wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9781907595219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In 'The Last Resort', journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents' struggle for survival in war-torn Zimbabwe.
In 'The Last Resort', journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents' struggle for ...
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65,99 zł |
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa
ISBN: 9780307407986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit.
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country's long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim... Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege a...
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91,29 zł |
The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism
ISBN: 9780801453731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Click here to read the preface. Russia is among the world's leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet's eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil industry. In The Depths of Russia, Douglas Rogers offers a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of oil's place in Soviet and Russian life, based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in the Perm region of the Urals. Moving beyond models of oil calibrated to capitalist centers and postcolonial -petrostates, - Rogers traces the distinctive contours of the... Click here to read the preface. Russia is among the world's leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet's eighth largest reserves. Like ot... |
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558,04 zł |
The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
ISBN: 9780801447976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence in the town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers, and, now, shareholders in... The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town ... |
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558,04 zł |
Two Weeks in November: The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe
ISBN: 9781780723853 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Two Weeks in Novemberis the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies - a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer - who team up to help unseat one of Africa's longest serving dictators, Robert Mugabe. What begins as an improbable adventure destined for failure, marked by a mixture of bravery, strategic cunning and bumbling naivete, soon turns into the most sophisticated political-military operation in African history. By virtue of their being together, the...
Two Weeks in Novemberis the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies - a high ranking politician, an ...
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65,99 zł |
The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
ISBN: 9780801475207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a presence in the town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers, and, now, shareholders in... The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town ... |
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160,18 zł |
The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism
ISBN: 9780801456589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Click here to read the preface. Russia is among the world's leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet's eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil industry. In The Depths of Russia, Douglas Rogers offers a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of oil's place in Soviet and Russian life, based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in the Perm region of the Urals. Moving beyond models of oil calibrated to capitalist centers and postcolonial -petrostates, - Rogers traces the distinctive contours of the... Click here to read the preface. Russia is among the world's leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet's eighth largest reserves. Like ot... |
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144,63 zł |
Tax-Aware Investment Management
ISBN: 9781576601808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Investment returns are uncertain, especially in today's economic environment. But taxes are a sure thing.
That's one reason why tax-aware investment management is essential for building and maintaining wealth. In this comprehensive, groundbreaking book, Douglas S. Rogers, CFA, explains why many accepted investment strategies and techniques developed for tax-exempt institutional investors don't work for individuals who are subject to taxes. They will end up with substantially lower after-tax returns simply because their portfolios are not structured or managed with tax... Investment returns are uncertain, especially in today's economic environment. But taxes are a sure thing.
That's one reason why tax-... |
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434,70 zł |
Heroes and Hierophants
ISBN: 9781450240161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Heroes And Hierophants is the culmination of a year of innovative writing from three of today's hottest underground authors. The plan was simple: each week one of them would propose a topic, and they would each have a week to write about it. Then the next week another would give a topic, and so forth for the whole of the year. From this simple high concept beginning, Marcus D'Ambrose, Douglas Palermo and Noel Rogers took the project into directions entirely unprecedented. From serious god knowledge to rape jokes, the fearless trio push the envelope, lift the skirt of reality and explore the...
Heroes And Hierophants is the culmination of a year of innovative writing from three of today's hottest underground authors. The plan was simple: each...
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134,54 zł |
Heroes and Hierophants
ISBN: 9781450240178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Heroes And Hierophants is the culmination of a year of innovative writing from three of today's hottest underground authors. The plan was simple: each week one of them would propose a topic, and they would each have a week to write about it. Then the next week another would give a topic, and so forth for the whole of the year. From this simple high concept beginning, Marcus D'Ambrose, Douglas Palermo and Noel Rogers took the project into directions entirely unprecedented. From serious god knowledge to rape jokes, the fearless trio push the envelope, lift the skirt of reality and explore the...
Heroes And Hierophants is the culmination of a year of innovative writing from three of today's hottest underground authors. The plan was simple: each...
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178,01 zł |
The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism
ISBN: 9781644695494 / Rosyjski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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174,00 zł |