Literatura obcojęzyczna - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oxford University Press Inc

• ISBN9780151008117
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• Ilość stron319
• Rok wydania2002

This brilliant fabulist novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale," as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a tiger.

• ISBN9780156027762
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron352
• Rok wydania2002

The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume... Never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians" (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers; illustrations.

• ISBN9780618154296
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• Ilość stron815
• Rok wydania2002

This collection contains all eight of the Uncle Remus stories, along with theoriginal artwork that accompanied them. Illustrations.

• ISBN9780764566370
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• Ilość stron160
• Rok wydania2002

The cookie book thousands of us grew up with is back by popular demand! At last, the most requested out of print book in Betty Crocker history is available once again in this authentic reproduction of the beloved 1963 edition of "Betty Crocker's[registered] Cooky Book". An entire generation grew up learning to bake from this book. Now, they can share it with their own kids and grandkids. Packed with more than 450 all time favorite cookie recipes, it includes everything from the most basic drop, bar, and rolled cookies to more elaborate cookies and confections suitable for holidays and entertaining. A separate "Cooky Primer" chapter shares handy tips on baking utensils, measuring ingredients, cookie storage, and more. Complete with dozens of nostalgic color photographs, charming how to illustrations, and decorative sketches, this timeless book is sure to please existing fans while gaining the loyalty of a brand new audience. Brimming with recipes that are as oven fresh today as they were nearly forty years ago, it's a wonderful and winning encore from Betty Crocker.

• ISBN9780152168209
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• Ilość stron36
• Rok wydania2002

Everyone heads to the market, but it's no ordinary market--it's a feast of folk art from around the world. As the reader follows the story of the goings-on at the market, textiles and folk and primitive art illustrate the action. Includes fun new book-related activities for readers to enjoy. Full-color illustrations.

• ISBN9780152163600
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• Ilość stron24
• Rok wydania2002

Anne Rockwell explains the universe with bright pictures and simple text in aa book sure to delight any curious child. Illustrations.

• ISBN9780618260515
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• Ilość stron432
• Rok wydania2002

Celebrated Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee, a conceptual designer for the blockbuster films based on "The Lord of the Rings, " contributes beautiful full-color paintings to this classic edition.

• ISBN9780195274585
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• Ilość stron1632
• Rok wydania2002

This easy-to-carry edition of the renowned Old Scofield(R) Study Bible offers a wealth of study materials at a fantastic price. Featuring a traditional type setting cherished żeby many long-time Scofield readers, the Classic Edition, whose notes date from 1917, is the best cross-reference study Bible ever published. Among its many features are book introductions and outlines, unique subject chain reference system, comprehensive indexes, chronologies, a concordance and authoritative, full color Oxford Bible Maps. * Authorized King James Version text. * Same-page text helps. * Complete Scofield(R) references. * Subheadings. * Introduction to each book of the Bible. * Comprehensive index. * Chronologies. * Subject index. * Concordance. * Red letter type. * Subject chain references. * English equivalents for Hebrew dates, money, weights and measures.

• ISBN9780618024964
• Ilość stron280
• Rok wydania2002

Covering 31 species of hummingbirds, this book will gratify both serious birders, who need the detail to make difficult identifications, and casual birdwatchers, who will appreciate the nontechnical approach. Range maps. 180 full-color photos.

• ISBN9780618257591
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron384
• Rok wydania2002

The definitive critical study of Tolkien's greatest works and a timely companion to the world of Middle-earth. The core of the book examines Tolkien's novels as linguistic maps with meaning and myth, and products of Tolkien's experiences as a combat veteran and artist.

• ISBN9780618260300
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• Ilość stron320
• Rok wydania2002

Celebrated Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee, a conceptual designer for the blockbuster films based on "The Lord of the Rings, " contributes 50 beautiful full-page, full-color paintings to this elegant three-volume edition.

• ISBN9780195130621
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• Ilość stron356
• Rok wydania2002

Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal altruism, parent-offspring conflicts and asymmetry in sexual selection, which helped to establish the centrality of sociobiology, as well as some of his later work on deceit in signalling, sex antagonistic genese, and imprinting. Trivers introduces each paper, setting them in their contemporary context, and critically evaluating them in the light of subsequent work and further developments. The result is a unique portrait of the intellectual development of sociobiology, with valuable insights of interest to evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology.

• ISBN9780195146905
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron270
• Rok wydania2002

Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated, helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a centuries-old way of life. The commemorative edition includes a special afterword by William S. McFeely, former Woodward student and winner of both the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and 1992 Lincoln Prize. As William McFeely describes in the new afterword, 'the slim volume's social consequence far outstripped its importance to academia. The book became part of a revolution...The Civil Rights Movement had changed Woodward's South and his slim, quietly insistent book...had contributed to that change.'.

• ISBN9780195152487
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• Ilość stron254
• Rok wydania2002

Revered by Buddhists in the United States and China, Master Sheng-yen shares his wisdom and teachings in this first comprehensive English primer of Chan, the Chinese tradition of Buddhism that inspired Japanese Zen. Often mistunderstood as a system of mind games, the Chan path leads to enlightenment through apparent contradiction. While demanding the mental and physical discipline of traditional Buddhist doctrine, it asserts that wisdom (Buddha-nature) is innate and immediate in all living beings, and thus not to be achieved through devotion to the strictures of religious practice. You arrive without departing. Master Sheng-yen provides an unprecedented understanding of Chan, its precepts, and its practice. Beginning with a basic overview of Buddhism and meditation, 'Hoofprint of the Ox' detials the progressive mental exercises traditionally followed aby all Buddhists. Known as the Three Disciplines, these procedures develop moral purity, meditiative concentration, and enlightening insight through the 'stilling' of the mind. Master Sheng-yen then expounds Chan Buddhism, recounting its centuries-old history in China and illuminating its fundamental tenets.He contemplates the nature of Buddhahood, specifies the physical and mental prerequisites for beginning Chan practice, and humbly considers what it means to be an enlightened Chan master. Drawing its title from a famous series of pictures that symbolizes the Chan path as the search of an ox-herd for his wayward ox, 'Hoofprint of the Ox' is an inspirational guide to self-discovery through mental transformation. A profound contribution to Western understanding of Chan and Zen, this book is intended for practicing Buddhists as well as anyone interested in learning about the Buddhist path.

• ISBN9780618226160
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• Ilość stron144
• Rok wydania2002

Without sentiment or melodrama, this wonderful book perfectly portrays an immigrant child's view of leaving Mexico for California in the 1940s to pursue a better life.

• ISBN9780195153828
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• Ilość stron384
• Rok wydania2002

Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland-outlining along the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world. The book begins with an Introduction that helps put Scandinavian mythology in place in history, followed żeby a chapter that explains the meaning of mythic time, and a third section that presents in-depth explanations of each mythological term. These fascinating entries identify particular deities and giants, as well as the places where they dwell and the varied and wily means żeby which they forge their existence and battle one another. We meet Thor, one of the most powerful gods, who specializes in killing giants using a hammer made for him aby dwarfs, not to mention myriad trolls, ogres, humans and strange animals. We learn of the ongoing struggle between the gods, who create the cosmos, and the jotnar, or giants, who aim to destroy it.In the enchanted world where this mythology takes place, we encounter turbulent rivers, majestic mountains, dense forests, storms, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon and snakes in a landscape closely resembling Scandinavia. Beings travel on ships and on horseback; they eat slaughtered meat and drink mead. Spanning from the inception of the universe and the birth of human beings to the universe's destruction and the mythic future, these sparkling tales of creation and destruction, death and rebirth, gods and heroes will entertain readers and offer insight into the relationship between Scandinavian myth, history, and culture.

• ISBN9780195148862
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• Ilość stron480
• Rok wydania2002

Visionary Film has remained the kanon text on the American avant-garde since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. In this book P. Adams Sitney discusses the principle genres and the major filmmakers since Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid made their dreamlike film "Meshes of the Afternoon" in 1943. Sitney also identifies the emergence and flowering of a new genre, which he calls Menippean Satire. This edition also includes a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos which had been dropped from the second edition.

• ISBN9780618253050
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• Ilość stron400
• Rok wydania2002

First published żeby Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations... [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct... Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time"s 100 Most Influential People of the Century).This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson"s watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword aby the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson"s courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.

• ISBN9780618219087
• Oprawamiękka
• Ilość stron768
• Rok wydania2002

• ISBN9780618176762
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• Ilość stron32
• Rok wydania2002

Best friends Gossie and Gertie splash in the rain, play hide and seek, and dive in the pond together. Everywhere Gossie goes, Gertie does also. Or does she? Full color.

• ISBN9780618226474
• Oprawatwarda
• Ilość stron672
• Rok wydania2002

This updated edition serves up a delicious concoction of information, becoming the most definitive and comprehensive family source book for anyone who wants to stay ahead of the cultural curve.