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The Optimistic Existentialist
ISBN: 9781595408792 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Campagna has, in this book, edited, up-dated and re-titled his first novel, first written when he was 17 years of age, for the purpose of demonstrating how an optimistic, existentialist, libertarian and spiritual outlook on life is somehow essential and intrinsic to the human experience, throughout the life span. Perhaps, surmises Campagna: "as we get older, we all just simply get a little better at rolling with life's punches.............." Campagna currently tours the country (and the world) giving seminars on existentialism and providing personal, professional and college/career...
Richard Campagna has, in this book, edited, up-dated and re-titled his first novel, first written when he was 17 years of age, for the purpose of demo...
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116,04 zł |
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The Optimistic Existentialist
ISBN: 9781595408808 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Campagna has, in this book, edited, up-dated and re-titled his first novel, first written when he was 17 years of age, for the purpose of demonstrating how an optimistic, existentialist, libertarian and spiritual outlook on life is somehow essential and intrinsic to the human experience, throughout the life span. Perhaps, surmises Campagna: "as we get older, we all just simply get a little better at rolling with life's punches.............." Campagna currently tours the country (and the world) giving seminars on existentialism and providing personal, professional and college/career...
Richard Campagna has, in this book, edited, up-dated and re-titled his first novel, first written when he was 17 years of age, for the purpose of demo...
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77,28 zł |
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A Hungarian Nabob by Maurus Jokai, Fiction, Political, Action & Adventure, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781603126960 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mor Jokai -- also known as Maurus Jokai -- was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He originally studied law and became an advocate in what is now Budapest. Encouraged by the reception of his first play, "The Jewish Boy," he turned to writing, producing Working Days, and becoming editor of "Eletkepek," the leading Hungarian literary journal. Following a revolution and the deposition of the Hapsburg dynasty, he became a political suspect. He spent the next fourteen years reviving the Magyar language, producing thirty romances and numerous other works. After the re-establishment of the...
Mor Jokai -- also known as Maurus Jokai -- was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He originally studied law and became an advocate in what is now Bud...
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155,52 zł |
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One More Sunrise
ISBN: 9781844010530 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Mister Rudi mate dia ona.' Her lover, a fearless journalist, killed by a coward's bullet in East Timor: Andrea Scott is horrified, then bitter. Following a brief marriage in the aftershock, she's on her way to Sri Lanka for her Melbourne newspaper to cover the Tamil Tigers' fight for a homeland in the island's north and east. The tigers are very, very dangerous and they're wary hosts to the news team. But when Andrea meets a troubled Tiger woman terrorist called Malini and they both step out of line, the dogs of war are out and death surrounds them. Stories of journalists who cross the...
'Mister Rudi mate dia ona.' Her lover, a fearless journalist, killed by a coward's bullet in East Timor: Andrea Scott is horrified, then bitter. Follo...
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82,32 zł |
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The Final Curtain Call
ISBN: 9781844014361 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With globalisation spreading its tentacles across the planet and Corporate America throttling the Third World with debt ... while GM crops taint the fields and pollute the gene pool ... while diseased cattle roast on funeral pyres and protesters are rounded up and sent to prison - what can a Devonshire farmer based at Tapeley Park do to halt the madness? Maybe it's his daughter, Annie, who can carry the cause forward. Here she tells his story, partly seen through her own young eyes, and partly through accounts of protest and punishment detailed in his own diaries. Either way, it's a harrowing...
With globalisation spreading its tentacles across the planet and Corporate America throttling the Third World with debt ... while GM crops taint the f...
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101,70 zł |
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Bangladesh: Anatomy of Change
ISBN: 9781844016563 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With 130 million people crammed into an area smaller than the state of Georgia, a per capita GDP of around $300 a year, a quixotic climate and a culture of bribes, threats and corruption, Bangladesh faces a growing crisis.
Will it make "a great leap forward" and meet the demands of globalization and a knowledge-based world trade regime? Or will it choke on the polluted air of stale industries, stagnant initiatives and politicized education? Change, claims the author, is essential. As president of the countrys leading business forum, the FBCCI, Abdul Awal Mintoo brings a managerial mindset... With 130 million people crammed into an area smaller than the state of Georgia, a per capita GDP of around $300 a year, a quixotic climate and a cultu...
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154,99 zł |
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The Cabinet Maker
ISBN: 9781844016907 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nicole Johnstons highly realistic novel shows us the rough as well as the tender side of Australian politics, an arena where the blood of fallen reputations and abandoned politics stains the sand.
Ambitious young Labour MP Rob Connor has dreams of taking the top job. Successive Cabinet portfolios bring him nearer his prize, and soon hes Deputy PM under Paul Keating. But an ill-timed election puts him on the Opposition back benches in a state of despair. His career becalmed, Rob addresses immigration and minority issues, while his lovely wife, Maggie, successfully writes childrens books.... Nicole Johnstons highly realistic novel shows us the rough as well as the tender side of Australian politics, an arena where the blood of fallen reput...
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82,32 zł |
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The Rise and Fall of the Aquaquacki Party
ISBN: 9781844017126 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political retrospectives dont come any more exciting than this! This is the full account, blow by blow, of the redefinition of British politics, as reported by the Daily Fortunes crack political correspondents throughout the turmoil of the 2070s and 80s.
Of course, we all remember the monumental events of the 2070s, when the Aquaquacki Party came into being and the Labour Party became the Progressives. Take this chance to relive the period when Adrian Williamson broke the mould and changed the face of the two-party system forever. Adrian Williamson, iconoclastic as he may be, is not the... Political retrospectives dont come any more exciting than this! This is the full account, blow by blow, of the redefinition of British politics, as re...
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72,63 zł |
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The Death of Eternity
ISBN: 9781844017218 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tibor, a Hungarian eco-activist, has some shocking news for the residents of the West African village of Nunsa: they are at the centre of a new Bermuda Triangle, in which industrial pollution, AIDS and terrorism combine to create an environment from which no man may escape alive. In Hungary, Tibor has problems - a frustrated girlfriend, a wayward brother and the mysterious whereabouts of his mother's corpse - but these are dwarfed by the daunting mission he undertakes in Africa. Tibor becomes a messiah figure to the villagers, the 'strange white man', and leads them in a struggle against...
Tibor, a Hungarian eco-activist, has some shocking news for the residents of the West African village of Nunsa: they are at the centre of a new Bermud...
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111,39 zł |
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Tucker's Last Stand
ISBN: 9781888952735 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tuckers Last Stand, set in 1964 Vietnam, finds Oakes working to halt infiltration by men and material coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail--and he is called upon to make a decisive move that will have consequences that he could not foresee.
Tuckers Last Stand, set in 1964 Vietnam, finds Oakes working to halt infiltration by men and material coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail--and he is cal...
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69,00 zł |
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State of the Union
ISBN: 9781930493605 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judy is a single parent. She is also a highly respected law professor. When she nominates John Swain as a prospective candidate for dean, she discovers she has found her soul mate... With all the confidence and security true love brings, they work together as a team in their quest to become president and vice-president of the United States, determined to unite the country's people and make the American dream a reality. Some of the legal wrangles that appear in 'State of the Union' reflect those of the 2000 presidential election. Jerry Phillips set the tone for the politico-legal climate that...
Judy is a single parent. She is also a highly respected law professor. When she nominates John Swain as a prospective candidate for dean, she discover...
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101,70 zł |
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The Invisible Weevil
ISBN: 9789970901029 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author is a celebrated columnist, a former literature lecturer, and the founder of Uganda Women Writers' Association. She is also a playwright and has published children's literature. This novel is a fictionalised record of Uganda's past tragic national experience. Spanning the decades of successive regimes, it covers the story of Africa's post-colonial political actors typified by the thinly disguised Presidents, Opolo, Duduma, Polle and Kazi. Weaving together strands of political and gender concerns, and employing humour, the central image of the novel is theweevil.
The author is a celebrated columnist, a former literature lecturer, and the founder of Uganda Women Writers' Association. She is also a playwright and...
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173,50 zł |
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One of the earliest African novels, written in 1943, this seminal work criticises colonial administration of justice. It is acknowledged as the first novel in English from The Gold Coast. Widely admired and discussed, it is an extended allegory extolling the virtues of a large family, honesty, and the rural life. The author draws attention to the relevance of customs and traditions to life, and to the conflicts and confusion created by the imposition of British colonialism and English law. Ultimately it is a moral fable vindicating the virtue of labour and the reward of an honest life. This...
One of the earliest African novels, written in 1943, this seminal work criticises colonial administration of justice. It is acknowledged as the first ...
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190,27 zł |
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Landlocked
ISBN: 9780060976651 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement's leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness.
Landlocked is the fourth novel of Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and collectively an incisive, all encompassing vision of our... In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and ...
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77,83 zł |
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Queen of Battle
ISBN: 9780738803135 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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149,85 zł |
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Deadlines
ISBN: 9780393332971 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,60 zł |
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Potomac River Blues: A Work of Contemporary Political Fiction
ISBN: 9780595431779 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A scheming fat-cat fund-raiser and a group of high-powered politicos join forces to set in motion a plan to deep-six term limits for presidents. As the plan proceeds, there's a bit of murder and mayhem, assorted sexual escapades, and the usual Washington brand of duplicity and double-dealing. Observe the nation's political mosh-pit in action.
Now meet Rick Cutler, a seasoned Senate strategist, who's spent most of his adult life working the pit, but without losing his way. He keeps a close watch on his boss, Senator Brad Walker, and he worries about some of the others, like Congressman Eddy... A scheming fat-cat fund-raiser and a group of high-powered politicos join forces to set in motion a plan to deep-six term limits for presidents. As th...
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77,65 zł |
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Potomac River Blues: A Work of Contemporary Political Fiction
ISBN: 9780595918232 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A scheming fat-cat fund-raiser and a group of high-powered politicos join forces to set in motion a plan to deep-six term limits for presidents. As the plan proceeds, there's a bit of murder and mayhem, assorted sexual escapades, and the usual Washington brand of duplicity and double-dealing. Observe the nation's political mosh-pit in action.
Now meet Rick Cutler, a seasoned Senate strategist, who's spent most of his adult life working the pit, but without losing his way. He keeps a close watch on his boss, Senator Brad Walker, and he worries about some of the others, like Congressman Eddy... A scheming fat-cat fund-raiser and a group of high-powered politicos join forces to set in motion a plan to deep-six term limits for presidents. As th...
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120,91 zł |
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I'm Not Hitler! What You're Not Allowed to Know about the Real Right Wing Agenda.
ISBN: 9781432713935 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They Don't Want You To Read This Book! At last! A book about politics and culture written for the "average Joe." If what you read in the papers and see on the nightly news just doesn't make sense to you, then this book is for you. Do not read this book unless you want a clearer perspective on some very foggy issues. And whatever you do, do not read this book if you are a liberal with thin skin! They Don't Want You To Read This Book! At last! A book about politics and culture written for the "average Joe." If what you read in the paper... |
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91,81 zł |
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Sterling's Slip
ISBN: 9781934246580 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of Stuart Sterling who grows up in a small Missouri River community characterized by Scottish high moral standards and clan customs. After moving his family to St. Louis, he starts a climb to first financial success and then political achievement, culminating in the Republican nomination for President when he receives the support of the beautiful Texas Governor Rose O'Daniel. On his way up the business ladder, he "slips" unethical practices into his company's activities. Further "slips" in politics help him position himself to win the national election. Feelings of guilt...
This is the story of Stuart Sterling who grows up in a small Missouri River community characterized by Scottish high moral standards and clan customs....
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77,52 zł |
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