wyszukanych pozycji: 39
The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
ISBN: 9781594485053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A fantastic social history" from the author of Salt and Cod (USA Today)
In the Dominican Republic town of San Pedro de Macoris, baseball is often seen as the only way to a better life. For those who make it, the million-dollar paychecks from Major League Baseball mean that not only they, but their entire families as well, have been saved from grinding poverty. The successful few set an example that dazzles the neighbors they left behind. But for the majority, this dream is illusory. In The Eastern Stars, New York Times bestselling author Mark... "A fantastic social history" from the author of Salt and Cod (USA Today)
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98,53 zł |
Hawana. Podzwrotnikowe delirium w.2021
ISBN: 9788381912570 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Mówią, że to miasto „jest niczym miłość brzydkiej kobiety, namiętne i rozgorączkowane”. Że mężczyźni wciąż są tu ostentacyjnie męscy, a kobiety o rozłożystych biodrach – najbardziej kobiece na świecie. Mówią, że powietrze drży tutaj jak w delirium, kołysze się tanecznymi rytmami granej na żywo muzyki, że nawet chodzi się tu w rytmie sonu. Nakręcono o niej setki filmów, choć wciąż najlepiej wypada w stylu noir. Kiedyś miasto-występek, dziś miasto-upadek – Hawana.
Mark Kurlansky, dziennikarz „New York Timesa”, zapuszczał się w wąskie uliczki... Mówią, że to miasto „jest niczym miłość brzydkiej kobiety, namiętne i rozgorączkowane”. Że mężczyźni wciąż są tu ostentacyjnie męs...
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32,81 zł |
The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (A unique Ernest Hemingway biography, Gift for writers)
ISBN: 9781642504637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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102,05 zł |
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
ISBN: 9780767930307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the way we eat. While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. ... |
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82,11 zł |
Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts
ISBN: 9781594484889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these linked stories, Kurlansky ("Cod" and "Salt") reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food.
In these linked stories, Kurlansky ("Cod" and "Salt") reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food...
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90,32 zł |
The White Man In The Tree
ISBN: 9780099286745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The White Man in the Tree is a comedy of cultural misunderstanding set in the Caribbean, New York and Paris, a novella and eight stories about people who, because of their differences, misjudge each other.
The White Man in the Tree is a comedy of cultural misunderstanding set in the Caribbean, New York and Paris, a novella and eight stories about people ...
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87,48 zł |
Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
ISBN: 9780142004937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima
Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish on gingerbread; Pablo Neruda on French fries; Alexandre Dumas on coffee; and a vast variety by Escoffier, Elizabeth David, A. J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Balzac, Chekhov, Orwell, and Alice B. Toklas, among others. Filled throughout with recipes, menus, classic... Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima ...
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98,53 zł |
The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
ISBN: 9781635573077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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76,68 zł |
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One
ISBN: 9780300192469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the history of baseball was Hank Greenberg's swing. His calmly poised body seemed to have some special set of springs with a trigger release that snapped his arms and swept the bat through the air with the clean speed and strength of a propeller. But what is even more extraordinary than his grace and his power is that in Detroit of 1934, his swing--or its absence--became entwined with American Jewish history. Though Hank Greenberg was one of the... One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the... |
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60,12 zł |
Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue
ISBN: 9780099477648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt.
A comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly chang...
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43,71 zł |
Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media
ISBN: 9780884489122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,22 zł |
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
ISBN: 9780140275018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World... |
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73,90 zł |
Salmon
ISBN: 9781786078520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In his new global food history, the internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the world
In his new global food history, the internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the world
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115,48 zł |
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
ISBN: 9781632863829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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97,14 zł |
The Basque History Of The World
ISBN: 9780099284130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC. Their forbidden tongue is equally mysterious, it is related to no other, but today the Basques are enjoying what may be the most important cultural renaissance in their long existence.
They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 21...
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66,45 zł |
The Big Oyster: A Molluscular History of New York
ISBN: 9780099477594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed El...
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66,45 zł |
Salt: A World History
ISBN: 9780142001615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired...An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of non... |
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78,00 zł |
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
ISBN: 9781938340864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,17 zł |
Paper: Paging Through History
ISBN: 9780393239614 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability. One has only to look at history's greatest press run, which produced 6.5 billion copies of Mao zhuxi yulu, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)--which doesn't include editions in 37 foreign languages and in braille--to appreciate the... Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more effi... |
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112,49 zł |
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
ISBN: 9780099494126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Following the grand sweep of history from Confucius to Tolstoy, Erasmus to Gandhi, this book traces pacifism and its proponents to show how many modern ideas, a united Europe, the United Nations, and the abolition of slavery - originated in non-violence movements.
Following the grand sweep of history from Confucius to Tolstoy, Erasmus to Gandhi, this book traces pacifism and its proponents to show how many moder...
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92,95 zł |