Memoir

Sing This at My Funeral. A Memoir of Fathers and Sons, Hardback - David Slucki

1.000,99 RON

Tells the story of the author's father and grandfather, and the grave legacy that they each passed on to him. This is a story about the Holocaust a...

wayne state university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych, Hardcover - Rachmil Bryks

863,99 RON 924,99 RON

Reducere. May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912-1974). In "Those Who Didn'...

lexington books, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

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In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers, Hardcover - Chellis Glendinning

658,99 RON

DescriptionMeetings with remarkable activists since the 1960s American social change movements dominated the 1960s and 1970s, an era brought about ...

new village press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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Celebrity Memoir: From Ghostwriting to Gender Politics, Hardcover - Hannah Yelin

638,99 RON

In this timely analysis of the economics of access that surround contemporary female celebrity, Hannah Yelin reveals a culture that requires women ...

palgrave macmillan, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Dead Men Telling Tales. Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808-1914, Hardback - Matilda Greig

630,99 RON

Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of ...

oxford university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Schooling as Uncertainty. An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education, Hardback - Frances Vavrus

598,99 RON

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bloomsbury publishing plc, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Our Changing Views of Photons. A Tutorial Memoir, Hardback - Bruce W. Shore

501,99 RON

Definitions, and views, of photons have undergone a remarkable change during the last century, continuing today with advances in nanotechnology and...

oxford university press, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science

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Ballet Matters. A Cultural Memoir of Dance Dreams and Empowering Realities, Paperback - Jennifer Fisher

481,99 RON

Part memoir, part dance history, this critical study explores ballet's power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race, women's agency, a...

mcfarland & co inc, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Duet with the Past: A Composer's Memoir, Paperback - Daron Hagen

481,99 RON

DescriptionComposer, conductor and operatic polymath Daron Hagen has written five symphonies, a dozen concertos, 13 operas, reams of chamber music ...

mcfarland & company, carti, carte straina, biography

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Mary Nolan, Ziegfeld Girl and Silent Movie Star: A Biography Including Her 1941 Memoir, Paperback - Louise Carley Lewisson

451,99 RON

Mary Nolan (1905-1948), also known as Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson, was the subject of two infamous court cases--one with Frank Tinney and the other ...

mcfarland & company, carti, carte straina, biography

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Proteins Crossing Membranes. A Scientist's Memoir, Paperback - Stephen Rothman

428,99 RON

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taylor & francis ltd, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science

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The Architect's Engineer. Memoir of a Life in Building Engineering and Restorative Development, Paperback - Sir Nigel Thompson

399,99 RON

Sir Nigel Thompson walked to school around the bomb craters of the London Blitz-it made him want to build things, rather than knock them down. Thom...

mcfarland & co inc, carti, carte straina, technology

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Child-Life on the Tidewater: A Memoir of Coastal Georgia, Hardcover - Buddy Sullivan

392,00 RON

A lifelong awareness of one's place, and an accompanying sense of permanence within that place when set amid the context of the ecology, history an...

bookbaby, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Remember Um Nyobè: Résistance-nationalisme et mémoire, Paperback - Modeste Mba Talla

364,99 RON 390,99 RON

Reducere. Plus de cent ans après la naissance de Um Nyobè nous publions dans cet ouvrage des témoignages et des réflexions afin que les morts ne courent plus...

langaa rpcid, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Golani Commando. A Memoir of Special Operations in the Israel Defense Forces, Paperback - Elon Perry

352,99 RON

Elon Perry joined the Israel Defense Forces as a teenager in 1975. Covering 28 years of compulsory reserve duty, his frank, reflective memoir descr...

mcfarland & co inc, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Like Boy Scouts with Guns. Memoir of a Counterculture Warrior in Vietnam, Paperback - Roger S. Durham

338,99 RON

Roger Durham's memoir relates an often untold experience of the Vietnam War - that of the counterculture soldier whose opposition to war did not en...

mcfarland & co inc, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, warfare & defence

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That's Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public Life, Paperback - Rufus L. Edmisten

338,99 RON

DescriptionA farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.C.,...

mcfarland & company, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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The Rise of Climate Science: A Memoir, Hardcover - Gerald R. North

338,99 RON

In a career spanning four decades, Gerald R. North contributed groundbreaking research that continues to shape the modern field of climate science....

texas a&m university press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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Tiger Papa Three: Memoir of a Combined Action Marine in Vietnam, Paperback - Edward F. Palm

338,99 RON

The U.S. Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP) in Vietnam was an enlightened gesture of strategic dissent. Recognizing that search-and-destro...

mcfarland & company, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Herbert Corey's Great War. A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All, Hardback - Peter Finn

329,99 RON

With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American wa...

louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, economics

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The Sharecropper Boy Goes Back Home: A Memoir of a Personal Journey Beginning With the Great Depression, Paperback - Jim White

325,99 RON 348,99 RON

Reducere. I am that "sharecropper boy" and Upstate South Carolina represents "home" to me. This memoir covers the Great Depression and its effect on the poor...

outskirts press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons, Paperback - David Slucki

323,99 RON

DescriptionIn 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. A Holocaust survivor whose first wife and two son...

wayne state university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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I Saw Democracy Murdered. The Memoir of Sam Russell, Journalist, Paperback - Sam (Journalist, UK) Russell

313,99 RON

I Saw Democracy Murdered is the memoir of Sam Russell (1915-2010), a communist journalist and a British volunteer with the anti-fascist Republican ...

taylor & francis ltd, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Lived Experiences of Women in Academia. Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir, Paperback - ***

309,99 RON

Lived Experience of Women in Academia is collection of stories that engages research focused on making meaning through self-study and autoethnograp...

taylor & francis ltd, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Pop a Smoke. Memoir of a Marine Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam, Paperback - Rick Gehweiler

299,99 RON

By 1969, the Sikorski H-34 was an older helicopter with severe limitations for combat duty in Vietnam. For pilots like US Marine Lieutenant Rick Ge...

mcfarland & co inc, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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No Legacy Here. Memoir of a Marine Officer in Iraq, Paperback - Winston Tierney

299,99 RON

What happens when a career Marine officer stops believing in the doctrine of the Corps and the official pretexts for war? This hard-hitting memoir ...

mcfarland & co inc, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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In the Jaws of the Crocodile. A Soviet Memoir, Hardback - Emil Draitser

292,99 RON

In this captivating memoir, Emil Draitser explores what it means to be a satirist in a country lacking freedom of expression. His experience provid...

university of wisconsin press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake, Paperback - Judy Barrett Litoff

284,99 RON 304,99 RON

Reducere. This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with...

fordham university press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, contemporary lifestyle fiction

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Presidential Archivist. A Memoir, Hardback - David E. Alsobrook

282,99 RON

Based almost exclusively on David Alsobrook's contemporaneous personal journals, correspondence, and notes, Presidential Archivist includes details...

mercer university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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My Many Lives: A Memoir, Hardcover - Sigrid Kendall

280,99 RON 300,99 RON

Reducere. Sigrid Kendall, née Baroness Rüdt von Collenberg, was born in 1930 into the rarefied world of Central European aristocracy with all that title and ...

balboa press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility, Hardcover - Andy Hargreaves

276,99 RON

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solution tree, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Spear-Carrier in Viet Nam. Memoir of an American Civilian in Country, 1967 and 1970-1972, Paperback - Michael E. Tolle

276,99 RON

Part history, part memoir, this book chronicles an overlooked aspect of US involvement in Vietnam, with a focus on the war victims and refugees mos...

mcfarland & co inc, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985. A Memoir by David Goodall, Hardback - ***

268,99 RON

Publisher: National University of IrelandIllustration(s): 10 Colour Illustrations and 16 Black & White IllustrationsNumber of pages: 244Publication...

national university of ireland, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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True Places: A Memoir, Paperback - Ted Katz

268,00 RON

It's not in any map, true places never are.- Herman MelvilleI've heard it said that God is in the details. How is it that a particular detail looms...

indy pub, carti, carte straina, biography

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Echoes from the Holocaust: Memoir, Paperback - Mira Ryczke Kimmelman

266,99 RON

Echoes from the HolocaustA MemoirMira Ryczke Kimmelman "During the most difficult times of World War II, " Mira Kimmelman writes, "I wondered wheth...

univ tennessee press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, Hardcover - Jack O'Connell

263,99 RON 282,99 RON

Reducere. Jack O'Connell possessed an uncanny ability to be at the center of things. On his arrival in Jordan in 1958, he unraveled a coup aimed at the young...

w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, biography

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Taken by the Wind: Memoir of a Sailor's Voyage in a Bygone Era, Hardcover - Mike Jacker

262,99 RON 281,99 RON

Reducere. Would you have sailed a 30-foot sailboat to the South Pacific before GPS navigation and accessible ocean weather forecasts existed? In 1976, after ...

talking bird press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle

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Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag, Hardcover - Julius Margolin

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

Reducere. Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, diseas...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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All Abroad. A Memoir of Travel and Obsession, Hardback - Geoffrey Weill

258,99 RON

Presents the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into Geo...

university of wisconsin press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle

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Charlie 2-1 Bravo. Memoir of a Drunken Paratrooper in Afghanistan, Paperback - E.E. Summerfield

258,99 RON

In 2012, Specialist E.E. Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. This book p...

mcfarland & co inc, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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La plus secrete memoire des hommes, Paperback - Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

258,99 RON

Publisher: Philippe ReyAuthor(s): Mohamed Mbougar SarrPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 147 x 221 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera f...

philippe rey, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items

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Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocaust Memoir from inside the Third Reich, Hardcover - Walter Leopold

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. Could German Jews have done more to rebel against the Nazis and resist deportation to slaughter? Dr. Walter Leopold faced this question in real ti...

amsterdam publishers, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Notes from the Fireground: Memoir of a New York Firefighter, Paperback - Thomas Dunne

251,99 RON 269,99 RON

Reducere. About the AuthorThomas Dunne is a retired deputy chief and 33 year veteran of the New York City Fire Department. He has published numerous articles...

mcfarland & company, carti, carte straina, biography

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Poets and the Fools Who Love Them. A Memoir in Essays, Paperback - Richard Katrovas

249,99 RON

Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Richard Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other...

louisiana state university press, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in Vietnam, Paperback - David L. Porter

249,99 RON 267,99 RON

Reducere. As a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army pilot David Porter was section leader in an Aerial Scout platoon in Vietnam. ...

mcfarland & company, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir. Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative, Paperback - Shira Birnbaum

249,99 RON

A narrative analysis of memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single family, this book examines strategies of self-preservation and resilience ...

lexington books, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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The Sky Above. An Astronaut's Memoir of Adventure, Persistence, and Faith, Hardback - John Howard Casper

249,99 RON

Looking up at the stars at the age of ten, John Casper dreamed of being a space explorer. The Sky Above tells how persistence and determination led...

purdue university press, carti, carte straina, technology

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Stand: A memoir on activism. A manual for progress. What really happens when we stand on the front lines of change. - Kathryn Bertine

245,99 RON 263,99 RON

Reducere. What really happens when we stand on the front lines of change? For Bertine, former ESPN columnist and professional cyclist, activism wasn't even o...

new shelf press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir, Hardcover - Evelyn Joseph Grossman

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

Reducere. Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WWII in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incredible tale of survival and kindness.Lilo was jus...

amsterdam publishers, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Angels in Sadr City: A Soldier's Memoir of the Final Battle for Baghdad, Hardcover - Anthony S. Farina

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. I am not trying to tell the entire story of what happened in Sadr City, Baghdad during the surge of 2008: that will be saved for another day. Rathe...

gold 5 publishing, carti, carte straina, biography

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Behind the Red Curtain: a Memoir, Hardcover - Hong-My Basrai

239,99 RON 256,99 RON

Reducere. Behind the Red Curtain, a Memoir is a true-life account told in the voice of a growing teenager. In this harrowing tale of coping and survival, the...

los nietos press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Dancing in Blackness. A Memoir, Paperback - Halifu Osumare

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. Presents a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the ...

university press of florida, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador: A Memoir of Guerrilla Radio, Paperback - Carlos Henriquez Consalvi

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), t...

university of texas press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Childhood Years: A Memoir, Paperback - Jun'ichirao Tanizaki

235,99 RON

In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering ...

university of michigan press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Pow! My Life in 40 Feasts: A Cookbook and Memoir by a Beloved American Chef, Jesse Jones and Linda West Eckhardt, Hardcover - Chef Jesse Jones

230,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Chef Jesse Jones"'POWMy Life in 40 Feasts' is so much more than a cookbook-it's the actual celebration of Chef Jesse's way ...

outskirts press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle

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Jung: His Life and Work, a Biographical Memoir, Paperback - Barbara Hannah

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis full-scale study of Jung's life and work is written by a close student, friend, and associate of more than thirty years. It is a lu...

chiron publications, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, sociology & anthropology

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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg. Memoir and Testimony, Paperback - Abraham Sutzkever

227,99 RON

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Abraham SutzkeverIllustration(s): 2 maps, 20 illustrationsNumber of pages: 488Publication date...

mcgill-queen's university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering, Paperback - Rosemarie Freeney Harding

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

Reducere. An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding's spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African ...

duke university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir, Hardcover - Sherman Alexie

225,99 RON 241,99 RON

Reducere. One of the most anticipated books of 2017--Entertainment Weekly and Bustle A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgivenes...

little brown and company, carti, carte straina, biography

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Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture, Paperback - Roberta Price

224,99 RON 240,99 RON

Reducere. In the late 1960s, new age communes began springing up in the American Southwest with names like Drop City, New Buffalo, Lama Foundation, Morning S...

university of massachusetts press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, society & culture: general

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This Hill, This Valley: A Memoir (American Land Classics), Hardcover - Hal Borland

223,99 RON 239,99 RON

Reducere. An Inspiring Year on a New England Hill FarmHal Borland, whose nature essays graced the Sunday New York Times for almost 4 decades, transported rea...

echo point books & media, llc, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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My Butch Career: A Memoir, Hardcover - Esther Newton

222,99 RON

DescriptionDuring her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she "became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders, " and tha...

duke university press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, contemporary lifestyle fiction

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Willard Memoir: Or, Life and Times of Major Simon Willard; With Notices of Three Generations of His Descendants, and Two Collateral Br - Joseph Willar

222,99 RON

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

franklin classics, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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In Spite of Myself: A Memoir, Hardcover - Christopher Plummer

222,99 RON

A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our greatest actors. Plummer tells how "this young bilingual wastrel, incurably r...

knopf publishing group, carti, carte straina, biography

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Brothers in the Mekong Delta: A Memoir of Pbr Section 513 in the Vietnam War, Paperback - Godfrey Garner

220,99 RON

Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high school policing the canals and tributaries...

mcfarland & company, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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I Always Knew. A Memoir, Hardback - Barbara Chase-Riboud

219,99 RON

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Barbara Chase-RiboudIllustration(s): 21 color + 74 b/w illus.Number of pages: 480Publication date: ...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Stuck on Communism. Memoir of a Russian Historian, Paperback - Lewis H. Siegelbaum

218,99 RON

This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century-from the 1950s when Lewis Sieg...

cornell university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Moonwatcher's Memoir, Paperback - Dan Richter

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. New augmented edition of Dan Richter's iconic recounting of the filming of 2001, in which he choreographed and, as Moonwatcher, led the troop of ma...

lulu.com, carti, carte straina, the arts

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In the Service of Free India Memoir of a Civil Servant, Paperback - B. D. Pande

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn the decades following 1947, as the tallest national leaders were building anew India, they were supported by a band of idealistic civ...

speaking tiger books, carti, carte straina, biography

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In the Shelter of the Pine. A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan, Paperback - Ogimachi Machiko

217,99 RON

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as ...

columbia university press, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics, language: reference & general

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