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Stating the Sacred: Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State
ISBN: 9780231193573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation. Focusing primarily on China, Michael J. Walsh argues that the foundational role of the sacred makes all nation-states religious states.
Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation. F...
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138,86 zł |
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As Time Goes by: A Novel of Casablanca
ISBN: 9780446607452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. You may have seen it once -- or so many times that the lines, the characters, and the noble sentiments of this legendary film are a part of you. You may simply love stories of wartime intrigue, romance, and courage. Or you may yearn to hear the voices of Rick, Ilsa, Victor, Louis, and Sam, even Sacha and Carl, once more...find out what happened after Ilsa and Victor left on the plane for Lisbon...learn about the lives of Rick, Ilsa, Louis, and Sam before they came to Casablanca...and, most of all, be there when Rick and Ilsa meet again. Either way, you won't want to miss...
You may have seen it once -- or so many times that the lines, the characters, and the noble sentiments of this legendary film are a part of you. You m...
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158,38 zł |
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Durational Cinema
ISBN: 9783030760946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of... This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-ga... |
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470,13 zł |
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Roman Catholicism: The Basics: The Basics
ISBN: 9780415844994 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the most basic terms to the structures and practices of the Church, this book offers a plain-speaking introduction to Roman Catholicism. Now in a second edition, it contains new sections on relations with other faiths, coverage of recent controversies in the Church and an expanded section on social teaching. It covers:
... From the most basic terms to the structures and practices of the Church, this book offers a plain-speaking introduction to Roman Catholicism. Now i... |
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501,24 zł |
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Brother
ISBN: 9781537638393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following the untimely death of his father, young, aspiring novelist Oliver must abandon his own ambitions and drop out of university in order to raise his younger brother. Faced with financial difficulties, the prospect of a first true love and the return of his estranged mother, will Oliver finally be able to overcome his dark past and do right by the few people in his life that he truly cares for?
Following the untimely death of his father, young, aspiring novelist Oliver must abandon his own ambitions and drop out of university in order to rais...
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45,60 zł |
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Cadillac Fin Suitcase
ISBN: 9780615420134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,24 zł |
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Boy Hero
ISBN: 9780692601532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Boy Hero is the riveting tale of Mr. Hai Lee, a Taiwan mango grower who continues to be traumatized by experiences he had as a ten-year-old boy during World War II. A terrible secret from the war has been tormenting him even more since his wife recently died. She was the only one he trusted with the secret. Adding more difficulties to his life, Hai Lee's grandson Curtis, an orphan and a delinquent, arrives to live with him with psychological troubles of his own. Written in a lean and poetic style, Boy Hero also celebrates the love of the land and the healing powers of nature as this unique...
Boy Hero is the riveting tale of Mr. Hai Lee, a Taiwan mango grower who continues to be traumatized by experiences he had as a ten-year-old boy during...
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54,77 zł |
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Sacred Economies: Buddhist Monasticism and Territoriality in Medieval China
ISBN: 9780231148320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Buddhist monasteries in medieval China employed a variety of practices to ensure their ascendancy and survival. Most successful was the exchange of material goods for salvation, as in the donation of land, which allowed monks to spread their teachings throughout China. By investigating a variety of socioeconomic spaces produced and perpetuated by Chinese monasteries, Michael J. Walsh reveals the "sacred economies" that shaped early Buddhism and its relationship with consumption and salvation. Centering his study on Tiantong, a Buddhist monastery that has thrived for close to seventeen...
Buddhist monasteries in medieval China employed a variety of practices to ensure their ascendancy and survival. Most successful was the exchange of ma...
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344,38 zł |
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Great Sayings and Stories of History: Your Soul Companion
ISBN: 9781326882570 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,25 zł |
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Canal Cruising in France
ISBN: 9780991955695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Throughout France is a vast network of canals and navigable rivers that lead through a wondrous variety of pastoral settings, medieval towns and villages and vibrant cities. Along the way are vestiges of human habitation spanning the millennia from palaeolithic times onward through a complex history of settlement. The occupation and taming of the land followed the courses of the rivers and crossed the low passes that link them to each other. The canals were built to aid commerce here in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and much of the original engineering is still in...
Throughout France is a vast network of canals and navigable rivers that lead through a wondrous variety of pastoral settings, medieval towns and villa...
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94,94 zł |
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Retribution: The Savage City
ISBN: 9781445206554 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,12 zł |
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Creepshow Volume 2
ISBN: 9781534397682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,16 zł |
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Western Roads
ISBN: 9780615802749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,90 zł |
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The Oates & The Elphyne
ISBN: 9781643376790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. After the Oates family moves to Newfoundland, a dark creature kidnaps Beth, the youngest child. To find her, Beth’s siblings Ben and Lynn venture into a mystical world called the Elphyne. The Oates family moves to their ancestral home in Newfoundland following a pair of tragedies.They arrive at their grandmother’s house, where they reunite with their orphaned cousin. Shortly after arriving, Beth, the youngest sibling, is kidnapped by a dark, monstrous creature. Her older siblings set out to find her and bring her back, finding themselves in the Elphyne—a magical world that exists...
After the Oates family moves to Newfoundland, a dark creature kidnaps Beth, the youngest child. To find her, Beth’s siblings Ben and Lynn venture in...
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67,37 zł |
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Sequitur - To Cape Horn in Comfort and Style
ISBN: 9780991955602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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289,68 zł |
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An Anti-Windup Approach
ISBN: 9783838350073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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364,15 zł |
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The Dovetails Hotel: Faulty Towers with Added Spice
ISBN: 9781326997298 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,80 zł |
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The Voyagers: A Day In the Life of a Miner
ISBN: 9781291851694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many ex-coalminers will find in this novel a powerful reminder of their own life 'down the pit' as it skilfully recreates a typical day in the life of Luke, a British coalface worker in the 1970's. Although the main action takes place over a single day and just one shift, the author delves back into Luke's trainee days in the 1950's. But it's not just old miners who will benefit from this story as the author carefully explains the various operations involved in bringing coal out from deep in the ground up to the surface and all the various specialists forming this tremendous team effort, from...
Many ex-coalminers will find in this novel a powerful reminder of their own life 'down the pit' as it skilfully recreates a typical day in the life of...
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73,66 zł |
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Carefree on the European Canals
ISBN: 9780991955640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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133,89 zł |
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Brothers in War
ISBN: 9780091908843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Brothers in War" is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers and how they paid the ultimate price fortheir country. All eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France, Flanders, East Africa, and Gallipoli. Only three would return alive. Even amid the carnage of the trenches, it was a family trauma almost without parallel. Their wives and sweethearts were left bereft, their widowed mother Amy devastated. It is a tragedy that has remained forgotten and unmarked for nearly 90 years. Until now.
Kept in a small brown case handed down... "Brothers in War" is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers and how they paid the ultimate price fortheir country. All...
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94,37 zł |
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