wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
ISBN: 9780300255355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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77,27 zł |
Maimonides: Faith in Reason
ISBN: 9780300217896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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93,84 zł |
Curiosity
ISBN: 9780300219807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker
Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the... An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinke...
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71,75 zł |
Historia czytania
ISBN: 9788381966696 / Polski / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Historia czytania Alberta Manguela, współautora Słownika miejsc wyobrażonych, to usiana anegdotami wędrówka przez labirynty biblioteki ludzkości, której patronem jest Jorge Luis Borges. Nieprzypadkowo, Manguel był lektorem ociemniałego Borgesa i - jak niegdyś Borges - dyrektorem Biblioteki Narodowej Argentyny. To książka o niewyczerpanym bogactwie praktyk czytelniczych. O czytaniu na głos i po cichu. W rozmaitych warunkach. O różnorodności materialnego wymiaru tekstu. O tym, jak niezwykle złożonym doświadczeniem kulturowym jest czytanie. O skomplikowanej, angażującej...
Historia czytania Alberta Manguela, współautora Słownika miejsc wyobrażonych, to usiana anegdotami wędrówka przez labirynty biblioteki ludzkośc...
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51,70 zł |
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
ISBN: 9780300244526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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66,22 zł |
Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
ISBN: 9781780601571 / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yet managed.
Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and...
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67,37 zł |
With Borges
ISBN: 9781846590054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."--Mahmoud Darwish "Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."--"Scotland on Sunday" "His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."--"The Toronto Star" Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes. In 1964, in Buenos Aires, a blind writer in his sixties approached a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asked if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest... "This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."--Mahmoud Darwish "Alberto Manguel is to... |
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38,61 zł |
Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey": A Biography
ISBN: 9780300272475 / Miękka / 07-01-2025 / 288 str. Książka dostępna od: 07-01-2025 |
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77,74 zł |
The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm : The Reader as Metaphor
ISBN: 9780812245233 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing through our reading into our own ivory towers. Or we may devour our books like burrowing worms, not to benefit from the wisdom they contain but merely to stuff ourselves with countless words. With consummate grace and extraordinary breadth, the best-selling author of "A History of Reading "and... As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of... |
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120,62 zł |
Into the Looking Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World
ISBN: 9780747545934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Includes essays that discuss the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explore the consequences of society's betrayal of its readers and writers. This title covers writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar and G K Chesterton, as well as Che Guevara and Goethe.
Includes essays that discuss the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explore the consequences of society's betrayal of its reader...
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82,79 zł |
Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art
ISBN: 9780375759222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can understand, though for thousands of years this was not the case. Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images: Is there a vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book, or...
This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and m...
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80,80 zł |
Reader on Reading
ISBN: 9780300172089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. "We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything," writes Manguel, "landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create." Reading our own lives and those of others, reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the essence of A Reader on Reading.... In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of read... |
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82,79 zł |
By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp
ISBN: 9780306459924 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozenworks from the past three centuries.
This book represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozenworks from the past three centuries.
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117,82 zł |
Fabelhafte Wesen
ISBN: 9783257072112 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ob Sindbad der Seefahrer, Superman, Don Juan oder Alice im Wunderland: Literarische Heldinnen und Helden haben zahlreiche Abenteuer zu bestehen, die sie klug und welterfahren machen. Sie werden damit zu inspirierenden Begleiter:innen, die uns immer wieder neue Antworten geben auf die großen Fragen des Lebens. Dank Alberto Manguel entdecken wir die Weltliteratur neu. Ob Sindbad der Seefahrer, Superman, Don Juan oder Alice im Wunderland: Literarische Heldinnen und Helden haben zahlreiche Abenteuer zu bestehen, di... |
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115,24 zł |
The Library at Night
ISBN: 9780300151305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries," he says, "have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries.
Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from... Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on bo... |
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82,79 zł |
Oriental Tales: Stories
ISBN: 9780374519971 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author. "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews. This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, ... |
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68,04 zł |
A Blue Tale and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780226836898 / Angielski / 17-01-2025 Książka dostępna od: 17-01-2025 |
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73,46 zł |
The Secret Supper
ISBN: 9780743287654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling -- and blasphemous -- message, which he is determined to decode. The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table and, shockingly, the apostles are portraits of well-known heretics -- none of them depicted with halos. And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo's greatest puzzle are right before your...
Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing t...
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68,04 zł |
Melancholy
ISBN: 9780300167481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." Foldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy's ambiguities. Along the way Foldenyi discovers the... A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history
Alberto Manguel praises the Hunga... |
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179,50 zł |
Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space
ISBN: 9780156035354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his best travel pieces are gathered in this collection of immense range and depth, informed throughout by the author's humanity and gentle humor. From exotic places such as Isfahan, Gambia, and Mali to seemingly domesticated places such as Australia and Munich, Nooteboom shares his view of the world, showing us the strangeness in places we thought we knew and the familiarity of places most of us will probably never see.
His phenomenal gifts as an... Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his b...
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72,25 zł |