wyszukanych pozycji: 387
Saints and Sons: The Making and Remaking of the Rashīdi Aḥmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000
ISBN: 9789004140134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the...
This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defi...
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648,09 zł |
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
ISBN: 9781406357929 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A lyrical and dreamlike story of two brothers in conflict amidst the devastation of WWII London. Harry Black wakes in hospital to learn that his brother Ellis has almost certainly been killed by a V2 rocket falling during a German air raid on London. In a state of wounded delirium, Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of the war-torn city, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry discharges himself from hospital and begins a search for his...
A lyrical and dreamlike story of two brothers in conflict amidst the devastation of WWII London. Harry Black wakes in hospital to learn that his br...
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77,74 zł |
Bob Goes to Jail: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781644281086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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82,79 zł |
Black Dog & Other Gothic Tales
ISBN: 9781790875139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,21 zł |
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
ISBN: 9780822330158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion."
In prose sometimes somber, often... A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful ...
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104,88 zł |
Midwinterblood
ISBN: 9781250040077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined--this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice. An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking: the seven stories in this compelling novel all take place on the remote Scandinavian island of Blessed where a curiously powerful plant that resembles a dragon grows. What binds these stories together? What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this idyllic countryside? And what might be powerful... Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined--this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrific... |
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63,75 zł |
Be The Change - Be Calm: Rise Up and Don't Let Anxiety Hold You Back
ISBN: 9781800074125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,00 zł |
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home (1841). By: Miss. Sedgwick: (Volume 1) Catharine Maria Sedgwick
ISBN: 9781543080582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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34,61 zł |
Raven Mysteries: Flood and Fang: Book 1
ISBN: 9781842556931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Meet the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. Edgar is alarmed when he sees a nasty looking black tail slinking under the castle walls. But his warnings to the inhabitants of the castle go unheeded.
Meet the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. Edgar is ...
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36,26 zł |
Ghosts of Shanghai: Book 1
ISBN: 9781444923902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Obsessed with martial arts and ghost stories, Ruby is part of a gang of Chinese and ex-pat children who hide out in ruined White Cloud Temple. But the world of Shanghai in the late 1920s is driven with danger: disease, crime, espionage and revolution are sweeping the streets. And since the death of her younger brother Thomas, Ruby is stalked by another anxiety and fear. Faced with a series of local hauntings, and armed with a lucky bookshop find - The Almanac of Distant Realms - Ruby forms the Shanghai Ghost Club to hunt down restless spirits. When best friend Faye is kidnapped by the Green...
Obsessed with martial arts and ghost stories, Ruby is part of a gang of Chinese and ex-pat children who hide out in ruined White Cloud Temple. But the...
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36,26 zł |
Revolver
ISBN: 9781444000054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is a tense, psychological drama set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, where a boy confronts a stranger come to take revenge on his dead father.
This is a tense, psychological drama set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle, where a boy confronts a stranger come to take revenge on his de...
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51,82 zł |
Blood Red Snow White
ISBN: 9781250129635 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Equal parts thriller, love story, and fairytale, Printz Medal-winning author Marcus Sedgwick's Blood Red Snow White is a gripping, romantic adventure novel based on the true story of Arthur Ransome's experiences with love and betrayal in war-torn Russia. There never was a story that was happy through and through. When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his unhappy marriage in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist, he has little idea of the violent revolution about to erupt. Unwittingly, he finds himself at its center, tapped by the British to report... Equal parts thriller, love story, and fairytale, Printz Medal-winning author Marcus Sedgwick's Blood Red Snow White is a gripping, romant... |
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102,02 zł |
Muhammad Abduh
ISBN: 9781851684328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) is widely regarded as the founder of Islamic modernism. Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and political activist, he sought to synthesize Western and Islamic cultural values. In this biography, Mark Sedgwick examines whether Abduh revived true Islam or instigated its corruption.
Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) is widely regarded as the founder of Islamic modernism. Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and political activist, he sough...
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154,64 zł |
Man's Position in the Universe, a Rough Survey
ISBN: 9781535147972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Man's Position in the Universe, a Rough Survey by William Sedgwick. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1902 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Man's Position in the Universe, a Rough Survey by William Sedgwick. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1902 and may have so...
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124,57 zł |
Love, Lucas
ISBN: 9781510709928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A 2015 Whitney Award Nominee A powerful story of loss, second chances, and first love, reminiscent of Sarah Dessen and John Green. When Oakley Nelson loses her older brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she'll never recover. Between her parents' arguing and the battle she's fighting with depression, she feels nothing inside but a hollow emptiness. When Mom suggests they spend a few months in California with Aunt Jo, Oakley isn't sure a change of scenery will alter anything, but she's willing to give it a try. In California, Oakley discovers a sort of safety and freedom in...
A 2015 Whitney Award Nominee A powerful story of loss, second chances, and first love, reminiscent of Sarah Dessen and John Green. Whe...
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42,48 zł |
Dreams from My Father, Okay?: The Secret Memoir of Mitt Romney
ISBN: 9780786753260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In what the Washington Post has called "the scoop of the century," the author and political operative John Sedgwick discovered Mitt Romney's secret tell-all memoir in the Romney family vault in the basement of the Mormon tabernacle built in 1867 by Mitt Romney's great grandfather. Never intended for publication, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, OKAY? lays out, for the first time, aspects of the Romney psyche that have long been baffling mysteries. Among them: Romney's reservations about his Mormon faith, his troubled marriage, his tortured relationship with his father, his insatiable political...
In what the Washington Post has called "the scoop of the century," the author and political operative John Sedgwick discovered Mitt Romney's secret te...
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72,25 zł |
The Foreshadowing
ISBN: 9781444011067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is 1915. Seventeen-year-old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her untold horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and worse still, what will happen to Edgar and Tom. Like the prophetess Cassandra, who foretold the tragedies of Troy, Sasha is trapped by power. No one will believe her. Her family have lost faith in her. She is determined to win them back, whatever the price. And it is a...
It is 1915. Seventeen-year-old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her...
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51,82 zł |
Catharine Sedgwick, Redwood: A Tale
ISBN: 9781399511117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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136,36 zł |
The Book of Dead Days
ISBN: 9781842552674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in dark threatening cities and the frozen countryside in a distant time and place of the author's making, 'The Book of Dead Days' conjures a spell-binding story of sorcery and desperate magic as Valerian, Boy and Willow Smallbone battle to stop time and cling to life.
Set in dark threatening cities and the frozen countryside in a distant time and place of the author's making, 'The Book of Dead Days' conjures a spell...
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41,44 zł |
Raven Mysteries: Lunatics and Luck: Book 3
ISBN: 9781444001884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Full moons and money troubles are nothing out of the ordinary at Castle Otherhand. But add a horrible, hairy, howling new school teacher, complete with mysterious heavy wooden trunk, and the earth trembles and the body count rises. Solstice and Cudweed are at his mercy
Full moons and money troubles are nothing out of the ordinary at Castle Otherhand. But add a horrible, hairy, howling new school teacher, complete wit...
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36,26 zł |