wyszukanych pozycji: 71
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Sam & Jay's Wild Adventures: The Discovery
ISBN: 9781520951263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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24,56 zł |
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Balanchine's Apprentice: From Hollywood to New York and Back
ISBN: 9780813069005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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132,56 zł |
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The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780195097054 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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431,88 zł |
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Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780195064186 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's cult in Sanskrit and Sinhala literature, in iconography, epigraphy, ritual, symbol, and myth, the author develops a provocative thesis...
Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines...
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771,37 zł |
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Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life
ISBN: 9780140068603 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and pleasures of his double life.
With wit and style, Mr. Mortimer takes you from his unusual childhood (his father, a blind barrister, insisted that his wife read the sordid details of his divorce briefs in public) to the dilemmas of his life as a barrister (one of his clients indignantly declared, "Your Mr. Rumpole could have gotten me out of this, why the hell can't you "). Filled with laughter and a sense of the absurd, Clinging to the... In this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and ple...
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102,06 zł |
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Lacing Lucy's Lemonade
ISBN: 9781530206629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lucy Hayes' outspoken views on alcohol and temperance have caused brewers and distillers to fear her popularity. When the president of the United States gets wind of an assassination plot against his wife, he summons a trusted lieutenant from the Civil War to keep her alive and to catch the plotters. To Mrs. Hayes' vulnerability, however, the new body guard has a weakness for liquor. Can he stay sober long enough to keep her alive and apprehend her assailants?
Lucy Hayes' outspoken views on alcohol and temperance have caused brewers and distillers to fear her popularity. When the president of the United Stat...
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80,38 zł |
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Summer's Lease: Tie in Edition
ISBN: 9780140158274 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The official tie-in to Masterpiece Theatre's May presentation of Summer's Lease, starring John Gielgud. The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. But when the idyll turns sour, Molly Pargeter begins to wonder about their mysterious absentee landlord.
The official tie-in to Masterpiece Theatre's May presentation of Summer's Lease, starring John Gielgud. The villa near a small Tuscan town is everythi...
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93,56 zł |
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The Schomburgk Line
ISBN: 9781495400599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An appetite for war begins to spread in the United States. Three decades after the Civil War, many Americans believe that the U.S. should flex her muscles in the world in order to be taken seriously. When a longstanding border dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela re-ignites after the discovery of gold in the region, the U.S. proposes that she mediate the conflict under the moral authority accorded by the Monroe Doctrine. In response, the British refuse to recognize either Venezuelan territorial claims or American arbitration justifications. In the face of this contempt, even the...
An appetite for war begins to spread in the United States. Three decades after the Civil War, many Americans believe that the U.S. should flex her mus...
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60,28 zł |
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The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780195107579 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focusses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt demonstrates, Kirti Sri succeeded in formulating his vision of an orthodox Buddhism in a number of ways: through the patronage of monastic sanha...
In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous...
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350,58 zł |
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Rumpole Rests His Case
ISBN: 9780142003473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda-She Who Must Be Obeyed With his passion for poetry, and a nose equally sensitive to the whiff of wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Chateau Thames Embankment, the lovable and disheveled Rumpole "is at his rumpled best" (The New York Times).
The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled a...
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93,56 zł |
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Starting in Life
ISBN: 9783382182779 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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280,85 zł |
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Starting in Life
ISBN: 9783382182762 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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191,55 zł |
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Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story
ISBN: 9781913183004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Jihad isn't a war. It's an objective. An aberration. If there are young women with children, lost boys... If they are trapped in that hell and we can get them out, don't we have a duty to do so? Every person we can bring back is living proof that Islamic State is a failure.' Ex-British Army soldier John Carney was running a close protection operation for oil executives in Iraq when the family of a young Dutch woman asked him to extract her from the collapsing 'Islamic State' in Syria. Hearing first-hand about the naive young girls, many from the West, who'd been tricked, sexually abused...
'Jihad isn't a war. It's an objective. An aberration. If there are young women with children, lost boys... If they are trapped in that hell and we can...
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94,45 zł |
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True Confessions of an American Millennial
ISBN: 9781520720364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,21 zł |
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Heavens Above & Heavens Below: An Oxbow Adventure
ISBN: 9781099955624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,98 zł |
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Religion and the Culuture Wars: Dispatches from the Front
ISBN: 9780847682683 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Cultural conflict plays an increasingly dominant role in American politics, with religion acting as a catalyst in the often bitter confrontations ranging from abortion to public education. These essays present a mixed asessment of the scope and divisiveness of such conflicts.
Cultural conflict plays an increasingly dominant role in American politics, with religion acting as a catalyst in the often bitter confrontations rang...
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345,35 zł |
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Naked Justice
ISBN: 9781840022216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Three strange people, two men and a woman, arrive in a house where they are obviously expected. Who are they? They talk about crime. Are they criminals? The woman talks a lot about sex. What business is she in? It's halfway through the play that questions start to be answered about who and what these people are. Three strange people, two men and a woman, arrive in a house where they are obviously expected. Who are they? They talk about crime. Are they crimi... |
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55,47 zł |
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Financing the 1996 Election
ISBN: 9780765603845 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company. |
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191,75 zł |
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Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
ISBN: 9780143036111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister's many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole's first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the cantankerous defender of justice that readers know...
The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister's many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length...
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93,56 zł |
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The Second Rumpole Omnibus: Rumpole for the Defence/Rumpole and the Golden Thread/Rumpole's Last Case
ISBN: 9780140089585 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 667 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume contains twenty tales featuring beloved barrister Horace Rumpole as he turns down another invitation to exchange the joys and sorrows of life as an Old Bailey hack for the delights of the Sunshine State -- where senior citizens loll on beaches and the sarcastic tones of the Mad Bull (Judge Roger Bullingham) are heard no more. Instead, Rumpole settles for the beaded bubbles of Chateau Pommeroy s ordinary claret, and his role extraordinaire as Defender of the Faith: "Never Plead Guilty."
"Mortimer has created one of the legendary fictional detectives . . . a barrister ... This volume contains twenty tales featuring beloved barrister Horace Rumpole as he turns down another invitation to exchange the joys and sorrows of l...
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127,58 zł |