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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
ISBN: 9780141003108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A collection of biographies: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement and who, finally was given a second chance of love and happiness.
A collection of biographies: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of...
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98,49 zł |
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
ISBN: 9780547238234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that would alter the course of American history. This definitive, sweeping biography shows the origins of Carson's fierce dedication to natural science--and tells the dramatic story of how Carson, already a famous nature writer, became a brillant if reluctant reformer. Drawing on unprecendented access to sources and interviews, Lear masterfully explores the roots of Carson's powerful connection to...
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poison...
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148,84 zł |
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
ISBN: 9781250094193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" brought her fame, financial success, and the promise of happiness when she fell in love with her editor Norman Warne. After his tragic and untimely death, Potter... In this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing por... |
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110,57 zł |
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The Art of Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, and Illustrations
ISBN: 9781452151274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, this magnificent collection celebrates the artist behind The Tale of Peter Rabbit and numerous other beloved children's books. Brimming with famous images and rarely seen gems--ranging from character sketches and notebook pages to watercolor landscapes and natural history illustrations--this monograph explores Potter's artistic process and reveals the places that inspired her timeless work. Organized geographically and featuring more than 200 images from the artist's oeuvre, The Art of Beatrix Potter...
Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, this magnificent collection celebrates the artist behind The Tale of P...
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181,50 zł |
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Sharing the Years
ISBN: 9781496945297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kaye Mason has found the love of her life and is planning a wedding and a new life. It is a far different life from what she had expected, but she finds that the quiet country back roads of Kentucky life hold more joy than she could have anticipated. Her family is there along with newfound friends to support her during her first year of teaching, which proves to hold more problems than she could ever have imagined. All the problems of living an educator's life seem to be hurled at her during her first year on the job. Then the reappearance of Chris, her former fiance, raises more tension.... Kaye Mason has found the love of her life and is planning a wedding and a new life. It is a far different life from what she had expected, but she ... |
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141,65 zł |
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Sharing the Years
ISBN: 9781496945303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kaye Mason has found the love of her life and is planning a wedding and a new life. It is a far different life from what she had expected, but she finds that the quiet country back roads of Kentucky life hold more joy than she could have anticipated. Her family is there along with newfound friends to support her during her first year of teaching, which proves to hold more problems than she could ever have imagined. All the problems of living an educator's life seem to be hurled at her during her first year on the job. Then the reappearance of Chris, her former fiance, raises more tension.... Kaye Mason has found the love of her life and is planning a wedding and a new life. It is a far different life from what she had expected, but she ... |
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85,77 zł |
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Shared Years
ISBN: 9781481755061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kaye Mason thought she had her future very carefully planned. She was graduating with a teaching certification, and was engaged to a promising young law student. Everything seemed so perfectly in place. Her family, as always, was right there behind her supporting her one-hundred percent. She finds out just how much she needs that support when her life doesn't proceed as beautifully as she had it planned.
Kaye Mason thought she had her future very carefully planned. She was graduating with a teaching certification, and was engaged to a promising young l...
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85,77 zł |
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Shared Years
ISBN: 9781481755054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kaye Mason thought she had her future very carefully planned. She was graduating with a teaching certification, and was engaged to a promising young law student. Everything seemed so perfectly in place. Her family, as always, was right there behind her supporting her one-hundred percent. She finds out just how much she needs that support when her life doesn't proceed as beautifully as she had it planned.
Kaye Mason thought she had her future very carefully planned. She was graduating with a teaching certification, and was engaged to a promising young l...
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141,65 zł |
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Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
ISBN: 9780807085479 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Lyric, descriptive, informative, and moving." -Bill Sharp, The New York Times Book Review When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life. " Lost Woods] gives a new generation an opportunity to rediscover the legendary biologist and ecologist. . . . These writings-essays, letters, magazine pieces, speeches-show us the...
"Lyric, descriptive, informative, and moving." -Bill Sharp, The New York Times Book Review When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, ...
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143,23 zł |
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Exploring the Unknown - Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program Volume I: Organizing for Exploration
ISBN: 9781478385998 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 820 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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160,70 zł |
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Under the Sea-Wind
ISBN: 9780143104964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rachel Carson--pioneering environmentalist and author of Silent Spring--opens our eyes to the wonders of the natural world in her groundbreaking paean to the sea.
2016 marks the 75th Anniversary of the publication of Under the Sea-Wind. Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, Under the Sea-Wind--Rachel Carson's first book and her personal favorite--is the early masterwork of one of America's greatest nature writers. Evoking the special mystery and beauty of the shore and the open sea--its limitless vistas and... Rachel Carson--pioneering environmentalist and author of Silent Spring--opens our eyes to the wonders of the natural world in her groundbrea...
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72,29 zł |
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Silent Spring
ISBN: 9780618253050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century).
This... First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pe...
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127,53 zł |
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Silent Spring
ISBN: 9780618249060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in S...
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80,76 zł |
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Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume I: Organizing for Exploration
ISBN: 9781495405440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 820 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the most important developments of the twentieth century has been the movement of humanity into space with machines and people. The underpinnings of that movement- why it took the shape it did; which individuals and organizations were involved; what factors drove a particular choice of scientific objectives and technologies to be used; and the political, economic, managerial, and international contexts in which the events of the space age unfolded-are all important ingredients of this epoch transition from an Earthbound to a spacefaring people. This desire to understand the development...
One of the most important developments of the twentieth century has been the movement of humanity into space with machines and people. The underpinnin...
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151,77 zł |
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