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Vieques: Esmeralda Entre Las Olas
ISBN: 9781438983332 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vieques, esmeralda entre las olas, es una coleccion de poemas inspirados por la nostalgia del que tiene que ausentarse de su amada tierra. Por mucho, mucho tiempo permanecieron en un viejo baul, guardados, quietos, dormidos, arropados con la sabana amarillenta con la que tine, el tiempo, los papeles... y ahora salen a la luz. Pintados con el pincel de una expresion clara y sencilla, sus versos invitan a recordar la Isla de Vieques, la Isla Nena, la isla que hermosamente vestida con el traje verde bordado con los hilos de sus imponentes montes y valles y abrazada por el bellisimo mar, luce...
Vieques, esmeralda entre las olas, es una coleccion de poemas inspirados por la nostalgia del que tiene que ausentarse de su amada tierra. Por mucho, ...
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107,72 |
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Palaeontology: A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations
ISBN: 9781108001335 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Owen (1804 1892) was a contemporary of Darwin, and like him, attended the University of Edinburgh medical school but left without completing his training. His career as an outstanding palaeontologist began when he was cataloguing the Hunterian Collection of human and animal anatomical specimens which had passed to the Royal College of Surgeons in London. His public lectures on anatomy were attended by Darwin, and he was entrusted with the classification and description of the fossil vertebrates sent back by Darwin from the Beagle voyage. He was responsible for coining many of the...
Richard Owen (1804 1892) was a contemporary of Darwin, and like him, attended the University of Edinburgh medical school but left without completing h...
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302,38 |
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Peru: A Photographic Journey
ISBN: 9781449011062 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A photographic tribute to the people, places, events and lifestyles in this South American Country of Peru that the Author called home for twelve years, 1966-1978.
A photographic tribute to the people, places, events and lifestyles in this South American Country of Peru that the Author called home for twelve year...
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The Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature: Volume 26
ISBN: 9780773518001 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bevis examines a wide range of English, European, and North American texts, literary works as well as religious, scientific, and travel writing. He surveys the literature on mountain climbing, sea voyages, desert travel, and polar exploration, and its metaphorical uses in poetry and fiction. Relying on Addison's term "the Great" rather than "the sublime," he shows how works such as Darwin's journals, Lyell's studies in geology, and de Saussure's books on the Alps helped form an outlook on nature that also found frequent literary expression. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work in the...
Bevis examines a wide range of English, European, and North American texts, literary works as well as religious, scientific, and travel writing. He su...
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489,77 |
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The Panda and the Prince: Confessions of the 'Panda Diplomat'
ISBN: 9781438987491 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the world rightly obsessed with life threatening challenges to the environment, this is a timely and important book. A vivid and highly personalised account, involving fascinating personalities, showing how a strategic plan was developed and implemented in confidence and the whole world gradually "converted" to the cause of the environment, with Climate Change now on everyone's lips. Brought in as a professional 'outsider', specialising in Perception Management, the 'Panda Diplomat' played a leading role in changing the face and the direction of the whole environmental movement, working...
With the world rightly obsessed with life threatening challenges to the environment, this is a timely and important book. A vivid and highly personali...
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98,54 |
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Wau to Bulldog: Across the Roof of Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9781425174194 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,17 |
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Blake Jorgenson Photography: Whistler British Columbia 1999-2009
ISBN: 9781449070908 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Photographer Blake Jorgenson gained worldwide attention documenting the ski and mountain bike scenes in his adopted hometown of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Though he has gone on to shoot photos all over the world, from the mountains of Alaska to the Gobi Desert in China, his heart will always be in Whistler. The community is also home to the Blake Jorgenson Gallery, a contemporary space displaying Jorgenson's work, a venue for industry parties, exhibitions and events, and a hub for the action-sport and artist communities. This career-spanning collection of photos features some of...
Photographer Blake Jorgenson gained worldwide attention documenting the ski and mountain bike scenes in his adopted hometown of Whistler, British Colu...
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153,57 |
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The Fairy-Land of Science
ISBN: 9781438533537 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arabella B. Buckley (1840 - 1929) was a writer and science educator. She began as a secretary and when her boss died she then started lecturing and writing on various scientific topics. This collection of essays was written in the hopes of inspiring and bringing science to life for her audience. The Table of Contents includes, The Fairy-Land of Science; How to Enter It; How to Use It; And How to Enjoy It, Sunbeams, and the Work They Do, The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live, A Drop of Water on its Travels, The Two Great Sculptors - Water and Ice, The Voices of Nature, and How We Hear Them, The...
Arabella B. Buckley (1840 - 1929) was a writer and science educator. She began as a secretary and when her boss died she then started lecturing and wr...
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81,78 |
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Mokele-Mbembe: Mystery Beast of the Congo Basin
ISBN: 9781616460105 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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204,75 |
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Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
ISBN: 9781438536088 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angus Webster begins by saying, "This book has been written and is published with the distinct object in view of bringing home to the minds of planters of Hardy Trees and Shrubs, the fact that the monotonous repetition, in at least nine-tenths of our Parks and Gardens, of such Trees as the Elm, the Lime, and the Oak, and such Shrubs as the Cherry Laurel and the Privet, is neither necessary nor desirable." He goes on to say that there are many flowering shrubs that are ornamental and also sturdy. There are over thirteen hundred species and varieties of trees and shrubs that can grow in most...
Angus Webster begins by saying, "This book has been written and is published with the distinct object in view of bringing home to the minds of planter...
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116,32 |
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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
ISBN: 9781108014236 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Darwin (1809 1882) first published this work in 1868 in two volumes. The book began as an expansion of the first two chapters of On the Origin of Species: 'Variation under Domestication' and 'Variation under Nature' and it developed into one of his largest works; Darwin referred to it as his 'big book'. In volume 2, concerned with how species inherit particular characteristics, Darwin first published his 'provisional hypothesis' of pangenesis. This theory of 'gemmules' was not met with much acceptance and today is not valuable as scientific explanation, but it was important in laying...
Charles Darwin (1809 1882) first published this work in 1868 in two volumes. The book began as an expansion of the first two chapters of On the Origin...
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338,26 |
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Bringing Ecologists and Economists Together: The Askö Meetings and Papers
ISBN: 9789048194759 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The AskO meetings were an annual forum where leading economists and ecologists came together to discuss the myriad issues and challenges surrounding sustainable development. Organized by the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and held on the Island of AskO in the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, the meetings facilitated a dialogue in which various players with differing perspectives could arrive at common conclusions and solutions that benefit us all.
The AskO meetings were an annual forum where leading economists and ecologists came together to discuss the myriad issues and challenges surrounding s...
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603,81 |
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Inferno by Committee: A History of the Cerro Grande (Los Alamos) Fire, America's Worst Prescribed Fire Disaster
ISBN: 9781426929878 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,17 |
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Aleppo Observed: Ottoman Syria Through the Eyes of Two Scottish Doctors, Alexander and Patrick Russell
ISBN: 9780199588565 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Natural History of Aleppo, published first as a single volume in 1756 and as a two-volume edition in 1794, by Scottish physicians to the British Levant Company in Aleppo, Alexander and Patrick Russell, was a landmark in European knowledge of the Arab world. It was the first detailed study by a European of an Arab city, with a description of the topography, the inhabitants and the plant, and animal life in the neighbourhood. Maurits van den Boogert assesses the Russells' botanical and zoological discoveries and analyses the Natural History in the context of medical practices of the time...
The Natural History of Aleppo, published first as a single volume in 1756 and as a two-volume edition in 1794, by Scottish physicians to the British L...
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Gesammelte Schriften: Almer. Natur Und Herz
ISBN: 9781144648778 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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116,32 |
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Ueber Chaucers Naturschilderungen: Ein Beitrag Zur Entwicklungs- Und Quellengeschichte Des Dichters
ISBN: 9781144486141 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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68,84 |
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Traité Descriptif Et Raisonné Des Constructions Hydrauliques À La Mer Et Dans Les Eaux Courantes: Avec Applications Aux Travaux Militaires
ISBN: 9781144504616 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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110,79 |
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Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York, Volume 5
ISBN: 9781144137661 / Angielski / Miękka / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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133,58 |
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Nature: International Journal of Science, Volume 49
ISBN: 9781144265807 / Angielski / Miękka / 678 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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137,90 |
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Sunbeams from a Western Hemisphere, by A.M.G.
ISBN: 9781144461803 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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77,47 |