wyszukanych pozycji: 41
Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore\'s Deadliest Gang Leader
ISBN: 9780802162427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David Simon’s classic HBO series “The Wire.” Drug deals dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds. Montana Barronette grew up in the center of it all. He was the leader of the gang...
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notor...
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122,01 zł |
Stop Wasting Your Time As A Therapist!: Focus your time where you can add the most value
ISBN: 9798743732241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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54,86 zł |
The Three Battles of Wanat : And Other True Stories
ISBN: 9781611855579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author Mark Bowden has had a prolific career as one of America's leading journalists. The Three Battles of Wanat and Other Stories gathers together many of his articles, previously published in The Atlantic and Vanity Fair among others, to create a broad collection of some of Bowden's most notable pieces.
New York Times bestselling author Mark Bowden has had a prolific career as one of America's leading journalists. The Three Battles of Wanat and Other ...
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98,42 zł |
Black Hawk Down
ISBN: 9780552999656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. When the unit was rescued the following morning, 18 American soldiers were dead and more than 70 badly injured. The Somali toll was...
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of t...
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49,18 zł |
Wednesday Wanders: A light-hearted Account of Weekly Adventures along the Footpaths of Southeast England
ISBN: 9781803817460 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,52 zł |
Bringing the Heat
ISBN: 9780871137722 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bringing the Heat is the story of one team's season-long campaign for the NFL championship, told through the personal stories of the men on the field and the coaches, managers, and owner on the sidelines. The team is the 1992 Philadelphia Eagles, a group of players assembled in the iconoclastic image of their former head coach Buddy Ryan. They are known throughout the league for their ferocious defense and for the otherworldly talents of their quarterback Randall Cunningham.
Award-winning journalist Mark Bowden gets deep inside the world of professional football in a way no writer has ever... Bringing the Heat is the story of one team's season-long campaign for the NFL championship, told through the personal stories of the men on the field ...
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87,15 zł |
Black Hawk Down
ISBN: 9780552178976 / Miękka / 2021 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia.
Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 ...
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56,09 zł |
Use Your Brain Raise Your Game: The professional footballer's guide to peak performance
ISBN: 9781781332689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What sets the very best footballers apart from the rest? It's not about ability but about being able to perform at your peak level consistently. You train your ability regularly, but do you leave your form down to 'luck' and simply hope you have a good game? Thanks to developments in our understanding of how the brain works, you can now effectively train to improve your form by conditioning your thoughts and behaviour in all aspects of your life. This engages the parts of the brain that enable you to perform consistently on the football pitch. Using... What sets the very best footballers apart from the rest? It's not about ability but about being able to perform at your peak... |
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78,04 zł |
Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
ISBN: 9781804710418 / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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56,09 zł |
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781611855081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Bowden's most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centrepiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American war in Vietnam.
Bowden's most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centrepiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American war in Vietnam.
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76,50 zł |
Polowanie na Escobara
ISBN: 9788368263473 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Prawdziwa historia potęgi i upadku najsłynniejszego barona narkotykowego Pablo Escobar był jednym z najbogatszych kryminalistów w historii. U szczytu potęgi kontrolował osiemdziesiąt procent światowego rynku kokainy, dyktując warunki kolumbijskiej władzy i grając na nosie Stanom Zjednoczonym. Rozpętał terror zamachów i krwawą wojnę narkotykową. Jego sława wykroczyła daleko poza granice obu Ameryk. Bezwzględność, arogancja i wyrachowanie sprawiły, że imię Escobara do dziś owiane jest legendą, a jego biografia stała się podstawą popularnego serialu Narcos.Mark...
Prawdziwa historia potęgi i upadku najsłynniejszego barona narkotykowego Pablo Escobar był jednym z najbogatszych kryminalistów w historii. U sz...
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52,16 zł |
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde
ISBN: 9781611854572 / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. From Mark Bowden, a 'master of narrative journalism' (New York Times), comes a true-crime collection both deeply chilling and impossible to put down.
From Mark Bowden, a 'master of narrative journalism' (New York Times), comes a true-crime collection both deeply chilling and impossible to put down.
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45,89 zł |
The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
ISBN: 9780802144126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The bestselling author Black Hawk Down writes the remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants--considered by many to be the greatest football game ever played.
The bestselling author Black Hawk Down writes the remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants--considered by m...
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78,44 zł |
The Stonehenge Landscape: Analysing the Stonehenge World Heritage Site
ISBN: 9781848021167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Stonehenge is arguably the greatest prehistoric monument in western Europe; as a World Heritage Site it ranks in significance with such sites as the Acropolis of Athens, the Pyramids of Giza, Great Zimbabwe and Machu Picchu. Stonehenge sits at the heart of a landscape rich in other monuments and remains of the Neolithic period and Bronze Age that are also part of the World Heritage Site. Recent research by English Heritage s landscape archaeologists within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site has led to the identification of previously unknown sites and, perhaps even more importantly, the...
Stonehenge is arguably the greatest prehistoric monument in western Europe; as a World Heritage Site it ranks in significance with such sites as the A...
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175,06 zł |
Archaeology of Town Commons in England: 'A Very Fair Field Indeed'
ISBN: 9781848020351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first published overview of the archaeology of urban common land. By recognising that urban common land represents a valid historical entity, this book contributes towards successful informed conservation. It contains a variety of interesting and illuminating illustrations, including contemporary and archive photographs. Historically, towns in England were provided with common lands for grazing the draft animals of townspeople engaged in trade and for the pasturing of farm animals in an economy where the rural and the urban were inextricably mixed. The commons yielded wood,...
This is the first published overview of the archaeology of urban common land. By recognising that urban common land represents a valid historical enti...
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120,35 zł |
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
ISBN: 9780802144737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, "Black Hawk Down" is Mark Bowden s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily...
Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, "Black Hawk Down" is Mark Bowden s brilliant account of the longest su...
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87,15 zł |
Killing Pablo
ISBN: 9781786490711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The bestselling blockbusting story of how American Special Forces hunted down and assassinated the head of the world's biggest cocaine cartel. Now the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos.
The bestselling blockbusting story of how American Special Forces hunted down and assassinated the head of the world's biggest cocaine cartel. Now t...
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56,09 zł |
Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers
ISBN: 9780521106221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827 1900) was influential in four fields during his lifetime: military training, anthropology, archaeology and public education. Yet very little is known about his career, character, or motivation. Mark Bowden has written an entertaining and thoroughly researched biography of the General, which describes his stormy relationships with his wife, children, colleagues, tenants and dependants; his military career; his activities in public education; and his contributions to anthropology and archaeology. In particular he assesses...
A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827 1900) was influential in four fields during his lifetime: military training, ...
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217,74 zł |
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
ISBN: 9780802137579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the true story that "The Baltimore Sun" calls "shocking . . . briskly and brilliantly told" of Larry Lavin, a wealthy dentist who built the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales.
From the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the true story that "The Baltimore Sun" calls "shocking . . . briskly and brilliantly told" of ...
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74,08 zł |
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It
ISBN: 9781611854275 / Miękka / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,30 zł |