wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor
ISBN: 9780803237476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In sixteen ferocious short storiesFrench author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy, ridicule, and pain. Compassion lurks somewhere, perhaps, but pity is conspicuous by its absence. Lang s curt, agitated prose disassembles daily life with a swift, unflinching hand and examines it with a sharp, analytic eye. Skinning quotidian moments to bare, raw impulses, confusions, and the agonies underneath, the stories in Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor show the mundane grind of the everyday forces that are fueled by... In sixteen ferocious short storiesFrench author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy,... |
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73,54 zł |
The Mad and the Bad
ISBN: 9781590177204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew--a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is...
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a pow...
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74,93 zł |
Letters to Madeleine: Tender as Memory
ISBN: 9780857425829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 615 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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105,08 zł |
Paris Vagabond
ISBN: 9781590179574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An NYRB Classics Original Jean-Paul Clebert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French Resistance, and never looked back. Making his way to Paris at the end of World War II, Clebert took to living on the streets, and in Paris Vagabond, a so-called "aleatory novel" assembled out of sketches he jotted down at the time, he tells what it was like. His "gallery of faces and cityscapes on the road to extinction" is an astonishing depiction of a world apart--a Paris, long since vanished, of the poor, the criminal, and the outcast--and a no...
An NYRB Classics Original Jean-Paul Clebert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French Resistanc...
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83,77 zł |
Mygale
ISBN: 9780872864092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed film "The Skin I Live In." * * * Mygale MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . . A highly successful plastic surgeon pursues and captures the man who raped his daughter. He is determined to exact an atrocious vengeance, and an ambiguous, even sadomasochistic relationship develops between self-appointed executioner and victim. Swift and spare, suspenseful and thought-provoking, Mygale puts the gothic spirit back in the noir canon while introducing... This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed film "The Skin I Live In." * * * Mygale ... |
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70,51 zł |
The Production of Space
ISBN: 9780631181774 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields.
The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his... Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse ...
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171,27 zł |
The Tribe
ISBN: 9780872863927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Pres as a member of the legendary Letterist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular vie de boheme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogue's gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers. The Tribe is a rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists who flocked to the Left Bank for a glimpse of Sartre & Co. The rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated... Between 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Pres as a member of the legendary Letterist International, direct progenitor o... |
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66,09 zł |
NADA
ISBN: 9781681373171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,51 zł |
Three to Kill
ISBN: 9780872863958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder--and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself. . . . Manchette--masterful stylist, ironist, and social critic--limns the cramped lives of professionals in a neoconservative world. "Manchette has appropriated and subverted the classic thriller with] descriptions of undiluted action, violence and suspense and] a perspective on evil, a disenchanted world of manipulation and fury . . . ."... Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder--and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the table... |
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66,09 zł |
Seraphin
ISBN: 9781939810250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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82,78 zł |
Pocket Prescriber 2015
ISBN: 9781498747844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Prescriber 2015 is a concise, up to date prescribing guide. It contains all the must have information that junior doctors, nurse prescribers and medical students need at their fingertips. Key features:
Prescriber 2015 is a concise, up to date prescribing guide. It contains all the must have information that junior doctors, nurse p... |
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131,37 zł |
Hydrologic Assessment of Three Drainage Basins in the Pinelands of Southern New Jersey, 2004?06
ISBN: 9781500479602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,50 zł |