wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Writing Was Everything
ISBN: 9780674962385 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a vibrant cultural drama teeming with such characters as Hart Crane and Allen Ginsburg, Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor, Hannah Arendt and Robert Lowell, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell.
For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything...
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149,13 zł |
Frauenfußball in Deutschland
ISBN: 9783639342161 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2011 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sie wurden unterdruckt, verachtet und verspottet. Fussballspielende Frauen in Deutschland waren lange Zeit nicht so popular und angesagt wie es heute der Fall ist. Frauenfussball ist eine Sunde" titelten die einen, Fussball ist Mannersport" stand in anderen Zeitungen. Im Jahr 1955 folgte schliesslich das offizielle Verbot des Frauenfussballs in Deutschland. Doch auch das Verbot hat die Frauen nicht davon abgehalten weiterhin Fussball zu spielen, ihren Sport zu fordern und zu verbreiten. Die Bedeutung des Frauenfussballs in Deutschland steigt seitdem unaufhaltsam. Bei der...
Sie wurden unterdruckt, verachtet und verspottet. Fussballspielende Frauen in Deutschland waren lange Zeit nicht so popular und angesagt wie es heute ...
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225,87 zł |
A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin
ISBN: 9780060928322 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From the journals of one of our most distinguished critics comes an extraordinary panorama of the intellectual, social and political culture of the last half century. Written with the vividness and power of first-rate fiction, it brings to life the great artists and thinkers who shaped the times, including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud and Hannah Arendt, and shares Kazin's insights on politics, literature, Jewish life after the Holocaust and American society. It is an immensely rich and resonant memoir from an observer whose eloquence can imbue each moment lived with a lifetime of thought and...
From the journals of one of our most distinguished critics comes an extraordinary panorama of the intellectual, social and political culture of the la...
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78,77 zł |
God and the American Writer
ISBN: 9780679733416 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) God and the American Writer does more to illuminate the fundamental purposes and motivations of our greatest writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner than any study I have read in the past fifty-five years--that is, since the same author's On Native Grounds.
--Louis S. Auchincloss This is the culminating work of the finest living critic of American literature.Alfred Kazin brings a lifetime of thought and reading to the triumphant elucidation of his fascinating and slippery subjects: what the meaning of God has been for American writers, and how those writers, from the New England Calvinists... God and the American Writer does more to illuminate the fundamental purposes and motivations of our greatest writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner than a...
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87,57 zł |
A Walker in the City
ISBN: 9780156941761 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Kazin s memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to americanca -the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s. Drawings by Marvin Bileck.
" Kazin s memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to americanca -the larger world that begins at the othe...
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70,01 zł |
War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9781476705910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,57 zł |
Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal
ISBN: 9780807858974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. In response to the pervasive vision of Americanism as a battle cry or a smug assumption, this collection of essays stirs up new questions and debates that challenge us to rethink the model currently being exported, too often by force, to the rest of the world.
Crafted by a cast of both rising and renowned intellectuals... What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's righ...
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206,88 zł |
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
ISBN: 9781250862891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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103,72 zł |
The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History 2 Volume Set
ISBN: 9780691129716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 1056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped American politics from the founding to today. Broad in scope, the book addresses both the traditional topics of political history--such as eras, institutions, political parties, presidents, and founding documents--and the wider subjects of current scholarship, including military, electoral, and economic events, as well as social movements, popular culture, religion, education, race, gender, and more. Each article, specially commissioned... An essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped Ame... |
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1848,19 zł |
The Populist Persuasion: An American History
ISBN: 9781501714535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run through our civic life, filling it with discord and meaning from the birth of the United States until the present day. Kazin argues persuasively that the power of...
In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "...
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99,82 zł |
New York Jew
ISBN: 9780815604136 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it a history of contemporary American letters.
Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it a h...
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87,35 zł |
An American Procession
ISBN: 9780674031432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this illuminating study of the crucial century (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism--Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald--and with the revelation of the postponed power of those who had been modern before their time--Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.
In this illuminating study of the crucial century (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when R...
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149,13 zł |
Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
ISBN: 9780252060755 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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99,82 zł |
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
ISBN: 9780307279194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Michael Kazin--one of the most respected historians of the American left working today--tells a new history of the...ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the refo... |
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96,33 zł |
In Search of Progressive America
ISBN: 9780812220384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Nearly every recent poll finds that most voters agree with views historically labeled as liberal: a hike in the minimum wage, government-mandated health insurance for every American, stronger gun control laws, broader sex education programs, laws that would make it easier for unions to organize, and the use of diplomacy instead of war to combat terrorism. But as a conservative presidential administration exits, how can progressives step into the breach? In Search of Progressive America presents ten essays by journalists, academics, and government insiders that address the... Nearly every recent poll finds that most voters agree with views historically labeled as liberal: a hike in the minimum wage, government-mandated h... |
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114,70 zł |
Sister Carrie
ISBN: 9780140188288 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.
With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed the conventional fallen woman story into a genuinely innovative and powerful work of fiction. As he hurled his impressionable midwestern heroine into the throbbing, amoral world of the big city, he revealed, with brilliant insight, the deep and driving forces of American culture: the restless idealism,... When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the...
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67,37 zł |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ISBN: 9780553211283 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Sparkling with mischief, jumping with youthful adventure, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is one of the most splendid re-creations of childhood in all of literature. It is a lighthearted romp, full of humor and warmth. It shares with its sequel, Huckleberry Finn, not only a set of unforgettable characters--Tom, Huck, Aunt Polly and others--but a profound understanding of humanity as well. Through such hilarious scenes as the famous fence-whitewashing incident, Twain gives a portrait--perceptive yet tender--of a humanity rendered foolish by his own aspirations and obsessions. Written as...
Sparkling with mischief, jumping with youthful adventure, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is one of the most splendid re-creations of childhood in all ...
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26,05 zł |
The Red Badge of Courage
ISBN: 9780553210118 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1981 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) First published in 1895, America's greatest novelof the Civil War was written before 21-year-oldStephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of asham battle." But this powerful psychologicalstudy of a young soldier's struggle with thehorrors, both within and without, that war strikes thereader with its undeniable realism and with itsmasterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riotof emotions felt by me under fire. ErnestHemingway called the novel an American classic, andCrane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp, colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episodeof war so intense,...
First published in 1895, America's greatest novelof the Civil War was written before 21-year-oldStephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of asham ba...
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21,67 zł |
Alfred Kazin's Journals
ISBN: 9780300142037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known is that Kazin had been contributing almost daily to an extensive private journal, which arguably contains some of his best writing. These journals collectively tell the story of his journey from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood to his position as a dominant figure in twentieth-century cultural life.To Kazin, the daily entry was a psychological and spiritual act. To read through these entries is to reexperience history as a series of daily... At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known... |
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193,67 zł |