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Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea
ISBN: 9781599219790 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breverton s Nautical Curiosities is arranged into thematic chapters: 1) 1) The ocean environment animals, geography, geology, weather, coasts, islands 2) 2) Ship types and parts from the first boat to the latest cutting-edge technology"
Breverton s Nautical Curiosities is arranged into thematic chapters: 1) 1) The ocean environment animals, geography, geology, weather, coasts, islands...
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128,63 zł |
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Derby County On This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
ISBN: 9781905411870 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Derby County On This Day chronicles, in diary form, the major events in the club's history. With individual entries for every day, and multiple listings for more historic and busier days, the book includes all the club's big matches, promotions, cup runs, significant events, and sensational signings.
Derby County On This Day chronicles, in diary form, the major events in the club's history. With individual entries for every day, and multiple listin...
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50,28 zł |
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Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words
ISBN: 9781611450538 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the link between map and apron, acrobat and oxygen, zeal and jealousy, flour and pollen, secret and crime? Did you know that crimson originally comes from the name of tiny scale insects, the kermes, from whose dried bodies a red dyestuff is made? That Yankee began as a nickname for Dutchmen? That omelette evolved from amulette, "a thin sheet of metal," and is a not-too- distant cousin of the word laminate? That jeans find their antecedent in jean fustian, meaning "a cotton fabric from Genoa"? The Dictionary of Word Origins uncovers the hidden and often surprising...
What is the link between map and apron, acrobat and oxygen, zeal and jealousy, flour and pollen, secret and crime? Did you know that crimson originall...
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64,21 zł |
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Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things
ISBN: 9780399536724 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now?
Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be... Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diaste...
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103,07 zł |
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Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the 70s and 80s
ISBN: 9780399536717 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you owe a couple cavities to Marathon candy bars, learned your adverbs from Schoolhouse Rock , and can still imitate the slo-mo bionic running sound of The Six Million Dollar Man, this book is for you.
Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? takes you back in time to the tastes, smells, and sounds of childhood in the '70s and '80s, when the Mystery Date board game didn't seem sexist, and exploding Pop Rocks was the epitome of candy science. But what happened to the toys, tastes, and trends of our youth? Some vanished totally, like Freakies cereal. Some stayed... If you owe a couple cavities to Marathon candy bars, learned your adverbs from Schoolhouse Rock , and can still imitate the slo-mo bionic runni...
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103,07 zł |
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Everything You Never Wanted to Know and Never Bothered to Ask
ISBN: 9780956061874 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A curio shop of a book that is brilliant for family quizzes or quiz shows. Brian Ariel has filled the book with fascinating facts and trivia to amuse you and all around you for hours on end. This book makes a great Christmas or Birthday present.
A curio shop of a book that is brilliant for family quizzes or quiz shows. Brian Ariel has filled the book with fascinating facts and trivia to amuse ...
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131,31 zł |
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The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
ISBN: 9780061928239 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Smarter than your old history teacher, funnier than the founding fathers, and more American than apple pie, The Mental Floss History of the United States is an almost (but not entirely) comprehensive primer on American history (or at least, the good stuff). From the editors of MentalFloss.com and mental_floss magazine--with its tagline: "Feel smart again"--comes an American History text packed with hilarious (but true ) trivia written in the smart-aleck tradition of The Mental Floss History of the World, Mental Floss Presents In the Beginning, and the...
Smarter than your old history teacher, funnier than the founding fathers, and more American than apple pie, The Mental Floss History of the Unite...
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81,55 zł |
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Everything But the Kitchen Sink: What Every Modern Woman Needs to Know
ISBN: 9781451655582 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An eclectic and witty guide to everything and anything that a twenty-first-century female wants--or needs--to know, The Artful Conversationalist is essentially Schott's Miscellany for the modern woman.
An eclectic and witty guide to everything and anything that a twenty-first-century female wants--or needs--to know, The Artful Conversationalist...
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64,38 zł |
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The Book of Deadly Animals
ISBN: 9780143120742 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether at a zoo, on a camping trip, or under our bedsheets, we are surrounded by animals. While most are perfectly harmless, it's the magnificent exceptions that populate The Book of Deadly Animals. Award-winning writer Gordon Grice takes readers on a tour of the animal kingdom from grizzly bears to great white sharks, big cats to crocodiles. Every page overflows with astonishing facts about Earth's great predators and unforgettable stories of their encounters with humans, all delivered in Grice's signature dark comic style. Illustrated with awe-inspiring photographs of beasts and...
Whether at a zoo, on a camping trip, or under our bedsheets, we are surrounded by animals. While most are perfectly harmless, it's the magnificent exc...
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103,07 zł |
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Classic Video Games: The Golden Age 1971-1984
ISBN: 9780747810421 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1970s, video arcade games sprung to life with the advent of Pong and other coin-operated games. Within just a few short years, if you had a quarter, you could go to the video arcade and play Space Invaders, Asteroids, or Pac-Man. If you were lucky enough to have an Atari system hooked up to your television, you could play Frogger or Galaga at home. By the early 1980s, arcade and video games were entrenched as a pop culture phenomenon, with players spending hours in arcades racking up as many points as possible. Arcade games were everywhere: restaurants, bowling alleys, department...
In the early 1970s, video arcade games sprung to life with the advent of Pong and other coin-operated games. Within just a few short years, if you had...
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42,28 zł |
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The Little Book of Liverpool
ISBN: 9780752460062 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Little Book of Liverpool is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts. Alex Tulloch's new book gathers together a myriad of data on this historic city. There are lots of factual chapters but also plenty of frivolous details which will amuse and surprise.A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to...
The Little Book of Liverpool is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no...
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75,44 zł |
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Buy Shoes on Wednesday and Tweet at 4: 00
ISBN: 9780062117700 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buy Shoes on Wednesday and Tweet at 4:00, former investigative journalist Mark Di Vincenzo's follow-up to his bestselling Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, is another endlessly fascinating and eminently useful compendium of expert tips on perfect timing for a myriad of activities--more of the best times to buy this, do that, and go there. Covering an even wider range of topics than before--including beauty tips, pets, cars, and children--this book is an absolute must for readers of Schott's Miscellany and other collections of useful information, and for...
Buy Shoes on Wednesday and Tweet at 4:00, former investigative journalist Mark Di Vincenzo's follow-up to his bestselling Buy Ketchup in ...
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81,55 zł |
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
ISBN: 9780425260791 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you know why
a mortgage is literally a death pledge? why guns have girls names? why salt is related to soldier? You re about to find out The Etymologicon (e-t?- ma-la-ji-kan) is: *Witty (wi-te): Full of clever humor *Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge *Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive Do you know why
a mortgage is literally a death pledge? why guns have girls names? why salt is related to soldier? You re about to find out <... |
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85,89 zł |
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The Boys in the B-17: 8Th Air Force Combat Stories of Wwii
ISBN: 9781467060493 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
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The Big Damn Firefly & Serenity Trivia Book
ISBN: 9781593936815 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Big Damn Firefly & Serenity Trivia Book is the ultimate fan's guide to Joss Whedon's critically acclaimed series Firefly and film sequel Serenity. Inside you will find over 1,000 questions that delve into the detailed elements that have made Firefly and Serenity beloved by millions, including the characters, actors, episodes, and behind-the-scenes moments. The questions highlight aspects of the show that casual viewers may have missed and the die-hard Browncoats will relish. And with an introduction from "Jaynestown" director Marita Grabiak, everyone is sure to learn something new. In...
The Big Damn Firefly & Serenity Trivia Book is the ultimate fan's guide to Joss Whedon's critically acclaimed series Firefly and film sequel Serenity....
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105,82 zł |
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Movie Quotes for All Occasions: Unforgettable Lines for Life's Biggest Moments
ISBN: 9781633536630 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Great Movie Quotes for All Occasions Best movie quotes: We all do it. Every day, with or without noticing, you quote movies. Hit a search engine and you kind find thousands of lists of the best movie quotes of all time. From Rhett Butler to Obi-Wan Kenobi, movie quotes have become an integral part of expression. However, the movie quotes that often show up on these "best of" lists rarely lend themselves to important moments in life. Nor are they meant to provide personal motivation. Open any typical movie quote list or book and you're likely to see "May the Force be with you,"...
Great Movie Quotes for All Occasions Best movie quotes: We all do it. Every day, with or without noticing, you quote movies. Hit a sear...
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72,80 zł |
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The Book of Times: From Seconds to Centuries, a Compendium of Measures
ISBN: 9780062074188 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An endlessly fascinating, beautifully designed survey of time--how long things take, how long things last, and how we spend our days Our relationship to time is complex and paradoxical: Time stands still. Time also flies. Tomorrow is another day. Yet there's no time like the present. We want to do more in less time, but wish we could slow the clock. And despite all our time-saving devices--iPhones, DVRs, high-speed trains--Americans feel that they have less leisure time than ever. In an era when our time feels fractured and imperiled, The Book of Times encourages... An endlessly fascinating, beautifully designed survey of time--how long things take, how long things last, and how we spend our days Our rela... |
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81,55 zł |
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Santa Fe: Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1610
ISBN: 9780865348752 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This question-and-answer book about Santa Fe, New Mexico contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than four hundred years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation. What you find here will stimulate your curiosity and invite debate about what history is. References follow each entry. Black-and-white illustrations, photographs, maps, an index, and study guides further...
This question-and-answer book about Santa Fe, New Mexico contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood abou...
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171,78 zł |
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Santa Fe: 400 Years, 400 Questions: Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1610
ISBN: 9780865348769 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This question-and-answer book about Santa Fe, New Mexico contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than four hundred years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation. What you find here will stimulate your curiosity and invite debate about what history is. References follow each entry. Black-and-white illustrations, photographs, maps, an index, and study guides further...
This question-and-answer book about Santa Fe, New Mexico contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood abou...
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128,84 zł |
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Hello! My Name Is Public School, and I Have an Image Problem
ISBN: 9781475929720 / Angielski / Twarda / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So much energy is focused on what's wrong with our public schools and how to fix them that we often lose sight of the extraordinary work occurring in our schools every day, thanks to millions of caring, dedicated professional educators who work hard to ensure every student reaches their potential. In Hello My Name is Public School and I Have an Image Problem, authors and teachers Leslie Milder and Jane Braddock provide a solution for educators who wish to strengthen public confidence in their public schools. They share commonsense techniques on how schools and their... So much energy is focused on what's wrong with our public schools and how to fix them that we often lose sight of the extraordinary work occurring ... |
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98,56 zł |
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