wyszukanych pozycji: 64
Vaclav Havel
ISBN: 9780465037209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama of the tumultuous events of his times. Havel's life, like that of his African counterpart Nelson Mandela, has been shaped and determined by the large political shifts of the twentieth century. Readers will taste the moments of joy, irony, farce, and misfortune through which he has lived, and realize that he has taught the world more about the powerful and the...
This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of...
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113,80 zł |
Tom Paine: A Political Life
ISBN: 9780802139641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world." So begins John Keane's magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracy's greatest champions. Among friends and enemies alike, Paine earned a reputation as a notorious pamphleteer, one of the greatest political figures of his day, and the author of three best-selling books, Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. Setting his compelling narrative against a vivid social backdrop of prerevolutionary...
"More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world." So begins John K...
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109,46 zł |
Pico-Solar Electric Systems: The Earthscan Expert Guide to the Technology and Emerging Market
ISBN: 9780415823593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality products. The book also discusses how pioneering companies and initiatives are overcoming challenges to reach scale in the marketplace, from innovative distribution strategies to reach customers in rural India and Tanzania, to product development in Cambodia, product assembly in Mozambique and the introduction of 'pay as you go' technology in Kenya. Pico-solar is a new category of solar electric system which has the potential to... This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose qualit... |
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709,67 zł |
Cultural and Theological Reflections on the Japanese Quest for Divinity
ISBN: 9789004321229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Cultural and Theological Reflections on the Japanese Quest for Divinity, John J. Keane offers an explanation of Japanese divinity (kami 神) using sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and history. He presents an overview of how the Japanese have sought to love and serve their kami - a quest that rivals the interest that the West gives to God. The principles of interreligious dialogue are applied to the meaning of kami and a plea is made for a dialogue that respectfully accepts differences between the cultures and the theologies of Eastern and...
In Cultural and Theological Reflections on the Japanese Quest for Divinity, John J. Keane offers an explanation of Japanese divinity (kami
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232,09 zł |
Tom Paine: A Political Life
ISBN: 9781408802250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The definitive biography of Tom Paine, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of his death
The definitive biography of Tom Paine, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of his death
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166,01 zł |
Pico-Solar Electric Systems: The Earthscan Expert Guide to the Technology and Emerging Market
ISBN: 9780367787424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality products. The book also discusses how pioneering companies and initiatives are overcoming challenges to reach scale in the marketplace, from innovative distribution strategies to reach customers in rural India and Tanzania, to product development in Cambodia, product assembly in Mozambique and the introduction of ‘pay as you go’ technology in Kenya.Pico-solar is a new category of solar electric system which has the potential to transform the...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality p...
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210,22 zł |
Vaclav Havel
ISBN: 9780747548386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. This study reveals a Havel, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned.
Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. This study reveals a Havel, dra...
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121,74 zł |
Durango
ISBN: 9781856350013 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Durango is an adventure story about the great October cattle drive of Tubberlick. Set in rural Ireland during the Second World War, this novel features the themes of love, sex, money and betrayal. Durango has been made into a film starring Brenda Fricker, Patrick Bergin and Pat Laffin. Durango is an adventure story about the great October cattle drive of Tubberlick. Set in rural Ireland during the Second World War, this n... |
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113,23 zł |
When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter: Rethinking Democracy in China
ISBN: 9781786343598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book explores a radically different alternative. China, it argues, is a one-party-dominated political system whose surprising levels of public sup
Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book explores a radically different alter...
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252,33 zł |
The Bodhran Makers: A Novel of Ireland
ISBN: 9780941423809 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A novel of rural Ireland: "Furious, raging, passionate and...very, very funny." -- Boston Globe "At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration. For those who wear the green, this book will provide a bounty of tears and laughs." -- Publishers Weekly
A novel of rural Ireland: "Furious, raging, passionate and...very, very funny." -- Boston Globe "At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a com...
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137,87 zł |
The New Despotism
ISBN: 9780674660069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. And one day, he warns, we may be more like them.
One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But man...
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129,39 zł |
Whiskey für alle : Geschichten von der Grünen Insel. Deutsche Erstausgabe
ISBN: 9783746628387 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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50,66 zł |
The Short Stories of John B. Keane
ISBN: 9781856353441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) There are more shades to John B. Keane's humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection, which brings together all John B's short stories. Included are gems such as A Hanging and Guaranteed Pure.
There are more shades to John B. Keane's humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery ...
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92,63 zł |
Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane Vol. 1
ISBN: 9781856351560 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) John B. Keane is one of Ireland's most popular playwrights. With his plays now reaching the cinema, his work has become known to an international audience. 30 years after John B. Keane made his professional debut as a playwright, biographers Gus Smith and Des Hickey join forces to tell the remarkable story of the man from Listowel.
John B. Keane is one of Ireland's most popular playwrights. With his plays now reaching the cinema, his work has become known to an international audi...
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118,38 zł |
Power and Humility: The Future of Monitory Democracy
ISBN: 9781108441377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy by a distinguished scholar.
An imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy by a distinguished scholar.
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160,64 zł |
Civil Society : Old Images, New Visions
ISBN: 9780745620718 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility. In this important new book, John Keane shows how, in a wholly unexpected reversal of fortunes, this antiquated distinction has since become voguish among politicians, academics, journalists, business leaders, relief agencies and citizens' organizations.
John Keane examines the various sources and phases of the dramatic world-wide popularization of the term. He traces its reappearance in a wide range of... It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even ...
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94,02 zł |
Mehr Whiskey für den Weihnachtsmann, 1 Audio-CD
ISBN: 9783862318155 / Niemiecki / Audio (mc/cd) / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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46,10 zł |
The Rain at the End of the Summer
ISBN: 9781781174807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An unplanned pregnancy brings disorder to the otherwise amicable O'Brien household and the various characters are torn apart by their beliefs in the best way to deal with the pregnancy. Keen but never unkind, the attention of Ireland's best-loved writer falls on human vanities and frailties of all kinds.
An unplanned pregnancy brings disorder to the otherwise amicable O'Brien household and the various characters are torn apart by their beliefs in the b...
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82,34 zł |
The Teapots Are Out and Other Eccentric Tales from Ireland
ISBN: 9780786712984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A fitting tribute to John B. Keane, for decades Ireland's favorite storyteller, this winning short story collection typifies the late author's folkloric imagination and storytelling arts. These are congenial tales, too, as this literary legend views the foibles and fallibilities of Irish country folk with abundant compassion as well as a shrewd, sometimes sardonic eye. Add to that Keane's glorious sense of fun and roguery that will make readers relish all the more how and why, in "Fred Rimble," Jim Conlon kills the best friend he ever had. Or how Willie Ramley determines that his future wife...
A fitting tribute to John B. Keane, for decades Ireland's favorite storyteller, this winning short story collection typifies the late author's folklor...
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61,08 zł |
Moll
ISBN: 9781781172742 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery.
Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery.
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77,19 zł |