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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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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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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The Hit and Run
ISBN: 9780595398201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,15 zł |
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Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 Bc--The Alternative Version
ISBN: 9780292712775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history...
Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to...
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142,39 zł |
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Jenny Diver
ISBN: 9781482540758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fast moving action novel, which is based on historical characters from the first half of the eighteenth century. Jenny Diver, whose character was included as a role in the Beggar's Opera and was also a character in the song 'Mac the Knife', was born in 1700 as Mary Jones in a Brothel in Ireland. She was adopted at the age of ten and her name was changed to Mary Young. Mary was given another name, Jenny Diver, by her gang as a term of endearment and is depicted as a Robin Hood type of character who, after running away at fifteen, makes her way in the world in London as a thief, an expert con...
A fast moving action novel, which is based on historical characters from the first half of the eighteenth century. Jenny Diver, whose character was in...
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64,59 zł |
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From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern
ISBN: 9780292726031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "I hadn't, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety of motives dictating that need," writes Peter Green in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on classical mythology and the mythic experience. Using the need for myth as the starting point for exploring a number of topics in Greek mythology and history, Green advances new ideas about why the human urge to make myths persists across the millennia and why the borderland between mythology and history can sometimes be hard to... "I hadn't, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety o... |
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152,57 zł |
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Captured at Arnhem: Men's Experiences in Their Own Words
ISBN: 9781399088374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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149,94 zł |
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The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literature
ISBN: 9780520255074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool scrutiny) but he has a warm regard for the real virtues of antiquity and for those who spoke with "an individual voice." The studies cover both history and literature, Greece and Rome. They range from the real nature of Athenian society to poets as diverse as Sappho and Juvenal, and all of them, without...
A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of c...
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166,01 zł |
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Scotland's Railways in the 1980s and 1990s: A Snapshot in Time
ISBN: 9781526773548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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133,88 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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Rails From Shrewsbury: A Pictorial Journey, 1970s-2012
ISBN: 9781399042697 / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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126,99 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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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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Kinetics, Transport, and Structure in Hard and Soft Materials
ISBN: 9780367392970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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315,36 zł |