wyszukanych pozycji: 45
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God Is Not Great
ISBN: 9781838952273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitche...
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Mortality
ISBN: 9781455502769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, "Hitch-22," Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for...
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, "Hitch-22," Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruc...
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73,17 |
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Hitch 22: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781838952334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitche...
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65,37 |
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Mortality
ISBN: 9781838952235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitche...
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50,28 |
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
ISBN: 9780446697965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Whether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its provocative ideas. With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's...
Whether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful man...
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77,03 |
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And Yet...: Essays
ISBN: 9781476772073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The seminal, uncollected essays--lauded as "dazzling" (The New York Times Book Review)--by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian's genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere. For more than forty years, Christopher Hitchens delivered essays to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. His death in December 2011 from esophageal cancer prematurely silenced a voice that was...
The seminal, uncollected essays--lauded as "dazzling" (The New York Times Book Review)--by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the ...
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77,03 |
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Bůh není veliký
ISBN: 9788081820991 / Czeski / Miękka / 2018 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Do rukou se vám dostává kniha od autora označovaného za jednoho z nejskvělejších novinářů naší doby (London Observer), v níž diskuze o úloze náboženství ve veřejném životě získává zcela novou podobu. Christopher Hitchens se v ní s jedinečnou erudicí a inteligencí věnuje nejnaléhavější otázce současnosti: zhoubné síle náboženství ve světě. V této působivé polemice s věřícími předkládá Hitchens základní argumenty proti náboženství (a ve prospěch sekulárnějšího přístupu k životu), a to formou podrobné a poučené interpretace...
Do rukou se vám dostává kniha od autora označovaného za jednoho z nejskvělejších novinářů naší doby (London Observer), v níž diskuze o ...
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Mortality
ISBN: 9781455502752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, "Hitch-22," Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady." Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for...
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, "Hitch-22," Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruc...
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84,78 |
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781838952242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitche...
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45,24 |
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
ISBN: 9780306816086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and...
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic t...
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95,57 |
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
ISBN: 9780060837068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father--a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property. A reluctant candidate, he left an indelible... In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative in... |
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Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
ISBN: 9781838952341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitche...
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Hitch-22 : A Memoir
ISBN: 9780446540346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide.
In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains... Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialis...
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Arguably: Essays
ISBN: 9781455502783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } "All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles of reason and tolerance and skepticism that define and inform...
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography
ISBN: 9780802143839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, the world s foremost defense of democracy. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke s attack on the French Revolution, Paine s text is a passionate defense of man s inalienable rights, and the key to his reputation. Ever since the day of publication in 1791, Declaration of the Rights of Man has been...
Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in th...
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And Yet...: Essays
ISBN: 9781838952266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitche...
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Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
ISBN: 9781560255802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. -I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.- Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases America's leading polemicist's rejection of consensus and cliche, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa (-a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud-), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson and Michael...
-I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not w...
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The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification
ISBN: 9781786633958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon Marbles The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequently seized by Parliament and sold to the British Museum to help pay off his debts. This scandal, exacerbated by the inept handling of the sculptures by their self-appointed guardians, remains...
The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon Marbles The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), design...
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Arguably
ISBN: 9781838952303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.
Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitche...
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
ISBN: 9780465030330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways.This book explores the entire range of "contrary positions"-from noble dissident to gratuitous pain in the butt. In an age of overly polite debate bending over backward to reach a happy consensus within an increasingly...
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mav...
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65,47 |