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Con Man: A Master Swindler's Own Story
ISBN: 9780767917377 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Joseph Yellow Kid Weil, a man who could and often did pull off scams to outshine The Sting. The story of Joseph Yellow Kid Weil, a man who could and often did pull off scams to outshine The Sting. |
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82,59 zł |
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The Dacian Stones Speak
ISBN: 9780807849392 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this exciting introduction to the ancient province of Dacia, noted classicist and archaeologist MacKendrick turns his attention to an old area little known to the English-speaking world. He examines its history from the Neolithic culture to the 165 years of urban culture under Roman rule. Also examined is the durability of the Greco-Roman heritage that is reflected in the religious and cultural orientation of present-day Romania.
With this exciting introduction to the ancient province of Dacia, noted classicist and archaeologist MacKendrick turns his attention to an old area li...
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301,25 zł |
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Gumboots, Lesson Plans and Hot Rugby Nights: New Beginnings in New Zealand
ISBN: 9781418426583 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This tale recounts the development of a strategic plan that propels the author into the next stage of her working life - teaching ESL. By implementing the plan, she finds a job via the Internet and accepts a position in Auckland, New Zealand to teach English and accounting to Asians. During those six months, she experiences a thrilling and unexpected transition in her life as she gains a new perspective about life, love and happiness from her ambitious students and the Kiwis who thrive in their small island country. winter. As the story unfolds, she becomes enveloped in teaching and in...
This tale recounts the development of a strategic plan that propels the author into the next stage of her working life - teaching ESL. By implementing...
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87,69 zł |
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The Colour of Courage
ISBN: 9781590481158 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Go into a bookstore and what do you see? Row upon row of soon-to-be-forgotten titles. Thats not the case with this book. It is a classic!
"The Colour of Courage" is the remarkable true story of the epic horse trip made by famed Australian equestrian explorers Sharon Muir Watson and Ken Roberts. During the course of their mounted journey the young friends discovered enough adventures to satisfy even the most jaded reader, ranging from riding through leech-infested jungles to trying to herd their horses through some of the toughest terrain on earth. Yet, if many of these pages are testaments... Go into a bookstore and what do you see? Row upon row of soon-to-be-forgotten titles. Thats not the case with this book. It is a classic!
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100,41 zł |
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The Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool Trial
ISBN: 9781591021650 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On August 12, 1983, Judy Johnson called the police and told them her two-year-old son had been sexually abused at Virginia McMartin's Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California. Mrs. Johnson accused a teacher, Raymond Buckey. After searching the school and the homes of the owners and teachers, police distributed a letter to parents of children attending the McMartin Preschool urging them to ask their children if they had witnessed any acts of sexual molestation by Buckey. The result was mass hysteria. Although the children denied being molested or witnessing any molestations, the D.A.'s...
On August 12, 1983, Judy Johnson called the police and told them her two-year-old son had been sexually abused at Virginia McMartin's Preschool in Man...
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104,29 zł |
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New Zealand: Aotearoa, Land of the Long White Cloud
ISBN: 9781877339219 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although it is merely 1000 miles in length, New Zealand offers a dazzling range of landscapes and scenery So varied are these vistas, that the two main islands of New Zealand - the North and South Islands - sometimes seem to visitors like two different countries New Zealand has everything a visitor could want from sub-tropical bush, rainforests, and plains to icy fjords, alpine areas, glaciers, and active volcanoes.
Although it is merely 1000 miles in length, New Zealand offers a dazzling range of landscapes and scenery So varied are these vistas, that the two mai...
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584,48 zł |
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The Judas Sect
ISBN: 9781514115251 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prophet Sparrows is a woman ready for change. After months of intense scrutiny by federal agents, Prophet wants to get her life on track. When she is offered a temp job at a large financial institution she takes it hoping now will be the time things work out in her favor. She is ready to leave the past behind. However, Prophet quickly learns her past isn't behind her. It is waiting for her.
Prophet Sparrows is a woman ready for change. After months of intense scrutiny by federal agents, Prophet wants to get her life on track. When she is ...
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36,52 zł |
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The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide
ISBN: 9780060780999 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A monumental account of an urban travesty.... It] has all the earmarks of a classic."
--Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island Dick Lehr's The Fence, subtitled, "A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide," is a shocking true story of racism, brutality, official lies and negligence, when the truth about the savage beating of black plainclothes policeman by white officers was hidden behind a "blue wall of silence." Respected journalist Lehr, winner of the Hancock... "A monumental account of an urban travesty.... It] has all the earmarks of a classic."
--Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author ... |
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78,20 zł |
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Beneath the Winter Sycamores
ISBN: 9781449917685 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a creative non-fiction book about the kidnapping of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh's twenty month-old son, Charles Jr. Using new information from Arthur Jones who served on death row with Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the man convicted and executed for the crime, this tragic event has been re-created. Jones claimed Hauptmann had him swear not to say anything about the kidnapping until after his death in 1936. For forty years, Jones attempted to disseminate the information but was unsuccessful in getting anyone to listen, including three New Jersey governors. Using this new information,...
This is a creative non-fiction book about the kidnapping of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh's twenty month-old son, Charles Jr. Using new information ...
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73,03 zł |
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The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies
ISBN: 9780762442713 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies uncovers 100 cover-ups "they" really don't want you to know about. This collection delves into some of the biggest lies in history.
The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies uncovers 100 cover-ups "they" really don't want you to know about. This collection delves into some of the bigg...
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117,33 zł |
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I'm No Monster: The Horrifying True Story of Josef Fritzl
ISBN: 9780425244524 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For 24 years, Josef Fritzl held his daughter Elizabeth prisoner as a sex slave. But the true depth of his depravity was yet to be uncovered. Marsh and Pancevski tell the complete story of a crime that stunned and appalled the world. Available in a tall Premium Edition. HC: Berkley.
For 24 years, Josef Fritzl held his daughter Elizabeth prisoner as a sex slave. But the true depth of his depravity was yet to be uncovered. Marsh and...
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43,43 zł |
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Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the Fbi, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library
ISBN: 9781682301487 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. In October 1990 Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past ten years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye--Flannery...
Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections...
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56,47 zł |
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Fads, Fakes, Freaks, Frauds, and Fools
ISBN: 9781614270355 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2011 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The author seeks to expose every conceivable type of human fad and fraud. The subject matter is divided into five chapters: one each for Fads, Fakes, Freaks, Frauds and Fools. Including the obvious manias chronicled elsewhere, the author treats such exotic subjects as "manufacturing Egyptian mummies," "gypsy charms," "the criminal diploma," and many varieties of fools. An encyclopedia of the human penchant for delusion and gullibility.
2011 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The author seeks to expose eve...
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104,87 zł |
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Princess Caraboo
ISBN: 9781434103246 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bristol, England, 1817. A beautiful young stranger speaking an unknown language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it becomes understood that the woman is a princess from an exotic foreign land. She is welcomed by a family of aristocrats interested in using her to increase their prestige. But is Caraboo really a princess? This true story was the basis of the 1994 film Princess Caraboo, starring Phoebe Cates in the title role. A fascinating look at one of the greatest hoaxes of all time.
Bristol, England, 1817. A beautiful young stranger speaking an unknown language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can t...
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48,64 zł |
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The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con
ISBN: 9780307473592 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle--twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables on the confidence men. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet set out to capture the five men who had conned him, allowing himself to be ensnared in the con again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Through the story of Norfleet's ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the fascinating mechanics behind the big con--an artful performance targeted to the most vulnerable points of human... In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle--twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned ... |
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86,94 zł |
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Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper
ISBN: 9780307451309 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true story of the unsolved 1971 Northwest Orient airplane hijacking, Skyjack reopens one of the greatest cold cases of the 20th century.
"I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me." That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was also the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline before parachuting into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, never to be seen again. Starting with a crack tip... The true story of the unsolved 1971 Northwest Orient airplane hijacking, Skyjack reopens one of the greatest cold cases of the 20th century....
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95,63 zł |
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Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery
ISBN: 9781467975919 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August of 1989, Duncan MacPherson-a pro hockey player from Saskatoon, Canada-vanished without a trace in Europe. With no help from the police, his parents, Lynda and Bob, drove all over the Alps looking for him, and finally found his car at the Stubai Glacier, a popular ski resort near Innsbruck, Austria. Thus began their twenty-year struggle to discover why their son had disappeared after snowboarding on a beginner slope. Had he, as the local police suggested, wandered off the beaten track and died in a remote area, or had he (as certain signs indicated) been the victim of something...
In August of 1989, Duncan MacPherson-a pro hockey player from Saskatoon, Canada-vanished without a trace in Europe. With no help from the police, his ...
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72,80 zł |
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Conversations With Crystal The Woman Who Fell Off the Bridge
ISBN: 9781469986357 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crystal Manning tells her story of that fateful day, August 1, 2007, the day the I-35W Bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, MN. In her book, Conversations With Crystal The Woman Who Fell Off the Bridge, co-authored with B.P. Storm, she tells how she was saved from death in the Mississippi River by her fiancee', Michael Stoner, Jr., only to see him immediately charged with child abuse of her daughter. The book reveals the events that unfolded as her life was shattered that day in 2007. Conversations With Crystal tells not only a personal memoir of tragedy, it also tells a national story of a...
Crystal Manning tells her story of that fateful day, August 1, 2007, the day the I-35W Bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, MN. In her book, Conversations...
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68,24 zł |
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Hello Sweaty.
ISBN: 9781460960523 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to the third official romancescam.com book. Prepare yourself for more humour at the expense of the romance scammers, in this follow up to "Your profile has very much liked me." This time we go bigger, better, badder, dirtier, uglier and sillier than before. Find out what dating site tried to bribe us, then threaten us when that didn't work. See what happens when scammers get angry at finding themselves on our forum. Learn the results of using bad translation software. Packed with funny quotes from scammers and even more brilliant illustrations by FrumpyBB, this book is guaranteed to...
Welcome to the third official romancescam.com book. Prepare yourself for more humour at the expense of the romance scammers, in this follow up to "You...
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68,42 zł |
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A Question of Credibility: A Conflict of Interest
ISBN: 9781475128024 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A riveting expose about FRAUD, FORGERY and INTRIGUE. The real life story of the events that shaped the investigation of the Maricopa County Cold Case Posse. A firsthand look at the facts and the fiction. "A Question of Credibility" will hold your attention to the very end Background Photo by: (Master isolated images)"
A riveting expose about FRAUD, FORGERY and INTRIGUE. The real life story of the events that shaped the investigation of the Maricopa County Cold Case ...
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78,74 zł |
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