Zbiór mniej znanych, bo nie drukowanych od II wojny światowej, opowiadań Arthura Conan Doyle?a. Bohater tych utworów ? genialny detektyw Sherlock Holmes ? staje przed kolejnymi pasjonującymi zagadkami...
W połowie lat 90. potajemna grupa wysokich rangą duchownych zaczęła spotykać się w St. Gallen w Szwajcarii, w ukryciu planując rewolucję w Kościele. Do 2015 r. ich tajemnica była bardzo trudna do wyk...
The Biebrza Valley is natural, landscape and cultural pearl of the European continent, still largely untouched by the hand of contemporary civilization. Shaping the whole region is the Bierza itself (...
Co znajdziemy w książce Papież Franciszek i mafia z Sankt Gallen? Jakie zmiany sukcesywnie wprowadzane są w Kościele katolickim? Jak wpłynąć mogą one na dalsze losy wspólnoty i jej wiernych? Kto sto...
The architectural heritage of the French kings is nowhere as present as in the Loire valley. Magnificent castles, sophisticated gardens and sweeping parks demonstrate both the monarchs‘ power and appr...
Słynna kolekcja mieści się w jednej z trzech budowli (obok San Marco i Palazzo Ducale), od których każdy turysta zaczyna zwiedzanie Wenecji. I nic dziwnego, bo chronologicznie uporządkowane zbiory mal...
Rzeczpospolita przedstawia ekskluzywną kolekcję prezentującą zbiory największych muzeów i galerii na świecie. Składa się na nią 25 pięknie wydanych albumów, opracowanych przez wybitnych znawców sztuki...
W książce Time and Silence, fotograf Caroline Halley des Fontaines, zabierana w podróż w przeszłość do świata nienaruszonego przez nowoczesność i postęp.Rzeczywistość, którą tu odkrywamy, jest prosta ...
Zosha Poznanska is an anonymous Jewish heroine of World War II. Born in Poland, she immigrated to Eretz Israel as a pioneer and for a brief time belonged to the group that founded Kibuttz Mishmar Ha'e...
Research Paper from the year 2010 in the subject History - World History - Early and Ancient History, printed single-sided, grade: 90, University of San Francisco, course: Roman History, language: Eng...
Opactwo Sankt Gallen a Polska. Materiały międzynarodowej konferencji zorganizowanej dnia 19 listopada 1999. Polscy, szwajcarscy i niemieccy autorzy omawiają rolę Sankt Gallen w tworzeniu cywilizacji ...
Wersja niemieckojęzyczna. Materiały z sesji naukowej zorganizowanej przez Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury w Krakowie w dniu 11 listopada 1999 r. Sesja towarzyszyła otwarciu ekspozycji "Kultura Opactwa ...
This volume discusses issues of particular importance on the intensive care unit. It focuses on current areas of debate and change, and is intended as an update for all intensive care workers and trai...
George Petterson, nommé directeur des travaux de construction de la voie ferrée, là-haut dans le grand nord canadien, n'a plus donné de nouvelles depuis des semaines. Sa femme est inquiète et Trent, ...
Jolie Gentil has sworn off butting into other people’s business. To those who know her, it sounds as far-fetched as finding used bubble gum on Mars. Her life revolves around her husband Scoobie, her ...
An ingenious thriller whose chills do not stem from conventional horror -- but time gone haywire. Whitey Dobbs, a local roughneck laughs while being buried alive on Hawkins Hill. He thinks this is jus...
The supernatural, the violent, and the utterly normal all become routine when Flip Lochner follows a woman with four breasts to South Africa's Devil's Valley, where he becomes involved with Lukas Deat...
Rose Alley is one of the city's worst slums - a place where hunger, filth and violence are a way of life. It's no place for proud Queenie Logan and her daughter Gillyflower. And it seems Queenie's dr...
Ayla leaves the safety of the Clan who raised her and sets out alone on an epic journey of discovery. A hostile land awaits her, and her need for human companionship and love remains unfulfilled.
A missing tourist is just the beginning. An American woman vanishes in New Zealand. There is no body, no witness and no explanation. But what looks like a sad, unfortunate case of foul play, slowly t...
At the close of the twentieth century, there were some 45,000 large dams worldwide, most built after 1945. This book shows how the enormous global investment in dams was spurred by much more than util...
Nausicaa, a young princess who has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu insects and animals of every creed. She fights to create tolerance, understanding and patience among empires that are fighting o...
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK: Tim Kemp had good news for his team. The former IBM executive was in charge of bioinformatics at Theranos, a startup with a cutting-edge blood-testing system. The comp...
John Hersey (1914-93) was a correspondent for Time and Life magazines when in 1942 he was sent to cover Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific. While there, Hersey obse...
Kashmir's Long War - One Family's Extraordinary Story Mohammed Dar and his three brothers were born in a boat on a lake in Kashmir, a place of exquisite beauty that was to become a war zone and nuclea...
An exciting adventure story that tells of a Peking-to-London auto race in 1939. However, most of the action takes place in the present, when Daniel Wynter receives a worn and stained letter from his f...
Dr. Lauren A. Wright and Bennie W. Troxel are internationally recognized experts on the geology of Death Valley, California. In November 2002, they celebrated 50 years of cooperative research together...
The California Tortoiseshell, West Coast Lady, Red Admiral, and Golden Oak Hairstreak are just a few of the many butterfly species found in the floristically rich San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Vall...