wyszukanych pozycji: 77
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
ISBN: 9780767903820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant...
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson rece...
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Eine kurze Geschichte der alltäglichen Dinge
ISBN: 9783442143207 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die Welt verstehen ohne einen Fuß vor die Tür zu setzen
Was bleibt nach der »Geschichte von fast allem« eigentlich noch zu schreiben? Die Geschichte von fast allem anderen, natürlich. Bill Bryson hat sich daher in seinen vier Wänden umgesehen und sich gefragt: Warum leben wir eigentlich, wie wir leben? Warum nutzen wir ausgerechnet Salz und Pfeffer, und weshalb hat unsere Gabel vier Zinken? Aber es bleibt nicht bei Geschichten von Bett, Sofa und Küchenherd. Die Geschichte des Heims ist auch immer eine der großen Entdeckungen und Abenteuer. Ohne die Weltausstellung in... Die Welt verstehen ohne einen Fuß vor die Tür zu setzen
Was bleibt nach der »Geschichte von fast allem« eigentlich noch zu schreiben... |
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
ISBN: 9781784161804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Bryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.
Bryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartac...
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
ISBN: 9780767910439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: -English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where 'cleave' can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word 'set' has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at... One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best... |
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The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants
ISBN: 9780857527691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
ISBN: 9781784161873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The author was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, considering how the ordinary things in life came to be. This book is about the history of the way we live.
The author was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what histo...
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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
ISBN: 9780767922708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers.
What is the difference between immanent and imminent ? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between acute and chronic ? What is the former name of Moldova ? What is the difference between a cardinal number and an ordinal number? One of the English language's most skilled writers answers these and many other questions and guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.... From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commo...
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A Really Short Journey Through the Body: An illustrated edition of the bestselling book about our incredible anatomy
ISBN: 9780241606223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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A Really Short History of Words: An illustrated edition of the bestselling book about the English language
ISBN: 9780241666173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Krótka historia prawie wszystkiego audiobook
ISBN: 9788381168861 / Polski / etui / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. BESTSELLEROWA KSIĄŻKA, Z KTÓREJ DOWIADUJEMY SIĘ, CZYM JEST ŚWIAT MATERIALNY OD NAJMNIEJSZEGO KWARKA PO NAJWIĘKSZĄ GALAKTYKĘ.Wyzwanie, przed którym stanął Bill Bryson, polegało na tym, aby tematy, które zwykle u większości czytelników wywołują śmiertelną nudę, jak geologia, chemia lub fizyka cząstek, uczynić przystępnymi dla tych, którzy nigdy nie sądzili, że nauki przyrodnicze mogą ich w ogóle zainteresować. Klucz, jaki znalazł autor, wydaje się genialny w swej prostocie: Bryson pisze nie o tym, CO wiemy, lecz raczej o tym, SKĄD wiemy to, co wiemy.Skąd wiemy,...
BESTSELLEROWA KSIĄŻKA, Z KTÓREJ DOWIADUJEMY SIĘ, CZYM JEST ŚWIAT MATERIALNY OD NAJMNIEJSZEGO KWARKA PO NAJWIĘKSZĄ GALAKTYKĘ.Wyzwanie, przed kt...
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A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike
ISBN: 9781784161446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world.
In the company of his friend Stephen Katz (last seen in the bestselling Neither Here nor There), Bill Bryson set off to hike the Appalachian Trail, th...
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Picknick mit Bären und Frühstück mit Kängurus
ISBN: 9783962691974 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Zwei Bestseller von Bill Bryson in einem Band - humorvoll, klug und wunderbar unterhaltsam.
Picknick mit Bären Bill Bryson will es seinen gehfaulen Landsleuten zeigen: Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Katz, der aufgrund gewaltiger Leibesfülle und einer festverwurzelten Leidenschaft für Schokoriegel nicht gerade die besten Voraussetzungen dafür mitbringt, will er den längsten Fußweg der Welt, den "Appalachian Trail", bezwingen. Eine abenteuerliche Reise quer durch zwölf Bundesstaaten der USA beginnt... Ein Reisebericht der etwas anderen Art - humorvoll,... Zwei Bestseller von Bill Bryson in einem Band - humorvoll, klug und wunderbar unterhaltsam.
Picknick mit Bären Bill ... |
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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 9780241451939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
ISBN: 9780767908177 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bill Bryson is one of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he takes his ultimate journey-into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. It's a dazzling quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this insatiably curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author puts it, -...how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also...
Bill Bryson is one of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he takes his ultimate journey-...
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The Body - A Guide for Occupants (Hindi)
ISBN: 9789355431233 / Hindi / Miękka / 2022 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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W domu. Krótka historia rzeczy... audiobook
ISBN: 9788382022520 / Polski / etui / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. "Historia życia domowego nie jest wyłącznie historią łóżek, sof i pieców kuchennych, jak mgliście oczekiwałem, lecz dziejami szkorbutu, guana, wieży Eiffla, pluskiew, wykradania zwłok i prawie wszystkiego innego, co się kiedykolwiek wydarzyło. Domy nie są schronieniami przed historią, lecz miejscami, gdzie historia ostatecznie trafia...Podczas gdy bestsellerowa Krótka historia prawie wszystkiego przedstawiała rozległą panoramę świata, uniwersum i w ogóle wszechrzeczy, W domu. Krótka historia rzeczy codziennego użytku zagląda w życie prywatne przez mikroskop.Billa...
"Historia życia domowego nie jest wyłącznie historią łóżek, sof i pieców kuchennych, jak mgliście oczekiwałem, lecz dziejami szkorbutu, guan...
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Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country
ISBN: 9781784161835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly.Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country.
It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems ...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780767919371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From one of the world's mostbeloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of One Summer, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century 1951 in the middle of the United States Des Moines, Iowa in the middle of the largest generation in American history the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill... From one of the world's mostbeloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of One Summer, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hila...
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Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
ISBN: 9780008610043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London by storm over 400 years ago, Shakespeare has remained centre stage. His fame stems not only from his plays - performed everywhere from school halls to the world's most illustrious theatres - but also from his enigmatic persona. Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greates... |
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Icons of England
ISBN: 9781784161965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies. The original contributions come from Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey, Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant,... This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart fr... |
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