wyszukanych pozycji: 5
The Lunar Men
ISBN: 9780374528881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical.... In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the ... |
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MacMillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
ISBN: 9780333565568 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 621 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition. It now contains essential details of the lives of over 2000 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to cooks, engineers to entertainers, pilots to poisoners. The new entries include women who have hit the headlines in the past five years - from Cory Aquino to Madonna - but the historical coverage has also been broadened in response to new research and a special new feature is the extended treatment of women from Third World countries. With...
The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition. It now contains essential de...
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MacMillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
ISBN: 9780333453032 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 621 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition. It now contains essential details of the lives of over 2000 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to cooks, engineers to entertainers, pilots to poisoners. The new entries include women who have hit the headlines in the past five years - from Cory Aquino to Madonna - but the historical coverage has also been broadened in response to new research and a special new feature is the extended treatment of women from Third World countries. With...
The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition. It now contains essential de...
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384,63 zł |
Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings
ISBN: 9780140276954 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An electrifying intellectual autobiography, with all the narrative expanse, drama, outrage, and high comedy of the author's fiction. Angela Carter is revealed here, anew, as one of the most important thinkers of twentieth-century world literature--and one of its most pungent voices."--Rick Moody
One of contemporary literature's most original and affecting fiction writers, Angela Carter also wrote brilliant nonfiction. Shaking a Leg comprises the best of her essays and criticism, much of it collected for the first time. Carter's acute observations are spiked with her piercing... "An electrifying intellectual autobiography, with all the narrative expanse, drama, outrage, and high comedy of the author's fiction. Angela Carter is...
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187,37 zł |
Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
ISBN: 9781349098620 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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384,93 zł |