ilość książek w kategorii: 137463
Mortal Engines
ISBN: 9780156621618 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.
" These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient mach...
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69,50 zł |
One Human Minute
ISBN: 9780156687959 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Contains three essays--"One Human Minute," "The Upside-Down Revolution," and "The World as Cataclysm"--from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
Contains three essays--"One Human Minute," "The Upside-Down Revolution," and "The World as Cataclysm"--from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
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52,07 zł |
A Perfect Vacuum
ISBN: 9780156716864 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. "Lem is Harpo Marx and Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov rolled up into one and down the white rabbit's hole" (Detroit News). A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, di...
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82,57 zł |
Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
ISBN: 9780156849050 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, th...
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95,64 zł |
Tales of Pirx the Pilot
ISBN: 9780156881500 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space. Translated by Louis Iribarne. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a...
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60,78 zł |
Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories
ISBN: 9780195025415 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of...
As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories,...
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165,95 zł |
Fabulae
ISBN: 9780198145776 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new text of Sophocles is the product of extensive collaboration between Sir Lloyd-Jones and N.G. Wilson, both highly respected scholars in the field. The volume includes the Greek texts and apparatus criticus for Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, and Oedipus Coloneus.
This new text of Sophocles is the product of extensive collaboration between Sir Lloyd-Jones and N.G. Wilson, both highly respected scholars in the fi...
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141,38 zł |
Fabulae: Volume II: Supplices, Electra, Hercules, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion
ISBN: 9780198145905 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Euripides Fabulae: Vol. II (Sup., El., Her., Tro., Iph.Tau., Ion)
Euripides Fabulae: Vol. II (Sup., El., Her., Tro., Iph.Tau., Ion)
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153,67 zł |
Euripides Fabulae: Vol. I: (Cyc., Alc., Med., Heracl., Hip., And., Hec.)
ISBN: 9780198145943 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page.
The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reability and presentation. The series consists o...
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138,93 zł |
Neubivayushchiy : Nepoznavaemoe
ISBN: 9783847383208 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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361,59 zł |
Opasnyy teleport : Teleportatsiya - strannoe i zagadochnoe yavlenie...
ISBN: 9783847384830 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 2012 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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248,45 zł |
Die Trollhöhle
ISBN: 9783741822629 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Erster Band der Trilogie: Ein Schatten senkt sich über Gordonien, als ein finsterer Magier über das Land herfällt...
Erster Band der Trilogie: Ein Schatten senkt sich über Gordonien, als ein finsterer Magier über das Land herfällt...
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90,47 zł |
Die Eisenfestung
ISBN: 9783741821028 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Zweiter Teil der Trilogie über Tados Kampf gegen die finstere Macht Telkors. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht das Schicksal zweier Reiche, die es vor Unterwerfung der Magier zu bewahren gilt.
Zweiter Teil der Trilogie über Tados Kampf gegen die finstere Macht Telkors. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht das Schicksal zweier Reiche, die es v...
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113,14 zł |
Monety na tvoey ladoni : Mir Zakata dast tebe vse - no potrebuet platy
ISBN: 9783659991097 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 2012 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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192,34 zł |
Portal Kayangan - A Dragon's Tail : Tales From The Emerald Wind
ISBN: 9783659704918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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90,06 zł |
Folktales of Ireland
ISBN: 9780226639987 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland. In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion the first organized efforts of collecting and studying a multitude of folktales, both written as well as those of the Irish oral tradition. The Commission has collected well over a million pages of manuscripts. Folktales of Ireland offers chief archivist Sean O'Sullivan's representation of this awe-inspiring collection. These tales represent the first English language collection of Gaelic folktales. "Without doubt the finest group of...
Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales as Ireland. In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion th...
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180,18 zł |
VAS: An Opera in Flatland
ISBN: 9780226807409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Printed in the colors of flesh and blood, VAS: An Opera in Flatland--a hybrid image-text novel--demonstrates how differing ways of imagining the body generate diverse stories of history, gender, politics, and, ultimately, the literature of who we are.
A constantly surprising, VAS combines a variety of voices, from journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices meet in counterpoint, and the meaning of the narrative emerges from their juxtapositions, harmonies, or discords. Utilizing a wide and historical sweep of representations of the body--from pedigree... Printed in the colors of flesh and blood, VAS: An Opera in Flatland--a hybrid image-text novel--demonstrates how differing ways of imagining th...
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147,42 zł |
Tomorrow's Eve
ISBN: 9780252069550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Even after 100 years, this is a captivating fable - witty and biting - of a Thomas Edison-like inventor who creates the radiant and tragic android Hadaly, and the lovelorn aristocrat who falls for the manmade perfect woman who is conveniently adjustable so he may make her at his will to his taste and social needs.
Even after 100 years, this is a captivating fable - witty and biting - of a Thomas Edison-like inventor who creates the radiant and tragic android Had...
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82,94 zł |
Vacation Stories: Five Science Fiction Tales
ISBN: 9780252073557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fearing they would compromise his scientific career, neurobiologist Ramon y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosity. Now available for the first time in an English paperback edition, Cajal's stories reveal a great deal about the collusion of human ambition and greed that prey on the hapless, whether in the name of science, religion, or the state. Laura Otis, whose dual background in literature and science echoes that of the author, has written a substantial...
Fearing they would compromise his scientific career, neurobiologist Ramon y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories: five ingenious ...
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88,13 zł |
Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780253212344 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and--this matters most--intensely ponderable." --Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." --Anthony Burgess "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style.... The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." --Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary... Suffused with melancholy and wonder,... "A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and... |
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78,44 zł |