wyszukanych pozycji: 116
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Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956
ISBN: 9780140234442 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It was in his letters that Jack Kerouac set down the raw material that he transmuted into his novels, exploring and refining the spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. The letters in this volume, written between 1940, when Kerouac was a freshman at college, and 1956, immediately before his breathless leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, his friendships with Neal and Carolyn Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and William S. Burroughs, his travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. At once...
It was in his letters that Jack Kerouac set down the raw material that he transmuted into his novels, exploring and refining the spontaneous prose sty...
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123,31 |
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The Portable Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780143105060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin Classics
To coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of On the Road, Penguin Classics republishes this landmark collection. The Portable Jack Kerouac made clear the ambition and accomplishment of Kerouac's "Legend of Duluoz"-the story of his life told in his many "true story" novels. Featuring selections from Kerouac's autobiographical fiction, as well as from his poetry, criticism, Buddhist writings, and letters, The Portable Jack Kerouac offers a total immersion in an American master. For more than... The definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin Classics
To coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of On the Road, Penguin... |
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100,19 |
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The Creatures
ISBN: 9780993322341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. They came to our planet ..... terrifying creatures. Humanity was being evacuated from the earth's surface. James ran for his life, boarding a plane, but the aircraft was doomed. Professor Purple Man led a ferocious battle and the creatures lost. But did they? Why were they here? James fought a battle against time to discover the reason for the creatures' invasion. Can he save a civilisation from a curse made five thousand years ago by the green witch? Hold your breath and find out.
They came to our planet ..... terrifying creatures. Humanity was being evacuated from the earth's surface. James ran for his life, boarding a plane, b...
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22,25 |
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Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety
ISBN: 9780367576998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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252,27 |
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Whose Mission, Whose Orders?: British Civil-Military Command and Control in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974
ISBN: 9780773549265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended the conflict in Northern Ireland left intriguing questions unanswered: who made the crucial decisions about the use of the British Army during the Troubles - the politicians or the generals? And how did these decisions shape the army's operations on the ground?
The 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended the conflict in Northern Ireland left intriguing questions unanswered: who made the crucial decisions about ...
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173,17 |
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Convergence: Edge of Empire Book 1
ISBN: 9781530804061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On the far edges of a great empire, Conner grows up in a hidden asteroid base full of brutal raiders and pirates, and learns to despise the cruelty around him. At the other end of space, at the Imperial Capitol, Stuart Cameron fights the tedium of a life spent driving shuttles from one dock to another and starts to look for adventure. When Stuart joins an expedition to the remote frontier and Conner sees a chance to break free from his life, their destinies begin to converge, as do the greater forces that will catch them in the middle...
On the far edges of a great empire, Conner grows up in a hidden asteroid base full of brutal raiders and pirates, and learns to despise the cruelty ar...
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64,70 |
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The British Army and Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945-47
ISBN: 9780333422786 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive scholarly study of the British Army's campaign against the Jewish insurgency in postwar Palestine, this book shows how outdated doctrine, traditional resistance to change, and postwar turbulence hampered the army's efforts to modify its counter-insurgency tactics. It also shows why the security forces failed to develop intelligence sufficient to defeat the insurgents.
The first comprehensive scholarly study of the British Army's campaign against the Jewish insurgency in postwar Palestine, this book shows how outdate...
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806,99 |
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The Deadly Sin of Terrorism: Its Effect on Democracy and Civil Liberty in Six Countries
ISBN: 9780313289644 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This comparative study of terrorism and counter-measures and their effect upon democratic practices and traditions is published under the auspices of the University of New Brunswick Centre for Conflict Studies in Canada. David A. Charters, Editor, has brought together a team of well-known experts to assess the nature of international terrorism in recent years and the possible effect of anti-terrorist policies and counter-measures upon democratic processes and civil liberties in Britain, Germany, Israel, Italy, France, and the United States. Their findings challenge current notions about... This comparative study of terrorism and counter-measures and their effect upon democratic practices and traditions is published under the auspices ... |
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390,60 |
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The Country Blues
ISBN: 9780306800146 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.On of the pioneering studies of this unjustly-neglected music was Sam Charter's The Country Blues. In it, Charters recreates the special world...
From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of ...
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84,74 |
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A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
ISBN: 9780822343585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters one of the pioneering collectors of African American music writes of a trip to West Africa where he found a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem. In this book, Charters takes readers along to those and other places, including Jamaica and the Georgia Sea Islands, as he recounts experiences from a half-century spent following,...
In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters one of the pioneering collectors of African American music writes of a trip to West Africa where he foun...
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633,30 |
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The Roots of the Blues: An African Search
ISBN: 9780306804458 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. I went to Africa to find the roots of the blues. So Samuel Charters begins the extraordinary story of his research. But what began as a study of how the blues was handed down from African slaves to musicians of today via the slave ships, became something much more complex. For in Africa Samuel Charters discovered a music which was not just a part of the past but a very vital living part of African culture. The Roots of the Blues not only reveals Charters's remarkable talent in discussing African folk music and its relationship with American blues; it demonstrates his power as a...
I went to Africa to find the roots of the blues. So Samuel Charters begins the extraordinary story of his research. But what began as a study of how t...
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77,03 |
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Evacuating Vulnerable and Dependent People from Buildings in an Emergency
ISBN: 9781848062641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How should elderly, ill or children be evacuated from buildings, residential care, healthcare and domestic premises? This guide provides support for designers, owners and managers of buildings so that they can formulate efficient strategies for the effective evacuation of people with mobility impairments.
Qualitative guidance is given to illustrate the considerations that need to be made when developing an evacuation strategy that will be as inclusive as practicably possible. Formulae and data are also provided in order to quantify the relationship that exists between the size and nature... How should elderly, ill or children be evacuated from buildings, residential care, healthcare and domestic premises? This guide provides support for d...
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153,32 |
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The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880–1936
ISBN: 9798887199160 / Rosyjski / Twarda / 2025 / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. ENGThis groundbreaking biography of Mikhail Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy debates over the role of trade unions in the self-proclaimed workers’ state. Charters Wynn’s compelling account illuminates how the charismatic Tomsky rose from an impoverished working-class to become both a Politburo member and the head of the trade unions, where he helped shape Soviet domestic and foreign policy along generally moderate lines throughout the 1920s. His failed attempt to block Stalin’s catastrophic adoption of forced...
ENGThis groundbreaking biography of Mikhail Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy ...
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187,44 |
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Indigenous Voices: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
ISBN: 9781841138817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book covers the views of Indigenous peoples' representatives on the negotiations leading to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
This book covers the views of Indigenous peoples' representatives on the negotiations leading to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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156,24 |
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The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture
ISBN: 9780367472900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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1212,16 |
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The Harry Bright Dances: A Fable
ISBN: 9781505577051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A fable, set in the 1950s, about Dale Betts, a young man who has pulled up his small town roots and is living in an apartment in Tulsa. He travels the center of Oklahoma for his day job and finds himself becoming drawn into the life of another small town, rather too much like his own. However, this one holds a well guarded secret which Dale is determined to discover. What is the story behind the Harry Bright Dances? This compelling tale picks you up and places you in the heart of the mid-West, with its big skies and small diners. A book for music lovers, but also a story about friendship and...
A fable, set in the 1950s, about Dale Betts, a young man who has pulled up his small town roots and is living in an apartment in Tulsa. He travels the...
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What was God Thinking?
ISBN: 9798850469207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,23 |
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The Fate Master
ISBN: 9798397613613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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30,15 |
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The Rat Queen
ISBN: 9798396866690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,29 |
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Best Practices in Global Wine Tourism: 15 Case Studies from Around the World
ISBN: 9780971587069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Best Practices in Global Wine Tourism is a collection of fifteen case studies from around the world describing methods used by highly successful wine regions and wineries. Learn how innovative wine professionals turned challenges into successes in establishing new wine regions, attracting customers, creating collaborative relationships with stakeholders, preserving the environment, and establishing measurements for wine tourism. Enjoy stories about wine tourism around the world, including France, Italy, Argentina, China, the USA, New Zealand, Australia, and other wine regions. Edited by Liz...
Best Practices in Global Wine Tourism is a collection of fifteen case studies from around the world describing methods used by highly successful wine ...
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