wyszukanych pozycji: 71
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Short Fiction for an Absurd World
ISBN: 9781499290042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Finalist in the General Fiction Category of the Eric Hoffer Award 2015. 'Jumping from something not out of place on The Twilight Zone to bizarre character pieces that evoke the most creative cinematic works from directors like Lynch, Tarantino, and Luhrmann, readers who appreciate treading far from the beaten path will be delighted and surprised by each story collected in this volume. The mainstream reader may be left scratching his or her head trying to decipher the meaning behind each of these stories, but this is creative writing for the creative writer at its best: It's challenging,...
Finalist in the General Fiction Category of the Eric Hoffer Award 2015. 'Jumping from something not out of place on The Twilight Zone to bizarre chara...
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38,16 |
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Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
ISBN: 9780691228419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,44 |
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The Intellectual Species: Evolution or Extinction?
ISBN: 9781527573901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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335,06 |
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Modern Transits
ISBN: 9780866901512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Astrologically, the daily transit refers to the longitudinal position of each planet in its daily passage. As each planet reaches a one-degree mathematical relationship to a planet in the natal chart, a situation, event or attitude occurs.
The influence of the aspect is not always subjective; it may be objectively demonstrated in the environment, or in a relationship with another person. For example, with a Mars transit, you may not be energetic, tempestuous, zestful, passionate, constructive, or destructive. But you may see an accident in the street; watch TV violence; contact a lusty,... Astrologically, the daily transit refers to the longitudinal position of each planet in its daily passage. As each planet reaches a one-degree mathema...
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103,36 |
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Wholly Sober: How I stopped thinking about drinking and started loving my life
ISBN: 9781533678119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Wholly Sober is a fast track of Teresa Rodden's relationship with alcohol starting with her first hangover at just five years old. She shares how she had all the makings of a bonafide alcoholic, but chose to dismiss conventional theories about how to live sober. Being the latest in a lineage of women that lived understanding two things: Life is painful and alcohol will numb that pain. This is what she believed, too-as she navigated teen pregnancy, abusive relationships, staggering debt and spiritual crisis. This is her powerful story of clearing the debris left behind after years of pain and...
Wholly Sober is a fast track of Teresa Rodden's relationship with alcohol starting with her first hangover at just five years old. She shares how she ...
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60,49 |
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Fish
ISBN: 9798642348727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,22 |
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The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
ISBN: 9780521132558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces 1984, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining...
Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his...
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128,39 |
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Avoiding the Fairies at Halloween
ISBN: 9781654266363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,39 |
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George Santayana: A Biography
ISBN: 9781138524309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed scholarly activity. Contributing significantly to the renewal was John McCormick's 1987 biography, the first full-scale volume to treat an elusive figure's life and thought in the detail they deserve. Santayana's life...
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, ...
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783,64 |
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Darkness: Shortlisted for the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
ISBN: 9798614794538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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30,51 |
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Critical Insights: George Orwell: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781429837286 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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426,10 |
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Preschool ABCs: An interactive introduction to the alphabet for toddlers
ISBN: 9798343321449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,73 |
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Sobriety Coloring Book: A Swear Word Coloring Book for Addiction Recovery, Feeling Good and Moving On With Your Life
ISBN: 9781074295714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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32,33 |
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A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
ISBN: 9781503903791 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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65,47 |
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Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995
ISBN: 9780195112443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German education from 1945 through the 1990s. Rodden fully relates the GDR's attempt to create a new Marxist nation by means of educational reform, and looks not only at the changing institution of education but at something the Germans call Bildung--the formation of character and the cultivation of body and spirit. The sociology of nation-building is also addressed.
This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German education from 1...
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528,30 |
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Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals
ISBN: 9780252081941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red. John Rodden cuts this tall tale down to its authentic pint size, refusing to indulge the public relations myth promoted by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. In Of G-Men and Eggheads, Rodden portrays federal agents' hilarious obsession with monitoring that ever-present threat to national security, the American literary intellectual. Drawing on government dossiers and archives, Rodden focuses on the...
Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of inte...
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78,32 |
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Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
ISBN: 9780691182742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.
Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth...
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128,89 |
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Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent: Stories from East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse
ISBN: 9780271036120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Germany underwent two periods of dictatorial repression in the twentieth century, first under Hitler and the Nazis in the late 1930s and early 1940s and then under the communist German Democratic Republic from 1945 until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The abuses of human rights under the Nazis are well known and now abundantly documented. The abuses that occurred during the period of the GDR, however, are not so well known and are poorly documented. Through his interviews with survivors of GDR repression, John Rodden seeks to add to the history of this dark period. He reveals the... Germany underwent two periods of dictatorial repression in the twentieth century, first under Hitler and the Nazis in the late 1930s and early 1940... |
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132,00 |
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Retirement Coloring Book: A Funny And Relaxing Coloring Book
ISBN: 9781075727726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,29 |
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Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves
ISBN: 9780803289741 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lionel Trilling and the Critics provides a comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of the twentieth century. The contributors are a who s who of Anglo-American intellectuals from the 1930s through the 1970s. They include Edmund Wilson, Robert Penn Warren, F. R. Leavis, Leslie Fiedler, R. W. B. Lewis, R. P. Blackmur, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Raymond Williams, Norman Podhoretz, Gertrude Himmelfarb, William Barrett, Bruno Bettelheim, Gerald Graff, and Cornel West."
Lionel Trilling and the Critics provides a comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of ...
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117,50 |