wyszukanych pozycji: 24
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Barack H. Obama History Maker
ISBN: 9798610989198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,30 zł |
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The Philosopher's Apprentice
ISBN: 9780061351457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose gratefully accepts an offer no starving ethicist could refuse. He must travel to a private tropical island and tutor Londa Sabacthani, a beautiful, brilliant adolescent who has lost both her memory and her moral sense in a freak accident. Londa's soul is an empty vessel--and Mason's job will be to fill it. But all is not as it seems on Isla de Sangre. Londa's reclusive mother is secretly sheltering a second child whose conscience is a blank slate. Even as the mystery deepens, Mason confronts a frightening... A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose gratefully accepts an offer no starving ethicist could refuse. He must tr... |
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65,81 zł |
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City of Truth
ISBN: 9780156180429 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Veritas, people have been conditioned to always tell the truth, no matter how unnerving the truth may be. Jack Sperry must learn to lie in order to save his son in this witty science fiction novella. Recipient of a 1992 Nebula Award.
In Veritas, people have been conditioned to always tell the truth, no matter how unnerving the truth may be. Jack Sperry must learn to lie in order to...
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57,41 zł |
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The Last Witchfinder
ISBN: 9780060821807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her beloved aunt Isobel, the precocious child decides to make it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. Armed with little save the power of reason, and determined to see justice prevail, Jennet hurls herself into a series of picaresque adventures--traveling from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted island in the Caribbean, braving West Indies pirates, Algonquin Indian captors, the... Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her belove... |
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69,93 zł |
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Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow
ISBN: 9780819575944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Join the Abominable Snowman as, determined to transcend his cannibalistic past, he studies Tibetan Buddhism under the Dalai Lama. Pace the walls of Ilium with fair Helen as she tries to convince both sides to abandon their absurd Trojan War. Visit the nursery of Zenobia Garber, born to a Pennsylvania farm couple who accept her for the uncanny little biosphere she is. Scramble aboard the raft built by the passengers and crew of the sinking Titanic--and don't be surprised when the vessel transmutes into a world even more astonishing than the original Ship of Dreams. Reality by Other Means...
Join the Abominable Snowman as, determined to transcend his cannibalistic past, he studies Tibetan Buddhism under the Dalai Lama. Pace the walls of Il...
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116,39 zł |
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Towing Jehovah
ISBN: 9780156002103 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Winner of a 1995 World Fantasy Award.
God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also con...
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82,28 zł |
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Eternal Footman
ISBN: 9780156010818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Eternal Footman completes Morrow's darkly comic trilogy about God's untimely demise. With God's skull in orbit, competing with the moon, a plague of "death awareness" spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. One is Nora Burkhart, a schoolteacher who will stop at nothing to save her only son, Kevin. The other is the genius sculptor Gerard Korty, who struggles to create a masterwork that will heal the metaphysical wounds of the age. A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course...
The Eternal Footman completes Morrow's darkly comic trilogy about God's untimely demise. With God's skull in orbit, competing with the moon, a ...
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110,92 zł |
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Blameless in Abaddon
ISBN: 9780156005050 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this funny, ferocious fantasy (Philadelphia Inquirer), God is a comatose, two-mile-long tourist attraction at a Florida theme park-until a conniving judge decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
" In this funny, ferocious fantasy (Philadelphia Inquirer), God is a comatose, two-mile-long tourist attraction at a Florida theme park-until a connivin...
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123,27 zł |
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Nebula Awards 28: Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
ISBN: 9780156000390 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.
Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners ...
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78,20 zł |
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This Is the Way the World Ends
ISBN: 9780156002080 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Gulliver s Travels of the nuclear age, the Alice in Wonderland of the arms race, this mordantly funny and visionary tale of the apocalypse was a Nebula finalist. The trouble starts when George Paxton ingenuously signs an admission of complicity in starting World War III. The only book in the last ten years that I ve read twice...a remarkable achievement (Arthur C. Clarke).
" The Gulliver s Travels of the nuclear age, the Alice in Wonderland of the arms race, this mordantly funny and visionary tale of the apocalypse was a N...
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102,69 zł |
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Where the Everyday Begins: A Study of Environment and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9783837640779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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593,83 zł |
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This Is the Way the World Ends
ISBN: 9780575081185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When tombstone engraver George Paxman is offered a bargain, he doesn't hesitate. His beloved daughter gets an otherwise unaffordable survival suit to protect her from radioactive fall-out and all George has to do is sign a document admitting that, as a passive citizen who did nothing to stop it, he has a degree of guilt for any nuclear war that breaks out. George signs on the dotted line. And then the unthinkable happens. The world and everyone in it (survival suit or not) is destroyed in a nuclear Armageddon - except for George and five others who must now face prosecution from the great...
When tombstone engraver George Paxman is offered a bargain, he doesn't hesitate. His beloved daughter gets an otherwise unaffordable survival suit to ...
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52,97 zł |
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Bible Stories for Adults
ISBN: 9780156002448 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Morrow unabashedly delves into matters both sacred and secular in this collection of short stories buoyed by his deliciously irreverent wit. Among the dozen selections is the Nebula Award-winning Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge.
" Morrow unabashedly delves into matters both sacred and secular in this collection of short stories buoyed by his deliciously irreverent wit. Among the...
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82,11 zł |
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My Friends Call Me Moon
ISBN: 9780988898202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1958 Jack E.Ward, news reporter for the New Orleans States-Item takes leave from the paper to edit the history of the prominently wealthy MacMorogh family, their empire and those responsible for its being. Ironically, his first interview is with Will MacMorogh a boyhood acquaintance. In subsequent interviews, Jack realizes that within the history is a magnificent story. He expands the history across four generations beginning shortly after the Civil War until the life and times of Will. With each interview comes a new character to join the others to face the challenge of their...
In 1958 Jack E.Ward, news reporter for the New Orleans States-Item takes leave from the paper to edit the history of the prominently wealthy MacMorogh...
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73,43 zł |
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The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent
ISBN: 9780765315373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A new SFWA Hall of Fame anthology A new SFWA Hall of Fame anthology |
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78,16 zł |
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Game Theory for Political Scientists
ISBN: 9780691034300 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by economists. James Morrow's book is the first to provide a standard text adapting contemporary game theory to political analysis. It uses a minimum of mathematics... Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic... |
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413,60 zł |
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Order within Anarchy
ISBN: 9781107048966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Order Within Anarchy focuses on how the laws of war create strategic expectations about how states and their soldiers will act during war, which can help produce restraint. International law as a political institution helps to create such expectations by specifying how violence should be limited and clarifying which actors should comply with those limits. The success of the laws of war depends on three related factors: compliance between warring states and between soldiers on the battlefield, and control of soldiers by their militaries. A statistical study of compliance of the laws of war...
Order Within Anarchy focuses on how the laws of war create strategic expectations about how states and their soldiers will act during war, which can h...
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587,77 zł |
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america needs common sense now: especially the president and congress
ISBN: 9781532778605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THIS BOOK IN SIMPLE COMMON SENSE LANGUAGE, LARGE PRINT. IT IS EASY TO ABSORB AND REMEMBER. IT IS CLOSEST TO REAL COMMON SENSE EXPERIENCE. THE WORST PROBLEMS FACING AMERICA TODAY ARE NOT JUST: "TOO BIG TO FAIL" COMPANIES, MONOPOLIES, TERRORISM, FOREIGN RELATIONS, THE ECONOMY, JOBS, RACISM, LAW AND ORDER, WELFARE, GLOBAL WARMING, ENERGY, POLICE BRUTALITY DRUGS, EDUCATION, HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE AND INSURANCE, ABORTION, NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION, GUN CONTROL, SOCIAL SECURITY, NATIONAL DEBT, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, OR FAMILY BREAKDOWN. SOME PEOPLE THINK IT IS STUPIDITY, AND "DUMBDOWNEDNESS," BY OUR...
THIS BOOK IN SIMPLE COMMON SENSE LANGUAGE, LARGE PRINT. IT IS EASY TO ABSORB AND REMEMBER. IT IS CLOSEST TO REAL COMMON SENSE EXPERIENCE. THE WORST PR...
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43,00 zł |