wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Out of the Cloister: Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China, 960-1279
ISBN: 9780674022652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The intense piety of late T'ang essays on Buddhism by literati has helped earn the T'ang its title of the "golden age of Chinese Buddhism." In contrast, the Sung is often seen as an age in which the literati distanced themselves from Buddhism. This study of Sung devotional texts shows, however, that many literati participated in intra-Buddhist debates. Others were drawn to Buddhism because of its power, which found expression and reinforcement in its ties with the state. For some, monasteries were extravagant houses of worship that reflected the corruption of the age; for others,... The intense piety of late T'ang essays on Buddhism by literati has helped earn the T'ang its title of the "golden age of Chinese Buddhism." In con... |
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230,81 zł |
Falling Through the Music
ISBN: 9780268030810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In "Falling Through the Music", his fifth major book of poetry, Mark Halperin gives us consolation, guidance, and companionship while delivering an accomplished meditation on the first real glimpses of the limits on a life. Displaying an agility of formal invention - he moves easily from a Whitmanesque and witty litany to rhymed quatrains - Halperin deftly melds technique to theme. As in "Someone Pausing," he is able to place us in the mind of someone - any one of us - who has stood on an island in the street, fully attentive and present, knowing nothing stays, not even the observer.
In "Falling Through the Music", his fifth major book of poetry, Mark Halperin gives us consolation, guidance, and companionship while delivering an ac...
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73,12 zł |
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
ISBN: 9780061945991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." --The Financial Times "It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true....More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina." --The Financial Times "I can't put down this book " --Stephen Colbert Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential...
"It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." --The Financial...
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121,67 zł |
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
ISBN: 9780061733642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country. "It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." --The Financial Times "It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true....More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina." --The Financial... The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country. ... |
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73,86 zł |
A Ming Confucian's World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden
ISBN: 9780295749938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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146,30 zł |