wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Truth Comes in Blows
ISBN: 9780393320503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Planted between Ted and a normal boyhood was Ben Solotaroff, as hard a father to placate, defy, and finally accept as can be found in the annals of the American memoir. Tough, bullying, seductive, Ben Solotaroff was a self-made man "almost all ego and almost no conscience" who made a success of his glass business and a wasteland of his home life. Against a crystalline view of American life in the 1930s and '40s, Truth Comes in Blows places its classic themes the ambivalent love of a son for his victimized mother, the romance of post-immigrant Jews with middle America, sports and masculinity,...
Planted between Ted and a normal boyhood was Ben Solotaroff, as hard a father to placate, defy, and finally accept as can be found in the annals of th...
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104,36 zł |
The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron - Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle
ISBN: 9780316011013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As a scrawny college freshman in the mid-1970s, just before Arnold Schwarzenegger became a hero to boys everywhere and "Pumping Iron" became a cult hit, Paul Solotaroff discovered weights and steroids. In a matter of months, he grew from a dorky beanpole into a hulking behemoth, showing off his rock hard muscles first on the streets of New York City and then alongside his colorful gym-rat friends in strip clubs and in the homes of the gotham elite. It was a swinging time, when "Would you like to dance?" turned into "Your place or mine?" and the guys with the muscles had all the ladies--until...
As a scrawny college freshman in the mid-1970s, just before Arnold Schwarzenegger became a hero to boys everywhere and "Pumping Iron" became a cult hi...
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161,23 zł |
The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Culture of Death Row
ISBN: 9780060931032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In fascinating detail, Ivan Solotaroff introduces us to the men who carry out executions. Although the emphasis is on the personal lives of these men and of those they have to put to death, The Last Face You'll Ever See also addresses some of the deeper issues of the death penalty and connects the veiled, elusive figure of the executioner to the vast majority of Americans who, since 1977, have claimed to support executions. Why do we do it? Or, more exactly, why do we want to? The Last Face You'll Ever See is not about the polarizing issues of the death penalty --... In fascinating detail, Ivan Solotaroff introduces us to the men who carry out executions. Although the emphasis is on the personal lives of these m... |
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65,32 zł |
The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction
ISBN: 9780805210651 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twenty-four stories by American Jewish authors include works by E.L. Doctorow, Michael Chabon, Mark Helprin, Grace Paley, and Cynthia Ozick.
Twenty-four stories by American Jewish authors include works by E.L. Doctorow, Michael Chabon, Mark Helprin, Grace Paley, and Cynthia Ozick.
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95,87 zł |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
ISBN: 9780553210354 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1981 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the... Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careeri...
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30,28 zł |
Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings
ISBN: 9780060512767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates -- including such unexpected figures as Lincoln, William James, and Thorstein Veblen. This son of Russian Jews wrote out of the tensions of the outsider and the astute, outspoken leftist -- or, as he put it, "the bitter patriotism of loving what one knows." Editor Ted Solotaroff hasselected material from Kazin's three classic memoirs to accompany his critical writings. Alfred Kazin's America... Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson ... |
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87,11 zł |
Voices to Choices: Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment
ISBN: 9781464813740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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212,67 zł |
Violence against women and girls: lessons from South Asia
ISBN: 9781464801716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age. It explores the different types of violence that women may face throughout their lives, as well as the associated perpetrators (male and female), risk and protective factors for both victims and perpetrators, and interventions to address violence across all life cycle stages. The report also analyzes the societal factors that drive the primarily male - but also female - perpetrators to commit violence against women in the region. For each stage and type of...
"This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age. It explores the di...
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150,15 zł |