wyszukanych pozycji: 933
Breaking Free
ISBN: 9781425931032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Spanning six decades from the 1930's onwards, this is the story of an indomitable woman, born into abject poverty in the grim ghetto of East London, whose driving ambition was to escape from her humble beginnings; from a feckless Irish mother and a father with an ungovernable temper. Her early education was disrupted by constantly warning parents. Evacuated twice at the age of 10, she returned as an adolescent to the war-ravaged landscape of East London. She traunted constantly from the harsh elementary school, until the local education authority offered the scholarship exam to twelve year...
Spanning six decades from the 1930's onwards, this is the story of an indomitable woman, born into abject poverty in the grim ghetto of East London, w...
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93,28 zł |
The Boy in the Burning House
ISBN: 9780374408879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An Edgar Award Winner Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she's the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's father's childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer. "Don't you want to know who he murdered?" she asks. Jim doesn't. Ruth Rose is clearly crazy -- a sixteen-year-old misfit. Yet... An Edgar Award Winner Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen ... |
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60,96 zł |
The Starlight Claim
ISBN: 9781536222913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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43,53 zł |
Secret Agent Man Goes Shopping for Shoes
ISBN: 9781406368444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A boy turns an everyday outing into a thrilling, top-secret adventure in this stylish picture book for imaginative secret agents everywhere.
A boy turns an everyday outing into a thrilling, top-secret adventure in this stylish picture book for imaginative secret agents everywhere.
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65,59 zł |
War at the Snow White Motel and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781773060477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) War at the Snow White Motel is an insightful and funny new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones that brilliantly captures many of the pivotal moments of adolescence.
War at the Snow White Motel is an insightful and funny new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones that brilliantly capt...
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66,92 zł |
Rex Zero and the End of the World
ISBN: 9780312644604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Who wouldn't want to spend time with the . . . eccentric Norton-Nortons?"--M. T. Anderson Why does everyone seem so scared? That's what the new boy in town, Rex Norton-Norton, aka Rex Zero, wonders as he rides his bike through Ottawa's streets. Is it spies? Kidnappers? Or is it because of the shadowy creature some say is stalking Adams Park? One thing is certain in this summer of 1962 as the Cold War heats up: nothing is quite what it seems. What's a boy to do? If his name is Rex Zero and he has a bike he calls "Diablo," five wild and funny siblings, an alpha dog named Kincho, a... "Who wouldn't want to spend time with the . . . eccentric Norton-Nortons?"--M. T. Anderson Why does everyone seem so scared? That's what the ... |
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65,32 zł |
4000M: Climbing the Highest Mountains of the Alps
ISBN: 9781849951722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the engrossing story of the seasons the author spent climbing 4000m mountains in the different regions of the Alps. It is also about the people with whom he climbed who found time out of their day-to-day routine for this extraordinary activity. He explains the reason for this fascination which resulted in their spending decades pursuing their climbing objectives. The words and photos both encapsulate the alpine experience in all its beauty and suffering, pain and exhilaration, danger and humour which is shared with each climbing partner and open to anyone with the same commitment. The...
This is the engrossing story of the seasons the author spent climbing 4000m mountains in the different regions of the Alps. It is also about the peopl...
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128,76 zł |
Zamek w chmurach
ISBN: 9788382030440 / Polski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Daleko na południu Ingarii, w Sułtanatach Raszputu, w mieście zwanym Zanzib mieszkał młody i niezbyt zamożny sprzedawca dywanów o imieniu Abdullah. Młodzieniec uwielbiał marzyć. Żył beztrosko, aż pewnego dnia nieznajomy sprzedał mu zaczarowany dywan. Tej nocy dywan zaniósł go do magicznego ogrodu. Tam Abdullah poznał i zakochał się w pięknej księżniczce. Niestety nie dane im było żyć długo i szczęśliwie, a przynajmniej nie od razu… Zamek w chmurach to drugi tom trzyczęściowego cyklu, rozpoczętego przez kultowy Ruchomy zamek Hauru.
Daleko na południu Ingarii, w Sułtanatach Raszputu, w mieście zwanym Zanzib mieszkał młody i niezbyt zamożny sprzedawca dywanów o imieniu Abd...
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39,90 zł |
Climbers Three
ISBN: 9781910406281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the Wells sisters from the tiny English hamlet of Denton, near Ilkley, Yorkshire, took up mountaineering at the start of the twentieth century, little did they know that they were to become pioneers in women's climbing in the UK. At the time of the growing strength of the Women's Suffragette movement, women-only mountaineering began to increase in popularity. This story describes the adventures of Paddy, Trilby and Biddy Wells, through Wharfedale, the Lake District, North Wales, Scotland and the Alps, including the first all-female traverse of the Skye ridge, the first female descent of...
When the Wells sisters from the tiny English hamlet of Denton, near Ilkley, Yorkshire, took up mountaineering at the start of the twentieth century, l...
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92,48 zł |
Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art
ISBN: 9783030405847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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428,00 zł |
Being Human--A Guide to Metaphysics
ISBN: 9780595147427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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43,35 zł |
A Material Culture: Consumption and Materiality on the Coast of Precolonial East Africa
ISBN: 9780198759317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees both people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both a new theoretical intervention in some of the key themes in material culture studies, including the agency of objects and the ways they were linked to social identities, through the development of the notion of a biography of practice.
These theoretical discussions are explored through the archaeology of the Swahili, on the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa. This coast was home to a series... A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees both people and things as caught up in webs ...
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597,11 zł |
Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art
ISBN: 9783030405878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn. It focuses on the concept of intersubjectivity and theorises about what happens when subjects meet within a performance artwork. The resulting relations are crucial to instances of performance art in which embodied subjects engage as spectators, participants and performers in orchestrated art events. Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art deploys a...
This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two de...
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428,00 zł |
Love and Gratitude: A Guide to Healing and Acceptance
ISBN: 9781440178047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the time we are born, we begin to build a story of our lives. This story tells us what we think about ourselves and the world around us. Over time, it colors our interactions with people and the choices we make. This story is not true, however. It is something we have made up, and which holds us back from experiencing Love in it's purest form. Instead of being in Gratitude for the joyous bounties we have, we find ourselves focusing on the things we don't have. Reading these sentences now, you are already starting to adjust your thought process to one of acceptance. Read more, and you...
From the time we are born, we begin to build a story of our lives. This story tells us what we think about ourselves and the world around us. Over tim...
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65,14 zł |
A Tale of Time City
ISBN: 9780006755203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When Vivian is evacuated from London in 1939, she expects to be staying in the countryside. Instead, she is whisked away to Time City -- a place that exists outside time and space. It is a strange and remarkable place, where technology rules -- yet important events of both past and future are marked by the appearance of mysterious Time Ghosts. Here, a Time Patrol works to preserve historical events -- but unknown rogue time-travellers are plotting to take control and are stealing the wards that protect the city. If they succeed, Time City and History as we know it will both be destroyed....
When Vivian is evacuated from London in 1939, she expects to be staying in the countryside. Instead, she is whisked away to Time City -- a place that ...
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41,16 zł |
Archer’s Goon
ISBN: 9780006755272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Fact: A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there... When the Goon turns up demanding Archer's two thousand, life turns upside-down. As Howard desperately tries to get to the bottom of this peculiar demand, he discovers that the town is run by seven crazy wizards (not all of whom live in the present ) and someone is trying to take over the world Exciting, bizarre and truly hilarious
Fact: A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there... When the Goon turns up demanding Archer's two thousand, life turns upside-do...
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel
ISBN: 9780142407226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The definitive edition of a cult classic by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones.
Imagine that all fantasy novels the ones featuring dragons, knights, wizards, and magic are set in the same place. That place is called Fantasyland. The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is your travel guide, a handbook to everything you might find: Evil, the Dark Lord, Stew, Boots (but not Socks), and what passes for Economics and Ecology. Both a hilarious send-up of the cliches of the genre and an indispensable guide for writers, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland has been nearly impossible to find... The definitive edition of a cult classic by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones.
Imagine that all fantasy novels the ones featuring dragons, kn... |
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47,89 zł |
Fire and Hemlock
ISBN: 9780142420140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones--with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying...
A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones--with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the f...
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56,61 zł |
Castle in the Air : ALA Booklist Editors; Choice, Book Sense Pick, ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, ALA Notable Childrens Book
ISBN: 9780064473453 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2001 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Abdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a modest booth in the Bazaar. When he was not selling carpets, Abdullah spent his time daydreaming. In his dreams he was not the son of his father, but the long-lost son of a prince. There was also a princess who had been betrothed to him at birth. He was content with his life and his daydreams until, one day, a stranger sold him a magic carpet. In this stunning sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones has again created a... Abdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a ... |
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The Dark Lord of Derkholm
ISBN: 9780007507573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats... tourism .Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 1999.
A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats... tourism .Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award...
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41,16 zł |