ilość książek w kategorii: 62796
San Juan: Memoir of a City
ISBN: 9780299203740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodrí guez Juliá . No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture.
In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodrí guez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own... "San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflec...
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126,54 zł |
An Atlas of Russian History, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780300014457 / Angielski / Miękka / 1970 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This atlas, which combines thorough scholarship with the most practical features for use, will become an indispensable supplement to texts on Russian history for the historian, the student, and the inquiring layman. The book contains thirty-four handsomely drawn maps--accurate, uncluttered, and easy-to-read--that show how Russia's boundaries have changed from the formation of the embryonic state of Kievan Rus in the ninth century to the most recent revisions resulting from World War II. Each map is accompanied by concise, descriptive text. The atlas will be a permanent addition to the...
This atlas, which combines thorough scholarship with the most practical features for use, will become an indispensable supplement to texts on Russian ...
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181,08 zł |
The Tory View of Landscape
ISBN: 9780300059045 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, England seemed to be transformed by various kinds of "improvements" in gardening and the ornamentation of the landscape. Many people saw these changes as reflections of highly controversial moral, social, and economic issues. To clear a wood or plant one, to build a folly or a cottage, to design in the formal style or the picturesque, to choose to employ one improver or another--these were all interpreted as decisions that expressed a political orientation. Poets, essayists, political theorists, theologians, and economists debated the merits...
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, England seemed to be transformed by various kinds of "improvements" in gardening and the ornamentati...
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410,11 zł |
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
ISBN: 9780300063974 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that are constantly evolving, says Jackson, time and movement are increasingly important to us and place and permanence are less so. We no longer gain a feeling of community from where we live or where we assemble but from common work hours, habits, and customs. Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, trucks,...
J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundin...
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106,05 zł |
Dr. Beach's Survival Guide: What You Need to Know about Sharks, Rip Currents, and More Before Going in the Water
ISBN: 9780300100280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here, from the nation's most renowned beach expert, is the first complete guide to beach safety. Stephen P. Leatherman (a.k.a. Dr. Beach) introduces the gamut of beach hazards--from sharks to rip currents to jellyfish--revealing which dangers should be of greatest concern and how best to minimize their risks. His scientifically sound advice, interspersed with fascinating facts and anecdotes, makes this book a perfect reference for the millions of travelers and vacationers who visit the ocean shore every year.
Practical answers to these intriguing questions and more: - Which U.S. beach... Here, from the nation's most renowned beach expert, is the first complete guide to beach safety. Stephen P. Leatherman (a.k.a. Dr. Beach) introduces t...
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156,98 zł |
Touring Gotham's Archaeological Past: 8 Self-Guided Walking Tours Through New York City
ISBN: 9780300103885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City and presents a new way of exploring the city through the rich history that lies buried beneath it. Generously illustrated and replete with maps, the tours are designed to explore both ancient times and modern space. This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites throughout the boroughs of New York City and presents a... |
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193,14 zł |
These Sad But Glorious Days: Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850
ISBN: 9780300105605 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Margaret Fuller-journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist-was a foreign correspondent for the New-York Tribune from 1846-50. This engrossing book provides the first complete edition of Fuller's dispatches from England, France, and Italy, which began as engaging travel sketches but soon turned into moving and dramatic eyewitness accounts of the most widespread revolutionary upheaval within modern history. "Fuller's letters are extraordinarily good. They will be of interest to scholars of American literature and history, women's studies, and European literature and...
Margaret Fuller-journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist-was a foreign correspondent for the New-York Tribune from 1846-50. This e...
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271,49 zł |
Understanding Geographical and Environmental Education
ISBN: 9780304332717 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research paradigms and research methods. The book is designed as a reference work for novice researchers in the fields of geographical and environmental education. These papers aim to provide a substantial review of the literature pertaining to a comprehensive range of traditional and contemporary research par... |
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1007,48 zł |
A World Atlas of Military History 1861-1945
ISBN: 9780306803321 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With a large index, concise commentary, and dozen of charts of statistics, this book can serve as a basic reference and a unique perspective on a turbulent era of military history.
With a large index, concise commentary, and dozen of charts of statistics, this book can serve as a basic reference and a unique perspective on a turb...
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126,78 zł |
Thunder at Hampton Roads: The U.S.S. Monitor--Its Battle with the Merrimack and Its Recent Discovery
ISBN: 9780306805233 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "On March 9, 1862, the ""battle of the century"" took place at Hampton Roads. The U.S.S. Monitor, the world's first all-iron fighting ship, repulsed the Confederate ironclad Merrimack."
"On March 9, 1862, the ""battle of the century"" took place at Hampton Roads. The U.S.S. Monitor, the world's first all-iron fighting ship, repulsed t...
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119,28 zł |
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo
ISBN: 9780306805592 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has been read and re-read for close to 150 years. It is not only the authoritative account of each battle that makes Creasy's work such a classic--it is his command of narrative, his interest in human struggle, his profound deductions as to effects of the battles, and his striving after truth. Furthermore, his selections seem as wise and well-considered today as when Fifteen Decisive Battles first appeared in 1851: Nobody since has made better...
Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth century, Edward S. Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has be...
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156,91 zł |
A Traveller in Italy
ISBN: 9780306810787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove of trees, without its story of God, of love or death." Morton's stories and observations of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia, and Veneto, whether relating to the fantastic reconstruction of the La Scala opera house or the superstitious lovers at Juliet's Tomb, make his style as engaging as the landscape and people he evokes.
The Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove of trees, witho...
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124,80 zł |
In the Steps of the Master
ISBN: 9780306810817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here, in the spirit of Bruce Feiler's beloved bestseller Walking the Bible, is a portrait of the Holy Land as a physical embodiment of faith. Dramatically conjuring the beauty of Israel's countryside, In the Steps of the Master also evokes the all-consuming passions and deep-rooted mysteries of Jerusalem--and while much has changed, as Morton says, the essential nature of the sites he visits has not.
Here, in the spirit of Bruce Feiler's beloved bestseller Walking the Bible, is a portrait of the Holy Land as a physical embodiment of faith. D...
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107,58 zł |
In Search of England
ISBN: 9780306811050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called "travel writing at its best. Bill Bryson must weep when he reads it." Whether describing ruined gothic arches at Glastonbury or hilarious encounters with the inhabitants of Norfolk, Morton recalls a way of life far from gone even at the beginning of a new century.
Currently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called "travel writing at its be...
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94,67 zł |
In the Steps of St. Paul
ISBN: 9780306811128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the Steps of St. Paul dazzlingly retraces the apostle's famed journey of faith through Israel, Greece, and Italy, using the Bible itself as a guide. With an ear for good stories and an eye alert to detail, Morton creates a compulsively readable narrative that will satisfy the most curious traveler as well as the most informed and passionate reader of the Bible.
In the Steps of St. Paul dazzlingly retraces the apostle's famed journey of faith through Israel, Greece, and Italy, using the Bible itself as ...
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111,89 zł |
A Traveller in Rome
ISBN: 9780306811319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome--the fabled era of La Dolce Vita--remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed and delightful journey around the city, from the Fontana di Trevi and the Colosseum to the Vatican Gardens loud with exquisite birdsong. He also takes time to consider such eternal topics as the idiosyncrasies of Italian drivers as well as the ominous possibilities behind an unusual absence of pigeons in the Piazza di San Pietro. As...
H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome--the fabled era of La Dolce Vita--remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal C...
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107,58 zł |
In Search of London
ISBN: 9780306811326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. H. V. Morton turns his traveler's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail to the city that has fascinated him since childhood--London past, present, and timeless. He explores the City and the Temple, Covent Garden, SoHo, and all the "submerged villages beneath the flood of bricks and mortar," uncovering layer upon layer of London's history. Morton follows the thread of imagination back and forth across the city, tracing unforgettable scenes: the Emperor Claudius leading his war elephants across the Thames. . .the grisly executions at the Tower. . .the world of Shakespeare, Dickens, and...
H. V. Morton turns his traveler's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail to the city that has fascinated him since childhood--London past, presen...
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107,58 zł |
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
ISBN: 9780306811807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, disillusionments, and memories. Her meditation on the place is characteristically layered with history and sprinkled with stories of famous visitors from James Joyce to Sigmund Freud. A lyrical travelogue, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is...
Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After...
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64,58 zł |
Sultry Climates: Travel & Sex
ISBN: 9780306812217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here, said the reviewer for Salon.com, is a book that is "lively and accessible and erudite...the perfect companion for anyone who wouldn't be caught dead with an airport paperback-though I wouldn't want to wager which one provides more juice." Historically, the sexual motives of travel have rarely been spelled out in travel guides and brochures. Sultry Climates is an alternative history of tourism, made up of precisely the details that usually go unmentioned. As Ian Littlewood demonstrates with dazzling elegance and wit, if we want to make sense of the celebrated "Grand Tour" of the...
Here, said the reviewer for Salon.com, is a book that is "lively and accessible and erudite...the perfect companion for anyone who wouldn't be caught ...
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86,06 zł |
Guide to Civil War Philadelphia
ISBN: 9780306812323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The only guidebook of its kind covering Civil War-related sites in Philadelphia-the Union's second-largest cityWhen the Civil War began in 1861, Philadelphia was an important industrial center behind the Northern war effort. The city boasted two large federal arsenals, a major shipbuilding facility, the country's largest locomotive factory, and the busiest flag manufacturer in the United States. Philadelphia bankers raised valuable government bonds and millions of dollars for the Lincoln administration. Several prominent Union generals were born in Philadelphia, and the city enlisted scores...
The only guidebook of its kind covering Civil War-related sites in Philadelphia-the Union's second-largest cityWhen the Civil War began in 1861, Phila...
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126,78 zł |