wyszukanych pozycji: 87
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The Brothers K
ISBN: 9780553378498 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality. This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill... A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of... |
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78,80 zł |
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Adventures of a Tennessean
ISBN: 9781481741569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book contains a large number of stories that were told to me as a young boy growing-up in Tennessee about the many adventures that my father experienced while serving in the United States Navy. Many of these stories cover specific events that my father participated in during the Korean Armed Conflict. The events and opinions contained within the individual stories represent those verbalized by my father. These stories contain rich and colorful language, and they reflect a United States Navy sailor's life during the mid-20th Century. My father, like all good story tellers, molded the...
This book contains a large number of stories that were told to me as a young boy growing-up in Tennessee about the many adventures that my father expe...
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123,34 zł |
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The River Why
ISBN: 9780316261227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author.
Since its publication in 1983, THE RIVER WHY has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a voice as distinct and powerful as any in American letters. Gus Orviston is a young fly fisherman who leaves behind his comically schizoid family to find his own path. Taking refuge in a remote cabin, he sets out in pursuit of the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead. But what... The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author.
Since its publication in 1983, ... |
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82,91 zł |
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Sun House
ISBN: 9780316129374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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145,16 zł |
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Dick! The WWII Cat-Snake-Monster!: From da' Great State a' Massachusetts!
ISBN: 9781523230334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This story mixes elements of fiction and non-fiction. Asked to tell a story about fantastic monsters, the author included elements of stories passed down from his grandparents about WWII and their lives prior to the Pearl Harbor attack.
This story mixes elements of fiction and non-fiction. Asked to tell a story about fantastic monsters, the author included elements of stories passed d...
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39,20 zł |
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Adventures of a Tennessean
ISBN: 9781481741576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book contains a large number of stories that were told to me as a young boy growing-up in Tennessee about the many adventures that my father experienced while serving in the United States Navy. Many of these stories cover specific events that my father participated in during the Korean Armed Conflict. The events and opinions contained within the individual stories represent those verbalized by my father. These stories contain rich and colorful language, and they reflect a United States Navy sailor's life during the mid-20th Century. My father, like all good story tellers, molded the...
This book contains a large number of stories that were told to me as a young boy growing-up in Tennessee about the many adventures that my father expe...
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73,78 zł |
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LUCY -- The Colt that Went to the Belmont Stakes
ISBN: 9781477254899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lucy wants to be a champion race horse like her Mother and Father. To reach this goal, she decides that she must travel to the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, New York. In preparation for this trip, Lucy decides to study geography. During her geography class, Lucy learns that her travels to Elmont, New York, will take her across Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. Lucy prepares for the trip both mentally and physically by studying her geography and racing the other colts up and down the fields along Brush Creek. As Lucy journeys to Elmont, New York, she encounters a number of...
Lucy wants to be a champion race horse like her Mother and Father. To reach this goal, she decides that she must travel to the Belmont Stakes in Elmon...
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103,59 zł |
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Both Ways Home
ISBN: 9798218080334 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,04 zł |
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The Dynasty of David
ISBN: 9783382184933 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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435,06 zł |
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The Dynasty of David
ISBN: 9783382184926 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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347,96 zł |
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Winter Evening Tales
ISBN: 9780748620869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical novel established by Walter Scott.The collection includes terse masterpieces of mystery and the uncanny, virtuoso improvisations on folktale themes, and two brilliant autobiographical novellas, The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee and Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane.This paperback edition takes account of newly-discovered information about...
Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of no...
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101,69 zł |
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Winter Evening Tales
ISBN: 9780748615568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical novel established by Walter Scott.The collection includes terse masterpieces of mystery and the uncanny, virtuoso improvisations on folktale themes, and two brilliant autobiographical novellas, The Renowned Adventures of Basil Lee and Love Adventures of Mr George Cochrane.This paperback edition takes account of newly-discovered information about...
Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of no...
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483,29 zł |
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The Origins of the Choson Dynasty
ISBN: 9780295993799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional Korea. The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the... |
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152,57 zł |
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Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon: Colonialism and the Negotiation of Bureaucratic Boundaries
ISBN: 9780367515515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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686,78 zł |
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In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon
ISBN: 9781138262416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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254,31 zł |
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Do You Abide?
ISBN: 9781502895073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the possibility of a "Big Lebowski" sequel on the horizon, Dudeism continues to grow as the Number One religion based on a Jeff Bridges movie, we welcome the second in a series of books for children to answer the simple question "Do You Abide?" Little Finnegan is back, and this time he learns what it takes to ABIDE, and how easy it really is. For those looking for more answers on the subject of Dude or Dudeism, please visit the Church of the Latter-Day Dude at http: //dudeism.com/
With the possibility of a "Big Lebowski" sequel on the horizon, Dudeism continues to grow as the Number One religion based on a Jeff Bridges movie, we...
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56,57 zł |
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Feral Kingdom
ISBN: 9781950380183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,68 zł |
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In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon
ISBN: 9780754672265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were...
In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growi...
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737,66 zł |
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The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
ISBN: 9780521611961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this book James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life. He analyzes this dialectic relationship between landscape and the pursuit of power in the royal capital of Kandy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka during the early years of the nineteenth century and demonstrates how the Kandyan landscape was consciously produced to further the perceived interests of the Kandyan kings. Using extensive archival sources, architectural analysis and mapping, the author reveals how the...
In this book James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of politi...
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281,27 zł |