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Highlights of Australasian Cathedrals: Discover the architecture, beauty and inspiration of Australasian Cathedrals
ISBN: 9780645781724 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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174,26 zł |
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The Day Of The Scorpion
ISBN: 9780099478829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The arrest by British police of ex-Chief Minister Mohammed Ali Kasim, who is known to sympathise with the Quite India movement, signifies a further deterioration in Anglo-Indian relations. For families such as the Laytons, who have lived and served in India for generations, the immediate social and political realities are both disturbing and tragic. With growing confusion and bewilderment, the British are forced to confront the violent and often brutal years that lie ahead of them.
The arrest by British police of ex-Chief Minister Mohammed Ali Kasim, who is known to sympathise with the Quite India movement, signifies a further de...
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51,46 zł |
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 4: A Division of Spoils Volume 4
ISBN: 9780226743448 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After exploiting India's divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.
After exploiting India's divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twiligh...
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100,22 zł |
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The Raj Quartet - Vol 2
ISBN: 9781857152982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 1032 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence.
Records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growi...
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87,56 zł |
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The Birds of Paradise
ISBN: 9780226087931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott's own time spent in India during World War II, this powerful novel provides valuable insight into how foreign lands changed the British who worked and fought in them, hated and loved them. A coming of age tale, The Birds of Paradise is the story of a boy and his childhood friendship with the daughter of a British diplomat and the son of the Raja. Scott artfully brings his...
Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a c...
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93,00 zł |
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Staying On
ISBN: 9780099443193 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Tusker and Lucy Smalley stayed on in India after 1947, in the small hill town of Pankot with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady upsets the quiet rhythm of their days.
Tusker and Lucy Smalley stayed on in India after 1947, in the small hill town of Pankot with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over f...
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51,46 zł |
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The Jewel In The Crown
ISBN: 9780099439967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The opening title of Paul Scott s masterpiece, The Raj Quartet.
India 1942: WWII has shown that England is not invincible, and the self-rule lobby in India is growing. Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. The racism, brutality and hatred heaped upon her young Indian lover reveal the desperate state of Anglo-Indian relations. The rift that will eventually prise India the jewel in the Imperial Crown from colonial rule is beginning to gape wide." The opening title of Paul Scott s masterpiece, The Raj Quartet.
India 1942: WWII has shown that England is not invincible, and the self-rule lobby... |
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51,46 zł |
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence
ISBN: 9780226743431 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel facade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick, Susan Layton's future husband.
" India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel facade of British society amid the debris of a vanish...
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100,22 zł |
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Highlights of Australasian Cathedrals: Discover the architecture, beauty and inspiration of Australasian Cathedrals
ISBN: 9780645781731 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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243,97 zł |
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A Division Of The Spoils
ISBN: 9780099478836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The British Raj in India is in its final days. For Guy Perron, Field Sergeant and historian, these last days are a time to reflect on the legacy the British has left behind in India. And for the British families still residing in India, decisions about their future must be made and final goodbyes must be said.
The British Raj in India is in its final days. For Guy Perron, Field Sergeant and historian, these last days are a time to reflect on the legacy the B...
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56,62 zł |
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Robbie Williams. Anioły i demony
ISBN: 9788387598686 / Polski / 2010 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. |
47,40 zł |
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Eric Clapton: Motherless Child
ISBN: 9788087506684 / Czeski / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Motherless Child zobrazuje Claptonovu životní pouť lemovanou hudbou, ženami, auty, drogami, prohrami i úspěchy. Obsahuje dosud nepublikované rozhovory s jeho blízkými, příteli i spolupracovníky a vykresluje Claptona jako jednoho z nejvlivnějších hudebníků své generace, který klasickému blues dodává moderní podobu.
Začátky ve skupině Yardbirds, poté Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos a následně neméně úspěšná sólová kariéra. Eric Clapton jakoby se před padesáti lety vydal na hvězdnou cestu k hudebnímu vrcholu. V současnosti je... Motherless Child zobrazuje Claptonovu životní pouť lemovanou hudbou, ženami, auty, drogami, prohrami i úspěchy. Obsahuje dosud nepublikované ro...
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78,27 zł |
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The Towers Of Silence
ISBN: 9780099436164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Keynote: - Radio 4 crumbling. Ensconced in the Indian Hill Station of Pankot are the English wives, mothers, daughters and widows of the officers embroiled in the ongoing conflict. With their old beliefs and assumptions under increasingly virulent attack, all eyes are upon Captain Merrick and the British military to protect them in this troubled time. But Merrick, though outwardly a consummate professional, is brutal and corrupt, and not even his machinations can stop the change that is swiftly and inevitably approaching, change which is increasingly undermining the old myth of British...
Keynote: - Radio 4 crumbling. Ensconced in the Indian Hill Station of Pankot are the English wives, mothers, daughters and widows of the officers embr...
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51,46 zł |
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The Chinese Love Pavilion
ISBN: 9780226088433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott's own time spent in India and Malaya during World War II, this two powerful novel provides valuable insight into how foreign lands changed the British who worked and fought in them, hated and loved them.
The Chinese Love Pavilion follows a young British clerk, Tom Brent, who must track down a former friend--now suspected of murder--in Malaya. Tom faces great danger, both... Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a c...
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93,00 zł |
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion Volume 2
ISBN: 9780226743417 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 493 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point in history.
As the scorpian, encircled by a ring of fire, will sting itself to death, so does the British raj hasten its own destruction when threatened by the flames of Indian independence. Brutal repression and imprisonment of India's leaders cannot still the cry for home rule. And in the midst of chaos, the English Laytons withdraw from a... In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates b...
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113,30 zł |
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The National Security Constitution
ISBN: 9781509911011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The proposed monograph would have two parts, the first of which would address the direct legal regulation of and response to threats to national security (mainly but not exclusively the threat of international terrorism) in a primarily descriptive fashion. The second would consider, along thematic lines, certain secondary and derivative effects of the renewed prominence of national security considerations in the modern constitution. The book, though, is not about counter-terrorism law, nor even about national security law more broadly. It is instead a work of domestic constitutional...
The proposed monograph would have two parts, the first of which would address the direct legal regulation of and response to threats to national secur...
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519,70 zł |
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Ceramics and Print
ISBN: 9780812218008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Printmaking techniques have long been used in the pottery industry, but until comparatively recently ceramicists have tended to view the use of these techniques with disdain. Attitudes are changing rapidly now, however, as makers continue to explore creative possibilities while working with ceramic materials. In this book, Paul Scott briefly discusses the history of ceramics and print, and then concentrates on the techniques used by contemporary ceramicists. These include: screen printing, both transfer decoration and working directly onto clay; photographic processes; sponge... Printmaking techniques have long been used in the pottery industry, but until comparatively recently ceramicists have tended to view the use of the... |
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145,47 zł |
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Identity and Coherence in Christology: One Person in Two Natures
ISBN: 9781032450476 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores a number of closely related logical and metaphysical questions relating to the identity of Jesus Christ. In particular it considers: ‘What does ‘Jesus Christ’ name?’ and ‘How may Jesus Christ be the subject of both divine and human attributes, given their apparent incompatibility?’.
This book explores a number of closely related logical and metaphysical questions relating to the identity of Jesus Christ. In particular it considers...
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701,59 zł |
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William's Saviour
ISBN: 9781326045616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,76 zł |
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown Volume 1
ISBN: 9780226743400 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule--"two nations locked in an imperial embrace"--as Paul Scott's historical tour de force, The Raj Quartet. The Jewel in the Crown opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence. On the night after the Indian Congress Party votes to support Ghandi, riots break out and an ambitious police sargeant arrests a young Indian for the alleged rape of the woman they both love.
No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule--"two nations locked in an imperial embrace"--as Paul Scott's historica...
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100,22 zł |
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