wyszukanych pozycji: 971
Auden
ISBN: 9780099442561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal life. This biography offers a commentary on Auden's work, ideas and life within the context of the wars, ideologies, spiritual quests and sexual attitudes of this century.
Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal life. This biography offe...
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93,84 zł |
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King
ISBN: 9780141988719 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2018 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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25,88 zł |
Voyagers of the Titanic
ISBN: 9780061876868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship--from deal-makers and industry giants, like J.P. Morgan, who built and operated it; to Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor IV, and other glittering aristocrats who occupied its first class cabins; to the men and women traveling below decks hoping to find a better... It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the e... |
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80,76 zł |
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft
ISBN: 9780008285722 / Twarda / 2024 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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134,83 zł |
One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper
ISBN: 9780198703136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of rich diversity; a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager curiosity; a character that relished the comedie humaine, and the absurdities, crotchets, and vanities of his contemporaries. The playful irony of Trevor-Roper's correspondence places him in a literary tradition stretching back to such great...
The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controv...
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105,66 zł |
Conservative Thinkers from All Souls College Oxford
ISBN: 9781783277452 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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419,75 zł |
Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew
ISBN: 9780007321667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The author views the Titanic as a paradigm of Edwardian society. At the bottom of the ship was the steerage class, filled with emigrants hoping for a better life in the New World. Above them were the second class citizens buoyed-up by their prosperous respectability. And on the upper decks were the rich.
The author views the Titanic as a paradigm of Edwardian society. At the bottom of the ship was the steerage class, filled with emigrants hoping for a ...
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67,37 zł |
Letters from Oxford
ISBN: 9780753822050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Superbly readable and revealing letters, full of malice and gossip, from a master historian
When they met in 1947 Trevor-Roper, a young historian at Christ Church, Oxford, was 33. Berenson, the world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely curious about the world. Trevor Roper promised to write to him and his letters continued until Berenson's death in in 1959. Elegantly constructed, beautifully and precisely written, they are shot through with high-octane malice, sharp judgements and blistering comments, and many wonderfully funny episodes. Trevor-Roper was an... Superbly readable and revealing letters, full of malice and gossip, from a master historian
When they met in 1947 Trevor-Roper, a young his... |
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82,79 zł |
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780007516698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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59,92 zł |
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
ISBN: 9780007435852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 - Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above all, old-fashioned morality. But a breakdown of social boundaries saw nightclub hostesses mixing with aristocrats, and middle-class professionals dabbling in criminality. Meanwhile, Cold War paranoia... WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profu... |
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62,19 zł |
The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
ISBN: 9780393325454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from different continents and cultures across five centuries, this book offers a sharply opinionated history of drugs.
Richard Davenport-Hines examines how licit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from different continents and culture...
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148,84 zł |
One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper
ISBN: 9780198703112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of rich diversity; a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager curiosity; a character that relished the comedie humaine, and the absurdities, crotchets, and vanities of his contemporaries. The playful irony of Trevor-Roper's correspondence places him in a literary tradition stretching back to such great...
The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controv...
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150,40 zł |
Auden
ISBN: 9780679747857 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A masterful biography of one of the greatest English poets and most compelling literary figures of the 20th century, Auden is the first to take the full measure of the poet's achievements, his insatiable thirst for experience, his navigation between the needs of discipline and the lure of his addictions and lusts. of photos.
A masterful biography of one of the greatest English poets and most compelling literary figures of the 20th century, Auden is the first to take the fu...
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84,84 zł |
Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came from
ISBN: 9780062107053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An astonishing work." "A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom." It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a... "An astonishing work." "A book well worthy of marking the centenary... |
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114,78 zł |
Speculators and Patriots: Essays in Business Biography
ISBN: 9780714633015 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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262,29 zł |
Speculators and Patriots: Essays in Business Biography
ISBN: 9781138432550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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944,43 zł |
Business in the Age of Depression and War
ISBN: 9780714633879 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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288,53 zł |
Enterprise, Management and Innovation in British Business, 1914-80
ISBN: 9781138419094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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944,43 zł |
Glaxo
ISBN: 9780521415392 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Glaxo is the world's second largest pharmaceutical multinational. This study of the company, from its beginnings to 1962, is based on unprecedented and unparalleled archival access to the company records. It gives a detailed account of the global operations of Glaxo, and describes not only the evolution of this international business, but studies its research and development programs, its products, and its marketing and management. It is a story of power, money and drugs, the first comprehensive study of a UK-based drugs company.
Glaxo is the world's second largest pharmaceutical multinational. This study of the company, from its beginnings to 1962, is based on unprecedented an...
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528,22 zł |
Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior
ISBN: 9780521894005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dudley Docker (1862 1944) was one of the most powerful European businessmen of his era, through his secretiveness and taste for intrigue served to obscure his importance. This book is a feat of detection and historical reconstruction which establishes him as a figure of substantial influence. Like all good business history it transcends narrow departmental interests. It is a solid mixture of business, economic, political, social and even diplomatic history. It sketches the life and times of Docker: it describes the deals he fixed, recounts the rise and fall of the companies he directed, but...
Dudley Docker (1862 1944) was one of the most powerful European businessmen of his era, through his secretiveness and taste for intrigue served to obs...
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252,98 zł |