wyszukanych pozycji: 1471
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Nabokov at Cornell
ISBN: 9780801439094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959. It was at Cornell that Nabokov composed Lolita and Pnin and conceived Pale Fire. During his Cornell tenure Nabokov also continued his research on lepidoptera, wrote the English and Russian versions of his autobiography, Conclusive Evidence, and Drugie Berega, and prepared annotated translations of two pinnacles of Russian literature: The Song of Igor's Campaign and Eugene Onegin. While at Cornell, Nabokov also delivered his highly acclaimed lectures on Russian and West... Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959. It was at Cornell that Nabokov composed Lolita and Pnin and conc... |
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The Betrayed: Unputdownable and Emotional Historical Fiction
ISBN: 9781837002436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex
ISBN: 9780385338349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hilarious, illuminating new memoir, Lighting Up, she rejects five self-destructive substances. This difficult quest for clean living starts with Shapiro's shocking revelation that, at forty, her lengthiest, most emotionally satisfying relationship has been with cigarettes.
A two-pack-a-day smoker since the age of thirteen, Susan Shapiro quickly discovers that it's impossible to be a writer, a nonsmoker, sane, and slender in the same year. The... In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hi...
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Ketubah Renaissance: The Artful Modern Revival of the Jewish Marriage Contract
ISBN: 9780827615625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Illuminating the contemporary revival of the Jewish marriage contract, Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known in Hebrew as a ketubah) through the present day and showcases sixty of the most innovative and beautiful ketubot of the last half century. Originally created 2,500 years ago as a unilateral marriage contract stating what a groom would provide for his bride, the ketubah evolved from the tenth century onward into a richly decorated expression of love and commitment. In the late 1960s a modern sensibility took root. Influenced by Jewish life and...
Illuminating the contemporary revival of the Jewish marriage contract, Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known ...
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The Lovers: An emotional and gripping historical page-turner
ISBN: 9781837002313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Magic of Mayfair
ISBN: 9780359979844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Big Apple Bites Back: Short Stories About Life In New York City
ISBN: 9780997618129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Late In the Day
ISBN: 9781639885336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Golden Rule and the Games People Play: The Ultimate Strategy for a Meaning-Filled Life
ISBN: 9781594735981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Does the Golden Rule matter? "We have to shift the game before we can promote the Rule. This is why teaching morality alone is insufficient. Educating our children in the Golden Rule without teaching about finite and infinite games and zero-sum and nonzero worldviews is a waste of time. Doing so would be like teaching them the rules of chess while insisting they play only checkers." This provocative and challenging exploration of the Golden Rule, widely accepted as humanity's moral true north,... Does the Golden Rule matter? "We have to shift the game before we can promote the Rule. This is... |
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Nine-Iron John: A Tale About Men Who Play Golf
ISBN: 9780595213375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Passage: A completely unforgettable page-turner full of mystery and emotion
ISBN: 9781805081470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Public Speaking: Get A's, Not Zzzzzz's!
ISBN: 9781430312369 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. (Preview first sections FREE at www.MiloShapiro.com/books) You CAN master the skill of public speaking...IF you know the tricks of the trade Laugh your way through Milo's clever, tip-loaded "Top 10 Lists." Conquer any fears as you EXCEL in this important tool for success. Milo Shapiro blends core speaking fundamentals, lessons learned from his years as a professional motivational speaker, and relevant exercises from the world of improvisation to make his speeches, coaching, and books more fun than the norm. Enjoy his humorous perspective with lists like "Ten Great Ways To Blow It In Your...
(Preview first sections FREE at www.MiloShapiro.com/books) You CAN master the skill of public speaking...IF you know the tricks of the trade Laugh yo...
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Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Writing Classroom
ISBN: 9780367767402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Vražda v opatství
ISBN: 9788027711758 / Czeski / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Když se jednoho dne objeví u trosek strašidelného opatství opředeného legendami tělo mladé ženy, všichni předpokládají, že se jí samou hrůzou zastavilo srdce. Ohledání těla však ukáže, že to nebude tak jednoduché. Krásná Elizabeth Barrettová totiž zemřela na otravu kyanidem a smrtelnou dávku jí musel podat někdo z jejích blízkých. Někdo, komu věřila. Někdo, kdo znal její tajemství. Kapitán Redmond a konstábl Haze se začnou zajímat o její zdánlivě obyčejný život a postupně zjišťují, že Elizabeth Barrettová nebyla tou dokonalou a...
Když se jednoho dne objeví u trosek strašidelného opatství opředeného legendami tělo mladé ženy, všichni předpokládají, že se jí samou...
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Julia Child: A Life
ISBN: 9780143116448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017)
With a swooping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child's unlikely career path, from California party girl to coolheaded chief clerk in a World War II spy station to bewildered amateur cook and finally to the Cordon Bleu in Paris, the school that inspired her calling. A food lover who was quintessentially... Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017)
With a swooping voice, an ... |
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Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined – and redefined – nature
ISBN: 9780861544370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Disputed Freedoms of a Disrupted Press
ISBN: 9781032119977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Presumed Guilty
ISBN: 9781637306406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Mr. Darcy's Decision: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
ISBN: 9781569756829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen captured hearts with the passion-filled romance of Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Now, Mr. Darcy's Decision finds the newlyweds in their tumultuous first year of married life at Pemberley, entrenched in the frivolous social pressures of their prying friends and family. While the sharp-tongued duo of Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Caroline Bingley criticizes Elizabeth, the new Mrs. Darcy has a happier matter on her mind--the fact that she is carrying the next Darcy heir. But when the sudden and unexpected return of Elizabeth's...
In Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen captured hearts with the passion-filled romance of Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Now, Mr. Da...
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
ISBN: 9781416541639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fascinating story, replete with...
For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candid...
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