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Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the Endgame
ISBN: 9781509815289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1995, at the age of 42, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year Off. Ever since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now, 21 years on, he is noticing a change: his friends are joining him there. Death has become his contemporaries' every third thought. The question is no longer "who am I?" but "how long have I got?" and "what happens next?" With the words of McCrum's favourite authors as travel companions, Every Third Thought, takes us on a... In 1995, at the age of 42, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year Off. Ever si... |
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82,79 zł |
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Wodehouse: A Life
ISBN: 9780393327519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Salman Rushdie, John le Carre, and Seamus Heaney. Wodehouse had an extraordinary Broadway career, working with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and even dared to rewrite Cole Porter's Anything Goes for the London stage. Robert McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a...
To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and th...
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141,28 zł |
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John McConnell: Design
ISBN: 9781788840873 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,19 zł |
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My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke
ISBN: 9780393350050 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) My Year Off is an eloquent story of hope, written with the sort of candor and detail that the author believes has been missing in the literature of strokes up to this time. It is as well a grown-up love story of the most realistic -- and hence, inspiring -- kind.
My Year Off is an eloquent story of hope, written with the sort of candor and detail that the author believes has been missing in the literat...
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95,41 zł |
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The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger
ISBN: 9781912559572 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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95,41 zł |
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The 100 Best Novels: In English
ISBN: 9781903385470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,58 zł |
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Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame
ISBN: 9781509815296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Every Third Thought is about how we approach and accept death.
Every Third Thought is about how we approach and accept death.
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51,58 zł |
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Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption
ISBN: 9781509896981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A deeply personal journey into Shakespeare's work that explores how it remains relevant and always has something to say about the times we are living in.
A deeply personal journey into Shakespeare's work that explores how it remains relevant and always has something to say about the times we are living ...
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65,61 zł |
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My Year Off: Rediscovering Life After a Stroke
ISBN: 9781447289265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I? Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaired, and his sense of himself radically altered. What followed was a prolonged period of recovery, full of heart ache and frustration, as he gradually regained sensation, movement and self-esteem and as his family pulled together in the...
With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics'...
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51,58 zł |
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Globish : How the English Language became the World's Language
ISBN: 9780141027104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Packed with nuggets of information about language, culture, history and power, this title traces the way that the English language has twisted and turned in response to the way the world has changed, and how, even as the British Empire is long dead, the language extends its influence further and further in a globalised world.
Packed with nuggets of information about language, culture, history and power, this title traces the way that the English language has twisted and tur...
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88,32 zł |
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The Story of English
ISBN: 9780571275083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the tale of the origins and development of the English language. 2000 years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world.
This is the tale of the origins and development of the English language. 2000 years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shor...
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77,39 zł |
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Globish : How English Became the World's Language
ISBN: 9780393339772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. In this provocative new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world's lingua franca. In the twenty-first century, writes the author, English + Microsoft = Globish.
It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the ...
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71,75 zł |
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The Story of English: Third Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780142002315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English--from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockney, Scouse, and Scots to Gulla, Singlish, Franglais, and the latest African American slang, this sweeping history of the English language is the...
Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniser...
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130,41 zł |
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