Best american essays 2022

Best American Essays 2022

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (W

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Best American Essays 2020

A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name.

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Best American Essays 2021

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The Best American Essays 2021 (0358381754)

Kniha - 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz

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Best American Food Writing 2022

A collection of the yearÂ’s top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth.

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Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022

A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson a

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Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2022

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that repr

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American Martyr in Persia

One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022. Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography In this erudite and piercing biography, best

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American Martyr in Persia

One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 In this erudite and piercing biography, best-selling author Reza Aslan proves that one personÂ’s actions can have r

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Zach Bryan: American Heartbreak (2xCD) (9362486744)

Hudební CD - American Heartbreak je první deskou pro velký label. Album původně vyšlo v lednu 2022, rozšířená reedice je k dispozici u příležitosti kampaně spojené s úspěchem singlu Something In The Orange, který zaznamenal globální boom díky sociální síti TikTok. American Heartbreak je první deskou pro velký label. Album původně vyšlo v lednu 2022, rozšířená reedice je...

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Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation

Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church HistoryWinner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval

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Maus Now : Selected Writing - Chute Hillary, Chute Hillary

Anotace: It is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman`s effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now is a new collection of es...

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Giovanni´s Room - James Baldwin

<p>This engaging summary presents an analysis of Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. The Giovanni of the title is a handsome Italian barman whom the novel’s narrator and protagonist, a young American man called David, meets in a clandestine gay bar in Paris. Despite David’s conflicted feelings and prior relationship with a woman, the two men soon embark on an intense ...

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Maus Now : Selected Writing, 1. vydání - Hillary Chute

<p>A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece MausIt is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his ...

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The Lottery - Jackson Shirley

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean isl...

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Four Centuries of Quilts

Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlights the splendour and craft of quilts with more than 300 superb colour images and details. Fascinating essays by two noted sch...

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Tváři v tvář ant. - Weinberg Steven (Facing up)

Věda a její intelektuální protivníci Pochopení všech přírodních jevů se v podstatě redukuje na odhalení fundamentálních fyzikálních zákonů - na porozumění elementární struktuře hmoty, prostoru a času na nejhlubší mikroskopické úrovni. Ačkoliv ani tyto zákony, ani elementární struktury dnes s jistotou neznáme, máme tento základní cíl fundamentální vědy na dosah. Tento poh...

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The Japanese Art of the Cocktail

Nominated for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Beverage with Recipes AwardThe first cocktail book from the award-winning mixologist Masahiro Urushido of Katana Kitten in New York City, on the craft of Japanese cocktail makingKatana Kitten, one of the world’s most prominent and acclaimed Japanese-American cocktail bars, was opened in 2018 by highly-respected and award-winni...

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Sorrowland: A Novel - Rivers Solomon

<p>A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2021 A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021 The Stonewall Book Award winner of 2022 Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly and more! A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction. Vern?seven months pregnant an...

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OXFORD WORDPOWER DICTIONARY 4TH EDITION + CD - J. Turnbull

Anotace: Level: Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate (B1-B2) Age Range: Secondary - Adult The dictionary that gets results by developing writing skills and building vocabulary. New 4th edition of the best-selling Oxford Wordpower Dictionary with a new intermediate level Oxford iWriter and Oxford Writing Tutor (with CD-ROM version), new notes to help with exam pre...

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In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology - Lucy Moore

<p>***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.In the late nineteenth century, when non-European societies were seen as 'living fossils' offering an ...

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl - Serhii Plokhy

<p>An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since t...

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Bitch: What does it mean to be female? - Cooke Lucy

Anotace: `A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully...` Observer`A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascina...

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Bitch: What does it mean to be female? - Lucy Cooke

<p>'A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully...' Observer'A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascinat...

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Letters from Father Christmas - Tolkien John Ronald Reuel

Anotace: This edition of Tolkien's famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his children is presented in a new hardback edition. The perfect Christmas gift for Tolkien lovers of all ages. This classic festive book of Tolkien's amazing Father Christmas letters written to his children between the 1920s and the 1940s has been reworked into a new hardba...

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