wyszukanych pozycji: 16
The Great Explosion : Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes
ISBN: 9780241956762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place: shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a brilliant piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and...
A masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place: shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize In April 1916, shortl...
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87,48 zł |
The Hypochondriacs
ISBN: 9780865479463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Charlotte Bronte found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified by disease and by the idea of disease. Glenn Gould claimed a friendly pat on his shoulder had destroyed his ability to play piano. And we all know someone who has trawled the Internet in solitude, seeking to pinpoint the source of his or her fantastical symptoms. "The Hypochondriacs "is a... Charlotte Bronte found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The ... |
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78,44 zł |
Affinities: On Art and Fascination
ISBN: 9781681377261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,57 zł |
Essayism
ISBN: 9781910695418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. ESSAYISM is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point.
ESSAYISM is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it desc...
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66,30 zł |
Affinities
ISBN: 9781804270165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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71,40 zł |
Suppose a Sentence
ISBN: 9781913097011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. SUPPOSE A SENTENCE is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
SUPPOSE A SENTENCE is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
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56,09 zł |
Tormented Hope : Nine Hypochondriac Lives
ISBN: 9780141044057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian Books of the Year Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping. With a new afterword on Michael Jackson. Brian Dillon's first book, In the...
'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian Books of the Year Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondr...
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87,48 zł |
Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis and Disaster Management
ISBN: 9780198712909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response. Primarily focused on the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, it has been developed from the highly regarded Emergency Planning Officers' Handbook.
The complete toolkit for anyone involved in emergency planning, business continuity, and resilience management, this must-have guide offers a comprehensive, chronological guide to each stage of emergency planning, from creating a plan or exercise through to... Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, res...
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193,35 zł |
Eat The Rich
ISBN: 9780615576503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thomas Jones is an unlikely hero. As average as a man can be, thirty-five year old Thomas has lived a life of utter struggling boredom. Shifting endlessly between jobs managing the efforts of cashiers, dishwashers, and roller-skating waitresses, he is but another floating soul in the void of retail Americana. Thomas is a remarkably unremarkable man who lives with his mother in the small, beachside locale of Wildwood NJ. Constantly in flux, it is ghostly in winter and then set ablaze by the encroaching masses of boozy, bong-smoking, board-walk marching high school seniors from Long Island....
Thomas Jones is an unlikely hero. As average as a man can be, thirty-five year old Thomas has lived a life of utter struggling boredom. Shifting endle...
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86,89 zł |
Objects in This Mirror
ISBN: 9781934105795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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118,10 zł |
Wilhelm Sasnal
ISBN: 9780847868650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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433,76 zł |
Target Validation in Drug Discovery
ISBN: 9780123693938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work presents a comprehensive contemporary framework for approaching target validation in drug discovery. It begins with a detailed description of new enabling technologies, including aptamers, RNA interference, functional genomics, and proteomics. The next section looks at biologic drug development with in-depth discussion of lessons learned from such well-known cases as Erbitux, Herceptin, and Avastin. Additional targets known as "second generation" drugs, which can be identified when disease pathways are validated by biologics, present new possible small molecule therapeutics and...
This work presents a comprehensive contemporary framework for approaching target validation in drug discovery. It begins with a detailed description o...
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707,86 zł |
Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson
ISBN: 9781646420803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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202,14 zł |
Central European Industry in the Information Age
ISBN: 9781138724952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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504,05 zł |
Central European Industry in the Information Age
ISBN: 9781138724938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. It explores quantitative and qualitative overviews of the current state of affairs with respect to computer-networking in industry, and examines prospects and obstacles.
This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. It e...
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155,86 zł |
Indian Warfare in Baja California 1533-1857
ISBN: 9781981975518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,76 zł |