wyszukanych pozycji: 73
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River and Enoch O'Reilly
ISBN: 9780547904771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "This book is majestic and squalid at the same time, as if the Bible were actually about Elvis. The rhythms and music carry you like a baby on a raft on the river, but it's the precision of the words that cinches you."--Richard Hell, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
"A passionate dream of a book. Dazzling, but lucid--as though Flannery O'Connor had gone back to the Ireland of her forebears to write a novel."--Peter Behrens, author of The Law of Dreams A small Irish town. A river flood. The return of a prodigal son. On the banks of the river... "This book is majestic and squalid at the same time, as if the Bible were actually about Elvis. The rhythms and music carry you like a baby on a raft ...
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60,77 |
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Lagan Love
ISBN: 9781611880847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. If you know something about passion, and desire, and giving everything to live your dreams then leave your world behind for a while. Come with Janice to Dublin, in the mid nineteen-eighties when a better future beckoned and the past was restless, whispering in the shadows for the Old Ways. Janice has grown tired of her sheltered existence in Toronto and when Aidan leads her through the veils of the Celtic Twilight, she doesn't hesitate. In their love, Aidan, Dublin's rising poet, sees a chance for redemption and Janice sees a chance for recognition. Sinead tells her that it is all nonsense as...
If you know something about passion, and desire, and giving everything to live your dreams then leave your world behind for a while. Come with Janice ...
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60,63 |
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John the Revelator
ISBN: 9780547336909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother, Lily, and spied on by the "neighborly" Mrs. Nagle. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town, John s life suddenly seems full of possibility. His loneliness dissipates. He is taken up by mischief and discovery, hiding in the world beyond as Lily s mysterious illness worsens. But Jamey and John s nose for trouble may be their undoing and soon John will be faced with a terrible moral dilemma. Joining... This is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bibl... |
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Wandering in Exile
ISBN: 9781611881820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Danny Boyle was hoping for a fresh start in Canada. With the help of his uncle Martin, he'd soon found a job and a regular gig with a bar band. And when his sweetheart, Deirdre, joined him, Danny seemed set for life.
But Fate wasn t done with Danny, and when his uncle was stricken with AIDS, Deirdre did the only thing she could think of to save him from the darkness she got pregnant. Rising to the occasion, Danny became a father with enthusiasm. With the arrival of their second child, though, mortgages, day-care, and the press of the day took their toll on the young couple. Battling... Danny Boyle was hoping for a fresh start in Canada. With the help of his uncle Martin, he'd soon found a job and a regular gig with a bar band. And wh...
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The Last Weekend of the Summer
ISBN: 9781611882711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,83 |
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To Become an Outlaw
ISBN: 9780857304667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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England's Coastal Heritage: A Review of Progress Since 1997
ISBN: 9781848021075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The English Heritage Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (RCZAS) programme has produced a wealth of new information, with over 45 survey reports now completed. Alongside this, the offshore survey completed as part of the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund has increased understanding of early prehistoric coastal change, while other researchers have extended back the time scale for a human presence in England to at least 900,000 years. From a wider Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management perspective, there has been increased participation by English Heritage in Defra and Environment...
The English Heritage Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (RCZAS) programme has produced a wealth of new information, with over 45 survey reports now ...
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307,44 |
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Fire and Rescue Services: Leadership and Management Perspectives
ISBN: 9783319872438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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362,27 |
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All Roads
ISBN: 9781611882124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Danny Boyle isn't all here. Years of destructive behavior have left him in an alcoholic coma. Meanwhile, his marriage is over, one of his children wants nothing to do with him, and the other suffers by his bedside.
And while the complexities of life swirl around him, Danny, in his halfway state, comes face to face with his demons and struggles to understand them. He must confront the ghosts of his past ghosts who have unfinished business with him. No one can be certain of where Danny's road is leading. But where it actually leads is far more surprising than any could have anticipated.... Danny Boyle isn't all here. Years of destructive behavior have left him in an alcoholic coma. Meanwhile, his marriage is over, one of his children wan...
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60,63 |
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Notes From The Cube: a year in the office
ISBN: 9780984593392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Once upon a time, yesterday, there was a office worker who looked around at his workplace and saw something - skewed. Then he wrote his observations for a year and asked others to contribute, too. He is how it started: The Cube. The cubicle. Where you work. Where you live. It's a beautiful world we live in . . . Occupation: Inside The Cube Location: Anywhere & Everywhere About THE CUBE: Well, we work together, don't we? You've seen me and I've seen you - and We see what goes on around us. It's funny how they write about us - the business journals, the newspapers, the MBA programs - but...
Once upon a time, yesterday, there was a office worker who looked around at his workplace and saw something - skewed. Then he wrote his observations f...
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60,39 |
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A Week on Mount Olympus: and other Tales from the Bench
ISBN: 9780857305701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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The Business of Resort Management
ISBN: 9780750666619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How can owners and managers ensure that their considerable capital investments will return a competitive return on their investments? How can users and owners be sure they enjoy the promises of tantalizing marketing and real estate claims? Managing Sustainable Resorts Profitably combines business management principles with environmental and social concerns to offer development solutions to these questions. By taking an holistic and contemporary approach to the problem of developing sustainable tourism operations, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the...
How can owners and managers ensure that their considerable capital investments will return a competitive return on their investments? How can users an...
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350,44 |
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A Drunken Fairy Tale: A Memoir of Abuse, Addiction and Recovery
ISBN: 9781476695365 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,34 |
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Universities and Innovation Economies: The Creative Wasteland of Post-Industrial Society
ISBN: 9780367599669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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204,40 |
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Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
ISBN: 9781433105296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back and asks what advances the arts and sciences? This book explores the collective, social and global dimension of human imagining and the ambivalent relationship of social institutions, including universities, schools, economies, media and culture industries, to the collective imagination. Basic discovery requires high levels of creative thinking: Imagination looks at the social conditions that make path-breaking thought possible on a large...
Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back...
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A Statue for Jacob
ISBN: 9780857304179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies
ISBN: 9781138117082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the collective expression of the imagination in our economies, universities, cities, and political systems, providing a tour-de-force account of the power of the imagination to unite opposites and find similarities among things that we ordinarily think of as different. It is not only individuals who possess the power to imagine; societies do as well. A compelling journey through various peak moments of creation, this book examines the cities and...
The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the...
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223,87 |
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Stranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity
ISBN: 9789004680098 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, and imaginative contribution of these metaphysical fundamentals form the background of Australia’s distinctive urban civilization with its bustling stranger populations, ocean-facing portal cities, revealing art and architecture, and cyclical worlds of markets and industries, war and peace. Murphy...
Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilizatio...
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709,64 |
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The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures
ISBN: 9781138581258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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584,14 |
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Limited Government: The Public Sector in the Auto-Industrial Age
ISBN: 9780367585099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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204,40 |