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Simon & Schuster
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2015.
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271 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Lessons from Madame Chic and At Home with Madame Chic revives the timeless quality of poise and shows how to cultivate it as a daily practice and a life-long endeavor. Just step out your door today and you will notice that poise is a rarity in our wired, fast-paced, and unmannerly world. As uncivil behaviors like flip-flops at Broadway shows and digital oversharing proliferate, this timely book reminds us...
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What's that bird with the giant clump of feathers on its head? It's a Polish chicken! Beginning readers will learn all about these strange yet wonderful creatures in this delightful title. They will also learn basic information about Polish chickens, including what they eat and the story behind their wacky feathers. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The lively text, colorful...
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After the fall of Saigon in 1975, during a campaign for the repatriation of 130,000 refugees in the United States, actress Tippi Hedren, known best for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), connected Vietnamese immigrants to the art of the manicure. Her long, decorated nails made an impression on a visit to Hope Village, so Hedren had her personal stylist flown in to teach a class to twenty women. From this meager handful grew a revolution....
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When did your Polish ancestors immigrate, from where did they leave, why did they leave, and how did they get here? These are questions we all hope to find the answers. This book is designed to give the researcher the tools needed to research their Polish ancestors and find possible answers to the origins of their Polish heritage. The author, Stephen Szabados, uses his own genealogical experience to outline a simple process that will identify where...
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ARE YOU READY TO JOIN A BRAVE GIRL IN HER PURSUIT OF FINDING THE SECRET OF EVERLASTING LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPINESS? WILL YOU GIVE UP ON LIFE because of depression, countless heartbreaks, empty wealth, poverty, work exploitation, divorce, house moves, and broken friendships, Brexit or WILL YOU FIND STRENGTH to KEEP GOING to finally, find the secret to LOVE, PEACE and HAPPINESS? YOUR test of perseverance starts here... Pursuing my dreams was, worth all...
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For individuals seeking to grow in their careers, and for organizations seeking to retain their best talent, Polish Your Star transforms ordinary people into extraordinary leaders. The transformation begins with deep personal development, starting with resetting the brain from self-sabotaging behaviors, then continuing with building self-awareness, improving communication, and understanding human behavior. Polish Your Star is the first of an indispensable,...
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This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose to enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume also offers challenging practice questions, as well as two finished essays, one serious and one humorous, that demonstrate how attention to sound mechanics...
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For individuals seeking to grow in their careers, and for organizations seeking to retain their best talent, Polish Your Star transforms ordinary people into extraordinary leaders. This second volume builds upon the foundation set in volume one by advancing concepts in rational thinking. It begins with deep personal development starting with resetting the brain from self-sabotaging behaviors, then continues with building self-awareness, improving...
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Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943. As they were being moved from Tanganyika in 1949, through Italy and Germany to Canada, the situation became an international incident. Warsaw protested that...
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In Polish Your Fiction: A Quick & Easy Self-Editing Guide, writer, editor, and publisher, Jessica Bell, offers her tried and tested advice on the quickest and easiest ways to polish different areas of writing style, consistency of prose, grammar, punctuation, typography, and layout. Each section is, armed with a numbered checklist for moments when writers need that "at-a-glance" reminder and nifty Microsoft Word tricks that will save time. At the...
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The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From Shtetl to Socialism (LondonWashington). Her research on...
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Did you know that all Polish women's first names end with the vowel 'a', except for the ones with foreign origin?
If you are reading this, you have probably made an important, life-changing decision to learn a foreign language.
Poland has around 38 million Polish speakers, but many immigrants in countries such as the USA, UK, Germany, Norway, or Ireland are Polish. The Polish community abroad includes, for example, more than one million Poles in...
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Have you ever wanted to learn Polish but haven't found a comprehensive course that is also easy to understand?
Perhaps you have a family member from Poland or Polish friends you'd like to converse with. Maybe you've tried online apps and found them burdensome, one-size-fits-all, or just too fast or slow to enjoy.
Are you ready to learn this fascinating language, its roots, its evolution, and how it is spoken today? Poised to learn many everyday phrases,...
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Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a cosmic moment of the heart opening. More commonly, it happens when we remove the dust from the mirror of our spiritual heart with daily practice-to see beyond the illusion of our transient thoughts and emotions to the vast and luminous landscape of our true nature. For five decades, Ram Dass has explored the depths of consciousness and love and brought back insights as his...
16) Polisapo
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Polisapo está a punto de terminar la escuela y solo piensa en ser policía. Tras numerosas aventuras y descubrimientos llega, por fin, con gran esfuerzo, a la Escuela de Oficiales, pero es rechazado por ser muy pequeño, gordo, lento y por su color verde, Polisapo, quiere ser policía, sÌ, pero no a costa de cambiar el color de su piel, del que se siente orgulloso. La obra es un alegato contra la discriminación.
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A young teenager enlisted into the Polish Army in 1938. Deported to the Soviet Union and
imprisoned in a Siberian prison camp, this audacious soldier became reunited with his compatriots in Scotland where he trained as a paratrooper and took part in the fated WW2 Operation Market Garden, Arnhem in 1944.
Fifty years later, then a patient in hospital, the soldier recounted his life's experience to my father in the next bed, who had the forethought...
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A. J. Glinksi's classic tales provides a marvelous glimpse into the world of Polish legend and folklore-and reveals its closeness and affinity to the greater European family of nations. Glinksi, Poland's master folklore writer, and his nation's equivalent of the Brothers Grimm, spent many years in the mid-nineteenth century travelling all over his nation's lands, listening to and writing down the stories as told to him by the ordinary folk. In this...
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"Polish Fairy Tales" by A. J. Gliński (translated by Maude Ashurst Biggs). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices....
20) Polish Americans
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Introduces readers to the Polish American culture, immigration aspects, customs, religion, foods, and holidays. Famous Polish Americans, as well as noted contributions and inventions by Polish Americans, are also presented. America is blessed with a diversity derived from many different cultural groups. Each of the immigrants who has landed so bravely on our shores has had an exciting story to tell about the ethnic experience. While reading about...
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