wyszukanych pozycji: 970
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Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate
ISBN: 9781620456842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, ""Woodward and Bernstein"" takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely journalistic duo. Thrown together by fate or luck, Woodward and Bernstein changed the face of journalism and the American presidency. For the first time, Shepard separates myth from reality as she traces the lives of the iconic journalists before and after Watergate.
Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, ""Woodward and Bernstein"" takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely jo...
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64,61 |
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Sayyid Quṭb and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam
ISBN: 9789004101524 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work is a translation of an important book by one of the forerunners of the current "resurgence" of Islam. Its author was a prominent Islamic activist in Egypt in the late 1940s and early 1950s and was jailed and eventually executed for his activities. Today he is commonly viewed as a martyr and his books are widely read. First written in 1948, Social Justice in Islam went through five further editions, each revised in a manner reflecting his increasingly radical views. The present work translates the last edition, the most radical one, and also provides the alternative readings...
This work is a translation of an important book by one of the forerunners of the current "resurgence" of Islam. Its author was a prominent Islamic act...
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813,53 |
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Motel Chronicles
ISBN: 9780872861435 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. -. . .essential reading. A scrapbook of short... Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend... |
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Hawk Moon: Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues
ISBN: 9780933826236 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems--Shepard's first--one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflects on growing up in America, rock and roll, the sex of fishes, and other topics. Shepard displays his virtuosic sense of the rhythms of the American landscape.
In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems--Shepard's first--one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflect...
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58,74 |
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Prując przez raj
ISBN: 9788397307933 / Polski / broszurowa / 2025 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Prując przez raj Dom z butelek na pustyni Mojave, koń szybszy od najlepszego auta w całym miasteczku, śmierć od płonącego materaca, czosnek w butach, Austriak na arizońskiej autostradzie, jointy jak chińskie petardy, tajemnicze zniknięcie żony z pokoju numer 33, aktor, który nie lata. Opowiadania Sama Sheparda, rozgrywające się w tej osobliwej scenografii, pełne zaskakujących zwrotów akcji, to kwintesencja amerykańskiej tradycji krótkich form prozatorskich. Autor dowodzi w nich niezwykłej umiejętności kondensacji frazy, wyczulonego słuchu literackiego i nieprzeciętnego...
Prując przez raj Dom z butelek na pustyni Mojave, koń szybszy od najlepszego auta w całym miasteczku, śmierć od płonącego materaca, czosnek w b...
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58,91 |
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A Columbine Book - We Are All Columbine: 25 Years of Healing
ISBN: 9798987077894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,00 |
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Like You'd Understand, Anyway
ISBN: 9780307277602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--"Here is the effect of these two books," wrote the Chicago Tribune: "A reader finishes them buzzing with awe"--Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.
Like You'd Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his... Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen--"Here is the effect of these two books," wrote the Chicago Tribune: <...
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60,98 |
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The Book of Aron
ISBN: 9781101872741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more quickly, his family's opportunities for a better life vanish as the occupying German government imposes harsh restrictions. Officially confined to the Jewish quarter, with hunger, vermin, disease and death all around him, Aron makes his way from apprentice to master smuggler until finally, with everyone for whom he cared stripped away from him, his only option is Janusz Korczak, the renowned doctor, children's rights advocate, and radio host who...
Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more qu...
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80,04 |
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Great Dream of Heaven
ISBN: 9780375704529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him "the great playwright of his generation" (The New York Times). A boy watches a "remedy man" tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A woman driving her mother's ashes across the country has a strangely transcendent run-in with an injured hawk. Two aging widowers, in Stetsons and bolo ties, together make a daily pilgrimage to the local Denny's, only to be divided by the...
In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity ...
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60,98 |
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Eye II Eye: Journey to the Throne
ISBN: 9781387475902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,71 |
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You Think That's Bad
ISBN: 9780307742148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Following Like You'd Understand, Anyway--awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience--from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below average--with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, workaholic artists, female explorers, depraved murderers, and deluded losers, all wholly convincing and utterly fascinating.
Following Like You'd Understand, Anyway--awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns with an even m...
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91,48 |
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True West
ISBN: 9780573617287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 71 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and...
Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of t...
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60,80 |
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Growing 360: Self-Awareness Journal
ISBN: 9781716508790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,38 |
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Great Dream Of Heaven
ISBN: 9780099569923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him the great playwright of hisgeneration (The New York Times). A boy watches a remedy man tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A womandriving her mother's ashes across the country has a strangely transcendent run-in with an injured hawk. Two aging widowers, in Stetsons and bolo ties, together make a daily pilgrimage to the localDenny's, only to be divided by the attentions of their...
In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity ...
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66,56 |
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Simpatico : A Play in Three Acts
ISBN: 9780413697905 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of human life (The Times)
A poet of the theatre, shaping a new language out of broken words: an emotional seismograph registering the tremors which shake the substratum of huma...
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63,23 |
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Remote Sensing
ISBN: 9780471163558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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221,49 |
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Spy Of The First Person
ISBN: 9780525563365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
64,80 |
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A Hundred Cities
ISBN: 9780557667147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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52,43 |