wyszukanych pozycji: 733
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Blue Latitudes
ISBN: 9780312422608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Confederates in the Attic, works as a sailor aboard a replica of Cook's ship, meets island kings and beauty queens, and carouses the South Seas with a hilarious and disgraceful travel companion, an Aussie named Roger. He also creates a brilliant portrait... Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers... |
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94,63 zł |
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wild wicked wacky ways
ISBN: 9781499655766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,39 zł |
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How to Improve Your Chess
ISBN: 9780020288909 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "How to Improve You Chess" is devoted to the player who already knows the rudiments of the game and wants to become more proficient. The book is designed specifically for the average player-- to help him tighten his game to the point at which he can take genuine pride and pleasure in it. The authors, great chess authorities, give pointers on what objects to pursue and how to meet specific kinds of attack. Their method is to take several games and play them out, and the reasons for victory or defeat made clear. Special attention is paid to openings, including Sicilian Defense, Queen's Gambit...
"How to Improve You Chess" is devoted to the player who already knows the rudiments of the game and wants to become more proficient. The book is desig...
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65,65 zł |
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The Silent History
ISBN: 9780374534479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A generation of children forced to live without words. It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own. The Silent History unfolds in a series of brief testimonials from parents, teachers, friends,... A generation of children forced to live without words. It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays.... |
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82,32 zł |
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Gapfiller Chronicles: Memories of Daze Gone Bye
ISBN: 9781419677687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,07 zł |
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The Mouse That Snored
ISBN: 9781483484341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,00 zł |
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The Pickle Index
ISBN: 9780374535810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Pickle Index is full of life and everything else--it's rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking, and by heartbreaking I mean funny, and by funny I mean laugh-until-you're-exhausted-and-leaking-and-hungry." Zloty Kornblatt is the hapless ringmaster of an even more hapless circus troupe. But one fateful night, Zloty makes a mistake: he accidentally makes his audience laugh. Here on the outskirts of Burford--where both the cuisine and the economy, such as they are, are highly dependent on pickled vegetables--laughter is a rare occasion. It draws the immediate... "The Pickle Index is full of life and everything else--it's rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking, and by heartbreaking I mean funny, and by fu... |
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74,09 zł |
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Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter's Story
ISBN: 9780684833477 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In their touching story, two Jewish grandmothers--Tessie and Pearlie--share their wisdom, knowledge, and recipes to die for. Still close to their immigrant past and hardened by wars, the Depression, and discrimination, they teach us about living. And dying. They are the last of a breed--a generation passing but not likely to be forgotten.
In their touching story, two Jewish grandmothers--Tessie and Pearlie--share their wisdom, knowledge, and recipes to die for. Still close to their immi...
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82,11 zł |
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Najtrudniejsze w tym, co trudne
ISBN: 9788328900271 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Półki w księgarniach uginają się od podręczników i poradników opisujących różne techniki i style zarządzania. Autorzy tych książek zapewniają, że oferują czytelnikom przepis na sukces, tylko że... taki przepis nie istnieje. Otoczenie, w którym przychodzi nam prowadzić firmy, jest zbyt złożone i skomplikowane, aby prostymi formułkami opisać wyjście z każdego problemu. Każdy, kto jest szefem, musi liczyć się z tym, że będzie zmuszony sprostać sytuacjom stanowiącym ogromne obciążenie - również emocjonalne. Ta niezwykła książka została napisana przez...
Półki w księgarniach uginają się od podręczników i poradników opisujących różne techniki i style zarządzania. Autorzy tych książek zapew...
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56,91 zł |
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The Sega Arcade Revolution: A History in 62 Games
ISBN: 9781476672250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Based on interviews with former Western and Japanese developers, as well as hundreds of English and Japanese documents, this book follows the rise of Sega Enterprises in the video game industry, from its electromechanical machines of the mid-1960s to the acquisition of Gremlin Industries and the rise of its world-famous AM Studios, and finalizing with its merger with Sammy Corporation in 2003.
Based on interviews with former Western and Japanese developers, as well as hundreds of English and Japanese documents, this book follows the rise of ...
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236,51 zł |
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The Mouse That Snored
ISBN: 9781483484365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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188,78 zł |
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Power System Relaying: Fifth Edition
ISBN: 9781119838432 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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524,69 zł |
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Silent History
ISBN: 9780099592860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A generation of children are born without speech, without comprehension, without language entirely. At first, they are just medical curiosities. But their numbers swell, and soon they grow into an established underclass, occupying squats and communes around the world. To some they are seen as a threat; to others, as a salvation.
A generation of children are born without speech, without comprehension, without language entirely. At first, they are just medical curiosities. But t...
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58,28 zł |
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From Pinballs to Pixels: An Arcade History of Williams-Bally-Midway
ISBN: 9781476689371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From early classics like Contact to marvels like High Speed, gaming publisher Williams dazzled arcade goers with its diverse range of quality pinball games. The age of video games catapulted the company into legend with blockbusters like Defender and Joust, and by the end of the 1980s it was the largest coin-op publisher in North America. Its acquisition of Bally/Midway began a period of hits that included Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam, as well as the best-selling pinball machine of all time, The Addams Family. The history of Williams spans nearly six decades and is filled with great games, huge...
From early classics like Contact to marvels like High Speed, gaming publisher Williams dazzled arcade goers with its diverse range of quality pinball ...
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294,14 zł |
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American Dreams, American Nightmares: Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the Covid-19 Pandemic
ISBN: 9781469671505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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181,26 zł |
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The Miracle Habits: The Secret of Turning Your Moments into Miracles
ISBN: 9781722502300 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,48 zł |
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Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food
ISBN: 9780231158336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Roger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher to the success of Manischewitz wine with non-Jewish consumers, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the history of modern Jewish American life as well as American foodways.
Roger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher t...
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116,66 zł |
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Vance Packard and American Social Criticism
ISBN: 9780807857359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte, Jr., Packard (1914- ) was a journalist who played an important role in the nation's transition from the largely complacent 1950s to the tumultuous 1960s. He was also one of the first social critics to benefit from and foster the newly energized social and political...
Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generatio...
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311,17 zł |
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Eli Ginzberg: The Economist as a Public Intellectual
ISBN: 9781138509467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych-a career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg's work was dedicated to understanding the history of economics, from Adam Smith to C. Wesley Mitchell, and placing that understanding in what might well be considered economic ethnography. His studies took him on travels from Wales in the United Kingdom to California in the United States. For example, the poignant account of Welsh miners in an era of economic depression and technological change remains a landmark work. His report of a cross country trip taken in the first...
The world of Eli Ginzberg can readily be thought of as a triptych-a career in three parts. In his early years, Ginzberg's work was dedicated to unders...
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146,03 zł |
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Magpie Murders
ISBN: 9780062645227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much... "Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --J... |
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123,44 zł |