wyszukanych pozycji: 19
Die Luft zum Atmen
ISBN: 9783293209343 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Von den Balkonen des Sanatoriums fällt der Blick auf die nebelumschlungenen Flüsse und Berge, einen einsamen Fuchs und die gewundene Straße zum Dorf. Während Europa im Ersten Weltkrieg versinkt, führen die Patienten der Tuberkuloseklinik hier am Tamarack Lake ihren eigenen Kampf ums Überleben. Als ein Neuankömmling vorschlägt, einmal die Woche für einen Vortrag zusammenzukommen, gerät der Alltag im Hospital aus den Fugen. Leidenschaftlich stürzen sich die Bewohner in ihre Studien, teilen ihr Wissen und erobern - neben der Welt Einsteins und Madame Curies - auch die längst... Von den Balkonen des Sanatoriums fällt der Blick auf die nebelumschlungenen Flüsse und Berge, einen einsamen Fuchs und die gewundene Straße zum ... |
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68,67 zł |
The Forms of Water
ISBN: 9780671795221 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) At the age of eighty, Brendan Auberon--formerly of the Order of Our Lady of the Valley, now confined to a nursing home--has one last wish: to see his 200 acres overlooking what used to be Paradise Valley, before the villages were drowned to provide water for the city of Boston. Now, Brendan's memories drift beneath the surface of the Stillwater Reservoir. When Brendan dupes his nephew, Henry, into hijacking the nursing home van for the journey, what begins as a lark becomes an adventure infinitely more complex.
At the age of eighty, Brendan Auberon--formerly of the Order of Our Lady of the Valley, now confined to a nursing home--has one last wish: to see his ...
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90,85 zł |
The Voyage of the Narwhal - Revised
ISBN: 9781324065975 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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71,06 zł |
Natural History: Stories
ISBN: 9781324035190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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114,83 zł |
The Air We Breathe
ISBN: 9780099519461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Autumn, 1916. America is preparing to enter WWI, but at Tamarack State Hospital, the danger is barely felt. Andrea Barrett pits power and privilege against unrest and thwarted desire in a spellbinding tale of individual lives in a nation on the verge of extraordinary change.
Autumn, 1916. America is preparing to enter WWI, but at Tamarack State Hospital, the danger is barely felt. Andrea Barrett pits power and privilege ag...
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87,48 zł |
Servants of the Map
ISBN: 9780393323573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams of reunion. Throughout, Barrett's most characteristic theme the happenings in that borderland between science and desire unfolds in the diverse lives... Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the te... |
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95,18 zł |
Die Reise der Narwhal
ISBN: 9783293209114 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der eigenbrötlerische Naturforscher Erasmus Wells verbringt seine Tage zwischen verstaubten Exponaten. Als ihm aber die Teilnahme an einer Arktisexpedition angeboten wird, wagt er sich aus seinem Kokon. Stolz werden große Ziele verkündet, doch je tiefer sie in den Norden vordringen, desto bedrohlicher wird die Umgebung. Unaufhaltsam schließt sich der arktische Winter um das Schiff. Die undurchdringliche Polarnacht, die krachende Kälte, die bläulich graue Kargheit des Eises. Wissenschaftliche Neugier weicht der Angst, eine falsche Entscheidung zu treffen und das Leben aller in... Der eigenbrötlerische Naturforscher Erasmus Wells verbringt seine Tage zwischen verstaubten Exponaten. Als ihm aber die Teilnahme an einer Arktise... |
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68,44 zł |
Secret Harmonies
ISBN: 9780671731373 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Andrea Barrett's novels have received resounding critical acclaim, inspiring comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. In Secret Harmonies, she creates a wonderful portrait of a family struggling to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of western Massachusetts. When childhood sweethearts Reba Dwyer and Luke Wyatt marry, they expect no surprises. But now that Luke--friend of Reba's childhood, friend of her heart--is her husband, discord enters their lives. Secret Harmonies is the utterly absorbing, moving story of what happens to this couple and to the eccentric...
Andrea Barrett's novels have received resounding critical acclaim, inspiring comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. In Secret Harmonies, sh...
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77,84 zł |
Schiffsfieber
ISBN: 9783293209282 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der junge Mendel streift durch seine Erbsenpflanzung, ein verwunschener Ort, in dem er das Geheimnis der Erblehre lüften wird und doch bald selbst nicht mehr daran glaubt. Zwei Frauen stellen sich gegen zähe Vorurteile und zweifeln die Lehrmeinungen an. Der alte Carl von Linné hat der Natur eine taxonomische Ordnung übergestreift, doch der Name seiner Tochter entschwindet im Nebel. Das heisere Gezänk nistender Möwen, nachtschwarze Jaguare, Vögel ohne Füße und der Zauber der Chemie befeuern die glühende Faszination an der Natur, den Drang, forschend die Welt zu... Der junge Mendel streift durch seine Erbsenpflanzung, ein verwunschener Ort, in dem er das Geheimnis der Erblehre lüften wird und doch bald selbst... |
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68,67 zł |
Ship Fever: Stories
ISBN: 9781324036012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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73,50 zł |
Archangel : Fiction
ISBN: 9780393240009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an "ether of space" housing spirits of the dead. Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his... During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwell... |
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109,36 zł |
Middle Kingdom
ISBN: 9780671729615 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For Grace, the ardent yet puzzled heroine of Andrea Barrett's third novel, this trip has been planned as a three-week stay: she's to play dutiful wife to Walter, her prominent scientist husband, at the 1986 Beijing International Conference on the Effects of Acid Rain. Walter is twelve years older than Grace, and as sour as the rain he studies; he and Grace are at a particularly troubled point in their marriage. Their tightly circumscribed visit, however, becomes a journey infinitely less tidy and more complex as Grace falls forever out of love with her husband and very much in love with this...
For Grace, the ardent yet puzzled heroine of Andrea Barrett's third novel, this trip has been planned as a three-week stay: she's to play dutiful wife...
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86,51 zł |
Innovation Policy Formulation for Socioeconomic Transformation of Developing States
ISBN: 9789769669468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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128,71 zł |
The Widow's Children
ISBN: 9780393319637 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and awaiting the arrival of three friends: Clara Hansen, Laura's timid, brow-beaten daughter from a previous marriage; Carlos, Laura's flamboyant and charming brother; and Peter Rice, a melancholy editor whom Laura hasn't seen for over a year. But what begins as a bon voyage party soon parlays into a bitter, claustrophobic clash of family resentment. From the hotel room to the tony restaurant to which the five embark, Laura presides over the...
On the eve of their trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, sit in a New York City hotel room, drinking scotch-and-sodas and...
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95,18 zł |
Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer
ISBN: 9780375755255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Examines the travels and mysterious death of Cincinnati businessman Charles Francis Hall, who ignored the dangers and set out to rescue the survivors of an expedition that had disappeared into the Arctic fifteen years earlier.
Examines the travels and mysterious death of Cincinnati businessman Charles Francis Hall, who ignored the dangers and set out to rescue the survivors ...
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82,39 zł |
The Fountain Overflows
ISBN: 9781590170342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high-strung eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events are seen. Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the unexpected, and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden...
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promi...
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108,19 zł |
Instant Insights: Reducing Antibiotic Use in Dairy Production
ISBN: 9781801461658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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257,97 zł |
Care Planning: A Guide for Nurses
ISBN: 9781138642195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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181,84 zł |
Care Planning: A Guide for Nurses
ISBN: 9781138642188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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805,53 zł |