wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Memories of My Father Watching TV
ISBN: 9781564781895 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience. And in Curtis White's hands, they become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in "Combat, " "Highway Patrol, " "Bonanza, " and other television shows (and one movie) from the 1950s and '60s. Comic in many ways, "Memories" is finally a sad lament of father-son relationship that is painful and tortured, displayed against a background of...
"Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows h...
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54,08 zł |
Requiem
ISBN: 9781564783080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Requiem is a darkly comic novel about what it means to be human in a culture obsessed with sex and death. With a structure loosely based on the Mass for the Dead, this ambitious novel includes letters-to-the-editor, an e-mail correspondence with a porn queen, scenes from the lives of classical musicians, and retellings of biblical stories. In the process, White charts the rise and fall of the Human from the Bible (pre-human), to the Enlightenment (the invention of the human), to the digital age (post-human). In an America where everyone keeps a secret website, and where a modern Prophet... Requiem is a darkly comic novel about what it means to be human in a culture obsessed with sex and death. With a structure loosely based on the Mas... |
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60,34 zł |
Transcendent: Art and Dhama in a Time of Collapse
ISBN: 9781612199948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,31 zł |
Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
ISBN: 9780981576909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ourselves working more, living in fragmented communities, and neglecting our most basic spiritual and political values. As Curtis White puts it, In order to live, you will be asked to do what is no good, what is absurd, trivial, demeaning, and soul killing. Although we belong to the world s most affluent society, somehow we never have the chance to ask: How shall we live?With his trademark humor and acerbic wit, White raises this impertinent...
Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ...
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182,54 zł |
Middle Mind Why Americans Dont Think for
ISBN: 9780060730598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives that he calls the Middle Mind: the current failure of the American imagination in the media, politics, education, art, technology, and religion. Irreverent, provocative, and far-reaching, White presents a clear vision of this dangerous mindset that threatens America's intellectual and cultural freedoms, concluding with an imperative to reawaken and unleash the once powerful American imagination. The Middle Mind is pragmatic, plainspoken, populist,... Acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives that he calls the... |
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64,85 zł |
Living in a World That Can't Be Fixed: Re-Imagining Counterculture Today
ISBN: 9781612198088 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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118,15 zł |
The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature
ISBN: 9780981709123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Smart, funny, and fresh, The Barbaric Heart argues that the present environmental crisis will not be resolved by the same forms of crony capitalism and managerial technocracy that created the crisis in the first place. With his trademark wit, White argues that the solution might very well come from an unexpected quarter: the arts, religion, and the realm of the moral imagination.
Smart, funny, and fresh, The Barbaric Heart argues that the present environmental crisis will not be resolved by the same forms of crony capita...
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192,97 zł |
The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
ISBN: 9780977825318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With his trademark intelligence and humor, Curtis White argues that the American left needs a new and compelling spiritual basis for its politics, and that its seeds can be discovered in Thoreau's spiritual politics of refusal and a return to human "fundamentals" especially work, home, and food. Along the way, White offers a shrewd reading of the cult classic Office Space, a scathing critique of Bill Maher's political comedy, and other acerbic cultural commentary. The book includes provocative interviews with James Howard Kunstler, John de Graaf, and Michael Ableman.
With his trademark intelligence and humor, Curtis White argues that the American left needs a new and compelling spiritual basis for its politics, and...
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521,64 zł |
The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature
ISBN: 9781138467903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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965,13 zł |
Puddles
ISBN: 9781542937061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Enjoy this beautifully illustrated and humorously written short poem about Puddles the fishing cat
Enjoy this beautifully illustrated and humorously written short poem about Puddles the fishing cat
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45,42 zł |
The Living End
ISBN: 9781564783424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A quintessential Elkin protagonist, Ellerbee is a good husband, a good employer, a good sport who cares greatly about his fellow human beings--until he is killed during a senseless liquor-store hold-up. Suddenly smote by a deity as indifferent as history, Ellerbee is off on a whirlwind tour of a distressingly familiar theme-park Heaven and inner-city Hell--to learn, along with his late coworkers and a marvelously vivid cast of characters, that much of what they've always heard about God's love, God's wrath, and the afterlife is, unfortunately, quite true.
A quintessential Elkin protagonist, Ellerbee is a good husband, a good employer, a good sport who cares greatly about his fellow human beings--unti... |
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73,32 zł |