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Jonathan Safran Foer

    21 lutego 1977
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightening
    Extremely loud & incredibly close
    Penguin Readers Level 5: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    Eating Animals
    Tree of Codes
    Klimat to my. Ratowanie planety zaczyna się..
    • Najlepsza książka 2019 roku Financial Times i The Guardian Niektórzy ludzie odrzucają fakt, że nasza planeta ociepla się z powodu działalności człowieka. Ale czy ci z nas, którzy akceptują rzeczywistość spowodowanej przez człowieka katastrofy klimatycznej, naprawdę w nią wierzą? Gdybyśmy rzeczywiście w nią uwierzyli, z pewnością zdecydowalibyśmy się na działania zgodne z tym, co wiemy. A jednak prawie ich nie podejmujemy. W Klimat to my Jonathan Safran Foer bada fundamentalny dylemat naszych czasów w zaskakujący i głęboko osobisty sposób. Zadanie ocalenia planety wymaga wielkiego rozliczenia się z naszą. niestety bardzo ludzką, niechęcią do poświęcenia komfortu ze względu na niepewną przyszłość. By jeść więcej, smaczniej i taniej, zamieniliśmy naszą planetę w farmę do uprawy produktów zwierzęcych, czego konsekwencje są katastrofalne. Tylko wspólne działanie może uratować naszą planetę. Działanie, które zaczyna się od tego, co jemy - a czego nie jemy - na śniadanie.

      Klimat to my. Ratowanie planety zaczyna się..
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    • Jonathan Safran Foer skillfully combines narrative and materiality to create a captivating story that emphasizes the physicality of the book in our screen-dominated world. - Olafur Eliasson, artist

      Tree of Codes
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    • Eating Animals

      • 352 strony
      • 13 godzin czytania

      'I simply wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. Where does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? Are there animals that it is straightforwardly right to eat? Are there situations in which not eating animals is wrong? If this began as a personal quest, it didn't stay that way for long . . . ' Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animalsis the most original book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good.

      Eating Animals
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    • Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.Oskar Shell is a clever nine-year-old boy. When his father is killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, Oskar wants to learn the secret about a key that he discovers in his father's closet. His search takes him on a journey through New York and into the lives of strangers and relatives. But will it bring him any closer to his lost father

      Penguin Readers Level 5: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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    • Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

      Extremely loud & incredibly close
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    • Contents: A primer for the punctuation of heart disease (short story). First published in the New Yorker magazine, 2002. And extracts from: Extremely loud and incredibly close (first published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

      The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightening
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    • The Fixer

      • 300 stron
      • 11 godzin czytania

      Kiev, 1911. When a 12-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews. Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-semitic employer - is first outed and blamed. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit. What becomes of this man under pressure, for whom acquittal is made to seem as hopeless as conviction, is the subject of a terrifying masterpiece of 20th-century fiction.

      The Fixer
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    • Jonathan Safran Foer has long had a passion for the work of the twentieth-century American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Inspired by Cornell�s avian-themed boxes, and suspecting that they would be similarly inspiring to others, Foer began to write letters. The responses he received from luminaries of American writing were nothing short of astounding. Twenty writers generously contributed pieces of prose and poetry that are as eclectic as they are imaginative, and the result is a unique collaborative project and one of the most significant engagements of literature with art for many years.

      A Convergence of Birds
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    • A young man arrives in the Ukraine with a tattered photograph, a bad translator, a man haunted by memories and an undersexed guide dog - he is looking for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.

      Everything is illuminated
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    • This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of 3 weeks in present-day Washington DC, 3 sons watch their parents' marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a larger catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel.

      Here I am
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    • The Future Dictionary of America

      • 400 stron
      • 14 godzin czytania

      Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

      The Future Dictionary of America
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    • Haggadah

      • 160 stron
      • 6 godzin czytania

      Recounts through prayer and song the story of Exodus, when Moses led the ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander through the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. This title brings together some of the most preeminent voices of our time.

      Haggadah
    • Points: Faut-il manger les animaux?

      Tiere essen, französische Ausgabe

      • 388 stron
      • 14 godzin czytania

      L'enquête explore les souvenirs d'enfance, données statistiques et arguments philosophiques sur les croyances et traditions liées aux relations entre hommes et animaux. L'écrivain réalise ensuite une expédition clandestine dans les élevages et usines d'abattage.

      Points: Faut-il manger les animaux?
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    • В печально-смешном путешествии двух подростков - американцев и украинца - сплелись воедино события Второй мировой войны, традиции еврейского народа и взгляд на современную молодежь, которая за цинизмом и бахвальством скрывает свои ранимые души...

      Полная иллюминация (Polnaya illyuminatsiya)
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