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The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780231167710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu--a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English. The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a...
A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in ...
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205,49 zł |
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Bearing Across: Studies in Literature and Science, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780761823186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Highly original and insightful, Bearing Across explores the complex interrelationships between American literature and science in the 20th century. Steven Carter begins this unprecedented work by examining the influence that science and scientific thinking has had on the creative processes of several postmodern writers. Focusing on the literary works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, he investigates the philosophical impact that field and quantum theories have had on these imaginative writers. The second section of the book features radical re-readings of six of Hemingway's...
Highly original and insightful, Bearing Across explores the complex interrelationships between American literature and science in the 20th century. St...
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490,85 zł |
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Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000
ISBN: 9780761821007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What is the role of the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of otherness in a secularized, high-tech society such as our own? In a world governed by the extensions of man television, the telephone, the automobile, and the Internet what happens to cultural values once held to be spiritual? In Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000, Steven Carter explores the myriad ways in which technology and its "muses" media entertainment and advertising, the so-called culture of electronics plus capitalism are in the process of recycling metaphysical values in postmodern American life."
What is the role of the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of otherness in a secularized, high-tech society such as our own? In a world governed by t...
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580,60 zł |
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Little House of Oxymorons: with commentaries
ISBN: 9780761851035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist. As a satire, Little House of Oxymorons complements Steven Carter's The New Devil's Dictionary, a two-volume "sequel" to Ambrose Bierce's notorious The Devil's Dictionary of a century ago.
This volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist. As a satire, Little House of Oxymorons c...
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251,54 zł |
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222: Aphorisms & Reflections, Volume 3
ISBN: 9780761841593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The third installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of meetings of the minds-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.
The third installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampli...
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311,37 zł |
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How to Read a Japanese Poem
ISBN: 9780231186827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present.
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter...
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405,56 zł |
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Keep Calm and Plan: How to Conquer Panic and Avoid Its Negative Effects
ISBN: 9781635012972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many people suffer from anxiety which can lead to panic attacks. Having a book on dealing with panic attacks could help. The book could help by describing exactly what panic attacks are and the physiology of them so the person better understands what they are dealing with, breathing methods to help calm down, things to focus on to try and keep your heart rate down, and how to recover if you had an attack.
Many people suffer from anxiety which can lead to panic attacks. Having a book on dealing with panic attacks could help. The book could help by descri...
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64,06 zł |
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The Nothing That Is and the Nothing That Is Not: On Death, Dying, and Suffering
ISBN: 9780761830023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Nothing That Is and the Nothing That Is Not is the final volume in a trilogy on interpretations of otherness in the postmodern era. The first two volumes are A Do-It-Yourself Dystopia: The Americanization of Big Brother (University Press of America, 2002) and Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000 (University Press of America, 2001).
The Nothing That Is and the Nothing That Is Not is the final volume in a trilogy on interpretations of otherness in the postmodern era. The first two ...
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323,34 zł |
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New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series
ISBN: 9780761845843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series, the fifth volume of a major work in progress, features more than 400 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of "meetings of the minds"--dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.
New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series, the fifth volume of a major work in progress, features more than 400 entries, some of which are autobiogra...
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275,47 zł |
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The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780231167703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu--a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English. The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a...
A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in ...
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611,05 zł |
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Where a Man Stands: Two Different Worlds, an Impossible Situation, and the Unexpected Friendship That Changed Everything
ISBN: 9781476711423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Beverly Hills High School welcomed a skinny boy from the other side of the tracks, no one knew just how life-changing the decision would be, not just for Carter Paysinger but for all of Beverly Hills. Carter grew up hearing his parents say, "Don't just strive to be good. Always strive to be great." He dreamed of finding greatness in playing professional baseball or becoming a black Donald Trump, but fate had different plans and, ultimately, he found his calling as a teacher and coach at the school that once embraced him, becoming a rock for the innumerable kids who came seeking an...
When Beverly Hills High School welcomed a skinny boy from the other side of the tracks, no one knew just how life-changing the decision would be, not ...
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64,10 zł |
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Conversations with Shotetsu
ISBN: 9780472038152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,04 zł |
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Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780804715621 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English. Ezra Pound called poetry "the most concentrated form of verbal expression," and the great poets of Japan wrote poems as charged and compressed as poems can be. The Japanese language, with its few consonates and even fewer vowels, did not lend itself to expansive forms, making small seem...
This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to th...
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1012,01 zł |
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Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Basho
ISBN: 9780231156486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, a hokku opens a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga. Under the mastery of Basho,...
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bash...
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432,60 zł |
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Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History
ISBN: 9780674024533 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. As direct descendants of the great courtier-poets Fujiwara no Shunzei (1114-1204) and his son Teika (1162-1244), the heirs of the noble Reizei house can claim an unbroken literary lineage that spans over eight hundred years. During all that time, their primary goal has been to sustain the poetic enterprise, or michi (way), of the house and to safeguard its literary assets. Steven D. Carter weaves together strands of family history, literary criticism, and historical research into a coherent narrative about the evolution of the Reizei Way. What emerges from this... As direct descendants of the great courtier-poets Fujiwara no Shunzei (1114-1204) and his son Teika (1162-1244), the heirs of the noble Reizei hou... |
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248,47 zł |
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Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Basho
ISBN: 9780231156479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, a hokku opens a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga. Under the mastery of Basho,...
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bash...
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118,97 zł |
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Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780804722124 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English. Ezra Pound called poetry -the most concentrated form of verbal expression, - and the great poets of Japan wrote poems as charged and compressed as poems can be. The Japanese language, with its few consonates and even fewer vowels, did not lend itself to expansive forms, making small seem...
This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to th...
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256,41 zł |
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Cock-A-Doodle-Don't
ISBN: 9781943201884 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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95,68 zł |
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Cock-A-Doodle-Don't
ISBN: 9781943201877 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,55 zł |
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Safety & Soundness of U.S. Banks: Issues & Policies in Brief
ISBN: 9781626189041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 65 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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436,60 zł |