wyszukanych pozycji: 43
The Professor and the Madman
ISBN: 9780062170262 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,86 zł |
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: 9780062938336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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121,55 zł |
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
ISBN: 9780062315427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West... One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United... |
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68,86 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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92,23 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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81,00 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. 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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93,22 zł |
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
ISBN: 9780062845900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,65 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. 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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56,09 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. |
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76,97 zł |
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
ISBN: 9780063297234 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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158,07 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. |
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86,71 zł |
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
ISBN: 9780062652560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,97 zł |
The Alice Behind Wonderland
ISBN: 9780190614546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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63,72 zł |
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption
ISBN: 9780140280395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured - in sea-blue, green, bright yellow, orange, umber - it presented England and Wales in a beguiling and unfamiliar mixture of lines and patches and stippled shapes. It was the product of one man's obsession with rocks, a passion that sustained him whilst the rest of his life slid into ruin.
In the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured - in sea-bl...
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56,09 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. |
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141,86 zł |
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
ISBN: 9780060838591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogota and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political... Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 ... |
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81,02 zł |
The Alice Behind Wonderland
ISBN: 9780195396195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph of Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative energetic and penetrating look at the inspiration behind, and the making of, one of the greatest classics of children's literature. Indeed, Winchester shows that Dodgson's love of photography deeply influenced his view of the world, helping...
In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-...
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74,66 zł |
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, at the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
ISBN: 9780062278517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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125,60 zł |
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
ISBN: 9780060954949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To Come The vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both cultural and topographical. And, as Simon Winchester superbly demonstrates in this intimate portrait of the region, much of the political strife of the past century can be traced to its inherent contrasts. With the aid of a guide and linguist, Winchester traveled deep into the region's most troublesome areas--including... A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It M... |
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68,86 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. |
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50,99 zł |