wyszukanych pozycji: 38
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Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts
ISBN: 9781594484889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these linked stories, Kurlansky ("Cod" and "Salt") reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food.
In these linked stories, Kurlansky ("Cod" and "Salt") reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food...
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92,63 zł |
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Hawana. Podzwrotnikowe delirium w.2021
ISBN: 9788381912570 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Mówią, że to miasto „jest niczym miłość brzydkiej kobiety, namiętne i rozgorączkowane”. Że mężczyźni wciąż są tu ostentacyjnie męscy, a kobiety o rozłożystych biodrach – najbardziej kobiece na świecie. Mówią, że powietrze drży tutaj jak w delirium, kołysze się tanecznymi rytmami granej na żywo muzyki, że nawet chodzi się tu w rytmie sonu. Nakręcono o niej setki filmów, choć wciąż najlepiej wypada w stylu noir. Kiedyś miasto-występek, dziś miasto-upadek – Hawana.
Mark Kurlansky, dziennikarz „New York Timesa”, zapuszczał się w wąskie uliczki... Mówią, że to miasto „jest niczym miłość brzydkiej kobiety, namiętne i rozgorączkowane”. Że mężczyźni wciąż są tu ostentacyjnie męs...
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32,81 zł |
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Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One
ISBN: 9780300192469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the history of baseball was Hank Greenberg's swing. His calmly poised body seemed to have some special set of springs with a trigger release that snapped his arms and swept the bat through the air with the clean speed and strength of a propeller. But what is even more extraordinary than his grace and his power is that in Detroit of 1934, his swing--or its absence--became entwined with American Jewish history. Though Hank Greenberg was one of the... One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the... |
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58,97 zł |
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Boogaloo On 2nd Avenue
ISBN: 9780099477648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt.
A comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly chang...
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42,87 zł |
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Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media
ISBN: 9780884489122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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96,53 zł |
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The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
ISBN: 9781594485053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A fantastic social history" from the author of Salt and Cod (USA Today)
In the Dominican Republic town of San Pedro de Macoris, baseball is often seen as the only way to a better life. For those who make it, the million-dollar paychecks from Major League Baseball mean that not only they, but their entire families as well, have been saved from grinding poverty. The successful few set an example that dazzles the neighbors they left behind. But for the majority, this dream is illusory. In The Eastern Stars, New York Times bestselling author Mark... "A fantastic social history" from the author of Salt and Cod (USA Today)
In the Dominican Republic town of San Pedro... |
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101,05 zł |
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The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
ISBN: 9781635573077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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117,89 zł |
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
ISBN: 9780767930307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the way we eat. While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. ... |
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84,21 zł |
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Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
ISBN: 9780142004937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima
Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish on gingerbread; Pablo Neruda on French fries; Alexandre Dumas on coffee; and a vast variety by Escoffier, Elizabeth David, A. J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Balzac, Chekhov, Orwell, and Alice B. Toklas, among others. Filled throughout with recipes, menus, classic... Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima ...
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101,05 zł |
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The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (A unique Ernest Hemingway biography, Gift for writers)
ISBN: 9781642504637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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102,05 zł |
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Salmon
ISBN: 9781786078520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In his new global food history, the internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the world
In his new global food history, the internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the world
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115,48 zł |
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
ISBN: 9781632863829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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112,75 zł |
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Salt
ISBN: 9780099281993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Homer called salt a divine substance, while Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Kurlansky blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into this history of the substance.
Homer called salt a divine substance, while Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Kurlansky blends political, commercial, scientific, rel...
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66,45 zł |
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
ISBN: 9780345476395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining."
-The New York Times "A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster." -Rocky Mountain News Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants-the oyster. For centuries New York was famous for this particular shellfish, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city's life that the abundant bivalves were... "Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining."
-The New York Times "A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the grow... |
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84,21 zł |
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
ISBN: 9780140275018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World An unexpected, energetic look at world history on sea and land from the bestselling author of Salt and The Basque History of the World... |
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75,79 zł |
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Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
ISBN: 9781938340864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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126,32 zł |
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A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny
ISBN: 9780201622317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this richly detailed portrait of the individual countries and peoples of the Caribbean, Mark Kurlansky brings to life a society and culture often kept hidden from foreigners--the arts, history, politics, and economics of the region, as well as the vivid day-to-day lives of its citizens. From the Newyoriccans of Levittown, Puerto Rico; to the state-salaried popular musicians of Cuba; to the practitioners of good political hurricanemanship (who know how to stretch statistics to bring in relief funds), A Continent of Islands paints portraits that will prove equally fascinating to...
In this richly detailed portrait of the individual countries and peoples of the Caribbean, Mark Kurlansky brings to life a society and culture often k...
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92,59 zł |
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Las Estrellas Orientales: Como El Beisbol Cambio El Pueblo Dominicano de San Pedro Demacoris
ISBN: 9781594485145 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2011 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Este es un clasico de Kurlansky: erudito, impredecible, compasivo, y se lee compulsivamente. . . . Una reveladora meditacion sobre el deporte, la nacion, y tambien sobre el mundo."
-Junot Diaz, autor de La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao " Que tienen en comun Rico Carty, Alfredo Griffin, Pedro Guerrero, George Bell, Julio Franco, Juan Samuel, Sammy Sosa, Alfonso Soriano, y Robinson Cano? Que todos proceden de San Pedro de Macoris, la pequena ciudad azucarera en la Republica Dominicana. Una coincidencia? Dificilmente." -National Public Radio Al final de la... "Este es un clasico de Kurlansky: erudito, impredecible, compasivo, y se lee compulsivamente. . . . Una reveladora meditacion sobre el deporte, la nac...
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101,05 zł |
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The Big Oyster: A Molluscular History of New York
ISBN: 9780099477594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New
When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed El...
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69,70 zł |
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Salt: A World History
ISBN: 9780142001615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired...An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of non... |
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80,00 zł |