Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers co-written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, 'Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul.' He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why

Sun Moon Star (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Sun Moon Star is the story of the birth of Jesus--as told by Kurt Vonnegut. This children's book takes the newborn Jesus' perspective, offering beautiful and insightful descriptions of the world from someone newly born into it. In this book, we follow Jesus and meet the people most important to his

Slaughterhouse 5 - 50th Anniversary Edition (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about

Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to

Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the

Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style (Reader Simon)(Pevná vazba)

Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither drafts nor diaries,

Slaughterhouse 5 - The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.'An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Book Review Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life (Schweitzer Petra M.)(Pevná vazba)

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan,

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature. Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he

The St. Martin's Handbook with 2016 MLA Update (Lunsford Andrea A.)(Pevná vazba)

Transition from informal, social writing, to effective academic writing, to writing that can change the world with the extensive advice and practice found in St. Martin's Handbook with 2016 MLA

Magic Toyshop (Carter Angela)(Pevná vazba)

Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language'

Spacecraft Systems Engineering (Fortescue Peter)(Pevná vazba)

This fourth edition of the bestselling Spacecraft SystemsEngineering title provides the reader with comprehensivecoverage of the design of spacecraft and the implementation ofspace missions, across a wide spectrum of space applications andspace science. The text has been thoroughly revised and

Oak (Young Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Botanical, a new series from Reaktion, is the first to integrate horticultural writing with a broader account of the cultural and social impact of plants. Oak, one of the first two books in the series, narrates the biography of the tree that since time immemorial has been a symbol of loyalty,

A Kurt Jackson Bestiary (Jackson Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). For this book, Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work about fauna. Bestiaries date back to medieval times

RSV English Synopsis of the Four Gospels (Aland Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Dior: The Art of Color(Pevná vazba)

This exquisite book takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through the history of makeup, style, and color at the revered fashion house of Dior. An exquisite ode to color, this book presents the history of Dior cosmetics placed within contexts of fashion and art. Divided into twelve chapters

The Hidden (Spencer Sally)(Pevná vazba)

'Spencer's skillful writing, clever plotting, and colorful characters, combined with her insights into what makes humans--and especially cops--tick, make this a crime novel to savor' - Booklist Starred Review Monika Paniatowski knows exactly who the killer is - but there's no way she can tell

As Time Goes by (Taylor Alice)(Pevná vazba)

Alice Taylor brings the reader with her on her 80th birthday year.Alice had a big birthday on the horizon, the village was about to celebrate many milestones, and she had just received the gift of a book focusing her on the art of living well. So she decided to write about her year as it unfolded,

Basic Thermochemistry in Materials Processing (Plascencia Gabriel)(Pevná vazba)

This book provides the reader with some thermochemistry notes. The intention is to provide a simple, easy to understand text which serves as a complimentary material to more complex books. It also provide students and those beginning in the field with several application examples used in different

An Intermediate Course in Probability (Gut Allan)(Pevná vazba)

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a solid background and understanding of the basic results and methods in probability theory before entering into more advanced courses (in probability and/or statistics). The presentation is fairly thorough and detailed with many solved

The Very Hungry Reader (Chan Aimee)(Pevná vazba)

Burtie doesn't like to go to school. But with the help of his friends the BFG, Tom Thumb and Grandma Poss, Burtie finds a way to get through the day.The Very Hungry Reader is a whimsical story about the importance of imagination and how children's books can be the gateway to a world full of

The Doghouse (Thomas Jan)(Pevná vazba)

Fans of Elephant & Piggie will love this hilarious beginning reader with a surprise ending. Is anyone brave enough to face THE DOGHOUSE? Mouse, Pig, Cow, and Duck are playing a carefree game of ball when (horror of horrors ) their ball gets kicked into . . . THE DOGHOUSE. Who will risk a run-in

Statistics and Analysis of Scientific Data (Bonamente Massimiliano)(Pevná vazba)

The revised second edition of this textbook provides the reader with a solid foundation in probability theory and statistics as applied to the physical sciences, engineering and related fields. It covers a broad range of numerical and analytical methods that are essential for the correct analysis