wyszukanych pozycji: 10
An Eye for Innovation: The life of Austin 'Clarence' Farrar
ISBN: 9781518681158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Austin 'Clarence' Farrar saw an opportunity for innovation in almost everything. Although not a well known public figure, he was known and respected by those who met him and worked with him. His work on dinghy design and building, and subsequently as one of the leading sailmakers of his day, stays with us today. His work on the design of spinnakers and wing rigs is still current and many of today's sailmakers learnt the trade under Austin. Coming from a family where invention was encouraged, Austin was fortunate to be yacht and dinghy racing in the heyday of the 1930s. He worked on the design...
Austin 'Clarence' Farrar saw an opportunity for innovation in almost everything. Although not a well known public figure, he was known and respected b...
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68,63 zł |
An Eye for Innovation: The Life of Austin 'Clarence' Farrar
ISBN: 9781912724086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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92,67 zł |
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
ISBN: 9781474619974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
Malayan Forest Primates: Ten Years' Study in Tropical Rain Forest
ISBN: 9781475708806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The prirnates that provide the central theme of these studies by David Chivers and his colleagues are the dominant large herbi- vores of the tropical evergreen rain forest. Tothis extent, they are the ecological counterparts of the great herds of ungulates in- habiting the savannahs of tropical Africa (and the monsoonal plains of Asia in their pristine state). Both groups comprise the chief primary consumers of living vegetable tissue in their respective environments. Members of each show appropriate anatomical adapt- ations for such a diet. As efficient exploiters of a dispersed but...
The prirnates that provide the central theme of these studies by David Chivers and his colleagues are the dominant large herbi- vores of the tropical ...
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385,52 zł |
The Law of Majority Shareholder Power: Use and Abuse
ISBN: 9780198786320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The second edition of this important work provides an invaluable reference guide for legal practitioners advising on matters relating to company shareholders. Fully revised and updated, it addresses the major legal developments since the first edition, including key cases in relation to the expropriation of minority shareholders such as Charterhouse Capital Ltd, re Coroin, and Assenagon Asset Management SA v Irish Bank Resolution Corp Ltd. There is also discussion of cases relating to the commencement of derivative proceedings such as Kleanthous v...
The second edition of this important work provides an invaluable reference guide for legal practitioners advising on matters relating to company share...
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Metacomet's War: A Novel of King Philip's War
ISBN: 9781440104046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Of all the wars fought in or by America, only one takes its name from a single person.
In 1675, when the English hold on New England was still fragile, one Indian, King Philip, organized the seperate Algonquin tribes into one powerful, military force with a single objective - to drive the English settlers back into the sea. King Philip's War almost did just that. For a year Algonquin forces terrorized English settlements. Out of ninety New England towns, fifty-two felt the ferocity of the Algonquin attack. Twelve were completely destroyed before the English regained the upper hand. To... Of all the wars fought in or by America, only one takes its name from a single person.
In 1675, when the English hold on New England was still fra... |
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56,43 zł |
The Freedom Trap
ISBN: 9781475158267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fresh from college graduation and a break-up with his long-time girlfriend, Tom Reardon now has to decide what to do with the rest of his life. He heads off to the tiny Berkshire town of Chilton Falls, where he can think through the clean slate life has given him. He takes a job at the Iron Bear Inn, and old bar with a new owner, Gino, who has his own dreams of a new life. The world of the Iron Bear provides Tom with examples of life lessons to be followed. . . and avoided. Life at the Iron Bear also offers up its own complications for Tom. It is up to him to sort them out and choose his...
Fresh from college graduation and a break-up with his long-time girlfriend, Tom Reardon now has to decide what to do with the rest of his life. He hea...
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45,71 zł |
Ghosts of War: A Novel of the Civil War and Today
ISBN: 9781466362147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Separated from his wife, adrift in New York City, Ollie Morton returns to Pittsfield, his hometown in the Berkshire Hills, for his mother's funeral and decides to stay. He joins the law firm of his father and brother Ben - a state senator with a thriving practice. But old sibling rivalries threaten to re-ignite as the two brothers get back together. More disturbing is the ghost Ollie encounters, a ghost from over a hundred years before, with Ollie's name, and whose past life mirrors Ollie's present. The story shifts to Pittsfield in 1861 where two brothers, Oliver and Ben Morton, are heading...
Separated from his wife, adrift in New York City, Ollie Morton returns to Pittsfield, his hometown in the Berkshire Hills, for his mother's funeral an...
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Food Acquisition and Processing in Primates
ISBN: 9781475752465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book results from a two-day symposium and three-day workshop held in Cambridge between March 22nd and March 26th 1982 and sponsored by the Primate Society of Great Britain and the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. More than 100 primatologists attended the symposium and some 35 were invited to participate in the workshop. Speakers from Prance, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and the U. S. A., as weIl as the U. K., were invited to contribute. In recent years feeling had strengthened that primatologists in Europe did not gather together sufficiently often. Distinctive...
This book results from a two-day symposium and three-day workshop held in Cambridge between March 22nd and March 26th 1982 and sponsored by the Primat...
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385,52 zł |
Hands of Primates
ISBN: 9783709174340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 421 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human characteristics, like upright posture, stereoscopic vision, -manipulative- handling of parts of the environment. The German term -Begreifen-, which is commonly used for the understanding of complex relationships in a generalised, abstract sense, always implies the original meaning of seizing objects with the aid of the hands. The hands are also of greatest importance for the survival of the other, non-human primates. Hands are absolutely essential for locomotion in an arboreal habitat, and the...
The hand commonly is considered to have exerted great influence on the evolution of typically human characteristics, like upright posture, stereoscopi...
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192,74 zł |