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Twentieth-Century Indonesia
ISBN: 9780231083164 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 413 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The ecology, geography, foreign relations, and ethnic diversity of the Asian island group are examined as the author traces its history from Dutch colonial times to independence.
The ecology, geography, foreign relations, and ethnic diversity of the Asian island group are examined as the author traces its history from Dutch col...
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276,85 zł |
Sources of Japanese Tradition: 1600 to 2000
ISBN: 9780231086059 / Angielski / Miękka / 1964 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings by modern Japan's most important philosophers, religious figures, writers and political leaders. The volume also offers extensive introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding the...
Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebo...
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336,98 zł |
Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780231112710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin-era China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world's largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary--who edited the first edition in 1960--and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated...
For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic...
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224,03 zł |
The Pioneer Preacher: Incidents of Interest, and Experiences in the Author's Life
ISBN: 9780252060915 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as ma...
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117,30 zł |
Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780253218216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. ..". brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." -Simon Gikandi Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time and culture. This original and significant book will interest armchair... ..". brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." -Sim... |
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111,43 zł |
Reid Duffy's Guide to Indiana's Favorite Restaurants, Updated Edition: With a Recipe Sampler
ISBN: 9780253218797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Noted TV personality and columnist Reid Duffy showcases 30 Indiana restaurants that have stood the test of time in this updated and expanded edition of Indiana's Favorite Restaurants. These showcased restaurants have been in existence for 25 years or more, and in some cases for several generations. Recipes for favorite dishes from these restaurants are included so that you can recreate the foods you love at home. Approximately 60 recipes--from Acapulco Joe's Taco Filling to Nashville House Fried Biscuits--accompany Duffy's reviews. "Comfort food" abounds in Indiana--162 restaurants... Noted TV personality and columnist Reid Duffy showcases 30 Indiana restaurants that have stood the test of time in this updated and expanded editio... |
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111,43 zł |
An African World: The Basongye Village of Lupupa Ngye
ISBN: 9780253302809 / Angielski / Twarda / 1974 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is an engrossing account of ethnographic field work carried out in Lupupa Ngye, a Basongye village of central Zaire. The author's general aim was to know Basongye society and culture, and also to study music and the other arts. This volume provides a vivid descriptive sketch of the daily lives of the villagers and an understanding of their belief system. Professor Merriam's field-work in Lupupa Ngye was intensive and capable; his report on it is illuminating. "This is an engrossing account of ethnographic field work carried out in Lupupa Ngye, a Basongye village of central Zaire. The author's general aim ... |
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319,24 zł |
African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries
ISBN: 9780253341945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new black republic represented disposal rather than emancipation, a few intrepid men set out to explore their African home. African-American Exploration in West Africa collects the travel diaries of James L. Sims, George L. Seymour, and Benjamin J. K. Anderson, who explored the territory that is now Liberia and Guinea between 1858 and 1874. These remarkable diaries reveal the wealth and beauty of Africa in striking... In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberi... |
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273,63 zł |
Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land
ISBN: 9780262693394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At its founding, Boston was a small peninsula; over the last 375 years the city has doubled in size by filling in the surrounding tidal flats -- areas covered with water at high tide and exposed at low. In Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land, historian Nancy Seasholes outlines twelve walks that trace where and why Boston's man-made land was created, and, along the way, uncovers fascinating and little-known pieces of Boston history. In the course of these walks -- around the central waterfront, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, Charlestown, and elsewhere -- she shows us how... At its founding, Boston was a small peninsula; over the last 375 years the city has doubled in size by filling in the surrounding tidal flats -- ar... |
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246,79 zł |
Travel in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780268042226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As a companion to his previous volume Night in the Middles Ages, Jean Verdon offers insight into the pitfalls and perils of travelling during medieval times. Travel in the Middle Ages is filled with the stories and adventures of those who hazarded hostile landscapes, elements, and people - out of want or necessity - to get from place to place. Verdon contends that a journey in the current sense, suggesting both the movement of a person who travels to a fairly distant place and philosophical ideas of distraction and flight from self, did not exist in the Middle Ages. Indeed, he says, nothing...
As a companion to his previous volume Night in the Middles Ages, Jean Verdon offers insight into the pitfalls and perils of travelling during medieval...
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567,54 zł |
Travel in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780268042233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As a companion to his previous volume Night in the Middles Ages, Jean Verdon offers insight into the pitfalls and perils of travelling during medieval times. Travel in the Middle Ages is filled with the stories and adventures of those who hazarded hostile landscapes, elements, and people - out of want or necessity - to get from place to place. Verdon contends that a journey in the current sense, suggesting both the movement of a person who travels to a fairly distant place and philosophical ideas of distraction and flight from self, did not exist in the Middle Ages. Indeed, he says, nothing...
As a companion to his previous volume Night in the Middles Ages, Jean Verdon offers insight into the pitfalls and perils of travelling during medieval...
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151,97 zł |
The Best Places You've Never Seen: Pennsylvania's Small Museums: A Traveler's Guide
ISBN: 9780271022765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. You know the Carnegie Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but have you ever visited the Toy Robot Museum in Adamstown or Bill's Old Bike Barn in Bloomsburg? The Tom Mix Museum in Mix Run? The Houdini Museum in Scranton? Pennsylvania's many small museums are easy to miss in an age of instant information and superhighways. After reading Therese Boyd's guide, however, you'll rush to get off the beaten track to find them. Pennsylvania's little wonders are as entertaining as they are educational. Unlike large museums, which display masterpieces of art and other "important"... You know the Carnegie Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but have you ever visited the Toy Robot Museum in Adamstown or Bill's Old Bike ... |
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149,09 zł |
The New Eurasia: A Guide to the Republics of the Former Soviet Union
ISBN: 9780275944315 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This unique compilation on the Eurasian states of the former Soviet Union introduces the little-known, yet strategic heartland of the world. Some of the data included has never before been published; none has been assembled in such a manner in which interrelationships of culture, history, diplomacy, economics, and defense are so clear and understandable. Following an overview of the Soviet Union and its recent history, the guide examines each region and each state. Data is provided on the political structure and policies, the military, and the economy. The remnants of the Soviet Union,... This unique compilation on the Eurasian states of the former Soviet Union introduces the little-known, yet strategic heartland of the world. Some o... |
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276,85 zł |
Rio Grande
ISBN: 9780292706019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The liquid lifeline of an arid land, the Rio Grande has always been a vital presence in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. A source of human sustenance for at least 15,000 years, the river has also been a site of conflict ever since exploring Spaniards first crossed its channel to colonize the Native Americans. Today, it is one of the frontiers in the war against terrorism in the Middle East. Yet the Rio Grande has a life independent of the people who use it as a border, or a hiding place, or an ever-diminishing source of irrigation water. This autonomous life of the river is what... The liquid lifeline of an arid land, the Rio Grande has always been a vital presence in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. A source of hum... |
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131,70 zł |
Big Bend National Park
ISBN: 9780292714410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Big Bend National Park is one of the few places left in America where a person can literally get away from it all. Nestled in the great bend of the Rio Grande that forms one of the most distinctive features of the silhouette of Texas, the park is several hundred miles from any large city. Within its 1,250 square miles of mountains, canyons, desert, and river, Big Bend National Park offers visitors respite from the stresses of urban living--a place for taking stock and charting new courses. That's one reason why many people return to the park year after year. This book is the first... Big Bend National Park is one of the few places left in America where a person can literally get away from it all. Nestled in the great bend of the... |
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151,97 zł |
The Story of Big Bend National Park
ISBN: 9780292740426 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A breathtaking country of rugged mountain peaks, uninhabited desert, and spectacular river canyons, Big Bend is one of the United States' most remote national parks and among Texas' most popular tourist attractions. Located in the great bend of the Rio Grande that separates Texas and Mexico, the park comprises some 800,000 acres, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island, and draws over 300,000 visitors each year. The Story of Big Bend National Park offers a comprehensive, highly readable history of the park from before its founding in 1944 up to the present. John... A breathtaking country of rugged mountain peaks, uninhabited desert, and spectacular river canyons, Big Bend is one of the United States' most remo... |
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85,68 zł |
The Northwest Coast: Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory
ISBN: 9780295951904 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1849 James Swan turned his back on his wife and two children, a prosperous ship-fitting business, and the polite and predictable world of commerce in Boston and fled to the newly opened gold fields in California. Soon sick of the bonanza society, he emigrated to a shallow harbor called Shoalwater Bay (now Willapa Bay) north of the Columbia River in Washington Territory. Swan eagerly became a part of the frontier community, enjoying the company of both the white settlers and friendly Indians in the area. First published in 1857, his classic account of the western frontier remains... In 1849 James Swan turned his back on his wife and two children, a prosperous ship-fitting business, and the polite and predictable world of commer... |
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131,70 zł |
Seeing Seattle
ISBN: 9780295973593 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the time that Roger Sale's interpretive history Seattle Past to Present was published in 1976 he has often served as an unofficial guide for friends and visitors to Seattle, and has also been asked by those who run professional tours for advice on how to view Seattle with fresh eyes. In Seeking Seattle he invites the reader to join him in walking tours of the city in a collaborative process of looking, asking, and forming opinions and judgments. The book starts near where Seattle itself started and works out to the city limits in layers. In the first walk, the Pioneer Square... From the time that Roger Sale's interpretive history Seattle Past to Present was published in 1976 he has often served as an unofficial guide for f... |
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86,09 zł |
Exploring Washington's Past: A Road Guide to History
ISBN: 9780295974439 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Exploring Washington's Past tells the state's story in terms of where to go and what to see. With words, photographs, and maps, the authors evoke the cultural landscape and portray Washington's people and events from the days of the fur trade and pioneer settlement to the recent past. Capsule descriptions of small communities -- from Altoona to Zillah -- are interwoven with those of better known cities, and eastern and western Washington receive equal attention. More than two hundred photographs portray our historical landscape through images of today intermixed with a sampling of... Exploring Washington's Past tells the state's story in terms of where to go and what to see. With words, photographs, and maps, the authors ... |
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151,97 zł |
Sunrise to Paradise : The Story of Mount Rainier National Park
ISBN: 9780295977713 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On clear days, the mammoth volcano Mount Rainier dominates the Seattle and Tacoma skylines and can be seen from Whidbey Island to Yakima and the central Washington wheat fields. "The Mountain's out " is a cheerful local greeting, especially after a long spell of overcast weather. Sunrise to Paradise explores the rich history of this symbol of the Pacific Northwest and the national park that preserves it. Mount Rainier is the fifth highest peak in the United States outside Alaska, and it soars higher above its immediate base than does any other in the lower forty-eight.... On clear days, the mammoth volcano Mount Rainier dominates the Seattle and Tacoma skylines and can be seen from Whidbey Island to Yakima and the ce... |
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116,50 zł |