wyszukanych pozycji: 14
Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital
ISBN: 9781786495853 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to France, where they set up two small military hospitals amidst fierce opposition. Yet their medical and organisational skills were so impressive that in 1915 Flora and Louisa were asked by the War Ministry to return to London and establish a new military hospital in a vast and derelict old workhouse in Covent Garden's Endell Street....
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pion...
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51,10 zł |
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match
ISBN: 9780753828250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'Wedlock' tells the story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney, the origin behind the phrase 'ston(e)y broke'. Stoney married the Countess for her wealth and, once they were married, he subjected her to years of ill treatment.
'Wedlock' tells the story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney, the origin behind the phrase 'ston(e)y broke'. Sto...
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69,70 zł |
Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War
ISBN: 9781838958091 / Twarda / 2024 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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112,53 zł |
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
ISBN: 9781474602310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the author of the No. 1 bestseller WEDLOCK, the story of two pioneering men of science, and a nation in thrall to mesmerism...
From the author of the No. 1 bestseller WEDLOCK, the story of two pioneering men of science, and a nation in thrall to mesmerism...
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48,24 zł |
The Knife Man
ISBN: 9780553816181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter.
In the gothic horror story, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the house of the genial doctor turned fiend is reputedly based on the home of the 18th century surgeon and anatomist John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter combined an altruistic determination to advance scientific knowledge with dark dealings that brought him into daily contact with the sinister Georgian underworld. In 18th century London, Hunter was a man both acclaimed and feared. John Hunter... The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter.
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66,45 zł |
How to Create the Perfect Wife : The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman
ISBN: 9780753828953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune. Instead, he adopted two orphan girls from a Foundling Hospital, and set about educating them to become the meek, docile women he considered marriage material. Unsurprisingly, Day's marriage plans did not run smoothly. Having returned one orphan early on, his girl of choice, Sabrina Sidney, would also fall foul of the experiment. From then on, she led a difficult life, inhabiting a curious half-world - an ex-orphan, and not quite a ward; a governess, and not quite a...
This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune. Instead, he adopted tw...
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58,97 zł |
Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
ISBN: 9780307383372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of eager suitors, at eighteen she married the handsome but aloof ninth Earl of Strathmore in a celebrated, if ultimately troubled, match that forged the Bowes Lyon name. Yet she stumbled headlong into scandal when, following her husband's early death, a charming young army hero flattered his way into the...
With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An an...
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92,63 zł |
No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
ISBN: 9781541672758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,96 zł |
Eaglet and the River
ISBN: 9781426954788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I never used to like the wind. It rattled me inside. It frightened me because it meant change. Now I sit still and quiet, watching a restless winter wind blow through the trees. I welcome the wind. I now know why I have this story to tell. So come with me to the headwaters of the river. "Eaglet and the River" is my story." When lightning strikes the nest of a young eagle, he tumbles into the rushing river below, injuring his wing. The current carries Eaglet downstream, where he meets various animals eager to help him get back home. A beaver puts a splint on Eaglet's wing, a group of mice...
"I never used to like the wind. It rattled me inside. It frightened me because it meant change. Now I sit still and quiet, watching a restless winter ...
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115,54 zł |
Eaglet and the River
ISBN: 9781426954771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I never used to like the wind. It rattled me inside. It frightened me because it meant change. Now I sit still and quiet, watching a restless winter wind blow through the trees. I welcome the wind. I now know why I have this story to tell. So come with me to the headwaters of the river. "Eaglet and the River" is my story." When lightning strikes the nest of a young eagle, he tumbles into the rushing river below, injuring his wing. The current carries Eaglet downstream, where he meets various animals eager to help him get back home. A beaver puts a splint on Eaglet's wing, a group of mice...
"I never used to like the wind. It rattled me inside. It frightened me because it meant change. Now I sit still and quiet, watching a restless winter ...
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62,83 zł |
Your Family: A Donor Kid's Story
ISBN: 9780692106938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,72 zł |
Reproducing Racism: White Space, Elite Law Schools, and Racial Inequality
ISBN: 9780742560062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Law schools serve as gateway institutions into one of the most politically powerful social fields: the profession of law. Reproducing Racism is an examination of white privilege and power in two elite United States law schools. Moore examines how racial structures, racialized everyday practices, and racial discourses function in law schools. Utilizing an ethnographic lens, Moore explores the historical construction of elite law schools as institutions that reinforce white privilege and therefore naturalize white political, social, and economic power.
Law schools serve as gateway institutions into one of the most politically powerful social fields: the profession of law. Reproducing Racism is an exa...
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203,89 zł |
Reproducing Racism: White Space, Elite Law Schools, and Racial Inequality
ISBN: 9780742560055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Law schools serve as gateway institutions into one of the most politically powerful social fields: the profession of law. Reproducing Racism is an examination of white privilege and power in two elite United States law schools. Moore examines how racial structures, racialized everyday practices, and racial discourses function in law schools. Utilizing an ethnographic lens, Moore explores the historical construction of elite law schools as institutions that reinforce white privilege and therefore naturalize white political, social, and economic power.
Law schools serve as gateway institutions into one of the most politically powerful social fields: the profession of law. Reproducing Racism is an exa...
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531,18 zł |
Invertebrates
ISBN: 9780197554418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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1101,11 zł |