wyszukanych pozycji: 155
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The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
ISBN: 9780241388655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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77,28 |
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Costume Parade
ISBN: 9780557255641 / 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 men, the Lord of the Universe. Name's George Steinfink, at least, how I'm addressed at this penal institution of ill repute. Name was sent down for me by that divine angel Gabriel, for me, the one who spreads the truth that you...
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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49,71 |
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Blackened Nights
ISBN: 9781477684931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 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. John Nat is more than a fascist or anarchist; he's a nihilist with pretensions. That separates him from the others, and makes him more dangerous. He commits abominations while leaving the reader wondering why. A wild teen whose behavior may be a roadmap to the inconsistencies of the twenty-first century, he's best understood by quoting John Nat's own words. "Hazy and cloudy, or maybe shadowy and dark, the blackness of black which is akin to the whiteness of white....
John Nat not your typical young, angry American neo-Nazi. A hater, yes, turned criminal, yes, but his complexity runs deeper. John Nat is more than a ...
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28,32 |
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Agnes. How My Spirit Survived
ISBN: 9781326687496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Agnes was eleven years old when she was captured in Budapest right out of her school. She was sent to the concentration camp of Dachau. Here she not only experienced hunger and terror, but also her first tender love story with Alex, a young boy who helped her survive. Agnes endured one of the terrible death marches across Germany before she arrived in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was finally liberated by British soldiers. After the war she went to school in Prague, worked for the Zionist underground organization Breha and finally immigrated to Israel.
Agnes was eleven years old when she was captured in Budapest right out of her school. She was sent to the concentration camp of Dachau. Here she not o...
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Mona Lisa
ISBN: 9780007106158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A narrative history of how Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa came to be the most famous in the world - and one of the most powerful cultural icons of our time. What has made the Mona Lisa the most famous picture in the world? Why is it that, of all the 6,000 paintings in the Louvre, it is the only one to be exhibited in a special box, set in concrete and protected by two sheets of bulletproof glass? Why do thousands of visitors throng to see it every day, ignoring the masterpieces which surround it? For nearly 500 years the painting - and the mysterious smile on the... A narrative history of how Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa came to be the most famous in the world - and one of the most powerful cul... |
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46,20 |
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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. |
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36,41 |
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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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Reverence
ISBN: 9781493112159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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92,44 |
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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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Brothers Of The Four Corners
ISBN: 9798344471587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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 |