wyszukanych pozycji: 71
Great American Short Stories
ISBN: 9780440330608 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1985 / 511 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
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41,44 zł |
Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
ISBN: 9780141185019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best... Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait ...
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76,55 zł |
Wallace Stegner: Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780143039792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating why the author is acclaimed as one of America's master storytellers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works...
In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century Ameri...
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106,31 zł |
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
ISBN: 9780525435235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,80 zł |
Crossing to Safety
ISBN: 9780375759314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and... Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . b... |
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80,80 zł |
The Half-Life of Guilt: A Novel
ISBN: 9780826366887 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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118,86 zł |
Recapitulation
ISBN: 9780141392394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An intimate portrait of a man confronting his life's experiences in light of his past.
An intimate portrait of a man confronting his life's experiences in light of his past.
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60,70 zł |
Warum es keine Angsthasen gibt...: Ein Buch über Ängste und wie man sie loswird
ISBN: 9783756800124 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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124,57 zł |
The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
ISBN: 9780525435433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner emerged as an important conservationist and novelist. This collection is divided into two sections: the first features eloquent sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as San Juan and Glen Canyon; the concluding section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past versus the diminished present,...
The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid ch...
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80,80 zł |
Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel
ISBN: 9780525435419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. Blending fact with fiction, Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill--the Wobbly bard who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was executed for the alleged murder of a Salt Lake City businessman. Organizer, agitator, "Labor's Songster"--a rebel from the skin inwards, with an absolute faith in the One Big Union--Joe...
Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the mo...
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85,05 zł |
Because a Fire Was in My Head
ISBN: 9780803225145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, she is all too real but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. When we first encounter her, Kate is about to undergo exploratory brain surgery for a condition she herself has fabricated. Sobered by the gravity of the procedure, she commences a journey of memory that takes us back to the Saskatchewan village where she grew up and to the singular event that altered her forever and irrevocably set the course of...
Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to t...
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71,75 zł |
Angle of Repose
ISBN: 9780141188003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier.
Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the...
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67,37 zł |
In Wahrheit ich: Wie die Sichtweisen anderer mein Leben bestimm(t)en.
ISBN: 9783746098487 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,85 zł |
The Spectator Bird
ISBN: 9780525431879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West.
Joe Allston is a cantankerous, retired literary agent who is, in his own words, -just killing time until time gets around to killing me.- His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, has not been his choice. He has passed through life as a spectator,... This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteem...
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72,29 zł |
Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780141392387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of 31 short stories from one of America's master storytellers. Here are tales of young love and older wisdom, of the order and consistency of the natural world and the chaos, contradictions and continuities of the human being.
A collection of 31 short stories from one of America's master storytellers. Here are tales of young love and older wisdom, of the order and consistenc...
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82,79 zł |
Recapitulation
ISBN: 9780525435426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A classic novel from Wallace Stegner, and the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety--this is his the incredible, moving sequel to the bestselling Big Rock Candy Mountain. Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not for his aunt's funeral, but to encounter after forty-five years the place he fled in bitterness. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood, sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become...
A classic novel from Wallace Stegner, and the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ang...
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89,30 zł |
Geodätische Berechnungsmethoden (Standard-Basic): Dreiecke, Schnitte, Lagepunktbestimmung, Polygonzüge, Transformationen, Flächen, Freie Stationierung
ISBN: 9783528043346 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1984 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Die Geodasie ist von jeher eine Fachrichtung, in der die Losung der Aufgaben auf mathe matischen Grundlagen beruht. So scheint es auch nicht verwunderlich, daB seit der fruhe sten Entwicklung von Taschenrechnern und Mikrocomputern Vermessungsingenieure diese Hilfsmittel zur Losung ihrer Aufgaben verwendet haben. Die Entwicklung geodatischer Rechenpraxis kann seit etwa 1970, abgesehen von der Anwendung von GroBrechenanlagen, in zwei Entwicklungsphasen eingeteilt werden: 1971 erscheint mit dem HP-35 der erste leistungsfahige technisch-wissenschaftliche Taschenrechner auf dem Markt, dem 1974 als...
Die Geodasie ist von jeher eine Fachrichtung, in der die Losung der Aufgaben auf mathe matischen Grundlagen beruht. So scheint es auch nicht verwunder...
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201,35 zł |
All the Little Live Things
ISBN: 9780141392400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has serpents.
Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a Cal...
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60,70 zł |
Wolf Willow
ISBN: 9780141392363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applies childhood remembrances and adult reflection to create an enduring portrait of pioneer life.
Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded f...
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60,70 zł |
Trennungsgedanken: Über die Nebenwirkungen der Digitalisierung einer analogen Welt
ISBN: 9783752898866 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2020 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,00 zł |