wyszukanych pozycji: 37
The Professor and the Madman
ISBN: 9780062170262 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,72 zł |
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: 9780062938336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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126,59 zł |
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
ISBN: 9780062845900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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135,03 zł |
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780063341906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,16 zł |
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780140271287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him.
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C M...
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56,48 zł |
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780060175962 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mysterious (mistie - ries), a. f. L. mysterium Mysteryi ] ous. Cf. F. mysterieux.] It is known as one of the greatest literary achievements in the history of English letters. The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise... Mysterious (mistie - ries), a. f. L. mysterium Mysteryi ] ous. Cf. F. mysterieux.] |
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97,08 zł |
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
ISBN: 9780063297234 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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164,62 zł |
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
ISBN: 9780062315427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West... One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United... |
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71,72 zł |
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
ISBN: 9780008484392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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87,31 zł |
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
ISBN: 9780062652560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,16 zł |
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
ISBN: 9780060838591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogota and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political... Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 ... |
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84,38 zł |
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
ISBN: 9780063142886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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147,74 zł |
Lonely Planet Tales from Nowhere
ISBN: 9781786576217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* Unexpected stories from unexpected places. Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan mountain village, along... Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* Unexpected stories from unexpected places. Many places can feel like ... |
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46,20 zł |
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption
ISBN: 9780140280395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured - in sea-blue, green, bright yellow, orange, umber - it presented England and Wales in a beguiling and unfamiliar mixture of lines and patches and stippled shapes. It was the product of one man's obsession with rocks, a passion that sustained him whilst the rest of his life slid into ruin.
In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured - in sea-bl...
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56,48 zł |
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
ISBN: 9780061767906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell--clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world--making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this unseen universe to create an epochal and remarkably beautiful hand-painted map. But instead of receiving accolades and honors, he ended up in... In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in hi... |
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84,38 zł |
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
ISBN: 9780060954949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To Come The vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both cultural and topographical. And, as Simon Winchester superbly demonstrates in this intimate portrait of the region, much of the political strife of the past century can be traced to its inherent contrasts. With the aid of a guide and linguist, Winchester traveled deep into the region's most troublesome areas--including... A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It M... |
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71,72 zł |
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
ISBN: 9780060572006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it--and almost certainly... Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute lat... |
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80,16 zł |
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: 9780008359157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,35 zł |
The Alice Behind Wonderland
ISBN: 9780195396195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph of Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative energetic and penetrating look at the inspiration behind, and the making of, one of the greatest classics of children's literature. Indeed, Winchester shows that Dodgson's love of photography deeply influenced his view of the world, helping...
In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-...
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68,53 zł |
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
ISBN: 9780062002495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not... "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and m... |
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132,32 zł |