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The Portable American Realism Reader
ISBN: 9780140268300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is an anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. Realist writers, represented by Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather among others, sought to paint life as it is, human feelings in their true proportions and relations. There are introductory essays on the historical and literary context of the Age of Realism, a chronology, critical headnotes and minibiographies.
This is an anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. Realist writers, represen...
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The Pastures of Heaven
ISBN: 9780140187489 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies. As the individual dramas unfold, Steinbeck reveals the self-deceptions, intellectual limitations, and emotional vulnerabilities that shape...
In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early ...
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Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy
ISBN: 9780817308421 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy is the first extensive examination of the relationship of Hemingway to his hometown, Oak Park, Illinois, and the influence its people, places, and underlying values had on his early work. In this volume, 11 leading Hemingway scholars explore various aspects of these issues, from the migration of the Hemingway family from Connecticut to Illinois in the 1850s, to Hemingway's high-school stories and the dramatic breakthrough of In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises. With these books, Hemingway suddenly became one of the most influential... Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy is the first extensive examination of the relationship of Hemingway to his hometown, Oak Park, Illinoi... |
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116,78 |
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Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories: Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable
ISBN: 9780817313388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America.
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin s Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable s Old Creole Days; Grace King s Balcony Stories; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson s The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. James Nagel argues... Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for th...
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The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre
ISBN: 9780807129616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short story cycle genre as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the story cycle, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels: Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich; Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid; Monkeys, by Susan Minot; The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros; The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien; How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez; The Joy...
James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short story cycle genre as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringin...
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Godel's Proof
ISBN: 9780359079261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Godel's Proof
ISBN: 9781138834651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' The Guardian In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was partly based on propositions not provable within the mathematical system. The importance of Godel's Proof rests upon its radical implications and has echoed throughout many fields, from maths to science to... 'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' The Guardian In 1... |
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Der Gödelsche Beweis
ISBN: 9783486597264 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2010 / 111 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Spatestens seit Douglas R. Hofstadters "Godel, Escher, Bach" ist der Name Godel auch bei Nichtmathematikern bekannt geworden. 1931 hatte Kurt Godel unter dem Titel "Uber formal unterscheidbare Satze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme" seinen Unvollstandigkeitssatz publiziert. Nagel und Newman haben das Wesentliche an Godels Ergebnissen fur Nichtfachleute dargestellt. Die vorliegende 9. Auflage ist ein unveranderter Nachdruck der langst klassisch gewordenen Ausgabe von 1958."
Spatestens seit Douglas R. Hofstadters "Godel, Escher, Bach" ist der Name Godel auch bei Nichtmathematikern bekannt geworden. 1931 hatte Kurt Godel un...
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The American Short Story Handbook
ISBN: 9780470655429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin's "The Speech of Miss Polly Baker" in 1747 to "The Joy Luck Club."
This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion o... |
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184,21 |
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Godel's Proof
ISBN: 9780814758168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Godel received public recognition of his work in 1951 when he was awarded the first Albert Einstein Award for achievement in the natural sciences--perhaps the highest award of its kind in the United States. The award committee described his work in mathematical logic as "one of the greatest contributions to the sciences in recent... In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." Thi... |
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