wyszukanych pozycji: 29
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780374603601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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157,94 zł |
Coming Into The Country
ISBN: 9781907970726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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66,92 zł |
The Crofter And The Laird
ISBN: 9781907970917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,46 zł |
The Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferris/McGraw Writers at Princeton University
ISBN: 9780691086811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1957--long before colleges awarded degrees in creative nonfiction and back when newspaper writing's reputation was tainted by the fish it wrapped--Princeton began honoring talented literary journalists. Since then, fifty-nine of the finest, most dedicated, and most decorated nonfiction writers have held the Ferris and McGraw professorships. This monumental volume harbors their favorite and often most influential works. Each contribution is rewarding reading, and collectively the selections validate journalism's ascent into the esteem of the academy and the reading public. ... In 1957--long before colleges awarded degrees in creative nonfiction and back when newspaper writing's reputation was tainted by the fish it wrappe... |
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320,00 zł |
Levels of the Game
ISBN: 9780374515263 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games. This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for th... |
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71,76 zł |
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
ISBN: 9780374537975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the Writing Process.
On the Writing Process.
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63,32 zł |
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781250335708 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
The Patch
ISBN: 9781250234889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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71,76 zł |
Oranges
ISBN: 9781907970863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,46 zł |
The Founding Fish
ISBN: 9780374528836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably... John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, ... |
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105,53 zł |
The Crofter and the Laird
ISBN: 9780374514655 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors--Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland--a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who owned Colonsay, were "incomers." Donald McNeill, the crofter of the title, was working out his existence in this last domain of the feudal system; the laird, the fourth Baron Strathcona, lived in Bath, appeared on Colonsay mainly in the summer, and... When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors--Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland--a hundred and thirty-eight peo... |
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71,76 zł |
The Patch
ISBN: 9780374229481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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133,91 zł |
The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University
ISBN: 9780691143088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. From a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Reader brings together more than 90 favorite essays by 75 distinguished writers. This collection of nonfiction pieces by journalists who have held the Ferris/McGraw/Robbins professorships at Princeton University offers a feast of ideas, emotions, and experiences--political and personal, light-hearted and comic, serious and controversial--for anyone to dip into, contemplate, and enjoy. The volume includes a plethora of topics from the... From a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Re... |
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247,12 zł |
The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
ISBN: 9780374515980 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry. Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an i... |
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97,86 zł |
Oranges
ISBN: 9780374512972 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost... A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encounte... |
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75,98 zł |
Assembling California
ISBN: 9780374523930 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the... At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the Univ... |
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84,42 zł |
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
ISBN: 9780374516932 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made... In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and wit... |
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67,54 zł |
Annals of the Former World
ISBN: 9780374518738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the... The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John... |
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122,41 zł |
The Final Sunset: The fatal sinking of the HMBS Flamingo
ISBN: 9781662464966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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84,38 zł |
Basin and Range
ISBN: 9780374516901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges that are green with junipers and often white with snow. The terrain becomes the setting for a... The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, al... |
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80,20 zł |