wyszukanych pozycji: 21
Stumps and Sweet-Smelling Soap: Memories of the Ministry
ISBN: 9781490846101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book features real life-experiences the author has had, and tells how the King James Bible has directed her through difficult and joyful times. This book features real life-experiences the author has had, and tells how the King James Bible has directed her through difficult and joyful times... |
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117,29 zł |
In Praise of the Stepmother
ISBN: 9780312421304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters. The mysterious nature of happiness and above all, the corrupting power of innocence are the themes that underlie these pages, and the author has perfectly met the demands of the erotic novel, never dimming for an instant the fine poetic polish of his writing. With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, littl... |
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77,30 zł |
Count Julian
ISBN: 9781564784841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the Landless), this story of an exiled Spaniard confronts all of Goytisolo's own worst fears about fascist Spain.
Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The secon... |
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55,62 zł |
A Fish in the Water: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781250005779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir of one of Latin America's most celebrated witers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990. Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir of one of Latin America's most celebrated witers, beginning with his bi... |
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133,13 zł |
Stumps and Sweet-Smelling Soap: Memories of the Ministry
ISBN: 9781490846118 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book features real life-experiences the author has had, and tells how the King James Bible has directed her through difficult and joyful times. This book features real life-experiences the author has had, and tells how the King James Bible has directed her through difficult and joyful times... |
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193,95 zł |
Theory of Film Practice
ISBN: 9780691642673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal structures in individual films such as Dovzhenko's Earth, Antonioni's La Notte, Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Renoir's Nana, and Godard's Pierrot le Fou. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important... This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal struc... |
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496,91 zł |
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
ISBN: 9780312427245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane. Interweaving... Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling a... |
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90,18 zł |
The Peron Novel
ISBN: 9780679768012 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "One of the most original and entertaining books to come out of Latin America in recent years."--Mario Vargas Llosa On June 20, 1973, General Juan Peron, the most revered--as well as the most hated--dictator in the history of Argentina, returned to his homeland after eighteen years of exile. His arrival was the occasion for a fratricidal massacre. Less than a year later, Peron was dead. The throngs that filed past his body as it lay in state were as vast and impassioned as those that had mourned his wife, Evita, the music hall performer Peron had turned into Argentina's secular saint and...
"One of the most original and entertaining books to come out of Latin America in recent years."--Mario Vargas Llosa On June 20, 1973, General Jua...
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90,18 zł |
Amalia
ISBN: 9780195122770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Amalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime, but the book's popularity stemmed from the love story that fuels the plot. Originally published in 1851 in serial form, Marmol's novel recounts the story of Eduardo and Amalia, who fall in love while he is hiding in her home. Amalia and her cousin Daniel protect him from Rosist persecution, but before the couple and the cousin can escape to...
Amalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest th...
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85,77 zł |
Wings in Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle, 1971-2010
ISBN: 9781470031343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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175,81 zł |
The Other Voice
ISBN: 9780156704557 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it modern, and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.
" In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it modern, an...
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77,30 zł |
Peruvian Traditions
ISBN: 9780195159097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical books and manuscripts. His historical miscellanies, which he called "traditions," are witty anecdotes about conquerors, viceroys, corrupt and lovelorn friars, tragic loves and notorious characters. Humor, irony and word play characterize his collection of over five hundred traditions written between 1872 and 1906, whether describing violent...
Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twent...
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73,72 zł |
E-Textiles in Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians
ISBN: 9781538130483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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299,88 zł |
Neighborhood Hawks: A Year Following Wild Birds
ISBN: 9780820354934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Follows in the tradition of writings from Henry David Thoreau, Terry O'Connor and J.A. Baker, with John Lane using the red-shouldered hawks that live in his neighborhood to explore the concept of "commensalism", the idea that two species can live near each other without harming or benefitting the other.
Follows in the tradition of writings from Henry David Thoreau, Terry O'Connor and J.A. Baker, with John Lane using the red-shouldered hawks that live ...
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89,97 zł |
New Portuguese Letters
ISBN: 9780930523985 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Three modern Maria's weave tales, poems and meditations about modern women's lives.
Three modern Maria's weave tales, poems and meditations about modern women's lives.
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95,96 zł |
One Earth, Four or Five Worlds: Reflections on Contemporary History
ISBN: 9780156687461 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written with a poet's sensibility and a diplomat's sense of history, these essays view a contemporary world poised between the upheaval of the 1960s and the uncertainties of the 1980s. "Essays at once eloquent and slashing, urgent and erudite" (Publishers Weekly). Translated by Helen Lane.
Written with a poet's sensibility and a diplomat's sense of history, these essays view a contemporary world poised between the upheaval of the 1960s a...
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77,30 zł |
Extramuros
ISBN: 9780231055536 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Two nuns conspire to create a fake miracle, in order to save their impoverished convent during the Spanish Inquisition.
Two nuns conspire to create a fake miracle, in order to save their impoverished convent during the Spanish Inquisition.
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210,71 zł |
Present Past Past Present
ISBN: 9780306808357 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,85 zł |
Manifestoes of Surrealism
ISBN: 9780472061822 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism
Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism
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138,27 zł |
The Perpetual Orgy
ISBN: 9780374520625 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in literary history. Vargas Llosa's first work of non-fiction will send the reader back to Flaubert's masterpiece with renewed interest. The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, h... |
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77,30 zł |