wyszukanych pozycji: 691
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
ISBN: 9780143127543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction
The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance. Dwight Garner, The New York Times James Joyce s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable... Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction
The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura p... |
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Priscilla's Spies
ISBN: 9781982087487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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39,76 |
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Our Casualty, and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781023029674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,21 |
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Stranger Thingies: From Felafel to now
ISBN: 9781742235592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer. The pieces contained within these pages run the gamut from the early felafel days to the shiny age we live in where Donald Trump is the President of the USA. And it does not shy away from the greatest controversy of our age: potato cake vs potato scallop. These hilarious pieces cover a wide range of topics from food to...
John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones a...
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Our Casualty and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
ISBN: 9781034931317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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102,30 |
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The Cruel Stars
ISBN: 9780399593338 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2020 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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37,86 |
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Gossamer
ISBN: 9781145072831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York
ISBN: 9781493057757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Stalin's Hammer: The Complete Sequence: A Novel of the Axis of Time (Includes the entire Rome, Cairo and Paris sequence)
ISBN: 9780648003625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The epic alternate history of WW2 becomes a fiery reimagining of the Cold War Ten years have passed since Admiral Kolhammer's 21st century battlefleet was dragged into a wormhole and thrown across oceans of time, emerging with disastrous consequences and shattering the history of the Second World War. Hitler and the Nazis have fallen, but Stalin rules half of Europe and Asia. The great Soviet engines of state power turn and burn to 'set history right'. Not just of the war, but of all future time. In Rome with his lover Julia Duffy, an older, mellower... The epic alternate history of WW2 becomes a fiery reimagining of the Cold War Ten years have passed since Admiral Kolhammer'... |
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Switzerland: A Village History
ISBN: 9780804010658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Switzerland: A Village History is an account of an Alpine village that illuminates the broader history of Switzerland and its rural, local underpinnings. It begins with the colonization of the Alps by Romanized Celtic peoples who came from the plain to clear the wilderness, establish a tiny monastic house, and create a dairy economy that became famous for its cheeses. Over ten centuries the village, like the rest of Switzerland, went through the traumas of religious reformation and political revolution. A single currency, a unified postal service, and eventually an integrated army brought...
Switzerland: A Village History is an account of an Alpine village that illuminates the broader history of Switzerland and its rural, local underpinnin...
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97,70 |
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Floodlight: Book One in the Hercynian Forest Series
ISBN: 9781633042049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Weapons of Choice
ISBN: 9780345457127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On the eve of America's greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . . The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll--and what was to be the most spectacular U.S. triumph of the entire war. Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor--led by... On the eve of America's greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rule... |
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The Right People: A Portrait of the American Social Establishment
ISBN: 9781493024674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Right People is an engrossing and illuminating journey through the customs and habits of the phenomenally wealthy, from the San Francisco elite to the upper crust of New York's Westchester County.
The Right People is an engrossing and illuminating journey through the customs and habits of the phenomenally wealthy, from the San Francisco elite to...
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Real Lace: America's Irish Rich
ISBN: 9781493024704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here, in this engrossing and often hilarious book, Stephen Birmingham explores how the Irish elite emerged in America-frequently in less than a generation's time-out of poverty into positions of both social and business prominence.
Here, in this engrossing and often hilarious book, Stephen Birmingham explores how the Irish elite emerged in America-frequently in less than a genera...
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68,04 |
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Netezza Transformation: Taming the dragon without alchemy, sorcery or strange potions
ISBN: 9781453874059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With the global volume and complexity of data growing practically by the hour, the world needs a platform that can actually harness it, distill it and organize it in time to actually get some value from it. From retail analysis trying to capture market share in a sea of billions of records, to compliance agencies attempting to detect needle-in-haystack stock fraud among the countless billions of trade orders arriving daily, and internet traders and advertisers sifting the ocean of web clicks for opportunity - among only a few - what other technology but Netezza could master all this, make...
With the global volume and complexity of data growing practically by the hour, the world needs a platform that can actually harness it, distill it and...
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A Concise History of Portugal
ISBN: 9781108424196 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A third edition of this reliable and accessible single-volume history of Portugal, bringing the story up to date by addressing recent changes to Portugal and Europe.
A third edition of this reliable and accessible single-volume history of Portugal, bringing the story up to date by addressing recent changes to Portu...
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The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
ISBN: 9781493070671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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A Padre in France
ISBN: 9781982087418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Portugal and Africa
ISBN: 9780896802377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Portugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniquely accessible historical essays, surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots. The Portuguese established sugar plantations on Africa's offshore islands and built factories on the beaches in the fifteenth century, but Professor Birmingham explains that their focus shifted to regions where medieval African miners had discovered deep seams of gold ore. Later, when even richer mines and more fertile lands were captured from the native...
Portugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniqu...
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Trade and Empire in the Atlantic 1400-1600
ISBN: 9780415232067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Trade and Empire in the Atlantic 1400-1600 provides an accessible and concise introduction to European expansion overseas during the early modern period. It explains why and how seafarers visited the Caribbean, South America and Africa, and looks at the history of the communities that lived around the ocean as they responded to the challenges and opportunities which sea trade opened for them.
Historical thinking on the subject of Empire is naturally controversial as is shown by this survey of the first four stages of early Atlantic colonisation from the conquest of the Canary... Trade and Empire in the Atlantic 1400-1600 provides an accessible and concise introduction to European expansion overseas during the early mo...
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