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Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, Found Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
ISBN: 9780393341959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In our bureaucratized culture, we re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered forty short fictions that they ve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents. The innovative...
In our bureaucratized culture, we re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-yea...
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82,48 zł |
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Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
ISBN: 9780803293540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire season, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans-including especially himself-think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, and black bodies. Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN USA Award, and was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 1999 by Esquire, Newsday,...
The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Foll...
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67,49 zł |
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The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog
ISBN: 9781477323687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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297,11 zł |
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How Literature Saved My Life
ISBN: 9780345802729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his serious despair, he wants "literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this--which is what makes it essential." This is a captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original book about the essential acts of reading and writing. Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endu... |
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84,63 zł |
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The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
ISBN: 9780307387967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers from Lucretius to Woody Allen Shields expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.The Thing About Life provokes us to contemplate the brevity and radiance of our own sojourn on earth and challenges us...
Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-an...
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93,09 zł |
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
ISBN: 9780141049496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields investigates our mortal being. Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt and cultural criticism, Shields renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.
Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields investigates our mortal being. Weaving together pers...
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87,98 zł |
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The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
ISBN: 9780814255193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,19 zł |
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Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro
ISBN: 9780399164101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Welcome to the Yankees, Ichiro An homage to one of the great baseball players of our era, Baseball Is Just Baseball is a wide-ranging selection of Ichiro s most startling and provocative observations. Updated to reflect his move to New York in July 2012, the book also includes a revised Introduction by acclaimed nonfiction writer David Shields.
When Ichiro was traded to the Yankees on July 23, 2012, the news made headlines around the world. He will finish out the year in pinstripes before becoming a free agent in 2013. Ichiro is a ten-time All-Star, ten-time Gold Glove winner, 2001... Welcome to the Yankees, Ichiro An homage to one of the great baseball players of our era, Baseball Is Just Baseball is a wide-ranging selectio...
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105,79 zł |
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The Very Last Interview
ISBN: 9781681376424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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72,06 zł |
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Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention
ISBN: 9781949759051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,37 zł |
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
ISBN: 9780141049076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Reality Hunger' is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. Shields explores the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real play out constantly around us.
'Reality Hunger' is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are brea...
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56,62 zł |
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The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
ISBN: 9780226406893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. He presided over Virginia's great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia's mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey. This fascinating culinarian is John Dabney (1821-1900), who was born a slave, but later built an enterprising catering business. Dabney is just one of 175 influential cooks and restaurateurs profiled by David S. Shields in The Culinarians, a beautifully produced encyclopedic history of the rise of...
He presided over Virginia's great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint j...
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214,58 zł |
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Southern Provisions: The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine
ISBN: 9780226422022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors enjoyed, because the varied crops and livestock that originally defined this cuisine have largely disappeared. Now a growing movement of chefs and farmers is seeking to change that by recovering the rich flavor and diversity of southern food. At the center of that movement is historian David S. Shields, who has spent over a decade researching...
Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods s...
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104,54 zł |
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
ISBN: 9780307387974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A landmark book, brilliant, thoughtful (The Atlantic) and raw and gorgeous (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author ofThe Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. A landmark book, brilliant, thoughtful (The Atlantic) and raw and gorgeous (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the ce... |
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71,73 zł |
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Pioneering American Wine: Writings of Nicholas Herbemont, Master Viticulturist
ISBN: 9780820355450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Collects the most important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States. Included are his two major treatises on viticulture, thirty-one other published pieces on vine growing and wine making, and essays that outline his agrarian philosophy.
Collects the most important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the...
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159,68 zł |
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Life Is Short ? Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity
ISBN: 9780989360456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course's worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence. 1. We are mortal beings.
2. There is no god. 3. We live in a digital culture. 4. Art is related to the body and to the culture. 5. Art should reflect these things. 6. Brevity rules. The book's 40... Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teacher...
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84,42 zł |
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Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine
ISBN: 9780803260320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an empire in denial. Shields relentlessly examines the way we tell our sports stories (both fictional and nonfictional), considers the kinds of athletes we choose as heroes, and delineates the lessons and values we glean from sports. He explores the intricate and telling relationships between players and coaches, black and white players, immigrant and native players, male and female players, players...
In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an u...
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84,42 zł |
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Salinger
ISBN: 9781476744858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An instant New York Times bestseller, this "explosive biography" (People) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is "as close as we'll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger's head" (Entertainment Weekly). This "revealing" (The New York Times) and "engrossing" (The Wall Street Journal) oral biography, "fascinating and unique" (The Washington Post) and "an unmitigated success" (USA TODAY), has redefined our understanding of one of the most mysterious figures of the twentieth century. In...
An instant New York Times bestseller, this "explosive biography" (People) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twent...
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93,09 zł |
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The Ark of Taste: Delicious and Distinctive Foods That Define the United States
ISBN: 9780316477321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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148,10 zł |
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Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America
ISBN: 9780807846568 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By examining their various 'texts'--conversations, letters, newspapers, and privately circulated manuscripts--David Shields reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British America.
In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite cult...
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253,26 zł |
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