wyszukanych pozycji: 69
Swallowing the Sun
ISBN: 9780747599272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Martin has travelled a long way from his brutal childhood in the Loyalist heartlands of Belfast and built a life he never imagined he would have. Returning home one night to find police cars waiting, he feels his sins must have finally caught up with him. But, instead, they bring news of a senseless tragedy.
Martin has travelled a long way from his brutal childhood in the Loyalist heartlands of Belfast and built a life he never imagined he would have. Retu...
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56,87 zł |
Gods and Angels
ISBN: 9781408866092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A powerful collection of stories from the critically-acclaimed, prize-winning author David Park. 'One of the shrewdest observers of the way we live now' Independent 'Park is an excellent writer; psychologically astute, lyrically unflinching' Telegraph 'He writes prose of gravity and grace' Guardian Gods and Angels locates, with pinpoint accuracy, the quiet but deeply charged moments in life that can define a person. A seventeen-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day in a grey seaside town; a university lecturer who is learning to swim falls in with a group of older men who...
A powerful collection of stories from the critically-acclaimed, prize-winning author David Park. 'One of the shrewdest observers of the way we live n...
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53,81 zł |
Oranges from Spain
ISBN: 9780747571629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of stories about of the trials of growing up in a community where tension, confusion and violence hold sway. Set in Northern Ireland against the background of the troubles, it captures the spirit of adolescence in difficult times. It also includes a tale of an exceptional student who stirs the resentment of her troubled teacher.
A collection of stories about of the trials of growing up in a community where tension, confusion and violence hold sway. Set in Northern Ireland agai...
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38,68 zł |
The Poets' Wives
ISBN: 9781408846360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) What does it mean to be a poet's wife, his muse and lover, there for the heights of inspiration and the quotidian of the day-to-day, and often, too, the drudgery of being in a supporting role to 'the great man'? In this novel, David Park explores this complicated relationship, through three luminous characters.
What does it mean to be a poet's wife, his muse and lover, there for the heights of inspiration and the quotidian of the day-to-day, and often, too, t...
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46,53 zł |
A Run in the Park
ISBN: 9781526619976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Strangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the darkness of the past and to remember her missing brother. Cathy thinks about the secret she has been unable to share. Running takes Maurice past his daughter's house, the place he is not allowed to enter. Over the nine weeks unexpected friendships are forged, challenges faced and by the time of their final run together all will grasp a new commitment to life itself.
Strangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free hersel...
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51,74 zł |
The Light of Amsterdam
ISBN: 9781408831540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The extraordinary new novel from David Park
The extraordinary new novel from David Park
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56,87 zł |
The Temple Church in London: History, Architecture, Art
ISBN: 9781783272631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Founded as the main church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any English building of its period. It also holds one of the most famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Major developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of the church in the...
Founded as the main church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one...
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131,37 zł |
Reise durch ein fremdes Land
ISBN: 9783832166526 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Von_Beruf Fotograf sieht Tom die durch den Winter zum Erliegen gekommene Welt um sich herum wie durch die Linse seiner Kamera. Schon immer hat er sein Leben auf diese Art betrachtet, und so ist es nicht weiter verwunderlich, dass er es anhand von Fotografien erzählen kann. All diese Bilder kommen ihm nun in den Sinn: das erste Foto, das er von seiner Frau geschossen hat, die Aufnahmen von Familienfeiern, die ihm seinen Lebensunterhalt sichern, und diejenigen, die er stets zu machen geträumt hat, Fotos jenseits der gängigen Sehgewohnheiten. Tom hat sich längst damit abgefunden, dass er...
Von_Beruf Fotograf sieht Tom die durch den Winter zum Erliegen gekommene Welt um sich herum wie durch die Linse seiner Kamera. Schon immer hat er sein...
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59,79 zł |
Travelling in a Strange Land: Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year
ISBN: 9781408892756 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) `One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle `Wrings the heart' Bernard MacLaverty `A mighty book' Frank McGuinness `Extraordinary, raw and moving a chronicle of pain and powerlessness as could be written' Lisa McInerney AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The world is shrouded in snow. With transport ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in student lodgings. But on this solitary drive from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map or guide, and is forced to...
`One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle `Wrings the heart' Bernard MacLaverty `A mighty book' Frank McGuinness `Extraordinary, raw ...
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51,70 zł |
Spies in Canaan: 'One of the most powerful and probing novels so far this year' - Financial Times, Best summer reads of 2022
ISBN: 9781526631961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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72,40 zł |
Pierre Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
ISBN: 9781433108594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Pierre Bourdieu s ideas have had a major impact on a number of fields of inquiry. As scholars of media and communication begin to think more frequently and more carefully with Bourdieu s ideas, this book offers a wealth of points of contact between Bourdieu s ideas and research topics concerning media and communication. This book addresses how Bourdieu s ideas can be used to raise questions concerning: media production, media audiences, symbolic authority, and the history of communication study. The result is a compact but comprehensive volume that gives the reader a sense of the scope and...
Pierre Bourdieu s ideas have had a major impact on a number of fields of inquiry. As scholars of media and communication begin to think more frequentl...
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905,27 zł |
Amazing Ourselves to Death; Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited
ISBN: 9781433119309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Neil Postman's most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of television on public discourse in America, arguing that television's bias towards entertaining content trivializes serious issues and undermines the basis of democratic culture. Lance Strate, who earned his doctorate under Neil Postman and is one of the leading media ecology scholars of our time, re-examines Postman's arguments, updating his analysis and critique for the twenty-first-century media environment that includes the expansion of television programming via...
Neil Postman's most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of television on public dis...
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215,57 zł |
John Dewey; A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
ISBN: 9781433126307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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211,19 zł |
Walter Lippmann; A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
ISBN: 9781433111372 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocratic adversary of philosopher John Dewey in a legendary debate in the 1920s about the role of the public in modern democracies, Lippmann has been portrayed as the bete noir of the post-1980s revival of pragmatism and humanistic studies within the field. Consequently, his formative contributions to the field have not only been under-valued, but more importantly, the richness and continuing relevance of his generative work to the challenges of the...
Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocra...
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761,30 zł |
bell hooks; A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
ISBN: 9781433115868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. bell hooks writings have been touchstones for major debates in the -culture wars-, fostering insight into many central questions in communication studies. Her work is vital to students and scholars who explore the ways in which media shape our sense of our selves, our roles, and those with whom we interact. This book provides readers with a measured, contextualized introduction to how hooks writings on media and culture enhance our understanding of key concepts in communication. hooks insistence on focusing our attention on the workings of power and the impact of history and her willingness...
bell hooks writings have been touchstones for major debates in the -culture wars-, fostering insight into many central questions in communication stud...
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201,65 zł |
Spies in Canaan: 'One of the most powerful and probing novels so far this year' - Financial Times, Best summer reads of 2022
ISBN: 9781526631947 / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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46,53 zł |
Walter Lippmann; A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
ISBN: 9781433111365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocratic adversary of philosopher John Dewey in a legendary debate in the 1920s about the role of the public in modern democracies, Lippmann has been portrayed as the bete noir of the post-1980s revival of pragmatism and humanistic studies within the field. Consequently, his formative contributions to the field have not only been under-valued, but more importantly, the richness and continuing relevance of his generative work to the challenges of the...
Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocra...
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208,61 zł |
George Gerbner: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
ISBN: 9781433117015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. One of the world s most influential and prolific media scholars, George Gerbner played a major role in the development of communication theory and research. His critical approach to mass communication changed the way we think about media industries, the messages and images they produce, and their social and cultural impacts.
Gerbner is most widely known for his decades of work on television violence, but his research and writing focused on many other vital aspects of the symbolic cultural environment. This book provides a broad-based introduction to Gerbner s theories of mass... One of the world s most influential and prolific media scholars, George Gerbner played a major role in the development of communication theory and res...
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707,47 zł |
Introduction to the Quantum Theory: Third Edition
ISBN: 9780486441375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More than a chance to gain new insights into physics, this book offers students the opportunity to look at what they already know about the subject in an improved way. Geared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this self-contained first course in quantum mechanics consists of two parts: the first covers basic theory, and the second part presents selected applications. Numerous problems of varying difficulty examine not only the steps of the proofs but also related ideas.
Starting with an introduction that ventures beyond classical physics, the first part examines the... More than a chance to gain new insights into physics, this book offers students the opportunity to look at what they already know about the subject in...
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163,34 zł |
Confucian Filial Piety as a Challenge for Korean and Asian Churches
ISBN: 9783659539633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Confucian filial piety and ancestor worship have influenced on not only Korea but also Asian countries, specifically in China, Taiwan, and Japan as a common barrier to evangelism . The main difference between Confucian and biblical teachings on filial piety and ancestor worship is that Confucian filial piety was taught by Confucius, while the origins of biblical filial piety are rooted in the Old and New Testaments. The Bible teaches that filial piety is directed toward living parents, but Confucianism teaches that filial piety is to both living and dead parents. Confucianism teaches that...
Confucian filial piety and ancestor worship have influenced on not only Korea but also Asian countries, specifically in China, Taiwan, and Japan as a ...
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206,49 zł |