wyszukanych pozycji: 75
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China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
ISBN: 9780674064010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the... The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Pers... |
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105,20 |
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China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
ISBN: 9780674060357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions. The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included... After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both unde... |
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113,62 |
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The Construction of Space in Early China
ISBN: 9780791466070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household, the city, the region, and the world. The central theme of the book is the way all these forms of ordered space were reshaped by the project of unification and how, at the same time, that unification was constrained and limited by the necessary survival of the units on which it was based. Consequently, as Mark Edward Lewis shows, each level of spatial organization could achieve order and meaning only within an encompassing, superior...
This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the...
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507,39 |
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Backbone of the World: A Personal Account of the American Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, 1822-1824
ISBN: 9781944072315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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107,71 |
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Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia
ISBN: 9781108972147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 75 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,16 |
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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
ISBN: 9780674057340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the "classical period" of Chinese history--a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set... In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain d... |
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107,94 |
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Santa Fe Sketch Book
ISBN: 9781023597999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,84 |
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Emergency Doctor
ISBN: 9780060595029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Hundreds of people slam through its doors every day: gun-shot cops, battered kids, drug addicts, and suicides, destitute drunks, homeless people, AIDS sufferers, and accident victims. It's a bizarre parade of humanity looking for help -- in the one place they know they can find it. Welcome to the frontline trenches of medicine: the emergency room of the legendary Bellevue Hospital. Here, an army of doctors and nurses faces the onslaught of young and old, rich and ragged, sick and dying. All day, all night. All year.This is their story -- an around-the-clock drama of the unexpected: a... Hundreds of people slam through its doors every day: gun-shot cops, battered kids, drug addicts, and suicides, destitute drunks, homeless people, A... |
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73,17 |
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Dartmoor Days: Or, Scenes in the Forest. A poem.
ISBN: 9783375006310 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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254,51 |
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Dartmoor Days: Or, Scenes in the Forest. A poem.
ISBN: 9783375006303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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173,59 |
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Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles
ISBN: 9780486269221 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Widely known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other books for children, Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) also excelled as a mathematician and inventor of puzzles. Toward the end of his life, Carroll worked on a book of mathematical puzzles and games but died before it was completed. This book is a new compilation of Carroll's surviving puzzles and games, assembled and edited by Edward Wakeling, a Lewis Carroll scholar and writer on mathematics. Included are a substantial number of problems that Carroll had intended for his collection. Widely known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other books for children, Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) also excelle... |
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38,35 |
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The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women
ISBN: 9781476703497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women's magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkable story of what it took to earn that distinction. The Man from Essence depicts with candor and insight how Edward Lewis, CEO and publisher of Essence, started a magazine with three black men who would transform the lives of millions of black American women and alter the American marketplace. Throughout Essence's storied history, Ed Lewis remained the cool and constant presence, a quiet-talking corporate captain and...
Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women's magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkab...
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84,74 |
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Annual Review of Jazz Studies 2: 1983
ISBN: 9780810822962 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Features Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Count Basie, and John Coltrane.
Features Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Count Basie, and John Coltrane.
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270,43 |
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Annual Review of Jazz Studies 1: 1982
ISBN: 9780810822955 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Features King Oliver, Gunther Schuller, Fats Waller, and black college bands.
Features King Oliver, Gunther Schuller, Fats Waller, and black college bands.
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270,43 |
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Tea Gardening for Beginners: Essential Guide to Grow, Blend and Brew Your Own Tea at Home
ISBN: 9798386619695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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Grief and New Graves
ISBN: 9780990711094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Grief and New Graves is a powerful testimony about the harsh world our youth of today are navigating. Must read for all parents, no matter the color. Grief and New Graves "A book that will change your mind about joining or being in a gang." By Edward "Little Man" Lewis This is the story of a true leader that was raised on the north side of Houston, Texas. How did a young kid who was into sports get involved in a life of gangs and violence? My mother always told me that living that lifestyle I would end up dead or in prison. I should have listened to my mother Quote from Bun B. - Grief and...
Grief and New Graves is a powerful testimony about the harsh world our youth of today are navigating. Must read for all parents, no matter the color. ...
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56,61 |
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Algiers in 1857. Its Accessibility, Climate, and Resources Described with Especial Reference to English Invalids, Etc.
ISBN: 9781241493790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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99,23 |
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Emergency Doctor
ISBN: 9780345471635 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "GRIPPING."
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"GRIPPING."
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73,22 |
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The Squire's Little Girl
ISBN: 9781023334693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,21 |
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Kaʻina Hana ʻŌiwia me ka Waihona ʻIke Hakuhia
ISBN: 9781387888870 / Hawaiian / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
118,47 |