wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Bolivar: American Liberator
ISBN: 9781439110201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant biography that "reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history" (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the famous South American general and statesman Simon Bolivar. SIMON BOLI VAR --El Libertador--freed six countries from Spanish rule and is still the most revered figure in South America today. He traveled from Amazon jungles to the Andes mountains, engaged in endless battles and forged fragile coalitions of competing forces and races. He lived an epic life filled with heroism, tragedy (his only wife died...
A brilliant biography that "reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history" (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs...
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99,74 zł |
Cellophane
ISBN: 9780385336659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has come true--until he discovers the recipe for cellophane. In a life already filled with signs and portents, the family dog suddenly begins to cough strangely. A wild little boy turns azurite blue. All at once Don Victor is overwhelmed by memories of his erotic past; his prim wife, Dona Mariana, reveals the shocking truth about her origins; the three Sobrevilla children turn their love lives upside...
Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the ...
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99,74 zł |
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
ISBN: 9781982184896 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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140,94 zł |
The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work: A Collection from the Washington Post Book World
ISBN: 9781586481490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life. In it, authors divulge professional secrets: how they first discovered they were writers, how they work, how they deal with the myriad frustrations and delights a writer's life affords. Culled from ten years of the distinguished Washington Post column of the same name, The Writing Life highlights an eclectic group of luminaries who have wildly varied stories to tell, but who share this singularly...
Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tale...
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95,36 zł |
Latinoland (Spanish Edition): Un Retrato de la Mayor Minor?a de Estados Unidos
ISBN: 9781668088968 / Hiszpański / 21-01-2025 Książka dostępna od: 21-01-2025 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 21-01-2025
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90,59 zł |
Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America
ISBN: 9781780226170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Simon Bolivar's life makes for one of history's most dramatic canvases, a colossal narrative filled with adventure and disaster, victory and defeat. This is the story not just of an extraordinary man but of the liberation of a continent. A larger-than-life figure from a tumultuous age, Bolivar ignited a revolution, liberated six countries from Spanish rule and is revered as the great hero of South American history. In a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic, BOLIVAR colourfully portrays this extraordinarily dramatic life. From his glorious battlefield victories to his legendary love...
Simon Bolivar's life makes for one of history's most dramatic canvases, a colossal narrative filled with adventure and disaster, victory and defeat. T...
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75,98 zł |
Silver, Sword and Stone: The Story of Latin America in Three Extraordinary Lives
ISBN: 9781474600989 / Miękka / 2020 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its grip.
A thousand years of Latin American history, told through the three obsessions that have held the region tightly in its grip.
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75,98 zł |
Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
ISBN: 9781982184902 / Angielski / 18-02-2025 Książka dostępna od: 18-02-2025 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 18-02-2025
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90,59 zł |
Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
ISBN: 9781501105012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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95,40 zł |
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
ISBN: 9780385319638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In her father's Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother's American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken's neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who "was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An...
In her father's Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother's American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a h...
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99,74 zł |
Layered Urbanisms
ISBN: 9780393732504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book presents the work and the advanced studios of Gregg Pasquarelli in "Versioning 6.0," Galia Solomonoff in "Brooklyn Civic Space," and Mario Gooden in "Global Typologies. It features interviews and the work of the architects along with their studio projects.
This book presents the work and the advanced studios of Gregg Pasquarelli in "Versioning 6.0," Galia Solomonoff in "Brooklyn Civic Space," and Mario G...
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130,10 zł |