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 aby the world's leading expert. The narrative...
ISBN: 9781911717096 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 512 Rok wydania: 2024
The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But...
ISBN: 9780525563082 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 128 Rok wydania: 2020
In Zona, Geoff Dyer--'one of our most original writers' (New York)--devoted a whole book to Andrei Tarkovsky's cult masterpiece, Stalker. Now, in this warm and funny tribute to one of...
ISBN: 9781400033218 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 496 Rok wydania: 2003
This book introduces us to female perspectives on nature. Over 90 selections, from Emily Dickinson to Alice Walker, span a century and encompass the voices of a variety of women--some known for...
ISBN: 9781400078523 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 400 Rok wydania: 2005
Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John...
ISBN: 9781400032136 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 696 Rok wydania: 2008
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945 from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War. Acclaimed historian Robert...
ISBN: 9780679745136 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 576 Rok wydania: 1994
The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced aby Tobias Wolff, they also make up an...
ISBN: 9780679743750 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 832 Rok wydania: 1993
By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely...
ISBN: 9780679747833 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 366 Rok wydania: 1997
"Fascinating.... As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a...
ISBN: 9780307385888 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 406 Rok wydania: 2010
With a New Foreword In "So Damn Much Money", veteran "Washington Post" editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since...
ISBN: 9781400032259 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 368 Rok wydania: 2004
Reality as we know it is bound aby a set of constants-- numbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The...
ISBN: 9780307455529 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 319 Rok wydania: 2009
From the Edgar-winning author of "The Bottoms" comes a funny, violent, testosterone-laden, and satisfying new novel. The repartee between Hap and Leonard tramples all over any kanon of...
ISBN: 9780679761457 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 512 Rok wydania: 1995
Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays...
ISBN: 9780099528326 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2010
Semiology is the science of signs and symbols, and their role in culture and society. "Writing Degree Zero" is Barthes' introduction to his field of study, the basic definitions...
ISBN: 9780307387752 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 386 Rok wydania: 2008
Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as "Hitler's filmmaker," made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler...
ISBN: 9780679775515 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 380 Rok wydania: 2000
In (at)lt;b(at)gt;The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories(at)lt;/b(at)gt;, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic,...
ISBN: 9781784874988 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2018
The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided żeby textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a...
ISBN: 9781784704681 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 2016
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ISBN: 9780749386696 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 1997
Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our...
ISBN: 9780679751526 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 386 Rok wydania: 1999
The enormously engaging account of life and death in secluded and hauntingly beautiful Savannah, Georgia, continues to take America żeby storm. "Mr. Berendt's writing is elegant and...