Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion
ISBN: 9781576070840 / Angielski / Miękka / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To get to the top, Joseph Stalin outmaneuvered Lenin, Trotsky, Kirov, and a legion of equally ruthless revolutionaries. This accessible and easy to read reference work reveals the more personal side of the Machiavellian mastermind, who not only orchestrated the Great Terror but also forged the USSR into a world power. "Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion" offers balanced coverage and makes use of new information from Soviet archives, while at the same time avoids mind-numbing communist jargon and terminology. Also included are scores of rare illustrations, some never before... To get to the top, Joseph Stalin outmaneuvered Lenin, Trotsky, Kirov, and a legion of equally ruthless revolutionaries. This accessible and easy to... |
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A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the U.S.A.
ISBN: 9780806348179 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a historical, statistical, and descriptive history of Loudoun County, Virginia, from its first settlement through Reconstruction.
This is a historical, statistical, and descriptive history of Loudoun County, Virginia, from its first settlement through Reconstruction.
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9781604509625 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Charles Darwin of Autobiography.
Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Charles Darwin of Autobiography.
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Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781455506736 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the success of "Jarhead," Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons, but in these searing, courageous pages, he struggles to make sense of what his military service meant, and to decide what his life can and should become.
Following the success of "Jarhead," Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons, but in these searing, courageous pages, he struggles to mak...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Fourth Edition: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587657894 / Angielski / Twarda / 4000 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Critical Survey was originally published in 1981, with a supplement in 1987 and revised editions in 1993 and 2001. The Fourth Edition includes all writers from the previous edition and adds 145 new ones, covering 625 writers in total. Altogether, the writers covered in this set represent 44 countries and the history of short fiction from antiquity to the 21st century. The set also offers 53 informative overviews; 24 of these essays were added for this edition, including all the literary movement essays. In addition, seven resources are provided, two of them new. Author portraits are...
This Critical Survey was originally published in 1981, with a supplement in 1987 and revised editions in 1993 and 2001. The Fourth Edition includes al...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: British, Irish, and Commonwealth Writers: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587657955 / Angielski / Twarda / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Survey of Short Fiction profiles the lives, achievements, and important works of major writers. Originally published in 1981 and revised in 2001, the latest edition adds an additional 145 writers, covering 625 writers in total. Now, for the first time, the essays have been arranged in several subsets, so that libraries can choose the complete set, or only the titles they are interested in. Plus, complimentary online access is provided through Salem Literature.
Critical Survey of Short Fiction profiles the lives, achievements, and important works of major writers. Originally published in 1981 and revised in 2...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: European Writers: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587657986 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Survey of Short Fiction profiles the lives, achievements, and important works of major writers. Originally published in 1981 and revised in 2001, the latest edition adds an additional 145 writers, covering 625 writers in total. Now, for the first time, the essays have been arranged in several subsets, so that libraries can choose the complete set, or only the titles they are interested in. Plus, complimentary online access is provided through Salem Literature.
Critical Survey of Short Fiction profiles the lives, achievements, and important works of major writers. Originally published in 1981 and revised in 2...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: World Writers: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587657993 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Survey of Short Fiction profiles the lives, achievements, and important works of major writers. Originally published in 1981 and revised in 2001, the latest edition adds an additional 145 writers, covering 625 writers in total. Now, for the first time, the essays have been arranged in several subsets, so that libraries can choose the complete set, or only the titles they are interested in. Plus, complimentary online access is provided through Salem Literature.
Critical Survey of Short Fiction profiles the lives, achievements, and important works of major writers. Originally published in 1981 and revised in 2...
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933,60 zł |
Arlynn and John: Two Hoosier Lives
ISBN: 9781469784601 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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159,45 zł |
Would a Man Return
ISBN: 9781908135094 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed perception of wartime in Liverpool and later as an apprentice and aircraft engineer at Speke Airport, this well researched story takes you deep into the minutiae of life in the forties and fifties. An unusual contemporary history filled with hangar life, aircraft and the traumas of the transition from boy to man.
A detailed perception of wartime in Liverpool and later as an apprentice and aircraft engineer at Speke Airport, this well researched story takes you ...
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A Bouquet of Memories: Reminiscences of Eighty Years
ISBN: 9780957496903 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Bouquet of Memories is a heart warming account of Mary Goodhind's life from her early years in pre-war London-including her vivid recollections of her wartime experiences of being an evacuee-to her family's move to a new house in Barnehurst to escape the Blitz. She recounts the wartime privations, including rationing, with good humour, but her strong Catholic faith and close family ties to her parents and brother, Rory, were great sources or strength during the war years and beyond. German air-raids, both from conventional bombs, and later on with the V-1 and V-2 rockets, required a spirit...
A Bouquet of Memories is a heart warming account of Mary Goodhind's life from her early years in pre-war London-including her vivid recollections of h...
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52,93 zł |
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9783842441743 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Women Marked for History: New Mexico's Women Leaders in Community and Government, Education, Military, Business, Healing Arts and Medicine, Ente
ISBN: 9780865348806 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Mexico's Historical Marker Project has served an important part in the way New Mexico tells its story to visitors, residents, and future generations. Lining the miles of highways and roads across its beautiful countryside, each marker has a unique story that provides those passing by with information about an intriguing historical moment or influential individual in the area. Thanks to the New Mexico Historical Women's Marker Initiative, this program has taken on a new role to inform motorists of the many historical facts about the great women of the state. It is easy to become inspired...
New Mexico's Historical Marker Project has served an important part in the way New Mexico tells its story to visitors, residents, and future generatio...
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Elena Kagan: A Biography
ISBN: 9781440828973 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elena Kagan can be considered a "wild card" in terms of how she will vote and affect Supreme Court decisions. While largely considered a liberal, her lack of a judicial "track record" and previous work as Solicitor General lend an air of uncertainty as to how she will react to upcoming cases that have proven highly divisive and controversial. This full-length biography sheds light on Elena Kagan's life, covering her college years at Princeton and her experience in law school as well as her legal career, which eventually led her to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Appropriate for high... Elena Kagan can be considered a "wild card" in terms of how she will vote and affect Supreme Court decisions. While largely considered a liberal, h... |
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278,18 zł |
Makin' It Right
ISBN: 9781475974447 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When she was fourteen years old, April Joy wanted nothing more than a marriage of mutual love and respect and a family of her own. It was then, in 1962, that she met Dean, a young soldier stationed nearby, and fell in love with his good looks and caring, attentive persona. He was the man of her dreams; she was sure of it. She was too young to get married; even so, shortly after they became involved they decided to have a child together. At just fi fteen years old, April learned that she was pregnant with the child of a man who was deployed overseas, and she dropped out of high school.... When she was fourteen years old, April Joy wanted nothing more than a marriage of mutual love and respect and a family of her own. It was then, in ... |
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Makin' It Right
ISBN: 9781475974461 / Angielski / Twarda / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When she was fourteen years old, April Joy wanted nothing more than a marriage of mutual love and respect and a family of her own. It was then, in 1962, that she met Dean, a young soldier stationed nearby, and fell in love with his good looks and caring, attentive persona. He was the man of her dreams; she was sure of it. She was too young to get married; even so, shortly after they became involved they decided to have a child together. At just fi fteen years old, April learned that she was pregnant with the child of a man who was deployed overseas, and she dropped out of high school.... When she was fourteen years old, April Joy wanted nothing more than a marriage of mutual love and respect and a family of her own. It was then, in ... |
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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
ISBN: 9780199537389 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.'
In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an... 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living ...
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61,91 zł |
Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth Century British Politics
ISBN: 9780415226776 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history. Reflecting the changes within British society and politics over the past century, the entries chart the development of key contemporary issues such as women's rights, immigration and the emergence of New Labour. Figures covered include: * Winston Churchill
* Tony Blair * Emmeline Pankhurst * David Lloyd George * Margaret Thatcher * John Maynard Keynes * Enoch Powell * Barbara Castle With cross-referenced entries and helpful suggestions... This guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history. Reflecting the chan...
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137,57 zł |
Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History
ISBN: 9780691155876 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities--including those of statesmen, philosophers, poets, and rulers, to provide the focus for accounts of key historical trends and periods. What emerges is a provocative rendering of China's moral landscape, featuring characters who... Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the... |
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150,23 zł |
The International Who's Who 2014
ISBN: 9781857436846 / Angielski / Twarda / 2488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When you need to source accurate information on the past history, achievements and current activities of leading world figures, from heads of state to sporting greats, Europa's The International Who's Who 2014 provides the answer. Published annually since 1935, The International Who's Who 2014 is your source for hard-to-find biographical details on over 25,000 of the world's most prominent and influential personalities. Each year, all the featured personalities are given the opportunity to update their entry, providing new information on education, artistic... When you need to source accurate information on the past history, achievements and current activities of leading world figures, from heads of state... |
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917,50 zł |