wyszukanych pozycji: 174
On the Margin: Notes and Essays
ISBN: 9781636376318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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146,69 zł |
Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925, Volume I
ISBN: 9781566633222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume II continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in "Jesting Pilate." The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of...
These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one...
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253,85 zł |
The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems
ISBN: 9781636376264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,14 zł |
Antic Hay
ISBN: 9781717393739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,57 zł |
Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
ISBN: 9780892817580 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. - Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase,...
Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. - Includes ...
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79,53 zł |
Fiche de lecture Le Meilleur des mondes de Aldous Huxley (Analyse littéraire de référence et résumé complet)
ISBN: 9782367886800 / Francuski / Miękka / 2022 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,31 zł |
The Perennial Philosophy
ISBN: 9780061724947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions." With great wit and stunning intellect--drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam--Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how... An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial... |
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79,57 zł |
The Genius and the Goddess
ISBN: 9781784870362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to question everything he once revered.
It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant ...
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46,53 zł |
Those Barren Leaves
ISBN: 9780099477792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. Deliciously satirical, Those Barren Leaves bites the hands of those who dare to posture or feign sophistication and is as comically fresh today as when it was first published.
In a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. Deliciously satirical, Thos...
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88,48 zł |
Antic Hay
ISBN: 9781636376219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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152,57 zł |
The Burning Wheel
ISBN: 9781979443685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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37,09 zł |
Brave New World: With the Essay "Brave New World Revisited"
ISBN: 9780061767647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world" Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling... Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Stre... |
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88,41 zł |
Mortal Coils
ISBN: 9781532714757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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32,45 zł |
Crome Yellow
ISBN: 9781975646936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,73 zł |
The Devils of Loudun
ISBN: 9780061724916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "HUXLEY'S MASTERPIECE AND PERHAPS THE MOST ENJOYABLE BOOK ABOUT SPIRITUALITY EVER WRITTEN. ." Aldous Huxley's "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history, hailed as the "peak achievement of Huxley's career" by the New York Times In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier--accused of spiritually and... "HUXLEY'S MASTERPIECE AND PERHAPS THE MOST ENJOYABLE BOOK ABOUT SPIRITUALITY EVER WRITTEN. ." |
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83,95 zł |
Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals
ISBN: 9781412847445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse. Pacifism is still an important topic today, as terrorism and dictatorial states abound. Many will find solace in Ends and Means, while others will find the book only a case study of the relationship of ethics to politics. Aldous Huxley examines common issues in a unique fashion. How can the regression in charity through which we are living, and for which each one of us is in some measure responsible, be halted and reversed? How can existing society be transformed into the ideal...
Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse. Pacifism is still an important to...
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231,25 zł |
Crome Yellow
ISBN: 9781548202972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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55,65 zł |
Brave New World
ISBN: 9783150145081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Aldous Huxleys berühmte Dystopie aus dem Jahr 1932 zeichnet ein düsteres Bild einer Zukunft, in der nichts dem Zufall überlassen bleibt. Menschen werden im Auftrag der Weltregierung gezüchtet, in Kasten eingeteilt und mit oberflächlichen Vergnügungen sowie der Droge Soma ruhiggestellt. Doch als Lenina Crowne und Bernard Marx in einem Reservat einen »Wilden« kennenlernen, der ein völlig anderes Leben...
Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite,...
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40,47 zł |
The Devils of Loudun
ISBN: 9780099477761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history.
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty ...
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51,70 zł |
Those Barren Leaves
ISBN: 9781636376332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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158,45 zł |