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The Snake in the Vodka Bottle: Life Stories from Post-Soviet Lithuania Twenty Years after the Collapse of Communism
ISBN: 9781475056969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twenty years after participating in Lithuania's independence movement as a student, Laima Vince returns on a Fulbright grant to post-soviet Lithuania with her three children. Over the course of four years, while living and teaching and raising her children as a single mother in Vilnius, she conducts interviews with a diverse range of people. In this book she records the life stories of traditional healers, who treat their patients using ancient verbal incantations; trafficked teenage girls and the activist social workers who shelter them; Baltic gay rights activists who fight, and win, the...
Twenty years after participating in Lithuania's independence movement as a student, Laima Vince returns on a Fulbright grant to post-soviet Lithuania ...
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114,39 zł |
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The Interpreter
ISBN: 9781475127348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Julius, a telephone interpreter, works from his bedroom in Buenos Aires interpreting phone calls between Lithuanian immigrants and United Kingdom Social Services and the East London Women's Health Clinic. Julius himself is an immigrant, first to the United States, then to Argentina. Julius's Argentine partner, Xavier, was also an immigrant, but has now returned home to Buenos Aires to enjoy an early retirement. However, peace and quiet in their household is disrupted by the constant phone calls from Julius's countrymen, who are in trouble abroad. Julius's professionalism begins to crumble...
Julius, a telephone interpreter, works from his bedroom in Buenos Aires interpreting phone calls between Lithuanian immigrants and United Kingdom Soci...
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45,76 zł |
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Digging a Hole to China: A Memoir on Teaching and Traveling
ISBN: 9781541102880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. DIGGING A HOLE TO CHINA is part travel writing, part memoir. Each chapter can be read as an individual essay or as part of the narrative. Laima Vince relocates to Hong Kong to teach at a Chinese international school. While she is in Hong Kong the Umbrella Revolution breaks out. Students and teachers in Hong Kong find themselves on opposing sides of the demonstrations. Some support mainland China while others dream of universal suffrage and democracy for Hong Kong. While living and working in Hong Kong Laima begins to understand the complex society that is today's China. This book chronicles...
DIGGING A HOLE TO CHINA is part travel writing, part memoir. Each chapter can be read as an individual essay or as part of the narrative. Laima Vince ...
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114,39 zł |
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Lenin's Head on a Platter
ISBN: 9781475152951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,16 zł |
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The Snake in the Vodka Bottle: Life in Post-Soviet Lithuania
ISBN: 9781542333528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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114,39 zł |
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The Way Life Should Be: Essays About People Who Live Their Dreams
ISBN: 9781546527398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE is a collection of essays about people who live their lives in alignment with their soul path. With the exception of one person, all of the people I've written about in this book live in Maine. Whether it's the rough cold North Atlantic or the tall pines or that specific northern light that attracts artists and dreamers to Maine, or whether it's the possibility of living just that far away from "civilization," the people in these essays share one thing in common-the lives they live and the work they do are in harmony. And so, this is a book about the way life should...
THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE is a collection of essays about people who live their lives in alignment with their soul path. With the exception of one person...
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54,90 zł |
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A Mong Kok Romeo and Juliet: A Play in Four Acts
ISBN: 9781512325249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This play for young adults is a contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET set in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Mong Kok. The play tells a love story between teenagers from two Mong Kok families, who have been ensnared in conflict since "a business deal went wrong." Raj Kapoor, an Indian, and an idealistic young man, as well as a poet, falls in love with Juliet Chiu, the only daughter of the wealthy and powerful Chius of Mong Kok. Juliet proves to be the perfect match for Raj. Misunderstood by her materialistic parents, Juliet is a sensitive soul who also writes poetry, causing...
This play for young adults is a contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET set in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Mong Kok. The play tells...
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45,76 zł |
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How Many Ways Can You Break a Woman's Heart: A Play in One Act
ISBN: 9781546629344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,76 zł |
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The Cosmic Tree: Poems by Laima Vince
ISBN: 9781541277656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Laima Vince began writing these poems as a MFA student at Columbia University School of the Arts. She continued writing poetry throughout her life, as she passed through many different phases of womanhood--marriage, motherhood, divorce, self-discovery, coming the terms. These poems consider what it means to be a woman in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. The poems also reflect a life of creativity and personal challenge.
Laima Vince began writing these poems as a MFA student at Columbia University School of the Arts. She continued writing poetry throughout her life, as...
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45,76 zł |
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Love Cult at the Arctic Circle
ISBN: 9781478171362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,63 zł |
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A Hike at the Seashore
ISBN: 9781546545569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Hike at the Seashore offers a snapshot into the lives of five Lithuanian women over fifty. All five are from Vilnius and have been friends since their university days. They have been through a lot together and are each others' support network. All five are divorced. All are single. All suffer from empty nest syndrome. All work as professionals. Every summer they organize a girls' trip together. This summer they have traveled to the Baltic Sea coast. The group's self-appointed organizer, Vida, is on a fitness binge and insists her girlfriends spend their much needed vacation hiking thirty...
A Hike at the Seashore offers a snapshot into the lives of five Lithuanian women over fifty. All five are from Vilnius and have been friends since the...
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45,76 zł |
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Chaos@Chungking.Mansions: You can check in, but you can't check out...
ISBN: 9781505700015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A flight is diverted from Shanghai to Hong Kong and three passengers, Rajesh (India), Paul (USA), and Luna (Indonesia), are thrown together for three days in a cheap hotel in Chungking Mansions. In this play the gritty reality of everyday life in Hong Kong's ethnic neighborhoods is played against the vulnerability of Hong Kong's elite rich and famous. This cultural clash comes to a head when the bumbling hotel manager, Sunil, orchestrates a botched kidnapping of the fictional daughter of a real Lee Ka-Shing, a Hong Kong billionaire real estate developer and philanthropist, and Rajesh, Paul,...
A flight is diverted from Shanghai to Hong Kong and three passengers, Rajesh (India), Paul (USA), and Luna (Indonesia), are thrown together for three ...
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59,48 zł |
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The Silenced Muses: A Story About Life. Not Death.
ISBN: 9781729488133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,27 zł |
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This Is Not My Sky
ISBN: 9781546329213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is 1950. World War II has ended. The tiny Baltic country of Lithuania has been occupied by the Soviet Union. Here the war after the war is still raging. It is an underground war--a war that is fought by those who have survived and remained behind after Stalin's massive deportations to Siberia, and after a third of the population has fled to the West. It is a war fought by men, women, and children. Maria is 12. Her father is has been deported to Siberia. Her mother is hiding a resistance fighter who has returned from the West under the floorboards of their little wooden house on the edge of...
It is 1950. World War II has ended. The tiny Baltic country of Lithuania has been occupied by the Soviet Union. Here the war after the war is still ra...
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105,23 zł |
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Adventure Week!: Travel Essays by Students from the American International School of Hong Kong
ISBN: 9781499620900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since 2005 the American International School of Hong Kong has developed an Outdoor Education and Leadership Program that enables the whole high school to annually go off campus and take part in outdoor education and adventure, in community service, or in leadership programs in a variety of locations. Every October, the week before autumn break, regular high school classes are suspended and all students take part in this off-campus program. The Adventure Week program is designed to develop students holistically in a way not possible in the classroom or home setting. During the 2013 - 14...
Since 2005 the American International School of Hong Kong has developed an Outdoor Education and Leadership Program that enables the whole high school...
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129,85 zł |
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Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature
ISBN: 9781803740256 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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369,75 zł |
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