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 żeby the world's leading expert. The narrative...
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: 9780394726335 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 472 Rok wydania: 1984
The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants--black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the...
ISBN: 9780375726552 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 367 Rok wydania: 2007
In a society ever more obsessed with legal drama, David Boies, the star of a thousand press conferences, stands head and shoulders above the rest. The most prominent trial lawyer in the United...
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: 9780345803412 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 496 Rok wydania: 2017
Charlotte Bront famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and with siblings whose astonishing creativity was a closely held secret....
ISBN: 9780099569541 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 2013
Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 aby one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers....
ISBN: 9781529112436 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2020
Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great con men, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father,...
ISBN: 9781400075751 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 318 Rok wydania: 2007
Gopnik, bestselling author of "Paris to the Moon" and writer for "The New Yorker," does for New York what he did for Paris in this collection about life, art, and family.
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...