wyszukanych pozycji: 236
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The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the invention of computers
ISBN: 9780753822005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer
The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer
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65,84 |
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While England Sleeps
ISBN: 9781620407080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young English writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic employee of the London Underground and member of the Communist Party. Though far better educated than Edward, Brian is also far more callow, convinced that his homosexuality is something he will outgrow. Edward, on the other hand, possesses "an unproblematic capacity to accept" both Brian and the unorthodox nature of their love for each other-until one day, at the urging of his wealthy aunt...
Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class y...
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66,05 |
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The Body of Jonah Boyd
ISBN: 9780747568285 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Body of Jonah Boyd".
"Body of Jonah Boyd".
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cena:
41,70 |
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GodPrints: Finding Evidence of God in the Shattered Pieces of Life
ISBN: 9781646457953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
81,54 |
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Only Billionaires Can Play
ISBN: 9781948598538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
81,39 |
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Girls in Trouble
ISBN: 9780312339739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this heart-wrenching story of an open adoption gone wrong, Caroline Leavitt's Girls in Trouble reveals the astonishing power of family bonds and maternal love. Sara, sixteen, is in denial about her pregnancy and too far along for an abortion. Her once-devoted boyfriend has disappeared so Sara decides her only option is an open adoption with George and Eva, a couple desperate for a child. After the birth it's clear Sara has a bond with the child that Eva can't duplicate and Eva and George make a drastic decision, with devastating consequences for them all.
In this heart-wrenching story of an open adoption gone wrong, Caroline Leavitt's Girls in Trouble reveals the astonishing power of family bonds...
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cena:
97,13 |
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American Women Managers and Administrators: A Selective Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Leaders in Business, Education, and Government
ISBN: 9780313237485 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. While biographical information on many of the women is readily available in other sources, this is a handy compilation, especially for identifying material on contemporary women administrators. It would be appropriate in larger public libraries and academic libraries, especially those that focus on women's studies. "Library Journal"
While biographical information on many of the women is readily available in other sources, this is a handy compilation, especially for identifying ... |
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339,20 |
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A Triunistic Model of Reality: What It Is, Does and Emerges As.
ISBN: 9798520804604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
60,98 |
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Days of Wonder: A Novel
ISBN: 9781643751283 / Twarda / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
112,67 |
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Shnanagrins a Funcolor Book
ISBN: 9781684093649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Allow the colorful side of you to fuel your imagination. Hours of stress free coloring. Pencils, pens, markers or crayons. Just choose your pleasure. Feel your stress slip away as you lose yourself in imaginative designs. Each page is hand drawn and ready for your completion. Turn off the television, the video games and let's talk and color This book is so much fun and exciting. Some may even call it calming. Everyone needs that one moment to relax after a long day and this book is the perfect solution. So sit back, relax and enjoy Allow the colorful side of you to fuel your imagination. Hours of stress free coloring. Pencils, pens, markers or crayons. Just choose your pleasur... |
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46,43 |
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Wise or Otherwise
ISBN: 9783849174354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
154,96 |
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The Indian Clerk
ISBN: 9780747596325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. January, 1913. G.H. Hardy, considered to be the greatest British mathematician of his age, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important mathematical problem of his time. Hardy determines to learn more about the mysterious Ramanujan.
January, 1913. G.H. Hardy, considered to be the greatest British mathematician of his age, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius...
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cena:
99,10 |
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Family Dancing: Stories
ISBN: 9781620407042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: "remarkably gifted" (The Washington Post), with "a genius for empathy" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a knowledge of others' lives . . . that a writer twice his age might envy" (USA Today). "Regardless of age," wrote the New York Times, "few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages." In... Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-... |
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73,77 |
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Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
ISBN: 9781616086398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls "moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare blackand- white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family's journey through a harrowing range of emotions--shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration--all the while learning to cope, and managing to find moments of happiness. Midge, a Harvard educated intellectual, struggles to comprehend the simplest words; Sarah's father, Rob, slowly adapts to his new role as full-time...
In this powerful memoir the the LA Times calls "moving, rigorous, and heartbreaking," Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease tra...
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cena:
66,00 |
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Coming Back to Me
ISBN: 9780312305543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It can take a long time to build up a life, and only moments to destroy it. Gary and Molly met in the way couples do: after a long haul of being single, quickly becoming soulmates and rejoicing in that fact. Beautiful, red-haired Molly ignites a fire in Gary and he eases the pain she feels about her past. Starting a family is something they both want badly to do, and with great joy Molly finds herself pregnant. When she leaves for the hospital that things start to go seriously wrong. Just a few weeks later Gary is alone with a newborn and a mountain of medical bills he has no means... It can take a long time to build up a life, and only moments to destroy it. Gary and Molly met in the way couples do: after a long haul of being si... |
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93,24 |
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Is This Tomorrow
ISBN: 9781616200541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood--in the throes of Cold War paranoia--seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son. In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a workin... |
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58,09 |
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The Lost Language of Cranes
ISBN: 9781408854587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend most Sundays apart; while Rose buries herself in crosswords and newspapers, Owen visits gay porn theaters. But when they discover they may lose their apartment and their son, prompted by his new relationship, reveals his homosexuality, their lives cannot continue as they were. Owen and Rose are forced to confront not only their son's revelation but also Owen's latent homosexuality. Poignant and lingering, this is a tale of love and relationships,...
Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend m...
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cena:
65,84 |
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Being, While Knowing That You Are Not: Surrendering to the sadness and madness of life
ISBN: 9798741512210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
52,83 |
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Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love
ISBN: 9781551529516 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
96,94 |
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The Little Aaron Book
ISBN: 9781502422828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
55,07 |