wyszukanych pozycji: 15
The Harrows of Spring
ISBN: 9780802126818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, The Harrows of Spring concludes the quartet of his extraordinary World Made By Hand novels, set in an American future of economic and political collapse, where electricity, automobiles, and the familiar social structures of the "old times" are a misty memory. In the little upstate New York town of Union Grove, springtime is a most difficult season, known as "the six weeks want," when fresh food is scarce and winter stores have dwindled. Young Daniel Earle returns from his haunting travels...
From the renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, The Harrows of Spring concludes the quartet of hi...
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69,38 zł |
Big Slide: A Play in Three Acts
ISBN: 9781986615440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,88 zł |
The Witch of Hebron
ISBN: 9780802145444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Renowned social commentator and best-selling author James Howard Kunstler s sequel to "World Made by Hand," expands on his vision of post-oil society in America in this suspenseful, darkly amusing story with touches of the fantastic in the mode of Washington Irving ("Booklist").
In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, the electricity has flickered off, the Internet is a distant memory, and the government is little more than a rumor. Travel is horse-drawn and farming is back at the center of life, but Union Grove is no pastoral haven. Wars are fought over dwindling resources and... Renowned social commentator and best-selling author James Howard Kunstler s sequel to "World Made by Hand," expands on his vision of post-oil society ...
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64,83 zł |
A History of the Future: A World Made by Hand Novel
ISBN: 9780802123725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A History of the Future" is the third thrilling novel in Kunstler s "World Made By Hand" series, an exploration of family and morality as played out in the small town of Union Grove.
Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first centurythe pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaospeople are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove in upstate New York, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the... "A History of the Future" is the third thrilling novel in Kunstler s "World Made By Hand" series, an exploration of family and morality as played out ...
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78,06 zł |
Manhattan Gothic: A Ghoulish Tale of Friendship and Tribulation
ISBN: 9780984625239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,15 zł |
World Made by Hand
ISBN: 9780802144010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is nothing like they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and...
In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with cl...
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78,06 zł |
The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition
ISBN: 9780743227230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape" and fueled a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first-century America. Here, Kunstler turns his discerning eye to urban life in America and beyond in dazzling excursions to classical Rome, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, Louis-Napoleon's Paris, the "gigantic hairball" that is contemporary Atlanta, the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, and more. Seeking to discover what is constant and enduring in cities at their greatest, Kunstler explores how America got lost...
In the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape" and fueled a fierce debate over...
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86,69 zł |
A Christmas Orphan: a Tale of Pluck and Salvation
ISBN: 9780984625260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,15 zł |
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780684837376 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not merely a symptom of a troubled culture, but one of the primary causes of our discontent.
In Home from Nowhere Kunstler not only shows that the original American Dream -- the desire for peaceful, pleasant places in which to work and live -- still has a strong hold on our imaginations, but also offers innovative, eminently practical ways to... In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and...
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86,69 zł |
A Safe and Happy Place
ISBN: 9780984625291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,47 zł |
The Law of the Jungle: A Tale of Loss and Woe
ISBN: 9781987706246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,15 zł |
Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
ISBN: 9780802121448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Howard Kunstler s critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going into nine printings in hardcover. Kunstler s shocking vision of our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders alike, and stimulated widespread discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels and our dysfunctional financial and government institutions. Kunstler has since been profiled in the "New Yorker" and invited to speak at TED. In "Too Much Magic," Kunstler evaluates what has changed in the last seven...
James Howard Kunstler s critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going...
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69,38 zł |
Young Man Blues
ISBN: 9781952685774 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,32 zł |
Beauty and Catastrophe: The Human Imprint on Our Landscape
ISBN: 9781952685668 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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223,11 zł |
Survive--The Economic Collapse
ISBN: 9781914208621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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103,59 zł |