wyszukanych pozycji: 26
![]() |
The Fine Art of Grace
ISBN: 9781514812082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Grace Lovejoy photographs the neglected masterpiece mosaics of the subway for her Master's Degree in Fine Arts at Columbia. Arthur writes on the meaning of a life in disquiet as an underground commuter in New York. To breathe life into glorious mosaics and new meaning into Arthur, Grace invites him to join her creative venture. In the mosaics underground Grace and Art embark on a voyage with transformational possibilities to enable them to piece together the rich pixels of the Mosaic of Life. Among fellow passengers in transit Grace and Art share a common humanity as their creative journey...
Grace Lovejoy photographs the neglected masterpiece mosaics of the subway for her Master's Degree in Fine Arts at Columbia. Arthur writes on the meani...
|
cena:
205,64 zł |
![]() |
Bourbon Street: The Dreams of Aeneas in Dixie: A Novel
ISBN: 9781453607596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Epic "Bourbon Street" portrays the rise of a gifted, young and penniless photographer named Aeneas who wanders Bourbon Street to photograph in black-and-white the images of ancient, legendary jazz players. Discovered by an Uptown debutante, Aeneas transforms into a portrait photographer of New Orleans' aristocracy. "Bourbon Street" is a gallery of vivid portraits of the chimeras of Aeneas. Illuminating, white hot comedy and dark, existential contrasts blend pixels into fine prose about the quest for a better life based upon one's dreams. "Bourbon Street" beckons you to the gallery of the...
Epic "Bourbon Street" portrays the rise of a gifted, young and penniless photographer named Aeneas who wanders Bourbon Street to photograph in black-a...
|
cena:
81,27 zł |
![]() |
AmericA, Inc.
ISBN: 9781453652930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this prescient, dark comedy, first published in 2007, the USA has transformed into a dystopian, corporate nation or "corpornation." Sub-divided in 2020 by a great, brick wall into the northern Bluefish and southern Redfish States, AmericA, Inc. is run by a ruthless egomaniac, Travis T. Bash, CEO. Perpetually at war, governed by a radical oligarchy, riddled by corrupt lobbyists and a banal popular culture, Bash drafts Bob, a poor Yale poet, to communicate and transform AmericA, Inc.'s corporate culture. Bob's job is to re-brand and sell the vulgar, bewildering and corrupt culture of this...
In this prescient, dark comedy, first published in 2007, the USA has transformed into a dystopian, corporate nation or "corpornation." Sub-divided in ...
|
cena:
85,56 zł |
![]() |
Bloomsday: A Tragicomedy
ISBN: 9781451579680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At Tim Finnegan's Irish wake a Boston advertising executive, Rudy Bloom, and Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus meet for the first time. Bloom's tragically beautiful wife and poetess, Penelope Bloom, is meeting with her rich, handsome publisher, Blaine Boylston, who brazenly covets Penelope. After a witty dinner party with Harvard scholars, Bloom and Dedalus wander into the brothel of Bella Kirke in Boston's infamous Combat Zone. Afterward, at the Parker House Dedalus shares his battle with alcoholism and Bloom confides a life-threatening ailment. At home Penelope is tempted by Blaine but...
At Tim Finnegan's Irish wake a Boston advertising executive, Rudy Bloom, and Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus meet for the first time. Bloom's tr...
|
cena:
81,27 zł |
![]() |
Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
ISBN: 9781453748473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This tragicomic epic brings to life in America the enduring masterpiece of Homer's "Odyssey" and the Irish saga of Joyce's "Ulysses" in a Father's Day in Boston after the Vietnam War in 1974. This new "Bostoniad" portrays the American immigrant descendants of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus of Dublin. After Tim Finnegan's Irish wake Rudy and Penelope Bloom of Beacon Hill meet Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus. "Bloomsday" narrates in a pixilist style a chorus of New England voices blending to render new verses of the greatest epic of antiquity and the 20th century's most...
This tragicomic epic brings to life in America the enduring masterpiece of Homer's "Odyssey" and the Irish saga of Joyce's "Ulysses" in a Father's Day...
|
cena:
85,56 zł |
![]() |
The Silver King
ISBN: 9781452895932 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Silver King portrays the intrigue within the underground movement of the Contras seeking the first democracy for Nicaragua. This miracle of freedom is shaped by Sheridan Quince, an American pilot and fisherman, who aspires to catch-and-release a world-record tarpon, or silver king, with a fly rod in the Caribbean Sea. After meeting at the Key Largo Bar in San Jose, Costa Rica, Elsa Paraiso leads him underground into the power struggle between the US-backed Contras and Sandinistas, financed by the USSR. The players are Ronald Reagan, Oliver North, Fidel Castro, Oscar Arias, Daniel Ortega...
The Silver King portrays the intrigue within the underground movement of the Contras seeking the first democracy for Nicaragua. This miracle of freedo...
|
cena:
81,27 zł |
![]() |
Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas
ISBN: 9780231111577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 788 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David Lentz offers an alternative view by detailing the impact of native cultures on these ecosystems prior to their contact with Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of experts from the fields of paleoclimatology, historical ecology, paleontology, botany, geology, conservation science, and resource management, this book unlocks the secret of how the Western Hemisphere's indigenous inhabitants influenced and transformed their natural environment. A...
We often envision the New World before the arrival of the Europeans as a land of pristine natural beauty and undisturbed environments. However, David ...
|
cena:
246,47 zł |
![]() |
Essential Lentz: Collected Literary Works
ISBN: 9781453609101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Essential Lentz" is a compendium of the published writing of David B. Lentz spanning his creative writing career since his college days at Bates. His collected works in "Essential Lentz" feature generous excerpts from his literary novels, stage plays and poetry. CONTENTS From "The Silver King: A Novel" (2000) From "Bourbon Street: A Novel" (1982, 2001) From "The Day Trader: A Novel" (2001) From "Bloomsday: A Tragicomedy" (2004, 2010) From "AmericA, Inc.: A Novel" (2007) From "AmericA, Inc.: A Stage Play" (2008, 2010) From "For the Beauty of the Earth: A Novel" (2010) From "Bloomsday: The...
"Essential Lentz" is a compendium of the published writing of David B. Lentz spanning his creative writing career since his college days at Bates. His...
|
cena:
85,56 zł |
![]() |
For the Beauty of the Earth
ISBN: 9781450564243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bruce Warrick is a young, Harvard MBA with a new position for a global firm in New York managing a Top 50 hedge fund. Despite newfound wealth, a beautiful family and a home in Greenwich, this investment genius suffers from a debilitating sleep disorder. His powerful CEO compels Bruce to join a private, hedge fund association -- the Keynes Society at the Harvard Club of New York. Bruce learns that the Keynes Society privately controls $1 trillion in assets in a dark pool under an enigmatic Board of global elite. When his firm tells him to trade stocks illegally at the Keynes Society, he may...
Bruce Warrick is a young, Harvard MBA with a new position for a global firm in New York managing a Top 50 hedge fund. Despite newfound wealth, a beaut...
|
cena:
76,99 zł |
![]() |
The Day Trader
ISBN: 9781453665176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dr. Rich Proffette of the Wharton School in 1999 discovers the Holy Grail of Wall Street: a breakthrough stock trading algorithm with an uncanny ability to predict stock price movements. His trading model, Market Equilibrium Shock Theory, is widely hailed as one of the great economic ciphers of the 20th century and has rewarded him with a vast fortune amid Wall Street's longest Bull Market rampage. It seems that stock traders everywhere from underworld hackers to global banks and the U.S. government want to seize the precious intellectual property of Rich Proffette. Everyone except the one...
Dr. Rich Proffette of the Wharton School in 1999 discovers the Holy Grail of Wall Street: a breakthrough stock trading algorithm with an uncanny abili...
|
cena:
72,69 zł |
![]() |
AmericA, Inc.: A Stage Play
ISBN: 9781452857916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this rich, dark comedy the USA has evolved in 2020 into a global corporate nation or "corpornation." Sub-divided by a great, brick wall into the northern Bluefish and southern Redfish States, AmericA, Inc. is run by Travis Bash, President ] CEO. Perpetually at war, its Supreme Court disbanded, riddled by lobbyists and voracious for capital, Bash drafts Bob, a destitute Yale poet, to transform America, Inc.'s corporate culture. Bob's job is to market to shareholders the vulgar, bewildering and corrupt culture of this brutal corporate nation to increase share value. Nothing is sacred in...
In this rich, dark comedy the USA has evolved in 2020 into a global corporate nation or "corpornation." Sub-divided by a great, brick wall into the no...
|
cena:
81,27 zł |
![]() |
Meeting Marie-Claire
ISBN: 9781467081450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
63,14 zł |
![]() |
Sonnets from New England: Love Songs
ISBN: 9781469909950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The sonnet was meant to become a cup to the wine of love. These sonnets with rich, color photography are love songs inspired by the love of a lifetime and are written to resonate. "Sonnets from New England" sing that authentic love is at least one aspect of human experience, which makes life fully worth living, come what may. If the sonnet is a vessel for love, then share love songs from "Sonnets from New England" with someone whom you love. "A world of lovers pulsing, breathing, absorbing, secreting so passionately even angels are envious." - John H. Sibley, Author of "Being and...
The sonnet was meant to become a cup to the wine of love. These sonnets with rich, color photography are love songs inspired by the love of a lifetime...
|
cena:
128,45 zł |
![]() |
Novel Criticism: How to Critique Novels Like a Novelist
ISBN: 9781453687826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. America's literary legacy is essentially defined by best-seller lists but without them, how would readers of "serious writers" know what to read? If we don't recognize our literary genius, then do we risk being relegated to the collective rag and bone pile of national literary mediocrity? Will future generations look back and wonder: was this really the best literature which America was capable of publishing? "Novel Criticism" offers readers of serious writers a better way to discern the best literary novelists and to cull their work from mainstream, commercial best-sellers. Lentz's new model...
America's literary legacy is essentially defined by best-seller lists but without them, how would readers of "serious writers" know what to read? If w...
|
cena:
76,99 zł |
![]() |
Tikal: Paleoecology of an Ancient Maya City
ISBN: 9781107027930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The primary theoretical question addressed in this book focuses on the lingering concern of how the ancient Maya in the northern Peten Basin were able to sustain large populations in the midst of a tropical forest environment during the Late Classic period. This book asks how agricultural intensification was achieved and how essential resources, such as water and forest products, were managed in both upland areas and seasonal wetlands, or bajos. All of these activities were essential components of an initially sustainable land use strategy that eventually failed to meet the demands of an...
The primary theoretical question addressed in this book focuses on the lingering concern of how the ancient Maya in the northern Peten Basin were able...
|
cena:
432,54 zł |
![]() |
Walden: and Civil Disobedience
ISBN: 9781456453473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, "In one book... he gave America the best of all we had." Henry David Thoreau is best known as the American author of "Walden" who wanted first-hand to experience and understand deeply the inspiring connection between man and nature. He built a humble cabin by his own hands beside Walden Pond with tools borrowed from his Concord neighbors and sustained by the fruits of the bean field sown in his garden and those resources yielded up to him by the wilderness. He seeks to transcend inauthentic, everyday life in Concord and awaken his soul to the beauty and harmony...
Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, "In one book... he gave America the best of all we had." Henry David Thoreau is best known as the American author of "W...
|
cena:
77,15 zł |
![]() |
Old Greenwich Odes: Collected Verse
ISBN: 9781451551525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Simple, elegant, original poetry about life in a gloriously beautiful, New England town on the coast of Long Island Sound with color photos. The poetry portrays everyday life in Old Greenwich in seeking sea glass, Back Country stone walls, equestrian pursuits, village life, views from walking the shores of the Sound and true love. The full-color photography is tender, evocative and adds depth to the lyrical voice of the poetry.
Simple, elegant, original poetry about life in a gloriously beautiful, New England town on the coast of Long Island Sound with color photos. The poetr...
|
cena:
115,58 zł |
![]() |
Sonnets on the Common Man: New Hampshire Verse
ISBN: 9781505630121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These sonnets sing about a love of the landscape of New Hampshire and the people who rejoice in common in its sense of place. At times, this earthly paradise is daunting, formidable and even threatening. Yet the skiing is divine. The mountains are sublime. The purity of the lakes is pristine. The small towns charm. The seacoast, though brief, connects to the vast Atlantic. This modest poetic book refreshes the sonnet itself with songs and beautiful full-color images of landscapes inspired by the land and people who love New Hampshire. "One hears in these sonnets the sensibility of a...
These sonnets sing about a love of the landscape of New Hampshire and the people who rejoice in common in its sense of place. At times, this earthly p...
|
cena:
124,16 zł |
![]() |
Old Greenwich Odes: Volume II: Collected Verse with Black & White Photography
ISBN: 9781477698853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These simple and elegant poems emerged over a decade of living amid the beauty of a New England village on Long Island Sound. The poetry portrays everyday life in Old Greenwich in seeking sea glass, Back Country stone walls, equestrian pursuits, village life, views from walking the shores of the Sound and the embrace of true love. The black & white photography of Virginia Lentz is tender and evocative of the simple lyrical voice of the poetry. The collected verse is both serious and comic with ditties, limericks, prose and doggerel. "The literary equivalent of high def... the reader is...
These simple and elegant poems emerged over a decade of living amid the beauty of a New England village on Long Island Sound. The poetry portrays ever...
|
cena:
72,69 zł |
![]() |
Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert
ISBN: 9781119166320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 1440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The comprehensive -bible- for financial experts providing litigation support
The Litigation Services Handbook is the definitive guide for financial experts engaged in litigation services. Attorneys require financial experts now more than ever, and this book provides the guidance you need to provide a high level of service as witness and consultant. Enhance your litigation skills as you delve into the fine points of trial preparation, deposition, and testimony; project authority under examination, and hold up to tough questions under cross-examination. Fraud investigations are... The comprehensive -bible- for financial experts providing litigation support
The Litigation Services Handbook is the definitive guide... |
cena:
1012,10 zł |