wyszukanych pozycji: 86
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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
ISBN: 9780312300333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated. Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different kind of book. Here are thirteen unforgettable portraits of forgotten people: men and women who might have... The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated... |
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99,54 zł |
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The Depopulation Imperative: How Many People Can Earth Support?
ISBN: 9781922669216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The current world population is 7.9 billion people. Our demands are already making a massive impact on the earth. Global warming, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, these are all symptoms of a bigger problem, human numbers and excessive consumption. Given our impact on earth now we have to reduce our numbers rapidly. We don't have time to wait until 2100 for numbers to decrease gradually. After looking at all of the issues surrounding the population debate, The Depopulation Imperative argues that to achieve any reduction we need a profound moral change from an emphasis on the priority of...
The current world population is 7.9 billion people. Our demands are already making a massive impact on the earth. Global warming, biodiversity loss, r...
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92,90 zł |
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Wardragon
ISBN: 9781876462581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 463 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wardragon is the culmination of The Jelindel Chronicles in a soaring saga. Finally Jelindel, with her allies, Zimak and Daretor, has tracked the alien mailshirt across two radically different worlds. But the journey is perilous when each step is lined with flying beasts, metal wasps, mercenaries and assassins . . . and the mailshirt linked up with the evil Preceptor to create a deadly enemy. All Jelindel has is a little magic, Zimak s wit and Daretor s sword to scrape through and that is not enough.Collins captures a terrifying, tense world with a touch of humour and holds it to the last...
Wardragon is the culmination of The Jelindel Chronicles in a soaring saga. Finally Jelindel, with her allies, Zimak and Daretor, has tracked the alien...
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88,84 zł |
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Dyson's Drop
ISBN: 9781921665660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,60 zł |
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Upon This Rock: The Popes and Their Changing Roles
ISBN: 9780824519391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Vatican-censured former priest, tells the history of the papacy from the point of view of the women, radicals, and marginalized who have been betrayed by conservative historians. This survey of key popes documents the evolution of the papacy from its beginning to all its monarchical trappings in our own day.
A Vatican-censured former priest, tells the history of the papacy from the point of view of the women, radicals, and marginalized who have been betray...
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108,65 zł |
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Recovering the True Church: Challenges for Australian Catholicism Beyond the Plenary Council
ISBN: 9781922589163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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93,72 zł |
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Christian Inculturation in India
ISBN: 9781138255296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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252,82 zł |
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The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century
ISBN: 9781610393683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." --Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) "A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe.... Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion." --Kirkus (starred review) The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once...
"Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." --Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) |
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78,76 zł |
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Denomination: Assessing an Ecclesiological Category
ISBN: 9780567131317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The term denomination is now widely used to describe a Christian community or church. But what is a denomination? In this highly creative collection of essays representatives of all major Christian traditions give an answer to this question. What does the term mean in their own tradition? And does that tradition understand itself to be a denomination? If so, what is that understanding of denomination; and if not, how does the tradition understand itself vis vis those churches which do and those churches which do not understand themselves as denominations? In dialogue with the argument and...
The term denomination is now widely used to describe a Christian community or church. But what is a denomination? In this highly creative collection o...
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657,46 zł |
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
ISBN: 9780393357325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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69,15 zł |
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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
ISBN: 9780393245165 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university.
A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university.
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111,74 zł |
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The Assyrians: Lost Civilizations
ISBN: 9781789149234 / Angielski / 01-01-2025 Książka dostępna od: 01-01-2025 |
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87,46 zł |
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Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion
ISBN: 9780567262967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Discussion of theosis is mainly undertaken within Byzantine Orthodoxy and is usually structured around an examination of patristic and medieval sources. This work builds upon such discussions and broadens the basis by including Western sources (Catholic and Protestant) in contemporary debates about salvation. In seeking to explore a relational understanding of salvation, the construal of the doctrine of deification is examined in terms of the divine nature understood as communion. This is related in particular of the theological project of Zizioulas, and other exponents of communion ontology....
Discussion of theosis is mainly undertaken within Byzantine Orthodoxy and is usually structured around an examination of patristic and medieval source...
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192,13 zł |
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A Tale of Two Squirrels
ISBN: 9781606932049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story takes a lighthearted look at how life might be for children in the future. Subsequent stories will explore ways in which people in different places and in different conditions cope with the problem of bringing the atmosphere back into balance.
The story takes a lighthearted look at how life might be for children in the future. Subsequent stories will explore ways in which people in different...
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41,27 zł |
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Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia
ISBN: 9781910807088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. - Mountains and Lowlands is an engaging exploration of the history of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Iran from 6000 BC-AD 650Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran are usually treated separately or as part of a much broader 'Ancient Near East'. However, the developments that lie at the root of our own world - farming, cities, writing, organized religion, warfare - were forged in the tensions and relations between the inhabitants of lowland Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) and the highlands of Iran. Mountains and Lowlands explores this relationship providing a detailed but accessible account covering...
- Mountains and Lowlands is an engaging exploration of the history of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Iran from 6000 BC-AD 650Ancient Mesopotami...
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79,85 zł |
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Receiving 'The Nature and Mission of the Church': Ecclesial Reality and Ecumenical Horizons for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780567032430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A collection of essays and assessments in which scholars from a variety of denominational, geographical and ecclesiological backgrounds attempt to discern the significance of the 2006 document Nature and Mission of the Church from the World Council of Churches. Thereby offering doctrinal, theological and hermeneutical perspectives and analysis on its formation and content. The essays also seek to discern the potential ecumenical ramifications of the document. Contributions also address futures for ecumenical dialogue and the development of an ecumenical ecclesiology in general. This... A collection of essays and assessments in which scholars from a variety of denominational, geographical and ecclesiological backgrounds attempt to ... |
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758,60 zł |
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Enoch Crosby the Shoemaker Spy: An Historical Biography of a Truly Heroic American
ISBN: 9781662404078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,59 zł |
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The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
ISBN: 9780747577683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A typical book about a major historical figure doesn't start at a gay piano bar and almost end in a drainage ditch. But then, Tom Paine wasn't a typical historical figure.
A typical book about a major historical figure doesn't start at a gay piano bar and almost end in a drainage ditch. But then, Tom Paine wasn't a typic...
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69,15 zł |
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
ISBN: 9780307592217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins. DAVE EGGERS
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began... No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins. DAVE...
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95,39 zł |
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There Is Life In The Word!
ISBN: 9798886856293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,86 zł |