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Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume III: Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the Myth

ISBN: 9780155056992

264,49 PLN (BRUTTO)
The third volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, this text offers an approach to Lincoln and his place in American history that is as accurate as it is novel. Unlike texts that only serve to reinforce the mythology that has been built around this powerful individual, Baker's text presents him as a flesh-and-blood human being by providing primary documents authored by Lincoln himself. Complemented by works presented by Lincoln scholars who have studied him from a variety of historical perspectiv
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady: Creators of the American Mind Series, Volume II

ISBN: 9780155057043

264,49 PLN (BRUTTO)
The second volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, this collection of primary sources demonstrates the power which individuals of talent, will, and opportunity can exert over the American public. Brief enough to serve as a supplementary reader for courses in American History and Women's History, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: FIRST LADY offers students a collection of documents (with informative introductions) that are grouped logically, making it easy for them to research and write on Eleanor Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern

ISBN: 9780155066106

264,49 PLN (BRUTTO)
Theodore Roosevelt exerted profound influence on the lives and minds of Americans In this, the fifth volume of the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, Stacy Cordery creates an engaging biography of this influential president by presenting the copious writings and discussing the short- and long-term impact of Theodore Roosevelt's actions. Praised for its fair and thorough coverage, this text is perfect for use as a core or supplementary text.
The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon

ISBN: 9780156000598

91,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
Winner of the Marsh Prize for biography and an Edgar Award finalist. "I doubt if there will be a better, or a better written, portrait of Simenon for a long time."--Julian Barnes
Mary Renault: A Biography

ISBN: 9780156000604

86,26 PLN (BRUTTO)
The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Africa, where she and her companion, Julie Mullard, remained. "A superb biography of an exceptional novelist" (New Yorker). Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Index; photographs.
Hitter: The Life and Turmoils of Ted Williams

ISBN: 9780156000918

89,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
At first he was The Kid, then The Splendid Splinter and Thumping Theodore - to say nothing of Teddy Ballgame. But the tag that really fits is Hitter. "A riveting retrospective" (Baseball americanca). Index; career statistics; photographs.
Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson

ISBN: 9780156000932

65,73 PLN (BRUTTO)
Sister Aimee was a scamp in school, a young widow in China, and a neurotic housewife in Rhode Island, but when the Lord spoke to her, she accepted her ministry and began preaching. This book "fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism" (New York Times Book Review). Photographs.
Return to Paradise

ISBN: 9780156001328

72,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
South Africa heads toward majority rule, yet Breytenbach is far from optimistic about its future. He sees a civil war raging and the land awash in blood. " This] book...is fueled by the sort of rage that produces great literature" (Washington Post). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Awarded the Alan Paton Prize.
Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise

ISBN: 9780156002028

86,26 PLN (BRUTTO)
With Borrowed Time and Becoming a Man-the 1992 National Book Award winner for nonfiction-this collection completes Paul Monette's autobiographical writing. Brimming with outrage yet tender, this is a "remarkable book" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey

ISBN: 9780156002035

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this memoir of a World War II childhood, Paulsen paints a haunting self-portrait of a young boy drawn helplessly into the physical and emotional violence of the adult world. "An indelible account...hallmarked by Paulsen's sinewy writing" (Kirkus Reviews).
Fire: From "A Journal of Love" the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937

ISBN: 9780156003902

91,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this "erotically charged"(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-"that brilliant giant toy" -then back to Paris and Henry, and eventually into the arms of a passionate new lover.
Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of American (Ameri)CA's Fall from Grace

ISBN: 9780156005319

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
Beer's "important...fascinating" book(Los Angeles Times) shows how suburban California came to epitomize the american Dream-until its affluent complacency was shattered by downsizing, anxiety, and distrust.
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

ISBN: 9780156005814

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
This "tender and lyrical" memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-"searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story" (San Francisco Examiner). A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the winner of the PEN Center West literary award.
The Least of These My Brethren: A Doctor's Story of Hope and Miracles in an Inner-City AIDS Ward

ISBN: 9780156005883

77,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
In an "extraordinary" (Newsday) book of "Tolstoyan power" (Washington Post Book World), a doctor shares stories of suffering and redemption from the three-and-a-half years he spent caring for down-and-out AIDS patients in New York's Hell's Kitchen.
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement

ISBN: 9780156005982

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
A "vivid, well-documented account of the farmworkers movement"(Philadelphia Inquirer) and its prime mover, Cesar Chavez. Edited by Diana Hembree with a foreword by Gary Soto and essays by Carey McWilliams, Victor Villasenor, Alfredo Vea, Jr., Peter Matthiessen, Rudolfo Anaya, and others. Black-and-white photographs throughout.
Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith

ISBN: 9780156006187

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
This is the story of one man's faith, told with unrivaled reflection and candor. William F. Buckley, Jr., was raised a Catholic. As the world plunged into war, and as social mores changed dramatically around him, Buckley's faith -- a most essential part of his make-up -- sustained him. In Nearer, My God, Buckley examines in searching detail the meaning of his faith, and how his life has been shaped and sustained by religious conviction.
In highly personal terms, and with the wit and acuity for which he
Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story

ISBN: 9780156006828

89,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
My mother loved me to pieces, as she often said, writes Roy Blount Jr., "and I'm still trying to pick up the pieces." In the book his readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story. Blount--Georgia boy, New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, salty-limerick virtuoso, and impassioned father--journeys into his past, and his psyche (and also to China, Manhattan, and sixty feet underwater) in search of the ans
Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime

ISBN: 9780156007047

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Nearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, through the landmarks of a singular life. Paulsen's journey is peopled with familiar faces, from the tough cop who saved him from juvenile delinquency to the prostitute whose career advice stopped him from quitting the army. And the work he does while on his bike-the work of mapping his life to find meaning-is o
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

ISBN: 9780156007085

60,56 PLN (BRUTTO)
The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders. Written with charm, warmth, and
Walk on Water: A Memoir

ISBN: 9780156007092

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
From catfishing in Mississippi as a young girl to battling marlin in the Caribbean, Lorian Hemingway has always felt most comfortable with a fishing pole in hand. But for many years, it was alcohol that held prominence in her life, almost causing her to drown in the family legacy. Walk on Water is Lorian Hemingway's amazing story of how her one true passion-fishing-saved her life. With humor and startling honesty, Hemingway wryly acknowledges how fishing is more than a metaphor for her salvation-it allowed
Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss

ISBN: 9780156010702

66,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Double Down" is a true story, a terrifying roller-coaster ride deep into the heart of two men, and into the world of floating Gulf Coast casinos. When both of their parents died within a short time of each other, the writers Frederick and Steven Barthelme, both professors of English in Mississippi, inherited a goodly sum of money. What followed was a binge during which they gambled away their entire fortune-and more. And then, in a cruel twist of fate, they were charged with cheating at the tables.
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Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey

ISBN: 9780156010719

55,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of Solitude
Itinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. In his thoughts Paz realized the past was inseparable from the present. And so he tells the story of his journey through time, from youth to adulthood. It is not a straight line,
The Seven Storey Mountain

ISBN: 9780156010863

60,56 PLN (BRUTTO)
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man whose search for peace and faith leads him, at the age of twenty-six, to take vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders--the Trappist monks. At the Abb
Bark If You Love Me: A Woman-Meets-Dog Story

ISBN: 9780156010955

55,61 PLN (BRUTTO)
A single city woman meets Mr. Right-he has amber eyes and a wily heart. There's only one catch . . . he has four legs and a tail.
Relatively indifferent to the natural world, allergic to dogs, and happily independent, writer Louise Bernikow never had a pet and knew nothing about caring for one. But one day while running along Manhattan's Hudson River, she came across an abandoned boxer. He had a gimpy leg and a dim past, but Bernikow instantly, bewilderingly, did the one thing her mother always warned h
The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography

ISBN: 9780156011358

83,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
During Hollywood's heyday, big studios battled over the next box-office attraction. While Gene Kelly danced and Judy Garland sang, Esther Williams swam into the heart of America with her dazzling smile, stunning aquabatics, and whole-some appeal. Hand-picked for stardom by movie mogul Louis B. Mayer, Esther shed her wide-eyed innocence at what she affectionately calls University MGM, a unique educational institution where sex appeal and glamour were taught, a school where idols were born. Once a national sw
The Bend for Home

ISBN: 9780156011648

86,26 PLN (BRUTTO)
One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother. Out of the blue she hands him the forgotten diary he had kept as a fifteen-year-old. He is amazed to find the makings of the writer he has become, as well as taken aback at the changes his memory has wrought upon the events of the past. Here is the seed of his story-the vision of the boy meets the memory of the man-which creates a stunning, illusory effect. The strange silhouett
Mozart: A Cultural Biography

ISBN: 9780156011716

150,65 PLN (BRUTTO)
This major work, the result of years of careful study and analysis, places Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. The result is a fresh interpretation of Mozart's genius, as Robert Gutman shows the great composer in a new light. With an informed and sensitive handling, Mozart emerges as an affectionate and generous man with family and friends, self-deprecating, witty, and winsome but also an austere moralist,
The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship

ISBN: 9780156013420

91,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
In a small neighborhood, atop a hill in Pittsburgh, thrives a world where neighbors don't move away, where friends become family, and where community takes on a deeper meaning. Welcome to the inviting and intriguing neighborhood of Troy Hill. Unlike nearby towns, the families of Troy Hill have lived in the same neighborhood for generations, providing continuity in these women's lives and depth in their relationships. They christened babies, raised children, and even buried their loved ones together. Now in
Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire

ISBN: 9780156013970

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
Fighting fires since 1965, veteran smokejumper Murry Taylor finally retired from his legendary career after last summer-the worst fire season in more than fifty years. After three decades of parachuting out of planes and battling blazes in the vast, rugged wilderness of Alaska and the West, Taylor recounts in "Jumping Fire," with passion and honesty, stories of man versus nature at its most furious and unforgiving. He shares what it's like to hear the deafening roar, to smell the acrid burn, to feel the int
A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s

ISBN: 9780156014144

60,56 PLN (BRUTTO)
From 1919 to 1927, Jack Dempsey was the heavyweight champion of the world. With his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, he was a fighter perfectly suited to the Roaring '20s. In A Flame of Pure Fire, award-winning and renowned sports writer Roger Kahn, a personal friend of Dempsey's, tells the extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to maturity in a blaze of strength and exuberance. With passion and precision, Kahn not only chronicles the thrilling, brutal bouts of the "Manass
Wind, Sand and Stars

ISBN: 9780156027496

55,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantiere.
Journey Into the Whirlwind

ISBN: 9780156027519

60,56 PLN (BRUTTO)
Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

ISBN: 9780156027526

86,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
Originally published in six volumes, Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln was called "the greatest historical biography of our generation." Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became the definitive life of Lincoln. Index; photographs.
Wartime Writings 1939-1944

ISBN: 9780156027533

77,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
This volume includes the aviator's letters to friends, autobiographical fragments, and meditations. Translated by Norah Purcell; Introduction by Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Index.
Hitler

ISBN: 9780156027540

88,99 PLN (BRUTTO)
A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, Joachim Fest's Hitler as become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Fest tells and interprets the extraordinary story of a man's and a nation's rise from impotence to absolute power, as Germany and Hitler, from shared premises, entered into their covenant. He shows Hitler exploiting the resentments of the shaken, post-World War I social order and seeing through all that was hollow behind
Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy

ISBN: 9780156027557

69,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Exactly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. Mrs. Paine's Garage is the tragic story of this well-intentioned woman who found Oswald the job that put him six floors above Dealey Plaza-into which, on November 22, 1963, he fired a rifle he'd kept hidden inside Mrs. Paine's house. But this is also a tale of survival and resilience: the story of a devout, open-hear
Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

ISBN: 9780156027618

86,26 PLN (BRUTTO)
One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of brilliant scenes, Strachey portrays the Queen's and the Earl's compelling attraction for on another, their impassioned disagreements, and their mutual contest for power, which led to a final,
Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold

ISBN: 9780156027892

94,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
Few books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its most notable figures. In the process, Strachey revitalized the art of biography.
A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780156027915

60,56 PLN (BRUTTO)
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.
All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927

ISBN: 9780156027960

122,65 PLN (BRUTTO)
The life of the young Lewis was filled with contemplations quite different from those of the mature author. This early diary gives readers a window on the world of his formative years. Edited and with an Introduction by Walter Hooper; Index; photographs.
Letters of C. S. Lewis

ISBN: 9780156027977

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
An important revision and expansion of the earlier collection of Lewis's letters. Entries from Lewis's diary are included, as is Warnie Lewis's memoir of his brother's life. Edited by Walter Hooper and W. H. Lewis; Introduction by Hooper; Index.
Theodore Roosevelt (Re-Issue) P

ISBN: 9780156028028

89,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
Pringle's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt's career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Index.
Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America

ISBN: 9780156029100

66,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
Respected journalist Robert MacNeil did not receive a personal response from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he wrote to him in 1942 as an eleven-year-old boy living in Nova Scotia. He did, however, receive a personal letter and a large gift from the American consul. This gesture of generosity is the departure point for MacNeil's exploration of nationality, loyalty, and one of the reasons he eventually became an American citizen in 1997. Born in Canada and witness to many pivotal moments in history
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page

ISBN: 9780156030342

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)

At once a memoir of an exotic life, a meditation on the art and craft of writing, and a brilliant examination of the always complex relationship between fiction and life, Lynn Freed's critically acclaimed "Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home" surprises, instructs, and delights. With "dark and comforting wisdom" (Anne Lamott) and "great intellectual and emotional range" (Diane Johnson), Freed tears off all fictional disguises and exposes the human being behind the artist. A must-read for writers, readers,

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

ISBN: 9780156030595

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers-Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber- whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
These literary heroines did what they wanted and said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, poli
Eudora Welty: A Biography

ISBN: 9780156030632

63,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American litera-ture. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades wrote hugely popular novels, novellas, essays, and a memoir. By the time she died in 2001, Welty had been given numerous literary awards and was all but shrouded in admiration. In this definitive account, Suzanne Marrs restores Welty's story to human proportions, tracing Welty's life from her roots in Jackson, Mis
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru

ISBN: 9780156031066

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from a dentist's chair, and collecting Rolls Royces.
Tim and his mother were given Sanskrit names, dressed entirely in orange, and encouraged to surrender themselves into their new family. While his mother worked tirel
Heart Earth

ISBN: 9780156031080

58,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir "This House of Sky," Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and ba
POPism: The Warhol Sixties

ISBN: 9780156031110

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
Anecdotal, funny, frank, "POPism" is Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at the relationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including his rela-tionship with Edie Sedgewick, focus of the upcoming film "Factory Girl." In the detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, Warhol tells all--the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution.
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life

ISBN: 9780156031165

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)

A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first all-female teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged gender stereotypes in the academic community and led to important legislation banning carcinogens in children's sleepwear. With candor and humor, "Breaking Trail"recounts Blum's journey from an overprotect

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