wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth
ISBN: 9780099533597 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth' is a celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind.
'Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth' is a celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of ...
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94,02 zł |
Stars Beneath The Sea
ISBN: 9780099405092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This history of diving traces its evolution from fishing with spears to today's high-tech equipment. It includes accounts of some of the eccentric exploits of the pioneers.
This history of diving traces its evolution from fishing with spears to today's high-tech equipment. It includes accounts of some of the eccentric exp...
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88,48 zł |
Underwater to Get out of the Rain : A Love Affair with the Sea
ISBN: 9780099446583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. All that we know and love of the British seaside weaves throughout this funny, nostalgic and richly told memoir. Fortune-telling gypsies found on crumbling promenades, lighthouses standing to attention, and brass bands playing in the bracing chill of a British summer.
"From the Hardcover edition."
All that we know and love of the British seaside weaves throughout this funny, nostalgic and richly told memoir. Fortune-telling gypsies found on crum...
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88,48 zł |
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
ISBN: 9781444732580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic.' The Sunday Times
Trevor Norton, who has been compared to Gerard Durrell and Bill Bryson, weaves an entertaining history with a seductive mix of eureka moments, disasters and dirty tricks. Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Lazlow Biro (ballpoint) was a sculptor and hypnotist, and Logie Baird (TV) sold boot polish. The inventor of the automatic telephone... 'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic....
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51,70 zł |
Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair With the Sea
ISBN: 9780306815362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) On a hot summer's day there could be no quicker transport to the seaside than Trevor Norton's cool and entrancing account of a lifetime's adventures under or near the water. Norton's eye for the bizarre, amazing, and beautiful inhabitants of the oceans, and the eccentric characters who work, study, and live by the shore make his book a wonder-filled experience. An intrepid diver and distinguished scientist, Norton's writing is self-deprecating, very funny, and full of wry and intriguing anecdotes; he is an unfailingly delightful companion. Whether his setting is a bed of jewel anemones in an...
On a hot summer's day there could be no quicker transport to the seaside than Trevor Norton's cool and entrancing account of a lifetime's adventures u...
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110,47 zł |
Reflections On A Summer Sea
ISBN: 9780099416166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the funny and touching story of a menagerie of eccentric and talented ecologists who, mainly as a hobby, spent forty summers at Lough Ine, a stunning marine lough in a corner of Ireland. It isa humorous andmoving account of ecologists who collaborated for forty years until their friendship came to a tragic end. The book brings together all the rich flavours of Ireland, the wonders of natural history and the magic of being a marine biologist just for the fun of it."
This is the funny and touching story of a menagerie of eccentric and talented ecologists who, mainly as a hobby, spent forty summers at Lough Ine, a s...
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88,48 zł |
For a Few Quid More
ISBN: 9798526609982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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42,61 zł |