123,05 zł

Ring of the Nibelung Penguin Books

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A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods - are complete worlds, conjuring up extraordinary mythological landscapes through sound as much as staging.Wagner wrote the entire libretto before embarking on the music. Discarding the grand choruses and bravura duets central to most operas, he used the largest musical forces in the context often of only a handful of singers on stage. The words were essential: he was telling a story and making an argument in a way that required absolute attention to what was said. The libretto for The Ring lies at the heart of nineteenth century culture. It is in itself a work of power and grandeur and it had an incalculable effect on European and specifically German culture. John Deathridge's superb new translation, with notes and a fascinating introduction, is essential for anyone who wishes to get to grips with one of the great musical experiences.

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59,99 zł

Pale King Penguin Books

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"The Pale King" is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster Wallace's towering, brilliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel. "Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegiac". ("New York Times"). "A bravura performance worthy of Woolf or Joyce. Wallace's finest work as a novelist". ("Time"). "Light-years beyond Infinite Jest. Wallace's reputation will only grow, and like one of the broken columns beloved of Romantic painters, "The Pale King" will stand, complete in its incompleteness, as his most substantial fictional achievement". (Hari Kunzru, "Financial Times"). "A paradise of language and intelligence". ("The Times"). "Archly brilliant". ("Metro")."Teems with erudition and ideas, with passages of stylistic audacity, with great cheerful thrown-out gags, goofy puns and moments of truly arresting clarity. Innovative, penetrating, forcefully intelligent fiction like Wallace's arrives once in a generation, if that". ("Daily Telegraph"). "In a different dimension to the tepid vapidities that pass as novels these days. Sentence for sentence, almost word for word, Wallace could out-write any of his peers". ("Scotland on Sunday"). David Foster Wallace wrote the novels "Infinite Jest" and "The Broom of the System", and the short-story collections "Oblivion", "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" and "Girl with Curious Hair". His non-fiction includes "Consider the Lobster", "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", "Everything and More", "This is Water" and "Both Flesh and Not". He died in 2008.

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114,86 zł

Film As Film Hachette Books

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Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins presents criteria for expanding our understanding and enjoyment of movies. He employs common sense words like balance, coherence, significance, and satisfaction to develop his insightful support of the subtle approach and of the unobtrusive director. Readers will learn why a scene from the humbler movie Carmen Jones is a deeper realization of filmmaking than the bravura lion sequence in the classic Battleship Potemkin. Along the way Perkins invites readers to re-experience with clarity, directness, and simplicity other famous scenes by directors like Hitchcock, Eisenstein, and Chaplin. Perkins examines the origins of movies and embraces their use of both realism and magic, their ability to record as well as to create. In the process he seeks to discover the synthesis between these opposing elements. With the delight of the fan and the perception of the critic, Perkins advances a film theory, based on the work of Bazin and other early film theorists, that is rich with suggestion for debate and further pursuit.Sit beside Perkins as he reacquaints you with cinema, heightens your awareness, deepens your pleasure, and increases your return every time you invest in a movie ticket.

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92,16 zł

Black Arrow Penguin Books

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In I. J. Parker's latest mystery set in ancient Japan, a cold and hostile land pits Akitada against his deadliest foe yet I. J. Parker's engrossing historical novels bring eleventh-century Japan to life in all its colorful, treacherous glory. As "Black Arrow" opens, Sugawara Akitada assumes his new post as provisional governor of Echigo, a frigid province in the far north notorious for its hostility to outsiders. But the snow that threatens to completely isolate the region is the least of his problems-which include a local uprising, a series of brutal murders, and a mystery that's as old as the frozen hills and a lot more dangerous. Superbly written and rich in period detail, "Black Arrow" is another bravura performance from a master of the historical thriller.

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44,90 zł

Weber: Symphonies, Overtures, Piano Concertos, Clarinet Concertos Brilliant Classics

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Carl Maria von Weber is a name that is often cited with regard to the bridge between Classicism and Romanticism, and yet how many works of his is it possible to name? In this fantastic compendium, we have the chance to explore some of his finest instrumental music; beginning with the two charming symphonies, written in the composer's early 20s and reflecting the new Romantic fascination with timbre, the compilation also details the operatic overtures (Der Freischütz among them), perhaps his greatest works for orchestra alone and which reflect the many years he spent as Director of the Prague and Dresden Houses promulgating nationalist opera. Compositions for soloist and orchestra make up the rest of the release: in addition to the clarinet concertos, music of scintillating bravura which set new standards in this instrument's repertoire, there are the piano concerti -- similarly virtuosic works which anticipate those by Mendelssohn and Chopin and are testament to the composer's extraordinary powers as a keyboardist.Indeed, to say that Weber exerted an enormous influence of subsequent generations of composers is no exaggeration; Euryanthe and its highly developed leitmotif technique, for example, pointed the way forward for a young Wagner. Bringing together many world-class names, such as Emma Johnson on clarinet and Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, this collection is the perfect introduction to a composer whose oeuvre holds a significant place in the music history books."Rösel [...] deals beautifully with the Chopinesque flourishes in the slow movement of No.2."Marriner's conducting of the symphonies: "... attractively vibrant performances that bring this music fully to life." (Gramophone)Other information:- Carl Maria von Weber marked the transition from the Classical to the Romantic period. His works, while adhering to the formal style of the Viennese School, abound in dramatic contrasts and glittering instrumental virtuosity. His concertos, for piano and for clarinet, are hugely enjoyable, full of "Spielfreude" and many a good tune.- Weber's concertos, overtures and symphonies still keep repertoire nowadays, crowd pleasers as they are in their relatively simple musical language and immediate appeal.- Excellent performances by the brilliant Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, English Chamber orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and Staatskapelle Berlin, pianist Peter Rösel and star clarinettist Emma Johnson.- Booklet contains detailed notes on the composer and his music.- Recordings made between 1974 and 1984.

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48,00 zł

Weber: Symphonies, Overtures, Piano Concertos, Clarinet Concertos brilliant classics

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Carl Maria von Weber is a name that is often cited with regard to the bridge between Classicism and Romanticism, and yet how many works of his is it possible to name? In this fantastic compendium, we have the chance to explore some of his finest instrumental music; beginning with the two charming symphonies, written in the composer's early 20s and reflecting the new Romantic fascination with timbre, the compilation also details the operatic overtures (Der Freischütz among them), perhaps his greatest works for orchestra alone and which reflect the many years he spent as Director of the Prague and Dresden Houses promulgating nationalist opera. Compositions for soloist and orchestra make up the rest of the release: in addition to the clarinet concertos, music of scintillating bravura which set new standards in this instrument's repertoire, there are the piano concerti -- similarly virtuosic works which anticipate those by Mendelssohn and Chopin and are testament to the composer's extraordinary powers as a keyboardist.Indeed, to say that Weber exerted an enormous influence of subsequent generations of composers is no exaggeration; Euryanthe and its highly developed leitmotif technique, for example, pointed the way forward for a young Wagner. Bringing together many world-class names, such as Emma Johnson on clarinet and Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, this collection is the perfect introduction to a composer whose oeuvre holds a significant place in the music history books."Rösel [...] deals beautifully with the Chopinesque flourishes in the slow movement of No.2."Marriner's conducting of the symphonies: "... attractively vibrant performances that bring this music fully to life." (Gramophone)Other information:- Carl Maria von Weber marked the transition from the Classical to the Romantic period. His works, while adhering to the formal style of the Viennese School, abound in dramatic contrasts and glittering instrumental virtuosity. His concertos, for piano and for clarinet, are hugely enjoyable, full of "Spielfreude" and many a good tune.- Weber's concertos, overtures and symphonies still keep repertoire nowadays, crowd pleasers as they are in their relatively simple musical language and immediate appeal.- Excellent performances by the brilliant Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, English Chamber orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and Staatskapelle Berlin, pianist Peter Rösel and star clarinettist Emma Johnson.- Booklet contains detailed notes on the composer and his music.- Recordings made between 1974 and 1984....

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45,32 zł

Weber: Symphonies, Overtures, Concertos brilliant classics

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Carl Maria von Weber is a name that is often cited with regard to the bridge between Classicism and Romanticism, and yet how many works of his is it possible to name? In this fantastic compendium, we have the chance to explore some of his finest instrumental music; beginning with the two charming symphonies, written in the composer's early 20s and reflecting the new Romantic fascination with timbre, the compilation also details the operatic overtures (Der Freischütz among them), perhaps his greatest works for orchestra alone and which reflect the many years he spent as Director of the Prague and Dresden Houses promulgating nationalist opera. Compositions for soloist and orchestra make up the rest of the release: in addition to the clarinet concertos, music of scintillating bravura which set new standards in this instrument's repertoire, there are the piano concerti -- similarly virtuosic works which anticipate those by Mendelssohn and Chopin and are testament to the composer's extraordinary powers as a keyboardist.Indeed, to say that Weber exerted an enormous influence of subsequent generations of composers is no exaggeration; Euryanthe and its highly developed leitmotif technique, for example, pointed the way forward for a young Wagner. Bringing together many world-class names, such as Emma Johnson on clarinet and Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, this collection is the perfect introduction to a composer whose oeuvre holds a significant place in the music history books."Rösel [...] deals beautifully with the Chopinesque flourishes in the slow movement of No.2."Marriner's conducting of the symphonies: "... attractively vibrant performances that bring this music fully to life." (Gramophone)Other information:- Carl Maria von Weber marked the transition from the Classical to the Romantic period. His works, while adhering to the formal style of the Viennese School, abound in dramatic contrasts and glittering instrumental virtuosity. His concertos, for piano and for clarinet, are hugely enjoyable, full of "Spielfreude" and many a good tune.- Weber's concertos, overtures and symphonies still keep repertoire nowadays, crowd pleasers as they are in their relatively simple musical language and immediate appeal.- Excellent performances by the brilliant Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, English Chamber orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden and Staatskapelle Berlin, pianist Peter Rösel and star clarinettist Emma Johnson.- Booklet contains detailed notes on the composer and his music.- Recordings made between 1974 and 1984....

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963,98 zł

Seven Bypasses Thieme Medical Publishers Inc

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Seven Bypasses: Tenets and Techniques for Revascularization is the third book in a trilogy of bravura, technical nuance, and strategy by master neurosurgeon Michael Lawton. Like his first two books on aneurysms and AVMs, Seven Bypasses provides unparalleled firsthand insights and guidance on complex pathologies in vascular neurosurgery. The fundamentals of microsurgical anastomosis and the craft of bypass surgery are explored in depth with clinical pearls in every chapter.Lawton eloquently reveals the art of cerebral revascularization in exquisite, metaphorical detail. The surgeon performing bypass surgery is like an architect envisioning and building a beautiful structure. A bypass is designed to fit the patient's unique anatomy; blueprints designate anastomotic sites, connections, and conduits; the anastomoses are constructed; and the bypass is brought to life with pulsations, flow, and reperfusion. The book highlights Lawton's aesthetic, which has evolved from the common STA-MCA bypasses to IC-IC bypasses and elaborate arterial reconstructions.Key HighlightsStepwise discussion of the three anastomoses that form the building blocks of all bypasses: end-to-side, side-to-side, and end-to-end anastomosesTen tenets delineate nuances of bypass: dexterity, preparing donors and recipients, establishing a working zone, temporary arterial occlusion, arteriotomy, suturing technique, tissue handling, knot tying, patency, and aneurysm occlusionStep-by-step guidance on the seven bypasses: EC-IC bypass, EC-IC interpositional bypass, arterial reimplantation, in-situ bypass, reanastomosis, IC-IC interpositional bypass, and combination bypassStrategies and algorithms for aneurysms organized by specific anatomical sites, including the MCA and the Sylvian cistern, ACA and the interhemispheric cistern, basilar artery and the basal cisterns, and PICA and the cisterna magnaMore than 1,500 radiographs, operative photographs, and exquisite illustrations drawn by artist Kenneth Xavier Probst elucidate anatomy, surgical principles, and clinical casesDr. Lawton has bequeathed a remarkable treasure of knowledge to current and future generations of neurosurgeons and their patients. The Seven series is destined to be an enduring classic for residents, fellows, and neurosurgeons specializing in the treatment of cerebrovascular disease, and for those who believe that manual dexterity and technical skill still matter.Michael T. Lawton, MD, is Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery; Professor of Neurological Surgery; President and Chief Executive Officer, Barrow Neurological Institute; Chief of Vascular and Skull Base Neurosurgery Programs; and Robert F. Spetzler Endowed Chair in Neurosciences, Barrow Neurological Institute and St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.An award-winning international medical and scientific publisher, Thieme has demonstrated its commitment to the highest standard of quality in the state-of-the-art content and presentation of all its products. Founded in 1886, the Thieme name has become synonymous with high quality and excellence in online and print publishing.

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79,83 zł

The Explorers Guild Atria Books

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Return to the golden age of adventure with this gorgeously wrought, action-packed, globetrotting tale that combines the bravura storytelling of Kipling with the irresistible, illustrative style of Herg 's Adventures of Tintin. Behind the staid p

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