wyszukanych pozycji: 288
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Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
ISBN: 9780520267985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what we now know about how humans created and enjoyed fermented beverages across cultures. Along the way, he explores a provocative hypothesis about the integral role such libations have played in human evolution. We discover, for...
In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicatin...
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101,12 |
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HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation
ISBN: 9780415184878 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is the first major in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations, namely technical workers. It investigates whether HRM schemes such as employee appraisals and performance related pay have transformed technical work to such an extent that it can no longer be described as a 'service contract'. The book contains detailed examination of the nature of managerial control over employees who, by virtue of their committment, present their employers with problems that are often ignored by prescriptive models of...
This book is the first major in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations,...
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837,70 |
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Edges of Existence: 3 Shorter Works
ISBN: 9781469180526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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145,22 |
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A Date with Desire
ISBN: 9781601838391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,65 |
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American Coastal Defenses 1885-1950
ISBN: 9781841769226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A new round of fortification building began in the United States and its overseas territories in the late-19th century, which benefited from the latest technology and the increase in America's worldwide economic stature. This book provides a concise introduction to the design, development and purpose of American coastal defenses in the "modern" period (1885-1950), a period defined by the use of concrete, steel, and powerful breech-loading rifles. Packed with period and modern-day images of the fortifications, and written by a leading expert, it covers the emplacements, weaponry, equipment,...
A new round of fortification building began in the United States and its overseas territories in the late-19th century, which benefited from the lates...
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77,75 |
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Wirtschaftsförderung Und Kommunalpolitik: Koordination Und Kooperation
ISBN: 9783810018946 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1997 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,85 |
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The Stranger's Long Neck: How to Deliver What Your Customers Really Want Online
ISBN: 9781408114421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Stranger's Long Neck is a practical guide for any manager wishing to improve their organisation's online performance. Web content specialist, Gerry McGovern, explains that all websites have a small set of tasks, or 'long necks', that are important to its customers and that must be easy to complete or customers will go elsewhere. The Stranger's Long Neck shows how to tune in effectively to what your customers want - and then deliver it with aplomb. Understanding customer needs can be a difficult task when customers are 'strangers', in that he or she is always 'on the... The Stranger's Long Neck is a practical guide for any manager wishing to improve their organisation's online performance. Web content specia... |
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88,13 |
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Terry: My Daughter's Life-And-Death Struggle with Alcoholism
ISBN: 9780452278233 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "McGovern's story is riveting as he investigates his daughter's life, reads her anguished and accusatory diaries, interviews her friends and doctors, sifts through the sordid police and medical records... a family drama of love and loss."--New York Times Rarely has a public figure addressed such difficult, intimate issues with such courage and bravery. In a moving, passionate memoir, former Senator George McGovern recalls the events leading up to his daughter Terry's death as a result of alcoholism. What McGovern learned from Terry is an unforgettable, poignant tale certain...
"McGovern's story is riveting as he investigates his daughter's life, reads her anguished and accusatory diaries, interviews her friends and doctors, ...
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103,76 |
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A Taste of Temptation
ISBN: 9781601838414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
57,65 |
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From Irish Fields to London Tunnels: And the Story of the Tunnel Tigers
ISBN: 9789699092763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
97,41 |
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Death Of A Deputy: A Culinary Cozy Mystery
ISBN: 9781533226037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nora Newberry's dream life is not going according plan. Her best friend and business partner, Raquel, has just been murdered. The one man she had thought she loved can now be seen moseying through town with a supermodel dangling off his arm. And the diner she and Raquel had planned on opening together may never feed its first customer. At least she still has her friend, the town Sheriff, Sean... So, when the Sheriff's deputy is killed at the town's annual Viking festival and everyone suspects Sean of murder, Nora realizes she must step in and prove him innocent. After all, she can't handle...
Nora Newberry's dream life is not going according plan. Her best friend and business partner, Raquel, has just been murdered. The one man she had thou...
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52,42 |
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Bad Fame
ISBN: 9781927409503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Poetry. Martin McGovern's BAD FAME muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as in "The Circle of Late Afternoon" which asks, "Isn't there an art to giving myself away slowly like wheat opening to the sun?"; or, "Processionalia," where "a bee / abandons the tea roses / and circle that black blossom of / the widow's veiled face as if her tears were / pollen and the bee could feather / its legs with grief." Be it lore set in Colorado, or farther out, the personal and regional tributes unravel the universally familiar and...
Poetry. Martin McGovern's BAD FAME muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as...
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76,67 |
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Black Eagle: General Daniel Chappie James Jr.
ISBN: 9780817313074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The success story of a much-decorated fighter pilot who overcame poverty and racism to become America's first African-American four-star general.
Born in Pensacola, Florida, the youngest of seventeen children in a relatively poor family, "Chappie" James (1920-1978) rose to attain the rank of four-star general-the highest rank of the peacetime American military. His parents had early on imbued him with personal and national pride and a singular drive that motivated him his whole life. At Tuskegee Institute, James enrolled in the Army Air Corps unit formed to train black pilots. After... The success story of a much-decorated fighter pilot who overcame poverty and racism to become America's first African-American four-star general.
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93,58 |
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George W. Goethals and the Army: Change and Continuity in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
ISBN: 9780700627707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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236,52 |
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Killing Rage
ISBN: 9781862070479 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Since the 1970s people have been murdering their neighbours in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the small-town violence and terror which lies behind the headlines.
Since the 1970s people have been murdering their neighbours in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the small-town violence and terror w...
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55,58 |
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The Eyes of Isaac Newton
ISBN: 9781910251331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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107,60 |
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Bedtime Stories
ISBN: 9780692849309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Beditme Stories is a sampling of (mostly) real life stories from my childhood and some from my parenting days. These are among the stories I tell my grandsons when I'm lucky enough to tuck them into bed.
Beditme Stories is a sampling of (mostly) real life stories from my childhood and some from my parenting days. These are among the stories I tell my g...
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56,42 |
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Yankee Family
ISBN: 9781138540798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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763,79 |
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Jesus and Well Being: A Spiritual and Psychological Good News Story
ISBN: 9781512791358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The author begins and ends with the challenging question that many ask today: How do our lives make sense in light of the life of Jesus? Drawing on Jesus's gospel parables and sayings and Paul's letters, each chapter invites readers to explore the virtues of wisdom, love, justice, courage, temperance and transcendence. Jesus's 1st century life deserves our continuing study as we develop a truly mindful spirituality for 21st century well being. Professor McGovern's distinguished teaching and scholarly life work is clearly evident as he artistically weaves together so many... The author begins and ends with the challenging question that many ask today: How do our lives make sense in light of the life of Jesus? Dra... |
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173,55 |
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A Socialist Peace?: Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country
ISBN: 9780226453606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war. Yet the country has narrowly avoided conflict again and again. In A Socialist Peace?, Mike McGovern asks how this is possible, how a nation could beat the odds and evade civil war. Guinea is rich in resources, but its people are some of the poorest in the world. Its political situation is polarized by fiercely competitive ethnic groups. Weapons flow freely through its...
For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and G...
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134,86 |