wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy
ISBN: 9781439181911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Continuing the personal saga begun in the National Book Award-winning Waiting for Snow in Havana, the inspiring, sad, funny, bafflingly beautiful story of a boy uprooted by the Cuban Revolution and transplanted to Miami during the years of the Kennedy administration. In his 2003 National Book Award-winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane--along with thousands of other...
Continuing the personal saga begun in the National Book Award-winning Waiting for Snow in Havana, the inspiring, sad, funny, bafflingly beautif...
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80,56 zł |
Miami Y MIS Mil Muertes: Confesiones de Un Cubanito Desterrado
ISBN: 9781439191729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. En su libro de memorias Nieve en La Habana, el cual gano el Premio Nacional del Libro en 2003, Carlos Eire narra su ninez en Cuba en la epoca del triunfo de la revolucion y la llegada al poder de Fidel Castro. Esa historia termina en 1962, en el avion que lleva a Carlos y a su hermano desde La Habana a Miami para comenzar una nueva vida, como sucedio a miles de ninos cubanos. Pasarian anos antes de que Carlos volviera a ver a su madre. Y nunca mas volveria a ver a su padre, por quien sentia una verdadera devocion. Miami y Mis Mil Muertes sigue el cuento en el momento en que...
En su libro de memorias Nieve en La Habana, el cual gano el Premio Nacional del Libro en 2003, Carlos Eire narra su ninez en Cuba en la epoca d...
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93,28 zł |
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography
ISBN: 9780691164939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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121,28 zł |
A Very Brief History of Eternity
ISBN: 9780691152509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the idea from ancient times to the present, Eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions... What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon... |
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110,25 zł |
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
ISBN: 9780743246415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban." In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana--exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro's revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child's unforgettable experience. Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. For the Cuba of Carlos's youth--with its lizards and turquoise seas and sun-drenched siestas--becomes an island of condemnation once a cigar-smoking guerrilla named...
"Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban." In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana--exiled from his family, his country, an...
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84,80 zł |
War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin
ISBN: 9780521379847 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as "idolatry," or false religion. This study calls attention to the importance of the idolatry issue during the Reformation.
In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as "idolatry," or false religion. This study...
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145,16 zł |
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
ISBN: 9780300280074 / Angielski / 07-01-2025 Książka dostępna od: 07-01-2025 |
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96,72 zł |
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
ISBN: 9780300259803 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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148,47 zł |
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
ISBN: 9780300240030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 920 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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118,78 zł |
From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain
ISBN: 9780521529426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. This is the first full-length study of Spanish attitudes toward death and the afterlife in the peak years of the Counter-Reformation. It contains an analysis of the death rituals requested in hundreds of sixteenth-century Madrid testaments, as well as a detailed account of the ways in which the "good" deaths of King Philip II and Saint Teresa of Avila were interpreted by contemporaries.
This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. This is the first full-length s...
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252,35 zł |
From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain
ISBN: 9780521460187 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. This is the first full-length study of Spanish attitudes toward death and the afterlife in the peak years of the Counter-Reformation. It contains an analysis of the death rituals requested in hundreds of sixteenth-century Madrid testaments, as well as a detailed account of the ways in which the "good" deaths of King Philip II and Saint Teresa of Avila were interpreted by contemporaries.
This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. This is the first full-length s...
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700,88 zł |
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
ISBN: 9780300203554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges
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115,76 zł |