wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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The Danger Tree: Memory, War and the Search for a Family's Past
ISBN: 9780802776167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Emulating the circuitous tales told by his mother's relatives, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, David Macfarlane has crafted a masterpiece of history and memory that will remain indelibly in the minds of its readers. Macfarlane weaves the major events of Newfoundland's twentieth century-the ravages of tuberculosis; the great seal-hunt disaster; the bitter debate over whether to become part of Canada; and above all, the First World War-into a saga of the ill-starred yet heroic fortunes of his family, who were rarely in control of events but often at the center of them. With deep affection, he...
Emulating the circuitous tales told by his mother's relatives, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, David Macfarlane has crafted a masterpiece of history an...
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53,61 zł |
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The Figures of Beauty
ISBN: 9780062307187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Rich, imaginative. . . . One of the best novels I've read all year."--Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last Supper A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty, and the choices we make that define us for life. In 1968 a young man travels to Paris, where a series of unlikely events takes him to a tiny village in Italy--and to the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble... "Rich, imaginative. . . . One of the best novels I've read all year."--Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last Supper A sensuous,... |
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65,29 zł |
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Feeding The Masses: A Quick Guide To Being a Successful Product Development Chef
ISBN: 9781519677723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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45,56 zł |
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Climate Sense: A Layman's Guide to Climate Change
ISBN: 9781794452770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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78,56 zł |
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Building Paradise: A True Adventure
ISBN: 9781731510365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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89,09 zł |
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Summer Gone
ISBN: 9780385720755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) David Macfarlane's Summer Gone introduces a writer of incandescent literary skill and beautifully evokes the sometimes painful relationship between father and son.
When Bay Newby is twelve he is sent north for the first time, and he falls in love with the life of ritual, beauty, and stark privilege of summer camp. Then the death of his baby sister calls him home, and it will be twenty-three years before his next "perfect summer." The summer he spends with his young son will contain loss also, but also discovery and redemption.""Summer Gone is a novel of layered experience, of life, death... David Macfarlane's Summer Gone introduces a writer of incandescent literary skill and beautifully evokes the sometimes painful relationship between fa...
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76,86 zł |
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Security, Strategy, and the Global Economics of Defence
ISBN: 9780889118751 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Security, Strategy, and the Global Economics of Defence Production features contributions from a broad range of policy analysts and practitioners in Canada and the United Kingdom whose primary concern is to identify and analyse the major challenges that Ottawa and London will be facing in the coming decade. Among the issues and challenges considered are understanding the changing nature of threat and risk to security interests, devising appropriate means of harnessing and responding to technological change in warfare, and assessing the relative merits of regional defence-industrial groupings...
Security, Strategy, and the Global Economics of Defence Production features contributions from a broad range of policy analysts and practitioners in C...
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141,40 zł |