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The Oxford Book of Friendship
ISBN: 9780192141903 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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419,62 zł |
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The Oxford Book of Money
ISBN: 9780192142009 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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458,63 zł |
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Liberalism
ISBN: 9780195003321 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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302,63 zł |
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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. 22 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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202,29 zł |
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The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
ISBN: 9780198129288 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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1038,04 zł |
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De Cive: The English Version
ISBN: 9780198246237 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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982,33 zł |
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True
ISBN: 9781517258177 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Kindhearted Enzo Voltolini has never found his soul mate. Now in his forties, this chef-owner of restaurant La Mia Famiglia is resigned to the idea that he'll never meet that special magical woman and have a family of his own. On a clear November morning he crosses paths with an enigmatic stranger and is struck by 'the thunderbolt', an attraction as inexplicable as it is overwhelming. In the weeks that follow, Enzo discovers that tasting the unknown and risking it all can be a sweet and dangerous journey. TRUE is a story of aloneness and family, of struggle and the triumph of love in everyday...
Kindhearted Enzo Voltolini has never found his soul mate. Now in his forties, this chef-owner of restaurant La Mia Famiglia is resigned to the idea th...
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63,68 zł |
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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. 22-25 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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152,50 zł |
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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. 16-18 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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313,77 zł |
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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. 16-18 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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759,48 zł |
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The Literature of Lesbianism : A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
ISBN: 9780231125116 / Angielski / Miękka / 1110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 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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229,05 zł |
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The Perfect Gift : The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose
ISBN: 9780253215420 / Angielski / Miękka / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 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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142,14 zł |
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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. 16-18 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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168,91 zł |
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Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns
ISBN: 9780271022659 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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96,21 zł |
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The Silence: What It Is and How to Use It (Aura Press)
ISBN: 9781517255831 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book shows you how to reharmonize your body. Our wrong thinking causes us to produce inharmony in our bodies. The methods shown in this book shows how to instantly reharmonize our bodies while we are in silence. Our minds are passive, open and free while we are in silence and time becomes the the infinite master of harmony. The harmony touches our mental cords of our being bring us back to our normal condition. Just as we can tune a musical instrument, so can the mind. If we learn to do right thinking we will tune our organs, putting them back into their normal condition.
This book shows you how to reharmonize your body. Our wrong thinking causes us to produce inharmony in our bodies. The methods shown in this book show...
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34,44 zł |
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Classics in Translation
ISBN: 9780299808969 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of Roman thought and continue to influence world civilizations. This volume includes: Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of Rom... |
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174,21 zł |
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Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola : Religion and Politics, 1490-1498
ISBN: 9780300103267 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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536,62 zł |
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Rudyard Kipling : The Books I Leave Behind
ISBN: 9780300126747 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Equally adept at humor writing, tales for children, and adventure stories, Rudyard Kipling holds a singular place in the pantheon of great English writers. This book celebrates the Nobel Prize winner's multifaceted achievements and, with 80 full-color illustrations, underscores the variety and breadth of his printed production. An introductory essay by David Alan Richards, whose extensive Kipling collection is among the finest in the world, traces the challenges and joys of building a Kipling bibliography. Thomas Pinney, emeritus professor of English at Pomona College, contributes an essay on...
Equally adept at humor writing, tales for children, and adventure stories, Rudyard Kipling holds a singular place in the pantheon of great English wri...
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84,05 zł |
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Fate and Freedom
ISBN: 9780300135695 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 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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163,91 zł |
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The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
ISBN: 9780312424602 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick Following the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--The Irresponsible Self confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches, he effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally earnest and... "James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick <... |
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96,56 zł |
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