wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Plassey, 1757 : Clive of India's Finest Hour
ISBN: 9781855323520 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After relatively lowly beginnings as a writer in the East India Company, Robert Clive rose to be perhaps the most important single figure in the history of British involvement in India. At Plassey on 23 June 1757 Clive's 3,500 native and East India Company troops faced an army of 50,000 under the French supported nawab Siraj-ud-daula. Having succeeded in keeping his powder dry in a torrential rainstorm, Clive's guns were able to open a murderous fire on the enemy. Siraj-ud-daula's attack was beaten off and the counter-attack which Clive launched swept the field; with only the French gunners...
After relatively lowly beginnings as a writer in the East India Company, Robert Clive rose to be perhaps the most important single figure in the histo...
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92,77 zł |
British Army Uniforms in Color: As Illustrated by John McNeill, Ernest Ibbetson, Edgar A. Holloway, and Harry Payne - C.1908-1919
ISBN: 9780764313028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gale and Polden's postcards of British uniforms are now widely collected but little is known about the artists and few of their original paintings have survived. Now over 130 of these rare works by artists such as Harry Payne, Edgar A. Holloway, John McNeill, and Ernest Ibbetson are reproduced here for the first time in full colour with background information as to how the pictures were created. This book is a useful reference for postcard collectors, miniature modelers, as well as collectors and scholars of early twentieth century British uniforms.
Gale and Polden's postcards of British uniforms are now widely collected but little is known about the artists and few of their original paintings hav...
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251,11 zł |
Peking 1900: The Boxer Rebellion
ISBN: 9781841761817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Osprey's study of the violent Boxer Rebellion, which swept northern China in 1900. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to rid their country of the pernicious influence of the foreign powers who had gradually acquired a stranglehold on China. With the connivance of the Imperial Court they laid siege to the legation quarter of Peking. Trapped inside were an assortment of diplomats, civilians and a small number of troops. They were all Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister in Peking, had to defend against thousands of hostile Boxers and Imperial troops. It would now be a race...
Osprey's study of the violent Boxer Rebellion, which swept northern China in 1900. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to rid their country of...
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92,77 zł |
Queen Victoria's Army in Color: The British Military Paintings of Orlando Norie
ISBN: 9780764317767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Orlando Norie is considered to have been one of the foremost illustrators of the British army in the 19th century, with thousands of watercolors to his credit in public and private collections. His pictures are highly sought after and command high prices. Yet his life remained a mystery that is only now being uncovered. Many of these wonderful pictures are revealed here for the first time. The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection in Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, possesses one of the largest, if not the largest public collection of original military watercolors by...
Orlando Norie is considered to have been one of the foremost illustrators of the British army in the 19th century, with thousands of watercolors to hi...
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300,25 zł |
Routes to Essential Medicines: A Workbook for Organic Synthesis
ISBN: 9781119722861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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376,47 zł |
Pharmaceutical Process Chemist
ISBN: 9780470577554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There is a need to explain that generic versions of a drug may not be manufactured by the same process as brand-name drugs and that the different processes may have dramatically different environmental impacts. Two global forces are at odds today--the push for "greener" processes and the push for lower drug prices. This book brings this conflict into sharp focus by discussing in detail the published process chemistry for top-selling small molecule drugs.
Providing insights about process route selection, choice of reagents, and reaction conditions, Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry for... There is a need to explain that generic versions of a drug may not be manufactured by the same process as brand-name drugs and that the different proc...
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839,18 zł |
Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development
ISBN: 9781138275577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,43 zł |
Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development
ISBN: 9780754648970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The acquisition and management of information is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms and other organizations. Their varied knowledge requirements influence approaches to organizational structure, relationships to other organizations, the location of operations, and entry into new markets. In this book, an international and interdisciplinary team of leading scholars examines the attributes of knowledge acquisition and diffusion within and across service-providing organizations. Using a variety of case examples, they pay particular attention to the processes...
The acquisition and management of information is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms and other organizations. Their...
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752,12 zł |
The Castles of Henry VIII
ISBN: 9781846031304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the last years of his reign Henry VIII needed a radically modern system of defense to protect England and its newly Protestant Church. Anticipating a foreign onslaught from Catholic Europe after his split from Rome, Henry energetically began the construction of more than 20 stone forts to protect England's major ports and estuaries, whilst modernizing existing fortresses from Hull to Milford Haven. The majority of this was paid for with his new-found fortune plundered from the monasteries, allowing Henry to employ a strong workforce well supplied with materials. Aided by excellent... In the last years of his reign Henry VIII needed a radically modern system of defense to protect England and its newly Protestant Church. Anticipat... |
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81,85 zł |
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
ISBN: 9780415290463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms and concepts in the methodology and philosophy of social science. Although 106 theorists are given entries, the emphasis of the work is on the elucidation of ideas rather than intellectual biography. The Encyclopedia... The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key the... |
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1115,21 zł |
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
ISBN: 9780415753937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key theorists to comprehensive surveys of leading concepts, debates, themes and schools. The object of the Encyclopedia has been to give thorough coverage of the central topics in theoretical sociology as well as terms and concepts in the methodology and philosophy of social science. Although 106 theorists are given entries, the emphasis of the work is on the elucidation of ideas rather than intellectual biography. The Encyclopedia... The Encyclopedia of Social Theory contains over 500 entries varying from concise definitions of key terms and short biographies of key the... |
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228,18 zł |
With the Guards in Flanders: The Diary of Captain Roger Morris, 1793-1795
ISBN: 9781911628156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A diary of a young British officer during the campaigns of the Duke of York against the French between 1793 and 1795.
A diary of a young British officer during the campaigns of the Duke of York against the French between 1793 and 1795.
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127,28 zł |
English Civil War Fortifications 1642-51
ISBN: 9781841766041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A study of the fortifications used in England during the Civil War. It covers the defences of London and Oxford, as well as looking at castles, earthworks and field fortifications. The author also traces the development of new defence systems that were developed by engineers such as De Gomme.
A study of the fortifications used in England during the Civil War. It covers the defences of London and Oxford, as well as looking at castles, earthw...
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81,85 zł |