Reducere. The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the b...
university of pittsburgh press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. In 12 April 1937 Frank Whittle became the first person to successfully start and run a turbojet engine. In May 1941 the engine took to the air in a...
datum publishing ltd, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. "As soon as she heard me enter, Elvia awoke from a light sleep that had overcome her as she anxiously waited: 'How did it go?' Excited, I exclaimed...
waterside productions, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. So...
w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...
publicaffairs, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science, science: general issues
Reducere. We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the ...
basic books (az), carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to...
Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the mode...
cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, law, jurisprudence & general issues
Reducere. This gorgeous and empowering picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Evan Turk paints the portrait of Marietta Barovier, the groundbreak...
atheneum books for young readers, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard s ``The Inv...
Reducere. From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood This debut work by...
Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult ...
picador usa, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. 2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in th...
scholastic press, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah ...
sue monk kidd, beletristica, beletristica limbi straine
Reducere. THE BRA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD... The 1970s saw women coming into their own, working hard to create new roles at home and in sports, culture, polit...
Reducere. "... the author's narrative is as much an inspiring business memoir as it isan absorbing chronicle of a surprisingly significant piece of sports cl...
Reducere. Caldecott Honor artist Brian Selznick's lavishly illustrated debut novel is a cinematic tour de force not to be missed! ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND T...
copii si adolescenti, fictiune young adult si copii, aventuri, romane politiste
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael RiordanAuthor: Lillian HoddesonOn December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laborator...
w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science, science: general issues
Reducere. For nearly thirty years, a scientific revolution has taken place in the religious studies departments of several North American and British univers...
equinox publishing (indonesia), carti, carte straina, society & social sciences