wyszukanych pozycji: 53
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Left Hooks, Right Crosses: Highlights from a Decade of Political Brawling
ISBN: 9781560254096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Hitchens, provocateur and contrarian on the Left, makes the news as often as he reports it, and writes about the most controversial news and current events. Christopher Caldwell is a fresh and objective columnist in the opposite camp. Together, they present the best writing from opposite corners of the political ring at the end of the last century. These incisive observers examine each other's choices and discuss in separate introductions just what they think of the picks. "Hitchens has made a career of disagreement and dissent, of being a thorn in search of a side."Publishers...
Christopher Hitchens, provocateur and contrarian on the Left, makes the news as often as he reports it, and writes about the most controversial news a...
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106,53 zł |
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Safe Area Gorazde
ISBN: 9781560974703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim-held enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war. Sacco lived for a month in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access...
Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at w...
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106,53 zł |
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The Elgin Marbles : Should They be Returned to Greece?
ISBN: 9781859842201 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Elgin Marbles were designed and executed by Phidias to adorn the Parthenon. In 1801 Lord Elgin, then British ambassador to the Turkish government in Athens, had pieces of the frieze sawn off and removed to Britain, where they remain, igniting a storm of controversy which continues.
The Elgin Marbles were designed and executed by Phidias to adorn the Parthenon. In 1801 Lord Elgin, then British ambassador to the Turkish government ...
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75,65 zł |
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A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration
ISBN: 9781538757659 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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127,89 zł |
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No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
ISBN: 9781455522996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a decent archive."
In NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO, a New York Times bestseller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a president who sought to hold power at any cost. With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully deconstructs Clinton's abject propensity for pandering to the Left while delivering to the Right, and he argues that the... "Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a...
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85,22 zł |
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
ISBN: 9781455522972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame." Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war criminal whose offenses rival those of the most heinous dictators in recent history-Henry Kissinger. Employing evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished documents, and new information uncovered by...
"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindicat...
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85,22 zł |
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
ISBN: 9780143104902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 1232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Rebecca West's magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time." --The New Yorker
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships among its ethnic groups. The landscape and the people of Yugoslavia are brilliantly... "Rebecca West's magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time." --The New Yorker
Written on the brink of ... |
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136,42 zł |
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Civilization and Its Discontents
ISBN: 9780393304510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written in the decade before Freud s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and how did it come to be? What determines civilization s trajectory? Freud s theories on the effect of the knowledge of death on human existence and the birth of art are central to his work. Of the various English...
Written in the decade before Freud s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, diss...
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63,74 zł |
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Ein letztes Buch
ISBN: 9783907351109 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Seit etwa zwei Jahrzehnten zeigt sich ein deutlich wachsendes öffentliches Interesse an der Thematik von Sterben und Tod: Sterbeprozesse rücken stärker ins Blickfeld von diversen Forschungsrichtungen, Fachliteratur zur Sterbebegleitung boomt. Auffallend ist auch eine steigende Anzahl von literarischen Sterbeberichten: Immer mehr Schriftsteller:innen schreiben ein letztes Buch über ihre (tödlichen) Erkrankungen.»Wie es sich heute stirbt« versammelt Auszüge aus neun literarischen Sterbebüchern, die vorwiegend in den 2010er-Jahren erschienen sind, einfühlsam kommentiert von der...
Seit etwa zwei Jahrzehnten zeigt sich ein deutlich wachsendes öffentliches Interesse an der Thematik von Sterben und Tod: Sterbeprozesse rücken stä...
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146,50 zł |
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Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
ISBN: 9780814716861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Hitchens--political journalist, cultural critic, public intellectual and self-described contrarian--is one of the most controversial and prolific writers of his generation. His most recent book, God Is Not Great, was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2007 for months. Like his hero, George Orwell, Hitchens is a tireless opponent of all forms of cruelty, ideological dogma, religious superstition and intellectual obfuscation. Once a socialist, he now refers to himself as an unaffiliated radical. As a thinker, Hitchens is perhaps best viewed as... Christopher Hitchens--political journalist, cultural critic, public intellectual and self-described contrarian--is one of the most controversial an... |
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537,47 zł |
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The Elgin Marbles : The Case for Restitution
ISBN: 9781844672523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon Marbles
The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequently seized by Parliament and sold to the British Museum to help pay off his debts. This scandal, exacerbated by the inept handling of the sculptures by their self-appointed guardians, remains... The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon Marbles
The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), design... |
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81,06 zł |
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The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry
ISBN: 9780593080399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights – about religion and atheism, science and sense – speaks with urgency to our present age.
Questions they asked of each other included: ‘Is it ever possible to win a war of ideas? Is spirituality the preserve of the religious? Are there any truths you would rather... Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ...
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87,52 zł |
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Animal Farm and 1984
ISBN: 9780151010264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This edition features George Orwell's best known novels - 1984 and Animal Farm - with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Animal Farm is Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution -- an... This edition features George Orwell's best known novels - 1984 and Animal Farm - with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. |
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106,58 zł |