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Dreamtime: A Happy Book
ISBN: 9781611170382 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering-the inspiration for the main character in Dead Poets Society-guides us on a journey through his reflections on retirement, aging, gardening, and travel. He describes the pleasures of domesticity, summers spent in Nova Scotia, and the joy of sharing a simple life with his wife of almost forty years.
Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, a...
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Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780982129838 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The six essays and one address in this volume flesh out Emerson's transcendentalist ideas. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others included here are "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the famous Harvard Divinity School Address.
The six essays and one address in this volume flesh out Emerson's transcendentalist ideas. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others inclu...
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The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol . I: All Ovid's Elegies, Lucan's First Booke, Dido Queene of Carthage, Hero and Leander
ISBN: 9781781390795 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol . I: All Ovids Elegies, Lucans First Booke, Dido Queene of Carthage, Hero and Leander. Typeset in modern font; this is not a facsimile edition.
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol . I: All Ovids Elegies, Lucans First Booke, Dido Queene of Carthage, Hero and Leander. Typeset in moder...
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106,11 |
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Why I Love Barthes
ISBN: 9780745650784 / Angielski / Twarda / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published texts, their conversations - notably in the famous dialogue which gives its name to this work. Robbe-Grillet freely said he had very few true friends but, next to the publisher Jerome Lindon, he always cited the name of Roland Barthes. In 1980, he wrote his own 'I love, I don't love', published here for the first time, thinking about his friend. In 1985, he predicted: 'It is his work as a writer...
The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual estee...
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169,32 |
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Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th-14th Centuries: Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen Volume 2
ISBN: 9780754658368 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over decades of dedicated research. His crisp and lucid style and his philosophical penetration of often difficult concepts and issues is both clear and intellectually impressive. Ashgate is proud to present this thematically arranged three volume set of his collected essays, each thoroughly revised and updated. Volume Two: Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th a 14th Centuries explores issues in medieval philosophy from the time nominalists and other schools competed in twelfth-century Paris to the...
Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over decades of dedicated research. His crisp and lucid style ...
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725,69 |
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The Rise of the Image: Essays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book
ISBN: 9780754605591 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rise of the Image reveals how illustrations have come to play a primary part in books on art and architecture. Italian Renaissance art is the main focus for this anthology of essays which analyse key episodes in the history of illustration from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The authors raise new issues about the imagery in books on the visual arts by Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vasari, Sebastiano Serlio, Andrea Palladio, Girolamo Teti and Andrea Pozzo. The concluding essays evaluate the roles of reproductive media, including photography, in Victorian and...
The Rise of the Image reveals how illustrations have come to play a primary part in books on art and architecture. Italian Renaissance art is...
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701,49 |
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Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe: Written by Himself
ISBN: 9781108034883 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John O'Keeffe (1747 1833) was an Irish playwright who began his career as an actor in 1764. His first significant success as a writer was the play The Son-in-Law in 1779, and he was later called 'our English Moliere' by essayist William Hazlitt. He moved to London in 1781 around the same time that his marriage broke down and wrote a string of successful comic operas and dramatic works, including Wild Oats (1791). However, he suffered from failing eyesight and was nearly blind at the height of his fame. He dictated this memoir, published in two volumes in 1826, to his daughter, Adelaide (1776...
John O'Keeffe (1747 1833) was an Irish playwright who began his career as an actor in 1764. His first significant success as a writer was the play The...
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237,55 |
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Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship
ISBN: 9789766404093 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The collection Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship commemorates the inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference, held in August 2010, and collects, for the first time, some of the main thinkers on Rastafari. It is an exciting and wide-ranging text that provides insights on the last fifty years of investigations into Rastafari.
This book offers some of the most significant unpublished work from pioneering scholars of Rastafari as they examine the history, development and future of Rastafari scholarship. With a foreword by renowned Garvey scholar Rupert... The collection Let Us Start with Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship commemorates the inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference, held i...
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101,55 |
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Living, Thinking, Looking
ISBN: 9781250009524 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting (Mysteries of the Rectangle) as well as an interdisciplinary investigation of a neurological disorder (The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves). She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2011, she delivered the thirty-ninth annual Freud Lecture in Vienna. Living, Thinking, Looking brings together thirty-two... The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting... |
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Essays
ISBN: 9781847189189 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains some miscellaneous essays by Dickens, mostly on social subjects, and transcriptions of speeches at official events across his career.
This volume contains some miscellaneous essays by Dickens, mostly on social subjects, and transcriptions of speeches at official events across his car...
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Roundabout Papers and Other Works
ISBN: 9781847188267 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains the Roundabout Papers, a set of essays written for the Cornhill Magazine from its inception until after Thackeray resigned the editorship, and two other pieces full of whimsical observation and reflection, The Second Funeral of Napoleon and The Bedford-Row Conspiracy.
This volume contains the Roundabout Papers, a set of essays written for the Cornhill Magazine from its inception until after Thackeray resigned the ed...
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The Paris Sketch Book
ISBN: 9781847188250 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Paris Sketch Book is a collection of Thackeray's short stories, descriptive pieces, art criticism and other short fiction and non-fiction writings concerned with or around Paris and written in the late 1830s.
The Paris Sketch Book is a collection of Thackeray's short stories, descriptive pieces, art criticism and other short fiction and non-fiction writings...
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Ethical Studies and Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
ISBN: 9781847187673 / Angielski / Miękka / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains Stevenson's distinctive and revealing writings on ethics and morality, collected from various original publications, and a series of descriptions of his native Edinburgh written for magazine publication.
This volume contains Stevenson's distinctive and revealing writings on ethics and morality, collected from various original publications, and a series...
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The Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie Vol. 1: Dreams of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781907975486 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as 'one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.' Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). He received numerous honours, was invited to speak all over the world, and in 2001 won the international Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for his Proust Among the Stars. The essays and reviews in these volumes have never before been brought together. Ranging across literature, art, music, and...
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as 'one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficu...
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The Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie Vol. 2: Song Man
ISBN: 9781907975493 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as 'one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficult subjects.' Bowie was Marshal Foch Professor of French at Oxford (1992-2002) and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). He received numerous honours, was invited to speak all over the world, and in 2001 won the international Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for his Proust Among the Stars. The essays and reviews in these volumes have never before been brought together. Ranging across literature, art, music, and...
Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007) was described by A.S. Byatt as 'one of our best living critics. He writes beautifully, subtly and lucidly about very difficu...
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Heartbeat: Musings on Leather and Leadership
ISBN: 9781481949835 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HEARTBEAT by Thomas Smith has been honored as Award-Winning Finalist in the 2014 International Book Awards HEARTBEAT: Musings on Leather and Leadership is a collection of provocative essays and is a look into the vibrant leather community and a great resource whether you are part of the leather community or simply like to learn about new cultures and explore. The book is based on the author's experience spanning over thirty plus years as a community leader. This book takes a look into the leather tribe, traditions, history and leadership. The book puts a human face on a subject often...
HEARTBEAT by Thomas Smith has been honored as Award-Winning Finalist in the 2014 International Book Awards HEARTBEAT: Musings on Leather and Leadersh...
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Biogea
ISBN: 9781937561086 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biogea is a mixture of poetry, philosophy, science, and biography exemplary of the style that has made Michel Serres one of the most extraordinary thinkers of his age. His philosophical and poetic inquiry sings in praise of earth and life, what he names singularly as Biogea. In these times when species are disappearing, when catastrophic events such as earthquakes and tsunamis impale the earth, Serres wonders if anyone "worries about the death pangs of the rivers." And for Serres, one can ask the same question of philosophy as the humanities increasingly find themselves in need of... Biogea is a mixture of poetry, philosophy, science, and biography exemplary of the style that has made Michel Serres one of the most extraor... |
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Bram Stoker and the Stage: Reviews, Reminiscences, Essays and Fiction
ISBN: 9781848931428 / Angielski / Twarda / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though best known as the author of 'Dracula' (1897), Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker's theatrical reviews from Dublin's Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, selections from 'Reminiscences of Henry Irving', and a fictional work on the theatre. This critical edition contains an introduction on Stoker and the theatre, extensive notes on the texts included and an index. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, theatre history, Victorian society and cultural studies.
Though best known as the author of 'Dracula' (1897), Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker's ...
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At Hame Wi' Freedom: Essays on Hamish Henderson and the Scottish Folk Revival
ISBN: 9781907676178 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At Hame Wi' Freedom marks the tenth anniversary of Hamish Henderson's death in 2002. It is the third book of a loose trilogy: Borne on the Carrying Stream (Grace Note Publications, 2010), followed by 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Grace Note Publications, 2011) - all revolving around the life and legacy of Hamish Henderson and the Scottish Folk Revival he did so much to inspire and sustain. At Hame wi' Freedom focuses on Hamish Henderson's involvement in the revival, his association with Perthshire and the North-East, the emergence of his poetic... At Hame Wi' Freedom marks the tenth anniversary of Hamish Henderson's death in 2002. It is the third book of a loose trilogy: B... |
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers
ISBN: 9780984616664 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary Nonfiction. Writing Reference. Unmatched in its focus on a concise and popular emerging genre, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION features 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, focused exercises, and helpful examples of what make the brief essay form such a perfect medium for experimentation, insight, and illumination. With a comprehensive introduction to the genre and book by editor Dinty W. Moore, this guide is perfect for both the classroom and the individual writer's desk an essential handbook for anyone interested in the...
Literary Nonfiction. Writing Reference. Unmatched in its focus on a concise and popular emerging genre, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FL...
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