wyszukanych pozycji: 19
Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank
ISBN: 9781838858780 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family - Mustelidae - all live in the wild at Aigas, the conservation and field study centre that has been John's home for more than forty-five years. With the patient and meticulous care of a true naturalist, John observes and records the lives, habits and habitats of these elusive animals. Hours of careful waiting and watching in the woods and loch, the river, fields and moorland is...
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and go...
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87,72 zł |
Ring of Bright Water
ISBN: 9780956254504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Hailed a masterpiece when it was first published, the story of Gavin Maxwell's life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of the most lyrical, moving descriptions of a man's relationship with the natural world.
Hailed a masterpiece when it was first published, the story of Gavin Maxwell's life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of th...
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77,43 zł |
Gods of the Morning: A Bird’s Eye View of a Highland Year
ISBN: 9781782114178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society Writers' Prize Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society Writers' Prize |
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56,74 zł |
At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the Wild
ISBN: 9781847674050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter - a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to lift a trout from the water or a woodcock exquisitely camouflaged on her nest - and every day, on his return home, he records his thoughts in a journal. Drawing on this lifetime of close observation, At The Water's Edge encourages us to look again at the nature around us, to discover its wildness for ourselves and to respect and... For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day... |
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56,74 zł |
Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank
ISBN: 9781838858803 / Miękka / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,74 zł |
Song Of The Rolling Earth: A Highland Odyssey
ISBN: 9780349117614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Conservationist and naturalist John Lister-Kaye, founder of the Aigas Field Centre, writes about his life in the glens, the wildlife that surrounds him and the primeval magical exchange that takes place between man and nature once so central to ancient civilisations. He describes finding the ruined nineteenth-century estate that is to become Aigas, taking it over and turning it into a going concern as an Educational Centre, and his own personal motivation, following the Torrey Canyon oil spillage and natural disasters in the 1960s, to become a conservationist. Interspersed within the...
Conservationist and naturalist John Lister-Kaye, founder of the Aigas Field Centre, writes about his life in the glens, the wildlife that surrounds hi...
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56,74 zł |
Europe's Health for Sale? The Heavy Cost of Privatisation
ISBN: 9781907471186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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174,72 zł |
Slamthology: Collected Wrestling Writings 1991-2004
ISBN: 9781411653290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John Lister is one of Britain's most respected wrestling journalists. Mixing travelogue, humour, fiction, history and opinion, this collection brings together the best of his work from the past fourteen years. The first section of this book features three epic accounts of voyages to see wrestling in the United States, from the ECW Arena to the Dallas Sportatorium by way of WWF pay-per-views and Memphis television. The second section comprises more than 40 articles, some previously unpublished, including histories of British and American wrestling, the statistics behind WCW's collapse, and a...
John Lister is one of Britain's most respected wrestling journalists. Mixing travelogue, humour, fiction, history and opinion, this collection brings ...
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89,66 zł |
Health Policy Reform: Global Health Versus Private Profit
ISBN: 9781907471780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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109,20 zł |
Health Policy Reform: Driving the Wrong Way?
ISBN: 9781904750451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Addressing the dramatic changes in healthcare systems since the early 1990s, this work questions whether these major "reforms" are driven by the health needs of the wider population or, in fact, by non-health considerations such as financial and political concerns of governments and global institutions. This major new study presents the key issues facing health professionals today and is aimed at medics and administrators alike. The book's use of a common analytical framework produces a consistent critical analysis of different situations in various countries, making its approach wholly...
Addressing the dramatic changes in healthcare systems since the early 1990s, this work questions whether these major "reforms" are driven by the healt...
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218,40 zł |
West Riding Sessions Records: Orders, 1611-1642; Indictments, 1637-1642
ISBN: 9781108058513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Published in 1915, this collection of the transactions of the quarter sessions held in Yorkshire West Riding contains the orders for 1611 33 and the indictments and orders for 1637 42. This volume forms a companion to the 1888 edition of West Riding session rolls for 1597 1602, also edited by John Lister (1847 1933), who here provides a lengthy introduction in which he gives an account of the various indictable offences specified in the court records. These include housebreaking, arson, murder, and riotous assembly, as well as absence from church and selling meat during Lent, among others....
Published in 1915, this collection of the transactions of the quarter sessions held in Yorkshire West Riding contains the orders for 1611 33 and the i...
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360,13 zł |
West Riding Sessions Rolls, 1597/8-1602: Prefaced by Certain Proceedings in the Court of the Lord President and Council of the North, in 1595
ISBN: 9781108058544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Published for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1888, these two rolls for the sessions held in the West Riding of Yorkshire document court proceedings for the years 1597/8 1602 and represent the earliest extant material of their kind for the West Riding, where quarter sessions were held in various towns during Epiphany, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas. Although the first roll is incomplete, lacking the Epiphany sessions of 1597, the second roll contains minutes of all the sessions for 1599 1602. The indictments are drawn up in Latin, with interpolations and descriptions of the verdicts...
Published for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1888, these two rolls for the sessions held in the West Riding of Yorkshire document court proce...
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255,56 zł |
Unhealthy Profits
ISBN: 9780244734428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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74,56 zł |
The Early Yorkshire Woollen Trade: Extracts from the Hull Customs' Rolls, and Complete Transcripts of the Ulnagers' Rolls
ISBN: 9781108058520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A prominent philanthropist, landowner and politician near Halifax, John Lister (1847 1933) was dedicated to his community. He founded a Catholic school in Halifax and a reformatory trade school in the grounds of his ancestral home. A keen local historian, Lister became involved in the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, particularly in the later years of his life. Along with four other volumes, he edited for the Society this 1924 publication. Transcribing customs records from Hull and records made by royal officials in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Lister describes in his introduction...
A prominent philanthropist, landowner and politician near Halifax, John Lister (1847 1933) was dedicated to his community. He founded a Catholic schoo...
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209,09 zł |
Fused Pyrimidines, Volume 24, Part 2: The Purines
ISBN: 9780471382058 / Angielski / Twarda / 1971 / 655 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, since its inception, has been recognized as a cornerstone of heterocyclic chemistry. Each volume attempts to discuss all aspects - properties, synthesis, reactions, physiological and industrial significance - of a specific ring system. To keep the series up-to-date, supplementary volumes covering the recent literature on each individual ring system have been published. Many ring systems (such as pyridines and oxazoles) are treated in distinct books, each consisting of separate volumes or parts dealing with different individual topics. With all...
The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, since its inception, has been recognized as a cornerstone of heterocyclic chemistry. Each volume attem...
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The Purines, Volume 54, Supplement 1
ISBN: 9780471080947 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 465 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, since its inception, has been recognized as a cornerstone of heterocyclic chemistry. Each volume attempts to discuss all aspects - properties, synthesis, reactions, physiological and industrial significance - of a specific ring system. To keep the series up-to-date, supplementary volumes covering the recent literature on each individual ring system have been published. Many ring systems (such as pyridines and oxazoles) are treated in distinct books, each consisting of separate volumes or parts dealing with different individual topics. With all...
The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, since its inception, has been recognized as a cornerstone of heterocyclic chemistry. Each volume attem...
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Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield: Volume 4, 1315 to 1317
ISBN: 9781108058643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The detailed records of the proceedings of the manorial court of Wakefield provide a unique insight into medieval life and commerce, the many legal disputes arising, and the mechanisms for resolving them. The manor court met every three weeks, as well as holding additional courts, or 'tourns', at various locations around the West Riding of Yorkshire. Recognising the historical significance of these court records, in 1901 the Yorkshire Archaeological Society began publishing them as part of its Record Series, continuing intermittently until 1945 and ultimately producing five volumes that span...
The detailed records of the proceedings of the manorial court of Wakefield provide a unique insight into medieval life and commerce, the many legal di...
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243,94 zł |
Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield: Volume 3, 1313 to 1316, and 1286
ISBN: 9781108058636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The detailed records of the proceedings of the manorial court of Wakefield provide a unique insight into medieval life and commerce, the many legal disputes arising, and the mechanisms for resolving them. The manor court met every three weeks, as well as holding additional courts, or 'tourns', at various locations around the West Riding of Yorkshire. Recognising the historical significance of these court records, in 1901 the Yorkshire Archaeological Society began publishing them as part of its Record Series, continuing intermittently until 1945 and ultimately producing five volumes that span...
The detailed records of the proceedings of the manorial court of Wakefield provide a unique insight into medieval life and commerce, the many legal di...
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220,70 zł |
NHS under siege: The fight to save it in the age of Covid
ISBN: 9780850367775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The NHS is in crisis. The past 10 years of Tory real-terms cuts in funding has been disastrous. This book looks at the threat to the NHS posed by the combination of two years of a global pandemic with the relentless policies pursued by Tory-led governments since 2010. With contributions by 13 experts on different aspects of the crisis: Lobby Akkinnola, Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Rehana Azam, National Secretary, Public Services GMB union; Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary, National Education Union, on Covid, education and schools; Sara Gorton, Head of Health UNISON, on...
The NHS is in crisis. The past 10 years of Tory real-terms cuts in funding has been disastrous. This book looks at the threat to the NHS posed by the...
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60,18 zł |