wyszukanych pozycji: 27
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Whispers of Betrayal
ISBN: 9780006497998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 455 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In the new novel of treachery at the highest levels from the bestselling author of House of Cards, backbench MP Tom Goodfellowe is caught up in a national crisis as the capital is held to ransom by one angry man. Colonel Peter Amadeus is an old soldier with a grievance. He wants an apology from the Prime Minister. But this Prime Minister does not believe in apologizing for anything. For Amadeus it becomes a matter of honour - and retribution. Soon London is a city under siege, its lifelines cut. Then comes his ultimatum: the Prime Minister must resign - or London will be... In the new novel of treachery at the highest levels from the bestselling author of House of Cards, backbench MP Tom Goodfellowe is caught up in a n... |
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56,97 |
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King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy
ISBN: 9781913348731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account — told from inside the White House — of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard Nixon was inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasised into what White House counsel John Dean called ‘a full-blown cancer’. King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate...
From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account — told from inside the White House — of the crucial days, hours, and moments...
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95,35 |
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Dům z karet
ISBN: 9788025720615 / Czeski / 2017 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Dům z karet patří k nejlepším politickým thrillerům historie. Vydán byl v roce 1989 a okamžitě se dočkal obrovského úspěchu u čtenářů i u kritiků. Pojednává o machiavellistickém a bezskrupulózním politikovi Francisi Urquhartovi, jemuž přestane jeho úloha v britském parlamentu stačit a rozhodne se zamířit výš: až úplně nahoru, tedy do křesla premiéra. Přestože je to vážený a alespoň navenek slušný člověk, za svým cílem jde přes mrtvoly. Kniha se dočkala dvou pokračování a do širšího povědomí se dostala i díky dvěma seriálům....
Dům z karet patří k nejlepším politickým thrillerům historie. Vydán byl v roce 1989 a okamžitě se dočkal obrovského úspěchu u čtenář...
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71,82 |
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Winston's War
ISBN: 9780006498001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From a bestselling novelist with an unrivalled insight into the workings of power comes a compelling new novel exploring Winston Churchill's remarkable journey from the wilderness to No 10 Downing Street at the beginning of World War II. Saturday 1 October 1938. Two men meet. One is elderly, the other in his twenties. One will become the most revered man of his time, and the other known as the greatest of traitors. Winston Churchill met Guy Burgess at a moment when the world was about to explode. Now in is astonishing new novel, Michael Dobbs throws brilliant fresh light upon Churchill's...
From a bestselling novelist with an unrivalled insight into the workings of power comes a compelling new novel exploring Winston Churchill's remarkabl...
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83,58 |
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The Final Cut
ISBN: 9780007375158 / Miękka / 2010 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The finale in the trilogy that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards He schemed his way to power in House of Cards and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in To Play the King. Now Francis Urquhart is about to take his place in the record books as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century. Yet it seems the public is tiring of him at last, and the movement to force him from power is growing. But Urquhart is not yet ready to be driven from office. If the public demands new blood, that is precisely what he will give them... This is a different Francis... The finale in the trilogy that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards He schemed his way to power in House of Cards and had a memorable ... |
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55,19 |
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The Buddha of Brewer Street
ISBN: 9780006497981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Backbench MP Tom Goodfellowe is caught up in the search for the new Dalai Lama in this highly original and compelling thriller from the author of GOODFELLOWE MP and HOUSE OF CARDS - now reissued in new cover style. Tom Goodfellowe is the unlikeliest of political heroes. An MP whose career has already been consigned to the scrapheap of history, with a private life that staggers between confusion and chaos... And it's all about to get worse. A new Dalai Lama is born. The infant god-king of Tibet. And around the child explodes an international conspiracy that will carve a trail of... Backbench MP Tom Goodfellowe is caught up in the search for the new Dalai Lama in this highly original and compelling thriller from the author of G... |
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45,57 |
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First Lady: An unputdownable thriller of politics and power
ISBN: 9780755338122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Ginny is the young wife of an Opposition MP. When she overhears gossip of her husband's affair, it is a shattering blow. Ginny decides that there is only one way to stop being a perpetual victim of the system, and that is to become its master. Ginny will n
Ginny is the young wife of an Opposition MP. When she overhears gossip of her husband's affair, it is a shattering blow. Ginny decides that there is o...
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50,16 |
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Hra králem
ISBN: 9788025725276 / Czeski / 2018 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Pokračování bestselleru, podle nějž nejdřív vznikl britský seriál BBC a později americká série televize Netflix. Takový souboj titánů Británie nezažila od sedmnáctého století, kdy vládu nad zemí převzal první parlament a Oliver Cromwell. Francis Urquhart potřebuje, aby mu král Spojeného království šel na ruku, a když mu mladý monarcha, plný cti a ideálů, oponuje, rozhodne se ho ministerský předseda vydírat: pokud se majestát nepodvolí, média zveřejní všechny královské kostlivce ve skříni i jejich špinavé prádlo. Jako bývalý poradce Margaret...
Pokračování bestselleru, podle nějž nejdřív vznikl britský seriál BBC a později americká série televize Netflix. Takový souboj titánů B...
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60,84 |
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Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman – from World War to Cold War
ISBN: 9780099574873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When FDR, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1945, they had Hitler's armies on the run, and victory was just a matter of time. Their mission was to forge the decisions that would shape the postwar world, and above all to divide up Europe between Soviet and Western influence.
When FDR, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1945, they had Hitler's armies on the run, and vic...
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86,70 |
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House of Cards
ISBN: 9781492606611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The USA Today Bestseller from the Executive Producer of the hit Netflix series House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey.
A dark tale of greed, corruption, and unquenchable ambition, House of Cards reveals that no matter the country, politics, intrigue and passion reign in the corridors of power. Francis Urquhart has his hand on every secret in politics-and is willing to betray them all to become prime minister. Mattie Storin is a tenacious young reporter who has a knack for finding the real stories... The USA Today Bestseller from the Executive Producer of the hit Netflix series House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey.
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60,77 |
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Frontiers in Clinical Neurotoxicology, an Issue of Neurologic Clinics: Volume 29-3
ISBN: 9781455711116 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This issue of Neurologic Clinics addresses the neurologic consequences of exposure to environmental toxins. This issue of Neurologic Clinics addresses the neurologic consequences of exposure to environmental toxins. |
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353,84 |
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One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
ISBN: 9780099492450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Michael Dodds recreates the 'most dangerous moment in human history' and brings the Cuban Missile Crisis to a new generation.
Michael Dodds recreates the 'most dangerous moment in human history' and brings the Cuban Missile Crisis to a new generation.
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61,18 |
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Old Enemies
ISBN: 9781847393241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands. His terrified mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: Harry Jones, her former lover, who she walked out on many years ago. Now memories of their passionate affair, the guilt, hurt, anger and humiliation, come flooding back. Time is running out for Ruari and Harry, torn between...
In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of pa...
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40,12 |
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The Final Cut
ISBN: 9781492606673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The final book in the Internationally Bestselling trilogy that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey.
Months from taking his place as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century, Francis Urquhart's country is tiring of him. But he's not about to be driven from office. If the public demands new blood, that is precisely what he will give them... This is a different Francis Urquhart more vulnerable, more loving, and more ruthless than ever. He will risk everything, but one thing is certain: whatever the outcome of this, his greatest gamble, the name of... The final book in the Internationally Bestselling trilogy that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey.
Months from ... |
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75,98 |
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Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America
ISBN: 9781400030422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In 1942, Hitler's Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure. It was a plot that proved historically remarkable for two reasons: the surprising extent of its success and the astounding nature of its failure. Soon after two U-Boats packed with explosives arrived on America's shores-one on Long Island, one in Florida-it became clear that the incompetence of the eight saboteurs was matched only by that of American authorities. In fact, had one of the saboteurs not tipped them off, the FBI might never have... In 1942, Hitler's Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure.... |
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76,02 |
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The Films and Life of Tom Tyler: Cowboy, Monster, Hero
ISBN: 9781733014489 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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94,84 |
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The Lords' Day
ISBN: 9780857208064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 437 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Once a year, Britain's most powerful figures gather together in the House of Lords for the State Opening of Parliament. But this year they are all about to be taken hostage. It will lead some to selfless sacrifice, others to lose the respect of those they love most dearly.
Once a year, Britain's most powerful figures gather together in the House of Lords for the State Opening of Parliament. But this year they are all abo...
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50,16 |
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To Play the King
ISBN: 9781492606642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The #1 International Bestseller from the Executive Producer of the hit Netflix series "House of Cards," starring Kevin Spacey.
Francis Urquhart is back and the newly elected Prime Minister continues his climb to power. This time he will take on the King himself, threatening to expose Royal secrets. This game is winner-takes-all, but who will walk away the victor? The role of the monarchy in modern Britain comes under scrutiny as Prime Minister Francis Urquhart threatens to expose Royal secrets when his plans are blocked by the idealistic new King. Their differences of opinion quickly... The #1 International Bestseller from the Executive Producer of the hit Netflix series "House of Cards," starring Kevin Spacey.
Francis Urquhart is b... |
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72,18 |
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Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
ISBN: 9780679751519 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led to the unraveling of the Bolshevik Revolution. From Tito's funeral to the birth of Solidarity in the Gdansk shipyard, from the tragedy of Tiananmen Square to Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank in the center of Moscow, Dobbs saw it all. The fall of communism was one of the great... "One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review As Washingto... |
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95,03 |
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Twelve Terribly Active Princesses who were not Exactly Dancing
ISBN: 9781532401985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) You Won't Catch These Girls Dancing
Twelve Terribly Active Princesses who were not Exactly Dancing is a -fractured fairy tale- that imagines what would happen in the twelve dancing princesses were actually sneaking into a fairy world in order to play baseball. In this fun and beautifully illustrated story, the 12 Princesses take their baseball skills to the next level when an unassuming young field manager stumbles on to their secret. This fairy tale retelling is a short chapter book suitable as a read aloud or for young, advanced readers. It's perfect for fans of Ursula... You Won't Catch These Girls Dancing
Twelve Terribly Active Princesses who were not Exactly Dancing is a -fractured fairy tale- that imagi... |
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63,82 |