wyszukanych pozycji: 94
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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101,56 zł |
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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95,61 zł |
Dyson's Drop
ISBN: 9781921665660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,03 zł |
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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94,78 zł |
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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110,86 zł |
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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90,64 zł |
Mack Dunstan's Inferno
ISBN: 9781462032761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mack 'Max' Dunstan has played Moses, Marc Anthony, Ben-Hur, President Andrew Jackson, and Long John Silver. He has starred in The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, El Cid, 55 Days in Peking, Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, and Soylent Green, to name a few. Sadly, in this age of social media, reality television, and political correctness, today's generation know him only for his hard right point of views and his outspoken nature. Mack Dunstan's Inferno was written as a satirical, fantasy work, where Mr. Dunstan succumbed to Alzheimer's, went through the death process, and descended into... Mack 'Max' Dunstan has played Moses, Marc Anthony, Ben-Hur, President Andrew Jackson, and Long John Silver. He has starred in The Ten Commandments,... |
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54,80 zł |
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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115,27 zł |
The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque
ISBN: 9781138273191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The concept of stylus phantasticus (or fantastic style ) as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque forms the focus of this book. Exploring both the theoretical background to the style and its application by composers and performers, Paul Collins surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher s original concept and its influence on music theorists such as Brossard, Janovka, Mattheson, and Walther. Turning specifically to fantasist composers of keyboard works, the book examines the keyboard toccatas of Merulo, Fresobaldi, Rossi and Froberger and their influence on...
The concept of stylus phantasticus (or fantastic style ) as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque forms the focus of thi...
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260,80 zł |
The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations
ISBN: 9781789144154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 20 dni roboczych |
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84,12 zł |
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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678,21 zł |
The Assyrians: Lost Civilizations
ISBN: 9781789149234 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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93,35 zł |
Denomination: Assessing an Ecclesiological Category
ISBN: 9780567263520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 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 a vis those churches which do and those churches which do not understand themselves as 'denominations'? In dialogue with the... The term "denomination" is now widely used to describe a Christian community or church. But what is a 'denomination'? In this highly creative colle... |
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198,19 zł |
Dangerous Waters
ISBN: 9780987891884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lieutenant Alastair Mitchell, RCNVR, had two loves - HMCS Dartmouth and Second Officer Linda Halley, WRCNS. He had to choose, but he couldn't. Then, on a cold, overcast November night off Bell Island, Newfoundland, the enemy made the choice for him. Whether called Sea Wolves or Raiders of the Deep, Nazi U-boats prowled the waters around Newfoundland...and some never left. Now Iron Coffins, they lie forgotten, rusting on the seabed along with their victims. The debris of war, they remain broken remnants of mankind's greatest conflict.
Lieutenant Alastair Mitchell, RCNVR, had two loves - HMCS Dartmouth and Second Officer Linda Halley, WRCNS. He had to choose, but he couldn't. Then, o...
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57,72 zł |
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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782,54 zł |
The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque
ISBN: 9780754634164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the focus of this book. Exploring the theoretical background to the style and its application by composers and performers, the author surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher's original concept and its influence on music theorists.
The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the focus of this book. Exploring the the...
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704,29 zł |
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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97,32 zł |
Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World
ISBN: 9781610398602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. The cardinals were scattered across Europe, and Catholics feared they would be unable to elect the next pope. Even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished. And yet, just over two hundred years later, the pope still stands "at the very center of the central conversations of our time" (Time). His influence reaches across the world--from Cuban politics to gender equality to the refugee crisis--and the strength of his "soft power" is...
In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. The cardinals were sc...
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213,27 zł |
Christian Inculturation in India
ISBN: 9781138255296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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260,80 zł |
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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80,36 zł |