wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Dreaming with His Eyes Open: Life of Diego Rivera
ISBN: 9780747544500 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Despite his colourful claims, Diego Rivera was not actually raised by a magical nurse who let him roam the forest. After studying in Mexico, he became a key figure in the heyday of Montparnasse. This book follows him through the free love of Paris and into World War I.
Despite his colourful claims, Diego Rivera was not actually raised by a magical nurse who let him roam the forest. After studying in Mexico, he became...
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93,84 zł |
Lourdes: A Modern Pilgrimage
ISBN: 9780385182522 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The most popular pilgrimage site in the world That is Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, where in 1858 Our Lady appeared to the young peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous. Curiosity and fascination grew steadily, a shrine was erected at the grotto where Bernadette experienced these visions, and Lourdes became a worldwide attraction. Today, more than 4 million people visit the shrine each year. Many come out of desperate hope; and countless "miracles" and healings have been claimed by visitors during the past century. What is behind the phenomenal growth of Lourdes? Who...
The most popular pilgrimage site in the world That is Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, where in 1858 Our Lady appeared to the ...
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82,99 zł |
So Far from God: Journey to Central America
ISBN: 9780747524335 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as the author travels through them by train and bus. The author shows daily lives lived against a backdrop of continued and seemingly endless political friction and conflicts, in places that exhibit the contradictions inherent in an area of which Porfirio Diaz said: Poor Mexico So far from God, so close to the United States. It is an observation that serves as an epigraph to the book, as a means of showing how fervent Catholicism can live side by side with extreme violence, how people can show alternating...
A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as the author travels through them by train and bus. The author...
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60,48 zł |
Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley
ISBN: 9780099498179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The authorized, and astonishing, biography of Mary Wesley.
Descended from the Duke of Wellington, Mary Wesley grew up a rebel, believing that she was her mother's least favourite child. Like many girls of her background, she married for escape, although her first marriage (to Lord Swinfen) was conventional. Her second husband, Eric Siepmann, a writer who never managed to make any money at all, was feckless and bohemian. In between Swinfen and Siepmann, she had a love affair with Czech war hero, Heinz Ziegler -- and possibly with his brother at the same time; and in her later years enjoyed... The authorized, and astonishing, biography of Mary Wesley.
Descended from the Duke of Wellington, Mary Wesley grew up a rebel, believing that she ... |
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67,22 zł |
Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
ISBN: 9780520224087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This engrossing biography of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary, captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of the twentieth-century's most gifted and controversial painters.
This engrossing biography of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary, captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera...
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193,31 zł |
Army of the Night: The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance
ISBN: 9780755647828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured by Klaus Barbie, the infamous ‘Butcher of Lyon’, is revered alongside that of other national icons. But Moulin’s story is full of unanswered questions and the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend. Patrick Marnham, winner of the Marsh Prize for biography, thrillingly tells the epic story of France’s...
Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as...
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82,79 zł |
Snake Dance : Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky
ISBN: 9780099542247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this unique journey across continents and centuries, award-winning author Patrick Marnham explores the ruthless dictators, dangerous minds and prehistoric precedents behind the development of nuclear power.
The terrifying first use of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was the most controversial act of warfare in history, dramatically ending the Second World War but ushering in the age of mass destruction. Yet it was also the climax of a story that extends beyond Japan and Washington: the culmination of decades of scientific achievement and centuries of colonial... In this unique journey across continents and centuries, award-winning author Patrick Marnham explores the ruthless dictators, dangerous minds and preh...
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93,84 zł |
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France
ISBN: 9780861540587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,87 zł |
Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9781784531188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The essential biography
The essential biography
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71,75 zł |