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Culinary Ephemera: An Illustrated Historyvolume 30
ISBN: 9780520259775 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, valentines, packaging, advertisements, and other materials from nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Internationally acclaimed food historian William Woys Weaver takes us on a lively tour through this dazzling collection in which each piece tells a new story about food and the past. Packed...
This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unpreceden...
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138,08 zł |
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Puccini Companion
ISBN: 9780393320527 / Angielski / Miękka / 1962 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) What forces helped shape the output of this high-living, often arrogant, but immensely talented composer? This fascinating collection includes Simonetta Puccini's essay full of intimate details about her family, as well as writings by experts on the racist politics behind the creation of "Madama Butterfly"; Puccini's fascination with American culture as exemplified in "Fanciulla del West"; his grappling with twentieth-century musical practices in "Trittico" and "Turandot"; and the changes that early recording technology sparked in turn-of-the-century operatic performance style.
What forces helped shape the output of this high-living, often arrogant, but immensely talented composer? This fascinating collection includes Simonet...
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173,88 zł |
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Road Ends in Water
ISBN: 9781440164866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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121,50 zł |
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Seven Verdi Librettos
ISBN: 9780393008524 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.
Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.
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141,28 zł |
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Road Ends in Water
ISBN: 9781440164880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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78,03 zł |
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Flavors from the Garden: Heirloom Vegetable Recipes from Roughwood
ISBN: 9780789345028 / Twarda / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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61,87 zł |
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As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine
ISBN: 9780812244793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When visitors travel to Pennsylvania Dutch Country, they are encouraged to consume the local culture by way of "regional specialties" such as cream-filled whoopie pies and deep-fried fritters of every variety. Yet many of the dishes and confections visitors have come to expect from the region did not emerge from Pennsylvania Dutch culture but from expectations fabricated by local-color novels or the tourist industry. At the same time, other less celebrated (and rather more delicious) dishes, such as sauerkraut and stuffed pork stomach, have been enjoyed in Pennsylvania Dutch homes across... When visitors travel to Pennsylvania Dutch Country, they are encouraged to consume the local culture by way of "regional specialties" such as cream... |
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173,66 zł |
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As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine
ISBN: 9780812223866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When visitors travel to Pennsylvania Dutch Country, they are encouraged to consume the local culture by way of "regional specialties" such as cream-filled whoopie pies and deep-fried fritters of every variety. Yet many of the dishes and confections visitors have come to expect from the region did not emerge from Pennsylvania Dutch culture but from expectations fabricated by local-color novels or the tourist industry. At the same time, other less celebrated (and rather more delicious) dishes, such as sauerkraut and stuffed pork stomach, have been enjoyed in Pennsylvania Dutch homes across... When visitors travel to Pennsylvania Dutch Country, they are encouraged to consume the local culture by way of "regional specialties" such as cream... |
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151,92 zł |
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Duse: A Biography
ISBN: 9780156262590 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, diaries, and personal papers, Weaver brings alive the legend of Italian actress Eleanor Duse, one of the greatest actresses in the history of the theater. Index; photographs.
Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, diaries, and personal papers, Weaver brings alive the legend of Italian actress Eleanor Duse, one of the g...
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95,59 zł |
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Foucault's Pendulum
ISBN: 9780063279650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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86,90 zł |
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
ISBN: 9780156001250 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In these impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent essays (Atlantic Monthly), the Andy Rooney of academia (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
" In these impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent essays (Atlantic Monthly), the Andy Rooney of academia (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon...
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73,68 zł |
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Misreadings
ISBN: 9780156607520 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. A scintillating collection of writings (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
" Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our ...
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64,98 zł |
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Foucault's Pendulum
ISBN: 9780151327652 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo, among other things-that suddenly becomes all too real. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo, am...
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152,15 zł |
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Name of the Rose
ISBN: 9780063279636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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86,90 zł |
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T Zero
ISBN: 9780156924009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. -Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty- (Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. -Calvino ...
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64,98 zł |
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Invisible Cities
ISBN: 9780156453806 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. from"Invisible Cities"
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities,... Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceit...
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82,55 zł |
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The Late Mattia Pascal
ISBN: 9781590171158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life--only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man he was.
An explorer of identity and its mysteries, a connoisseur of black humor, Nobel Prize... Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a c...
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87,72 zł |
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
ISBN: 9780156439619 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.
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82,55 zł |
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Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City
ISBN: 9780156572040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the p...
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82,55 zł |
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Mr. Palomar
ISBN: 9780156627801 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman's breasts, or a gorilla's behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented by the burden of individual perception. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whe...
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64,98 zł |
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