wyszukanych pozycji: 50
Galatea 2.2
ISBN: 9780312423131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to... After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as... |
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83,16 zł |
Bewilderment
ISBN: 9780393881141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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116,14 zł |
3 Farmers Their Way to Danc PB
ISBN: 9780060975098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers's brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in a surprising way and provide the reader with a mystery... In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting imag... |
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66,49 zł |
The Overstory
ISBN: 9780393635522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
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116,21 zł |
Orfeo
ISBN: 9780393349849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014'
A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014'
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68,61 zł |
Bewilderment: From the million-copy global bestselling author of The Overstory
ISBN: 9781529115253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
Bewilderment
ISBN: 9781324036142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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47,48 zł |
Stromy znamenají svět
ISBN: 9788073356422 / Czeski / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,28 zł |
The Gold Bug Variations
ISBN: 9781784709723 / Miękka / 2019 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,83 zł |
Generosity: An Enhancement
ISBN: 9780312429751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers... A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR |
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83,16 zł |
Plowing the Dark
ISBN: 9780312280123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this inventive novel to coalesce. Adie Klarpol, a skilled but disillusioned... In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that c... |
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112,27 zł |
The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9781784708245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
The Time of Our Singing
ISBN: 9780099453833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race. Hothouse children, they are all musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long.
Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race. Hothouse children, they ar...
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55,83 zł |
Gain
ISBN: 9781529115918 / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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52,76 zł |
Bewilderment – A Novel
ISBN: 9780393881493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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86,75 zł |
Drei Bauern auf dem Weg zum Tanz : Roman
ISBN: 9783100590268 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der erste Roman von Richard Powers jetzt in deutscher Übersetzung
Der erste Roman von Richard Powers jetzt in deutscher Übersetzung
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103,62 zł |
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
ISBN: 9780063140219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,64 zł |
Operation Wandering Soul
ISBN: 9780060976118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare it describes.--USA Today.
Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the hea...
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78,96 zł |
Galatea 2.2
ISBN: 9781784709716 / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Read this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory. After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up a position at his former college.
Read this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory. After many years of living abroad, a...
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52,76 zł |
The Overstory
ISBN: 9780393356687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. National Book Award winner Richard Powers's twelfth novel is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow,... National Book Award winner Richard Powe... |
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44,90 zł |