wyszukanych pozycji: 77
Worst. Person. Ever.
ISBN: 9780099537397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Meet Raymond Gunt. Raymond is a decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. 'Worst. Person. Ever.' is a razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man.
Meet Raymond Gunt. Raymond is a decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanth...
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54,76 zł |
Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
ISBN: 9780582327832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In these critical overviews of the interface between language, social structure and social action, theoretical and methodological traditions are represented: variationist and ethnographic sociolinguistics, conversation and interaction analysis, discourse analysis, social semiotics and ideological linguistics, and sociology and social theory.
In these critical overviews of the interface between language, social structure and social action, theoretical and methodological traditions are repre...
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281,13 zł |
Hey Nostradamus!
ISBN: 9780007162512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet. Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament -- and erie premonition -- on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst and religious zeal in the ensuing massacre's wake, this sleepy Vancouver neighbourhood declares its saints, brands its demons and finally moves on. But for a...
The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing...
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53,45 zł |
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
ISBN: 9780349142593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Douglas Coupland's classic.
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Douglas Coupland's classic.
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51,35 zł |
The Dentist and the Octopus
ISBN: 9781291325423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,19 zł |
Player One
ISBN: 9780099538189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Five disparate people are trapped in an airport lounge during a global disaster: Karen, waiting for her online date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool blonde; and, finally, a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals their true selves as the world as they know it comes to an end.
Five disparate people are trapped in an airport lounge during a global disaster: Karen, waiting for her online date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartende...
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51,35 zł |
Girlfriend in a Coma
ISBN: 9780061624254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers--modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition--before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await... On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls ... |
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86,48 zł |
Jelly in Japan
ISBN: 9780244742829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,79 zł |
An Introduction to the Physical Chemistry of Food
ISBN: 9781493907601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Familiar combinations of ingredients and processing make the structures that give food its properties. For example in ice cream, the emulsifiers and proteins stabilize partly crystalline milk fat as an emulsion, freezing (crystallization) of some of the water gives the product its hardness and polysaccharide stabilizers keep it smooth. Why different recipes work as they do is largely governed by the rules of physical chemistry. This textbook introduces the physical chemistry essential to understanding the behavior of foods. Starting with the simplest model of molecules attracting and... Familiar combinations of ingredients and processing make the structures that give food its properties. For example in ice cream, the emulsifiers an... |
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310,55 zł |
Generation X. : Roman
ISBN: 9783351050603 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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82,22 zł |
Polaroids from the Dead
ISBN: 9780060987213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.
For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids... Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- ...
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73,50 zł |
All Families are Psychotic
ISBN: 9780007117536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together... Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the very top of his form: 'Irresistibly hilarious, unique and wonderful' Independent on Sunday In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her children. Wade has spent the night in jail; suicidal Bryan is due to arrive at any moment with his vowel-free girlfriend, Shw; and then there is Sarah, 'a bolt of lightning frozen in midflash' -- here in Orlando to be the star...
On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together... Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the v...
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56,48 zł |
Generation A
ISBN: 9781439157022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka--are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined. Generation A mirrors Coupland's debut novel, 1991's Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative,... Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the Unite... |
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73,54 zł |
Player One: What Is to Become of Us
ISBN: 9781487011468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,83 zł |
The Dentist and the Octopus Collection
ISBN: 9780244193300 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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263,57 zł |
Generation A
ISBN: 9780099537380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the near future bees are extinct - until one autumn when five individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined.
In the near future bees are extinct - until one autumn when five individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Their shared experience unit...
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51,35 zł |
Henry Abbot
ISBN: 9781983779688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,53 zł |
The New Sociolinguistics Reader
ISBN: 9781403944146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This indispensable volume complements the original Sociolinguistics Reader and brings together many of the discipline's most influential authors and texts. Including important new approaches to language and gender, social change and multilingualism, the editors point to key themes, debates and shifts within modern Sociolinguistics.
This indispensable volume complements the original Sociolinguistics Reader and brings together many of the discipline's most influential auth...
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781,04 zł |
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
ISBN: 9781250810779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,50 zł |
Small Talk
ISBN: 9780582414266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Justine Coupland presents a new perspective on small talk and demonstrates how, even though it has often been derided, it plays a crucial role in everyday communication.
Justine Coupland presents a new perspective on small talk and demonstrates how, even though it has often been derided, it plays a crucial role in ever...
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374,85 zł |