wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Ceremonies of Bravery: Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair
ISBN: 9780199660827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ceremonies of Bravery is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in the 1880s, the period when Wilde was judged by many to be 'at his best', and Blacker went on to become a trustee of Wilde's marriage settlement. Wilde declared Blacker 'the truest of friends and the most sympathetic of companions', and diaries and letters show that the men were close confidantes for almost two decades, a period during which both endured personal crises and disgrace. However, the relationship came to an abrupt end in June 1898. Carlos Blacker...
Ceremonies of Bravery is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in the 1880s, the perio...
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249,49 zł |
Gogol from the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays
ISBN: 9780691013268 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The description for this book, Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays, will be forthcoming. The description for this book, Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays, will be forthcoming. |
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283,92 zł |
Something For Nothing
ISBN: 9781507672495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bold Venture Press presents the second bare-knuckle thriller in the Jack Hagee series A killer stalks the streets of New York. The police call him "The Outliner." His first three victims were outlined in white chalk. The fourth in blue, the fifth in pink - with roses. Meanwhile, in Chinatown, a vicious street gang demands "tribute" from one of Jack Hagee's clients. Big mistake ... on their part, and maybe Hagee's, as well. C.J. Henderson was a virtuoso in the field of hardboiled fiction - and Jake Hagee's cases show him writing at his sharpest, toughest, and most cynical. Jack Hagee is a...
Bold Venture Press presents the second bare-knuckle thriller in the Jack Hagee series A killer stalks the streets of New York. The police call him "T...
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77,18 zł |
Pulp Noir: A Cluttered Romance
ISBN: 9781514291344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Can two avowed hoarders of comic books, paperbacks, hardcovers, movie memorabilia, etc., etc., make room in their lives for each other? A grizzled hobbyist of old paper magazines decides to gather collectors and vendors for a weekend of swapping tall tales and lurid artwork. Four decades later, another collector picks up the torch and stumbles. The power of love convinces him to trod on...but in which direction? Can two obsessive book lovers merge their inventory into one collection?
Can two avowed hoarders of comic books, paperbacks, hardcovers, movie memorabilia, etc., etc., make room in their lives for each other? A grizzled hob...
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77,18 zł |
The Oxford Movement: Strictures on the Personal Reminiscences, and Revelations of Dr. Newman, Mr. Oakeley, and Others
ISBN: 9781535814096 / Angielski / Miękka / 1855 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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54,59 zł |
Who Owns Haiti?: People, Power, and Sovereignty
ISBN: 9780813062266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A timely collection of articles by some of the leading and emerging scholars and specialists on Haiti, offering a wide range of critical perspectives on the question and meaning of sovereignty in Haiti. Alex Dupuy, coauthor of The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti
Directly asks the provocative question of ownership and Haitian sovereignty within the post-earthquake moment an unstable period in which ideas on (re)development, humanitarianism, globalization, militarism, self-determination, and security converge. Millery... A timely collection of articles by some of the leading and emerging scholars and specialists on Haiti, offering a wide range of critical perspectives ...
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491,68 zł |
Who Owns Haiti?: People, Power, and Sovereignty
ISBN: 9780813064598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although Haiti established its independence in 1804, external actors such as the United States, the United Nations, and non-profits have wielded considerable influence throughout its history. Especially in the aftermath of the Duvalier regime and the 2010 earthquake, continual imperial interventions have time and again threatened its sovereignty. Who Owns Haiti? explores the role of international actors in the country's sovereign affairs while highlighting the ways in which Haitians continually enact their own independence on economic, political, and cultural levels. The contributing... Although Haiti established its independence in 1804, external actors such as the United States, the United Nations, and non-profits have wielded co... |
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127,42 zł |
Exploring Gogol
ISBN: 9780804723206 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol's life and work, in all their manifestations, form a whole; it identifies, in ways that have eluded critics to date, the rhetorical strategies and thematic patterns that create the unity. These larger concerns emerge from a close study of the major texts, fictional and nonfictional, and in turn are set in a broad...
For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzl...
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430,52 zł |
Jack Hagee: Nothing Lasts Forever
ISBN: 9781511696234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bold Venture Press presents the third installment of the "Jack Hagee" series by C.J. Henderson In "Nothing Lasts Forever," Jack Hagee is hired to protect an executive woman's daughter from the epitome of abusive husbands. Then, he decides to form his detective agency -- and someone decides to celebrate the occasion with military-grade fireworks. International intrigue and high-stakes money laundering don't appeal to Brooklyn-based private eye Jack Hagee. But when two of his pals are injured, he's off to Hong Kong, to locate a duplicitous "hero" and his stolen wealth. C.J. Henderson is a...
Bold Venture Press presents the third installment of the "Jack Hagee" series by C.J. Henderson In "Nothing Lasts Forever," Jack Hagee is hired to pro...
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77,18 zł |