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Search for the Nile's Source : The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-century Welsh Explorer
ISBN: 9780708326732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Hanning Speke s discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 while on a quest to find the source of the Nile elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. But historians have ignored the part played by the Welsh mining engineer John Petherick in the discovery, largely because Speke branded him a slave trader. In this first biography of Petherick, John Humphries explores whether Petherick was truly a rogue, as he is often portrayed, or the victim of a conspiracy that destroyed his reputation and denied him credit for one of the...
John Hanning Speke s discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 while on a quest to find the source of the Nile elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of Afri...
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38,61 zł |
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Freedom Fighters: Wales's Forgotten 'War, ' 1963-1993
ISBN: 9780708321775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As any student of Welsh history is keenly aware, the societal upheaval of the 1960s is inextricably intertwined with to the activities of the Movement for the Defence of Wales (Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, or MAC) and its two main protagonists, Owen Williams and John Jenkins. This book tells the story of the MAC's remarkable campaign from its inception in 1963 to the establishment of the Welsh assembly in 1969, charting the clandestine extremist organization's course through the struggle for Welsh independence and considering the sometimes difficult distinctions between patriotism and... As any student of Welsh history is keenly aware, the societal upheaval of the 1960s is inextricably intertwined with to the activities of the Movem... |
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110,41 zł |
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The Dead Duck Bounced
ISBN: 9781839758607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks are news stories destined for the News Editor’s spike and Flynt suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow with the...
What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Fl...
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69,06 zł |
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The Early Horn: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780521632102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help performers to play in a historically appropriate style and provides a series of case studies including major works from the horn repertoire by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. It includes chapters on the historical background of the instrument, its design and development, and choice of instrument today.
This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as we...
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453,66 zł |
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Jack's Lost Love: The Drug Cartel
ISBN: 9781418420048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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100,96 zł |
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The Early Horn: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780521635592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as a practical guide to playing techniques and principles of interpretation. The book aims to help performers to play in a historically appropriate style and provides a series of case studies including major works from the horn repertoire by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. It includes chapters on the historical background of the instrument, its design and development, and choice of instrument today.
This introduction to the early horn provides a historical account of the instrument's development during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as we...
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160,35 zł |
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The man who wouldn't fly
ISBN: 9780993229923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Phil Humphries suffered for years with a severe debilitating affliction or phobia - aviophobia, the fear of flying. This is shared apparently by millions of people worldwide. This book begins by briefly following the author's career as a rugby player in Wales with his ambition of becoming a successful rugby coach. Confronting a phobia of flying would help to enrich the author's experiences, expand horizons and improve his prospects of achieving this goal. Phil Humphries tells how he first overcame a fear of flying when he took up a coaching post with Malmo RFC in Sweden. This first massive...
Phil Humphries suffered for years with a severe debilitating affliction or phobia - aviophobia, the fear of flying. This is shared apparently by milli...
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63,75 zł |
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The Anti-Aging Revolution
ISBN: 9798989268504 / Miękka / 2023 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,87 zł |
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The Future of Southern Letters
ISBN: 9780195097825 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The New South--replete with shopping malls, hub airports, educated African Americans, and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haiti--is still haunted by the Gothic ghosts of its past. Does the collision between past and present account for the continued preeminence of Southern writers in America's literary culture? Bobbie Ann Mason, Ernest Gaines, Rita Mae Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Cormac McCarthy, Dorothy Allison, and Allan Gurganus are just a few of the writers who draw on a new kind of Southern background while reaching out to a broad American readership. Yet many of these writers have...
The New South--replete with shopping malls, hub airports, educated African Americans, and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haiti--is still haunt...
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133,00 zł |
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The Future of Southern Letters
ISBN: 9780195097818 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The New South--replete with shopping malls, hub airports, educated African Americans, and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haiti--is still haunted by the Gothic ghosts of its past. Does the collision between past and present account for the continued preeminence of Southern writers in America's literary culture? Bobbie Ann Mason, Ernest Gaines, Rita Mae Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Cormac McCarthy, Dorothy Allison, and Allan Gurganus are just a few of the writers who draw on a new kind of Southern background while reaching out to a broad American readership. Yet many of these writers have...
The New South--replete with shopping malls, hub airports, educated African Americans, and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haiti--is still haunt...
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244,84 zł |
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Access and Benefit–sharing in Global Aquaculture – Genetic Resources, Digital Sequence Information and Traditional Knowledge
ISBN: 9781800373983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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745,61 zł |
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The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life
ISBN: 9780226324807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of high school graduate to anyone who passes it. GED recipients currently account for 12 percent of all high school credentials issued each year in the United States. But do achievement tests predict success in life?
"The Myth of Achievement Tests" shows that achievement tests like the GED fail to measure important life skills. James J. Heckman,... Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to i...
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154,64 zł |
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