wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Last Stop, the Twilight Zone: The Biography of Rod Serling
ISBN: 9781623061227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,98 zł |
Scorched Worth: A True Story of Destruction, Deceit, and Government Corruption
ISBN: 9781594039812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The problems with America's criminal-justice system have been covered extensively in newspapers, magazines, and books. But little, if anything, has been written or said about a uniquely odious form of sanctioned corruption: government agencies maliciously suing individuals and companies. The motive is usually cost recovery. For the prosecuting lawyers, lawsuits that bring in money to the treasury (some of which gets kicked back to the prosecuting department) are a fast track to promotion and prestige. But the motive may also be personal--jealousy, envy, even a lawyer's warped sense of social...
The problems with America's criminal-justice system have been covered extensively in newspapers, magazines, and books. But little, if anything, has be...
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113,25 zł |
Screenwriters on Screen-Writing: The Best in the Business Discuss Their Craft
ISBN: 9780786880577 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Before any lights, camera, or action, there's the script--arguably the most important single element in filmmaking, and Screenwriters on Screen-Writing introduces the men and women responsible for the screenplays that have produced some of the most successful and acclaimed films in Hollywood history. In each interview, not only do the writers explore the craft and technique of creating a filmic blueprint, but they recount the colorful tales of coming up in the ranks of the movie business and of bringing their stories to the screen, in a way that only natural-born storytellers such as...
Before any lights, camera, or action, there's the script--arguably the most important single element in filmmaking, and Screenwriters on Screen-Wri...
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95,82 zł |
L.A. '56
ISBN: 9780312591946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Los Angeles, 1956. Glamorous. Prosperous. The place to see and be seen. But beneath the shiny exterior beats a dark heart. For when the sun goes down, L.A. becomes the noir city of James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential or Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins novels. Segregation is the unwritten law of the land. The growing black population is expected to keep to South Central. The white cops are encouraged to deal out harsh street justice. In L.A. '56, Joel Engel paints a tense, moody portrait of the city as a devil weaves his way through the shadows. While R&B and hot jazz spill... Los Angeles, 1956. Glamorous. Prosperous. The place to see and be seen. But beneath the shiny exterior beats a dark heart. For when the sun goes do... |
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174,26 zł |
The Rookie: The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dream
ISBN: 9780446678377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. He Played A Boy's Game. He Lived A Man's Life. As a lonely child, Jim Morris took one thing with him wherever his family moved-his ability to hit and throw a baseball. For Jim, the passion of becoming a major-league ballplayer was his anchor and inspiration...until injuries and life got in the way. A decade after Jim walked away from the minors and began a life of fatherhood and mortgage payments, he made a promise to the hardscrabble high-school team he coached: If they could win their local championship, he would try out again for the big leagues. They did-and he did. Now, in this wondrous,...
He Played A Boy's Game. He Lived A Man's Life. As a lonely child, Jim Morris took one thing with him wherever his family moved-his ability to hit and ...
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140,45 zł |
The Oldest Rookie
ISBN: 9780316591560 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jim Morris was a high school physics teacher until becoming a professional ball player at age 35. This is the true story of how he signed on as the major league's oldest rookie pitcher in 40 years and how long-buried dreams can return to redeem a life.
Jim Morris was a high school physics teacher until becoming a professional ball player at age 35. This is the true story of how he signed on as the ma...
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197,65 zł |
What Would Martin Say?
ISBN: 9780061672675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the world lost one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. We would all benefit from hearing Martin's voice, if only he were alive today. . . . If anyone would have insight into Martin's thoughts and opinions, it would be Clarence B. Jones, King's personal lawyer and one of his closest principal advisers and confidants. Removing the mythic distance of forty years' time to reveal the flesh-and-blood man he knew as his friend, Jones ponders what the outspoken civil rights leader would say... When the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the world lost one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth c... |
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78,39 zł |