wyszukanych pozycji: 179
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Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia
ISBN: 9780198290667 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This biography of Deng Tuo (1912-1966) is a social history of intellectuals as agents in China's socialist revolution. It places Deng Tuo's writings and ideas in the rich context of his social experience as a member of the Communist bureaucracy and as an elite artist and aesthete. The tension between service to politics and service to culture was ultimately disasterous for Deng and for China's revolution: his ghost haunts the halls of power in Beijing today.
This biography of Deng Tuo (1912-1966) is a social history of intellectuals as agents in China's socialist revolution. It places Deng Tuo's writings a...
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1014,38 |
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Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
ISBN: 9780810888777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Timothy Cheek's revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set "a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction," according to Notes: The Journal of the Music Library Association. It offers users updated information, important clarifications, and expanded repertoire in a more accessible, easier to use format. Singing in Czech is divided into two parts. Using IPA, the first part takes the reader systematically through each sound of...
Timothy Cheek's revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible onlin...
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342,56 |
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Claws
ISBN: 9781624670275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Enter the deadly safari and hunt down a blood-thirsty killer
When twenty-three lions, tigers, and ligers--a giant hybrid cat--appear in rural Idaho, town officials decide to hold the first safari in America. Only police chief Jackson Hobbs, a man haunted by loss and tragedy, and Katy Osborne, a talented hunting guide, seem to realize the potential danger of this situation. With the town desperate for money, the mayor, who also happens to be Jackson's ex-wife, and her boyfriend are adamant that the Idaho Lion Hunt go forward even after people are killed. As the... Enter the deadly safari and hunt down a blood-thirsty killer
When twenty-three lions, tigers, and ligers--a giant hybrid cat--appe... |
cena:
96,01 |
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Wake Me When It's Over
ISBN: 9781441536822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
83,97 |
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A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden
ISBN: 9780804746632 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. It examines British and French popular journalism, utopian fiction and travel accounts about South Sea encounter, pamphlet literature, and pornography, as well as more traditional literary sources on the eighteenth century, such as the novel and philosophical essays and tales. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state....
Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder ...
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337,34 |
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The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History
ISBN: 9781107021419 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the intellectual in the long twentieth century, from China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895 to the 'Prosperous China' since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Cheek surveys the changing terrain of intellectual life over this transformative century in Chinese history to enable readers to understand a particular figure, idea or debate. The map provides coordinates to track different times, different social worlds and...
This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map an...
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409,53 |
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Alternate Susan
ISBN: 9781484070031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Susie Stillwater summoned a djinn and made a wish to go to an alternate reality where her siblings were still alive. Susie Stillwater switched places with her alternate counterpart and got her wish. Her story is over. But Susan Stillwater's story is just beginning. She's stuck in a not-quite-right version of her home town, where her brother and sister are dead, the magical investigation bureau is asking her about the illegal summoning of a djinn, and a talking lizard claims he only wants to help. Susan has to find her missing mother, dodge sleazy-hot men who want favors, and try to find a way...
Susie Stillwater summoned a djinn and made a wish to go to an alternate reality where her siblings were still alive. Susie Stillwater switched places ...
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62,97 |
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Onward Christian Soldiers?
ISBN: 9781532649660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
172,02 |
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Embarrassed to be with Amy
ISBN: 9781684980673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
67,81 |
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Rusalka: A Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation
ISBN: 9780810883055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Known worldwide as a composer of symphonies and chamber music, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak declared toward the end of his life that his main love was writing operas. Written in 1900 at the height of Dvorak's creative powers, his fairy tale opera Rusalka is a masterpiece firmly established in the international repertory--from 2010 to 2012 alone, over 200 performances of 27 productions of the opera played in 21 European cities alone Worldwide, music schools and summer programs have mounted the work, as well, reflecting not only the power of Dvorak's music but the lyricism and depth of...
Known worldwide as a composer of symphonies and chamber music, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak declared toward the end of his life that his main love wa...
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846,41 |
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Poked
ISBN: 9781733502221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
58,60 |
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Reimagining Lyric Diction Courses: Leading Change in the Classroom and Beyond: CMS Emerging Fields in Music
ISBN: 9781032127750 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
105,11 |
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The Lost Colony
ISBN: 9780990998297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
67,00 |
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When We Were Gone Astray
ISBN: 9781733502269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
54,40 |
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Jenufa: Translations and Pronunciation, Volume 3
ISBN: 9781442275188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Czech composer Leo Jana ek s most famous opera, Jen fa is a harrowing tale of forbidden love, abandonment, hypocrisy, desperation, and tragic infanticide. As today s second most frequently performed Czech opera (following Dvorak s Rusalka), Jen fa holds a prominent place in international opera repertoire and continues to draw the attention of new audiences. Drawing on both scholarly studies and production experience, Timothy Cheek presents an original English-language translation of the original Czech libretto. As with the first two books in the Jana ek Opera Libretti series (P ihody li ky...
Czech composer Leo Jana ek s most famous opera, Jen fa is a harrowing tale of forbidden love, abandonment, hypocrisy, desperation, and tragic infantic...
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500,75 |
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Mulberry Wands
ISBN: 9781500315559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Susan never expected to find a corpse in her backyard, especially not one no larger than a doll. Her well-intentioned burial and investigation attracts the notice of the victim's kin, who blame her for the murder and want vengeance. Griff just wants a little more money. When his friend's squirrelly cousin offers him a side job selling magic wands, and he meets a strange but beautiful girl, he feels his luck is finally starting to change. And then he meets the owls. Paul is a human member of the Sunwards, a society of shapeshifting owls. When its parliament orders him to investigate a mage, he...
Susan never expected to find a corpse in her backyard, especially not one no larger than a doll. Her well-intentioned burial and investigation attract...
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62,97 |
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The Chinese Communist Party
ISBN: 9781108842778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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352,56 |
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The Bartered Bride - Prodana Nevesta: Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation
ISBN: 9780810872608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bedrich Smetana's comic opera Prodana nevesta/The Bartered Bride is cherished as the Czech national opera and is the most popular Czech opera in the world. As performances in English-speaking countries have moved from German to English back to the original Czech, The Bartered Bride - Prodana nevesta: Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation fills the need for an accessible, detailed guide to singing the work in Czech, as well as being valuable for those wishing to make or improve on an English singing translation. Timothy Cheek provides idiomatic and word-for-word translations of...
Bedrich Smetana's comic opera Prodana nevesta/The Bartered Bride is cherished as the Czech national opera and is the most popular Czech opera in the w...
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cena:
510,08 |
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Gracie's Lullaby Land
ISBN: 9781456890148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
67,17 |
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And the Beat Goes on
ISBN: 9781512793659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
47,37 |