wyszukanych pozycji: 23
Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
ISBN: 9780300184310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent writers have viewed Cook largely through the lens of colonial exploitation, regarding him as a villain and overlooking an important aspect of his identity: his nautical skills. In this authentic, engrossing biography, Frank McLynn reveals Cook's place in history as a brave and brilliant seaman. He shows how the Captain's life was one of... The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among ... |
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97,28 zł |
A Dragon's Growing Pains
ISBN: 9798986014562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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105,28 zł |
Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails
ISBN: 9780802140630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In what The Washington Post has called fascinating, Frank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the American West. Wagons West is a stirring history of the years from 1840 to 1849--the years between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California in those years. Although they used mountain men as guides, they went almost literally into the unknown, braving dangers from hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning....
In what The Washington Post has called fascinating, Frank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the...
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83,37 zł |
Working Time and Holidays: A Practical Legal Guide
ISBN: 9780199551699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Working Time and Holidays: A Practical Legal Guide acts as a concise, affordable, and practical guide to the Working Time Regulations 1998. There were 55,712 claims registered in the Employment Tribunals as "Working Time" claims in 2008, and the area is increasingly one on which almost all employment lawyers will need to advise. The book aims to demystify what is viewed as a difficult and technical area of the law.
The book examines topics such as the maximum working week, rest and breaks, annual leave, night work, young workers, and unfair dismissal, detriment and enforcement. The... Working Time and Holidays: A Practical Legal Guide acts as a concise, affordable, and practical guide to the Working Time Regulations 1998. There were...
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590,31 zł |
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
ISBN: 9780415010146 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did ...
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693,51 zł |
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
ISBN: 9781138878235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did ...
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225,98 zł |
Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor
ISBN: 9781844135271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. By the author of the acclaimed 'Lionheart and Lackland', here is a biography of the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. Though a persecutor of Christians, Marcus holds out the prospect of spirituality for atheists, happiness without God, joy without heaven and morality without religion.
By the author of the acclaimed 'Lionheart and Lackland', here is a biography of the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. Though a persecutor of Christ...
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86,91 zł |
Marcus Aurelius: A Life
ISBN: 9780306819162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity whose life and words still speak to us today. His Meditations remains one of the most widely read books from the classical world, and his life represents the fulfillment of Plato's famous dictum that mankind will prosper only when philosophers are rulers. Based on all available original sources, Marcus Aurelius is the definitive biography to date of this monumental historical figure.
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity whose life and words still speak to us today. His Meditations remains one...
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104,17 zł |
Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution
ISBN: 9780786710881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Recounting the decade of bloody events that followed the eruption of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Villa and Zapata explores the regional, international, cultural, racial, and economic strife that made the rebels Francisco (Pancho) Villa and Emiliano Zapata legends. Throughout this volume drama colludes with history, in a tale of two social outlaws who became legendary national heroes, yet--despite their triumph and only meeting, in 1914, in the Mexican capital--failed to make common cause and ultimately fell victim to intrigues more treacherous than their own. 16 pages of black-and-white...
Recounting the decade of bloody events that followed the eruption of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Villa and Zapata explores the regional, internati...
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138,55 zł |
Invasion: From the Armada to Hitler (1588-1945)
ISBN: 9781909979321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ""Has anybody done more - done as much - as Frank McLynn in writing intelligent, combative, thoroughly researched and thoroughly readable history?"" - The Independent
Most people know that Britain was invaded by the Romans, by the Vikings and by the Normans. Many will know about the Spanish Armada, launched by Philip II in 1588 to bring Protestant England to submission. But fewer people know that Philip launched a second armada in 1596 or that invasion plans were drawn up by the French in 1692, 1708, 1743, 1756, 1759, 1796 and 1801, and by the French together with the Spanish in 1779. In... ""Has anybody done more - done as much - as Frank McLynn in writing intelligent, combative, thoroughly researched and thoroughly readable history?"" -...
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61,24 zł |
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
ISBN: 9780099551782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Against the epic backdrop of the impenetrable jungles of Burma, Frank McLynn constructs the dramatic story of the four larger-than-life commanders who directed the Allied efforts against the Japanese: Louis Mountbatten, Orde Wingate, Joseph Stilwell and William Slim.
Against the epic backdrop of the impenetrable jungles of Burma, Frank McLynn constructs the dramatic story of the four larger-than-life commanders who...
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81,06 zł |
Richard and John: Kings at War
ISBN: 9780306817380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Legend and lore surround the history of kings Richard and John, from the ballads of Robin Hood and the novels of Sir Walter Scott to Hollywood movies. Frank McLynn has returned to the original sources to discover what Richard and John, the warring sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, were really like, and how their history measures up to the old legends. "With narrative panache and anecdotal detail" (The Independent), McLynn explores the truth behind the early folklore tradition, confirming that "Richard was everything you'd hoped for, and his brother John was the toad you'd...
Legend and lore surround the history of kings Richard and John, from the ballads of Robin Hood and the novels of Sir Walter Scott to Hollywood movies....
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108,34 zł |
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
ISBN: 9781784703509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller'. (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon? Credited by some with paving the way for the Renaissance, condemned by others for being the most heinous murderer in history, who was Genghis Khan? His actual name was Temujin,...
The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller'. (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conq...
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86,91 zł |
1066: The Year of The Three Battles
ISBN: 9780712666725 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In recent years it has become customary to assume that William the Conqueror's victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 was virtually inevitable, given the alleged superiority of Norman military technology. In this study, underpinned by biographical sketches of the great warriors who fought for the crown of England in 1066, the author aims to show that this view is mistaken. The Battle on Senlac Hill was a desperately close run thing, which Harold lost only because of an incredible run of bad fortune and some treachery from the Saxon elite in England.
In recent years it has become customary to assume that William the Conqueror's victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 was virtually inevitable, giv...
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86,91 zł |
Christian Politics and Religious Culture in Late Antiquity
ISBN: 9780754659921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. These essays deal with two central preoccupations: the new styles of political behaviour developed by Christian rulers and Christian congregations during the century or so after Constantine's conversion, and the experiments in religious self-presentation which are reflected in our sources from the same period. The first topic is covered in papers dealing with such activities as outbursts of popular rioting and exhibitions of imperial penance, and with legislation by emperors and lobbying by bishops; the second in papers on the inscriptions erected by pagan aristocrats, on the self-images...
These essays deal with two central preoccupations: the new styles of political behaviour developed by Christian rulers and Christian congregations dur...
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719,20 zł |
1759 : The Year Britain Became Master of the World
ISBN: 9780099526391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Drawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the Caribbean to the Pacific; the plains of the Ganges to the Great Lakes of North America.
Drawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the ...
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70,25 zł |
A Dragon's Growing Pains
ISBN: 9798986014548 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,02 zł |
A Son for the Alien Warrior
ISBN: 9781674209944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,86 zł |
Mama and the Alien Warrior: Treasured by the Alien
ISBN: 9781096979173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,86 zł |
Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capitalvolume 22
ISBN: 9780520084612 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this new and illuminating interpretation of Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, Neil McLynn thoroughly sifts the evidence surrounding this very difficult personality. The result is a richly detailed interpretation of Ambrose's actions and writings that penetrates the bishop's painstaking presentation of self. McLynn succeeds in revealing Ambrose's manipulation of events without making him too Machiavellian. Having synthesized the vast complex of scholarship available on the late fourth century, McLynn also presents an impressive study of the politics and history of the Christian...
In this new and illuminating interpretation of Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, Neil McLynn thoroughly sifts the evidence surrounding this ve...
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335,27 zł |