wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet
ISBN: 9781938700262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Everett S. Allen, through diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts of the period, follows the Quakers from Plymouth Colony to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where these "children of the light" lived and founded an enormously lucrative whaling industry and elevated it to an almost holy activity ordained by God for the enrichment of the "chosen." Allen recounts the full story of a famous 1871 Arctic disaster, in which thirty-two vessels in the New Bedford whaling fleet, carrying 1200 officers and crew, found themselves trapped in gale-driven pack ice. The shipwrecked victims were miraculously...
Everett S. Allen, through diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts of the period, follows the Quakers from Plymouth Colony to New Bedford, Massachuset...
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115,02 zł |
Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts Through Time and Space
ISBN: 9780226045481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To see video demonstrations of key concepts from the book, please visit this website: http: //www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/timewarp.index.html. Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for those of us not lucky enough to live in a science-fictional universe, are these ideas merely flights of fancy--or could it really be possible to travel through time or take shortcuts between stars?...To see video demonstrations of key concepts from the book, please visit this website: http: //www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/timewarp.index.html.
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95,17 zł |
Martha's Vineyard: An Elegy
ISBN: 9781933212173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A wry memoir of life on the Vineyard from the author's childhood there in the 1920s until the early 1980s.
A wry memoir of life on the Vineyard from the author's childhood there in the 1920s until the early 1980s.
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115,02 zł |
A Wind to Shake the World
ISBN: 9781933212258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Everett S. Allen joined the staff of the New Bedford Standard-Times in September 1938. He was assigned to the waterfront. The following day the storm of the century blew in. This is his account, the first and still the best account of the devastating hurricane of 1938. "Allen has gathered first-hand accounts of survivors from South Jersey, Boston, Rhode Island, and especially Long Island and Cape Cod where the blow hit hardest (top winds were clocked at 186 mph). His vivid description of the mellow September day that turned yellow and then sea-green with 40-foot waves is more heartfelt than...
Everett S. Allen joined the staff of the New Bedford Standard-Times in September 1938. He was assigned to the waterfront. The following day the storm ...
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115,02 zł |
Bill Everett's Amazing Man
ISBN: 9781329904606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Reprint of fully restored Amazing-Man Comics #5-11 (1939-1940), with additional information about Bill Everett, the Centaur "Comic Group" and the actual copyright status of the comics. Created by Bill Everett at the very start of his career, John Aman, the Amazing-Man, was the leading hero of Centaur, one of the earliest Golden Age comic book publisher. An orphan raised by enlighted Tibetan monks to achieve ultra-manhood, he truly is John "a-man," an archetype of human perfection, whose powers are a personal achievement anybody could attain, if given the opportunity to reach its full...
Reprint of fully restored Amazing-Man Comics #5-11 (1939-1940), with additional information about Bill Everett, the Centaur "Comic Group" and the actu...
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120,89 zł |
Bill Everett\'s Amazing-Man - Full Color
ISBN: 9781365062834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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183,05 zł |
Medical Education in Oklahoma: The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Health Sciences Center, 1964-1996
ISBN: 9780806132686 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Medical Education in Oklahoma, Volume III" chronicles the development of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center from 1964-1996-a tempestuous period at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. During these three decades college and hospital administrators and physicians witnessed conflicts, challenges, and restructuring. Based on newspaper accounts, interviews, Regents' meetings minutes, and the authors' personal recollections, the book traces the metamorphosis of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and Health Sciences Center from an enterprise dedicated solely... "Medical Education in Oklahoma, Volume III" chronicles the development of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center from 1964-1996-a tempes... |
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157,41 zł |
Piqued and Repiqued
ISBN: 9781958720011 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,17 zł |
Romance of the Ruin
ISBN: 9781736067536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,17 zł |