wyszukanych pozycji: 42
Girl with a Meat Axe and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781916016590 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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80,69 zł |
The Bronte Boy
ISBN: 9780993372940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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38,57 zł |
Short Shorts Volume 2
ISBN: 9780956151353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. A REAL CUSHY NUMBER: It's the night shift at a major hospital and the porters sip their hot tea and talk about life as they wait for a patient to die. ALL GOOD MEN: Party conference time - and the sudden death of the prime minister triggers a power struggle as young speech-writer Simon goes to war with ambitious minister Darius and sexy, ruthless power-broker Lady Bridgewater. LUVVIES: A failed playwright and a bit-part actress invite a young couple home for heavy drinking and ritual humiliation - but the tables could be turned "Clever, well-written. The...
Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. A REAL CUSHY NUMBER: It's the night shift at a major hospital and the porters sip their hot tea and talk about l...
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49,10 zł |
The Navigator's Daughter
ISBN: 9780993372957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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41,38 zł |
Qwertyuiop
ISBN: 9780993372919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Remember when typewriters ruled the world? It's the age of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister. But the best chance most women have to get close to power - or even close to a job - is to join a Government-sponsored training course for shorthand typists. So prim Susan and sexy Frankie and depressive Sandra and busybody Pat get together to conquer the keyboard. Even if they have to suffer clapped-out keys, broken backspaces, sticky spacebars and shocking shifts. And these women also speak their minds - about men, politics, men, work, men, children, men and each other So...
Remember when typewriters ruled the world? It's the age of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister. But the best chance most women hav...
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38,85 zł |
Branwell & Other Stories
ISBN: 9780956151346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In these six exciting stories, Branwell, the Bronte boy who ruled an imaginary childhood world, has failed as poet and painter and slips down the road of drink and despair; passionate Alice, searching for a man she can love as she once loved her father, ignores the desperate struggle of her daughter Maudie to make a life of her own; idealistic Mr Berry, trapped in a dead-end job in a failing boys' school, discovers the secret of an illiterate 11-year old, and is forced to re-examine his own life; John Poulson, corrupt Yorkshire architect imprisoned for bribing his way to success, determines...
In these six exciting stories, Branwell, the Bronte boy who ruled an imaginary childhood world, has failed as poet and painter and slips down the road...
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71,11 zł |
The Bronte Boy
ISBN: 9780956151315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 79 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this play, young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed as a poet and painter, as doomed in love as he is in literature, he slips ever more quickly down the road of drink, drugs and despair. His loving father Patrick and talented sister Charlotte fight a last-ditch stand for his salvation, but it is Branwell's sinister friend, gravedigger John Brown, who threatens to have the last word in this ultimately terrifying take on the brilliant family we have read so much about and all thought we knew so well. In...
In this play, young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed as a p...
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36,87 zł |
Dying is the Last Thing You Ever Want to Do
ISBN: 9781916016545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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74,92 zł |
Wireless Mysteries Old Testament
ISBN: 9780993372902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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36,13 zł |
Short Shorts: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780956151339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. LIFE SENTENCE: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - especially when she has a meat cleaver in her hand A dark comedy about the violent games lovers play. Winner of the Stanley Arnold Trophy at Sheffield One-Act Play Festival. TILL MY EYES BLEED: Loyal Mel hires the theatre to host a wake for his best friend Adrian. But it becomes apparent - to everyone except Mel - that Mel's wife had enjoyed a passionate affair with Adrian. Will Mel guess the truth before the end of the night? SUNDAY AFTERNOON AGAIN: Eight-year-old Lenny has two big worries: His mum...
Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. LIFE SENTENCE: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - especially when she has a meat cleaver in her hand A da...
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54,68 zł |
More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States
ISBN: 9781583671603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that commanded our attention spoke loudly of the class and racial divisions that still exist in the United States today. Despite the stock market gains of the 1990s, which increased the ranks of millionaires and created greater wealth for those already wealthy, U.S. society has witnessed a dramatic increase in class inequality over that last two decades. A host of newly available research indicates that the United States is afar more classbound... The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world what many U.S. politicians and pundits have long been able to ignore. The media images that... |
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485,92 zł |
The Gangers
ISBN: 9780956151391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Gangers: High Noon in Yorkshire The avenger rides into town looking for the men who killed his friend. In his saddlebag, he carries a Colt 44. But this is no wild west scenario. This is Yorkshire. The avenger is Sergeant Lorenzo Joseph of the British army. And the background is the Railway Boom of the 1870s. This is a world where progress and poverty, industry and anarchy combine in a volatile mix. The shanty towns of the railway-building navvies are as lawless as the cattle towns of the American west. But there is a more gentle, civilised side. Sergeant Joseph encounters Mollie...
The Gangers: High Noon in Yorkshire The avenger rides into town looking for the men who killed his friend. In his saddlebag, he carries a Colt 44. But...
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77,71 zł |
Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economistas Travelogue
ISBN: 9781583671436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved... The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, obs... |
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91,99 zł |
Can the Working Class Change the World?
ISBN: 9781583677117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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583,05 zł |
Hongyun
ISBN: 9781420827712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When Yates and I first met and had dinner at the University of Missouri, he was an undergraduate. His work was brilliant then. This I told him and his department head. This Canticle for Electronic Music underscores the acuity of my forecasting.-W.H. Auden, The Quest With great admiration for your work.--Joyce Carol Oates I appreciate this poet's concentration, swiftness, density: his choice for the deeply personal utterance and that only. He wastes no time with exercises, set themes, and other conventional maneuvers.-Henry Rago, editor, Poetry. He is violent and unpredictable.has a wild,...
When Yates and I first met and had dinner at the University of Missouri, he was an undergraduate. His work was brilliant then. This I told him and his...
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152,23 zł |
Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9781583670804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The economic boom of the 1990s created huge wealth for the bosses, but benefited workers hardly at all. At the same time, the bosses were able to take the political initiative and even the moral high ground, while workers were often divided against each other. This new book by leading labor analyst Michael D. Yates seeks to explain how this happened, and what can be done about it. Essential to both tasks is naming the system the system that ensures that those who do the work do not benefit from the wealth they produce. Yates draws on recent data to show that the growing inequality... The economic boom of the 1990s created huge wealth for the bosses, but benefited workers hardly at all. At the same time, the bosses were able to t... |
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522,34 zł |
20 Stories High
ISBN: 9780993481185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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80,69 zł |
Can the Working Class Change the World?
ISBN: 9781583677100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) “Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization—a book committed not only to defending workers, but also to building on their potentials to transform society.”—Sam Gindin, former chief economist, Canadian Auto Workers Union; Packer Visitor in Social Justice, Political Science Dept., York University, Toronto One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and...
“Michael Yates’s passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the comple...
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82,39 zł |
Life Class
ISBN: 9780956151308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) ""A poet of the everyday world, he is consistently good"" says Brian Patten. ""I like the humanity, the way his poems seem to be full of real people feeling real emotions"" says Ian McMillan ""He has an ear for popular diction reminiscent of Alan Bennett. His eye for comic fiction reminds me of Roger McGough"" - Bradford Telegraph & Argus
""A poet of the everyday world, he is consistently good"" says Brian Patten. ""I like the humanity, the way his poems seem to be full of real people f...
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108,11 zł |
Hongyun
ISBN: 9781420827705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,14 zł |