wyszukanych pozycji: 280
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Women of Sand and Myrrh
ISBN: 9780385423588 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worldsleading woman novelist, about four women copingwith the insular, oppressive society of an unnameddesert state."
A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worldsleading woman novelist, about four women copingwith the insular, oppressive society of an unnameddesert...
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83,37 zł |
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The Occasional Virgin
ISBN: 9781408895696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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77,29 zł |
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The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story
ISBN: 9780307472311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila.
Married at a young age against her will, Kamila soon fell head-over-heels in love with another man--and was thus forced to choose between her children and her lover. As the narrative unfolds through the years--from the bazaars, cinemas and apartments of 1930s Beirut to its war-torn streets decades later--we follow this passionate woman as she survives the tragedies and celebrates the triumphs of a life lived to the very fullest. In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila.
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104,21 zł |
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Only in London
ISBN: 9780385721219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an English expert on Islamic art; and Samir, a Lebanese man who is delivering a monkey on a mission he doesn't fully understand. Once safely on British soil, Lamis and Nicholas fall in love, Samir chases after blond British youths, and Amira reinvents herself as a princess, the better to lure clients at the best London hotels. Through the city and across cultural borders, Only in London wittily portrays the smells, sounds, and sights of...
Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an ...
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79,20 zł |
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One Thousand and One Nights
ISBN: 9781408827765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a ...
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56,22 zł |
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Mazya Ammichi Goshta
ISBN: 9788184989946 / Marathi / Miękka / 2016 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,32 zł |
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One Thousand and One Nights
ISBN: 9781408159613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the... One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Leban... |
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96,08 zł |
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The Occasional Virgin
ISBN: 9781408895689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From a major novelist of the Arab world comes a frank, funny and fearless story about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and London Best friends Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera. Now grown up, successful and independent, their adolescent tribulations in Lebanon are far behind them - but the problems of love, sex and family spring eternal. Yvonne doesn't know what she's doing wrong, either there or back in London - she seems to spend her time waiting for the right man to come along and not leave again just as quickly. Huda has no problems in this...
From a major novelist of the Arab world comes a frank, funny and fearless story about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and London ...
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48,62 zł |
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One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling
ISBN: 9780307948991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Passed down over centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights are related by the beautiful, young Shahrazad as she attempts to delay her execution. Retold in modern English by the acclaimed Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh, here are stories of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. Bringing together nineteen classic tales, in these pages al-Shaykh weaves an utterly intoxicating collection, rich with humor, violence, and...
Passed down over centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights are related by...
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83,37 zł |
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Beirut Blues
ISBN: 9780385473828 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level.
The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the chaos surrounding the heroine, Asmahan, as she futilely writes letters to her loved ones, to her friends, to Beirut, and to the war itself--letters of lament that are never to be answered except with their own resounding echoes. In Beirut... With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, publ...
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95,88 zł |
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Moral stories
ISBN: 9781637457412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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47,22 zł |
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Would You Rather Game Book: For Kids Ages 6-12 year old, Funny Questions for the Whole Family.
ISBN: 9798593984562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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30,60 zł |
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Bedside Manner 101
ISBN: 9781300617372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bedside Manner 101 is a handbook for all healthcare workers to help attain service excellence and achieve rapport and trust with their patients every time. As a registered nurse and mother, Hanan tells her own account of having a premature infant via emergency caesarean section, her hospital experience and her rules on service excellence. Dos and Don'ts of Bedside Manner. A guide for all healthcare workers.
Bedside Manner 101 is a handbook for all healthcare workers to help attain service excellence and achieve rapport and trust with their patients every ...
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46,64 zł |
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Visie Erosie
ISBN: 9786200513809 / Holenderski / Miękka / 2020 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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402,86 zł |
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Almost Paradise: A Louise Golden Mystery
ISBN: 9781519441829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mail carrier Louise Golden lives on the island of O'ahu and enjoys a friendly camaraderie with the people on her delivery route. When she notices Mrs. Santos missing from her home, Louise becomes concerned. As she questions neighbors in an attempt to learn what became of the elderly woman, Louise is pulled into a mystery involving abductions, car tails, a celebrity pool party, exotic dancing, smuggled Hawaiian artifacts, and, of course, murder. "There's more going on in this book than the mere working out of the whodunit, and that's because Hanan is a writer with depth, perception, and...
Mail carrier Louise Golden lives on the island of O'ahu and enjoys a friendly camaraderie with the people on her delivery route. When she notices Mrs....
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48,10 zł |
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Vision Erosion
ISBN: 9783639512991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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398,34 zł |
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The Gap Between Two Kingdoms
ISBN: 9781398473034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,16 zł |
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Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard
ISBN: 9780804769594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing anxieties over a presumed increase in bachelorhood, Egyptians also used the failings of Egyptian marriage to criticize British rule, unemployment, the disintegration of female seclusion, the influx of women into schools, middle-class materialism, and Islamic laws they deemed incompatible with modernity. For Better, For...
For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage cri...
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508,58 zł |
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The Rainbow Connection
ISBN: 9781540715746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With graduation looming, Emmy's only friend in her new school goes missing. Brett's run off before. Her mother and even the cops figure she's done it again. But Emmy is convinced Brett can't wait to begin college in the fall, and she would never ditch her super-hot boyfriend. Something bad must have happened to her. Emmy is determined to find out what. Her search leads to a secretive religious group. Emmy suspects there is more to the group's simple lifestyle and ecstatic dance rituals than the peace and harmony they preach. But the deeper she delves into Brett's disappearance, the more she...
With graduation looming, Emmy's only friend in her new school goes missing. Brett's run off before. Her mother and even the cops figure she's done it ...
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43,72 zł |
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The Invention of Li Yu
ISBN: 9780674332263 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Patrick Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage, did not dampen his versatility, his irreverent wit, or his jocund spirit. Li was also an epicure, an inventor, a pundit, and a designer of houses and gardens. He was an exceptional figure in Chinese culture for two reasons: his disregard of the authority of tradition, and his dedication to the... Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, c... |
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297,14 zł |