ISBN: 9781400078851 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2004
A compelling narrative exploring the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, told by the world's leading expert. The narrative also...
ISBN: 9780307274915 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 166 Rok wydania: 2008
London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the Pirate...
ISBN: 9780307454560 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 658 Rok wydania: 2012
In the third volume of the Millennium series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if...
ISBN: 9780375750182 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 1999
This electrifying book exposes the inner logic of eating disorders, demolishes the myths surrounding them, and outlines a radical new approach to their successful, permanent treatment.
ISBN: 9781400096916 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2005
On the occasion of what would have been his 80th birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Truman Capote's short fiction--a volume that confirms his status...
ISBN: 9780307454591 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 229 Rok wydania: 2012
In her singular voice--both humble and brave, touching and humorous--Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she...
ISBN: 9780307454546 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 600 Rok wydania: 2009
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and...
ISBN: 9780307454553 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 630 Rok wydania: 2010
The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" features Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, as the focus and...
ISBN: 9781101911525 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 640 Rok wydania: 2017
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and...
ISBN: 9780307276650 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 425 Rok wydania: 2006
Ilheus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonca discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and...
ISBN: 9780307949288 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2012
Piet Barol has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier--a...
ISBN: 9781529197297 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 400 Rok wydania: 2023
We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes. But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world?'Life has questions. They have answers' New...
ISBN: 9781400077625 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 2011
Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, Gathering Evidence is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers....
ISBN: 9780375703997 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 2002
Essential for historians, yet written for the general reader, this elemental narrative is a magnificent account of the Mediterranean, from its geologic beginnings through the ancient civilizations...
ISBN: 9780679751663 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 192 Rok wydania: 1996
From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today-and the...
ISBN: 9780593314180 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2024
ISBN: 9780099572374 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2014
Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of...
ISBN: 9780679747888 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 331 Rok wydania: 1997
Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets, or to prove that a man...
ISBN: 9780679736608 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 976 Rok wydania: 1991
Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and at times superbly....No single volume known to me even begins to cater so adequately to those who want to discover what really happened to Russia....Nor do I know...
ISBN: 9780307388988 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 366 Rok wydania: 2008
The basis of Martin Scorcese's acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city's dark past.Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and...