wyszukanych pozycji: 43
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Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
ISBN: 9780141442235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years
In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Some of the stories here were collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four of the greatest writers in Russian... For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years
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69,02 zł |
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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
ISBN: 9780140448467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the reign of the Tsars in the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included here are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature--including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn--alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive Kryzhanowsky and the surrealist Shalamov. Whether written in reaction to the cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the bureaucracy of communism, or the torture of the prison camps, they offer a wonderfully...
From the reign of the Tsars in the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a centra...
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69,02 zł |
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Minus the Imple
ISBN: 9780615197722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Minus the Imple is a fictionalized true story about one man's quest to find the answers to the phenomena that punctuate his experiences throughout his life. It's a story about love and loss, faith and humanity. Does the human soul really exist, or is it merely a reassuring notion most people fully accept as real? Why do we believe in some things we have never seen, and yet we refuse to accept other notions that can't be ruled impossible? Faith is a curious thing. We will believe what we will. Minus the Imple will make you think as you review unexplainable episodes from your own past. All you...
Minus the Imple is a fictionalized true story about one man's quest to find the answers to the phenomena that punctuate his experiences throughout his...
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79,99 zł |
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San Francisco Lithographer, Volume 14: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown
ISBN: 9780806144108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Grafton Tyler Brown--whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American--finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird's-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished... Grafton Tyler Brown--whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American--finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. W... |
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169,75 zł |
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Fifty Shades of Foreskin: A Jake Parker Adventure
ISBN: 9780986119309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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55,40 zł |
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The Coyote Gang Howls
ISBN: 9781403333452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,88 zł |
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La Doña: One Person as Three
ISBN: 9781425942663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "La Doa, One Person as Three" describes a wealthy woman who creates two other personalities to find a non-violent way to destroy a drug operation in a remote Guatemalan town: a sister in plain dress and her angry mental creature full of power. She inspires the people of the town to pull together to love and trust each other. At the same time her son, who is on drugs, finds a cure from a Mayan Curandero and becomes a new man. The ancient town moves into the modern age, keeping old traditions that matter, but dropping bad habits and taboos gathered over centuries. Once a human catalyst is...
"La Doa, One Person as Three" describes a wealthy woman who creates two other personalities to find a non-violent way to destroy a drug operation in a...
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58,13 zł |
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Magic Moments as Paths Cross
ISBN: 9781403357410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,45 zł |
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The Strange Request Sparks Adventures
ISBN: 9781449016005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,43 zł |
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The Curse Of The Vampire
ISBN: 9781535128018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is about a vampire that at one time loved a woman that died, because he never turned her, but years later her soul was reborn in a woman's body and he now found her, he has to kill so many people to have the power that he needs to turn her.
It is about a vampire that at one time loved a woman that died, because he never turned her, but years later her soul was reborn in a woman's body and...
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35,85 zł |
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The Captain's Daughter
ISBN: 9781590177242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An NYRB Classics Original
Alexander Pushkin s short novel is set during the reign of Catherine the Great, when the Cossacks rose up in rebellion against the Russian empress. Presented as the memoir of Pyotr Grinyov, a nobleman, The Captain s Daughter tells how, as a feckless youth and fledgling officer, Grinyov was sent from St. Petersburg to serve in faraway southern Russia. Traveling to take up this new post, Grinyov loses his shirt gambling and then loses his way in a terrible snowstorm, only to be guided to safety by a mysterious peasant. With impulsive gratitude Grinyov hands... An NYRB Classics Original
Alexander Pushkin s short novel is set during the reign of Catherine the Great, when the Cossacks rose up in rebellion a... |
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81,42 zł |
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The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays
ISBN: 9781590173619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman's first success, "In the Town of Berdichev," a piercing reckoning with the cost of war, to such haunting later works as "Mama," based on the life of a girl who was adopted at the height of the Great Terror by the head of the NKVD and packed off to an orphanage after her father's downfall. The girl grows up struggling with the discovery that the... The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing n... |
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81,28 zł |
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Everything Flows
ISBN: 9781590173282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Review Books Original
Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan's story is only one among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan's cousin, Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, and Pinegin, the informer who got... A New York Review Books Original
Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his... |
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77,21 zł |
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Sposób na ducha DVD
ISBN: 5906190328052 / Polski / pudełko / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Najwyższa pora wystraszyć upiora!Nawiedzona komedia o duchu, który nie umie wystraszyć nieproszonych gości, ale za to może zdejmie z siebie dawną klątwę. Film w reżyserii twórców Baranka Shauna i Zadziwiającego kota Maurycego na podstawie ponadczasowej i chwytającej za serce opowieści autorstwa Oscara Wildea. To już 300 lat odkąd Sir Simon Canterville jako duch nawiedza swój rodzinny dom. Wkrótce jednak do posiadłości wprowadza się amerykańska rodzina, na której jego triki nie robią wrażenia. Mimo prób wypędzenia nieproszonych gości Canterville ponosi porażkę....
Najwyższa pora wystraszyć upiora!Nawiedzona komedia o duchu, który nie umie wystraszyć nieproszonych gości, ale za to może zdejmie z siebie dawn...
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53,94 zł |
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Media Relations: Concepts and Principles for Effective Public Relations Practice
ISBN: 9781432724993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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136,66 zł |
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War of Ideas: The U.S. Propaganda Campaign in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780367213244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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681,40 zł |
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Surviving the Pandemic
ISBN: 9781432748937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Managing Business Communication Challenges During the Pandemic Outbreak Are you prepared for the challenges for sustaining effective and successful communication during the pandemic? Disseminating information, coordinating people, adapting to changing circumstances and schedules, closures, quarantines, relocation, supply chain disruptions, production contingencies, delivery schedule modifications, HR information, and communicating with stakeholders, constituents, employees, community, general public, and the news media are all vital and difficult to sustain during pandemic. If you... Managing Business Communication Challenges During the Pandemic Outbreak Are you prepared for the challenges for sustaining effective and succ... |
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159,47 zł |
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Emergency Notification
ISBN: 9780313365874 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. To grasp the importance of emergency notification, imagine this scenario: A shooter is on the loose at a college campus. Chaos reigns. To contain the situation, campus personnel need to communicate immediately and efficiently, not only with the students, faculty, and staff, but also the local police, federal law enforcement, and media. Effective emergency notification makes things "right," it allows the right message to reach the right people at the right time--facilitating the right response. "Emergency Notification" explains how. This book offers must-know information for business... To grasp the importance of emergency notification, imagine this scenario: A shooter is on the loose at a college campus. Chaos reigns. To contain t... |
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223,15 zł |
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War of Ideas: The U.S. Propaganda Campaign in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780367216054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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201,84 zł |
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An Adventure Around the World: To Harvest and Invest World Wealth Without Harming the Earth and Have Fun
ISBN: 9781524645496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The discovery of a large collection of gold nuggets at the bottom of a waterfall in an enchanted valley triggers a group to circle the world to gather world wealth without disturbing the earth or causing pollution. Some of the wealth would be used to fund Green Earth projects, with some as basic as solar panels, in addition to worldwide awareness of the pending disaster of global warming and destructive wars. They develop a small SeaDrone able to jet to the bottom of the seas for vast collections of wealth--some spewed from under sea volcanoes, others from sunken ships--and... The discovery of a large collection of gold nuggets at the bottom of a waterfall in an enchanted valley triggers a group to circle the world to gat... |
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67,82 zł |