Автор: Dewitt, Helen Название: The Last Samurai ISBN: 1784707961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784707965 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I`ve ever read` MARK HADDON`Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book` JAMES WOOD`A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form` A. Let loose on London, Ludo sets out on a secret quest to find the last samurai - the father he never knew.
Автор: DeWitt Patrick Название: French Exit ISBN: 0062846930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062846938 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A Recommended Book of the Season from Vanity Fair * Entertainment Weekly * Vulture * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * Esquire
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.
Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the Price's aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts.
Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin - to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, and a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, to name a few.
Brimming with pathos, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners, ' a send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute.
--Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Today Will Be Different
Автор: deWitt Patrick Название: French Exit ISBN: 1526601192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526601193 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1484.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school, this book is filled with grammar and punctuation activities that help children create noun phrases, use pronouns and adverbials and write paragraphs. Wipe-clean pages offer endless practice, and answers and secret notes for grown-ups are at the back.
Автор: DeWitt Helen Название: The Last Samurai ISBN: 0786887001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786887002 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1562.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The Last Samurai is an intellectual adventure story: a little boy goes in search of his father in a brilliant first novel that won rave reviews from critics everywhere. Sold in fourteen countries. Now in paperback.
Автор: DeWitt T. Starnes Название: Robert Estienne`s Influence on Lexicography ISBN: 0292741847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741843 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book.
Автор: Edward D. Berkowitz, Larry DeWitt, Larry W. DeWitt Название: The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy ISBN: 1501702122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501702129 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4634.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The new program provided cash benefits to needy elderly, blind, and disabled individuals. Because of the complex character of SSI—marking both the high tide of the Great Society and the beginning of the retrenchment of the welfare state—it provides the perfect subject for assessing the development of the American state in the late twentieth century.SSI was launched with the hope of freeing welfare programs from social and political stigma; it instead became a source of controversy almost from its very start. Intended as a program that paid uniform benefits across the nation, it ended up replicating many of the state-by-state differences that characterized the American welfare state. Begun as a program intended to provide income for the elderly, SSI evolved into a program that served people with disabilities, becoming a primary source of financial aid for the de-institutionalized mentally ill and a principal support for children with disabilities.Written by a leading historian of America's welfare state and the former chief historian of the Social Security Administration, The Other Welfare illuminates the course of modern social policy. Using documents previously unavailable to researchers, the authors delve into SSI’s transformation from the idealistic intentions of its founders to the realities of its performance in America’s highly splintered political system. In telling this important and overlooked history, this book alters the conventional wisdom about the development of American social welfare policy.
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