wyszukanych pozycji: 14
Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint
ISBN: 9781441173232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'greatest' prose stylist of the Victorian age. A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After many delays John Paul II declared him a 'Venerable'. Then Pope Benedict XVI, a keen student of Newman's works, pressed for his beatification. But was Newman a 'Saint'? In Newman's Unquiet Grave John Cornwell (author of A Thief in the Night and Hitler's Pope) tells the story of the chequered attempts... John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'gre... |
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67,77 zł |
Hitler's Scientists : Science, War and the Devil's Pact
ISBN: 9780140296860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reich.
In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reic...
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98,79 zł |
A Thief in the Night: Life and Death in the Vatican
ISBN: 9780141001838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A model of investigatory journalism and a small masterpiece of the genre. Anthony Burgess
On the eve of September 28, 1978, John Paul I died unexpectedly apparently of a heart attack after a reign of only 33 days. But within the Vatican there were serious disagreements about the time of death, who found the body, and the true state of the Pope s health prior to his death. These arguments led to rumors of foul play and conspiracy variously involving the KGB, the Freemasons, crooked financiers, and Vatican officials. In 1987, the Vatican invited New York Times bestselling author... A model of investigatory journalism and a small masterpiece of the genre. Anthony Burgess
On the eve of September 28, 1978, John Paul I died unex... |
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109,20 zł |
Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII
ISBN: 9780140266818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This biography discusses Pope Pius XIII's wartime silence over the Holocaust and exposes the patent anti-Semitism that led to his fateful concordance with Hitler - a partnership that smoothed the Nazis' path to power and saw the Vatican immensely enriched, financially and politically.
This biography discusses Pope Pius XIII's wartime silence over the Holocaust and exposes the patent anti-Semitism that led to his fateful concordance ...
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93,30 zł |
Seminary Boy: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780385514873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John Cornwell evokes a vanished time and way of life in this moving and, at times, troubling memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male world of the seminary.
Born into a destitute family with a dominating Irish-Catholic mother and an absconding father during World War II in London, John Cornwell's childhood was deeply dysfunctional. When he was thirteen years old he was sent to Cotton College, a remote seminary for boys in the West Midlands countryside. For the next five years Cornwell lived under an austere monastic regime as he wrestled with his emotional and spiritual... John Cornwell evokes a vanished time and way of life in this moving and, at times, troubling memoir of an adolescence spent in the isolated all-male w...
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82,99 zł |
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
ISBN: 9780143114000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The "explosive" (The New York Times) bestseller--now with a new introduction by the author
When Hitler's Pope, the shocking story of Pope Pius XII that "redefined the history of the twentieth century" (The Washington Post ) was originally published, it sparked a firestorm of controversy both inside and outside the Catholic Church. Now, award-winning journalist John Cornwell has revisited this seminal work of history with a new introduction that both answers his critics and reaffirms his overall thesis that Pius XII, now scheduled to be canonized by the Vatican,... The "explosive" (The New York Times) bestseller--now with a new introduction by the author
When Hitler's Pope, the shocking s... |
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104,83 zł |
Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science
ISBN: 9780198607786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Our lives, states of health, relationships, behavior, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations. Widespread confusion about the nature of "explanation" and its scope and limits pervades popular exposition of the natural sciences, popular history and philosophy of science. This fascinating book explores the way explanations work, why they vary between disciplines, periods, and cultures, and whether they have any necessary boundaries. In other...
Our lives, states of health, relationships, behavior, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are...
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129,81 zł |
The Pope in Winter : The Dark Face of John Paul II's Papacy
ISBN: 9780141020716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Dark Face of John Paul's Papacy. John Cornwell reveals for the first time the hidden aspects of John Paul II's papacy in stark contrast to his growing reputation as the greatest pope in modern history. An explosive book which attracted huge media inter
The Dark Face of John Paul's Papacy. John Cornwell reveals for the first time the hidden aspects of John Paul II's papacy in stark contrast to his gro...
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104,29 zł |
Group Theory in Physics: An Introduction Volume 1
ISBN: 9780121898007 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book, an abridgment of Volumes I and II of the highly respected Group Theory in Physics, presents a carefully constructed introduction to group theory and its applications in physics. The book provides anintroduction to and description of the most important basic ideas and the role that they play in physical problems. The clearly written text contains many pertinent examples that illustrate the topics, even for those with no background in group theory.
This work presents important mathematical developments to theoretical physicists in a form that is easy to comprehend and... This book, an abridgment of Volumes I and II of the highly respected Group Theory in Physics, presents a carefully constructed introduction to ...
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511,26 zł |
The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Battalion
ISBN: 9781526767363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The story of the very first volunteer for the Sheffield Pals, as well as that of the last survivor. Insight into officer training and life in the trenches.
The story of the very first volunteer for the Sheffield Pals, as well as that of the last survivor. Insight into officer training and life in the tren...
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82,32 zł |
The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Battalion
ISBN: 9781526762245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The story of the very first volunteer for the Sheffield Pals, as well as that of the last survivor.
The story of the very first volunteer for the Sheffield Pals, as well as that of the last survivor.
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137,29 zł |
Cornwell Chronicles: Tales of an American Life on the Erie Canal, Building Chicago, in the Volunteer Civil War Western Army, on the Farm, i
ISBN: 9780788410833 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Authored by a Civil War Union soldier with more than five years of active service along the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers, 1862-1866. This iconoclastic, irascible old veteran (1838-1911) planned to publish these memoirs shortly after the turn of the century...but death came first, and unannounced. David Cornwell's salty, vivid descriptions of his wartime service are layered in among peacetime annotations about his life before and after the war. His stark and often shocking accounts of bitter, bloody hand-to-hand combat at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Milliken's Bend make this work... Authored by a Civil War Union soldier with more than five years of active service along the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers, 1862-1866. This icono... |
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227,48 zł |
Judge Dredd: Guatemala
ISBN: 9781781088951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Viva los humanos! A deathbed request sends Judge Dredd on a diplomatic mission to Guatemala, a dictatorship ruled by the despotic robot El Presidente. Under the military rule of robots, humans are enslaved, trafficked and farmed for parts. El Presidente seeks to expand its repressive regime – and if Mega-City One doesn’t give into its demands, its nuclear arsenal will blow the city off the map! From legendary Judge Dredd scribe John Wagner and fan favourite artist Colin MacNeil comes an action-packed Dredd tale of robots and revolution! Also featuring bonus Dredd stories with art by...
Viva los humanos! A deathbed request sends Judge Dredd on a diplomatic mission to Guatemala, a dictatorship ruled by the despotic robot El Presidente...
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77,39 zł |
Global Sport Sponsorship
ISBN: 9781845200800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Estimated to have an annual worth of $24.8 billion dollars, the global sponsorship industry has become of vital importance to anybody interested in understanding the sport-commerce nexus. This text provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of this relationship. Topics covered include the strategic nature of global sport sponsorship; the role of celebrities in global advertising; the utilization of sponsorship in the construction of global alliances; and more. Estimated to have an annual worth of $24.8 billion dollars, the global sponsorship industry has become of vital importance to anybody interested in... |
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626,03 zł |