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Spice and Wolf, Vol. 14 (manga)
ISBN: 9780316442657 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Previously, Lawrence and Holo traveled to the town of Svernel in order to meet with the Myuri Mercenary Company and find out more about Holo's past companions and her home. But now Lawrence has gotten completely caught up in the political strife of the Debau Trading Company.
It all surrounds the Debau Company's desire to issue a new currency, with which they have apparent plans to unite the surrounding northern region. For their aim, the Debau Company needs to acquire raw ore and materials but this has caused their opponents to increase their own efforts to foil this plan. In the middle... Previously, Lawrence and Holo traveled to the town of Svernel in order to meet with the Myuri Mercenary Company and find out more about Holo's past co...
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50,10 |
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Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination
ISBN: 9780268102173 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening to break down borders separating American citizens--or some representative American--from a larger world beyond. While earlier studies of Catholicism in the American literary imagination have tended to highlight the faith's historical association with Europe, O'Gorman stresses how that imagination...
In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Cath...
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244,89 |
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British Empire and the Literature of Rebellion: Revolting Bodies, Laboring Subjects
ISBN: 9783319576626 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the Fenian Rebellion (1867) in Ireland.
This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings ag...
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362,27 |
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Quelling the Demons' Revolt: A Novel from Ming China
ISBN: 9780231183079 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that his daughter's demonic nature might be discovered, marries her off. Forced to flee, she and others with supernatural abilities find themselves in the midst of a grotesque version of a historical uprising, in which facts are intermingled with slapstick humor and wild fictions. Attributed to...
In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overth...
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128,89 |
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Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature
ISBN: 9781138104181 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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293,81 |
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India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s
ISBN: 9783319623337 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to frame the "the idea of India" in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s).
This book seeks to frame the "the idea of India" in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, peo...
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442,79 |
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Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art
ISBN: 9781501515897 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,27 |
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Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
ISBN: 9780813587844 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists focusing on the veil, geisha, or Muslim women's oppression without exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts.
Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far...
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181,22 |
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Japanese Poetry and Its Publics: From Meiji Imperialism to Postcolonial Taiwan
ISBN: 9781138304024 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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710,17 |
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Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations
ISBN: 9783319709321 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, it provides the first scholarly insight into the reception of major Romantic authors in indigenous languages, and makes a major contribution to the study of global Romanticism and its colonial heritage.
Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, it provides the first scholarly ...
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483,04 |
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Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems
ISBN: 9780231184694 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. Hawk of the Mind is a comprehensive collection of Yang Mu's poetry that presents crucial works from the many stages of his long creative career, rendered into English by a team of distinguished translators, illustrating the distinctive style and affective power of a great poet.
Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. Hawk of the Mind is a comprehensive collection of Yang Mu's poetry that presents crucial works ...
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113,42 |
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Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
ISBN: 9781783743834 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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146,53 |
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Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
ISBN: 9781783743841 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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219,89 |
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Transgression in Korea: Beyond Resistance and Control
ISBN: 9780472073771 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenges the popular conceptions of transgression as resistance to authority, the collapse of morality, and an attempt at self-empowerment. Examples of transgression from premodern, modern, and contemporary Korea are examined side by side to underscore the possibility of reading transgression in more ways than one.
Challenges the popular conceptions of transgression as resistance to authority, the collapse of morality, and an attempt at self-empowerment. Examples...
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355,47 |
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Family, School and Nation: The Child and Literary Constructions in 20th-Century Bengal
ISBN: 9780815373353 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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244,84 |
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Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
ISBN: 9780813587851 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists focusing on the veil, geisha, or Muslim women's oppression without exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts.
Demonstrates that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West. Using examples from the Middle to Far...
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612,21 |
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The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh
ISBN: 9781138063631 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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747,55 |
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Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World: On China’s Global Historical Role
ISBN: 9783110585070 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a multi-author volume resulted from an international conference focusing on topics related to our understanding of the role of China in the global history. Apart from introductory chapters exploring methodological issues and providing big pictures of framing China in the world in particular time zones, this volume also covers rich discussions on the following themes from the ancient period to the twentieth century: organized water transport, cultural interactions, navigators, port cities, smuggling activities, customs service, foreign relations, migration, and diasporas. Written by...
This is a multi-author volume resulted from an international conference focusing on topics related to our understanding of the role of China in the gl...
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594,70 |
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Murasaki Shikibu's the Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780190654979 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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481,90 |
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The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
ISBN: 9780241360668 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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