wyszukanych pozycji: 5
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The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction
ISBN: 9781107627178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the end of the Cold War and globalization, 9/11, borderlands and border identities, race, and the legacy of postmodern aesthetics - this Introduction locates contemporary American fiction at the...
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound politic...
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131,20 zł |
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture
ISBN: 9781107002524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading authorities writing on Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections,...
Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward a...
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353,36 zł |
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Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene
ISBN: 9780521563383 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this major new study of Henry James' classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing problem of making sense of the past so that he could make culture work. In this record of his 1904-5 return to America and in his unfinished novels, The Sense of the Past and The Ivory Tower, he interpreted the social conflicts that seemed to be paralyzing relations between men and women, between black and white Americans, between "natives" and "aliens," between defenders of taste and censors of waste. Haviland's own method brings historical...
In this major new study of Henry James' classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing...
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605,76 zł |
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Wretire Wrong
ISBN: 9780997675603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There's no shortage of retirement books giving you good advice. Where's the fun in that? Hop on board Wretire Wrong and go for the misguided ride of your life with all sorts of bad advice on how to "wretire wrong." Makes the perfect gift for that friend of yours who's got that retirement party coming up
There's no shortage of retirement books giving you good advice. Where's the fun in that? Hop on board Wretire Wrong and go for the misguided ride of y...
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61,53 zł |
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Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy
ISBN: 9781108491167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked: 1. Power: the ceaseless craving to control. 2. Money: the limitless desire to accrue great wealth. 3. Sex: the constant hunt for sexual gratification. 4. Success: the unstoppable need to achieve. 5. Legitimacy: the tireless claim to identity and equity. 6. Legacy: the endless quest to leave a...
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definit...
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176,63 zł |