The Quotable Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom
ISBN: 9780762449828 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for any situation, this book is perfect for either enjoying in small bites or devouring in one sitting. Featuring a biography, quotes, a poem and short story, it is a must have for Wilde lovers and novices alike.
"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is fil...
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Figle migle
ISBN: 9788372771339 / Polski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zbiór pikantnych cytatów o kobietach, mężczyznach, uczuciach i relacjach między dwiema płciami. Czasem zabawnie, czasem poważnie lub nawet lirycznie ujęte słowa oddające emocje mogą się przydać przy wielu okazjach.
Zbiór pikantnych cytatów o kobietach, mężczyznach, uczuciach i relacjach między dwiema płciami. Czasem zabawnie, czasem poważnie lub nawet liry...
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Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark
ISBN: 9781501153341 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Words of wisdom from Charlie Munger--Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and the visionary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway--collected and interpreted with an eye towards investing by David Clark, coauthor of the bestselling Buffettology series. Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924 Charlie Munger studied mathematics at the University of Michigan, trained as a meteorologist at Cal Tech Pasadena while in the Army, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School without ever earning an undergraduate degree. Today, Munger is one of America's most successful investors,...
Words of wisdom from Charlie Munger--Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and the visionary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway--collected and i...
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87,72 zł |
A Season for Everything: Coloring Book
ISBN: 9780997102161 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explore the Magic of Doodle Art A Season for Everything shares 50 doodle art designs of inspiring proverbs, sayings, and quotes printed on one side of the page for all ages to color. Explore the Magic of Doodle Art A Season for Everything shares 50 doodle art designs of inspiring proverbs, sayings, and quotes printed on o... |
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Savage Solitude: Reflections of a Reluctant Loner
ISBN: 9781906614638 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Subtitled 'Reflections of a Reluctant Loner', Savage Solitude is an unusual and thought-provoking book, taking the reader on a journey through the immediate experience of being alone. Drawing on quotations from a wide range of poets, philosophers and writers, the conversation of the book moves in a kind of rolling wave that is simultaneously story and analysis, report and ongoing investigation, all the while pushing towards an answer to the question (more pressing than ever in our hi-tech age) of how to be alone. Maighread Medbh is an Irish poet with five published collections of her work to...
Subtitled 'Reflections of a Reluctant Loner', Savage Solitude is an unusual and thought-provoking book, taking the reader on a journey through the imm...
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95,96 zł |
Perełki życia
ISBN: 9788377201701 / Polski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Niezwykła książka, która skupia najcenniejsze myśli.
Czytając tę książkę drogi Czytelniku, odnajdziesz tu przede wszystkim wiarę, nadzieję i miłość. Są to bowiem trzy perły, które Bóg ukrył w duszy każdego człowieka. Czy je zechcesz odkryć czy nie, zależy już tylko od Ciebie. Bez wątpienia jednak te perełki są mapą, która nieomylnie pozwoli odkryć skarby duszy i mądrość serca a w jej perspektywie odnaleźć prawdziwą radość życia. Niezwykła książka, która skupia najcenniejsze myśli.
Czytając tę książkę drogi Czytelniku, odnajdziesz tu przede wszystkim wiarę, nadzi... |
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The Notes: Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom
ISBN: 9780062065148 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ronald Reagan left behind a legacy that America willnever forget. Now, in this one-of-a-kind collection of his most intimatethoughts, his favorite quotations by others, and his own most collectiblejokes, all culled from a newly disclosed set of personal notecards he keptthroughout his life and career, fans and admirers of the fortieth presidentwill find a unique window of insight into the soul of an American icon. Editedby Douglas Brinkley, editor of #1 NewYork Times bestseller The ReaganDiaries, this indispensible Reagan retrospective is perfect for fathers, graduates, and...
Ronald Reagan left behind a legacy that America willnever forget. Now, in this one-of-a-kind collection of his most intimatethoughts, his favorite quo...
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From the Desk of Jane Austen: 100 Postcards
ISBN: 9780770436698 / Angielski / Twarda / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Jane Austen fans who treasure the art of correspondence, an elegant keepsake box filled with 100 postcards featuring the ubiquitous wit of Austen's sentiments, to mail to loved ones, frame as a set, or pin to an inspiration board. "Expect a most agreeable letter, for having nothing at all to say, there shall be no check to my genius from beginning to end." Jane Austen's bustling life rarely left her without news to share, but even in those spare moments with nothing to pen, her incandescent wit manages to shine throughout her letters. Collected from her extensive collection of...
For Jane Austen fans who treasure the art of correspondence, an elegant keepsake box filled with 100 postcards featuring the ubiquitous wit of Austen'...
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What about Darwin?: All Species of Opinion from Scientists, Sages, Friends, and Enemies Who Met, Read, and Discussed the Naturalist Who Ch
ISBN: 9780801894626 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as P. T. Barnum, Anton Chekhov, Mahatma Gandhi, Carl Jung, Martin Luther King, Mao Tse-tung, Pius IX, Jules Verne, and Virginia Woolf. What was it about Darwin that generated such widespread interest? His Origin of Species changed the world. Naturalists, clerics, politicians, novelists, poets, musicians, economists, and... Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin sch... |
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The Calligrapher's Garden
ISBN: 9780863568565 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Hassan Massoudy's calligraphies are arranged to loosely follow the seasons, beginning and ending with autumn: sombre, wintry hues at one end, brilliant tones full of vibrant reds at the other.---Venetia Porter Hassan Massoudy's elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter and the fading hues of autumn to delicate spring growth and the dazzling sunshine and blooms of summer, he captures in calligraphy what countless poets have wrought with words. Massoudy draws his seasonal inspirations from writers and artists, including Kahlil... -Hassan Massoudy's calligraphies are arranged to loosely follow the seasons, beginning and ending with autumn: sombre, wintry hues at one end, bril... |
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Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases
ISBN: 9780674437357 / Angielski / Twarda / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript. Certain books written later than 1500, usually by authors who were born twenty years or so before the turn of the century, are included, and John Heywood, the first great assembler of English proverbs, is represented by the sayings he compiled.
, "No matter how popular a saying may appear," Mr. Whiting points out in his Preface, "it comes to us at... This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive ex... |
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Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays
ISBN: 9780062643599 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A repackaged edition of the revered author's essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practical. C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics--was one of the foremost religious philosophers of the twentieth century; a thinker whose far-reaching influence on Christianity continues to be felt today. Demonstrating Lewis's... A repackaged edition of the revered author's essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practica... |
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People's History of the Peculiar
ISBN: 9781936740833 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson s grandson was an ax murderer? Do you delight knowing that some dinosaurs were as teeny tiny as hens? Wonder what it s like to live in Hell Town at the End of the World? How about an ailment so surreal it s named after Alice in Wonderland? In A People's History of the Peculiar, historian Nick Belardes has dug into the raw source material found in historical archives, scientific studies, and libraries the world over to find facts, lists, definitions, and astonishing information guaranteed to provide readers with the best cocktail conversation topics...
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson s grandson was an ax murderer? Do you delight knowing that some dinosaurs were as teeny tiny as hens? Wonder what i...
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Paris in Quotations
ISBN: 9781851244102 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We ll always have Paris, croons Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca to a young Ingrid Bergman. F. Scott Fitzgerald commented that the best of America drifts to Paris. But, should one never get the opportunity to visit Paris, one might take consolation in the words of critic William Hazlitt, who called it a beast of a city. Be it praise or colorful invective, everyone, it seems, has something to say about the city and this slender volumefilled with wise, witty, and sometimes scandalous quotespresents the full range of impressions it has made.
Paris in Quotations takes readers on a... We ll always have Paris, croons Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca to a young Ingrid Bergman. F. Scott Fitzgerald commented that the best of America...
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Chicago in Quotations
ISBN: 9781851244119 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carl Sandburg was an ardent champion of Chicago, famously issuing the challenge: "Show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and strong and cunning." For pianist Otis Spann, it was the "mother of the blues," and a beacon to "every good musician who ever left the South." But the union leader Eugene V. Debs had harsher words for the city, calling it "unfit for human habitation," and Rudyard Kipling claimed it was "inhabited by savages" and hoped never to see it again.
Whether you look upon the city with admiration, disgust, or an incongruous combination of the two,... Carl Sandburg was an ardent champion of Chicago, famously issuing the challenge: "Show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive a...
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Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations and Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots (Funny Gift for Friends)
ISBN: 9781573246385 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A ribald collection of bon mots on everything from bras to babies, shopping to sex, menopause to men, and politics to parties... ""I'm everything you were afraid your little girl would grow up to be--and your little boy."" --Bette Midler A ribald collection of bon mots on everything from bras to babies, shopping to sex, menopause to men, and politics to parties... ""I'm everything... |
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Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volume 2
ISBN: 9781450200226 / Angielski / Miękka / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From ? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba ? Leonard Peltier ? Richard Pryor ? Bruce Lee ? H. Rap Brown ? Will Rogers ? Kwame Ture ? Plato ? Chief Seattle ? Maurice Bishop ? Anne Wilson Schaef ? Martin Luther King, Jr. ? Mahatma Gandhi ? Helen Keller ? Stevie Wonder ? Buddha ? Fidel Castro ? Ptah-Hotep ? Denzel Washington ? Socrates ? Karl Marx ? Arundhati Roy ? Paul Robeson ? Zhuge Liang ? Malcolm X ? Confucius ? Sekou Toure? ? Marvin Gaye ? Mother Jones ? Hugo Chavez ? Kwame Nkrumah ?... A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From ? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba... |
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Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volume 2
ISBN: 9781450200240 / Angielski / Twarda / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From ? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba ? Leonard Peltier ? Richard Pryor ? Bruce Lee ? H. Rap Brown ? Will Rogers ? Kwame Ture ? Plato ? Chief Seattle ? Maurice Bishop ? Anne Wilson Schaef ? Martin Luther King, Jr. ? Mahatma Gandhi ? Helen Keller ? Stevie Wonder ? Buddha ? Fidel Castro ? Ptah-Hotep ? Denzel Washington ? Socrates ? Karl Marx ? Arundhati Roy ? Paul Robeson ? Zhuge Liang ? Malcolm X ? Confucius ? Sekou Toure? ? Marvin Gaye ? Mother Jones ? Hugo Chavez ? Kwame Nkrumah ?... A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From ? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba... |
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America's Founding Fathers: Their Uncommon Wisdom and Wit
ISBN: 9781442239357 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguably, no other revolution in history has enjoyed such a brilliant gallery of thinkers as the one that led to the founding of the United States. America's Founding Fathers is centered on the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of the exemplary men who founded our nation. This book gathers together the founding fathers' best quotations on a variety of subjects including life, love, marriage, family, children, religion, patriotism, sacrifice, law, professionalism, medicine, public health, education, money, "modern" society, the Revolutionary War, humor, and...
Arguably, no other revolution in history has enjoyed such a brilliant gallery of thinkers as the one that led to the founding of the United States. Am...
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Writers on... Drink: A Book of Quotations, Poems and Literary Reflections
ISBN: 9781473320840 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Writers on... Drink' illustrates the complex, funny and fraught relationships between writers and this most human of vices. This collection of thoughts on alcohol, poured onto the page, gives a taste of the literary world's greatest insights on imbibing. Pens-down, and bottoms-up The 'Writers on...' series is a collection of extracts, anecdotes and occasional philosophical musings from the world's most well known authors. This book of quotes, inspirational poems, letters, and quips, celebrates writers who have an individual, creative outlook on the world; on subjects from 'drink'... 'Writers on... Drink' illustrates the complex, funny and fraught relationships between writers and this most human of vices. This collection of tho... |
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110,58 zł |