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Aliceheimers: Alzheimers Through the Looking Glass
ISBN: 9780271074689 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Alice was always beautiful--Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes," writes Dana Walrath. Alice also has Alzheimer's, and while she can remember all the songs from The Music Man, she can no longer attend to the basics of caring for herself. Alice moves to live with her daughter, Dana, in Vermont, and the story begins. Aliceheimer's is a series of illustrated vignettes, daily glimpses into their world with Alzheimer's. Walrath's time with her mother was marked by humor and clarity: "With a community of help that... "Alice was always beautiful--Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes," writes Dana Walrath. Alice... |
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91,65 zł |
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A Guided Tour of Hell: A Graphic Memoir
ISBN: 9781611801422 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take a trip through the realms of hell with a man whose temporary visitor s pass gave him a horrifying and enlightening preview of its torments.
This true account of Sam Bercholz s near-death experience has more in common with Dante sInfernothan it does with any of the popular feel-good stories of what happens when we die. In the aftermath of heart surgery, Sam, a longtime Buddhist practitioner and teacher, is surprised to find himself in the lowest realms of karmic rebirth, where he is sent to gain insight into human suffering. Under the guidance of a luminous being, Sam s... Take a trip through the realms of hell with a man whose temporary visitor s pass gave him a horrifying and enlightening preview of its torments. |
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102,43 zł |
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Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir
ISBN: 9781936787289 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil's debut, tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a psychologist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. Captivated by Bubbe's story, Amy turns to her sketchbooks, teaching herself to draw as a way to cope with what she discovers. Entwining the voices and histories of these three wise, hilarious, and very different...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil's debut, tells the stories of three unforgettable w...
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77,79 zł |
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March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)
ISBN: 9781603093958 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
Discover the inside story of the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of one of its most iconic figures, Congressman John Lewis. March is the award-winning, #1 bestselling graphic novel trilogy recounting his life in the movement, co-written with Andrew Aydin and drawn by Nate Powell. This commemorative set contains all three volumes of March in a beautiful slipcase. #1 New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller First graphic novel to receive a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner of... Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
Discover the inside story of the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of one of... |
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205,23 zł |
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March: Book Three
ISBN: 9781603094023 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC...
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key fi...
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82,07 zł |
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Audubon, on the Wings of the World
ISBN: 9781910620151 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the start of the nineteenth century, John James Audubon embarked upon an epic ornithological quest across America with nothing but his artist's materials, an assistant, a gun and an all-consuming passion for birds... This beautiful volume tells the story of an incredible artist and adventurer: one who encapsulates the spirit of early America, when the wilderness felt limitless and was still greatly unexplored. Based on Audubon's own retellings, this graphic novel version of his travels captures the wild and adventurous spirit of a truly exceptional naturalist and... At the start of the nineteenth century, John James Audubon embarked upon an epic ornithological quest across America with nothing but his artist's ... |
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94,22 zł |
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Sparks
ISBN: 9781939289964 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author shares her childhood memories which may help sweep away the cobwebs hidden within the crevices of your mind to set a "SPARK"and help you recall your own memories. (A book to let the younger generation know why it is called the "good old days!")
The author shares her childhood memories which may help sweep away the cobwebs hidden within the crevices of your mind to set a "SPARK"and help you re...
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82,51 zł |
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Imagine Wanting Only This
ISBN: 9781101870839 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash, islands in the...
A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle a...
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131,38 zł |
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I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a transgender child
ISBN: 9780995180710 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I Promised Not to Tell is quite possibly one of the most important books to date on a very controversial and little understood social issue: transgenderism. If you are facing such a situation with your child, I urge you to read this book. Both you and your child need what Cheryl has so kindly shared with readers and parents. And when you do, I'm sure you will come away impressed not just by the courage shown by Jordan in this book, but by the love Cheryl and her husband have for their children and their compassion for all people. I loved I Promised Not to Tell. Couldn't... "I Promised Not to Tell is quite possibly one of the most important books to date on a very controversial and little understood social issu... |
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68,93 zł |
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Rise of the Dungeon Master (Illustrated Edition): Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D
ISBN: 9781568585598 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the most influential games ever made. Like the game itself, the narrative casts the reader into the adventure from a first person point of view, taking on the roles of the different characters in the story. Gygax was the son of immigrants who grew up in Lake Geneva, WI, in the 1950s. An imaginative misfit, he escaped into a virtual world based on science fiction novels, military history and strategic games like chess. In the mid-1970s, he co-created the wildly...
Rise of the Dungeon Master tells, in graphic form, the story of Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the most influential gam...
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69,75 zł |
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Fun Home (Spanish Edition)
ISBN: 9786073142625 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Una familia tragicomica, el exitoso relato de maduracion de Alison Bechdel, que ha sido calificado de "proeza de retrato familiar" y de "raro y original ejemplo de por que las novelas graficas han dado que hablar en la literatura americana." Fun Home fue nombrado Mejor libro del ano por Time, The New York Times y People. El padre de Alison es un profesor de ingles obsesionado por restaurar con antiguedades su casa victoriana y es dueno de una vieja funeraria. En consonancia con la frialdad de su entorno, es un padre distante y tiranico que mantiene en secreto su verdadera...
Una familia tragicomica, el exitoso relato de maduracion de Alison Bechdel, que ha sido calificado de "proeza de retrato familiar" y de "raro y ori...
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81,90 zł |
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On to the Next Dream
ISBN: 9780872867420 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Madonna's popular comic, "All Over Coffee" had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District, ground-zero in the "tech wars" transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco's overheated boomtown housing market, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience, and to capture the complex, highly charged atmosphere of a city--and a life--being forced through a... Paul Madonna's popular comic, "All Over Coffee" had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from ... |
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73,69 zł |
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Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
ISBN: 9781621068006 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The graphic narrative history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants.
When Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police, the city broke out into nonviolent civil disobedience that was met with further police violence. This was the first major uprising of the 21st Century, matched only by the LA riots a decade before and the protests in Ferguson over a decade later. Author and illustrator Dan Mendez Moore was 17 at the time when he participated in the six days of protests that shook the city between... The graphic narrative history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants.
When Timothy ... |
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49,06 zł |
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I Shaved My Legs for THIS?!: Memoir of a Serial Dater
ISBN: 9780997368703 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sunny Hill lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Still on the dating scene, she uses the wisdom she has gained through her sometimes awkward, sometimes exhilarating experiences to coach friends on best dating practices. Sunny graduated from the University of Tennessee and practices accounting, although she is anything but a boring, pencil-pushing number-cruncher Recently, she was chatting with a prospect when he asked about her occupation. When she told him, he replied, "I guess you don't have any tattoos then, do you?" Sunny said with a laugh, "No, but don't judge a character by her... Sunny Hill lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Still on the dating scene, she uses the wisdom she has gained through her sometimes awkward, sometimes ex... |
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53,33 zł |
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Jan & Dahk's Scrapbook 2016
ISBN: 9781582753294 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the 14th year for this delightful and light-hearted book. Intended to be a "gift" to family and friends, it's not the intention of the authoers to fully distribute this annual book. This is the 14th year for this delightful and light-hearted book. Intended to be a "gift" to family and friends, it's not the intention of the auth... |
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97,98 zł |
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The Arab of the Future 3: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987
ISBN: 9781627793537 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,85 zł |
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Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire
ISBN: 9780190238711 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic history set in Roman Africa in 203 CE that tells the story of the Christian martyr Perpetua. The Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, also known as The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, is the first extant diary authored by a Christian woman. Vibia Perpetua was a young mother who lived in Roman Africa and, at the age of twenty-two, chose to publicly proclaim her Christian faith. She died as a...
Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a g...
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224,66 zł |
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George Orwell Illustrated
ISBN: 9781608467839 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With -alternative facts- and newspeak the order of the political day, a growing audience for George Orwell's work has emerged. Orwell is one of the most celebrated 20th-century literary figures and his dystopian novel 1984 continues to be widely read and discussed. This illustrated narrative of his life is uniquely accessible and provides the insight needed to understand Orwell and his political activism, with the kind of light touch that Orwell himself appreciated. David Smith is the author of Marx's Capital Illustrated. Mike Mosher provided the art for... With -alternative facts- and newspeak the order of the political day, a growing audience for George Orwell's work has emerged. Orwell is one of the... |
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81,06 zł |
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Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography
ISBN: 9781770859289 / Angielski / Twarda / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. --Robert Capa Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography is a brilliant portrayal of the career of the great war photographer who, at the time of his death in 1954, had only one wish: to be an unemployed war photographer. "It is not always easy" he said, "to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the suffering." Born in 1913 to a Jewish family in Budapest, Endre Friedmann left home at 18 for Germany where he studied journalism and political science and worked in a photo agency darkroom. In... "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. --Robert Capa Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography is a brilliant... |
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91,65 zł |
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Egon Schiele: His Life and Death
ISBN: 9781770859401 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true story in graphic novel format of the life and death of figurative painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), an artistic genius who outraged early 20th-century Vienna.
The true story in graphic novel format of the life and death of figurative painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), an artistic genius who outraged early 20t...
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80,84 zł |