wyszukanych pozycji: 18
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Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action
ISBN: 9780823213764 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his historical books, notably his four -volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many...
James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune a...
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191,27 zł |
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An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu: Kastom and Religious Change on Tanna and Erromango, 1839-1920
ISBN: 9781760460747 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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173,28 zł |
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An American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner
ISBN: 9780823215218 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This tale of two families is set on a grand scale, as James Thomas Flexner brings his talents to bear on his own noteworthy heritage. An American Saga is an historical narrative, grounded on documentary sources, which ends with the marriage of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner. The account deals equally with the lives and the backgrounds of husband and wife, the author's parents. Simon Flexner was the famous medical investigator, discoverer of the Flexner vacillusand the Flexner serum, who became the creating director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)...
This tale of two families is set on a grand scale, as James Thomas Flexner brings his talents to bear on his own noteworthy heritage. An American Saga...
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212,40 zł |
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Maverick's Progress: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780823216604 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; among many others, James Thomas Flexner has written with distinction about American history and art. He has penetrated many of the charactrers who have shaped history exposing the intricacies of not only the historical figure, but the man beneath the marble image. The range of Flexner's subjects is wide: painters, inventors, doctors, loyalists, traitors, and spies, such luminaries as George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, and John...
National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; am...
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517,41 zł |
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On Desperate Seas: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart
ISBN: 9780823216123 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is Flexner's portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents us with a portrait constructed as the artist would have constructed it, frank, without flattery, profound, and soul-stirring. A man once regarded as the probable successor of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Stuart was born in poverty in Rhode Island. He became through his art the intimate of the great of two continents. Yet, he never abandoned his disdain for worldly rank, or his fascination with character. He...
This is Flexner's portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he ha...
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190,63 zł |
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The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John André
ISBN: 9780815602637 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 453 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An account of the traitorous trio who almost toppled the American nation at its birth. Benedict Arnold offered to sell his soldiers, with the key fortress of West Point, and to deliver to the enemy, dead or alive, George Washington. The plot promised to destroy the American battle of freedom.
An account of the traitorous trio who almost toppled the American nation at its birth. Benedict Arnold offered to sell his soldiers, with the key fort...
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81,70 zł |
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Young Hamilton
ISBN: 9780823217908 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 497 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton's early years shaped him into the statesman he became.
Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton'...
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239,64 zł |
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George Washington: Anguish and Farewell (1793-1799)
ISBN: 9780316286022 / Angielski / Twarda / 1972 / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. History has blinded us to the all-too-human character of George Washington; in doing so, it has blinded us to the true nature of his greatness. We have urgent need to know this man we call the Father of Our Country. And now, at last, James Thomas Flexner has given us the biography that fully meets our need.
History has blinded us to the all-too-human character of George Washington; in doing so, it has blinded us to the true nature of his greatness. We hav...
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237,34 zł |
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Young Hamilton
ISBN: 9780823217892 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 497 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton's early years shaped him into the statesman he became.
Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton'...
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544,64 zł |
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George Washington and the New Nation: 1783-1793 - Volume 3
ISBN: 9780316286008 / Angielski / Twarda / 1970 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book begins with Washington's return to Mount Vernon, a victorious, but exhausted soldier eagerly seeking the pleasures of a quiet country life. Free of heavy responsibilities, his character expands in genial, often unexpected ways. All too soon, however, the idyll is broken. This promises to be the biography of Washington that will best serve our generation.
This book begins with Washington's return to Mount Vernon, a victorious, but exhausted soldier eagerly seeking the pleasures of a quiet country life. ...
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216,71 zł |
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Random Harvest
ISBN: 9780823217311 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer for most of his adult life. After several years spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his kistorical books, notably his four-volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many...
James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer for most of his adult life. After several years spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Trib...
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217,85 zł |
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States Dyckman: American Loyalist
ISBN: 9780823213696 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his historical books, notably his four -volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many...
James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune a...
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190,63 zł |
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Oceania, 800-1800ce: A Millennium of Interactions in a Sea of Islands
ISBN: 9781108823289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 75 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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107,21 zł |
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Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine
ISBN: 9780823213795 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but doctors know them. Morgan, who founded the first medical school in American and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, although on the fringe of the wilderness, dared the operation that prepared the way for all abdominal surgery; Rush, the equivocal personality who, for better or worse, dominated American medicine for more than fifty years; Beaumont, who, saving a life, won a living...
The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but d...
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159,34 zł |
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Random Harvest
ISBN: 9780823217304 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer for most of his adult life. After several years spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his kistorical books, notably his four-volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many...
James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer for most of his adult life. After several years spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Trib...
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517,41 zł |
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George Washington: The Forge of Experience 1732 - 1775 - Volume I
ISBN: 9780316285971 / Angielski / Twarda / 1965 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume tells about considerably more than half George Washington's life, the forty-three years that elapsed from his birth to his acceptance, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, of the command of the Continental Army.
This volume tells about considerably more than half George Washington's life, the forty-three years that elapsed from his birth to his acceptance, at ...
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235,62 zł |
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Mohawk Baronet: A Biography of Sir William Johnson
ISBN: 9780815602392 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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154,53 zł |
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Community-Led Research
ISBN: 9781743327579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,26 zł |