wyszukanych pozycji: 51
The Revolutionary Temper - Paris, 1748-1789
ISBN: 9781324035589 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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186,64 zł |
My Brother is an Avocado
ISBN: 9781471187704 / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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40,59 zł |
A Dance in the Moon Garden
ISBN: 9781838109974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,55 zł |
Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780195144529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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153,25 zł |
Velký masakr koček
ISBN: 9788025708620 / Czeski / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Velký masakr koček amerického historika Roberta Darntona, poprvé vydaný v roce 1984, patří k základním a dnes již klasickým dílům kulturní historie a kulturní antropologie druhé poloviny 20. století.
Autor v ní prostřednictvím šesti sond analyzuje myšlení francouzské předrevoluční společnosti 18. století. Ve svém zkoumání vyšel ze všeobecně známých pohádek, tradovaných ve Francii 18. století v nespočetných dialektech, jejichž vliv zasáhl jak elity, tak nejnižší vrstvy. Systematicky studoval a srovnával varianty zaznamenané folkloristy a... Velký masakr koček amerického historika Roberta Darntona, poprvé vydaný v roce 1984, patří k základním a dnes již klasickým dílům kulturn...
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77,09 zł |
My Brother is an Avocado
ISBN: 9781398523463 / Twarda / 2023 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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76,76 zł |
Writers on Writing
ISBN: 9780805070859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, today's most celebrated writers explore literature and the literary life in an inspirational collection of original essays. By turns poignant, hilarious, and practical, Writers on Writing brings together more than forty of contemporary literature's finest voices. Pieces range from reflections on the daily craft of writing to the intersection of art's and life's consequential moments. Authors discuss what impels them to write: creating a sense of control in a turbulent universe; bearing witness to events that would otherwise be lost in history or... Now in paperback, today's most celebrated writers explore literature and the literary life in an inspirational collection of original essays. |
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91,25 zł |
The Rules
ISBN: 9781788952149 / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Amber's an expert when it comes to staying hidden - she's been trained her whole life for it. But what happens when the person you're hiding from taught you everything you know?
Amber's an expert when it comes to staying hidden - she's been trained her whole life for it. But what happens when the person you're hiding from taug...
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40,59 zł |
Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America
ISBN: 9781421413617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America, Christopher Darnton's comparative study of the nature of conflict between Latin American states during the Cold War, provides a counterintuitive and shrewd explanation of why diplomacy does or doesn't work. Specifically, he develops a theory that shows how the "parochial interests" of state bureaucracies can overwhelm national leaders' foreign policy initiatives and complicate regional alliances. His thorough evaluation of several twentieth-century Latin American conflicts covers the gamut of diplomatic disputes from... Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America, Christopher Darnton's comparative study of the nature of conflict between Latin Am... |
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208,85 zł |
Emotional Abuse in the Classroom: The Forgotten Dimension of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and Safer Recruitment
ISBN: 9781909231030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,64 zł |
TPNW - Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Moving Forward
ISBN: 9781912359158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,06 zł |
Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
ISBN: 9780674569515 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.
Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost imme...
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171,10 zł |
A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution
ISBN: 9780195144512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on decades of original research, an account of books and bookselling in a country on the brink of revolution.
Based on decades of original research, an account of books and bookselling in a country on the brink of revolution.
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165,29 zł |
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
ISBN: 9780393351804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.
In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Rousseau, and other celebrated Enlightenment writers, the head censor himself incubated Diderot's great Encyclopedie by hiding the banned project's papers in his Paris townhouse. Relationships at court... With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression i...
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111,77 zł |
Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9780674066045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Listen to "An Electronic Cabaret: Paris Street Songs, 1748-50" for songs from Poetry and the PoliceAudio recording copyright (c) 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. In spring 1749, FranCois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an "abominable poem about the king." So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorized poetry recitals. Why was the official response to these poems so intense? In this captivating book, Robert... Listen to "An Electronic Cabaret: Paris Street Songs, 1748-50" for songs from Poetry and the PoliceAudio recording copyright (c) 2010 by the... |
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144,32 zł |
An African Affair
ISBN: 9780452298026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A vivid portrait of a troubled country."--The New York Times Corruption, drug smuggling, rampant human rights abuses--New York journalist Lindsay Cameron finds plenty to report, covering the regime of Nigeria's President Michael Olumide. But in the aftermath of two probable assassinations, her inquiries attract unwanted government attention. As rebel factions call for free elections, Lindsay races to penetrate the intricate network of corrupt government officials, oil interests, and CIA agents who really run the Nigerian show. Meanwhile, her entanglement with a rare...
"A vivid portrait of a troubled country."--The New York Times Corruption, drug smuggling, rampant human rights abuses--New Yo...
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91,25 zł |
The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800
ISBN: 9780674087866 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 638 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclopedie is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of histoire du livre, and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing. This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization. In tracing the... A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclopedie is such an occasion. The author... |
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308,24 zł |
The Darwin Conspiracy
ISBN: 9781400034833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this riveting new novel, bestselling author John Darnton transports readers to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary 19th-century figure.
In this riveting new novel, bestselling author John Darnton transports readers to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a le...
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70,51 zł |
Berlin Journal, 1989-1990
ISBN: 9780393310184 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German society. As the difficult process of reunification continues, it is worth recalling the revolutionary moment when immense crowds took to the streets of Leipzig and Berlin under the banner "We Are the People" and brought down one of the world's most oppressive dictatorships. Robert Darnton's eyewitness account of those historic days "is direct and vivid. His prose conveys the immediacy of the drama." He gives us a memorable cast of characters, from two experts on the repair of broken-down Trabis to...
Shock waves from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 continue to pulse through German society. As the difficult process of reunification cont...
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103,69 zł |