The Great Game: The Myths and Reality of Espionage
ISBN: 9780375726385 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this riveting insider s account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy fiction, showing that the real world of espionage is nearly always stranger and more complicated than even the best spy fiction.Exploring everything from tradecraft and recruitment to bureaucracy and betrayal, The Great Game contrasts fictional spies created by such authors as John Le Carr?, Tom Clancy and Joseph Conrad with their real-life counterparts from Kim Philby to Aldrich Ames. Drawing on his thirty year career with the CIA,...
In this riveting insider s account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy f...
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Growing Up Native Americ
ISBN: 9780380724178 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land. Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land. |
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81,95 zł |
A Guy's Guide to Dating
ISBN: 9780385485531 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bachelorhood used to be something young men aspired to. A man alone was a man empowered. But not anymore. As we cross the threshold into the twenty-first century, the state of being stag has lost its luster.
Bachelorhood used to be something young men aspired to. A man alone was a man empowered. But not anymore. As we cross the threshold into the twenty-fi...
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Recovering: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393317176 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, "When there is personal darkness, when there is a pain to be overcome, when we are forced to renew ourselves against all the odds, the psychic energy required simply to survive has tremendous force." This journal tells how she drew on that force, and how her friendships, her love of the natural world, and her growing audience of devoted readers brought light to the shadows."
May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depres...
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94,72 zł |
Essays Before a Sonata, the Majority, and Other Writings
ISBN: 9780393318302 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Essays Before a Sonata was conceived by Ives as a preface of sorts to the composition. Ives's musings also explore the nature of music, discuss the source of a composer's impulses and inspiration, and offer some biting comments on celebrated masters. The writings in this collection now featuring a comprehensive index-allow readers entry into the brilliant mind that produced some of America's most innovative musical works."
The Essays Before a Sonata was conceived by Ives as a preface of sorts to the composition. Ives's musings also explore the nature of music, discuss th...
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103,35 zł |
The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
ISBN: 9780393329971 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the explorations journey through personal recollections, the creative process, and the harmony of the life cycle. A bouquet of poems and a total of 26 full-color photographs accompany the various sections. The Wild Braid received a 2006 American Horticultural Society Book Award.
Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously publ...
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81,77 zł |
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
ISBN: 9780394702780 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the imagination manifesting itself in its domination of words." Stevens proves himself as eloquent and scintillating in prose as in poetry, as he both analyzes and demonstrates the essential act of...
In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a...
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60,42 zł |
Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786: Performing America
ISBN: 9780415316071 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Susan Castillo's pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or 'multi-voiced' texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Taking a selection of plays, printed dialogues, travel narratives and lexicographic studies in English, Spanish and French, the book explores both European and indigenous writers of the early Americas. Paying particular attention to performance and performativity in the texts of the early colonial world, Susan Castillo asks: - why vast numbers of polyphonic and...
Susan Castillo's pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or 'multi-voiced' texts in the three centuries following the ...
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189,28 zł |
The Queer Sixties
ISBN: 9780415921695 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary.
The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ...
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189,28 zł |
this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation
ISBN: 9780415936811 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over years the anthology This Bridge Called my Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating have brought together an ambitions new collection of over 80 original contributions offering a bold new vision of women-of-colour consciousness for the 21st century. Through personal narratives, theoretical essays, textual collage, poetry, letters, artwork and fiction, This Bridge we Call Home examines and extends the discussion of issues as the centre of the first Bridge such as classism, homophobia, racism, identity politics,...
Over years the anthology This Bridge Called my Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldua and An...
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690,82 zł |
Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780415938600 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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665,24 zł |
The Figure of Consciousness : William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780415939799 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through analysis of metaphors of consciousness in the philosophy and fiction of William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton, this work traces the significance of representations of knowledge, gender and social class, revealing how writers conceived of the self in modern literature.
Through analysis of metaphors of consciousness in the philosophy and fiction of William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton, this work traces the sig...
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665,24 zł |
The Space and Place of Modernism: The Little Magazine in New York
ISBN: 9780415939805 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary...
This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, ...
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665,24 zł |
Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City
ISBN: 9780415947831 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans a " Americaa (TM)s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase a ~sustaining New Orleansa (TM) from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice. This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans a " Americaa (TM)s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase a ~sustaining New O... |
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204,63 zł |
Ethical Diversions: The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish, Delillo, and Spiegelman
ISBN: 9780415971676 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title suggests that although the treatment and evasion of the Holocaust in certain postmodern texts often seems irresponsible, the texts have a deep affinity with ethical theories anchored in notions of obsession, persecution and trauma.
This title suggests that although the treatment and evasion of the Holocaust in certain postmodern texts often seems irresponsible, the texts have a d...
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665,24 zł |
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play
ISBN: 9780452261136 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal of black rage, of racism, of the self-hate that racism breeds, and of... Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play <... |
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Lost in Yonkers
ISBN: 9780452268838 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neil Simon's inimitable play about the trials and tribulations that test family ties - winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
What happens to children in the absence of love? That is the question that lies at the heart of this funny and heartrending play by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved playwrights. Debuting at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 1990, Lost in Yonkers went on to win four Tony Awards, including Best Play, as well as the Pulitzer Prize, and tells the moving drama about the cruelties and painful memories that scar a family. It is New York,... Neil Simon's inimitable play about the trials and tribulations that test family ties - winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
ISBN: 9780452281547 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons, in which Rand analyzes the four essential elements of fiction: theme, plot, characterization, and style. She demonstrates her ideas by dissecting her best-known...
In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a priva...
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103,57 zł |
Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism
ISBN: 9780465014859 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Robert Crunden puts the "jazz" back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America's greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term "Jazz Age," we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. In order to correct this imbalance, Crunden re-introduces us to these musical luminaries who gave the era its name as he traces the early history of jazz from New Orleans to Chicago to New York. While Crunden emphasizes music over literature and the...
In this book Robert Crunden puts the "jazz" back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America's greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much o...
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113,06 zł |
To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living
ISBN: 9780472063062 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kumin reflects on the process of writing poetry and on life in the country
Kumin reflects on the process of writing poetry and on life in the country
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118,23 zł |