wyszukanych pozycji: 38
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
ISBN: 9780062652560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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86,90 zł |
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780140271287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him.
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C M...
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56,87 zł |
The Professor and the Madman
ISBN: 9780062170262 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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73,86 zł |
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
ISBN: 9780062845900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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139,06 zł |
Siła precyzji. Jak inżynierowie konstruowali...
ISBN: 9788323353379 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Precyzja - klucz do cywilizacjiŚrubka, samolot, karabin czy soczewka - do wytworzenia tych i wielu innych otaczających nas przedmiotów potrzebne są precyzyjne narzędzia produkcji i odpowiednie metody pracy. Czy wiemy jednak, czym jest precyzja, kiedy się narodziła i komu ją zawdzięczamy? I w jaki sposób ją mierzyć?Sięgając do początków angielskiej rewolucji przemysłowej, Simon Winchester opisuje przełomowe wynalazki, jakie doprowadziły do stworzenia współczesnych technologii opartych na precyzji. Przywołuje całą galerię niezwykłych postaci: inżynierów, pasjonatów...
Precyzja - klucz do cywilizacjiÅšrubka, samolot, karabin czy soczewka - do wytworzenia tych i wielu innych otaczajÄ…cych nas przedmiotów potrzebne sÄ...
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76,95 zł |
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780060175962 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Mysterious (mistie - ries), a. f. L. mysterium Mysteryi ] ous. Cf. F. mysterieux.] It is known as one of the greatest literary achievements in the history of English letters. The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise... Mysterious (mistie - ries), a. f. L. mysterium Mysteryi ] ous. Cf. F. mysterieux.] |
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99,98 zł |
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
ISBN: 9780063297234 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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201,78 zł |
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780063341906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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82,55 zł |
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
ISBN: 9780008484392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,92 zł |
A Crack in the Edge of the World : The Great American Earthquake of 1906
ISBN: 9780141016344 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A burgeoning city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. In 1906 the dreams of this city, came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake. This story delves beneath the surface of the earth, and explains why the world mov
A burgeoning city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. In 1906 the dreams of this city, came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a...
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93,30 zł |
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
ISBN: 9780063142886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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152,15 zł |
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
ISBN: 9780062079619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. How did America become "one nation, indivisible"? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America's most essential... Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers... |
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95,59 zł |
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
ISBN: 9780061767906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell--clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world--making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this unseen universe to create an epochal and remarkably beautiful hand-painted map. But instead of receiving accolades and honors, he ended up in... In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in hi... |
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86,90 zł |
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
ISBN: 9780312423377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically connected China to the outside world through its nearly one thousand miles of navigable waters. To travel those waters is to travel back in history, to sense the soul of China, and Simon Winchester takes us along with him as he encounters the essence of China--its history and politics, its geography...
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching ...
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95,63 zł |
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
ISBN: 9780060572006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it--and almost certainly... Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute lat... |
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82,55 zł |
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
ISBN: 9780008484422 / Miękka / 2024 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,87 zł |
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: 9780008359157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,70 zł |
The Alice Behind Wonderland
ISBN: 9780190614546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.
Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless speculation--as the vehicle for a brief excursion behind the lens, a focal point on the origins of a classic work of English literature. Dodgson's love of photography framed his view of the world and... On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old A...
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64,61 zł |
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
ISBN: 9780141005171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Chronicles the destruction of Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883. This book describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm.
Chronicles the destruction of Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883. This book describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existe...
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71,34 zł |
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
ISBN: 9780062002495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not... "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and m... |
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121,67 zł |