wyszukanych pozycji: 235
The Testament of Mary
ISBN: 9781451692389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Toibin is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work" (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity--shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel, who are her keepers. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it"; nor that the...
"Toibin is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work" (The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman...
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57,48 zł |
Long Island / Spanish Edition
ISBN: 9788426426659 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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94,22 zł |
Teachers and Football: Schoolboy Association Football in England, 1885-1915
ISBN: 9780713002430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The 1870 Education Act that opened up elementary education for all children contained no provision for outdoor games. This book explains how teachers, through the elementary school football association, introduced boys to organized football as an out-of-school activity. The influence and significance of this work, insofar as it relates to the elementary school curriculum and the growth of professional and amateur football are explored in detail, including:
* How ideological commitments and contemporary concerns for the physical welfare of children in cities may have led teachers to... The 1870 Education Act that opened up elementary education for all children contained no provision for outdoor games. This book explains how teachers,...
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779,55 zł |
Man of the House: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781643148939 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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55,14 zł |
The South
ISBN: 9781476704487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first highly acclaimed novel from an "immensely gifted and accomplished writer" (The Washington Post), about an Irishwoman who creates a new life in post-war Spain. In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish emigre in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought...
The first highly acclaimed novel from an "immensely gifted and accomplished writer" (The Washington Post), about an Irishwoman who creates a...
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65,69 zł |
Brooklyn
ISBN: 9781439148952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in hardcover to vigorous praise, Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. "One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street,...
First published in hardcover to vigorous praise, Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn...
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73,90 zł |
Marias Testament : Roman
ISBN: 9783446244849 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2014 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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67,75 zł |
The Magician: Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize
ISBN: 9780241970584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel ... |
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51,10 zł |
The South
ISBN: 9781035029518 / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |
Mothers and Sons
ISBN: 9781035029525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 zł |
50 Great Irish Athletes
ISBN: 9781916572874 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,52 zł |
House of Names
ISBN: 9781501140228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,90 zł |
Fabrication and Characterization of Semiconductor Nanowires
ISBN: 9783659694592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One-dimensional semiconductor nanowires are considered to be promising materials for future nanoelectronic applications. However, before these nanowires can be integrated into such devices, a thorough understanding of their growth behaviour is necessary. In particular, methods that allow the control over nanowire growth are deemed especially important, as it is these methods that will enable the control of nanowire dimensions such as length and diameter. The production of nanowires with high-aspect ratios is vital in order to take advantage of the unique properties experienced at the...
One-dimensional semiconductor nanowires are considered to be promising materials for future nanoelectronic applications. However, before these nanowir...
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357,04 zł |
The Testament of Mary
ISBN: 9780241962978 / Angielski / Miękka / 1931 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change.
For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to...
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51,10 zł |
The Empty Family
ISBN: 9781439195963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, Colm Toibin returns with a stunning collection of stories--now available in paperback--"a book that's both a perfect introduction to Toibin and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure" ( The Seattle Times ). Critics praised Brooklyn as a "beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s." In The Empty Family, Toibin has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--"the unvarying...
On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, Colm Toibin returns with a stunning collection of stories--now available in p...
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69,75 zł |
Robert the Bruce: King of Scots
ISBN: 9781780275604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jill Calder's illustrations offer a fresh and vital perspective of this popular historical tale of The Bruce as told by James Robertson, one of Scotland's most significant modern writers. This graphic novel is to be published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Battle of Bannockburn
Jill Calder's illustrations offer a fresh and vital perspective of this popular historical tale of The Bruce as told by James Robertson, one of Scotla...
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45,99 zł |
The Blackwater Lightship
ISBN: 9780743203319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Toibin explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with... It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dyi...
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69,79 zł |
Long Island - audiobook
ISBN: 9781797174648 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,65 zł |
Haus der Namen
ISBN: 9783423148061 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Im geheimnisvollen Haus der Namen findet Orestes Zuflucht vor dem neuen Mann seiner Mutter. Diese hat nach der Opferung ihrer Tochter ihren Ehemann ermordet. Deswegen wird sie nun von ihrem Sohn Orestes und seiner Schwester Elektra angefeindet. Es beginnt ein blutiges Rachespiel zwischen Mutter, Tochter und zurückgekehrtem Sohn. Immer tiefer gerät Orestes zwischen die Fronten. Und dann ist da noch seine Liebe zu Leandros, die ihn vor eine Zerreißprobe stellt. »Grausam und quälend glaubhaft« (The Guardian) zeichnet Tóibín das Porträt einer zerrissenen Familie und einer... Im geheimnisvollen Haus der Namen findet Orestes Zuflucht vor dem neuen Mann seiner Mutter. Diese hat nach der Opferung ihrer Tochter ihren Ehemann... |
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54,56 zł |