wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Moby Dick, Or The Whale: The Good Parts
ISBN: 9781440494437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When this book was published in 1851, reading for pleasure was still a fairly new idea. There were no televisions, no movies, no mp3 players, no internet and no cell phones. If you bought a book to read for pleasure there'd better be a lot in it for your Yankee dollar. Melville knew his audience and so this book was written for the average reader of the mid-19th century. If he were publishing this book today he would have written the book for us 21st century people and wouldn't have included a 3000 word essay on "The Whiteness of The Whale" plopped down into the middle of a great and gripping...
When this book was published in 1851, reading for pleasure was still a fairly new idea. There were no televisions, no movies, no mp3 players, no inter...
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57,15 zł |
The Buddha's Three Jewels: The Buddha, The Dharma and The Sangha
ISBN: 9781466485921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A friendly, cozy, easy to read introduction to Buddhism.
A friendly, cozy, easy to read introduction to Buddhism.
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Dragon Rising
ISBN: 9781481961554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Go to Hell. It's such a delicious phrase. Angie Tanaka never thought she'd want to go there herself. Usually people spend their entire lives avoiding a trip to Hell. Not Angie. Long-ju is down there and it was all her fault. He is the Silver Dragon, magnificent, legendary, a work of art. He had sacrificed himself for her and she is only ... Angie. She needed to put that right. She had to get him out of there. Nobody was going to help her with that, certainly not the other dragons. All of that led to one question: How do you spring a dragon out of Hell?
Go to Hell. It's such a delicious phrase. Angie Tanaka never thought she'd want to go there herself. Usually people spend their entire lives avoiding ...
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The Pocket Darwin: A friendly explanation of the history of life on earth
ISBN: 9781539343660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What is evolution? Is it scientific? What, exactly, did Charles Darwin give to the world? It would take more than a human lifetime to examine in detail all the evidence supporting the Theory of Evolution. This book covers some of the main ideas of the theory in an easy, reader-friendly way and gives pointers and references to find out more.
What is evolution? Is it scientific? What, exactly, did Charles Darwin give to the world? It would take more than a human lifetime to examine in detai...
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38,85 zł |
Murder on the Waterfront: A Countess of Chesterleigh Mystery
ISBN: 9781463558871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lady Margaret's quest to bring a killer to justice leads her out of her art studio to a seedy all-night cafe, a Depression-era tenement, the waterfront, and eventually to the dark underbelly of Chinatown. Inspector Monahan, the blunt-talking son of Irish immigrants has no love for the English nobility. He takes a dim view of interfering amateur sleuths and doesn't like being strong-armed, even by a gorgeous dame. Together they pursue the Mandarin, a shadowy Chinese gangster who may have the answers to blackmail, smuggling, and the whereabouts of a heartless killer. Cherie Jung reviewing for...
Lady Margaret's quest to bring a killer to justice leads her out of her art studio to a seedy all-night cafe, a Depression-era tenement, the waterfron...
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52,85 zł |
Black Jade Dragon
ISBN: 9781467986755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup...(source unknown) In the South China Sea is an island protected by nine dragons. Angie Tanaka has made one of them really, really angry. Angie says: Thievery isn't actually my vocation. It's really more of a pursuit. It's only my day job. I'm really an actress ... just kidding.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup...(source unknown) In the South China Sea is an island protected by ...
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Little Wicked Things
ISBN: 9781503184435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 19th century there were new marvels almost every year-steam engines, photography, telegraphs, trains. But after the Great Disaster everything seems to veer off in another direction. Rumors of wireless communication and electrical energy all die out. The marvels stop. Then another disaster strikes-the assassination of elderly Queen Victoria and two of her sons. For a while the world collapses into mad chaos. Parliament is dissolved and Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert becomes the heir apparent. The Regency Committee rules with an iron fist, but they bring peace and order back...
In the 19th century there were new marvels almost every year-steam engines, photography, telegraphs, trains. But after the Great Disaster everything s...
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50,28 zł |
The Man Who Needed Killing
ISBN: 9781456550639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This novel finished in the top 100 of the 2008 Amazon Breakout Novel Contest and won 1st place in the 2010 OWFI Conference Mystery Division It is 1935 and Joe Bennett is a straight-arrow town sheriff who must investigate the death of a man everyone is happy to be rid of. A wandering minstrel (who in 1935 was called a hobo) has a magical ruby ring and an even more magical harmonica. This story also has lying friends, secretive townspeople, a woman of negotiable virtue and her criminal boyfriend, a beautiful angel in a cold white box and a dead man who really, really deserved it.
This novel finished in the top 100 of the 2008 Amazon Breakout Novel Contest and won 1st place in the 2010 OWFI Conference Mystery Division It is 1935...
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45,71 zł |