wyszukanych pozycji: 20
Bear Stearns: a screenplay by Hoyt Hilsman
ISBN: 9781497404014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In March, 2008, the eighty-five year old brokerage firm of Bear Stearns was in deep trouble, bloated with failing mortgage-backed securities. On the verge of bankruptcy, the management of Bear Stearns spent a hectic weekend in negotiations with the major banks and the federal government in an effort to save the company. For Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, the leaders of the international banks, and investors like Warren Buffet, the stakes were even higher - saving the global economy. In this fast-paced screenplay, the big players in this Wall Street drama reveal both the strengths and...
In March, 2008, the eighty-five year old brokerage firm of Bear Stearns was in deep trouble, bloated with failing mortgage-backed securities. On the v...
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31,75 zł |
Collected Plays of Hoyt Hilsman: Volume Two: The History Plays
ISBN: 9781505289787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. HOYT HILSMAN is an award-winning writer, journalist and critic, and a former candidate for Congress in California. He has written screenplays for a number of studios and television networks, including Disney, Sony, New Line, ABC, NBC and CBS, and his stage plays and musicals have been produced in theaters around the country and abroad, and have won numerous awards. His television script, Foggy Bottom, based on his childhood in Washington, was honored at the Slamdance Festival. Mr. Hilsman has been a regular critic for Daily Variety, former President of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle,...
HOYT HILSMAN is an award-winning writer, journalist and critic, and a former candidate for Congress in California. He has written screenplays for a nu...
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68,09 zł |
The Virgin Missile Crisis: a play by
ISBN: 9781497341395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It's October, 1962. Soviet missiles in Cuba are poised to launch at the US. President Kennedy announces a blockade on TV. Fear grips America. Sixteen-year old Duncan Ambrose wants to lose his virginity before the world ends. Which could be in about 36 hours. He'd also like to figure out the meaning of life. Which could also be a challenge. Duncan's family won't be much help. His father, head of Intelligence for the State Department and famous for his very bad haircut, is away in a secret location briefing the President on the crisis. His mother is too busy crying over the kitchen sink to...
It's October, 1962. Soviet missiles in Cuba are poised to launch at the US. President Kennedy announces a blockade on TV. Fear grips America. Sixteen-...
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31,75 zł |
Back Channel: a play
ISBN: 9781497311770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. BACK CHANNEL is a political thriller, inspired by news reports of secret negotiations between Saddam Hussein's government and the Bush administration prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The story focuses on an American intelligence officer who is contacted by an Iraqi diplomat -- an old friend -- with an offer to negotiate. The official's life, both professional and personal, is thrown into danger when he reports the contact to the office of the Vice-President. BACK CHANNEL, while a work of fiction, echoes many of the events that have come to light in the years since the invasion of Iraq.
BACK CHANNEL is a political thriller, inspired by news reports of secret negotiations between Saddam Hussein's government and the Bush administration ...
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36,29 zł |
Back Channel
ISBN: 9781499174151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. BACK-CHANNEL is a political thriller, inspired by news reports of secret negotiations between Saddam Hussein's government and the Bush administration prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The story focuses on an American intelligence officer who is contacted by an Iraqi diplomat -- an old friend -- with an offer to negotiate. The official's life, both professional and personal, is thrown into danger when he reports the contact to the office of the Vice-President. BACK-CHANNEL, while a work of fiction, echoes many of the events that have come to light in the years since the invasion of Iraq.
BACK-CHANNEL is a political thriller, inspired by news reports of secret negotiations between Saddam Hussein's government and the Bush administration ...
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54,46 zł |
The Passion of Perpetua: a play by Hoyt Hilsman
ISBN: 9781497407305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of Perpetua, a young Roman woman living in the city of Carthage in North Africa early in the 3rd century A.D. Perpetua came from a noble Roman family, was a wife and mother of a young child and was secretly a Christian at a time when they were being widely persecuted. When the Roman governor ordered the arrest of Christians - mostly lower-caste servants and others - Perpetua publically declared her faith. Despite her nobleman father's pleas to save herself, she insisted on being treated like any other believer. After a long imprisonment and trial, Perpetua died as a martyr...
This is the story of Perpetua, a young Roman woman living in the city of Carthage in North Africa early in the 3rd century A.D. Perpetua came from a n...
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Family Values: a play by
ISBN: 9781497328273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Family Values is a full-length comedy by Hoyt Hilsman. Set in Washington, DC, the play is about a Senator from Idaho and his oddball family. When son Duncan returns from his first semester at college, he discovers that his room has been turned over to an itinerant reporter for the BBC. His father is in the midst of a political campaign, his mother is trying to remember when the family dog died, and his sixteen-year old sister is about to elope to Las Vegas with her lesbian lover. Family Values is part of a family trilogy, which includes Foggy Bottom, which was adapted as a television pilot,...
Family Values is a full-length comedy by Hoyt Hilsman. Set in Washington, DC, the play is about a Senator from Idaho and his oddball family. When son ...
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31,75 zł |
Collected Plays Hoyt Hilsman: Volume 1: The Family Plays
ISBN: 9781505286496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,09 zł |
Collected Plays Hoyt Hilsman: Volume Three: The Political Plays
ISBN: 9781505291346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. HOYT HILSMAN is an award-winning writer, journalist and critic, and a former candidate for Congress in California. He has written screenplays for a number of studios and television networks, including Disney, Sony, New Line, ABC, NBC and CBS, and his stage plays and musicals have been produced in theaters around the country and abroad, and have won numerous awards. His television script, Foggy Bottom, based on his childhood in Washington, was honored at the Slamdance Festival. Mr. Hilsman has been a regular critic for Daily Variety, former President of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle,...
HOYT HILSMAN is an award-winning writer, journalist and critic, and a former candidate for Congress in California. He has written screenplays for a nu...
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68,09 zł |
Rockefeller: a screenplay by Hoyt Hilsman
ISBN: 9781497403727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The tragic, epic story of Nelson Rockefeller - colorful scion of the wealthiest family in America, philanthropist and philanderer, collector of art and women, equally reviled by the political left and right, Vice-President and candidate for President, the scourge of the Attica Prison riots and the savior of New York. From his privileged but bleak upbringing to his firestorm life, from his dynamic personality to his scandalous divorce, from his priceless art collection to his sudden death in the arms of his mistress, this is the story of an outsized figure - and one of America's greatest...
The tragic, epic story of Nelson Rockefeller - colorful scion of the wealthiest family in America, philanthropist and philanderer, collector of art an...
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Stendhal: a play by Hoyt Hilsman
ISBN: 9781497329560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the night of October 25th, 1929, the French writer Stendhal set about to write his classic novel Le Rouge et Le Noir, which had been inspired by the trial of a young seminarian, Antoine Berthet, who was charged with killing his mistress, a married woman from a provincial town. In Hilsman's dramatic comedy, we learn the story of the seminarian, a poor farm boy with a secret enthusiasm for Napoleon. Berthet is sent to tutor the child of a provincial mayor and, before long, begins an affair with the mayor's wife. When her husband discovers her affair, she ends their relationship and confesses...
On the night of October 25th, 1929, the French writer Stendhal set about to write his classic novel Le Rouge et Le Noir, which had been inspired by th...
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31,75 zł |
Stendhal
ISBN: 9781499627473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,83 zł |
The Chaklala Codes
ISBN: 9781497554610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When virtually all of the political and military leadership of Pakistan are wiped out by a terrorist attack at the inauguration ceremony of a new President, a race begins to seize control of the country's vulnerable cache of nuclear weapons. CIA agent Grant Stearns and the Team Six Navy SEALs are sent on a mission to secure the top secret Wah nuclear munitions center (near the infamous Osama Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad) and unlock the mysterious Chaklala Codes - the encrypted keys to Pakistan's nuclear weapons - before anyone else gets ahold of them. Stearns and his team are pitted...
When virtually all of the political and military leadership of Pakistan are wiped out by a terrorist attack at the inauguration ceremony of a new Pres...
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54,46 zł |
The Virgin Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9781497484542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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49,92 zł |
Armadillos and Yellow Lines: essays from the Huffington Post
ISBN: 9781497310797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When author, journalist and political commentator Hoyt Hilsman joined The Huffington Post editors as a contributor in the fall of 2008, he had just finished a second unsuccessful campaign for Congress in California, but he still had lots to say about the politics and culture of our country. Since then, he has written over a hundred essays for HuffPost, on topics ranging from gun control to Brittney Spears, with a focus on American politics and culture. As an unabashed Democratic centrist (or more precisely center-left), Hilsman believes in an activist government to meet the needs of all the...
When author, journalist and political commentator Hoyt Hilsman joined The Huffington Post editors as a contributor in the fall of 2008, he had just fi...
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54,46 zł |
Circus of the Unconscious Mind
ISBN: 9781497455535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,09 zł |
The Vulture and the Queen
ISBN: 9781503258860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,75 zł |
Idonomics: How the Pleasure Principle is Destroying the American Dream
ISBN: 9781497445345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What is behind the economic cycle that resulted in the excesses of the late twentieth century and the Great Recession of the twenty-first century? Is it simply part of the ebb and flow of the worldwide economy? Or is it just human nature to fall victim to endless cycles of boom and bust? Certainly there have been periods throughout human history when economies have risen and fallen, and when human greed and risk-taking has resulted in great catastrophes. But is this period somehow different, and, if so, what is the underlying dynamic that we are experiencing? Idonomics - the triumph of the...
What is behind the economic cycle that resulted in the excesses of the late twentieth century and the Great Recession of the twenty-first century? Is ...
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27,21 zł |
Los buitres y la reina: la batalla de los multimillonarios y la reina del botox
ISBN: 9781503339743 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2014 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,29 zł |
The Power of Uncertainty
ISBN: 9781497484214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We've all experienced times of great uncertainty. A health crisis. A rocky marriage. A stressful job. And these crises can tap into our deepest fears of the uncertain, the unknowable, the unforeseen. How do we respond? Because uncertainty is so painful, we too often seek the quickest resolution of that pain. We flee from the unhappy marriage. Quit the job. Try to escape through denial or addiction. Or, hungering for simple solutions, we bury our heads in the sands of fixed and rigid certainty. We cling to dogma, science, prejudice. Put our trust in gurus, unyielding political beliefs or...
We've all experienced times of great uncertainty. A health crisis. A rocky marriage. A stressful job. And these crises can tap into our deepest fears ...
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27,21 zł |