wyszukanych pozycji: 878
Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate
ISBN: 9781620456842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, ""Woodward and Bernstein"" takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely journalistic duo. Thrown together by fate or luck, Woodward and Bernstein changed the face of journalism and the American presidency. For the first time, Shepard separates myth from reality as she traces the lives of the iconic journalists before and after Watergate.
Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, ""Woodward and Bernstein"" takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely jo...
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74,57 zł |
Hawk Moon: Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues
ISBN: 9780933826236 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems--Shepard's first--one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflects on growing up in America, rock and roll, the sex of fishes, and other topics. Shepard displays his virtuosic sense of the rhythms of the American landscape.
In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems--Shepard's first--one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflect...
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67,80 zł |
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
ISBN: 9780307277602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--"Here is the effect of these two books," wrote the Chicago Tribune: "A reader finishes them buzzing with awe"--Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.
Like You'd Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his... Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--"Here is the effect of these two books," wrote the Chicago Tribune: <...
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70,39 zł |
The Book of Aron
ISBN: 9781101872741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more quickly, his family's opportunities for a better life vanish as the occupying German government imposes harsh restrictions. Officially confined to the Jewish quarter, with hunger, vermin, disease and death all around him, Aron makes his way from apprentice to master smuggler until finally, with everyone for whom he cared stripped away from him, his only option is Janusz Korczak, the renowned doctor, children's rights advocate, and radio host who...
Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more qu...
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92,39 zł |
The Book of Aron
ISBN: 9781784290320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A lauded 'masterpiece' that tells with compassion and humour the story of Janusz Korczak, a hero of the Polish Jewish ghetto
A lauded 'masterpiece' that tells with compassion and humour the story of Janusz Korczak, a hero of the Polish Jewish ghetto
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56,09 zł |
Eye II Eye: Miseducation of the Storm
ISBN: 9781365230837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. EYE II EYE Miseducation of the Storm is the ultimate bridge of self-discovery. Littered with intrinsic riddles of wisdom that connect new perspectives with every line, this is a book to be read by every woman and realized by every man. See the difference as Dr. Shepard pens a prescription that offers remarkable clarity to the divine relationship between life and love. Miseducation of the Storm is an advanced medley of poetic justice that allows readers from all walks of life to put their pieces back in place one page at a time. With answers to some of life's oldest questions and discovery...
EYE II EYE Miseducation of the Storm is the ultimate bridge of self-discovery. Littered with intrinsic riddles of wisdom that connect new perspectives...
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83,77 zł |
Cruising Paradise: Tales
ISBN: 9780679742173 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wil...
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83,59 zł |
Growing 360: Self-Awareness Journal
ISBN: 9781716508790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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98,55 zł |
Motel Chronicles
ISBN: 9780872861435 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. -. . .essential reading. A scrapbook of short... Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend... |
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74,57 zł |
Phase Six
ISBN: 9781529415070 / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A spare and gripping novel about a disastrous pandemic-completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged-that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis.
A spare and gripping novel about a disastrous pandemic-completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged-that reads like a ficti...
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86,71 zł |
Simpatico : A Play in Three Acts
ISBN: 9780413697905 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life (The Times)
A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of huma...
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62,08 zł |
i Call Dibs
ISBN: 9780359814329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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104,71 zł |
The World to Come: Stories
ISBN: 9780525432319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history's most nightmarish expeditions, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their...
"Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that ...
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70,39 zł |
A Hundred Cities
ISBN: 9780557667147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,80 zł |
Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories
ISBN: 9781400033492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I've been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this point I'd have to list darts, re-closing Stay-Fresh boxes, and staying out of the way. This is the self-eulogy offered early on by the unwilling hero of the opening story in this collection, a dazzling array of work in short fiction from a master of the form. The stories in Love and Hydrogen--familiar to readers from...
I've been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employe...
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87,99 zł |
Spy Of The First Person
ISBN: 9780525563365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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74,79 zł |
Return to the Prairie: More Tales of History and Hauntings in Kansas
ISBN: 9781798682975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,25 zł |
Espia de la Primera Persona
ISBN: 9788433913357 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,57 zł |
You Think That's Bad
ISBN: 9780307742148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following Like You'd Understand, Anyway--awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience--from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below average--with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, workaholic artists, female explorers, depraved murderers, and deluded losers, all wholly convincing and utterly fascinating.
Following Like You'd Understand, Anyway--awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns with an even m...
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105,59 zł |