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The Works of Charles Darwin, Volumes 1-29 (Complete Set)
ISBN: 9780814720738 / Angielski / Miękka / 3500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are they needed? To be sure. The Darwinian industry, industrious though it is, has failed to provide texts of more than a handful of Darwin's books. If you want to know what Darwin said about barnacles (still an essential reference to cirripedists, apart from any historical importance) you are forced to search shelves, or wait while someone does it for you; some have been in print for a century; various reprints have appeared and since vanished.- Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of... Are they needed? To be sure. The Darwinian industry, industrious though it is, has failed to provide texts of more than a handful of Darwin's books... |
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Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, the Road
ISBN: 9780826438201 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Cormac McCarthy, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field. Cormac McCarthy's significance in the field of contemporary American fiction is enormous. Harold Bloom has called him one of the greatest living American writers, and named him one of the three most important authors of the 20th century. His impact has been even greater in the 21st century. He won the American Book Award for "All the Pretty Horses (1991)," the Pulitzer Prize for "The Road (2006)," and his influence on...
This is a collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Cormac McCarthy, designed for students and edited and written by leading...
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238,01 |
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Literary Epiphany in the Novel, 1850-1950: Constellations of the Soul
ISBN: 9781137021847 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading literature in relation to both contemporary theory and theology, Sharon Kim studies literary epiphany as the revelation of "being" within the British and American novel, with particular attention to why such realization of character is often attended by the language of spirituality. Epiphany presents a significant alternative to traditional models of linking the eye, the mind, and the self. This book analyzes in what way these epiphanies become "spiritual" and how both character and narrative shape themselves like constellations around such moments. Beginning with James Joyce,...
Reading literature in relation to both contemporary theory and theology, Sharon Kim studies literary epiphany as the revelation of "being" within the ...
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201,24 |
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New Critical Essays on H. P. Lovecraft
ISBN: 9781137332240 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft offers an exciting investigation of this significant writer's works and influence. In the collection a range of noted scholars, novelists, and writers take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring Lovecraft's life, his
New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft offers an exciting investigation of this significant writer's works and influence. In the collection a range of ...
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483,04 |
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
ISBN: 9781612190907 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last published interview.
During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut which collects interviews from throughout his career we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. From Kurt Vonnegut's last interview Is there another book in you, by chance? No. Look, I m 84 years old. Writers... One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including h...
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61,47 |
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Sailing Alone on Sundays
ISBN: 9780977112425 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All writings contained herein were originally published in the Cape Cod Times between 1987 and 2013. They are substantially intact in their original form. I have done this deliberately to maintain the character and atmosphere of the times and occasions in which they were written over these 26 years. A special note to the reader: this is not a "Greatest Hits" album, nor is it a collection of "The Best Of..." I have selected the pieces for this collection in an attempt to provide the reader with a sampling of the diverse topics that my 1400 consecutive Sunday columns represent. Thank you for...
All writings contained herein were originally published in the Cape Cod Times between 1987 and 2013. They are substantially intact in their original f...
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80,92 |
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Covet The Oven: 20 short stories of the head, the heart, and writing
ISBN: 9781492378501 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book of new stories by the Israeli-American short story writer Jerome Mandel tells tales of the head, the heart, and writing - some gritty, some witty, some smooth. They address loss and love, puzzlement and growing old, making choices -- with wit, intelligence, sympathy. In these stories cars break down, people make surprising announcements or do unexpected things, they die or don't or can't or sell metaphors. Some people fall in love, misplace love, lose love.
This book of new stories by the Israeli-American short story writer Jerome Mandel tells tales of the head, the heart, and writing - some gritty, some ...
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27,23 |
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Echoes from the Antechamber
ISBN: 9781456505226 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Echoes from the Antechamber is a collection of short stories, poetry and essays. There are a multitude of styles and genres in this book, but they all add up to one thing. The best may be yet to come, but the past has purpose. Don't discard it.
Echoes from the Antechamber is a collection of short stories, poetry and essays. There are a multitude of styles and genres in this book, but they all...
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40,26 |
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As I Was Saying...: A Collection of Favorite Speeches and Articles
ISBN: 9781439250273 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Cliff Dochterman's second book, As I Was Saying..., is filled with generous humor, a cajoling wit, and a world of inspiration. In it, Dochterman does his utmost to motivate fellow Rotary Club members to achieve their best and to serve the communities in which they live. A former worldwide president of Rotary International, Dochterman offers this inspiring collection of twenty-three of his favorite speeches. In twenty-four chapters with titles like "You Can Change the Life for Someone," "Friendly Fire of Rotary," and "Rotary's Original Idea - Vocational Service," the author weaves a...
Author Cliff Dochterman's second book, As I Was Saying..., is filled with generous humor, a cajoling wit, and a world of inspiration. In it, Dochterma...
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60,65 |
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The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill
ISBN: 9781476765198 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come...that was what going to Brown felt like." --Jeffrey Eugenides In celebration of Brown University's 250th anniversary, fifty remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide unique stories--many published for the first time--about their adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic, the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America's most interesting universities....
"To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come...that was what going to Brown felt like." --Jeffrey Eugenides <...
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77,03 |
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Hoosiers in the Heartland: Real Stories about Indiana People, Places and Things
ISBN: 9781491823699 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of stories I wrote when my family was young and the world was more naive. This is a record of life in and around the Heartland before 9/11. These are some stories I told that people seemed to remember. My heroes have always been storytellers, like the late Charles Kuralt of CBS's On The Road and Sunday Morning. He was inspired by the great Hoosier war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Today, there's the great American raconteur Bob Dotson. Not long ago when the NBC Today Show reporter spoke to a group of our students at Indiana University, he reminded us of the wonderful stories...
This is a collection of stories I wrote when my family was young and the world was more naive. This is a record of life in and around the Heartland be...
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114,41 |
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Submission Windows: stories and verse
ISBN: 9781492946014 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prison bars. Stained church glass. Deadlines precursing rejection. These are Submission Windows: vantage points for peeking in on-or out from-surgeons, killers, priests, perverts, inmates, athletes, musicians, and more than a few celebrities past their prime. Most clinging to frayed ropes of their own making, desperate for redemption, love, or merely an enduring pulse. For others, it's their ambition on display, destined for humility. These voyeuristic and vicarious vignettes include 26 short stories (all of the below, plus many never-before published), bridged by several dozen poems...
Prison bars. Stained church glass. Deadlines precursing rejection. These are Submission Windows: vantage points for peeking in on-or out from-surgeons...
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44,47 |
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Conversations with Ken Kesey
ISBN: 9781617039706 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books, including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two children's books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked -The Sixties, - as... Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over t... |
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445,69 |
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Conversations with Ken Kesey
ISBN: 9781617039829 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books, including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two children's books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked -The Sixties, - as... Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over t... |
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117,50 |
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Writing New England
ISBN: 9780674335479 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of New England writing begins some 400 years ago, when a group of English Puritans crossed the Atlantic believing that God had appointed them to bring light and truth to the New World. Over the centuries since, the people of New England have produced one of the great literary traditions of the world--an outpouring of poetry, fiction, history, memoirs, letters, and essays that records how the original dream of a godly commonwealth has been both sustained and transformed into a modern secular culture enriched by people of many backgrounds and convictions. "Writing New... The story of New England writing begins some 400 years ago, when a group of English Puritans crossed the Atlantic believing that God had appointed... |
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254,96 |
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Worth Noting: Editorials, Letters, Essays, an Interview, and Bibliography
ISBN: 9780786493517 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The topics of these 34 selections range from Herrenvolk terminology, fiction access, and subject headings for consumer health information to South African censorship, Idi Amin's repressions, and the Creationists' hidden agenda. Also includes material on cataloging teenage literature, racism in children's books and an ALA-produced film The Speaker, and reportage on the intellectual freedom scene in Greece, West Germany, and Soviet Union.
Reprinted from sources such as Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, Top of the News, Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, Technicalities. The topics of these 34 selections range from Herrenvolk terminology, fiction access, and subject headings for consumer health information to South Afr...
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141,17 |
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Moon City Review
ISBN: 9780913785447 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a collection of original poems, short stories, and essays from talented authors both established and emerging in their craft. The issue also features translations of work not originally composed in English, as well as reviews of recent contemporary creative books.
Presents a collection of original poems, short stories, and essays from talented authors both established and emerging in their craft. The issue also ...
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63,62 |
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men at 75
ISBN: 9781621902614 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barely noticed upon publication in 1941, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans's unique chronicle of Alabama sharecroppers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, would enjoy a remarkable revival during the 1960s. In this collection, essayists offer provocative new perspectives on the Agee-Evans classic, ranging from personal appreciations to computational analysis.
Barely noticed upon publication in 1941, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans's unique chronicle of Alabama sharecroppers, Let Us Now Prais...
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220,40 |
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Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts Volume 5
ISBN: 9781621902584 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A distinguished writer in multiple genres - fiction, poetry, screenwriting, social documentary - James Agee first gained widespread recognition as a movie reviewer and critic. Scrupulously edited by Charles Maland, this volume stands as the definitive collection of Agee's film writing.
A distinguished writer in multiple genres - fiction, poetry, screenwriting, social documentary - James Agee first gained widespread recognition as a m...
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401,61 |
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Bartleby, El Escribiente
ISBN: 9781533082619 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bartleby, El Escribiente, es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Herman Melville. (1819-1891), Ha sido considerada una de sus mejores obras. En la que se narra la historia de Bartleby, el escribiente, contada a traves de un abogado de nombre desconocido que tiene su oficina en Wall Street, Nueva York y que, segun sus propias palabras, en la tranquilidad de un comodo retiro, trabaja comodamente con los titulos de propiedad de los hombres ricos, con hipotecas y obligaciones. Tiene tres empleados, apodados Turkey (Pavo), Nippers (Pinzas) y Ginger Nut (Bizcocho de jengibre). Turkey y Nippers...
Bartleby, El Escribiente, es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Herman Melville. (1819-1891), Ha sido considerada una de sus mejores obras. En la q...
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