Wyszukiwarka
/o-1164119/n/the-weimar-years-a-culture-cut-short)
During the Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933) a distinctive culture evolved fromthe roots of the Modern Movement. It was a unique effort to bring intocommon use technical and artistic discoveries of the gr...
/o-9780241310908/n/russian-emigre-short-stories-from-bunin-to-yanovsky)
Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they worked as taxi drivers, labourers and film ...
/o-9780241981443/n/a-short-history-of-tractors-in-ukrainian)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka?s hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. ?Two years after my mo...
/5c2d3804-d05f-4ed7-9200-f379e02f36ab/n/dada-and-surrealism-a-very-short-introduction)
The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics...
/o-438477/n/very-short-fairly-interesting-reasonably-cheap-book-about)
Packed full of lively debate and funny anecdotes, this book covers topics that students will recognize from their marketing course, such as key thinkers and concepts, and some that they won't. It look...
/o-456616/n/the-new-granta-book-of-american-short-story)
There's a story about Ring Lardner, told of him (or against him) by his editor, Harold Ross, that claims his method of writing a story was to put down a few wildly distinct phrases on a piece of paper...
/o-603864/n/very-short-fairly-interesting-reasonably-cheap-book-about)
'Indispensable and subversive' - Simon Caulkin, The Observer This is the book which management students have been waiting for. Written in an accessible style, it enters into lively discussion of class...
/51b82653-69ee-4b2f-8957-a564be921ac6/n/holy-frigging-matrimony-a-tangled-series-short-story)
What does Drew Evans have to say next? Find out in this forty page short story, filled with his sexy charm, unique advice and hilarious one-liners. Marriage: the final frontier. Steven went first. He...
/cac9a4db-ca28-4043-869a-842b4739f8fe/n/the-marquis-de-sade-a-very-short-introduction)
From his infamous libertine novels to his championing of atheism, the Marquis de Sade's writing remains as powerful and shocking today as when it was first published. This Very Short Introduction dise...
/261cf1ac-3ec8-4d48-9655-aaf590ab0890/n/the-palestinian-israeli-conflict-a-very-short-introduction)
Explains one of the most publicized, but little understood, modern conflicts Chapters are arranged by successive decades - to highlight the complex nature of the conflict over time Gets to the heart o...
/65e7c7c1-689d-40ea-804d-f28d6870aa08/n/the-lurking-fear-collected-short-stories-volume-4)
Only the expansive imagination of H.P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as 'The ...
/bde3eaaa-c829-4d26-81cb-9c19350f82d5/n/note-taking-for-consecutive-interpreting-a-short-course)
Aimed at students of conference interpreting, whether on university and professional training courses or self-learners, Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting - A short Course offers future interpre...
/34088993-7c36-4254-b864-78e26f386af6/n/short-dorje-chang-mahamudra-invocation-by-bangar-jampal-zangpo)
The volume presents translations and editions of crucial mahāmudrā texts of Tibetan Buddhism. The Invocation by Bängar Jampäl Zangpo is considered one of the most important teachings of the Kagyü t...
/o-117163/n/the-red-badge-of-courage-and-selected-short-fiction){kind=icon}
Young Henry Fleming dreams of finding glory and honor as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. Yet he also harbors a hidden fear about how he may react when the horror and bloodshed of battle beg...
/339a0abbe9f112322b4d78e0ace13307/n/dwarfism-medical-and-psychosocial-aspects-of-profound-short-stature)
This landmark volume is the first to trace the exciting developments in the field of dwarfism research and treatment over the past century―particularly during the past fifty years. Dr. Betty M. Adels...
/o-608205/n/short-textbook-of-public-health-medicine-for-the-tropics)
First published in 1973, this textbook has been designed to provide medical students and other trainees with an introduction to the principles of public health with special reference to the situation ...
/o-424403/n/treasury-of-classic-polish-love-short-stories-in-polish-en)
This is a collection of classic Polish love stories in Polish and English that have been translated and edited by Miroslaw Lipinski.
/b0eb7803-a8df-40fc-a706-ac1118cf8721/n/the-horror-in-the-museum-collected-short-stories-volume-2)
A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane... A businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method...
/0112ca38-0c0f-4e10-b039-0096f8387f46/n/the-haunter-of-the-dark-collected-short-stories-volume-3)
From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century. Here are some of Lovecraft’s weirdest...
/f3c37e3d2f13b3640718900e82b4ebbe/n/born-to-be-weird-a-short-collection-of-demented-fantasy-horror)
A public restroom even more horrific than most, with a stained toilet that can swallow a man whole, sending him to a sewage-filled hell. A riverbank lined with swaying mops given faces and philosophi...
/o-602322/n/art-of-revision-in-the-short-stories-of-v-s-pritchett)
This is a pioneering critical study of the short stories of V.S. Pritchett and William Trevor, drawing on hitherto unpublished archival materials and exploring manuscript revisions and other transform...
/87f37637-33d2-43b2-9747-07bf98571637/n/flappers-and-philosophers-the-collected-short-stories-of-f-scott-fitzgerald)
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the ear...
/3d4d3ff5-51a2-42bc-b3f4-c19cd1d89fc1/n/learn-german-with-stories-cafe-in-berlin-10-short-stories-for-beginners)
Newly arrived in Berlin, a young man from Sicily is thrown headlong into an unfamilar urban lifestyle of unkempt bachelor pads, evanescent romances and cosmopolitan encounters of the strangest kind. H...
/bfbda2bc-e05f-4535-ad05-e2459bcac283/n/learn-german-with-stories-ferien-in-frankfurt-10-short-stories-for-beginners)
In this sequel to “Café in Berlin”, Dino makes his way towards the central German metropolis of Frankfurt am Main, caught in between quaint cider-pubs, the international banking elite, old acquaintanc...
/011c7b24-d339-4391-92d2-adc8f12b1f2d/n/learn-german-with-stories-karneval-in-koln-10-short-stories-for-beginners)
In this follow-up to “Ferien in Frankfurt”, Dino finds himself in Cologne, the carnival capital of Germany and home of the Cologne Cathedral. Struggling with tacky accommodations and an empty wallet...
/4fa548a7-92c5-46da-a6b0-53e83a1dc59f/n/learn-german-with-stories-ahoi-aus-hamburg-10-short-stories-for-beginners)
In this sequel to "Momente in München", Dino travels up north to Hamburg, Germany's second largest city and home to one of the biggest ports in Europe. Fresh off the train, he stumbles over an apart...
/efbb8d77-adb4-4715-aa22-c8044314bacb/n/the-brothel-in-rosenstrasse-and-other-stories-the-best-short-fiction-of-michael-moorcock-volume-2)
The second part of Gollancz's definitive collection of Moorcock's short fiction, this selection features some of his finest work. From 'The Brothel in Rosenstrasse' to 'The Surrealist Sporting Club'...
/o-442466/n/on-leadership-a-short-course)
In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James M...
/o-481673/n/stalin-and-molotov-lines)
During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army created a series of fortified areas, or ukreplinnyje rajony (UR), which were to be used not only for defence but were also to act as staging points for offen...
/o-484860/n/germany-s-west-wall)
The West Wall (or the Siegfried Line as the Allies called it), played a crucial role in the bitter fighting of 1944 and 1945 in North-West Europe. Constructed in the period immediately after the remil...
