wyszukanych pozycji: 23
Player One: What Is to Become of Us
ISBN: 9781487011468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,26 zł |
All Families are Psychotic
ISBN: 9780007117536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together... Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the very top of his form: 'Irresistibly hilarious, unique and wonderful' Independent on Sunday In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her children. Wade has spent the night in jail; suicidal Bryan is due to arrive at any moment with his vowel-free girlfriend, Shw; and then there is Sarah, 'a bolt of lightning frozen in midflash' -- here in Orlando to be the star...
On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together... Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the v...
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56,74 zł |
Polaroids from the Dead
ISBN: 9780060987213 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.
For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids... Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- ...
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72,96 zł |
Generation A
ISBN: 9783351050696 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »'Generation A' ist ein Ökothriller vom Ende der Welt.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Unsere Welt in der nahen Zukunft: eigentlich sind die Bienen ausgestorben, aber dann werden 5 nicht miteinander in Verbindung stehende Menschen in verschiedenen Teilen der Welt gestochen. Sofort werden sie von Männern in billigen Anzügen aufgegriffen, verhört und dann in ihre 15 Minuten Internetruhm entlassen. Ein charismatischer Wissenschaftler mit zweifelhaften Motiven bringt das Quintett schließlich zusammen, und ihre gemeinsame Erfahrung verbindet sie auf eine Weise, die sie sich nie... »'Generation A' ist ein Ökothriller vom Ende der Welt.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Unsere Welt in der nahen Zukunft: eigentlich ... |
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110,12 zł |
Generation X. : Roman
ISBN: 9783351050603 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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82,59 zł |
Generation A
ISBN: 9780099537380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the near future bees are extinct - until one autumn when five individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined.
In the near future bees are extinct - until one autumn when five individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Their shared experience unit...
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53,50 zł |
Girlfriend in a Coma
ISBN: 9780061624254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers--modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition--before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await... On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls ... |
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85,85 zł |
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
ISBN: 9781250810779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,96 zł |
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
ISBN: 9780349108391 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Andy, Dag and Claire represent the new generation - Generation X.
Andy, Dag and Claire represent the new generation - Generation X.
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56,74 zł |
Generation A
ISBN: 9781439157022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka--are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined. Generation A mirrors Coupland's debut novel, 1991's Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative,... Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the Unite... |
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73,01 zł |
Worst. Person. Ever.
ISBN: 9780099537397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Meet Raymond Gunt. Raymond is a decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. 'Worst. Person. Ever.' is a razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man.
Meet Raymond Gunt. Raymond is a decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanth...
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53,50 zł |
Hey Nostradamus!
ISBN: 9780007162512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet. Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament -- and erie premonition -- on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst and religious zeal in the ensuing massacre's wake, this sleepy Vancouver neighbourhood declares its saints, brands its demons and finally moves on. But for a...
The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing...
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53,69 zł |
Life after God
ISBN: 9780671874346 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls and TV, Kraft dinners and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anxiety? The collapse of relationships?
How do we reach the quiet, safe layer of our lives? In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland responds to these themes. Cutting through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our lives, he uncovers a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward. A culture seemingly... We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls ...
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98,73 zł |
Player One
ISBN: 9780099538189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Five disparate people are trapped in an airport lounge during a global disaster: Karen, waiting for her online date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool blonde; and, finally, a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals their true selves as the world as they know it comes to an end.
Five disparate people are trapped in an airport lounge during a global disaster: Karen, waiting for her online date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartende...
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53,50 zł |
Microserfs
ISBN: 9780061624261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. They are Microserfs--six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day -coding- and eating -flat- foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to -flame- one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own--living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated,... They are Microserfs--six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day -coding- and eating -flat- foods (food which, like... |
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81,55 zł |
Shopping in Jail: Ideas, Essays, and Stories for the Increasingly Real Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9783943365863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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61,43 zł |
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
ISBN: 9780399173868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. |
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101,41 zł |
Bit Rot
ISBN: 9780099510895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. As Coupland writes, `bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones'.
In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the...
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53,50 zł |
Binge: 60 Stories to Make Your Brain Feel Different
ISBN: 9781039000544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,30 zł |
Bit Rot : Berichte aus der sich auflösenden Welt
ISBN: 9783351050702 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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110,12 zł |