wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Another City: Writing from Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780872863910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-established and up-and-coming young writers about how it was to come to LA or what it was like to grow up there, about the ocean and the desert, the entertainment industry and earthquakes, riots and racism, fires and freaks. Contributors include: Jervey Tervalon, Aimee Bender, Benjamin Weissman, Sesshu Foster, Richard Rayner, Jeffrey McDaniel, Amy Uyematsu, Russell Leong, Aleida Rodriguez, Luis Alfaro, Bia Lowe, Amy Gerstler, and... Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Stories, chronicles, and poems by both ... |
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72,23 |
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Thirteen Question Method
ISBN: 9781944853907 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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70,52 |
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Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780520273726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city's built environment, a meditation on the author's relationship to the city, and a rumination on the art of urban walking. Exploring Los Angeles through the soles of his feet, Ulin gets at the experience of its street life, drawing from urban theory, pop culture, and literature. For readers interested...
In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigati...
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67,83 |
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Die Frau, die schrie
ISBN: 9783910918146 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Kafka, Camus und David Goodis sagt David L. Ulin in einem Interview, spielten beim Schreiben seines Kriminalromans eine große Rolle. Es ist Geschichte eines Ich-Erzählers. Ein Mann in einem Apartmentkomplex in L.A versteckt sich vor seiner Vergangenheit, an die er sich nicht erinnern will. Auf der anderen Seite des Hofes hört seine Nachbarin nicht auf zu schreien. Als sie ihn in einem Erbstreit mit ihrer entfremdeten Stiefmutter um Hilfe bittet, wird er in ein Netz aus Angst undManipulation hineingezogen. Wie in einem Fiebertraum weiß er nicht mehr, was er glauben soll. Erst ist irritiert...
Kafka, Camus und David Goodis sagt David L. Ulin in einem Interview, spielten beim Schreiben seines Kriminalromans eine große Rolle. Es ist Geschicht...
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107,60 |
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The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith
ISBN: 9780143035251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Earthquakes are one of the great unsolved geological mysteries. Attempts to predict them have ranged from studies of California's fault lines by USGS geologists to the work of an odd assortment of psychics and apocalyptics who base their sometimes startlingly accurate forecasts on everything from changes in the earth's magnetic fields to the behavior of whales. The Myth of Solid Ground is a journey, both personal and cultural, through the world of earthquakes and earthquake prediction, one that seeks a middle ground between science and superstition, while also looking for a larger...
Earthquakes are one of the great unsolved geological mysteries. Attempts to predict them have ranged from studies of California's fault lines by USGS ...
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91,48 |
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Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication
ISBN: 9781931082273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful joy." Jack Kerouac found a "huge desert encampment," David Thomson imagined "Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-buried on a ridge of crumbling rock."
In "Writing Los Angeles," The Library of America presents a glittering panorama in fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, and diaries by more than seventy writers. It brings to life the entrancing surfaces and unsettling contradictions of The... Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldo...
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152,46 |
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Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (Loa #386): Political Fictions / Fixed Ideas / Where I Was from / The Year of Magical Thinking (Memoir & Play) /
ISBN: 9781598537871 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
152,46 |