SOWA OPAC : Ursynoteka

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Lionel Asbo : State of England / Martin Amis. - Wyd. 2. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2012. - [4], 276 s. ; 24 cm.

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Amis, Martin (1949- ).

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An exuberant, acidic satire of modern society and celebrity culture--by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Young Desmond Pepperdine desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love. Unfortunately for him, he's the ward of his uncle, Lionel Asbo (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Orders), a terrifying yet oddly principled thug who's determined to teach him the joys of pitbulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), internet porn ("me love life") and all manner of more serious criminality. But just as Desmond begins to lead a gentler, healthier life, Lionel wins £140 million in the lottery, hires a public relations firm and begins dating a cannily ambitious topless model and poet. Strangely, however, Lionel remains his vicious, weirdly loyal self, while his problems as well as Desmond's seem only to multiply.

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century / Yuval Noah Harari. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2018. - XV, 352 strony ; 22 cm.

Autor

Harari, Yuval Noah (1976- ).

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Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

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Literatura żydowska

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Język angielski Cywilizacja Globalizacja Liberalizm Przemysły wysokiej techniki Społeczeństwo Technologia informacyjna (IT)

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Dziedzina i ujęcie

Filozofia i etyka Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Index na stronach 341-352.

Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is increasingly hard to comprehend, encouraging us to focus our minds on the essential questions we should be asking ourselves today. Employing his trademark entertaining and lucid style, Harari will examine some of the world’s most urgent issues, including terrorism, fake news and immigration, as well as turning to more individual concerns, from resilience and humility to meditation.

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Crossing the Threshold of Hope / by His Holiness John Paul II ; Edited by Vittorio Messori. - London : Jonathan Cape, 1994. - IX, 244 strony ; 18 cm.

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Jan Paweł II (papież ; 1920-2005) Messori, Vittorio (1941- ).

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Język angielski Chrześcijaństwo Teologia chrześcijańska Katolicyzm

Index na stronach 231-244.

Traslated from the Italian by Jenny Mcphee and Martha Mcphee.

Tytuł oryginału: Varcare La Soglia della Speranza.

15 years into his papacy, and on the eve of a new millennium, John Paul II brings to an accessible level the great theological questions of our lives. He goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about the dignity of man; about pain, suffering and evil; about eternal life and the meaning of salvation; about hope; and about the relationship of Christianity to other faiths and that of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith. The book is also available on casette and CD, and all royalties go to charities chosen by the Pope.

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Satin Island : A Novel / Tom McCarthy. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2015. - XI, 290 stron ; 18 cm.

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McCarthy, Tom (1969- ).

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Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing. Instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades. Is there, U. wonders, a secret logic holding all these images together - a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master-meaning of our age? Might it have something to do with South Pacific Cargo Cults, or the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not. As U. oscillates between the visionary and the vague, brilliance and bullshit, Satin Island emerges, an impassioned and exquisite novel for our disjointed times.

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Quichotte / Salman Rushdie. - First edition. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2020. - XII, 390, [4] strony ; 24 cm.

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Rushdie, Salman (1947- ).

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Język angielski Myśli natrętne Pisarze Podróże Przedstawiciele handlowi Zakochanie Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen”. Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirise the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work, the fully realised lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.

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The Rules of Perspective / Adam Thorpe. - London : Jonathan Cape, 2005. - [6], 341 strona ; 22 cm.

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Thorpe, Adam (1956- ).

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It is April 1945, and the historic town of Lohenfelde is about to be overrun by the Allied Third Army. Huddled in the vaults of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum are Heinrich Hoffer and his three colleagues. Their petty rivalries and resentments surface quickly in this claustrophobic confinement as the four prepare themselves for their fate. Above the ground, picking through the rubble, is Corporal Neal Parry, who wishes he was back in West Virginia studying art. When he finds an exquisite painting in what remains of the museum vaults, he is immediately reconnected with a lost world of beauty and order. It is this small 18th-century oil that is the poignant link between the young American soldier and the four charred corpses he finds at the same time. As the narratives interweave, the story of the painting reveals the hidden story of Herr Hoffer and his three associates - and in doing so uncovers other, darker mysteries.

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