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The Music of Lennox Berkeley
ISBN: 9780851159362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was one of the leading British composers of the mid-twentieth century and his music has unique qualities which will ensure its survival far beyond transient fashions. Peter Dickinson knew Berkeley for more than thirty years and this much enlarged book places the composer in the context of his extended study with Nadia Boulanger, his friendship with Britten, and the achievement of an independent voice of remarkable distinction. The new book now benefits from interviews with Lady Berkeley, Michael Berkeley, Julian Bream, Colin Horsley, Sir John Manduell, Nicholas...
Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was one of the leading British composers of the mid-twentieth century and his music has unique qualities which will en...
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131,18 zł |
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The Kin
ISBN: 9781504014786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli s dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives them peace. Their search for a new Good Place, one of food and safety, will take them across the valleys and plains of prehistoric Africa and...
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the ni...
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127,53 zł |
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Play Dead: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9781497684461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author's "gripping thriller" (Reginald Hill).
Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone, and stuck caring for a tiny grandson while his mother is busy seeking public office. Sad and resentful, Poppy feels completely detached from the nannies she's now forced to associate with when she brings little Toby to the park to play. But her discomfort is replaced by a creeping dread when she notices a stranger watching her and... A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author's "gripping thriller" (Regina...
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72,25 zł |
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Cagetalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage
ISBN: 9781580465090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Cage, one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992, was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to present his ideas engagingly wherever he went. In CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage, Peter Dickinson showcases a collection of vividly revealing and unpublished interviews given by Cage in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary. For this paperback edition, Dickinson presents a new preface noting developments in Cage criticism since the book's publication in 2006, updated comments from several of...
John Cage, one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992, was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely ...
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146,86 zł |
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In the Palace of the Khans
ISBN: 9780955780585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A thrilling new adventure for young adults by internationally celebrated and prizewinning author, Peter Dickinson. Nigel's father is the British ambassador in Dirzhan, a small country up among the mountains way out east. It has one foot in the middle ages and one in the age of the internet. Its national myth is called The Vengeance of the Khan. On his first morning there he settles down write his blog. He's off to a good start, invited to visit the Khan's daughter Taeela, a real princess living in a real palace. Her father rules Dirzhan with an iron fist. His people are divided into feuding...
A thrilling new adventure for young adults by internationally celebrated and prizewinning author, Peter Dickinson. Nigel's father is the British ambas...
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66,75 zł |
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The Weathermonger
ISBN: 9780007140312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson's cult classics England in the future - but an England that is less rather than more civilised. This is the time of The Changes - a time when people, especially adults, have grown to hate machines and returned to a more primitive lifestyle. It is a time of hardship and fear... When 16-year-old Geoffrey, a "weathermonger" starts to repair his uncle's motorboat, he and his sister Sally are condemned as witches. Fleeing for their lives, they travel to France - where they discover that everything is normal. Returning to England, they set... Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson's cult classics England in the future - but an England that is less rather than more civilised. ... |
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42,48 zł |
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AK
ISBN: 9781504014892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is not a child. He is a warrior one of a handful of elite commandos who live only to fight the corrupt government of Nagala. He has no family but the boys who fight beside him, and he owns nothing but his AK-47 rifle. This is the only life he has ever known, and it is one he understands right until the day the standoff ends and his life changes forever. Paul buries his AK and heads north to join a school and attempt to live life as just another child. But at...
A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is not a chil...
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72,25 zł |
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World stages, local audiences: Essays on performance, place, and politics
ISBN: 9780719081743 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, provide a potential model for rethinking our roles as world citizens. Using his own experience of recent theatrical practice in Vancouver as a starting point, Dickinson maps the spaces of connection and contestation, the flows of sentiment and social responsibility, produced by different communities in response to global sports spectacles. He also analyses how such topics are taken up in the work of playwrights, conceptual, installation, and...
World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, pro...
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469,46 zł |
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Skeleton-In-Waiting: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9781497684423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murder Britain s beloved Princess Louise is a grown woman now, married to commoner Piers Chandler and enchanted by their infant son, Davy. While visiting a certain Mrs. Walsh a mysterious old woman claiming to be a royal relation, a Romanov who escaped the terror of the Russian Revolution Louise and little Davy are nearly taken captive by would-be kidnappers. Through pluck and quick...
A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in ...
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68,00 zł |
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Hindsight: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9781497684454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that needs to be solved It s been forty years since Paul Rogers spent a night at St. Aidan s Preparatory School. When a biographer asks the now-middle-aged novelist about his youth, it triggers memories that Rogers thought he had lost forever. He begins writing about the summer of 1940, when the Nazis took Paris and his entire boarding school was evacuated to a country house in Devon. There the boys discovered a pastoral countryside whose woods held...
In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that nee...
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72,25 zł |
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My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community
ISBN: 9780228001089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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183,65 zł |
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A Bone from a Dry Sea
ISBN: 9781504014823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive
She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as she is on dry land. The child's people have made their homes by the bay for as long as anyone can remember, diving for mussels and any other food the ocean will serve to them. They have no language; they have no names. Although they know love and jealousy and pride, they are not quite human--not yet. This child of the sea will show them the way. Two million years later, Vinny is visiting her father at an archaeological site in Africa... On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive
She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as s... |
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72,25 zł |
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Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature Into Film
ISBN: 9780802044754 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Audiences often measure the success of film adaptations by how faithfully they adhere to their original source material. However, fidelity criticism tells only part of the story of adaptation. For example, the changes made to literary sources in the course of creating their film treatments are often fascinating in terms of what they reveal about the different processes of genre recognition and gender identification in both media, as well as the social, cultural, and historical contexts governing their production and reception. In Screening Gender, Framing Genre, Peter... Audiences often measure the success of film adaptations by how faithfully they adhere to their original source material. However, fidelity criticis... |
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236,11 zł |
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My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community
ISBN: 9780228001072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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608,63 zł |
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In the Palace of the Khans
ISBN: 9781504015042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a far-off kingdom, an English boy befriends the mad ruler s daughter The Khan of Dirzhan is a monster. Nigel, the son of the English ambassador to a backward Asian country, is transfixed by stories of the Khan s brutality. It is said that he had his own brother strangled, that he once shot two cabinet ministers to death during a government meeting, and that he will stop at nothing to keep his daughter safe. At first, these are nothing but stories, but when Nigel and the Khan s daughter form an unlikely friendship, the terror of the Khan will become all too real. Enlisted by the Khan to...
In a far-off kingdom, an English boy befriends the mad ruler s daughter The Khan of Dirzhan is a monster. Nigel, the son of the English ambassador to ...
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102,02 zł |
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Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings
ISBN: 9781843835929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Bernarr Rainbow's (1914-1998) Memoirs written in the last year or two of his life offers a fascinating read about the life of the man who became the leading historian of music education. The book answers questions about how his life and work developed and how he came to establish the Bernarr Rainbow Trust before he died in 1998. The collection will also bring together Rainbow's writings published in various magazines, some of very limited circulation. The notes by Peter Dickinson cover Rainbow's earlier life and career, from archival material including press cuttings and including areas he...
Bernarr Rainbow's (1914-1998) Memoirs written in the last year or two of his life offers a fascinating read about the life of the man who became the l...
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131,18 zł |
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The Last Houseparty: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9781497684478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this gripping novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the past to solve a mystery At the elegant English manor known as Snailwood, tourists come daily to hear decades-old gossip about the second wife of the sixth earl. Zena was a remarkable young woman whose scandalous reputation has been dimmed neither by time nor by her bizarre death. In the 1930s, Zena was the star of a notorious party set whose members included playwrights, politicians, and Nazi sympathizers. They passed wild weekends at Snailwood, arguing about politics and...
In this gripping novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the past to solve a mystery At the e...
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72,25 zł |
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One Foot in the Grave
ISBN: 9781504005050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: Now-retired Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble isn t about to go quietly into the night not when there s a murder case or two (or three) to solve At Flycatchers, a well-to-do nursing home watched over by no-nonsense nurse Jenny, one-time detective James Pibble shuttles between his nothing-to-live-for present and memories of the crimes he s solved or failed to. He s roused from his listless existence when he discovers a dead body on top of the water tower. Security guard George Tosca isn t the only one at Flycatchers who has met his maker...
CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: Now-retired Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble isn t about to go quietly into the night not whe...
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80,76 zł |
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Perfect Gallows: A Crime Novel
ISBN: 9781504005708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The twisted circumstances surrounding an unspeakable crime, an old man s fortune, and a production of Shakespeare s "The Tempest" come to light four decades on in this masterful tale of greed, deception, and murder by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Behind his practiced facade of cheerful sophistication, the renowned actor Adrian Waring is a haunted man. The ghost that torments him is from an earlier era, when a world war raged and Adrian was still Andrew, the guest and possible heir of his rich uncle, Arnold Wragge. Wragge had returned from the diamond mines of South Africa with a...
The twisted circumstances surrounding an unspeakable crime, an old man s fortune, and a production of Shakespeare s "The Tempest" come to light four d...
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80,76 zł |
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The Old English Peep Show
ISBN: 9781504005012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year: Peter Dickinson targets England s upper classes in this murderous and strikingly original theme-park mystery Tourists are waiting in line for entry into the world of Old England, a graceful, elegant country house run as a theme park, complete with wrought-iron gates, pet lions, and maids in white caps greeting visitors with a bob and a curtsy. But this fantasy world turns very real when one of the servants takes his own life. Why did the loyal and faithful Arthur Deakin hang himself in the pantry without leaving even a note?...
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year: Peter Dickinson targets England s upper classes in this murderous and strikingly origi...
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80,76 zł |
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