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Growing Up Latino
ISBN: 9780395661246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the mean streets of the barrio to the house on Mango Street, from the Mambo Kings to the Garcia Girls, the authors who contribute to this shocking, funny collection of fiction and nonfiction transport us across the geographies and through the cultures in an attempt to articulate the joys, struggles, defeats, and triumphs of growing up Latino in the U.S.
From the mean streets of the barrio to the house on Mango Street, from the Mambo Kings to the Garcia Girls, the authors who contribute to this shockin...
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I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780374260798 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2007 / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is literally consumed by passion. His work, oscillating from epic meditations on politics and history to intimate reflections on animals, food, and everyday objects, is filled with humor and... "Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") c... |
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108,49 |
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Latino USA: A Cartoon History
ISBN: 9781541605565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,07 |
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Knowledge and Censorship
ISBN: 9781403984104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship. In the second part of the volume, Veronica Albin engages Stavans in a series of four conversations in which he expounds on the arguments he developed in the essays."
This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dicti...
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149,61 |
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All the Odes: A Bilingual Edition
ISBN: 9780374534929 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2017 / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate's work in the ode form Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded him, from an artichoke to the clouds in the sky, from the moon to his own friendship with Federico Garcia Lorca and his favorite places in Chile. He was in his late forties when he committed himself to writing an ode a week, and in the end he produced a total of 225, which are dispersed throughout his varied oeuvre. This bilingual volume, edited by Ilan Stavans, a distinguished translator and... A career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate's work in the ode form Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived a... |
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147,23 |
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
ISBN: 9781632062628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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116,19 |
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Reclaiming Travel
ISBN: 9780822358695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison seek to understand why we travel and what has come to be missing from our contemporary understanding of travel. Engaging with canonical and contemporary texts, they explore the differences between travel and tourism, the relationship between travel and memory, the genre of travel writing, and the power of mapmaking, Stavans and Ellison call for a...
Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the ...
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145,48 |
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The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar
ISBN: 9780826319128 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 499 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology comprised of six collections: in The Carnival of the Animals, Scliar uses political allegory to convey what was normally censored during the height of repression under Brazil's military regime. These tragicomic stories reveal Scliar's interest in issues of oppression, persecution, holocaust, mutability, and the interplay between good and evil. The Ballad of the False Messiah develops the theme of postponement in the sense that for Jews redemption is always postponed in a vain wait for the Messiah. In The...
From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology comprised of six collections: in The Carnival of the Animals, Scliar...
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169,03 |
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The Book of Memories
ISBN: 9780826319494 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Ana Maria Shua is one of the most exciting and prolific young Latin American Jewish writers. She published her first book at the age of sixteen; since then she has published thirteen books, including nonfiction, novels, short stories, and children's books. The Book of Memories, originally published in Spanish in 1994, is a humorous yet moving exploration of a Jewish family's history, as seen through the eyes of three generations of women. The story begins with Grandfather Gedalia leaving Poland with forged papers to escape the army and sailing to Argentina, the...
Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Ana Maria Shua is one of the most exciting and prolific young Latin American Jewish writers. She published her first boo...
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169,03 |
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Knowledge and Censorship
ISBN: 9781349539628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship.
This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dicti...
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72,77 |
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Daniel and Ismail
ISBN: 9781632063793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,33 |
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Tent of Miracles
ISBN: 9780299186449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in a Brazilian locale, this is the story of Pedro Archanjo, beloved rogue and fierce activist for social justice, who becomes a posthumous hero when an American intellect discovers his writings. The story flits between Archanjo's lifetime and that of the American professor decades later.
Set in a Brazilian locale, this is the story of Pedro Archanjo, beloved rogue and fierce activist for social justice, who becomes a posthumous hero wh...
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116,05 |
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The Dance of the Demons
ISBN: 9781558615953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Dance of the Demons is a major literary rediscovery. In her daring autobiographical novel, originally published in Yiddish as Der Sheydim Tanz in 1936, Kreitman vividly and lovingly depicts the world of Polish shtetls and Jewish Warsaw that many have come to know through the books of her famous literary brothers, Israel Joshua and Nobel-Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. Replete with rabbis, yeshiva students, beggars, farmers, gangsters, seamstresses, and socialists, this world looks radically different through the eyes of a sister, who was I. B. Singer's inspiration for the story...
The Dance of the Demons is a major literary rediscovery. In her daring autobiographical novel, originally published in Yiddish as Der Sheydim T...
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The Mexican Dreidel
ISBN: 9781728449289 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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77,45 |
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The Martyr: Luis de Carvajal, a Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
ISBN: 9780826323620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. First published in 1973, this book traces the history of Luis de Carvajal the Younger and his family in Spain, their migration to the New World, their religious practices, and their adventures in New Spain until one by one they were put to flight or indicted by the Inquisition. Luis himself was burned at the stake in 1596 at the age of thirty. He left behind not only his legacy as an exemplary secret Jew but also valuable literary documents--his memoirs, his last will and testament, and his letters to his mother and sisters in the inquisitorial prison.
First published in 1973, this book traces the history of Luis de Carvajal the Younger and his family in Spain, their migration to the New World, their...
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119,49 |
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I Love My Selfie
ISBN: 9780822363491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist ADAL; he and Stavans use them as a way to question the notion of the self and to engage with artists, celebrities, technology, identity, and politics....
What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and c...
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I Love My Selfie
ISBN: 9780822363385 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist ADAL; he and Stavans use them as a way to question the notion of the self and to engage with artists, celebrities, technology, identity, and politics....
What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and c...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art
ISBN: 9780822356349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and the analytic philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia share long-standing interests in the intersection of art and ideas. Here they take thirteen pieces of Latino art, each reproduced in color, as occasions for thematic discussions. Whether the work at the center of a particular conversation is a triptych created by the brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Andres Serrano's controversial Piss Christ, a mural by the graffiti artist BEAR_TCK, or Above All Things, a photograph by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Stavans and Gracia's...
The essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and the analytic philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia share long-standing interests in the intersection o...
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American Visa
ISBN: 9781933354200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. ""American Visa" is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler . . . a smart, exotic crime fiction offering."--George Pelecanos, author of "The Night Gardener"
""American Visa" is a stunning literary achievement. It is insightful and poignant, a book every thoughtful American should read, and once read, read again."--William Heffernan, Edgar Award-winning author of "The Corsican" "In his search for an American visa, the high school teacher in this novel embodies the dreams and aspirations of many would-be immigrants south of the border. This is a thriller... ""American Visa" is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler . . . a smart, exotic crime fiction offering."--George Pel...
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77,09 |
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The Woman Who Wrote the Bible
ISBN: 9780826369314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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