wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Way
ISBN: 9780393314366 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Andre Bernard has researched the stories behind more than one hundred of the most famous titles in the English language to produce a fascinating volume rich in literary anecdote and publishing lore. The Great Gatsby was almost titled Trimalchio in West Egg, while some unknown editor told William L. Shirer, "Please God, don't ask us to publish a book called The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." It's a wonderful romp among the literary monuments.Raymond Chandler to Alfred A. Knopf: "I'm trying to think of a good title for you to want me to change."
Andre Bernard has researched the stories behind more than one hundred of the most famous titles in the English language to produce a fascinating volum...
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73,88 zł |
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
ISBN: 9780156006897 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats. Without charts, alone on the open seas, and thousands of miles from any known land, the sailors began their terrifying journey of survival. Ninety days later, after much suffering and death by starvation, intense heat, and dehydration, only eight men survived to reach land. One of them was Owen Chase, first mate of the ill-fated ship, whose...
On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her cr...
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69,93 zł |
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
ISBN: 9780544313279 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats. Without charts, alone on the open seas, and thousands of miles from any known land, the sailors began their terrifying journey of survival. Ninety days later, after much suffering and death by starvation, intense heat, and dehydration, only eight men survived to reach land. One of them was Owen Chase, first mate of the ill-fated ship, whose...
On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her cr...
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123,48 zł |
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Choisir son N° 2: S'entourer en toute confiance
ISBN: 9782708131125 / Francuski / Miękka / 2004 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,38 zł |
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The Life of Henry VII
ISBN: 9781599101880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Composed between 1500 and 1502, "The Life of Henry VII" is the first "official" Tudor account of the triumph of Henry VII over Richard III. Its author, the French humanist Bernard Andre, was a poet and historian at the court of Henry VII and tutor to the young Prince Arthur. Steeped in classical literature and familiar with all the tropes of the ancient biographical tradition, Andre filled his account with classical allusions, invented speeches, and historical set pieces. Although cast as a biography, the work dramatizes the dynastic shift that resulted from Henry Tudor's seizure of the...
Composed between 1500 and 1502, "The Life of Henry VII" is the first "official" Tudor account of the triumph of Henry VII over Richard III. Its author...
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138,30 zł |
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Evolutionary Microeconomics
ISBN: 9783540285366 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed with a very strong rationality, equilibrium is stated without a concrete process to achieve it, market is the unique institution considered. Evolutionary microeconomics is aimed at bypassing these limitations by considering a dynamic approach, however not biologically oriented. Agents have local information and bounded rationality, they are... Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to inc... |
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386,41 zł |
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Evolutionary Microeconomics
ISBN: 9783642066757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed with a very strong rationality, equilibrium is stated without a concrete process to achieve it, market is the unique institution considered. Evolutionary microeconomics is aimed at bypassing these limitations by considering a dynamic approach, however not biologically oriented. Agents have local information and bounded rationality, they are... Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to inc... |
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386,41 zł |
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A Journey to the End of the Millennium
ISBN: 9780156011167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with both his first wife and his new wife. The trip is the beginning of a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate with those of our time. Yehoshua renders the medieval world of Jewish and Christian culture and trade with...
In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter h...
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82,11 zł |