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You Never Know
ISBN: 9780595280124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "You Never Know" depicts a world in which every question is an answer and every answer a new question, a world where nothing is certain except uncertainty. The reader will marvel at the incredible tale of the sweating corpse, suffer along with a young man who refuses to accept the fact that it is raining bananas, admire the perseverance of the shoemaker who invents a substance that makes heels invisible, shudder as voracious rats devour an unfortunate victim alive, and marvel as a nude defendant presents his case to a jury. LoCicero's satirical, philosophical, metaphysical romp spares no...
"You Never Know" depicts a world in which every question is an answer and every answer a new question, a world where nothing is certain except uncerta...
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A Guy from Brooklyn
ISBN: 9780595252961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Like the acclaimed television series, The Sopranos, A Guy from Brooklyn offers a keen insight into the complexity of human nature. Unlike the Mafia Don, however, Guy Lorenzo's journey leads him from the Brooklyn slums to the hallowed halls of academia. While reminiscent of the great European novels of development, A Guy from Brooklyn is pure Americana, often simultaneously solemn and hilarious, and always thought provoking.
Like the acclaimed television series, The Sopranos, A Guy from Brooklyn offers a keen insight into the complexity of human nature. Unlike the Mafia Do...
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Color Me Stoned: a cannabis coloring book for adults
ISBN: 9780692902202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Color Me Stoned is an adult coloring book like no other. Fun and informative, it's an A to Z of different strains of cannabis, ranging from the classic Acapulco Gold to the slammin' body high of Zombie OG. Whether you're a lifelong connoisseur, a returnee to marijuana after a long hiatus or brand new to the herb, you'll enjoy coloring this hand drawn, stony-inspired book.
Color Me Stoned is an adult coloring book like no other. Fun and informative, it's an A to Z of different strains of cannabis, ranging from the classi...
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44,31 |
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Coming Up Short: A Collection of Fiction & Non-fiction
ISBN: 9781540774798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a multifaceted treat: a sparkling collection of T.V. LoCicero's best short fiction and non-fiction penned over the past five decades-14 stories, memoirs, essays and occasional pieces that are by turns brilliant, hilarious, moving and insightful. Together they offer a wonderful array of unlikely but vividly realized characters: --A colorful black caddie who plays one of the strangest rounds in the history of golf. --The mild, unassuming fellow often dubbed the greatest crime writer of our time. --A Hall of Fame athlete whose decades of triumph ended in sudden death on a Manhattan...
This is a multifaceted treat: a sparkling collection of T.V. LoCicero's best short fiction and non-fiction penned over the past five decades-14 storie...
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40,43 |
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The Apparatus
ISBN: 9780595293551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The Apparatus" is an insightful satire on government bureaucracy, personal identity and confused human relationships. Set in World War II America, the novel transcends geographical borders and is timeless. The characters in "The Apparatus" remain nameless, defined by their functions rather than their individuality.
LoCicero's narrator, a young man with an extraordinary ability, recounts his bewildering dealings with the Apparatus, a nebulous organization that is simultaneously frightening and laughable, omnipotent and powerless, omnipresent and invisible, omniscient and unknowing. Its... "The Apparatus" is an insightful satire on government bureaucracy, personal identity and confused human relationships. Set in World War II America, th...
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Superheroes and Gods: A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman
ISBN: 9780786431847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The work provides a unique study of superheroes and gods in literature, popular culture, and ancient myth. The author selects a number of mythological figures (e.g., Babylonia s Gilgamesh and Enkidu), ancient gods (e.g., Greece s Eros and Tartarus), and modern superheroes (e.g., the United States Superman and Captain Marvel) and identifies the often striking similarities between each unique category of characters. The author contends that the vast majority of mythological superheroes follow the same archetypal character patterns, regardless of each hero s unique time period or culture. Each...
The work provides a unique study of superheroes and gods in literature, popular culture, and ancient myth. The author selects a number of mythological...
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167,87 |
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The American War
ISBN: 9780595231003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,88 |
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The Other Sex: Transfiguration in the Kingdom of the Concrete Lions
ISBN: 9780595653201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Helen and Harold awake one morning transfigured into each other, their world is thrown into chaos. Will the hostile mother-in-law who refuses to believe that the pregnant woman is not her daughter, but her daughter's husband, help solve their dilemma? Will their burned out pastor offer them spiritual comfort? Can the idealistic social worker who is also a fierce karate expert be a source of pragmatic advice? Is a famous transvestite lawyer able to provide them with legal aid? Will Harold opt for an abortion to avoid subjecting his offspring to the stigma of having a mother who is really...
When Helen and Harold awake one morning transfigured into each other, their world is thrown into chaos. Will the hostile mother-in-law who refuses to ...
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96,15 |
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The Blue Wheelchair: A Metaphysical Mystery
ISBN: 9781440134463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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92,30 |
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Babytrick (The detroit im dyin Trilogy, Book 3)
ISBN: 9781517023386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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48,51 |
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The Disappearance: The Truth Beauty Trilogy
ISBN: 9780615681450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. ..".an intriguing and cleverly plotted thriller... a complex net of lies, cover-ups and diversions... far from obvious or predictable."-Christoph Fischer, author of The Luck of the Weissensteiners In Book 2 of The Truth Beauty Trilogy, the dark, edgy saga continues. The Disappearance is a transatlantic romance riddled with secrets and deception, a tale that travels from Switzerland to Italy, from Holland to the Bahamas. In Geneva, lovely Italian scholar Lina Lentini is caught up in the shadow world of Swiss banking. Schemes of fraud and murder in cold blood begin to surface when her friend...
..".an intriguing and cleverly plotted thriller... a complex net of lies, cover-ups and diversions... far from obvious or predictable."-Christoph Fisc...
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56,61 |
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The Other Sex: Transfiguration in the Kingdom of the Concrete Lions
ISBN: 9780595257690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Helen and Harold awake one morning transfigured into each other, their world is thrown into chaos. Will the hostile mother-in-law who refuses to believe that the pregnant woman is not her daughter, but her daughter's husband, help solve their dilemma? Will their burned out pastor offer them spiritual comfort? Can the idealistic social worker who is also a fierce karate expert be a source of pragmatic advice? Is a famous transvestite lawyer able to provide them with legal aid? Will Harold opt for an abortion to avoid subjecting his offspring to the stigma of having a mother who is really...
When Helen and Harold awake one morning transfigured into each other, their world is thrown into chaos. Will the hostile mother-in-law who refuses to ...
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57,61 |
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If Animals Could Speak: A 21st Century Fable inspired by 9/11/2001
ISBN: 9780595344789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "IF ANIMALS COULD SPEAK" is a fantasy that examines the human condition and our relationship to the animal kingdom. Inspired by 9/11/2001, the central themes of the novel are betrayal, terror, loss, heroism and love. Unlike that infamous September day, however, the primary victims and heroes of LoCicero's work are not human, but a band of farm animals. Faced with the destruction of their farm after its sale to developers, they valiantly but vainly battle the construction workers and their cruel, scar-faced boss. Exiled and pursued, their numbers grow as they recruit a dog, a bear, a colony of...
"IF ANIMALS COULD SPEAK" is a fantasy that examines the human condition and our relationship to the animal kingdom. Inspired by 9/11/2001, the central...
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69,17 |
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The Obsession: The Truth Beauty Trilogy
ISBN: 9780615681351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. ..".both The Obsession and Gone Girl] are pacy, gripping narratives about love grown monstrous and out of control."--Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room The Obsession is a dark and edgy stalker romance filled with desire and deception and sparked by an erotic love triangle that shifts between the American Midwest and several legendary Italian locales. When Stan, an American grad student, falls for Lina, a lovely Italian scholar, his unrequited feelings become a perverse passion. When he stalks her from a mid-Michigan college town to Bologna's ancient streets, they are joined by Lina's...
..".both The Obsession and Gone Girl] are pacy, gripping narratives about love grown monstrous and out of control."--Victoria Best, Tales from the Re...
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56,61 |
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The Car Bomb (The detroit im dyin Trilogy, Book 1)
ISBN: 9780615811772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Detroit's top TV newsman Frank DeFauw hunts down the story of a judge who may be corrupt-and is one of his best friends. Booze, drugs, womanizing and a passion for the news are all part of what makes brilliant, erratic Frank a major player in this deeply troubled city. Plagued by his own dark pleasures and followed by a deadly assassin, Frank is finally forced to decide if digging out the truth about a bribe to his pal the judge is worth risking his career, his family and his life. With supple prose, brilliant dialogue, complex characters and a twisting plot, this opening salvo of The...
Detroit's top TV newsman Frank DeFauw hunts down the story of a judge who may be corrupt-and is one of his best friends. Booze, drugs, womanizing and ...
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48,51 |
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Working With An Architect: What to expect working with an architect on your home addition or remodel
ISBN: 9781542896108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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32,17 |
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The Project Planning Checklist: What you need to know before you start your home remodel or addition
ISBN: 9781539594482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Remodeling or adding on to your home is a major project. There are many steps that need to be taken before your problem can be solved, permits procured, and construction is complete. At any point along the way you can make a mis-step that can cost you thousands of dollars, or many extra weeks or months of time. In The Project Planning Checklist, David Locicero, architect, guides you through the preliminary process of gathering the information you will need at the beginning of the project. With this information in hand you will save time and money. Even if you don't know where to find some of...
Remodeling or adding on to your home is a major project. There are many steps that need to be taken before your problem can be solved, permits procure...
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32,17 |
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A Moonlight Massacre: The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917. The Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres
ISBN: 9781911628729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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150,72 |
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Why Good Kids Turn Into Deadly Terrorists: Deconstructing the Accused Boston Marathon Bombers and Others Like Them
ISBN: 9781440831881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The shock of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings was soon followed by a revelation initially disturbing and mystifying: two apparently unremarkable brothers--one a teenager, the other a young adult; both well-liked immigrants and longtime U.S. residents--had allegedly triggered the bombs. Why were these two seemingly "normal" individuals driven to commit such acts of coldblooded violence? This book examines not only the lives, motivations, and key influences of these infamous brothers, but those of other young, unexpected terrorists worldwide, comparing factors that contributed to their... The shock of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings was soon followed by a revelation initially disturbing and mystifying: two apparently unremarkable b... |
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Creating Young Martyrs: Conditions That Make Dying in a Terrorist Attack Seem Like a Good Idea
ISBN: 9780275996901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The authors explain how and why we must understand the conditions that spur youths to become martyrs by making them think suicide bombings and other acts of self-destructive terrorism are a good way to die. LoCicero and Sinclair present cutting-edge research and theory about the political, social, and living conditions that raise the risk of children deciding to join organizations that use terrorist tactics, and, having joined, to volunteer for missions in which they intentionally die while causing death and destruction, in order to make an impact. Equally important, LoCicero and Sinclair... The authors explain how and why we must understand the conditions that spur youths to become martyrs by making them think suicide bombings and othe... |
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