A Life in 16 Films: How Cinema Made a Playwright
ISBN: 9781350205222 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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375,56 zł |
Correspondence Complete De Rousseau: 1: 1730-1744, Lettres 1-97
ISBN: 9780729406550 / Francuski / Twarda / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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376,38 zł |
A Tribute to Maier
ISBN: 9781954176911 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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377,21 zł |
Life in the Great Outdoors: (Trials of a Scoutmaster)
ISBN: 9781480919594 / Angielski / Miękka / 642 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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377,42 zł |
A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
ISBN: 9780823228324 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive developments in literary theory in the late seventies, and he was a pioneer in Jewish studies, trauma studies, and studies of the Holocaust. At Yale, he was a founder of its Judaic Studies program, as well as of the first major video archive for Holocaust testimonies.Generations of students have benefited from Hartman's generosity, his penetrating...
For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of ...
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379,51 zł |
The Meaning of a Metaphorical Life Understood Through Identity and Remembrances
ISBN: 9781500554859 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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379,66 zł |
Jorie: The Extraordinary Life of Jorie Butler Kent, Visionary and Philanthropist
ISBN: 9781938461552 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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380,07 zł |
The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
ISBN: 9781107090910 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive, annotated edition in English of Anthony Knivet's 1625 travel account.
This is the first comprehensive, annotated edition in English of Anthony Knivet's 1625 travel account.
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380,52 zł |
Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir
ISBN: 9781478020202 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this edgy and unconventional memoir, Kawika Guillermo reflects on being a newly minted professor, fatherhood, alcoholism, and suicidal ideation as well as his many attempts to flee from American gender, racial, and religious norms.
In this edgy and unconventional memoir, Kawika Guillermo reflects on being a newly minted professor, fatherhood, alcoholism, and suicidal ideation as ...
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380,56 zł |
When the Music Stopped: Discovering the Mother
ISBN: 9780791459973 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of one woman's decision to forfeit a brilliant career for the sake of motherhood. Once a child prodigy, Gitta Gradova traveled the world as an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, performing recitals as well as appearing with prominent orchestras of her era. Her son Thomas J. Cottle uses written records, interviews, and personal reminiscence to reconstruct her life, as well as their own mother-son relationship. He is at times a storyteller, at times a psychologist, at times a son seeking to uncover those aspects of his mother's life he could never know, or perhaps,...
This is the story of one woman's decision to forfeit a brilliant career for the sake of motherhood. Once a child prodigy, Gitta Gradova traveled the w...
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380,94 zł |
Out-Doors at Idlewild; Or, the Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
ISBN: 9781438486239 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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380,94 zł |
Telling Silence: Thresholds to No Where in Ordinary Experiences
ISBN: 9781438495194 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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380,94 zł |
Teachers of My Youth: An American Jewish Experience
ISBN: 9780792332329 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has now written a more personal book, looking at education through the prism of his own early experience, primarily of religious learning. The book consists mainly of portraits of his early teachers, most of whom belonged to a transitional generation of immigrant Hebrew scholars -- unsung heroes of Jewish education on the American scene. Through the medium of such portraits of teaching personalities and styles, as well as firsthand descriptions of...
Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has ...
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382,84 zł |
Teachers of My Youth: An American Jewish Experience
ISBN: 9780792332367 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has now written a more personal book, looking at education through the prism of his own early experience, primarily of religious learning. The book consists mainly of portraits of his early teachers, most of whom belonged to a transitional generation of immigrant Hebrew scholars -- unsung heroes of Jewish education on the American scene. Through the medium of such portraits of teaching personalities and styles, as well as firsthand descriptions of...
Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period, Israel Scheffler has ...
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382,84 zł |
American Autobiography after 9/11
ISBN: 9780299310301 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They cope with financial crises, encounter difference, or confront norms of identity. Megan Brown contends that such best sellers as Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, and Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell teach readers how to navigate a confusing, changing world.
This lively and theoretically grounded book analyzes twenty-first-century memoirs from Three Cups of Tea to Fun... In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They ...
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383,43 zł |
Winthrop Papers, 1650-1654: Volume 6
ISBN: 9780934909754 / Angielski / Twarda / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Containing the letters of John Winthrop, Sr., and Jr., and their correspondents, this collection details the early years of the New England colonies. One of the most important manuscript sources about colonial New England, the Winthrop Papers are central to the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society and to the study of American history. This series provides annotated transcriptions, prepared for a scholarly audience, of the most valuable documents from this resource. Winthrop materials at the MHS include a range of correspondence, commonplace books, printed works, maps,... Containing the letters of John Winthrop, Sr., and Jr., and their correspondents, this collection details the early years of the New England colonie... |
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383,72 zł |
Defending against Climate Risk: Lessons and Stories from a Foot Soldier in the Climate Wars
ISBN: 9781527593572 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The climate wars are not fiction. One side defends against climate risk, while the other side is dismissive, combative and comes to the table armed with many threatening weapons. This book will appeal to readers interested in learning how to engage in the debate by thinking coherently about climate. It presents lessons which were instrumental in developing an iterative risk management approach to defending against climate change. It intersperses stories of the author's experiences working within the scientific and assessment communities-work that supported thought-organizing methods for the...
The climate wars are not fiction. One side defends against climate risk, while the other side is dismissive, combative and comes to the table armed wi...
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384,73 zł |
A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor
ISBN: 9780472130917 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Actor, playwright, and producer Harry Watkins (1825-94) was also a prolific diarist. For 15 years Watkins recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Theatre historians Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs have selected, edited, and annotated substantial excerpts from the diary.
Actor, playwright, and producer Harry Watkins (1825-94) was also a prolific diarist. For 15 years Watkins recorded the plays he saw, the roles he perf...
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384,78 zł |
Eagle Minds: Selected Correspondence of Istvan Anhalt and George Rochberg (1961-2005)
ISBN: 9781554580187 / Angielski / Twarda / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Eagle Minds" a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century as observed by two highly gifted individuals. Beginning in 1961 and spanning forty-four years, their conversation embraces not only music but other forms of contemporary art, as well as politics, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. The letters chronicle the deepening of their friendship over the years, and the... "Eagle Minds" a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Roch... |
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384,78 zł |
Lip Service: A Kids Chronicle by a Mr. Mom
ISBN: 9781637600719 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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385,22 zł |