wyszukanych pozycji: 11
All My Days Are Saturdays
ISBN: 9780826220288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A "New York Times "article once stated that the art of the essay as delivered by Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble. As Pickering himself puts it, Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I m on the front porch, I am in a rocking chair. "All My Days Are Saturdays "offers fifteen new pieces in which he ponders a world that has changed and, in new ways, still delights him. This collection features Pickering writing about teaching and his recent retirement, visits to various locales, and, as he tell us, the many people I...
A "New York Times "article once stated that the art of the essay as delivered by Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble. As Pickering hi...
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146,30 zł |
Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do
ISBN: 9781570036910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A traveloque of meanderings of feet and mind through the streets of the Scottish capital
A traveloque of meanderings of feet and mind through the streets of the Scottish capital
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92,01 zł |
The Splendour Falls: Essays
ISBN: 9780881464498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Alexander Smith stated that a good essayist needed an ability to discern the infinite suggestiveness of common things. Arthur Benson seconded the idea, saying an essayist needed a far-ranging curiosity. For three decades Sam Pickering has written essays, his words rolling in a fine frenzy over ordinary life discovering the marvelous and the absurd. His curiosity ranges, but it also rumpuses and rollicks. He wanders the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, rural Connecticut, farmland in Nova Scotia, and islands in the sun. Strangers tell him their life storiestales that are almost as odd as the...
Alexander Smith stated that a good essayist needed an ability to discern the infinite suggestiveness of common things. Arthur Benson seconded the idea...
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108,30 zł |
A Comfortable Boy: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780881461824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Describing the early years of his childhood, the author reveals what made him a successful teacher and writer.
Describing the early years of his childhood, the author reveals what made him a successful teacher and writer.
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140,87 zł |
Letters to a Teacher
ISBN: 9780802142276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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65,02 zł |
A Tramp's Wallet
ISBN: 9780881462357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In A Tramp's Wallet, Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, mountains rip-rapped by scree, art galleries and bakeries, and always libraries. Pickering lectures on a cruise ship, travels the Murray River on a paddle wheeler, and rides the train from Sydney to Perth.
The saunterings of one of America's best and most popular essayists stretch the seams of A Tramp's Wallet, the coins of the page being six months spent alone in Australia and New Zealand. Far from the hoes and saws that prune days into convention, life... In A Tramp's Wallet, Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, mountains rip-ra...
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135,44 zł |
Walden
ISBN: 9780881462319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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81,92 zł |
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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618,85 zł |
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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154,67 zł |
Aesop's Fables
ISBN: 9780451529534 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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28,25 zł |
Walkabout Year : Twelve Months in Australia
ISBN: 9780826210432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Reading Pickering," said Smithsonian, "is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." In Walkabout Year, Samuel Pickering, the professor who inspired the movie Dead Poets Society, provides an intimate, engaging chronicle of his family's year in Western Australia. The reader is pulled into Pickering's tight family circle and off on an intriguing trip to another land. With humor, skill, and insight, Pickering describes the educational system his three children experienced; the family's journeys from one area of the country to another as he lectured; and the people both... "Reading Pickering," said Smithsonian, "is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." In Walkabout Year, Samuel Pickering, the professo... |
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178,87 zł |