wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Q: A Novel
ISBN: 9780062015839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "A philosophical, witty, wonderful, and altogether magical love story." "Amiably outrageous....Mandery is a worthy son of those great writers of the 1970s, Vonnegut, Barthelme, and Barth." "I've never read anything like it and enjoyed every minute of it " Q: A (Timeless) Love Story is a smart, romantic, and funny novel about tender and requited love, a wonderfully original literary... "A philosophical, witty, wonderful, and altogether magical love story." "Amiably outrageou... |
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61,11 zł |
Eyes on City Hall: A Young Man's Education in New York City Political Warfare
ISBN: 9780367098896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Campaign is a close-up look at the paranoid, frenzied, oppressive, and exhilarating world of modern political campaigns?a universe where truth is fungible and moral conviction a mere asset, like good looks or personal wealth. Corporeal restraints do not exist. People regularly become things they are not.Evan Mandery, research director on Ruth Messinger's doomed challenge to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, offers a behind-the-scenes look at political campaigns in the television era. A day-to-day account of the 1997 New York City mayoral race, it takes us to the real battlegrounds of modern politics:...
The Campaign is a close-up look at the paranoid, frenzied, oppressive, and exhilarating world of modern political campaigns?a universe where truth is ...
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708,33 zł |
First Contact: Or, It's Later Than You Think
ISBN: 9780061749773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "What a hilarious ride--the ubersurreal meets The Daily Show."
--Tim Dorsey, author of Nuclear Jellyfish In the bestselling and rightfully cult-inspiring tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams comes First Contact--an hysterically funny satire about Presidential politics and intergalactic misunderstanding. This smart and biting novel by Evan Mandery--an author equally well-versed in the lives of the U.S. presidents, existential philosophy, and the Simpsons--offers much food for intellectual thought along with an all-you-can-eat buffet of laughs,... "What a hilarious ride--the ubersurreal meets The Daily Show."
--Tim Dorsey, author of Nuclear Jellyfish In the bestse... |
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69,85 zł |
Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination
ISBN: 9781449605988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This revised and updated Second Edition is an innovative, balanced, and comprehensive overview of capital punishment. It offers an unbiased examination of the death penalty, supported by statistics and Supreme Court cases, and followed by pro and con discussions. The book addresses every major issue relating to the death penalty including deterrence, racial impact, arbitrariness, its use on special populations, and methods of execution. Designed for the undergraduate and graduate level courses on the death penalty and capital punishment, and even ethics and law, this text challenges students...
This revised and updated Second Edition is an innovative, balanced, and comprehensive overview of capital punishment. It offers an unbiased examinatio...
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819,32 zł |
The (Revised) Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Stories of Neurotic Obsession
ISBN: 9780578625607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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41,23 zł |
Wild Justice : The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
ISBN: 9780393239584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction. A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of t... |
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146,36 zł |
Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
ISBN: 9781610270984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The true and gripping account of the nine-year struggle by a small band of lawyers to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Its new edition features a 2011 Foreword by death penalty author Evan Mandery of CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, as well as a new Preface by the author. The mission, plotted out over deli sandwiches in New York's Central Park in the early 1960s, seemed as impossible then as going to the moon: abolish capital punishment in every state. The approach would fight a war on multiple fronts, using multiple strategies. The people would be dedicated,...
The true and gripping account of the nine-year struggle by a small band of lawyers to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Its new edition ...
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97,42 zł |
Eyes On City Hall : A Young Man's Education In New York City Political Warfare
ISBN: 9780813398150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Campaign is a close-up look at the paranoid, frenzied, oppressive, and exhilarating world of modern political campaignsa universe where truth is fungible and moral conviction a mere asset, like good looks or personal wealth. Corporeal restraints do not exist. People regularly become things they are not.Evan Mandery, research director on Ruth Messinger's doomed challenge to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, offers a behind-the-scenes look at political campaigns in the television era. A day-to-day account of the 1997 New York City mayoral race, it takes us to the real battlegrounds of modern...
The Campaign is a close-up look at the paranoid, frenzied, oppressive, and exhilarating world of modern political campaignsa universe where tru...
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262,29 zł |