wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Letters to a Teacher
ISBN: 9780802142276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An English teacher at a boys' school in Tennessee, Pickering was the inspiration for the film "Dead Poets Society." In ten eloquent essays addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always elucidating anecdotes from his more than 40 years in the classroom.
An English teacher at a boys' school in Tennessee, Pickering was the inspiration for the film "Dead Poets Society." In ten eloquent essays addressed t...
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68,04 zł |
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Happy Vagrancy: Essays from an Easy Chair
ISBN: 9781621901860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The essays in Sam Pickering s new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether attending a reunion at Sewanee, cruising the Caribbean, wandering the streets of Storrs, Connecticut, or rambling through Nova Scotia, Pickering is able to work a quotation, insight, or reminiscence into almost every page. His collection sparks with copious observations from other writers and books that he s devoured through the years. One of the many joys in Happy Vagrancy is finding a new author or essay hiding in the deep foliage of Pickering s prose. He...
The essays in Sam Pickering s new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether attending a reunion at Se...
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84,84 zł |
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Walden
ISBN: 9780881462319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is one of the most important works by the most important American philosopher: Henry David Thoreau, vital figure in the Transcendentalist movement, hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profound thinker on humanity's happiness. First published in 1854, Walden collects the penetrating reflections from the two years Thoreau lived in solitude on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond. In lucid, poetic prose, Thoreau ponders the beauty of living simply and in communion with nature. It is a work of pastoral magnificence and wisdom that has moved generations of readers. Writer and...
This is one of the most important works by the most important American philosopher: Henry David Thoreau, vital figure in the Transcendentalist movemen...
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85,73 zł |
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Collected Writings of Giles Clark: Recycling Madness with Jung, Spinoza and Santayana
ISBN: 9781032187044 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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161,47 zł |
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Collected Writings of Giles Clark: Recycling Madness with Jung, Spinoza and Santayana
ISBN: 9781032187068 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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656,16 zł |
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Aesop's Fables
ISBN: 9780451529534 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Kindness is seldom wasted."
--from "The Lion and the Mouse" It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed more than two thousand years ago. Yet "sour grapes," "crying 'wolf, '" "actions speak louder than words," "honesty is the best policy," and literally hundreds of other metaphors, axioms, and ideas that are now woven into the very fabric of Western culture all came from Aesop's Fables. An extraordinary storyteller who used cunning foxes, surly dogs, clever mice,... "Kindness is seldom wasted."
--from "The Lion and the Mouse" It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language... |
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29,56 zł |