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The Faber Book of Science
ISBN: 9780571179015 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Covering hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos, this anthology plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to chaos theory. It consists of accounts by scientists themselves - astronomers, physicists, biologists, chemists, psychologists - who talk about their moments of breakthrough. Ronald Ross describes his discovery of the secret of malaria; the workers in Edison's laboratory put together the first electric-light bulb; and readers share in the construction of the world's first atomic pile.
Covering hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos, this anthology plots the development of modern scienc...
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The Faber Book of Reportage
ISBN: 9780571141630 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The eye-witness accounts in this book have been chosen from hundreds of memoirs, letters and travel books, as well as newspapers. The time span reaches from ancient Greece - Thucydides' account of Athens stricken by plague - to February 1986 when James Fenton in the Phillipines, joins the crowd rampaging through President Marcos's palace. There are disasters, executions and battles - often seen from unaccustomed angles - such as, a French knight's account of Agincourt, El Alamein from a German armoured car. But peace has its dramas too, as seen from the accounts of the Pilgrim fathers setting...
The eye-witness accounts in this book have been chosen from hundreds of memoirs, letters and travel books, as well as newspapers. The time span reache...
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William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies
ISBN: 9780571231645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Through letter, unpublished works and Golding's intimate journals, the author draws a revelatory and definitive portrait of an extraordinary man. He reveals a many-sided figure: a war hero, a reclussive depressive, a family man, a victim of fears and a writer who trusted the imagination above all things.
Through letter, unpublished works and Golding's intimate journals, the author draws a revelatory and definitive portrait of an extraordinary man. He r...
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The Faber Book of Utopias
ISBN: 9780571203178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An anthology of schemes, stories and ideas which people have dreamt of as Utopia. Provides a picture of the hopes and desires of the age in which each Utopia was conceived. The anthology encompasses many noble and selfless schemes but also reveals a trail of folly, tyranny and attempts at social control.
An anthology of schemes, stories and ideas which people have dreamt of as Utopia. Provides a picture of the hopes and desires of the age in which each...
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100,88 |
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Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books
ISBN: 9780571204489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Pure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire.
Pure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire.
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The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination
ISBN: 9780571247790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is an exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey. Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, 'A Violent Effigy' delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited.
This is an exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey. Setting aside the usual interpretatio...
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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books
ISBN: 9780571310937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seated next to a senior academic who berated me for my leftist leanings - not what he expected of an Oxford professor...' John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment, looks back on his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorship. Books formed the backbone of his life: from Biggles in his boyhood home to G. K. Chesterton in his West London grammar school to rigorous...
'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seated ...
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John Donne: Life, Mind and Art
ISBN: 9780571244461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 'Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. The encounter, as one might expect, is fierce and enthralling... This book is sensitive, searching, powerful, exciting, provocative and witty. It is a superb achievement.' Christopher Hill, "TLS" "" "John Donne: Life, Mind and Art" is a unique attempt to see Donne whole. Beginning with an account of his life, it takes as its domain not only the whole range of the poetry, but also the sermons, the letters, the spiritual and controversial... 'Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. ... |
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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939
ISBN: 9780571169269 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Professor Carey's frontal assault on the principles and practices of literary modernism caused an immediate critical storm, establishing itself as a key text for all future discussion of the subject.
Professor Carey's frontal assault on the principles and practices of literary modernism caused an immediate critical storm, establishing itself as a k...
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What Good are the Arts?
ISBN: 9780571226030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Written by one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, this book presents a sceptical and an intelligent assessment of the true value of art.
Written by one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, this book presents a sceptical and an intelligent assessment of the true value o...
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Term Limits and Legislative Representation
ISBN: 9780521552332 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Virtually all legislative theory is built on the assumption that politicians are first and foremost re-election-seekers, and because so few countries have ever limited legislative re-election, this assumption has rarely been questioned. As a result, political science has been ill-equipped to offer insights on the impact of legislative term limits.
Virtually all legislative theory is built on the assumption that politicians are first and foremost re-election-seekers, and because so few countries ...
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