wyszukanych pozycji: 30
Half Known Life
ISBN: 9780593420256 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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111,66 zł |
Abandon
ISBN: 9781400030859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pico Iyer's intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story--the love in question being at once sacred and profane.
John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally absorbing quests. The first is for a mysterious Rumi manuscript that may have been smuggled out of Iran; the second for the elusive Camilla Jensen, who continually offers herself to him only to repeatedly slip from his grasp. Are these quests somehow related?... Pico Iyer's intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story--the love in question being at once sac...
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81,60 zł |
Cuba and the Night
ISBN: 9780679760757 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. -On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight.---Los Angeles Times.
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is anot...
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90,18 zł |
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
ISBN: 9781476784724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug. Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ultimate adventure? Because in our madly accelerating world, our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy. There's never been a greater need to slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission...
A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a count...
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77,26 zł |
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
ISBN: 9780307387554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate conversations, he has come to know him in a way that few can claim. Here he paints an unprecedented portrait of one of the most singular figures of our time, explaining the Dalai Lama's work and ideas about politics, science, technology, and religion. For Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike, The Open Road illuminates the hidden life and the daily challenges of this global icon. For over three decades, Pico Iyer, one of our most cherished travel writers, has been a friend to the Dalai Lama. Over these years through intimate... |
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81,60 zł |
Half Known Life
ISBN: 9780593543962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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101,41 zł |
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
ISBN: 9781526611512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020 How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem? Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon? Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect? After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen...
Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2020 How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem? Why do Japanese couples plan matching...
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56,74 zł |
The Man Within My Head
ISBN: 9780307387561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ever since he first discovered Graham Greene's work, Pico Iyer has felt a haunting closeness with the English writer. In The Man Within My Head, Iyer follows Greene's trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American, examining Greene's obsessions, his elusiveness, and his penchant for mystery. The deeper he plunges into this exploration, the more Iyer begins to wonder whether the man within his head might not be Greene but his own father, or perhaps some more shadowy aspect of himself. Ever since he first discovered Graham Greene's work, Pico Iyer has felt a haunting closeness with the English writer. In The Man Within My Head<... |
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68,71 zł |
Steve McCurry: Devotion. Hingabe
ISBN: 9783791380131 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Eine fotografische Suche nach der Seele des Menschen
In Steve McCurrys Fotografien zeigt sich seine Leidenschaft für die Ergründung des menschlichen Wesens in all seinen Facetten. Von allen zeitgenössischen Fotografen verfügt er wohl über das umfassendste Archiv, das verschiedenste Aspekte des Menschseins abbildet. Sein neues Werk widmet sich der geistigen und spirituellen Seite des Menschen mit einfühlsamen Bildern, die um die Themen Glaube und Gläubigkeit, Hingabe und Ergebenheit, Loyalität und Treue kreisen - Werte, die in allen Kulturen und Religionen der Welt gelebt... Eine fotografische Suche nach der Seele des Menschen
In Steve McCurrys Fotografien zeigt sich seine Leidenschaft für die Ergründung de... |
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224,84 zł |
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World
ISBN: 9781526655028 / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,74 zł |
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
ISBN: 9780679776116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the personal impact of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement. The author presents Los Angeles International Airport as a town, Hong Kong, and Japan, pondering what the word home means in the face of rapid change.
From the acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the personal impact of globalization and the risin...
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68,71 zł |
Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign
ISBN: 9781400031030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encounter in the perfumed darkness of Bali; a tour of a Bolivian prison, conducted by an enterprising inmate; a nightmarish taxi ride across southern Yemen, where the men with guns may be customs inspectors or revolutionaries-these are just three of the stops on Pico Iyer's latest itinerary.
But the true subject of Sun After Dark is the dislocations of the mind in transit. And so Iyer takes us along to meditate with Leonard Cohen and talk... One of the best travel writers now at work in the English language brings back the sights and sounds from a dozen different frontiers. A cryptic encou...
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81,60 zł |
The Best American Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780618341269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.
A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.
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94,44 zł |
Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions
ISBN: 9780679776109 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay's dabbawallahs, who each day ferry 100,000 different lunches to 100,000 different workers. Iyer chats with the Dalai Lama and assesses the books of Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy. And he brings his perceptive eye and unflappable wit to bear on the postmodern vogues for literary puffery,...
In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hood...
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94,48 zł |
Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
ISBN: 9781526611468 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer soon picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office in the day and engaging in spirited games of ping-pong in the evenings. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honouring the dead, he soon finds himself grappling with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love even though we know that they -...
We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning ...
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67,06 zł |
Out of the Wasteland: Stories from the Environmental Frontier
ISBN: 9780986173004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Out of the Wasteland, founding Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council Paul Relis takes us on a journey of the environmental frontier, from the heady days of the birth of environmentalism in Santa Barbara, into the intricate, obfuscated but all important world of government and policy, to important new environmental technologies that can, indeed, free us from this age of oil.
In Out of the Wasteland, founding Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council Paul Relis takes us on a journey of the environmental fron...
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64,42 zł |
The Year of the Hare
ISBN: 9780143117926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Suddenly realizing what's important in life (with the help of a bunny), a man quits his job and heads to the countryside in this internationally bestselling comic novel.
"Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?" With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal of The Year of the Hare. While out on assignment, a journalist hits a hare with his car. This small incident becomes life-changing: he decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his... Suddenly realizing what's important in life (with the help of a bunny), a man quits his job and heads to the countryside in this internationally be...
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68,71 zł |
The Asiatics
ISBN: 9780374529246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Andre Gide praised The Asiatics as "an authentic masterpiece"; Thomas Mann called it "brilliant." First published in 1935 and virtually unavailable for years, this extraordinary novel tells the story of a young American--the unnamed narrator--who hitchhikes his way across Asia, from Beirut to China, living off the land and depending on the hospitality of the people he meets along the road. As Pico Iyer writes in the introduction, " Prokosch] catches the peculiar logic that makes travel a land of alternative reality, a foreign state in itself that is an intoxication."
Andre Gide praised The Asiatics as "an authentic masterpiece"; Thomas Mann called it "brilliant." First published in 1935 and virtually unavail...
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107,36 zł |
The Little Book of Zen Healing: Japanese Rituals for Beauty, Harmony, and Love
ISBN: 9781645471509 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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112,42 zł |
Complete Short Stories
ISBN: 9780143039105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each of these forty-nine stories confirms V. S. Pritchett s declaration that Greene is a master of storytelling. This Penguin Classics edition features an... The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and viole... |
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94,48 zł |