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Knife Allergy and Treatment Plan: How I Didn't Cut My Throat, But I Did Cut My Forearm; My Journey Through Combat, Suicide, and Self-Harm
ISBN: 9781478206774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a true story. This is my story. Names have been changed to protect the confidentiality of others, but everything in this book happened. I share my story in the hope to inspire people to not kill themselves, or cut themselves, but instead to find productive ways to deal with pain. This book is dedicated to Randy, who killed himself in Iraq in December 2008; to Zachary, who was killed by a house bomb in Iraq in January 2008. Part One: Chicken gate: Why cutting is a bad idea Written in April 2012 Part Two: This Dark Earth Written in March 2009
This is a true story. This is my story. Names have been changed to protect the confidentiality of others, but everything in this book happened. I shar...
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Interesting History of "Bad" Poetry
ISBN: 9781537146836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Interesting History of "Bad" Poetry Word Origin and History of Poetaster "An inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse. "1590s, from Middle French poetastre (1550s), from Latin poeta (see poet) + -aster, diminutive (pejorative) suffix. Old Norse had skaldfifl 'poetaster'." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/poetaster Samuel Taylor Coleridge; The Poems of ST Coleridge; William Pickering; 1844 Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes: "Good verse most good, and bad verse then seems better / Received from absent friend by way of Letter. / For what so sweet can laboured lays impart / As one rude rhyme...
Interesting History of "Bad" Poetry Word Origin and History of Poetaster "An inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse. "1590s, from Middle French ...
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Interesting History of Tsunamis and Big Waves
ISBN: 9781517649562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Wave: a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell. Any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea. A mass movement, as of troops, settlers, or migrating birds. An outward curve, or one of a series of such curves, in a surface or line; undulation. An act or instance or waving. Physics. A progressive disturbance propagated from point to point in a medium or space without progress or advance by the points themselves, as in the transmission of sound or light. Literary. Water, a body of water, the sea."...
"Wave: a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell. Any surging or progressing movemen...
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Interesting History of Shanghai
ISBN: 9781974660964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Interesting History of Diamonds
ISBN: 9781539958987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Word Origin and History of Diamond: "A pure or nearly pure, extremely hard form of carbon, naturally crystallized in the isometric system. "A piece of this stone. "A transparent, flawless or almost flawless piece of this stone, especially when cut and polished, valued as a precious gem. "A ring or other piece of jewelry containing such a precious stone, especially an engagement ring. "A piece of this stone used in a drill or cutting tool. "A tool provided with such an uncut stone, used for cutting glass. "Crystallized carbon, or a piece of it, artificially produced. "Early 14th century, from...
Word Origin and History of Diamond: "A pure or nearly pure, extremely hard form of carbon, naturally crystallized in the isometric system. "A piece of...
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Interesting Place Names and History of Wales
ISBN: 9781502738486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Interesting Place Names and History of Wales Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Anglesley? Mynyddislwyn, Caerphilly? Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion? Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd? Quakers Yard, Merthyr Tydfil? Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan? Rhosllannerchrugog, Wrexham? If you are wondering where these names came from, this is the book for you Other interesting place names included, plus interesting history of Wales
Interesting Place Names and History of Wales Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Anglesley? Mynyddislwyn, Caerphilly? Devil's ...
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Interesting History of Djibouti [and the Surrounding Areas]
ISBN: 9781976078170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Interesting History of Earthquakes
ISBN: 9781541286269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Interesting History of Earthquakes Word Origin and History of Earthquakes "A series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. "Something that is severely disruptive; upheaval. "Late 13th century, eorthequakynge, from earth + quake. In this sense Old English had eorodyn, eorohrernes, eorobeofung, eorostyren." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/earthquake Jabez Hughes; Miscellamies in verse and prose; John Watts; 1737 Jabez Hughes writes: "Nor is it strange the Fires above decay, / While inwardly...
Interesting History of Earthquakes Word Origin and History of Earthquakes "A series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture a...
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Tragic (but Interesting) History of Anti-Semitism and Persecution of Jews
ISBN: 9781515344063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana "Jew: one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite. A person whose religion is Judaism." http: //dictionary.reference.com/browse/jew "Persecution: a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate people based on their membership in a religious, ethnic, social, or racial group." http: //dictionary.reference.com/browse/persecution "Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred...
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana "Jew: one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent fro...
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Interesting History of the Saint Lawrence River
ISBN: 9781519406217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "St Lawrence: a river in southeast Canada, flowing northeast from Lake Ontario, forming part of the boundary between New York and Ontario, and emptying into the Gulf of St Lawrence. 760 miles (1225 km) long. Gulf of, an arm of the Atlantic between southeast Canada and Newfoundland." http: //dictionary.reference.com/browse/st--lawrence-river Lewis Evans; Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays. The first, containing An analysis of a general map of the middle British colonies in America; 2nd edition; B Franklin and D Hall, MDCCLV. And sold by R&J Dodsley,...
"St Lawrence: a river in southeast Canada, flowing northeast from Lake Ontario, forming part of the boundary between New York and Ontario, and emptyin...
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Interesting History of the Mississippi, Missouri and Jefferson Rivers
ISBN: 9781986608299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Interesting History of Amethysts
ISBN: 9781542538480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Word Origin and History of Amethyst: "Noun - 1) a purple or violet quartz, used as a gem; 2) a purplish tint. "Adjective - 1) having the color of amethyst; 2) containing or set with an amethyst or amethysts. "Violet quartz, late 13th century, ametist, from Old French ametiste (Modern French amethyste) and directly from Medieval Latin amatistus, from Latin amethystus, from Greek amethystos 'amethyst', literally 'not intoxicating', from a- 'not' + methyskein 'make drunk', from methys 'wine' (see mead); based on the stone's ancient reputation for preventing drunkenness, which was perhaps...
Word Origin and History of Amethyst: "Noun - 1) a purple or violet quartz, used as a gem; 2) a purplish tint. "Adjective - 1) having the color of amet...
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Interesting History of Jade
ISBN: 9781544140476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Word Origin and History of Jade: "1) Either of two minerals, jadeite or nephrite, sometimes green, highly esteemed as an ornamental stone for carvings, jewelry, etc. "2) An object, as a carving, made from this material. "3) Also called jade green. Green, varying from bluish green to yellowish green. "1721, earlier iada (1590s), from French le jade, error for earlier l'ejade, from Spanish piedra de (la) ijada (1560s), 'stone of colic, pain in the side' (jade was thought to cure this), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ilia (plural) 'flanks, kidney area' (see ileum)." http:...
Word Origin and History of Jade: "1) Either of two minerals, jadeite or nephrite, sometimes green, highly esteemed as an ornamental stone for carvings...
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Interesting History of Lagos [Nigeria]
ISBN: 9781537212906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Interesting History of Lagos Nigeria] Definition of Lagos "1. The former capital and chief port of Nigeria, on the Bight of Benin: first settled in the sixteenth century; a slave market until the nineteenth century; ceded to Britain (1861); university (1962). Population: 11,135,000 (2005 estimate) "2. A state in southwest Nigeria. Capital: Ikeja. Population: 9,013,534 (2006). Area: 3,345 sq km (1,292 sq miles)." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/lagos Walter Graham Blackie; The Imperial Gazetteer: A General Dictionary of Geography, Physical, Political, Statistical and Descriptive; Vol 2;...
Interesting History of Lagos Nigeria] Definition of Lagos "1. The former capital and chief port of Nigeria, on the Bight of Benin: first settled in t...
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Interesting History of Lake Erie
ISBN: 9781545558645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Word Origin and History of Lake Erie: "A lake between the northeast central United States and southeast central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 square miles (25,745 square km). "One of the Great Lakes, named for a native Iroquoian people who lived nearby, from French Erie, shortening of Rhiienhonons, said to mean 'raccoon nation', perhaps in reference to a totemic animal." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/lake--erie Jedidiah Morse; The American Gazetteer: Exhibiting, in Alphabetical Order, a Much...
Word Origin and History of Lake Erie: "A lake between the northeast central United States and southeast central Canada: the southernmost lake of the G...
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Interesting History of Mumbai aka Bombay
ISBN: 9781973773054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Word Origin of Mumbai: "A seaport in and the capital of Maharashtra, in west India, on the Arabian Sea." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/mumbai Word Origin and History of Bombay: "City in western India, from Portuguese, and popularly explained as Portuguese bom bahia 'good bay', but that seems folk etymology (for one, the adjective is masculine and the noun is feminine), and the more likely candidate is the local Mumbadevi 'Goddess Mumba', a Hindu deity worshipped there. The city's name officially changed to Mumbai in 1995." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/bombay R Johnson; The new...
Word Origin of Mumbai: "A seaport in and the capital of Maharashtra, in west India, on the Arabian Sea." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/mumbai Word...
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Interesting History of Buenos Aires
ISBN: 9781544865621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Word Origin of Buenos Aires: -A seaport in and the capital of Argentina, in the east part, on the Rio de la Plata.- http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/buenos-aires William Dickinson; Universal Commerce, Or, The Commerce of All the Mercantile Cities and Towns to the World ...: With Proforma Sales of Merchandize from Antwerp, Bremen, Hamburg ...; Boosey & Sons, and Law and Whittaker; 1818 William Dickinson writes: -BUENOS AYRES, -A city and seaport, the capital of Paraguay, and a bishop's see. It is well fortified; and hither is brought a great part of the treasures and merchandise of Peru and...
Word Origin of Buenos Aires: -A seaport in and the capital of Argentina, in the east part, on the Rio de la Plata.- http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/...
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Interesting Place Names and History of New Zealand
ISBN: 9781492870579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Interesting Place Names and History of New Zealand Bay of Plenty? Eketahuna? Hakataramea? Kihikihi? Murderers' Bay? Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-tamatea-turi-pukakapiki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-kitanatahu? If you are wondering where these names came from, this is the book for you Other interesting place names included, plus interesting history of New Zealand "
Interesting Place Names and History of New Zealand Bay of Plenty? Eketahuna? Hakataramea? Kihikihi? Murderers' Bay? Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-t...
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Interesting (but Incomplete) History of Indigenous Peoples of Argentina
ISBN: 9781974546091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Interesting History of Singapore
ISBN: 9781539934073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Word Origin and History of Singapore: "An island on the Strait of Singapore, off the south tip of the Malay Peninsula. "An independent republic comprising this island and a few adjacent islets: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British crown colony (1946-59) and member of the federation of Malaysia (1963-65). 220 square mi (570 square km). "A seaport in and the capital of this republic. "From Sanskrit Simhapuram 'Lion City', from simhah 'lion' and puram 'city', from Proto-Indo-European *pele- 'citadel, fortified high place' (see polis). The name is perhaps metaphoric of...
Word Origin and History of Singapore: "An island on the Strait of Singapore, off the south tip of the Malay Peninsula. "An independent republic compri...
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