative describing Wilson's visits with the subject. Out of print since 2005, the book is once again available with the generous assistance of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
Over several decades, renowned Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson sought out "purebloods" (that is, Indians of a single tribal heritage) of each of ...
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153,37 zł |
Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the South
ISBN: 9780820338309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Flashes of a Southern Spirit" explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.Charles Reagan Wilson sees ideas of the spirit as central to understanding southern identity. The South nurtured a patriotic spirit expressed in the high emotions of Confederates going off to war, but the region also was the setting for a spiritual outpouring of prayer and song during the civil rights movement. Arguing for a spiritual grounding to southern identity, Wilson shows how identifications of the spirit are...
"Flashes of a Southern Spirit" explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional charact...
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185,42 zł |
Darwinia
ISBN: 9780765319050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle was an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving an America now ruled by religious fundamentalists, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine...to a shattering revelation about mankind's destiny in the universe. Robert Charles Wilson has crafted a brilliant science... In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antedi... |
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75,75 zł |
The Castle of Heavenly Bliss
ISBN: 9781876262280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 828 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,32 zł |
Times of Distress: A story of unswerving faith and commitment
ISBN: 9781876262341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,38 zł |
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 3: History
ISBN: 9780807856918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C.E.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the turbulent past of the region that has witnessed frequent racial conflict, a bloody Civil War fought and lost on its soil, massive in- and out-migration, major economic transformations, and a civil rights movement that brought fundamental change to the social order.
Charles Reagan Wilson's... Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly su...
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212,21 zł |
Chronoliths
ISBN: 9780765325280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory...sixteen years hence. As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery--and a final battle with the future. The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo... One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arriva... |
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75,75 zł |
Mysterium
ISBN: 9780765327413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a top-secret government installation near the small town of Two Rivers, Michigan, scientists are investigating a mysterious object discovered several years earlier. Late one evening, the local residents observe strange lights coming from the laboratory. The next morning, they awake to find that their town was literally cut off from the rest of the world...and thrust into a new one Soon the town is discovered by the bewildered leaders of this new world--at which point, the people of Two Rivers realize that they've arrived in a rigid theocracy. The authorities, known as the Bureau... In a top-secret government installation near the small town of Two Rivers, Michigan, scientists are investigating a mysterious object discovered se... |
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79,96 zł |
Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920
ISBN: 9780820334257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition. Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause. As Charles Reagan Wilson writes in his new preface, "The Lost Cause version of the regional civil religion was a powerful expression, and recent scholarship affirms its continuing power in the minds of many white southerners."
Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rh...
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188,74 zł |
Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis
ISBN: 9780820329659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-stirring orations of Martin Luther King Jr. In "Judgment and Grace in Dixie," Charles Reagan Wilson makes a lively appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music, and folk art, as well as on such public spectacles as football games and beauty pageants. Wilson's focus is on popular religion--evangelical Protestantism as embraced at the grassroots level, where distinctions between the sacred and... Religion has permeated nearly every aspect of modern southern culture, with results that range from portraits of Jesus on black velvet to the soul-... |
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123,13 zł |