wyszukanych pozycji: 35
A Democracy Of Despots
ISBN: 9780813328942 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In A Democracy of Despots correspondent Donald Murray provides an eyewitness account of the struggle for power in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev and in Russia under Boris Yeltsin, showing how both men used and abused the democratic institutions they helped make possible. The story he tells of the emerging democratic government is one of ambitious men and women who optimistically launched their experiment in democracy only to find themselves at war with one another and mired in the habits of rule by fiat.It was this approach, Murray argues, that eventually discredited not only...
In A Democracy of Despots correspondent Donald Murray provides an eyewitness account of the struggle for power in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbac...
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193,35 zł |
A Democracy of Despots
ISBN: 9780773513600 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Democracy of Despots is a history of Soviet and Russian experiments with democratic institutions from 1988 to 1995. Based on eye-witness accounts and in-depth interviews with most of the political leaders in this drama, it tells the story of the men and women who began an experiment in euphoria only to find themselves at war with one another five years later. Arguing that Gorbachev and Yeltsin used the democratic institutions they created to crush political opponents and increase their own personal power, Murray concludes that the rise of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the war in Chechnya are not...
A Democracy of Despots is a history of Soviet and Russian experiments with democratic institutions from 1988 to 1995. Based on eye-witness accounts an...
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167,27 zł |
The Salt and the Flame
ISBN: 9781915089892 / Miękka / 2024 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,46 zł |
In a Veil of Mist
ISBN: 9781913393007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A poisoned breeze blows across the waves ... Operation Cauldron, 1952: Top-secret germ warfare experiments on monkeys and guinea pigs are taking place aboard a vessel moored off the Isle of Lewis. Local villagers Jessie and Duncan encounter strange sights on the deserted beach nearby and suspect the worst.
A poisoned breeze blows across the waves ... Operation Cauldron, 1952: Top-secret germ warfare experiments on monkeys and guinea pigs are taking place...
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73,68 zł |
A Democracy of Despots
ISBN: 9780367314224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In A Democracy of Despots correspondent Donald Murray provides an eyewitness account of the struggle for power in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev and in Russia under Boris Yeltsin, showing how both men used and abused the democratic institutions they helped make possible. The story he tells of the emerging democratic government is one of ambitious
In A Democracy of Despots correspondent Donald Murray provides an eyewitness account of the struggle for power in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev and...
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705,63 zł |
Divine Perogative and Royal Pretension: Pragmatics, Poetics and Polemics in a Narrative Sequence about David (2 Samuel 5.17-7.29)
ISBN: 9781850759300 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this close reading of a text central to the story of David, the author, using the tools of linguistic pragmatics and poetics, exposes the text's promotion of a prophetic-based ideology, through a polemical rhetoric that polarizes David and Yahweh around the opposed notions of king (melek) and leader (nagid). He then goes on to analyse the context, in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology and in Samuel, for how the text develops this opposition, and finally reflects on its promulgation of the supreme mediacy of the prophetic word. In this close reading of a text central to the story of David, the author, using the tools of linguistic pragmatics and poetics, exposes the text's... |
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993,11 zł |
The Call of the Cormorant
ISBN: 9781913393540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,46 zł |
Out Of Context: random thoughts, yet not
ISBN: 9781989593141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,30 zł |
Terrian Journals' News To Me: missing facts, stories, questions, & usage
ISBN: 9781989593400 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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114,06 zł |
Exile Journals: neither here nor there?
ISBN: 9781989593127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,38 zł |
Issuing Citations: (thoughts in adventure taken out of context)
ISBN: 9781989593448 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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59,29 zł |
Next Journals (one): Steps
ISBN: 9781989593301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,38 zł |
Tenjin Journals
ISBN: 9781989593264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,38 zł |
Mandarinas: Democracy vs. Pedantocracy (excellence-indifference-mediocrity-scandal)
ISBN: 9781989593226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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119,77 zł |
Terrian Journals Origins: pre-adventuredate postings (part three)
ISBN: 9781989593103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,20 zł |
Next Journals (three): Moves
ISBN: 9781989593424 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,38 zł |
Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History
ISBN: 9781399409148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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61,76 zł |
For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland's Lighthouses
ISBN: 9781849173278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,22 zł |
Red Star Over Hebrides
ISBN: 9781739207717 / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,22 zł |
The Man Who Talks to Birds
ISBN: 9781913393144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Donald S Murray is widely recognised for his empathy and remarkable ability to convey emotion with restraint and poignancy. In this short collection of poems written during lockdown at his Shetland home, Murray explores the changing geography of the island and how it has, in turn, changed him
Donald S Murray is widely recognised for his empathy and remarkable ability to convey emotion with restraint and poignancy. In this short collection o...
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41,16 zł |