wyszukanych pozycji: 23
Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists
ISBN: 9781632867186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe. For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably the most admired sound and film editor in the world for his work on Apocalypse Now, The Godfather trilogy, The English Patient, and many others. Outside of the studio, his mind is wide-ranging; his passion, pursued for several decades, has been astrophysics, in particular... From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigati... |
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165,06 zł |
Cycle Savvy: The Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body
ISBN: 9780060829643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Should I be concerned if my cycles are rarely 28 days? If you're a teenage girl, you've probably asked yourself these questions and many more. Now Cycle Savvy has the answers that will help you understand what is really happening with your body on a day-to-day basis. It's the first book specifically designed to teach young women about the practical benefits of charting their cycles. Explore the fascinating world of ovulation, fertility, and why you even... Should I be concerned if my cycles are rarely 28 days? |
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69,51 zł |
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9780374236410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient.
The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient.
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113,26 zł |
Taking Charge Of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement and Reproductive Health
ISBN: 9780091887582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Explains the Fertility Awareness Method, which allows you to: maximise your chances of conception, or expedite fertility treatment by identifying impediments to pregnancy achievement; enjoy effective and scientifically proven birth control without chemicals or devices; increase the likelihood of choosing the gender of your baby; and more.
Explains the Fertility Awareness Method, which allows you to: maximise your chances of conception, or expedite fertility treatment by identifying impe...
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154,47 zł |
Familienplanung : Das Standardwerk zur natürlichen Empfängnisverhütung, Kontrolle der Fruchtbarkeit sowie Erfüllung des Kinderwunsches
ISBN: 9783868826821 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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137,30 zł |
Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
ISBN: 9780062326034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In celebration of its 20th anniversary, a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the leading book on fertility and women's reproductive health. Since the publication of Taking Charge of your Fertility two decades ago, Toni Weschler has taught a whole new generation of women how to become pregnant, avoid pregnancy naturally and gain better control of their gynecological and sexual health by taking just a couple minutes a day using the proven Fertility Awareness Method. In celebration of its 20th anniversary, a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the leading book on fertility and women's reproductive health.... |
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121,67 zł |
A Trove of Zohars
ISBN: 9781955125192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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130,19 zł |
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy
ISBN: 9780679764892 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science. Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, ... |
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73,68 zł |
Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Thomas R. Weschler, USN (Ret.), vol. II
ISBN: 9781682692646 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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462,74 zł |
Strandbeest. The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
ISBN: 9783836548496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Sculptural species: A new life-form in its own right? For the past seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog has followed the evolution of a new, kinetic species. Intricate as insects, but with bursts of equine energy, the "Strandbeests" or "beach creatures," are the creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been working for nearly two decades to develop a new life-form that moves, and even survives, on its own. Set to roam the beaches of Holland, the Strandbeests pick up the wind in their gossamer wings and spring, as if by metamorphosis, into action. As if it were blood, not the...
Sculptural species: A new life-form in its own right? For the past seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog has followed the evolution of a ne...
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309,02 zł |
A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers
ISBN: 9780226893945 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the past fifteen years, one of the most vexing issues facing fledgling transitional democracies around the world--from South Africa to Eastern Europe, from Cambodia to Bosnia--has been what to do about the still-toxic security apparatuses left over from the previous regime. In this now-classic and profoundly influential study, the New Yorker's Lawrence Weschler probes these dilemmas across two gripping narratives (set in Brazil and Uruguay, among the first places to face such concerns), true-life thrillers in which torture victims, faced with the paralysis of the new regime,...
During the past fifteen years, one of the most vexing issues facing fledgling transitional democracies around the world--from South Africa to Eastern ...
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126,55 zł |
Robert Irwin Getty Garden
ISBN: 9781606066560 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A beautifully illustrated, accessible volume about one of the Getty Center's best-loved sites.
A beautifully illustrated, accessible volume about one of the Getty Center's best-loved sites.
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104,49 zł |
Reminiscences of Vice Adm. Thomas R. Weschler, USN (Ret.), vol. I
ISBN: 9781682692639 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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462,74 zł |
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780520256095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects--in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum (the subject of an epic battle with the site's principal architect,...
When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and ...
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144,21 zł |
Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas
ISBN: 9780226893921 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Calamities of Exile combines three gripping narratives that afford a sort of double CAT scan into the natures of both modern totalitarianism and timeless exile.
"Beautiful but harrowing chronicles of three exiles that probe the moral and personal risks of their encounters with totalitarianism. . . . Piercing and timely."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Weschler . . . combines a novelist's gift for drama with the objectivity and research skills of a journalist. . . . The result is three gripping profiles of very... From the author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Calamities of Exile combines three gripping narratives that afford a sort of double C...
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132,05 zł |
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9781250619600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,70 zł |
True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney
ISBN: 9780520258792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a series of engrossing dialogues, gathered here for the first time. Weschler chronicles Hockney's protean production and speculations, including his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints, his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting, his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of...
Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Lif...
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145,83 zł |
Boggs: A Comedy of Values
ISBN: 9780226893969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps more precisely, value. Boggs draws money-paper notes in standard currencies from all over the world-and tries to spend his drawings. It is a practice that regularly lands him in trouble with treasury police around the globe and provokes fundamental questions regarding the value of art and the value of money.
In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps mo...
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104,54 zł |
The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage: Selected Works of Curzio Malaparte
ISBN: 9781619022812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II. Curzio Malaparte, an Italian born with a German heritage, was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat. When he wrote a book attacking...
Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories wa...
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73,68 zł |
Leadership and Organization (Rle: Organizations): A Behavioural Science Approach
ISBN: 9781138979543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book represents a selected collection of the writings, from 1950 to 1960, of members of the Human Relations Research Group (HRRG), from UCLA. The writings are followed by independent comments and appraisal from different viewpoints, prepared by distinguished experts in management theory, group psycho-therapy and psychology and sociology. This book represents a selected collection of the writings, from 1950 to 1960, of members of the Human Relations Research Group (HRRG), from UCLA. ... |
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229,93 zł |