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A Midsummer Night Stream: Scenes from an angling life
ISBN: 9781861519320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,77 zł |
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The Crocodile's Teeth: Trading, Tyranny and Terrorism on Two Continents
ISBN: 9781908223234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The evil thugs of Idi Amin's Uganda and the fanatical bombers and machine-gun-toting terrorists of Mumbai make The Crocodile's Teeth a gripping tale of one man's survival and resourcefulness set against a background of tyranny, terror and hardship on two continents. Sam Thaker was born to Indian immigrant parents in Uganda in the days when it was one of the most beautiful, fertile and contented countries in the world. Then Idi Amin swept to power, and under his tyranny Sam's paradise became a hell on Earth. Having been forced by Amin's thugs to give up their home, Sam's thriving airline cargo...
The evil thugs of Idi Amin's Uganda and the fanatical bombers and machine-gun-toting terrorists of Mumbai make The Crocodile's Teeth a gripping tale o...
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51,12 zł |
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From Smuggling to Cotton Kings - The Greg Story
ISBN: 9780956510228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Smuggling to Cotton Kings is the story of the Greg Family, who helped to shape the economic fortunes of Britain for more than two centuries. It tells of their rise to power and prominence in the fields of textiles, shipping, banking and marine insurance, their role in the industrial revolution and how their fortunes declined in the 20th century. In 1715 John Greg, a descendant of the McGregor clan, sailed from the family home in Ayrshire to seek his fortune in Ulster. He soon built a successful business as a merchant, his own sons becoming successful businessmen. Half a century later two...
From Smuggling to Cotton Kings is the story of the Greg Family, who helped to shape the economic fortunes of Britain for more than two centuries. It t...
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50,99 zł |
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How to Live the Life You Deserve: The Inspiring True Story of a Family's Faith and Courage Through Many of Life's Challenges, and How They Discovered the Secrets of Happiness and Success
ISBN: 9781909020016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The true story of a family's faith and courage through many of life's challenges and how they discovered the secrets of success, abundance, wealth and happiness. Having found the key I now wish to share this wonderful transformation of mine with others and above all to inspire them.
The true story of a family's faith and courage through many of life's challenges and how they discovered the secrets of success, abundance, wealth and...
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59,03 zł |
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Little Girl Lost: Who Do You Turn to When You Have No Name, No Home, No Family?
ISBN: 9781908223418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Ingrid Steel was first put into an orphanage at the age of four, she did not even know her real name. Nor would anyone tell her who her parents were, or what had happened to them. After years of bullying, deprivation and gratuitous punishment - even sexual abuse - in a series of homes and orphanages, she was incarcerated first in a borstal, then in a mental hospital. One day after returning to the orphanage, Ingrid made a secret pilgrimage to Somerset House in London to discover her real identity. She came back in triumph clutching her precious birth certificate - only to have it taken...
When Ingrid Steel was first put into an orphanage at the age of four, she did not even know her real name. Nor would anyone tell her who her parents w...
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53,94 zł |
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Ten Bob an Hour: An Apprentice's Story
ISBN: 9781908223111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the Quarrymen and a pint of mild cost one shilling and threepence. Five years of dirt and grind, legpulls, laughter and sheer hard graft later, Steve was a skilled turner and fitter, schooled the old-fashioned way by senior craftsmen who knew how to turn a screw, mill a die or grind a component to half a thousandth of an inch using manually-controlled machine tools, a micrometer and the skill in their fingers. He had also found the time - and saved the money - to marry...
When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the Quarrymen and a pint...
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89,21 zł |
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A Centenarian Looks Back: The Memoirs of William Rigg
ISBN: 9781908223098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. William Rigg was born into a humble Cumbrian family in 1911, eventually becoming one of 13 children. His mother died when he was three and by the age of five he was having to put up with a stepmother's bullying. Often sleeping three in a bed and sharing shoes with his siblings because there weren't enough pairs to go round, he scarcely knew what it was to eat a decent meal. He would scrounge leftovers, steal turnips and potatoes to supplement the family menu and eat hawthorn and nettle leaves from the hedgerows. A bright child, he had to pass up the chance to go to grammar school because...
William Rigg was born into a humble Cumbrian family in 1911, eventually becoming one of 13 children. His mother died when he was three and by the age...
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49,79 zł |
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Charlie Mace and the Big Stink
ISBN: 9781908223708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sniff Street was the dirtiest, scruffiest street in Bogsley, and Miss Potts' house was the most disgusting and revolting of all the disgusting and revolting houses in it. She seemed to take delight in surrounding the place with rubbish, bottles of rancid milk and maggot-infested garbage. And why did one of her eyes stick out like a glassy golf ball? No wonder eleven year-old Charlie Mace did his best to keep away from the place. But one day Charlie finds himself cornered by Miss Potts, and is roughly transported into a strange woodland world, a world in which he encounters a very odd...
Sniff Street was the dirtiest, scruffiest street in Bogsley, and Miss Potts' house was the most disgusting and revolting of all the disgusting and rev...
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52,02 zł |
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The Butterfly's Cage: One Woman's Fight Against Family Tyranny and Marital Abuse
ISBN: 9781908223104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Butterfly's Cage, is the heart wrenching, inspiring true story of a young Pakistani woman's flight to freedom. Suffering familial abuse, tyranny and disownment as a result of refusing to submit to the abuse received by not one but two violent husbands, Shahnaz* opens the doors to a hidden world, illustrating how cultural values can allow human rights violations to prosper and the cost of reputation is integrity, respect and love. Born into a wealthy family with homes in both Britain and Pakistan, she was forced to give up school at the age of 12 in order to care for her younger brothers....
The Butterfly's Cage, is the heart wrenching, inspiring true story of a young Pakistani woman's flight to freedom. Suffering familial abuse, tyranny a...
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49,79 zł |
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A Distance Travelled: A Personal Journey Through Love, Marriage and Industrial Strife
ISBN: 9781908223562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Terence Kearey married for the first time in 1957 Britain was still recovering from the war years, and had further to go than anyone suspected. In the author's case, the economic pressures were exacerbated by a family which was expanding much faster than he had intended or could afford. The result was an economic and emotional downward spiral which ultimately led to the greatest crisis of his life. Finding himself fighting an emotional battle at home and an industrial one at work as he was caught up in the greed, selfishness and restrictive practices of post-war industry, he came near to...
When Terence Kearey married for the first time in 1957 Britain was still recovering from the war years, and had further to go than anyone suspected. I...
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67,20 zł |
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Merely Players: A Story of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781908223937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Against the backdrop of the often turbulent events of the 20th century, this book sets David and Glady Wilkie's personal story in the context of the changing lifestyles of the middle and later decades until their deaths in 1985 and 1986 respectively.
Against the backdrop of the often turbulent events of the 20th century, this book sets David and Glady Wilkie's personal story in the context of the c...
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54,69 zł |
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Love in the Midst of Grief
ISBN: 9781908223814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Love in the midst of grief is the story of a devastating double tragedy; the deaths of two much-loved young men within a short time of one another, one from a terrible virus, the other from unknown causes. Their loss devastated their family. Nine years on, their younger brother-in-law, Satenam Johal, who has a professional background in social care, has written a detailed account of the tragedy and its aftermath. In doing so he hopes not only to help his family in their continuing grief but to provide others who are mourning loved ones to understand and manage the grieving process. The book...
Love in the midst of grief is the story of a devastating double tragedy; the deaths of two much-loved young men within a short time of one another, on...
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80,91 zł |
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Four Poplars: Memories of an Idyllic Broadland Boyhood
ISBN: 9781908223227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'Four Poplars' is about Clifford Davies' childhood when he was brought up in the village of Wroxham in the Norfolk Broads in the early years of the last century, the youngest child of the village schoolmaster. He enjoyed a childhood of extraordinary happiness and security. There was boating and swimming in the River Bure, which still ran crystal clear (the Broads had not yet become a holiday mecca). There were summer picnics on the river, messing about in (and with) boats and games of pirates and explorers. At home there was a great deal of music, singing and amateur dramatics. But life was...
'Four Poplars' is about Clifford Davies' childhood when he was brought up in the village of Wroxham in the Norfolk Broads in the early years of the la...
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62,74 zł |
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How Not to Write a Book: An Insider's Guide to Successful Writing and Publishing for Beginners
ISBN: 9781861514097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now newly updated for 2017. A beginners guide to successful writing and publishing is a must for all budding authors. Asked to name their ideal job, more people in the UK say they would like to be an author than anything else. Yet with more than 200,000 books now being published here a year and over two million worldwide, the competition is getting fiercer by the minute. As editor in chief of a successful self-publishing house, Chris Newton spends most of his waking hours editing and ghostwriting books for other people, and he knows all about how books can go wrong and how they can be put...
Now newly updated for 2017. A beginners guide to successful writing and publishing is a must for all budding authors. Asked to name their ideal job, m...
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47,64 zł |
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Grillos: One Man's Mission to Expose the Corrupt Link Between the Drugs Trade and the Highest Level of Government
ISBN: 9781908223302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New York lawyer Paul Anfield can't take his eyes off the mysterious beauty who appears at his Uncle Lenny's funeral, complete with a bodyguard escort. Then Paul's new boss shows him a top-secret file Lenny left for his colleagues, and he begins to realise that there was more to his uncle, mentor and former boss than anyone realised. The file is pure dynamite. It reveals links at the highest level between big business, the international drugs trade and the US Government. But Paul's attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery quickly draw the attention of some very powerful and dangerous...
New York lawyer Paul Anfield can't take his eyes off the mysterious beauty who appears at his Uncle Lenny's funeral, complete with a bodyguard escort....
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72,43 zł |
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Country Ways: A Rural Community Through the Centuries
ISBN: 9781908223531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a story about the passage of time, from a Norman invasion to a narrowly-avoided German one. It tells of the joys and hardships of life in rural southern England through the seasons and through the centuries. It relates how a family coped with poverty and penury, and how one day in the 1930s a daughter went off to work in a mill. In due course this particular young woman went on to become a lady's maid and eventually a London suburban housewife - and the author's mother. The tale is set in and around the town of Chard in the English West Country, although many of the events described...
This is a story about the passage of time, from a Norman invasion to a narrowly-avoided German one. It tells of the joys and hardships of life in rura...
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63,63 zł |
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History, Heroism and Home: A Family's Story Through Two Thousand Years of History
ISBN: 9781908223548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1816 the author's great-great grandfather, Thomas Kearey, arrived in England to seek his fortune. He was the latest - but by no means the last - in a line of strong and resourceful men. This book is the story of the Keareys, and of their place in history through the centuries. It relates how the Ciardha ('Ciar's people') in the Ireland of the Dark Ages evolved into the modern Keareys, how holders of that name laboured, loved and fought through the centuries, and how in more recent times they were proud to fight with honour for their adopted country of Britain in two world wars. Terence...
In 1816 the author's great-great grandfather, Thomas Kearey, arrived in England to seek his fortune. He was the latest - but by no means the last - in...
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66,75 zł |
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A Dangerous Obsession
ISBN: 9781908223784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For more than two years, Rose Elders and her daughter Elizabeth were hounded, bullied and intimidated almost to the point of madness, all because certain junior public servants misused their power, while senior ones who could have stopped it failed to use theirs as they should have. It all started when Elizabeth found she was being stalked by a well-known local misfit who was clearly trying to gain power over the women in order to get his hands on their money. He made a trumped-up claim to the local Social Services mental health team that Elizabeth was abusing her mother, and when Elizabeth...
For more than two years, Rose Elders and her daughter Elizabeth were hounded, bullied and intimidated almost to the point of madness, all because cert...
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65,28 zł |
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Making Friends with Money: How to Start Feeling Wealthy without Waiting Till You're Rich
ISBN: 9781908223241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sanni Kruger was once so short of money that all she could afford to eat was baked beans and potatoes. Now an accountant, she has published a book designed to help people who don't have enough cash - or simply think they don't - to live more fulfilled lives by changing their attitude to money. Sanni learned about money management as a young girl by helping out at her father's accountancy practice in her home city of Hamburg, Germany. Now living and working in Bristol, she owns and runs Holistic Money Manager, a financial coaching service for people who need help managing their money. She...
Sanni Kruger was once so short of money that all she could afford to eat was baked beans and potatoes. Now an accountant, she has published a book des...
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49,79 zł |
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A Changing World: Home, Family and Working Life in the Mid 20th Century
ISBN: 9781908223555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of life in an English town and an English community as seen through the eyes of an ordinary English family - the author's own. It focuses on the years from the 1930s through to the 1960s and covers a period when the country was changing perhaps faster that it ever has before or since. From a familiar world in which life was simple and expectations modest, values were upheld and the community spirit prevailed, Britain was plunged into the chaos of war at a time when most people could all too clearly recall the horror of the preceding one. Never have the British people pulled...
This is the story of life in an English town and an English community as seen through the eyes of an ordinary English family - the author's own. It fo...
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66,75 zł |
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