wyszukanych pozycji: 63
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Ben's War with the U. S. Marines
ISBN: 9781941402023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ben's War with the U. S. Marines is biographical account of the charming and hilarious World War II misadventures of Pfc. Ben Green--a low ranking but quick-witted individualist who battled the system in order to serve his country with honor and to stay alive so he could return home to his family. Facing a draft notice Ben, a resourceful nonconformist and Chicago radio producer with a wife and two small children, enlisted at age 35 with the understanding that he would serve as an officer in Marine Corps intelligence. When he learned too late he was too old for the job he'd been promised, he...
Ben's War with the U. S. Marines is biographical account of the charming and hilarious World War II misadventures of Pfc. Ben Green--a low ranking but...
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66,15 zł |
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Final Exam: A Novel
ISBN: 9781291468991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,68 zł |
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The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos
ISBN: 9780520203402 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own story from the vantage point of self-questioning middle age, and her candid meditations make intimate, engrossing reading. Only fragments of Sappho's poetry survive. In imagining Sappho's life Green found his task "rather like that of an archaeologist reassembling some amphora from hundreds of...
Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work o...
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203,43 zł |
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Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
ISBN: 9780520275867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as "not only the most brilliant...
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a u...
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133,88 zł |
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English Electric Class 50 Diesels: From the Western Region to Preservation
ISBN: 9781399017824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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133,88 zł |
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Becoming an Architect: My Voyage of Discovery
ISBN: 9781941402177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,15 zł |
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Hellenistic History and Culture: Volume 9
ISBN: 9780520203259 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously deemphasized the Western, Greco-Roman tradition, and Nubians, Bactrians, and other subject peoples of the...
In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the ...
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203,43 zł |
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The Greco-Persian Wars
ISBN: 9780520203136 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and occupation. Peter Green brilliantly retells this historic moment, evoking the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian...
This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis...
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144,59 zł |
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A Simple Ride Home
ISBN: 9781468094527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On their way home from a failed drug buy, Dupree Johnson and his cousin Lamont hitch a ride from a guy they know. There's another passenger in the car, Sean Finnegan, who has to make a stop at a house in the sleepy town of Columbia. They have no idea Sean is planning a break-in. In no time, all four are in jail being questioned by Columbia Det. Jimmy Dugan. Dupree and Lamont proclaim their innocence. All they were looking for, they tell Jimmy, was "a simple ride home." But Sean has information to trade. Much to Jimmy's surprise, he says the person at the house, Sal Pelagrino, is a local drug...
On their way home from a failed drug buy, Dupree Johnson and his cousin Lamont hitch a ride from a guy they know. There's another passenger in the car...
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78,17 zł |
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Diodorus Siculus, the Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens: Books 11-14.34 (480-401 Bce)
ISBN: 9780292721258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great--the Bibliotheke, or "Library," produced by Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90-30 BCE). Yet generations of scholars have disdained Diodorus as a spectacularly unintelligent copyist who only reproduced, and often mangled, the works of earlier historians. Arguing for a thorough critical reappraisal of Diodorus as a minor but far from idiotic historian himself, Peter Green published Diodorus... Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death ... |
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111,87 zł |
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Railways in South Wales and the Central Wales Line in the late 20th Century
ISBN: 9781399086547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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160,65 zł |
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Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
ISBN: 9780520208117 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals...
In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, fro...
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191,81 zł |
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Things Have a Habit
ISBN: 9781508974482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Crawford Taylor is not your ordinary shylock, no sir. None of your hook-nosed Fagins or Semitic stereotypes here, if you please. Crawford Taylor is your modern day shylock. He's suave and handsome and cool and elegant in his charcoal gray Armani suit and black Prada slip-ons. He's Harvard-educated with a grace and style you see all the time on the pages of GQ. Think George Clooney here only younger and without the gray hair. Crawford Taylor is perfectly tanned and dark-haired from people, they say, that go all the way back to the Mayflower. He carries himself like a leading man. Center stage....
Crawford Taylor is not your ordinary shylock, no sir. None of your hook-nosed Fagins or Semitic stereotypes here, if you please. Crawford Taylor is yo...
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80,57 zł |
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Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age
ISBN: 9780753824139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander's conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome
A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander's conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome
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50,76 zł |
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Everybody Lies
ISBN: 9781979297691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,88 zł |
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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History
ISBN: 9780812967401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity's great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green's remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those centuries: the Hellenization, by Alexander's conquests, of an immense swath of the known world; the lengthy and chaotic partition of this empire by rival Macedonian bands; the decline of the city-state as the predominant political institution; and, finally, Rome's moment of transition from republican to imperial rule. It is a story of war...
The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity's great civilizations, the Gree...
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82,95 zł |
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Railways in North and Mid Wales in the Late 20th Century
ISBN: 9781399091220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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133,88 zł |
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Andrei Tarkovsky: The Winding Quest
ISBN: 9781349119981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film, his theory of time in cinematography and an attempt to comprehend his vision.
A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of h...
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191,85 zł |
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Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Agevolume 1
ISBN: 9780520083493 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 970 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a single critical mind. Alexander to Actium was conceived and written to fill that gap. In this monumental work, Peter Green--noted scholar, writer, and...
The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at ...
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262,40 zł |
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Ben's War with the U. S. Marines
ISBN: 9781941402016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ben's War with the U. S. Marines is biographical account of the charming and humorous World War II misadventures of Pfc. Ben Green--a low-ranking but resourceful nonconformist who battled the system in order to serve his country his way and stay alive so he could return home to his family. Facing a draft notice Ben, a resourceful nonconformist and Chicago radio producer with a wife and two small children, enlisted at age 35 with the understanding that he would serve as an officer in Marine Corps intelligence. When he learned too late he was too old for the job he'd been promised, he found...
Ben's War with the U. S. Marines is biographical account of the charming and humorous World War II misadventures of Pfc. Ben Green--a low-ranking but ...
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65,11 zł |