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Napoleon's Purgatory: The Unseen Humanity of the "Corsican Ogre" in Fatal Exile (with an introduction by J. David Markham)
ISBN: 9781622732432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Napoleon's Purgatory is a work portraying the human side of Napoleon as revealed by those who shared his exile on the island of St. Helena. Through the diaries and journals of the Emperor's servants, generals, and companions come the stories of Napoleon's tender love for children, his captivating sense of humor, his eternal love for Josephine, and his agonizing death. Napoleon Bonaparte was sent by the British to the remote island of St. Helena where he could not escape. What followed were six excruciating years of loneliness and depression, mixed with frolicking play with the island's... Napoleon's Purgatory is a work portraying the human side of Napoleon as revealed by those who shared his exile on the island of St. Helena. Through... |
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256,84 zł |
Napoleon's Purgatory: The Unseen Humanity of the Corsican Ogre in Fatal Exile (with an introduction by J. David Markham)
ISBN: 9781622731664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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314,62 zł |
Virginia Folk Legends
ISBN: 9780813913353 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, -Justice John- Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Project of the WPA. For decades following the end of the project, these stories lay untouched in the libraries of the University of Virginia. Now, folklorist Thomas E. Barden brings to light these delightful tales, most of which have never been in print. Virginia Folk Legends presents the first valid... What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, -Justice John- Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are... |
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108,72 zł |
An Introduction to Differential Manifolds
ISBN: 9781860943546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This invaluable book, based on the many years of teaching experience of both authors, introduces the reader to the basic ideas in differential topology. Among the topics covered are smooth manifolds and maps, the structure of the tangent bundle and its associates, the calculation of real cohomology groups using differential forms (de Rham theory), and applications such as the Poincaré-Hopf theorem relating the Euler number of a manifold and the index of a vector field. Each chapter contains exercises of varying difficulty for which solutions are provided. Special features include...
This invaluable book, based on the many years of teaching experience of both authors, introduces the reader to the basic ideas in differential topolog...
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316,41 zł |
Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves
ISBN: 9780813913704 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Taken from the records of the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s, these interviews with one-time Virginia slaves provide a clear window into what it was like to be enslaved in the antebellum American South.
Taken from the records of the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s, these interviews with one-time Virginia slaves provide a clear window into what i...
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186,27 zł |