wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb
ISBN: 9780316489607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb
ISBN: 9780316489591 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Bomb meets Code Girls in this fascinating narrative nonfiction look at the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the Atomic Bomb, and the moral implications of their work.
Bomb meets Code Girls in this fascinating narrative nonfiction look at the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the At...
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81,42 zł |
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire\'s Wife, and the Murder of the Century
ISBN: 9781982153748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This glittering, “wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told” (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman Capote, sweeping us to the upper echelons of Manhattan’s high society—where falls from grace are all the more shocking. When Ann Woodward shot her husband, banking heir Billy Woodward, in the middle of the night in 1955, her life changed forever. Though she claimed she thought he was a prowler, few believed the woman who had risen from charismatic showgirl to popular...
This glittering, “wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told” (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwine...
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83,55 zł |
The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer
ISBN: 9780062273482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city--a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872--in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City. In the early 1870s, local children begin disappearing from the working-class neighborhoods of Boston. Several return home bloody and bruised after being tortured, while others never come back. With the city on edge, authorities believe the abductions are the handiwork of a... In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the c... |
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96,75 zł |
The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
ISBN: 9780062025838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein. Montillo recounts how--at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution--Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death. With true-life tales of grave robbers, ghoulish experiments, and the ultimate... The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary S... |
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79,15 zł |