ilość książek w kategorii: 11311
The Wilderness Family
ISBN: 9780553813340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is Kobie Kruger's intimate account of raising a family in the isolated wilderness of South Africa's vast Kruger National Park.
This is Kobie Kruger's intimate account of raising a family in the isolated wilderness of South Africa's vast Kruger National Park.
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86,97 zł |
The White Masai
ISBN: 9781905147083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday with her boyfriend in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moves into a tiny shack with him and his mother in his village, and spends four years in Kenya. Slowly but surely
Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday with her boyfriend in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moves in...
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55,83 zł |
In My Brother's Shadow
ISBN: 9780747579755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A memoir exploring a brother's death fighting for the SS and one ordinary family's relationship with Nazi rule.
A memoir exploring a brother's death fighting for the SS and one ordinary family's relationship with Nazi rule.
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70,65 zł |
I, Claudius
ISBN: 9780141188591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth. Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his...
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clar...
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50,76 zł |
Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
ISBN: 9780747585657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates difficult emotions through the use of hand puppets.
When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received...
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81,53 zł |
The Journals : Volume 2
ISBN: 9780099443438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This final volume of John Fowles' journals sees him leave London to live in a remote house on the Dorset coast near Lyme Regis. It reveals the often reluctant celebrity behind his outward success and marks a writer's continuing quest for wisdom and self-understanding.
This final volume of John Fowles' journals sees him leave London to live in a remote house on the Dorset coast near Lyme Regis. It reveals the often r...
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92,41 zł |
Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved
ISBN: 9780747585411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova was history's most famous seducer who talked his way into the beds of more than 200 women. Charming, brilliant and devastatingly attractive, this womaniser could also be ruthless, cruel, selfish and dishonest. This book
Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova was history's most famous seducer who talked his way into the beds of more than 200 women. Charming, brilliant an...
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103,29 zł |
The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl
ISBN: 9780747590415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bruna Surfistinha ran away from home at the age of seventeen to become a high-class call girl. This book portrays her estranged middle-class family, her drug use and her unbridled sexuality. This book brings to life the her adventures with men, women and c
Bruna Surfistinha ran away from home at the age of seventeen to become a high-class call girl. This book portrays her estranged middle-class family, h...
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70,65 zł |
Mr Nice & Mrs Marks : - Adventures with Howard
ISBN: 9780091909192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Howard Marks s story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world s then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and 25 registered companies. Thanks to the technical brilliance of his networking skills, it was estimated that he was trafficking as much as a tenth of all the marijuana smoked in the world. But this is only half the story, for intimately involved throughout was Marks s wife Judy. From living the high life hobnobbing with movie stars andnightclubscenestersto mixing with the IRA and CIA, and finallythe long, increasingly desperate years on the run, this...
Howard Marks s story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world s then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and 25 registered ...
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86,97 zł |
Alek
ISBN: 9781844084425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New York
Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New...
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134,04 zł |
The Invisible Wall
ISBN: 9780099504283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was 93, "The Invisible Wall" vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. Bernstein offers a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.
A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was 93, "The Invisible Wall" vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. Berns...
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86,97 zł |
After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
ISBN: 9781845963088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings. This book follows the parallel lives of Loung and her closes
In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped...
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55,83 zł |
The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781847080110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These t
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf ...
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55,83 zł |
Mrs Woolf and the Servants
ISBN: 9780140254105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write. Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf's extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, Alison Light chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write. M...
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86,97 zł |
Do-Over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassmen
ISBN: 9780316020602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hemley reencounters kindergarten, revisits his childhood home, and finally attends the prom--bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent youth and discovering what's most important: simple pleasures, second chances, and the forgotten joys of recess.
Hemley reencounters kindergarten, revisits his childhood home, and finally attends the prom--bringing readers the thrill of recapturing a misspent you...
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169,53 zł |
The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
ISBN: 9780312361693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy is The Houston Press's Best Houston Book of the Year for 2008. In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the creme-colored light of Neiman's, Daddy wrote that he was leaving us because Mother was crazy, and because she'd driven me crazy in a way that perfectly suited her own insanity. The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy is The Houston Press's Best Houston Book of the Year for 2008. In the Dear John letter Daddy ... |
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91,25 zł |
Life on the Mississippi
ISBN: 9780451531209 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2009 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, was host to riverboat travelers from around the world, providing a vigorous and variable atmosphere for the young Samuel Clemens to absorb. Clemens became a riverboat pilot and even chose his pen name--Mark Twain--from a term boatmen would call out signifying...
At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes a...
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30,21 zł |
Someday My Prince Will Come: True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess
ISBN: 9781592404339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The charming story of a small-town girl who dreams of finding love with a real-life English prince?and who's willing to go to hilarious lengths to make her fairy tale come true
Most young girls dream of becoming a princess. But unlike most girls, Jerramy Fine never grew out of it. Strangely drawn to the English royal family since she was a child, Jerramy spends her childhood writing love letters to Buckingham Palace and absorbing any information she can find on modern-day princesses throughout the world. Years later, when her sense of destiny finally brings her to London, Jerramy... The charming story of a small-town girl who dreams of finding love with a real-life English prince?and who's willing to go to hilarious lengths to ...
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104,33 zł |
The Autobiography
ISBN: 9780753824153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One of the very first professional supermodels, Marie Helvin has been an iconic image on the fashion scene since the 1970s. For the past four decades she has found herself in the company of the brightest and the best. She was David Bailey's wife and muse, and Paul and Linda McCartney came to their wedding party in Honolulu. David Bowie drew inspiration for his famous Aladdin Sane tour from her fashion shots for "Harpers & Queen." Marie entertained Salman Rushdie during the height of the fatwa, and introduced Dodi Al Fayed to Princess Diana. Still at the forefront of the fashion industry, she...
One of the very first professional supermodels, Marie Helvin has been an iconic image on the fashion scene since the 1970s. For the past four decades ...
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59,78 zł |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN: 9783836466196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In 1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo for crimes agains the government. What the Gestapo did not know is this German Lutheran Pastor was integrally involved in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. During his two years of imprisonment, Bonhoeffer manages extreme circumstances, including interrogation and isolation, but is able to protect both himself and his co-conspirators through careful rhetorical practices. How does a pastor and a loyal German justify his involvement in the plot? How does he manage to make sense of what he called a time of "equivocation...
In 1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo for crimes agains the government. What the Gestapo did not know is this German ...
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307,02 zł |