wyszukanych pozycji: 45
Dogfight: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780802143303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . [with] a gracious patina and a drawl of violence." --"Los Angeles Times"
"A writer of the first rank. . . . [Knight] writes gently and with great gobs of empathy."--"Esquire" "Wonderfully humane." --"Playboy" A"Los Angeles Times"Notable Book, Michael Knight's stunning debut delivers ten tales of ordinary people seized by extraordinary circumstances as their attempts at human connection result in frustrating false starts and ruinous misunderstandings. Knight expertly unveils fragile family ties, secret compulsions, and the... "Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . [with] a gracious patina and a drawl of violence." --"Los Angeles Times"
"A writer of th... |
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54,87 zł |
The Parent Coach, a Guide to Soccer Success.
ISBN: 9781717814746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,08 zł |
Divining Rod
ISBN: 9780802144973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After the deaths of his parents, Simon Bell returns to his hometown of Sherwood, Alabama, hoping for a simple, quiet existence. But when he meets Delia Holladay one hot, unmoving summer day, latent needs and desires are awakened. Delia is young, beautiful, and married. As their emotions deepen, the affair slips beyond their control, building to a final reckoning that will leave no one untouched. Divining Rod tells a richly layered tale of adultery, love, and murder, as it follows the arc of one fateful romance to its inevitable and heartbreaking conclusion.
After the deaths of his parents, Simon Bell returns to his hometown of Sherwood, Alabama, hoping for a simple, quiet existence. But when he meets Deli...
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75,98 zł |
The Holiday Season
ISBN: 9780802143891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, The Holiday Season and its companion piece, Love at the End of the Year are tender ruminations on the nature of family, the power of love, and a particularly complicated time of year. In The Holiday Season, Jeff, Ted, and Frank Posey are still trying to figure out how to be a family three years after the death of the wife and mother who bound them together. As the year winds to a close and the holidays threaten to unearth the usual myriad of emotions and memories, hairline fractures in the Poseys' relationships finally splinter and crack over what...
Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, The Holiday Season and its companion piece, Love at the End of the Year are tender ruminations on the natu...
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59,09 zł |
Fundamentals of Female Dynamics: The Practical Handbook to Attracting Women
ISBN: 9780692655160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,39 zł |
Exploring Geology on the Island of Oahu, A Field Guide to important Geological Locations
ISBN: 9781639019601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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336,56 zł |
Eveningland: Stories
ISBN: 9780802125972 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Michael Knight is more than a master of the short story. He knows the true pace of life and does not cheat it, all the while offering whopping entertainment."--Barry Hannah Long considered a master of the form and an essential voice in American fiction, Michael Knight's stories have been lauded by writers such Ann Patchett, Elizabeth Gilbert, Barry Hannah, and Richard Bausch. Now, with Eveningland he returns to the form that launched his career, delivering an arresting collection of interlinked stories set among the "right kind of Mobile family" in the years preceding a...
"Michael Knight is more than a master of the short story. He knows the true pace of life and does not cheat it, all the while offering whopping ent...
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105,53 zł |
Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
ISBN: 9781469658902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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591,33 zł |
Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism
ISBN: 9781531501808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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409,65 zł |
Success in 50 Steps: The Proven Formula That Works
ISBN: 9781984507082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,30 zł |
Why I Am a Salafi
ISBN: 9781593766061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Salafi movement invests supreme Islamic authority in the precedents of the Salaf, the first three generations of Muslims, who represent a "Golden Age" from which all subsequent eras can only decline. In Why I Am a Salafi, Michael Muhammad Knight confronts the problem of origins, questioning the possibility of accessing pure Islam through its canonical texts. Why I Am a Salafi is also a confrontation of Knight's own origins as a Muslim. Reconsidering Salafism, Knight explores the historical processes that informed Islam as he once knew it, having converted to a Salafi...
The Salafi movement invests supreme Islamic authority in the precedents of the Salaf, the first three generations of Muslims, who represent a "Golden ...
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75,77 zł |
Magic in Islam
ISBN: 9780399176708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,30 zł |
The Taqwacores
ISBN: 9781846590177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Yusef is living in Buffalo, New York with a group of Muslim punks. A pot-smoking mohawked Sufi called Jehangir plays the rooftop call to prayer on his electric guitar, while debates rage downstairs about the Quranic sources for Iggy Pop songs.
Yusef is living in Buffalo, New York with a group of Muslim punks. A pot-smoking mohawked Sufi called Jehangir plays the rooftop call to prayer on his...
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47,86 zł |
Who Is Muhammad?
ISBN: 9781469677262 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Combining insights from the best published historical and religious studies scholarship, original research, and rich first-person perspective, this highly readable book offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the founder and central figure of the Islamic tradition: the prophet Muhammad. Narrating Muhammad's life story, teachings, and daily practices, and assessing how his legacy is received, interpreted, and applied around the world, Michael Muhammad Knight reveals how the project has become simultaneously one of the most beloved historical figures in the world and also one of the...
Combining insights from the best published historical and religious studies scholarship, original research, and rich first-person perspective, this hi...
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106,10 zł |
Impossible Man
ISBN: 9781593762261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Recognized by readers of his novel, The Taqwacores, as the godfather of American Muslim punk, Michael Muhammad Knight is a voice for the growing number of teenagers who choose neither side of the "Clash of Civilizations." Knight has now written his personal story, a chronicle of his bizarre and traumatic boyhood and his conversion to Islam during a turbulent adolescence. Impossible Man follows a boy's struggle in coming to terms with his father--a paranoid schizophrenic and white supremacist who had threatened to decapitate Michael when he was a baby--and his father's place in his own...
Recognized by readers of his novel, The Taqwacores, as the godfather of American Muslim punk, Michael Muhammad Knight is a voice for the growing numbe...
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75,77 zł |
Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage
ISBN: 9781469658919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Analysing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth to the eleventh centuries, Michael Muhammad Knight argues that early Muslims' theories and imaginings about Muhammad's body contributed in significant ways to the construction of prophetic masculinity and authority.
Analysing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth to the eleventh centuri...
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148,92 zł |
The Supreme Wisdom Lessons: A Scripture of American Islam
ISBN: 9781800504615 / Twarda / 15-04-2024 / 240 str. Książka dostępna od: 15-04-2024 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 15-04-2024
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427,13 zł |
Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America
ISBN: 9781593762407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a quest for an indigenous American Islam in a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques, pursues Muslim romance, is detained at the U.S.-Canadian border with a trunkload of Shia literature, crashes Islamic Society of North America conventions, stink-palms Cat Stevens, and limps across Chicago to find the grave of Noble Drew Ali, filling dozens of notebooks along the way. The result is this semi-autobiographical book, with multiple histories of Fard and the landscape of American Islam woven...
Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a quest for an indigenous American Islam in a series of interstate odysseys. Traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in...
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71,55 zł |
Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism
ISBN: 9781531501815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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111,21 zł |
The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York
ISBN: 9781851686155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With unrivalled insider access to the movement's elders, oral tradition and community literature, Knight reveals the hidden reality behind the myths, rumours and hearsay, and explores the origins and development of this misunderstood community.
With unrivalled insider access to the movement's elders, oral tradition and community literature, Knight reveals the hidden reality behind the myths, ...
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89,38 zł |