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The Diary of a Bookseller / Shaun Bythell. - London : Profile Books, 2018. - 310 stron : fotografie ; 20 cm.

(The Diary of a Bookseller / Shaun Bythell ; [1])

Author

Bythell Shaun Autor Bythell Shaun. Diary of a bookseller

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Bythell, Shaun Antykwariaty Księgarze Wigtown (Wielka Brytania)

Genre/Form

Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

Domain

Bibliotekarstwo, archiwistyka, muzealnictwo

Instytucja

Profile Books

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop.

It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea.

A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost...

In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky.

He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.

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There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 34956 (1 egz.)

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Babel : around the world in twenty languages / Gaston Dorren. - London : Profile Books, 2019. - 360 stron : faksymilia, fotografie, ilustracje ; 20 cm.

Author

Dorren Gaston (1965- ) Autor

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

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Język

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Opracowanie

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Językoznawstwo

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Profile Books

Bibliografia, netografia na stronach 343-351. Indeks.

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages.

He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali).

"Babel" whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent of the world, tracing how these world languages rose to greatness while others fell away and showing how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues...

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Eurotrash / Christian Kracht. - London : Serpent's Tail, 2025. - 190 stron ; 20 cm.

Author

Kracht Christian (1966- ) Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura szwajcarska

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Matki i synowie Osoby w wieku średnim Osoby w wieku starszym Ludzie bogaci Majątek Nazizm Rodzina Podróże Szwajcaria

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Powieść Proza

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Profile Books

Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution.

Traversing the country in a hired cab, they attempt to give away the wealth she has amassed from investing in the arms industry, but a fortune of such immensity is surprisingly hard to squander.

Haunted in different ways by the figure of her father, an ardent supporter of Nazism, mother and son can no longer avoid delving into the darkest truths about their past.

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All copies are currently on loan: sygn. O 35310 (1 egz.)

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Why the west rules - for now : the patterrns of history, and what they reveal about the future / Ian Morris. - London : Profile Books, cop. 2011. - XIII, 750 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

Author

Morris Ian (1960- ) Autor

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka Publikacje popularnonaukowe

Demographic Group

Literatura angielska

Subject

Historia Kultura Cywilizacja Cywilizacja wschodnia Cywilizacja zachodnia Chiny Indie Europa

Genre/Form

Publikacje popularnonaukowe

Domain

Etnologia i antropologia kulturowa Historia Socjologia i społeczeństwo Gospodarka, ekonomia, finanse Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna

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Profile Books

Bibliografia na stronach [679]-723. Indeks.

Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, "Why the West Rules-for Now" spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page.

The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines-from ancient history to neuroscience-not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.

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All copies are currently on loan: sygn. O 33949 (1 egz.)

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How to stay sane in an age of division / Elif Shafak. - London : Profile Books, 2020. - 90, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

Author

Şafak Elif (1971- ) Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura turecka

Subject

Sytuacja zagrożenia Środowisko człowieka Uczucia Optymizm Postawy Myślenie pozytywne Demokracja Empatia

Genre/Form

Esej Szkic literacki

Domain

Etnologia i antropologia kulturowa Psychologia Socjologia i społeczeństwo Rozwój osobisty

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Profile Books

Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So, how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this age of division?

In this powerful, uplifting plea for conscious optimism, Elif Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories to bring us together.

In the process, she reveals how listening to each other can nurture democracy, empathy and our faith in a kinder and wiser future.

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Biblioteka Obcojęzyczna

All copies are currently on loan: sygn. O 33992 (1 egz.)