wyszukanych pozycji: 21
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Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters
ISBN: 9781837730711 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and inky whether your eyes are open or closed? Where you can't see your hand in front of your face? Jacqueline Yallop can. It was in an unfamiliar bedroom while holidaying in Yorkshire as a child, and ever since then she has been fascinated by the dark, by our efforts to capture or avoid it, by the meanings we give to it and the way our brains process it. Taking a journey into the dark secrets of place, body and mind, she documents a series of night-time walks, exploring both the physical...
Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and inky whether your eyes are open or closed? Where you...
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In God's Name: An Investigation Into the Murder of Pope John Paul I
ISBN: 9780786719846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An investigation into the murder of Pope John Paul I.
An investigation into the murder of Pope John Paul I.
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How They Stole the Game
ISBN: 9781780334011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Reveals the story of Joao Havelenge, Fifa President from 1974 to 1998, the Godfather of football, and how he turned a religion to millions of fans into a multi-billion dollar business, riven with suspicious deals and unexpected payments.
Reveals the story of Joao Havelenge, Fifa President from 1974 to 1998, the Godfather of football, and how he turned a religion to millions of fans int...
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65,23 |
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Beyond Belief: The Catholic Church and the Child Abuse Scandal
ISBN: 9781849016360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. David Yallop, author of 'In God's Name', looks at the news stories concerning widespread child abuse by priests and shows how the Vatican is not telling the full story.
David Yallop, author of 'In God's Name', looks at the news stories concerning widespread child abuse by priests and shows how the Vatican is not telli...
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Dreamstreets: A Journey Through Britain’s Village Utopias
ISBN: 9780099584636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A history of one of the most enduring experiments of Victorian philanthropy -- the 'model' village.
Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop began her working life leading guided walks at a small village high in the fells of the North Pennines. Built by philanthropic employers for families working the lead mines, the isolated settlement was one of a network of 'model' villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Dreamstreets, Yallop visits, and re-visits, some of these utopian experiments to explore their rich histories and to... A history of one of the most enduring experiments of Victorian philanthropy -- the 'model' village.
Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop beg... |
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The Power and the Glory
ISBN: 9780465015429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pope John Paul II was a leader to millions of Catholics at a time of tremendous change. Promising a renewed church, he became a symbol of hope worldwide. Now, four years after his death, calls for his sainthood continue. But is this the whole truth? In The Power and the Glory, David Yallop explores the myths and half truths of John Paul II's long reign, revealing everything from the mismanagement of Vatican finance and the child sexual abuse crisis to the Vatican's role in the fall of Communism and the rise of the Opus Dei. Including explosive revelations from the CIA, the KGB, and the...
Pope John Paul II was a leader to millions of Catholics at a time of tremendous change. Promising a renewed church, he became a symbol of hope worldwi...
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Obedience
ISBN: 9780857891013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this shattering novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Jacqueline Yallop tells an unforgettable story of collaboration, betrayal, illicit love, faith and desire.
In this shattering novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Jacqueline Yallop tells an unforgettable story of collaboration, betrayal, illicit love, faith a...
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The Power and The Glory
ISBN: 9781845296735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 770 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presents the true history of the papacy of John Paul II. This book explores the continued financial scandal involving the Vatican bank, the mafia, Freemasonry, illegal money laundering and arms sales. It also tells John Paul II's real involvement in the fa
Presents the true history of the papacy of John Paul II. This book explores the continued financial scandal involving the Vatican bank, the mafia, Fre...
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Obedience
ISBN: 9780143120674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in contemporary and World War II France, this is the story of Sister Bernard: her forbidden love, her uncertain faith, and her guilt- ridden past.
A once -bustling convent in the South of France is closing, leaving behind three elderly nuns. Forced, for the first time, to confront the community that she betrayed decades ago, Sister Bernard relives her life during the war. At thirty, Sister Bernard can hear the voice of God-strident, furious, and personal. When a young Nazi soldier, a member of the German occupying forces, asks her to meet him in the church in secret one evening,... Set in contemporary and World War II France, this is the story of Sister Bernard: her forbidden love, her uncertain faith, and her guilt- ridden past....
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Marlford
ISBN: 9780857891051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ellie Barton has spent her young life living in the dilapidated manor house with her elderly father. Her duty is to her aristocratic lineage, something of which she is often reminded by those few people around her. But Marlford, the local village founded by her grandfather, is in decay - subsidence from the old salt mines is destroying the buildings, the books in the memorial library are mouldering, and old loyalties and assumptions are shifting. When two idealistic young men decide to squat in the closed wing of the house, they show her a world much wider than Marlford, and Ellie begins to...
Ellie Barton has spent her young life living in the dilapidated manor house with her elderly father. Her duty is to her aristocratic lineage, somethin...
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66,83 |
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The Cavalry Lance
ISBN: 9781472816184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The development of cavalry firearms and the widespread disappearance of armor from the European battlefield saw a decline in the use of the cavalry lance in early modern warfare. However, by 1800 the lance, much changed from its medieval predecessors in both form and function, was back. During the next century the use of the lance spread to the armed forces of almost every Western country, seeing action in every major conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to World War I including the Crimean and Franco-Prussian wars and across the Atlantic in the American Civil War. The lance even... The development of cavalry firearms and the widespread disappearance of armor from the European battlefield saw a decline in the use of the cavalry... |
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Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters
ISBN: 9781837730728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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In God's Name
ISBN: 9781845294960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Denounced by the Vatican as 'fanciful and absurd', this title presents an investigation into Pope John Paul I's death just 33 days after his election. It is a tale of intrigue,murder and corruption. It reveals the dark heart of the Vatican via a trail of evidence that connects the papacy, the masons, Opus Dei and the mafia.
Denounced by the Vatican as 'fanciful and absurd', this title presents an investigation into Pope John Paul I's death just 33 days after his election....
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Big Pig, Little Pig : A Year on a Smallholding in South-West France
ISBN: 9780241977156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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66,83 |
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Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9781138662230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for 'aging' existed at this time, a person's age was a significant aspect of their identity.
Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for 'aging' existed at this time, a p...
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Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9781848934016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for 'aging' existed at this time, a person's age was a significant aspect of their identity.
Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for 'aging' existed at this time, a p...
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Dream Latin: Writing the Subconscious
ISBN: 9781916938984 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Dialectic of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781608997015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Dialectic of Enlightenment is a thought-provoking introduction to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno first identified the ""dialectic of enlightenment"" when fascism was on the rampage in Europe. They warned that enlightened reason and societal freedom threaten to revert into blindness and oppression. Herbert Marcuse and the young Jurgen Habermas elaborated their Critical Theory, declaring that post-war society has not escaped this dilemma, blinded as it is by ideology, pseudo-democracy, and mass manipulation. Critical Theory aims to unmask modern...
Dialectic of Enlightenment is a thought-provoking introduction to the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno first ide...
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Fiction in the Field: Creative Writing in Conversation with Stem
ISBN: 9781350444676 / Angielski / 19-02-2026 Książka dostępna od: 19-02-2026 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 19-02-2026
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Fiction in the Field: Creative Writing in Conversation with Stem
ISBN: 9781350444683 / Angielski / 19-02-2026 Książka dostępna od: 19-02-2026 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 19-02-2026
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