wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Insomnia: Poems
ISBN: 9780393353754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their stories: loves lost and gained; children and seasons in their phases; and the world beyond, both threatening and enriching life. The time before sleep acts as an invitation to reflect on the world's quieter movements--from gardens heavy after a first storm to the moon slipping into darkness in an eclipse--as well as on the subtle but relentless passage of time. Insomnia embodies Linda Pastan's graceful and iconic voice, both lucid and haunting. These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their stories: loves lost and gained; children and season... |
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78,21 zł |
Alena
ISBN: 9781594632921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In an inspired restaging of Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, a young curator finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor. Two years have passed since the tragic death of Alena, curator at the Nauk, a cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod. At the Venice Biennale, Bernard Augustin, the Nauk's wealthy, enigmatic founder--to whom Alena had been closest confidante and muse--offers the position to an aspiring young curator from the Midwest. It's the job of her dreams, and she dives at the chance. Just as quickly, she finds herself well out of her depth. The Nauk...
In an inspired restaging of Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, a young curator finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor....
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95,87 zł |
Endocytosis
ISBN: 9781461569060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Many hormones, growth factors, and other large molecules bind to speci- Jic receptors on the surface of eukaryotic cells and are rapidly taken into these cells. Current techniques of protein purification have made available sufficient amounts of these molecules so that detailed studies of their interaction with cells could be carried out. These studies have been performed on just a few types of cells, but it is clear that all types of cells carry out a_ similar internalization process. The realization that cells rapidly internalize hormones, growth factors, transport proteins, toxins, and...
Many hormones, growth factors, and other large molecules bind to speci- Jic receptors on the surface of eukaryotic cells and are rapidly taken into th...
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385,52 zł |
The Five Stages of Grief: Poems
ISBN: 9780393044942 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "It is above all her integrity that has made Linda Pastan such a rewarding poet. Nothing is here for effect. There is no self-pity, but in this new book she has reached down to a deeper layer and is letting the darkness in." --May Sarton
"It is above all her integrity that has made Linda Pastan such a rewarding poet. Nothing is here for effect. There is no self-pity, but in this new bo...
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73,86 zł |
Queen of a Rainy Country: Poems
ISBN: 9780393331417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from the poet's earliest childhood memories to the surprises that come with age.
Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from the poet's earlies...
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69,50 zł |
The Imperfect Paradise
ISBN: 9780393305241 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Imperfect Paradise, published in 1988, is Linda Pastan's 4th collection and was a nominee for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Poems deal with birds, the past, children, beauty, rituals, myths, the moon, vacations, aging, death, family life, and hope.
Imperfect Paradise, published in 1988, is Linda Pastan's 4th collection and was a nominee for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Poem...
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69,50 zł |
Traveling Light
ISBN: 9780393342680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Linda Pastan s] poems are skillfully written with lovely syntax and strong, evocative imagery. Surprising readers with subject and an occasional rhyme, Pastan proves once again that, 12 books later, she is a poet who can ground us, who can astound us. Essential reading for poetry lovers. Library Journal"
Linda Pastan s] poems are skillfully written with lovely syntax and strong, evocative imagery. Surprising readers with subject and an occasional rhym...
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69,50 zł |
An Early Afterlife: Poems
ISBN: 9780393313819 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The world wounds us / with is beauty, as if it knew / we had to leave it soon," Linda Pastan writes in "In a Northern Country," and the poems in this new volume are full of those wounds, that beauty, Whether her subject is the return of childhood ghosts or the metaphor of baseball, whether it is the impact of landscape or the vagaries of family love, Pastan continues to explore and illuminate the mysteries and dangers beneath the common surface of ordinary life. As the Jerusalem Post put it, "She has, in large measure, fulfilled Emerson's dream-the revelation of 'the miraculous in the...
"The world wounds us / with is beauty, as if it knew / we had to leave it soon," Linda Pastan writes in "In a Northern Country," and the poems in this...
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69,50 zł |
Waiting for My Life: Poems
ISBN: 9780393000498 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This remarkable new collection of poems is a sure affirmation of the fact that, as one critic has written, Linda Pastan "has quietly become one of our leading poets." Another critic noted, of her first volume, that she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream--the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common.'"
This remarkable new collection of poems is a sure affirmation of the fact that, as one critic has written, Linda Pastan "has quietly become one of our...
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73,86 zł |
PM/Am: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780393300550 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Instructions to the Reader: Come. Suspend willingly or not your disbelief and with empty pockets enter the room of the story. Warm your fingers at this candle which is only the stub of a dream and at any time may flicker or go out. Here fire consumes itself with paper and pencil for kindling; here a unicorn waits in the corner its musical horn ready. When I tell you this story is pure fact you will want to leave the room. Stay awhile.
Instructions to the Reader: Come. Suspend willingly or not your disbelief and with empty pockets enter the room of the story. Warm your finge...
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78,21 zł |
Aspects of Eve
ISBN: 9780871401021 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,50 zł |
A Fraction of Darkness
ISBN: 9780393302516 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Fraction of Darkness is the first book to follow PM/AM: New and Selected Poems, a nominee for the 1982 American Book Award. In this new collection, Linda Pastan continues to fulfill the promise of her five earlier books.
A Fraction of Darkness is the first book to follow PM/AM: New and Selected Poems, a nominee for the 1982 American Book Awar...
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69,50 zł |
Lady of the Snakes
ISBN: 9780156035057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jane Levitsky is a bright light in the field of 19th-century Russian literature. Seizing her ticket to academic superstardom, she sets in motion a chain of events that will come perilously close to unraveling both her marriage and her career.
Jane Levitsky is a bright light in the field of 19th-century Russian literature. Seizing her ticket to academic superstardom, she sets in motion a cha...
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78,39 zł |
Heroes in Disguise: Poems
ISBN: 9780393309225 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In her eighth collection, Linda Pastan touches upon themes of family, childhood, time and loss, and the beauty of nature. "Let the eye enlarge with all it beholds," she says in the opening poem; she becomes a seer, as the San Francisco Review of Books has said, returning to the role of the poet as it served the human race for centuries: to fuel our thinking, show us our world in new ways, and to get us to feel more intensely. "
In her eighth collection, Linda Pastan touches upon themes of family, childhood, time and loss, and the beauty of nature. "Let the eye enlarge with al...
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69,50 zł |
In the Field
ISBN: 9781953002037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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117,43 zł |
The Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Imagery in Honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness
ISBN: 9780754660101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Borrowing its title from Madeline Harrison Caviness's influential work on the modes of seeing articulated by the twelfth-century cleric Richard of Saint Victor, this interdisciplinary collection brings together the work of thirty scholars from England, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Each author has contributed an original article that engages with ideas formulated in Caviness's wide-ranging scholarship. The historiographic introduction discusses themes in Caviness's publications and their importance for art historical and medieval studies today. The book's...
Borrowing its title from Madeline Harrison Caviness's influential work on the modes of seeing articulated by the twelfth-century cleric Richard of Sai...
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909,47 zł |
Last Uncle: Poems
ISBN: 9780393325300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Last Uncle, Linda Pastan writes, "If death is everywhere we look, / at least let's marry it to beauty." The poems in this new collection deal with loss and the difficult transition between generations, but they are also about love and landscape and the many pleasures of the imagination.
In The Last Uncle, Linda Pastan writes, "If death is everywhere we look, / at least let's marry it to beauty." The poems in this new collection deal w...
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69,50 zł |
Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Materials, Methods, and Expressions
ISBN: 9789004395725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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1034,21 zł |
The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2013
ISBN: 9781941196021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,93 zł |
The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment
ISBN: 9781843839415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a historian) consider these and other issues. Rejecting the prevalent view that it was commissioned by Odo, the bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror, or by some other comparable patron, they bring new evidence to bear on the question of its relationship to the abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury....
Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its d...
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571,67 zł |