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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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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. 8-10 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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The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781847080110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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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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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. 16-18 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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149,47 |
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The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
ISBN: 9780312361693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Life on the Mississippi
ISBN: 9780451531209 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2009 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Someday My Prince Will Come: True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess
ISBN: 9781592404339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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91,98 |
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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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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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Das vergessene Kreuz von Kentucky
ISBN: 9783833487583 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Wahrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs fristet ein deutscher Soldat sein Dasein in amerikanischer Kriegsgefangenschaft. Inhaftiert in einem Gefangenenlager in Fort Knox, Kentucky, stosst er bei Rodungsarbeiten auf ein geheimnisvolles Kreuz, welches ihn auf sonderbare Weise beruhrt - er spurt, dass seine Vergangenheit und sein Schicksal eng mit diesem Kreuz verbunden sind ... Eine wahre Geschichte, die fliessend in einen Roman ubergeh
Wahrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs fristet ein deutscher Soldat sein Dasein in amerikanischer Kriegsgefangenschaft. Inhaftiert in einem Gefangenenlager in...
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Swimming in a Sea of Death
ISBN: 9780743299473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity. Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely...
Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her ...
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The Mumpreneur Diaries
ISBN: 9780007298792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Working from home, no more commuting, flexible hours, spending more time with the kids - it's what being a Mumpreneur is all about - isn't it? It was a commute to work whilst heavily pregnant with baby number two that sparked Mosey's 'now or never' decision to get off the 9-5 treadmill. Inhaling lungfuls of deliciously ripe BO from a fat bloke's armpit somewhere between Regent's Park and Oxford Circus may have been the tipping point. After the birth of Boy Two, the thought of returning to the office wasn't appealing to Mosey, but days filled with nappies and Alphabet Spaghetti... Working from home, no more commuting, flexible hours, spending more time with the kids - it's what being a Mumpreneur is all about - isn't it? <... |
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So I Have Thought of You : The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780007136414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, who won the Booker Prize in 1979 for 'Offshore', was also a prolific correspondent. The letters collected here capture the people and places of her life and times.
Novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, who won the Booker Prize in 1979 for 'Offshore', was also a prolific correspondent. The letters collected...
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Jugendleben und Wanderbilder
ISBN: 9783862676491 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Vom Junkie zum Ironman : Die zwei Leben des Andreas Niedrig
ISBN: 9783453640344 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
ISBN: 9780747598664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The official book on Ian Fleming and James Bond by the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag
The official book on Ian Fleming and James Bond by the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag
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55,31 |
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Wahrnehmung Und Gegenstandswelt: Zum Lebenswerk Von Egon Brunswik (1903-1955)
ISBN: 9783211828649 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1996 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Egon Brunswik ist - wie viele andere - durch seine Emigration aus dem geistigen Leben seiner ehemaligen Heimat Osterreich verschwunden. Im Ausland aber ist seine Bedeutung als Wissenschaftstheoretiker der Psychologie, wie auch als Methodologe und Wissenschaftshistoriker ebenso unbestritten, wie sein Anteil an der Uberwindung des mechanistisch-kausalistischen Welt- und Menschenbildes. Dieses Buch hat es sich zur Aufgabe gesetzt, diesen Denker zwischen Buhler-Schule und Wiener Kreis fur den deutschsprachigen Raum neu zu entdecken. Die Schwerpunkte liegen in den wesentlichen Elementen seiner...
Egon Brunswik ist - wie viele andere - durch seine Emigration aus dem geistigen Leben seiner ehemaligen Heimat Osterreich verschwunden. Im Ausland abe...
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
ISBN: 9780553384611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as -The Oracle of Omaha---for fans of the HBO documentary Becoming Warren Buffett
Here is the book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. Although the media track him constantly, Buffett... The personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as -The Oracle of Omaha---for fans of the HBO documentary Becoming W...
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99,65 |
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Ein Kind im Wachkoma: Ein Leben mit Behinderung
ISBN: 9783833449017 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2006 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Christa von Kietzell-Scheunemann erzahlt die Lebensgeschichte eines Kindes, das mit einem Herzfehler geboren wurde und nach einer grossen Operation mehr als 12 Jahre im Wachkoma in der Familie lebte
Christa von Kietzell-Scheunemann erzahlt die Lebensgeschichte eines Kindes, das mit einem Herzfehler geboren wurde und nach einer grossen Operation me...
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46,27 |