wyszukanych pozycji: 155
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Reverence
ISBN: 9781493112159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
92,44 |
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The Bookseller's Bathtub: (4) Stories
ISBN: 9781545181522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
36,41 |
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Brothers Of The Four Corners
ISBN: 9798344471587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
60,69 |
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The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914
ISBN: 9780141986555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britains most wide-ranging historians
Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s when, in different forms and supported by different political forces, states all over the world developed their modern political frameworks: the unifications of Italy and Germany, the establishment of a republic in France, the elimination of slavery in the American south, the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the emancipation of the serfs in Tsarist Russia. This book... The long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britains most wide-ranging historians
Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient tim... |
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75,44 |
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The Burning Cauldron & Working Towards Death
ISBN: 9781105836848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What's this book about? Not into judgment. Anyway, not sure what anything is or is supposed to be. The book, a string of words that seek to instruct, to lead, to influence and reveal the galaxy of illusions. The moral of the story, the need to define leads us only to confine. ....What do I care about appearances? At my age, it doesn't matter. It's all passing. You die. I die. Appearances die. Simple. ....Defining self. Long winded. Oblivious. Unaware of the outside world of adults. Me, aware of sensation only, relating only to what I can touch and feel; biological all. ....Love the concept of...
What's this book about? Not into judgment. Anyway, not sure what anything is or is supposed to be. The book, a string of words that seek to instruct, ...
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cena:
17,65 |
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13 Months Of Sassoon: A Diary Of Time
ISBN: 9780557318391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. THU. APR. 10, 2008 - Better frame of mind than yesterday. Today, just confused. Could be aging process. Times when the mind is clear. Other times, it's a blur. Curious. Other thoughts. Wonder if I'm revealing too much in conversations? Thoughts unending. Useful? Strange, contorted thoughts. Good? Can be. Thinking is free as long as you keep it inside. However, moment you reveal thoughts, the world pounces; you are on the outside looking in. Inner thoughts, wrapped in a cloak of amiability. The way to go. Time passing at work. Depressed. Why? Hard to unearth. The mind hides. Mind and body not...
THU. APR. 10, 2008 - Better frame of mind than yesterday. Today, just confused. Could be aging process. Times when the mind is clear. Other times, it'...
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60,85 |
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Explosions In The First Person: More Of Sassoon's Short Stories
ISBN: 9781452862286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 3 story openings, 3 first person accounts from 3 individuals: I am a wife and a mother and I think I do both jobs well. I provide for all the needs of my husband and that includes the sexual thing, and all the needs of my two year old son. So why am I bitching like this? Well wouldn't you if you suddenly find a couple of dirty books in one of my husband's dresser drawers. They're not just dirty but disgusting pornographic filth. From DIRTY BOOKS POLISHED CLEAN......."Why is it mom, you don't talk to any of your sisters?" my thirty-three year old, single daughter Brenda asks one day. It's a...
3 story openings, 3 first person accounts from 3 individuals: I am a wife and a mother and I think I do both jobs well. I provide for all the needs of...
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40,47 |
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Tales Of Modern Judea: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781456518608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here are stories written so long ago that I cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from a sojourn through graduate school and adventures in a foreign country. My mind was filled with the thoughts of greatness; I would become famous and leave the dust of a childhood growing up in Flushing, Queens, New York behind. I would conquer the world In other words, I was living in a world from which there was only one direction to go and that was down. Then, I came back from Canada and my historical studies in the great North, back as a writer of fiction filled with dreams. Returning, I was forced...
Here are stories written so long ago that I cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from a sojourn through graduate school and adventures in a forei...
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32,37 |
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Tales Of Modern Judea: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781458353856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Stories written long ago; cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from graduate school and adventures in a foreign country. My mind was filled with the thoughts of greatness, and leaving a childhood in Flushing, New York behind to conquer the world Then, I came back home, back as a writer of fiction, back to the same apartment in which I'd grown up. My father, an angry, out-of-work factory worker, was still the asshole, roared, drank, punched and ridiculed. While listening, I wrote, locked in a room, pounding keys of an old Olivetti. Soon, finished with a novel and story collection, I sent...
Stories written long ago; cannot remember writing them. I was fresh from graduate school and adventures in a foreign country. My mind was filled with ...
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55,03 |
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Sassoon's Sketches for a Saturday Afternoon
ISBN: 9780557199709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Constantine Vlacmose was anything, but weird. How could a weird man hold down a responsible job like his, a job that called for the utmost stability, mental clarity, intestinal fortitude, fearlessness, well, you get the idea now. You don't think being a cabby in New York City is easy, do you! You try dealing with the crowded streets, the thousands of cars, buses, and trucks, two million on-rushing pedestrians, blaring noise, accidents, cops, firefighters, and assorted other distractions. Easy, are you joking! From: Are You An Ass, A Fool, Or A You-Know-What? So begins one of Elias Sassoon's...
Constantine Vlacmose was anything, but weird. How could a weird man hold down a responsible job like his, a job that called for the utmost stability, ...
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cena:
45,95 |
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Blackened Nights
ISBN: 9781105874758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. John Nat not your typical young, angry American neo-Nazi. A hater, yes, turned criminal, yes, but his complexity runs deeper. He's a nihilist with pretensions. He commits abominations, and leaves the reader wondering. Listen to John Nat ramble: "Hazy and cloudy, or maybe shadowy and dark, the blackness of black. Do you see it, the basic premises of good and evil. What is the universe composed of except putrid pieces of rotting crud thrown together by the empty ones who seek only suppression of what could be a beautiful cosmos? I see all these mothers, the walking bones; I can see them because...
John Nat not your typical young, angry American neo-Nazi. A hater, yes, turned criminal, yes, but his complexity runs deeper. He's a nihilist with pre...
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31,33 |
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
ISBN: 9781931313810 / Angielski / Miękka / 1930 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Personal narratives of a British officer on the Western front during World War I.
Personal narratives of a British officer on the Western front during World War I.
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145,46 |
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Explosions In The First Person: More of Sassoon's Short Stories
ISBN: 9780557490714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 3 story openings, 3 first person story accounts. ... I am a wife and a mother. Think I do both well. I provide for all the needs of my husband and that includes the sexual thing. Why am I bitching? Wouldn't you if you suddenly find dirty books in my husband's dresser drawer. They're not just dirty but disgusting. From DIRTY BOOKS POLISHED CLEAN..."Why is it mom, you don't talk to your sisters?" my single daughter asks. A natural question, one she's asked before. Sure she'd be curious. I have five sisters and don't speak to any of them. From: SISTERS IN ANGER AND INDIFFERENCE.... Don't think I...
3 story openings, 3 first person story accounts. ... I am a wife and a mother. Think I do both well. I provide for all the needs of my husband and tha...
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67,45 |
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The Brilliant Idiot's Club
ISBN: 9781453808283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a guys' novel about guys, four of them to be exact, three who are single and the other married with kids. All are desperately seeking a place in the world; all think too much, worry too much, examine every aspect of their lives too much. Then, one day, one of these brilliant idiots puts his foot down and makes the others take charge of their lives. They hit the road searching for something, anything that might take them away from their humdrum lives. In the process, there's self-discovery. That leaves us with a novel that is vibrant, funny, touching and ultimately sad. You wind up...
This is a guys' novel about guys, four of them to be exact, three who are single and the other married with kids. All are desperately seeking a place ...
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32,37 |
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Jewish Days
ISBN: 9781496005168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Our protagonist is Artie Shamash. The story explores his conflicted persona. How did that persona, his role identity develop? What is the mechanism involved that shapes each of us? The novel seeks to understand by through Artie Shamash's life. On its face, the book's a study of a man born into a world of secular Judaism and its assimilationist trend in America; we see the stress this creates. On another level, the theme is more universal, how each of our identities, our roles such as Christian, Jew, Muslim, American, Russian, German, etc., are nurtured. The novel spins counter-clockwise. It...
Our protagonist is Artie Shamash. The story explores his conflicted persona. How did that persona, his role identity develop? What is the mechanism in...
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28,32 |
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Picture-Show
ISBN: 9781535139526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Picture-Show by Siegfried Sassoon. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1920 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Picture-Show by Siegfried Sassoon. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1920 and may have some imperfections such as marks or...
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88,61 |
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Costume Parade: The Novel
ISBN: 9781449998554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Memoirs of Steinfink, composed in the darkness of hell. Everything stripped; all pretense. Doomed to death by calendar. Simplifies things the way violence simplifies things when uncontrolled. Me, Steinfink revealed in this dungeon of collective intolerance. Who and what am I? Questions upon brittle lips. Don't want questions. Instead, bow down before me, the prince of all men, the Lord of the Universe. My name's George Steinfink, at least, how I'm addressed at this penal institution of ill repute. The name was sent down for me by that divine angel Gabriel, for me, the one who spreads the...
Memoirs of Steinfink, composed in the darkness of hell. Everything stripped; all pretense. Doomed to death by calendar. Simplifies things the way viol...
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36,41 |
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Vidal: The Autobiography
ISBN: 9781509822539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Vidal Sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished East End childhood to global fame. The father of modern hairdressing, his slick sharp cutting took the fashion world by storm and reinvented the hairdressers' art. Before Vidal Sassoon, a trip to the hairdressers meant a shampoo and set or a stiffly lacquered up-do that would last a week - or more. After Vidal Sassoon, hair was sleek, smooth and very, very stylish. Along with his lifelong friend and partner in style, Mary Quant, who he first met in 1957 and who to this day sports a Sassoon-style geometric bob, he styled the...
Vidal Sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished East End childhood to global fame. The father of modern hairdressing, his slick ...
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87,59 |
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The Individual In Ataturk's Revolution
ISBN: 9781505221480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mustapha Kemal Ataturk ('Father of the Turk'), is the myth that was a man that was claimed as a visionary who became a warrior, leader and statesmen. The West knew him first as the commanding Ottoman officer in World War I's Battle of Gallipoli - a defeat for the Allies, and the Ottoman's greatest victory. We meet him next in 1919 as the Commander thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish portion of the Ottoman Empire. He defeated them, removed the last Sultan, secured the territory of the Turkish national state, and became its first president in 1923. During his...
Mustapha Kemal Ataturk ('Father of the Turk'), is the myth that was a man that was claimed as a visionary who became a warrior, leader and statesmen. ...
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30,35 |
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13 Months Of Sassoon: A Diary Of Time
ISBN: 9781450589024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. THU. APR. 10, 2008 - Better frame of mind than yesterday. Today, just confused. Periods of this. Could be the aging process. Times when the mind is clear like a beautiful sunshine-filled day in the Caribbean. Other times, it's a blur. Happiness and sadness may play a part in this. Confusion, like climbing the Golden Gate Bridge without ladders or other conveyances while a thick fog rolls in and rolls over. Other thoughts. Wonder if I'm revealing too much in my conversations? Thoughts unending. Are they useful? Strange, contorted thoughts. Is that good? Can be. Thinking is free as long as you...
THU. APR. 10, 2008 - Better frame of mind than yesterday. Today, just confused. Periods of this. Could be the aging process. Times when the mind is cl...
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36,41 |