wyszukanych pozycji: 218
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The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland
ISBN: 9781410203588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An instructive history, this remarkable work recounts the causes leading to the persecution of the French Protestants and traces their emigration from France to England and Ireland. An interesting feature of the work, to the genealogist, is the collection of 300 biographies of noted Huguenot refugees who settled in Britain. Additionally, the work contains an important section on the Huguenots in America by G. P. Disoway
An instructive history, this remarkable work recounts the causes leading to the persecution of the French Protestants and traces their emigration from...
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The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive.
ISBN: 9781425557577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
ISBN: 9781108074308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the most popular and prolific writers during the Victorian age, Samuel Smiles (1812 1904) emphasised individual responsibility in the pursuit of personal and social improvement. Among other titles, his acclaimed Lives of the Engineers (1861 2) and insightful Autobiography (1905) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. He is best known, however, for the present work. First published in 1859, it sold 20,000 copies in its first year, more than a quarter of a million by 1905, and was widely translated. Using hundreds of biographical examples, ranging from George Stephenson...
One of the most popular and prolific writers during the Victorian age, Samuel Smiles (1812 1904) emphasised individual responsibility in the pursuit o...
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288,03 |
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The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland.
ISBN: 9781275809031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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140,90 |
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Life and Labor: Characteristics of Men of Industry Culture and Genius
ISBN: 9781410203526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written along the lines of the author's Self-Help and Character, this book shows readers what can be accomplished in life and labor by honest force of will and steady perseverance. "The chapters on Over Brain-work and the Conditions of Health may be of use to those who work with their Brains too much and their Physical System too little. This part of the work has been to a certain extent the result of personal experience." Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a zealous advocate of material progress based on individual enterprise and free trade. From 1845 to 1866 he was engaged in railway...
Written along the lines of the author's Self-Help and Character, this book shows readers what can be accomplished in life and labor by honest force of...
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Reminiscences in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer.
ISBN: 9781425519452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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110,21 |
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The Autobiography of Samuel Smiles, LL.D.
ISBN: 9781108057493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the most popular Victorian writers, Samuel Smiles (1812 1904) made his name in 1859 with the original self-improvement manual Self-Help. His highly successful multi-volume Lives of the Engineers (also reissued in this series) contained biographies of men who had, like him, achieved greatness not through privilege but through hard work. Left incomplete at his death, edited by the social theorist Thomas Mackay (1849 1912) and first published in 1905, his autobiography opens with a vivid description of the Scottish garrison town of his birth during the Napoleonic wars. In his later years...
One of the most popular Victorian writers, Samuel Smiles (1812 1904) made his name in 1859 with the original self-improvement manual Self-Help. His hi...
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The Life of Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9781512150926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The Life of Thomas Telford" from Samuel Smiles. Scottish author and reformer (1812-1904).
"The Life of Thomas Telford" from Samuel Smiles. Scottish author and reformer (1812-1904).
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Men of Invention and Industry
ISBN: 9781512150667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Men of Invention and Industry" from Samuel Smiles. Scottish author and reformer (1812-1904).
"Men of Invention and Industry" from Samuel Smiles. Scottish author and reformer (1812-1904).
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Jasmin Barber
ISBN: 9781512150469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Jasmin Barber" from Samuel Smiles. Scottish author and reformer (1812-1904).
"Jasmin Barber" from Samuel Smiles. Scottish author and reformer (1812-1904).
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Lives of Engineers
ISBN: 9783867412681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain
ISBN: 9781108067898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757 1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812 1904), the author of Self-Help and of other biographies of engineers and innovators. Smiles had already written about Telford's life and achievements in Volume 2 of his Lives of the Engineers (which is also reissued in this series), but in returning to the topic he adds to this new edition an introductory section (taken from Volume 1 of Lives of the Engineers) on the history of roads in Britain, from prehistoric trackways, via the Romans, to the modern road-building system pioneered by...
This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757 1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812 1904), the author of Self-Help and of oth...
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Industrial Biography
ISBN: 9783867414654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Men of Invention and Industry
ISBN: 9783867414456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Self Help
ISBN: 9781481088657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9783957388001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Civilisation began with tools; and every step in advance has been accomplished through their improvement. James Nasmyth's goal had always been to optimise those tools by applying common sense to the use of materials, which became the core principle of his very own definition of engineering. Reprint of the autobiography originally published in 1885.
Civilisation began with tools; and every step in advance has been accomplished through their improvement. James Nasmyth's goal had always been to opti...
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Sparsamkeit
ISBN: 9783384007322 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2023 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Tauchen Sie ein in die zeitlosen Weisheiten von "Sparsamkeit", dem inspirierenden Meisterwerk von Samuel Smiles, das nun in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt. Entdecken Sie die Geheimnisse finanzieller Weisheit, persönlicher Verantwortung und nachhaltigen Erfolgs, die auch im modernen Leben unverändert relevant sind.Lernen Sie, wie Sparsamkeit und kluge Geldverwaltung nicht nur zu finanzieller Stabilität führen, sondern auch den Grundstein für eine blühende Zukunft legen können. Tauchen Sie ein in Geschichten von Menschen, die durch Entschlossenheit, Fleiß und kluges Wirtschaften...
Tauchen Sie ein in die zeitlosen Weisheiten von "Sparsamkeit", dem inspirierenden Meisterwerk von Samuel Smiles, das nun in deutscher Übersetzung vor...
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Essays and Lyrics. with a Portrait and Biographical Sketch of the Author. Edited by Charles Jerdan.
ISBN: 9781241175146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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