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Ketubah Renaissance: The Artful Modern Revival of the Jewish Marriage Contract
ISBN: 9780827615625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Illuminating the contemporary revival of the Jewish marriage contract, Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known in Hebrew as a ketubah) through the present day and showcases sixty of the most innovative and beautiful ketubot of the last half century. Originally created 2,500 years ago as a unilateral marriage contract stating what a groom would provide for his bride, the ketubah evolved from the tenth century onward into a richly decorated expression of love and commitment. In the late 1960s a modern sensibility took root. Influenced by Jewish life and...
Illuminating the contemporary revival of the Jewish marriage contract, Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known ...
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153,95 zł |
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The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage: Second Edition
ISBN: 9783319516813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 517 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author's self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author's Languagelore blog.Each vignette calls attention to points of grammar and style in contemporary American English, especially cases where language is changing due to innovative usage. In every case where an analysis contains technical or recondite vocabulary, a Glossary precedes the body of the essay, and...
This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expand...
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484,18 zł |
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The Jewish 100
ISBN: 9781470014421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time
The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time
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72,79 zł |
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Southside Elves: A Christmas Story
ISBN: 9781519383631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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52,56 zł |
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SELECTED WRITINGS (2nd, expanded edition)
ISBN: 9781419685774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In a unique collection of essays and poems written in English, French, German and Russian (with a seasoning of Greek and Japanese), Constantine Shapiro explores fascinating universal questions and connections. Why, he asks, do so many people feel unhappy? Why do so many go to the doctor? Why is there so much criminality? Why is there international unrest? What is a healthy soul? In his investigation of these and other "Big Questions," the author examines such disparate areas as Japanese kanji ideograms and personal character, spiritual ontology and science, Zeus and Christianity, objectivity...
In a unique collection of essays and poems written in English, French, German and Russian (with a seasoning of Greek and Japanese), Constantine Shapir...
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68,74 zł |
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The Creative Spark: How Musicians, Writers, Explorers, and Other Artists Found Their Inner Fire and Followed Their Dreams
ISBN: 9781609521769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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73,17 zł |
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The Creative Spark: How Musicians, Writers, Explorers, and Other Artists Found Their Inner Fire and Followed Their Dreams
ISBN: 9781609521783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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150,10 zł |
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Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
ISBN: 9780805092363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons." --Cleveland Plain Dealer In Bottom of the Ninth, Michael Shapiro brings to life a watershed moment in baseball history, when baseball was under seige in the late 1950s. He reveals how the legendary executive Branch Rickey saw the game's salvation in two radical ideas: the creation of a third major league--the Continental League--and the pooling of television revenues for the benefit of all. And Shapiro captures the audacity of Casey Stengel, the manager of the... "A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons." --Cleveland Plain Dealer <... |
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92,44 zł |
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My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge
ISBN: 9781419647536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge, Michael Shapiro devises a storied diary that views the world through the eyes of an inimitable woman whose being and essence are determined by her superlative and penetrating intellect. Inspired by the great Japanese literature by upper-class women writers of the mid-Heian period, eighty-four masterfully woven sections alternate prose, poetry, social commentary and haiku-like vignettes to tell a fascinating tale of betrayal, revenge and undying love. Cruelly and unjustly exiled, Lady Murasaki, accompanied by her consort, Prince Towa no...
In My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge, Michael Shapiro devises a storied diary that views the world through the eyes of an inimitab...
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48,55 zł |
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Palimpsest of Consciousness: Authorial Annotations of My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki's Revenge
ISBN: 9781419676376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A fusion of memoir, family chronicle, and author's commentary that provides a fascinating view into the lives and minds of two passionate scholars, and the rarefied and often treacherous universe in which they lived. Told with conviction and wry humor, Palimpsest of Consciousness traces the author's life from his beginnings as a stateless Russian child in pre-World War II Japan through his eventual journey to the United States, his meeting and marriage to the Dante scholar, Marianne Shapiro, and their life together. Along the way, we glimpse an extraordinary world, a place where classical...
A fusion of memoir, family chronicle, and author's commentary that provides a fascinating view into the lives and minds of two passionate scholars, an...
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80,88 zł |
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A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk about Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration
ISBN: 9781609521561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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153,95 zł |
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A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk about Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration
ISBN: 9781932361087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer's conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who inspired him both to pack his bags to travel and to pick up a pen and write. Michael skillfully coaxes a collective portrait through his interviews, allowing the authors to speak intimately about the...
In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get...
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77,03 zł |
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Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method: After the Aesthetic Turn
ISBN: 9780415783552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how 'method' can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.
This text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how 'meth...
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782,04 zł |
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Japan: In the Land of the Broken-Hearted
ISBN: 9780595090990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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65,32 zł |
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The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre
ISBN: 9780415780537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. The chapters deploy concepts from philosophy, political theory, literary studies, cinema studies, poetics and aesthetic theory on diverse cities, among which are Berlin and London.
This is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. The c...
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234,56 zł |
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Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages
ISBN: 9780472084050 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Cross-dressing, sexual identity, and the performance of gender are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary cultural studies. A vital addition to the growing body of literature, this book is the most in-depth and historically contextual study to date of Shakespeare's uses of the heroine in male disguise--man-playing-woman-playing-man--in all its theatrical and social complexity.
Shapiro's study centers on the five plays in which Shakespeare employed the figure of the "female page": The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and... Cross-dressing, sexual identity, and the performance of gender are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary cultural studies. A vital add...
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121,95 zł |
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The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre
ISBN: 9780415780520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban theory rather than traditional forms of official city politics. Deriving their methodological approaches from aspects of urban theory and philosophies of aesthetics, the chapters deploy concepts from philosophy, political theory, literary studies, cinema studies, poetics and aesthetic... The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban l... |
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782,04 zł |
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Solomon's Sword: Two Families and the Children the State Took Away
ISBN: 9780813339535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The author illuminates the often problematic relationship between the child's best interest and the best intentions of child welfare agencies, policymakers, and the courts. In an era when headlines often seem dominated by horrific stories about abused children, Solomon's Sword examines collisions between children, parents, and the law.
The author illuminates the often problematic relationship between the child's best interest and the best intentions of child welfare agencies, policym...
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84,74 zł |
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The Logic of Language
ISBN: 9783031066146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign system par excellence, in the service of its most important function as the instrument of cognition and of communication. This book is intended as a companion volume to... This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonolo... |
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524,53 zł |
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On Language and Value in American Speech : With a Semeiotic Appendix
ISBN: 9786200240040 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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183,37 zł |
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