wyszukanych pozycji: 231
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Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America
ISBN: 9780679736868 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "When it comes to deer, wildness is the greatest truth. And tameness is a tender, innocent lie."So writes Richard Nelson, award-winning author of The Island Within, in this far-ranging and deeply personal look at our complex relationship with this most beautiful, but amazingly elusive, creature.Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in Americabegins with the author tracking a deer on a remote island off the Alaskan coast. From there he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey, visiting such disparate territories of the deer as a hunting ranch in Texas; a state park in California; a Wisconsin forest on...
"When it comes to deer, wildness is the greatest truth. And tameness is a tender, innocent lie."So writes Richard Nelson, award-winning author of The ...
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80,99 zł |
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The Vienna Notes
ISBN: 9780881457186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,35 zł |
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Frank's Home
ISBN: 9780881453591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,98 zł |
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A Culture of Confidence: Politics, Performance, and the Idea of America
ISBN: 9781604735758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Compelled by the ubiquitous power of mass entertainment, politics has adopted theatrical language and the rhetoric of performance as the strategy for winning public favor. We have come to expect the politicians we elect to be performers. Now, more than at any other time in American history, we conceive the world of politics to be a world of theatre in which every politician's campaign must sell us something. In this persuasive study of culture politics, Richard Nelson examines the concept of confidence and doubt as the cement that holds the nation together. He explores confidence in its... Compelled by the ubiquitous power of mass entertainment, politics has adopted theatrical language and the rhetoric of performance as the strategy f... |
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215,70 zł |
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Deuteronomy: A Commentary
ISBN: 9780664229542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the book of Deuteronomy. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing. This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the book of Deuteronomy. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and autho... |
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299,15 zł |
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Franny's Way
ISBN: 9780881452167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Summer, 1957. The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the city. Soon, the young women have embarked on their own private missions involving love, a forgotten child, and a lost mother. Set against the bustling backdrop of New York at mid-century, FRANNY'S WAY is a sensual, provocative ode to desire, longing, and the bittersweet collision of youth and adulthood. "Boundaries warp and melt in the dense urban heat that pervades FRANNY'S WAY, Richard Nelson's...
Summer, 1957. The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from th...
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61,98 zł |
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Life Sentences
ISBN: 9780881454086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Burke, a middle-aged college English professor, and his lover, Mia, an unmarried mother in her mid-20s, seem in no way made for each another and yet, it seems, can't live without each other. "In his remarkable new two-character play, LIFE SENTENCES, Richard Nelson explores an intimate relationship between two people no dating service would ever put together and makes their connection tender, believable and as complex as most relationships usually are." -Gloria Cole, U P I "Richard Nelson has a penchant for writing about characters who can talk with considerable brilliance about almost...
Burke, a middle-aged college English professor, and his lover, Mia, an unmarried mother in her mid-20s, seem in no way made for each another and yet, ...
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76,35 zł |
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Rip Van Winkle, or "The Works"
ISBN: 9780881456943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Richard Nelson uses the familiar tale of Rip Van Winkle as the basis for his epic study of American agrarian reform, the Industrial Revolution, and the labor movement. ..".The play has a smart, engaging premise. Rip Van Winkle's sleep and waking are used to frame a variety of themes: men and women, parents and children, alcoholism, superstition, and, above all, the battle between industry and agriculture in the social history of the Hudson Valley. The style is also interesting: a kind of terse Bondian dialogue in short Brechtian scenes which allow the audience to find its own path... Richard Nelson uses the familiar tale of Rip Van Winkle as the basis for his epic study of American agrarian reform, the Industrial Revolution, and... |
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61,98 zł |
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Columbus and the Discovery of Japan
ISBN: 9780881457995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,35 zł |
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Deuteronomy (OTL)
ISBN: 9780664219529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This commentary on Deuteronomy, This commentary on Deuteronomy, |
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320,51 zł |
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Madame Melville
ISBN: 9780881458947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,98 zł |
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Judges: A Critical & Rhetorical Commentary
ISBN: 9780567673091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The book of Judges is part of the world's literary and cultural canon, and as such it provides insights about political leadership, gender relationships, power disparities, personal strengths and weakness, as well as social and political ethics. In addition, for many Jewish and Christian scholars, Judges is a canonical, scriptural text. This new commentary on Judges considers all these issues, adopting two key approaches: rhetorical criticism and historical criticism. As a rhetorical commentary, the volume pays attention to the factors in the text that are being marshalled to... The book of Judges is part of the world's literary and cultural canon, and as such it provides insights about political leadership, gender relation... |
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821,94 zł |
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43 seconds to Hiroshima
ISBN: 9781420843163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. August 6, 1945, was the day the world was forever changed. The first atomic bomb ever used in the history of warfare was released over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Only twelve men were privileged to be on that historic flight, and only one was allowed to be the radio operator. Richard H. Nelson invites the reader into his life and gives his unique perspective on that infamous day when Japan was brought to their knees, finally bringing the bloodiest war in the history of the world to a conclusion.
August 6, 1945, was the day the world was forever changed. The first atomic bomb ever used in the history of warfare was released over the city of Hir...
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89,00 zł |
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The Old Testament: Canon, History, and Literature
ISBN: 9781426759239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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196,54 zł |
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Regular Singing
ISBN: 9780881455885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Unfolding on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, REGULAR SINGING is the final play in Richard Nelson's series chronicling the lives and times of the Apple family in upstate New York. "To my knowledge, no previous works of theater have been topical in the resonant and specific ways as the Apple Family plays. REGULAR SINGING, the fourth and final installment of Richard Nelson's wonderful, sui generis Apple Family plays, this deeply intimate drama is about how we remember our living and our dead ... A rare and radiant mirror of the way we live - and fail to live - now." -Ben...
Unfolding on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, REGULAR SINGING is the final play in Richard Nelson's series chronicling the liv...
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76,35 zł |
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The Mighty Power of the Word
ISBN: 9780990497394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,00 zł |
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The Wood Demon
ISBN: 9780881458558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,98 zł |
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Women of a Certain Age
ISBN: 9780881457001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THE GABRIELS trilogy chronicles a year in the life of a neighboring family who reunite in real time at three different points across 2016 to celebrate, remember, and wait for the world to change. History and politics, art and culture, love and hate are all on the table as the Gabriels gather in the kitchen of the house they grew up in -- ultimately revealing the deep, human impact of one of the most extraordinary years in American history. Part Three, WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE: It is election night as the Gabriels economic woes worsen. They have worked hard and played by the rules, and yet... THE GABRIELS trilogy chronicles a year in the life of a neighboring family who reunite in real time at three different points across 2016 to celebr... |
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76,35 zł |
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Hungry
ISBN: 9780881456677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Wonderful...HUNGRY, a work in which nothing much happens beyond some contemplative pre-dinner chatter, may well be the most resonantly topical and emotionally engaging play of this election year." Ben Brantley, New York Times " HUNGRY's] thousand acts of extreme daily realism, from chopping vegetables to the constant dance of interpersonal negotiation, amount to a kind of human politics, dramatizing, as many more 'dramatic' plays cannot, the historic conflict and consolations of living in our country right now." Jesse Green, New York Magazine " Nelson] may just be quietly building a...
"Wonderful...HUNGRY, a work in which nothing much happens beyond some contemplative pre-dinner chatter, may well be the most resonantly topical and em...
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76,35 zł |
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Poets\' Walk
ISBN: 9780881459531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,35 zł |