wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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House of Pain: New and Selected Essays
ISBN: 9781557289995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Laurence Gonzales began his successful publishing career in 1989 with the publication of "The Still Point" and later "The Hero s Apprentice" (1994), both with the University of Arkansas Press. From these collections of essays he went on to write for renowned magazines in addition to publishing several books, including the best selling "Deep Survival." His journalism garnered two National Magazine Awards, and his latest nonfiction book, "Surviving Survival," was named by "Kirkus" as one of the best books of 2012. This new collection of essays shows us the sometimes hair-raising, sometimes... Laurence Gonzales began his successful publishing career in 1989 with the publication of "The Still Point" and later "The Hero s Apprentice" (1994)... |
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102,39 |
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One Zero Charlie
ISBN: 9781416576419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as "One-Zero-Charlie" (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C). This evocative excursion into a little-known part of the heart of America takes us to a place where a love of flying draws people together, and a fascination with its sheer exhilaration keeps them that way.
Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as "One-Zero-Charlie" (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C). This evocat...
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72,23 |
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Lucy
ISBN: 9780307473905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Primatologist Jenny Lowe is studying bonobo chimpanzees deep in the Congo when she is caught in a deadly civil war that leaves a fellow researcher dead and his daughter, Lucy, orphaned. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for Lucy as her own. But as she reads the late scientist s notebooks, she discovers that Lucy is the result of a shocking experiment, and that the adorable, magical, wonderful girl she has come to love is an entirely new hybrid species half human, half bonobo."
Primatologist Jenny Lowe is studying bonobo chimpanzees deep in the Congo when she is caught in a deadly civil war that leaves a fellow researcher dea...
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76,23 |
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Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
ISBN: 9780393337068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Everyday Survival will teach you to make the right choices for our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world--whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder.
Everyday Survival will teach you to make the right choices for our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world--whether you are climbing a...
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87,48 |
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The Chemistry of Fire: Essays
ISBN: 9781682261514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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97,50 |
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The Still Point
ISBN: 9781557280817 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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87,75 |
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
ISBN: 9780393353716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Over a decade since its original publication, Laurence Gonzales s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just as it has improved readers everyday lives. Its mix of adventure narrative, survival science, and practical advice has inspired everyone from business leaders to military officers, educators, and psychiatric professionals on how to take control of stress, learn to assess risk, and make better decisions under pressure. Now with a new introduction on how this book can help readers overcome any of life s obstacles, Gonzales s gripping narrative is...
Over a decade since its original publication, Laurence Gonzales s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just ...
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68,57 |
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Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
ISBN: 9780393351262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived.
No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, crew, and airport and rescue personnel, Laurence Gonzales, a... As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane s...
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72,38 |
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Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience
ISBN: 9780393346633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don't apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves. Drawing on gripping cases across a wide range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales fashions a compelling argument about fear, courage, and the adaptability of the human spirit. Micki Glenn was later moved to say: "I don't regret that this happened to me. It] has been . . . probably the single most...
The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don't apply. In some cases survivor...
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68,57 |