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The Trainee
ISBN: 9781912017683 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's 1982. Rodney Pepper, a socially inept college drop-out, heads to New Orleans seeking to engulf himself in abject misery in the belief this would lead to Wisdom. Barely off the bus, Rodney is bequeathed an unexpected and unwanted pirate legacy. As he moves between dilapidated hotels and rooming houses, Rodney is preyed upon by agents of the cities underworld. Can he decipher a dead man's code before being swallowed by violence?
It's 1982. Rodney Pepper, a socially inept college drop-out, heads to New Orleans seeking to engulf himself in abject misery in the belief this would ...
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Welcome to the Butterbeck School of Mismanagement: The Business School that Creates Terrible Leaders
ISBN: 9780692828502 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever had a boss that made you wonder how they ever got promoted? Have you ever seen someone hired to lead an organization and they left it far worse than they found it? How did they become so poor with their leadership and management skills? In this hilarious and entertaining satire, we learn that terrible leaders and managers might have actually gone to school to learn how to be poor at leading employees and managing organizations. Unlike your traditional leadership and management books, this humorous story line follows Michael Purcell, a student who has been admitted to a graduate...
Have you ever had a boss that made you wonder how they ever got promoted? Have you ever seen someone hired to lead an organization and they left it fa...
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Stacker
ISBN: 9781540876416 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stacker works graveyards at the Megamarket on the edge of town. Disillusioned and disenfranchised by the modern age, he nullifies his perpetual existential crisis with a menu of drink and drugs and misbehaviour. A chance meeting leads him into the orbit of Colby Stein, the charismatic leader of a group who call themselves the Consequence Men. Stein's philosophy is that the fear of consequence stops people acting in an authentic way. As the spiral of nihilism and violence escalates, Stacker comes to realise that from some consequences there is no escape.
Stacker works graveyards at the Megamarket on the edge of town. Disillusioned and disenfranchised by the modern age, he nullifies his perpetual existe...
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35,98 |
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Obama: Student of Time
ISBN: 9781541320390 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For most people, life is not about grasping a meaning but making a meaningful contribution. For some, life is a race against time they set out to win and not learn from, until they know better. Time is always in a race and Obama had set out to win. He had a mother in Anna that had set the pace and a mate in Michelle that kept up. He had a history laced in Islam that threatened to hold him back and a name that didn't sound credible in a land that should know better. He and Michelle took on a journey through limited time and chartered space, in an untrusting period that needed more of reaction...
For most people, life is not about grasping a meaning but making a meaningful contribution. For some, life is a race against time they set out to win ...
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Love and the Bay Street Bingo Players: The Final Volume of a Two-Part Trilogy
ISBN: 9781988360010 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The wicked pen of John D. Frankel strikes again. The long-awaited sequel to The Heretofore Un-Tolled History of the Independent Republic of Harvey Markson has finally arrived. Readers who enjoyed Frankel's first novel, a witty existential tour of life inside the brokerage houses and investment banks of Toronto's Bay Street, will revel in this clever sequel with its familiar layers of tongue-in-cheek narrative, droll humor, and incisive portraits of The Street's by now famous denizens, including one Zygmunt Adams. "Zyg," Harvey Markson's closest friend and... The wicked pen of John D. Frankel strikes again. The long-awaited sequel to The Heretofore Un-Tolled History of the Independent Republi... |
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Fair
ISBN: 9781540839206 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is never easy growing up different, but when no one has looked like you in seven generations, social life can become quite difficult to manage. Of course nobody blames you, poor innocent child, for being born a green eyed blonde in a village full of raven haired people, certainly not your aunt, who loves you just the way you are, for the most part. No enlightened elder would give heed to ridiculous superstitions such as "the blond curse" or "the fair maiden of the apocalypse," nor will any reasonable person believe that one glance from your clear green eyes can render cows barren, but......
It is never easy growing up different, but when no one has looked like you in seven generations, social life can become quite difficult to manage. Of ...
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The Five Quintessential Stages of a Completed Project
ISBN: 9781483953434 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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31,82 |
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The Official One and Only Imperial Wizard Approved KKK Hall of Fame Guidebook
ISBN: 9781628801156 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,28 |
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Sentinels: a Florida mythos
ISBN: 9781514276914 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,83 |
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Classic Theatre
ISBN: 9781543098860 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Second, Less Capable, Head: And Other Rogue Stories
ISBN: 9781937818395 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Tea Party activist discovers that he is growing another head. A playboy befriends a fickle female only six inches tall. A flasher, clad in a London Fog raincoat, seeks the perfect pose. A rape victim confronts her assailant when she visits a maximum security prison. A nurse, suffering from erotomania, stalks a woman she barely knows. A schizophrenic thug is pursued by ghoulish hallucinations. James Hanna uses fantasy and stark realism in these nineteen penetrating tales. His gritty style skewers the human comedy and makes reading dangerous again. “We can... A Tea Party activist discovers that he is growing another head. A playboy befriends a fickle female only six inches tall. A flasher, clad in a Lond... |
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
ISBN: 9781544205335 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, rst published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square," the book used the ctional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. Flatland has become a classic of science (and mathematical) fiction - charmingly illustrated by the author - and describes the journeys of A. Square and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland...
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, rst published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. o...
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Of Paradise and Miss Jane Pollitt
ISBN: 9781543162394 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "OF PARADISE AND MISS JANE POLLITT" is John Rigbey's second visit to St. Laurent-des-Anges, in South-West France, and again he makes us laugh and cry and - above all - he entertains. Following her death, it is discovered that the mayor's mother, Madame Sophie Allard, has left a large inheritance to long-time ex-pat, eccentric Jane Pollitt. The mayor's fury and his determination to defy his dead mother's wishes, serve to introduce a series of carefully drawn characters, both French and English ex-patriots. Those who have read "Of Paradise and Pigs" will recall priggish self-appointed doyen of...
"OF PARADISE AND MISS JANE POLLITT" is John Rigbey's second visit to St. Laurent-des-Anges, in South-West France, and again he makes us laugh and cry ...
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Another Modest Proposal
ISBN: 9780976766889 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Swift's A Modest Proposal is one of the most renowned satires in English literature. Included here with that eighteenth-century classic is Lawrence Rowe's Another Modest Proposal. Rowe's sequel offers a gruesome but poignant solution to the persistent problem of poverty. Penetrating and chock-full of dark humor, Another Modest Proposal is a savage indictment of humanity.
Swift's A Modest Proposal is one of the most renowned satires in English literature. Included here with that eighteenth-century classic is La...
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The Fabrications
ISBN: 9780912887470 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Bloch, a popular London novelist, starts writing a fictionalized story featuring his unremarkable friend Oscar, the invented details from the story start to come true. Gradually, Oscar embarks on a surreal odyssey into fame, while Bloch descends into the dark places of his soul. Oscar falls in love with Najette, a bewitching painter, but their relationship hangs in the balance as his myth balloons out of all proportion. At the centre of the hype and spin stands the demon-like publicist Ryan Rees, whose power enables him to manufacture the truth, and the story builds to an... When Bloch, a popular London novelist, starts writing a fictionalized story featuring his unremarkable friend Oscar, the invented details from the ... |
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Devi!: A Fable
ISBN: 9781469956657 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Devi A Fable, Joshua and Catherine Maxwell introduce us to Devi, a 3 1/2 foot, pink and purple polka-dotted demon. When Hell proves to be too much for him, Devi leaves for the surface. Enter the Charity family, who are determined to welcome Devi into their home with open arms. In his quest to understand humanity, Devi begins to learn just what it is that make people so special.
In Devi A Fable, Joshua and Catherine Maxwell introduce us to Devi, a 3 1/2 foot, pink and purple polka-dotted demon. When Hell proves to be t...
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Mayflower S.O.S.!: A Story of American Proportions (Though Short)
ISBN: 9781530927258 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Mayflower S.O.S. - brings much-needed humor, cynicism, and sarcasm to the contemporary American political and educational scenes. Hercules Vinaigrette (obviously and understandably a pseudonym) gives his readers a satire in keeping with the highest achievements of that time-honored literary tradition. The gentle reader will find within these pages thought-provoking commentary and dramatic action addressing -everything under the sun, - to borrow those modest words of the great Peacock. The reader is invited to join everyday Americans at the White House for a -We Are Friends (WAF) Weekend-...
-Mayflower S.O.S. - brings much-needed humor, cynicism, and sarcasm to the contemporary American political and educational scenes. Hercules Vinaigrett...
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A Lib I Am!: An Adult Reader About Children.
ISBN: 9780998747002 / Angielski / Twarda / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Lib I Am An Adult Reader About Children is a breakout -children's book for adults- from writer and illustrator Bill Hunt. The book is political satire inspired by Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham, and the hysterically hilarious response from the intolerant left to the election of President Donald J. Trump. The children's book format used best represents the perpetual tantrum that is liberalism unhinged Guaranteed to have you laughing out loud, this high quality hardcover is a must-have for the coffee table of any conservative, or self deprecating liberal, (if you can find one) A Lib I Am An Adult Reader About Children is a breakout -children's book for adults- from writer and illustrator Bill Hunt. The book is political ... |
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Ijamama Speaks: Wisdom of a Black Sistah from the Urban Hood: A Satire
ISBN: 9781524592578 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ijamama Speaks: Wisdom of a Black Sistah from the Urban Hood: A Satire
ISBN: 9781524592585 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,03 |