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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
ISBN: 9780143110446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us." --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction "Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and women who stood up for America's city trees over the past two centuries. . . . An authoritative account." --Gerard Helferich, The Wall Street Journal "We all know that trees can make streets look prettier. But in her new book Urban Forests, Jill Jonnes...
"Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us." --Elizabeth Kolbert...
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106,09 zł |
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
ISBN: 9780375758843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America s Gilded Age Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb...
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America s Gilded Age Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George W...
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87,92 zł |
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Eiffel's Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris's Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World's Fair That Introduced It
ISBN: 9780143117292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests
In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Epoque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design... The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urb...
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106,09 zł |
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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
ISBN: 9781531501211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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147,14 zł |
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Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
ISBN: 9780143113249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Superb. A] first-rate narrative (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author ofEiffel's Tower andUrban Forests
As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great Bridge affirm, readers are fascinated with the grand personalities and schemes that populated New York at the close of the nineteenth century. Conquering Gotham re- creates the riveting struggle waged by the great Pennsylvania Railroad to build Penn Station... Superb. A] first-rate narrative (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York s beloved original Penn Station...
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106,09 zł |
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South Bronx Rising : The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
ISBN: 9780823221998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 481 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Jill Jonnes's recounting of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Bronx has become a classic of urban history. In this new edition, she describes in a new final chapter the extraordinary and monumental rebuilding of the borough by the grass-roots groups that was just getting underway in 1984. The original book was hailed as a vivid history of the Bronx from its origins as colonial farmlands to the borough's 1980s status as one of the nation's foremost urban disasters. The book tells the colorful story of the Bronx, starting with its development as a New York suburb and boomtown when...
Jill Jonnes's recounting of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Bronx has become a classic of urban history. In this new edition, she describes in...
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205,01 zł |
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