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The Oxford Book of Friendship
ISBN: 9780192141903 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship"--so wrote Cole Porter for the musical DuBarry Was A Lady--a song and a sentiment we all can harmonize with. We all have friends, and if some writers have been more than a bit cynical--Emerson thought that friendship resembled the immortality of the soul "in that it is too good to be true," and Schopenhauer compared friendship to a sea serpent, "no one knows whether they are fabulous or really exist somewhere"--for the most part the world's literature and our own experience are filled with fine examples.
In The Oxford Book of Friendship,... "Friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship"--so wrote Cole Porter for the musical DuBarry Was A Lady--a song and a sentiment we all can harmoni...
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402,40 |
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The Oxford Book of Money
ISBN: 9780192142009 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Money. Rhino. The long green. It is "the most important thing in the world" (George Bernard Shaw). It is "power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings" (Carl Sandburg). It is "the alienated essence of man's work and existence" (Karl Marx). It is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment. It is "better than poverty, if only for financial reasons" (Woody Allen). It is "the final enemy that will never be subdued" (Samuel Butler).
Few things occupy as central a place in our lives as money, and few provoke such intense and varied response.... Money. Rhino. The long green. It is "the most important thing in the world" (George Bernard Shaw). It is "power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all e...
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449,56 |
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Liberalism
ISBN: 9780195003321 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,08 |
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A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon
ISBN: 9780195076059 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The spell of Alaska," Ella Higginson wrote in 1908, "falls upon every lover of beauty who has voyaged along those far northern snow-pearled shores...or who has drifted down the mighty rivers of the interior which flow, bell-toned and lonely, to the sea....No writer has ever described Alaska; no one writer ever will; but each must do his share, according to the spell that the country casts upon him."
In A Republic of Rivers, John Murray offers the first comprehensive anthology of nature writing in Alaska and the Yukon, ranging from 1741 to the present. Many of the writers found here are... "The spell of Alaska," Ella Higginson wrote in 1908, "falls upon every lover of beauty who has voyaged along those far northern snow-pearled shores......
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88,78 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
ISBN: 9780198129288 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. For the Oxford Shakespeare edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks at dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it i...
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902,25 |
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de Cive: The English Version
ISBN: 9780198246237 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A scholarly edition of the English version of works by Thomas Hobbes. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
A scholarly edition of the English version of works by Thomas Hobbes. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, comme...
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831,53 |
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In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780-1930
ISBN: 9780226284460 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits are still familiar today. But others have all but disappeared from view. Barbara Gates recovers these lost works and prints them alongside little-known pieces by more famous authors, like Potter's field notes on hedgehogs, reminding us of better known stories that help set the others in context.
The works contained in this volume are as... From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some like the beloved children's ...
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188,62 |
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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780231096713 / Angielski / Miękka / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression. In a variety of styles and genres, gay men have increasingly begun to articulate their sexual identities. At the same time, gay writers and scholars have begun in earnest the search for a literary history long denied by the refusal to recognize homosexual love as an integral part of Western literature. Yet to date, no single volume has brought together the full range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that portray love between men. From the...
In the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression. In a variety...
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235,78 |
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The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
ISBN: 9780231125109 / Angielski / Twarda / 1110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, The Literature of Lesbianism brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. This is not an anthology of "lesbian writers." Nor is it simply a one-sided compendium of "positive" or "negative" images of lesbian experience. Terry Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism" its conceptual origins and how it has been transmitted, transformed,...
Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century no...
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1108,80 |
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The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
ISBN: 9780231125116 / Angielski / Miękka / 1136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, The Literature of Lesbianism brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. This is not an anthology of "lesbian writers." Nor is it simply a one-sided compendium of "positive" or "negative" images of lesbian experience. Terry Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism" its conceptual origins and how it has been transmitted, transformed,...
Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century no...
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235,78 |
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The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose
ISBN: 9780253215420 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume aims at cultivating and enlightening our philanthropic imagination. It addresses us all as present and future philanthropists, as human beings who give, serve, and seek to promote the well being of others. It suggests that we are continually confronted with choices about giving, and offers a collection of writings intended to help us reflect more seriously on these choices, and to make philanthropic acts, when they are undertaken, more meaningful. The readings contained in The Philanthropic Imagination come from a variety of cultures, time periods, and genres. They... This volume aims at cultivating and enlightening our philanthropic imagination. It addresses us all as present and future philanthropists, as human... |
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119,41 |
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Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
ISBN: 9780268000851 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth-century England produced"--the young Edmund Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful, ' together with a distinctive terminology which served to express certain facets of the changing sensibility of his time.
The introduction traces the main sources of Burke's ideas and establishes the nature of his originality. The largest section of James T. Boulton's introduction, however, examines the influence of the Enquiry. Major writers... In his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly one of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth-century England produced"...
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109,45 |
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Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns
ISBN: 9780271022659 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns, published in 1915, stands alongside a number of Shoemaker's volumes, such as Wolf Days in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Lion or Panther, dedicated to telling the tales of vanishing or extinct Pennsylvania wildlife. Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns places these tales within the greater context of the Pennsylvania sportsmen's and hunting culture. While lamenting the extinction of the old-stock Pennsylvania deer species, Shoemaker celebrates the hunter and the sport and writes in a hopeful spirit that the sport will... Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns, published in 1915, stands alongside a number of Shoemaker's volumes, such as Wolf Days in Pennsylva... |
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74,41 |
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Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics, 1490-1498
ISBN: 9780300103267 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five hundred years after his death at the stake, Girolamo Savonarola remains one of the most fascinating figures of the Italian Renaissance. This wide-ranging collection, with an introduction by historian Alison Brown, includes translations of his sermons and treatises on pastoral ministry, prophecy, politics, and moral reform, as well as the correspondence with Alexander VI that led to Savonarola's silencing and excommunication. Also included are first-hand accounts of religio-civic festivities instigated by Savonarola and of his last moments. This collection demonstrates the remarkable...
Five hundred years after his death at the stake, Girolamo Savonarola remains one of the most fascinating figures of the Italian Renaissance. This wide...
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590,63 |
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Fate and Freedom
ISBN: 9780300135695 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thesis of this volume is that the mechanistic interpretation of nature as a working hypothesis is capable of rendering important services to religion, and that the theory leaves intact our practical faith in freedom.
The thesis of this volume is that the mechanistic interpretation of nature as a working hypothesis is capable of rendering important services to relig...
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331,54 |
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Mexico in Mind: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780307274885 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two centuries of writers drawn to Mexico from D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Sandra Cisneros
This scintillating literary travel guide gathers the work of great writers celebrating Mexico in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Ranging from 1843 to the present, Mexico in Mind offers a remarkably varied sampling of English-speaking writers impressions of the land south of the border. John Reed rides with Pancho Villa in 1914; Graham Greene defends Mexico s priests; Langston Hughes describes a... Two centuries of writers drawn to Mexico from D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, ...
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90,56 |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays
ISBN: 9780312089450 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fifteen Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted in this volume are generally held to be the most significant, innovative and influential tales featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's archetypal detective. Drawn principally from the first three Holmes collections, these selections are each followed by a concise commentary on its relation to Doyle, other Holmes tales, and the genre of detective fiction. The nine accompanying essays, which reflect the recent critical interest in Holmes, examine the stories from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives. The first five essays (by Martin Priestamn,...
The fifteen Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted in this volume are generally held to be the most significant, innovative and influential tales featuring...
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230,49 |
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The Year of Decision 1846
ISBN: 9780312267940 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Year of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri (for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes) and The Course of Empire. DeVoto's narrative covers the expanding Western frontier, the Mormons, the Donner party, Fremont's exploration, the Army of the West, and takes readers into Native American tribal... Year of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, ... |
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149,63 |
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Economic Institutions and Human Welfare
ISBN: 9780313201844 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays deals not with economics in the technical sense, but with some of the human and community factors that underlie it.
This collection of essays deals not with economics in the technical sense, but with some of the human and community factors that underlie it.
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392,96 |
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Modulation and Related Harmonic Questions
ISBN: 9780313203015 / Angielski / Twarda / 99 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author has endeavored to set forth a statement of the various means of modulation found in music, from Bach to the 20th century.
The author has endeavored to set forth a statement of the various means of modulation found in music, from Bach to the 20th century.
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314,37 |
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