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The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American South
ISBN: 9780415921411 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With coverage including the first European settlers and resultant Native American immigrations, the Civil War, and the contemporary fight against crime, this historical atlas provides a unique geographical perspective on the history of the South.
With coverage including the first European settlers and resultant Native American immigrations, the Civil War, and the contemporary fight against crim...
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196,26 |
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The Historical Atlas of the American Revolution
ISBN: 9780415922432 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Detailing the history of the struggle for independence, from colonial government to the early days of the American republic, this book uses full-colour maps and illustrations in two-page spreads to tell the story of the founding of the United States of America. It focuses on the land and sea battles of the Revolutionary War, but attention is also paid to the society at large and the international impact of the war for independence.
Detailing the history of the struggle for independence, from colonial government to the early days of the American republic, this book uses full-colou...
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834,31 |
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In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the 17th Century
ISBN: 9780415932271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the Lands of the Christians presents original translations from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe and America in the 17th century. These essays contain careful descriptions of the regions, societies, customs and religions these intrepid travellers encountered in their journeys.
In the Lands of the Christians presents original translations from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe and America ...
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760,69 |
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In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the 17th Century
ISBN: 9780415932288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the Lands of the Christians presents original translations from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe and America in the seventeenth century. These essays contain careful descriptions of the regions, societies, customs, and religions these intrepid travelers encountered in their journeys. Here you will find the complete travel narrative of the first Arab to visit South and Central America in 1688, the first English translation of the ambassadorial report by Mohammad bin Abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani who traveled through Spain in 1690, translations of letters by...
In the Lands of the Christians presents original translations from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe and America ...
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255,15 |
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American Space/American Place: Geographies of the Contemporary United States
ISBN: 9780415935319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. American Space/American Place offers geographical perspectives on the condition of the United States at the outset of the twenty-first century. It compares the American ideal of liberty, equality, individual opportunity and social improvement with the contemporary condition of the regions, states and localities--the ideal American space with its reality as a place. It uses the public standard provided by the official ideology of the United States to see how well things are really going. Agnew and Smith consider the contrast between ideal and reality at local, state and national levels in...
American Space/American Place offers geographical perspectives on the condition of the United States at the outset of the twenty-first century. It com...
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230,61 |
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American Space/American Place: Geographies of the Contemporary United States
ISBN: 9780415935326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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122,64 |
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Historical Gazetteer of the United States
ISBN: 9780415939485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 888 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.
The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most importa...
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1153,31 |
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Historical Atlas of the United States
ISBN: 9780415941112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This full-colour atlas is an authoritative guide to the history of the United States. From the formation of the continent up through current events and information based on the most recent census, this work uses the geography of the United States to portray the history of the land and its people. The 300-plus maps tell the engaging story of America with detailed, clear information; accompanying text highlights key information presented in each map.
This full-colour atlas is an authoritative guide to the history of the United States. From the formation of the continent up through current events an...
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981,54 |
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New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City
ISBN: 9780415963107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated historical tour of New York's vast underground systems, Julia Solis answers all these questions and much, much more. New York Underground takes readers through ingenious criminal escape routes, abandoned subway stations, and dark crypts beneath lower Manhattan to expose the city's basic anatomy. While... Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Gra... |
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240,43 |
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The King's Two Maps : Cartography & Culture in Thirteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780415967914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While a culture may have a dominant way of mapping, its geography is always plural and there is always competition among conceptions of space. Beginning with this understanding, this book traces the map's early development into an emblem of the state, and charts the social and cultural implications of this phenomenon. This book chronicles the specific technologies, both material and epistemological, by which the map shows itself capable of accessing, organizing, and re-orienting a tremendous range of information.
While a culture may have a dominant way of mapping, its geography is always plural and there is always competition among conceptions of space. Beginni...
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760,69 |
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Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914
ISBN: 9780416303001 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This atlas draws together crucial social and economic data on England, Scotland and Wales between 1780 and 1914, and gives a clear guide to the industrial development of Great Britain during the modern period.
This atlas draws together crucial social and economic data on England, Scotland and Wales between 1780 and 1914, and gives a clear guide to the indust...
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235,53 |
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Hotel Babylon: Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel
ISBN: 9780425201350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The manager of an exclusive boutique hotel (who shall remain nameless) exposes the low-life styles of the rich and famous.
And we're not talking just loud all-night bashes... The anonymous author has encountered lavish drug parties, gorgeous call girls, naked guests falling out of windows, $9,000 bottles of wine, astronomical telephone porn bills, bathtubs of Evian, and on more than one occasion, dead sheep. And every dirty word of it is true. This is a trawl through the decadence and debauchery of the ultimate service industry--where money not only talks, but gets guests the... The manager of an exclusive boutique hotel (who shall remain nameless) exposes the low-life styles of the rich and famous.
And we're not talking ju... |
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104,61 |
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On the Road with Charles Kuralt
ISBN: 9780449007402 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Read Kuralt's words and discover America with him."
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL He has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television for years. Taking to the highways, he has met the little-known and the famous, and shared them with the rest of us. This heartwarming book reminds us again of some of the extraordinary people he has met over the years in words and photographs, and provides the exact words of the interviews, so that we can permanently enjoy his visits with people we have come to know and care for, again and again. "Read Kuralt's words and discover America with him."
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL He has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television... |
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73,62 |
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The Cat Who Went to Paris
ISBN: 9780449907634 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Norton is clearly a charmer, and Gethers tells his story with contagious affection....Will warm the heart of any confirmed cat-lover."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Before Peter Gethers met Norton, the publisher, screenwriter, and author was a confirmed cat-hater. Then everything changed. Peter opened his heart to the Scottish Fold kitten and their adventures to Paris, Fire Island, and in the subways of Manhattan took on the color of legend and mutual love. THE CAT WHO WENT TO PARIS proves that sometimes all it takes is paws and personality to change a life. "Norton is clearly a charmer, and Gethers tells his story with contagious affection....Will warm the heart of any confirmed cat-lover."
THE WASHING... |
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73,62 |
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Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture
ISBN: 9780449910801 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to women. Kate Simon walks us through a Siena filled with surprises and luminous beauty. Elizabeth Spencer writes of first coming to Italy and finding "home." Shirley Hazzard explores the mysteries of Naples. Muriel Spark writes on Venice, Edith Wharton on Rome, George Eliot on Florence, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison on San Gimignano, Patricia Hampl on...
For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writer...
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81,36 |
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The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
ISBN: 9780449910856 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "DAZZLING."
--Time " THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and gift for granting closure to the most subtle progression of events; and the graceful use of language. . . . We are delighted, along with Theroux, by the politeness of the Turks, amazed by the mountainous highlands in Syria, touched by the gesture of an Albanian waitress who will not let him pay for his modest meal. . . . The Pillars of Hercules is] engrossing and enlightening from start (a damning account of tourists annoying the apes of... "DAZZLING."
--Time " THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING GESTURE; a storyteller's sense of pacing and ... |
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My Secret History
ISBN: 9780449912003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret History is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveller, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. It begins with his days as a Massachusetts altar boy, when his first furtive sexual encounter introduces him to the thrills of leading a double life. As a teenaged lifeguard, Andre finds himself caught between the attentions of a beautiful young student and an amorous older woman. Soon he is in Africa, where the local women are numerous, easy, and...
Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret History is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world travell...
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The Innocents Abroad
ISBN: 9780451530493 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2007 / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth century Americans encountering the Old World. Come along for the ride as Twain and his unsuspecting travel companions visit the Azores, Tangiers, Paris, Rome, the Vatican, Genoa, Gibraltar, Odessa, Constantinople, Cairo, the Holy Land and other locales renowned in history. No person or place is safe from Twain's sharp wit as it impales both the conservative and the liberal, the Old World and the New. He uses these contrasts to -find out...
One of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's irreverent and incisive commentary on nin...
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34,68 |
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Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
ISBN: 9780452267459 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book Review
NATIONAL BESTSELLER With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia to offer startling close-ups of a volatile region few Westerners understand. His quest for hot stories takes him from the tribal wilds of Yemen to the shell-pocked shores of Lebanon; from the malarial sands of the Sudan to the eerie souks of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a land so secretive... "A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book Review
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The Great Hill Stations of Asia
ISBN: 9780465014880 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who followed them east of Suez, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a battle for survival against sunstroke, dysentery, cholera, malaria, and a host of other unnamed deadly fevers as well as little-examined, vague indispositions that in hindsight would probably be diagnosed as clinical symptoms of depression. Later, medical scholars coined a phrase for it: "tropical fatigue." Pity John Ouchterlony. By the time...
For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who fo...
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77,45 |
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