wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Garbo
ISBN: 9780374298357 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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162,92 zł |
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
ISBN: 9780300192599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I, as well as crisscrossing America on her ninth American tour. Her family was also a source of curiosity: the mother she adored and who scorned her; her two half-sisters, who died young after lives of dissipation; and most of all, her son, Maurice, whom... Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazi... |
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81,85 zł |
IQ Room Temperature
ISBN: 9798986801018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,20 zł |
Lives and Letters
ISBN: 9780374298821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times. From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins. From... The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, career... |
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91,51 zł |
Avid Reader: A Life
ISBN: 9781250141057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John le... A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at C... |
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95,87 zł |
George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker
ISBN: 9780060750718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revolutionary ballet choreographer. Here is a necessary and singular look at the life of one of the great figures of the 20th Century: the dynamic Balanchine, founder of The New York City Ballet, collaborator of Stravinsky, and inspiration to countless fans over the course of his long and storied career. George Balanchine is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins' "Eminent Lives" series of biographies by distinguished authors on...
Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revol...
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74,04 zł |
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement
ISBN: 9781559638326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1993, this book links the environmental movement that emerged in the 1960s to earlier movements that had not previously been defined as environmental. It was the first to consider the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues in the history and evolution of environmentalism.
Originally published in 1993, this book links the environmental movement that emerged in the 1960s to earlier movements that had not previously been d...
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218,40 zł |
The Next Los Angeles, Updated with a New Preface: The Struggle for a Livable City
ISBN: 9780520250093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. While most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on Los Angeles as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl, The Next Los Angeles tells a different story: that of the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. In a new preface, the authors reflect on the gathering momentum of L.A.'s progressive movement, including the 2005 landslide victory of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor.
While most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on Los Angeles as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corrupt...
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163,80 zł |
Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet
ISBN: 9780262543750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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147,64 zł |
A Life of Its Own: The Politics and Power of Water
ISBN: 9780156512879 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Is water a natural resource, or is it a commodity, to be sold for industrial, residential, and agricultural use? In the arid American West, this question is crucial, because water-or lack of it-affects every aspect of life. Index.
Is water a natural resource, or is it a commodity, to be sold for industrial, residential, and agricultural use? In the arid American West, this quest...
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117,61 zł |
The Journals of John Cheever
ISBN: 9780307387257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail.John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always closely observed inner world. No American writer of comparable stature has left such an unreservedly revealing and moving account of himself: his family life, his literary life, and his emotional life. The final word from one of modern America's great writers, The Journals of John...
In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing deta...
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91,51 zł |
Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
ISBN: 9780262536066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation...
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189,32 zł |
Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis
ISBN: 9780262536868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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193,46 zł |
America's Saints: Rise of Mormon Power
ISBN: 9780156056588 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After careful research and extensive interiviews, the authors have prepared this compelling and controversial portrait of the Mormon's organizational structure and economic empire-and the men who control both. Index.
After careful research and extensive interiviews, the authors have prepared this compelling and controversial portrait of the Mormon's organizational ...
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98,23 zł |
Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries
ISBN: 9780262536769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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250,32 zł |
A Cop's Cop
ISBN: 9781587211294 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,94 zł |