wyszukanych pozycji: 47
After Aesop: Improvisations on Aesop's Fables
ISBN: 9780761851479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This book adds parodies Aesop, perhaps the world's best-known author, produced hundreds of fables that have been re-told countless times, on a one-to-one basis. By turns hilarious, poignant, and profound, the more than 200 entries in After Aesop will instruct and entertain a diverse modern audience.
This book adds parodies Aesop, perhaps the world's best-known author, produced hundreds of fables that have been re-told countless times, on a one-to-...
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353,13 zł |
Famous Writers School
ISBN: 9781582433844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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73,68 zł |
Men Who Can't Love: How to Recognize a Commitment Phobic Man Before He Breaks Your Heart
ISBN: 9780871319999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the classic relationship book that started them all, now available in paperback. It informs women of the warning signs of commitmentphobia, and explains how to avoid heartbreak.
This is the classic relationship book that started them all, now available in paperback. It informs women of the warning signs of commitmentphobia, an...
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65,85 zł |
The Butterfly Dialogues: Postmodern Fables for Kids and Grown-Ups
ISBN: 9780761855767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the third volume in a trilogy of fables (and parables) by Steven Carter. Carter's butterflies are naive, worldly, sarcastic, philosophical, and very funny--in short, perfectly human
This is the third volume in a trilogy of fables (and parables) by Steven Carter. Carter's butterflies are naive, worldly, sarcastic, philosophical, an...
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298,36 zł |
The Judgment of the Crows: Parables & Fables
ISBN: 9780761848202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This book breathes new life into two of the world's oldest art forms. At times hilarious, poignant, and profound, the entries in The Judgment of the Crows are certain to instruct and entertain a diverse modern audience. The volume concludes with a handful of "improvisations" on Aesop's fables.
This book breathes new life into two of the world's oldest art forms. At times hilarious, poignant, and profound, the entries in The Judgment of the C...
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292,27 zł |
The Unknown God
ISBN: 9781644685051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,29 zł |
Getting to Commitment: Overcoming the 8 Greatest Obstacles to Lasting Connection (and Finding the Courage to Love)
ISBN: 9780871319050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Carter offers understanding inspiration and a concrete plan of action for any woman, man, or couple who is ready to tackle the eight most destructive demons that make people run from loving relationships.
Carter offers understanding inspiration and a concrete plan of action for any woman, man, or couple who is ready to tackle the eight most destructive ...
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65,85 zł |
This is How Love Works: 9 Essential Secrets You Need to Know
ISBN: 9780871319944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Perhaps "love" itself will always be a mystery. Why a relationship works or doesn't work, however, is not a total mystery. The nine essential rules offered here are easily understood, and easily put into daily practice.
Perhaps "love" itself will always be a mystery. Why a relationship works or doesn't work, however, is not a total mystery. The nine essential rules of...
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64,98 zł |
Little House of Imaginary Distinctions
ISBN: 9780761856009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Look around you. The world is more homogenous than you think. Far too often, distinctions among people, places, and things are matters of degree rather than kind. Many are illusory. As satire, Little House of Imaginary Distinctions is meant to complement Steven Carter's previous book, Little House of Oxymorons, published by Hamilton Books in 2010.
Look around you. The world is more homogenous than you think. Far too often, distinctions among people, places, and things are matters of degree rathe...
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243,59 zł |
Help! I'm in Love with a Narcissist
ISBN: 9781590770771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bestselling relationship gurus Carter and Sokol ("Men Who Can't Love" and "What Smart Women Know") enlighten readers about trying to love someone who can only love himself.
Bestselling relationship gurus Carter and Sokol ("Men Who Can't Love" and "What Smart Women Know") enlighten readers about trying to love someone who ...
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104,29 zł |
He's Scared, She's Scared: Understanding the Hidden Fears That Sabotage Your Relationships
ISBN: 9780440506256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Available for the first time in paperback, this follow-up to the phenomenally successful Men Who Can't Love tackles the issue of commitmentphobia, that persistent obstacle to truly satisfying contemporary relationships. Authors Stephen Carter and Julia Sokol explore why modern men and women are torn between the desire for intimacy and the equally intense need for independence. Drawing on numerous interviews and real-life scenarios, and written with humor, insight, and the kind of wisdom gained by personal experience, He's Scared, She's Scared offes guidance for all of us who...
Available for the first time in paperback, this follow-up to the phenomenally successful Men Who Can't Love tackles the issue of commitmentphob...
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72,40 zł |
What Smart Women Know, 10th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780871319067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Before "Ally McBeal" there was "What Smart Women Know, " a straightforward and honest guide from women who have learned the hard way how to be smart about men. This national bestseller is geared for women from all walks of life.
Before "Ally McBeal" there was "What Smart Women Know, " a straightforward and honest guide from women who have learned the hard way how to be smart a...
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65,85 zł |
The Upside-Down Buddha: Parables & Fables
ISBN: 9780761854050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In The Upside-Down Buddha: Parables & Fables: Third Series, Steven Carter continues to breathe new life into two of the world's oldest art forms. By turns hilarious, poignant, and profound, the entries in The Upside-Down Buddha are certain to instruct and entertain a diverse modern audience.
In The Upside-Down Buddha: Parables & Fables: Third Series, Steven Carter continues to breathe new life into two of the world's oldest art forms. By t...
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328,79 zł |
New Aphorisms & Reflections
ISBN: 9780761845829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) New Aphorisms & Reflections, the fourth volume of a major work in progress, features nearly 500 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of "meetings of the minds"--dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.
New Aphorisms & Reflections, the fourth volume of a major work in progress, features nearly 500 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its ...
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298,36 zł |
American Affect in the Postmodern Era: A Primer
ISBN: 9780761832508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How is terrorism transformed into media entertainment? What is the connection between affirmative action and narcissism? Why has pathos become an endangered-perhaps an extinct-species in the contemporary American psyche? In American Affect in the Postmodern Era: A Primer, Steven Carter addresses these and other questions that have helped to define American popular culture since the nineteen-sixties. Cover painting: Kyle Margiotta, Baja, 1999. Oil on canvas.
How is terrorism transformed into media entertainment? What is the connection between affirmative action and narcissism? Why has pathos become an enda...
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310,53 zł |
222: Aphorisms & Reflections, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780761840503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-perfection in Western culture over the last five centuries by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, Kafka, E.M. Cioran, Karl Kraus, Fernando Pessoa, and many others. About four in ten of the entries in 222 consist of "conversations" between Steven Carter and aphorists of the past, including many of the above. In publishing this initial volume of a projected multi-volume work, Carter hopes to join the ranks of current aphorists and...
222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-...
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310,53 zł |
How to Read a Japanese Poem
ISBN: 9780231186834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present.
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter...
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137,29 zł |
The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780231167710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu--a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English. The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a...
A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in ...
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208,68 zł |
Bearing Across: Studies in Literature and Science, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780761823186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Highly original and insightful, Bearing Across explores the complex interrelationships between American literature and science in the 20th century. Steven Carter begins this unprecedented work by examining the influence that science and scientific thinking has had on the creative processes of several postmodern writers. Focusing on the literary works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, he investigates the philosophical impact that field and quantum theories have had on these imaginative writers. The second section of the book features radical re-readings of six of Hemingway's...
Highly original and insightful, Bearing Across explores the complex interrelationships between American literature and science in the 20th century. St...
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499,19 zł |
Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000
ISBN: 9780761821007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) What is the role of the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of otherness in a secularized, high-tech society such as our own? In a world governed by the extensions of man television, the telephone, the automobile, and the Internet what happens to cultural values once held to be spiritual? In Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000, Steven Carter explores the myriad ways in which technology and its "muses" media entertainment and advertising, the so-called culture of electronics plus capitalism are in the process of recycling metaphysical values in postmodern American life."
What is the role of the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of otherness in a secularized, high-tech society such as our own? In a world governed by t...
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590,48 zł |