wyszukanych pozycji: 22
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Gillespie and I
ISBN: 9780571238309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes the promise and certainties of this world all too rapidly disintegrate into mystery and deception...
Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter she befriends the...
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60,34 |
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Sugar Money
ISBN: 9780571336951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Based on a remarkable and little-known true story. Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master with a mission. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions of the true dangers they will face .
Based on a remarkable and little-known true story. Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master with a mission...
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55,31 |
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Gillespie and I
ISBN: 9780062103208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes an absorbing, atmospheric exploration of one young woman's friendship with a volatile artist and her place in the controversy that consumes him. Jane Harris's Gillespie and I presents a strongly voiced female protagonist evocative of Moll Flanders and Becky Sharp, who offers a keen sensibility, deeply felt observations, and poignant remembrances of the world of a young artist in turn-of-the-century Glasgow in this fantastic work of historical fiction. London's Sunday Times calls Gillespie and I...
From the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes an absorbing, atmospheric exploration of one young woman's friendship with a...
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cena:
73,17 |
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When Words are not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief
ISBN: 9781912480579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
100,60 |
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Sugar Money
ISBN: 9781948924580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,47 |
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The Observations
ISBN: 9780143112013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Observations is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel's heroine, is a cynical, wide-eyed, and tender fifteen-year-old Irish girl who takes a job as a maid in a once-grand country house outside Edinburgh, where all is not as it seems. Asked by her employer, the beautiful Arabella, to keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts, Bessy soon makes a troubling discovery and realizes that she has fled her difficult past only to arrive in an even more disturbing present.
The Observations is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel's heroine, is a cynica...
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cena:
84,78 |
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Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis
ISBN: 9781138547049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
cena:
239,94 |
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Continuity, Innovation, and Connoisseurship: Old Master Paintings at the Palmer Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780911209563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Continuity, Innovation, and Connoisseurship brings together revised versions of papers first presented at an international symposium of the same name held at The Pennsylvania State University in 1995. Noted Old Master experts were invited to discuss and contextualize key sixteenth- and seventeenth-century paintings in the collection of the Palmer Museum of Art. The papers shed new light on these works, connecting them to important issues in the thematic and stylistic development of Old Master paintings. This richly illustrated volume also provides an informative... Continuity, Innovation, and Connoisseurship brings together revised versions of papers first presented at an international symposium of th... |
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97,90 |
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Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
ISBN: 9780691637679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literature from various critical perspectives. They will whet the appetite of readers interested in penetrating beyond the canonical texts of Russian literature. The introduction focuses on the central issues and key problems of current autobiographical theory and practice in both the West and in the Soviet Union, while each essay treats an aspect of auto-biographical praxis in the context of an individual author's work and often in dialogue with another... The fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literatur... |
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538,76 |
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Girlfriends, Brothers, and Others: Can God Fix My Family? Can God Fix Me?
ISBN: 9780979112010 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
64,70 |
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Broken City: Why Auckland is f*d and what is being done about it
ISBN: 9780473736354 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
64,70 |
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She Who Prays: A Woman's Interfaith Prayer Book
ISBN: 9780819221131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Prayer book designed to be used by individual women, as well as by those who are leading group prayer services.
For nearly two millennia, Christian women have learned to pray in the language of other people's souls. From worshiping God as father to envisioning a holy life as a military campaign, they've been taught to approach the Divine with the hearts and minds of men. She Who Prays: A Woman's Interfaith Prayer Book offers women a new way to pray. It draws on feminine images of God, as well as the language and experience of women, to help women tap into their... A Prayer book designed to be used by individual women, as well as by those who are leading group prayer services.
For nearly two millenn... |
cena:
126,98 |
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The Extraordinary Adventures of an Ordinary Girl
ISBN: 9798889929857 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,05 |
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Persuasion
ISBN: 9780521824187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The accident of death makes Persuasion Jane Austen's final novel. It deserves its position by its innovative treatment of passion and rhetorical style and its development of those themes of memory and time, public and private history, inner and outer lives, language and literature, emotion and restraint that have marked all Austen's work. Where the other works move towards a new symbolic and physical home for the heroine, Persuasion begins with her ejection and ends with her understanding that home is not a place at all but an ambiance and an acceptance of change. This volume, first published...
The accident of death makes Persuasion Jane Austen's final novel. It deserves its position by its innovative treatment of passion and rhetorical style...
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600,73 |
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Proofread or Die!: Writings by Former Students & Colleagues of David Foster Wallace
ISBN: 9781943170159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The contributions in this anthology reflect the aesthetic breadth that David fostered in his classrooms. They represent multiple genres-fiction, nonfiction, even a play-and a range of voices, styles, and forms. A handful of the contributions in the anthology have been published elsewhere, in little magazines or online, but the majority of them appear here for the first time. Not all of the former students represented in this volume worked extensively with David, though most took at least one course from him. A few of the stories and essays were initially written for one of his classes or as...
The contributions in this anthology reflect the aesthetic breadth that David fostered in his classrooms. They represent multiple genres-fiction, nonfi...
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109,21 |
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Cauldron of Chaos: Issue Four
ISBN: 9798399186924 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,23 |
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Godhead
ISBN: 9780992864903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. No human event is more personal than death, no solitude more chilling. Nathaniel ben Ezra, too young to be barmitzvah, tries to diminish the suffering of Jesus Christ by offering him a goblet of orange juice, which results in an incident affecting his entire life. Nathaniel loves his own father, and cannot comprehend how the God of Israel could have been so ready to sacrifice his own son, or what could possibly be gained from permitting it. He feels contempt as well as hatred for such a god, who also drinks in so many prayers without heeding them. Nathaniel believes that God is a cosmic...
No human event is more personal than death, no solitude more chilling. Nathaniel ben Ezra, too young to be barmitzvah, tries to diminish the suffering...
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60,65 |
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Family Life in England and America, 1690 1820
ISBN: 9781848934740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 1600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change.
This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide...
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1836,65 |
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Protecting Women : Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920
ISBN: 9780252064647 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Explores the origin and array of protective labor legislation directed at women. This title analyzes ideologies, attitudes, and effects of legislation across women's classes, among employers and workers' organizations, and in both bourgeois and socialist feminist groups.
Explores the origin and array of protective labor legislation directed at women. This title analyzes ideologies, attitudes, and effects of legislation...
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127,29 |
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Teachers Leading Educational Reform: The Power of Professional Learning Communities
ISBN: 9781138641051 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Teachers Leading Educational Reform explores the ways in which teachers across the world are currently working together in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to generate meaningful change and innovation in order to transform pedagogy and practice. By discussing how teachers can work collectively and collaboratively on the issues of learning and teaching that matter to them, it argues that through collective action and collaborative agency, teachers are leading educational reform. By offering contemporary examples and perspectives on the practice, impact and... Teachers Leading Educational Reform explores the ways in which teachers across the world are currently working together in Professional Lea... |
cena:
710,17 |