265,30 zł

Sicily - Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome Getty Trust Publications

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This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. In the late 8th Century B.C., emigres from the Greek mainland founded colonies along the shores of the region now known as Sicily. Over time, the area grew wealthy from its agricultural abundance, and colonial settlements emerged as formidable metropolises. Sicily is the only English-language book that focuses on the watershed period between 480 B.C. and the Roman conquest of Syracuse in 212 B.C. - a time of great social and political ferment. Essays investigate Sicily not simply as a destination for adventurers and settlers, but as a catalyst that shaped Greek culture at its peak and transmitted Hellenism to Rome. In the opulent courts of the Sicilian city-states, artists, poets, and scientist attained levels of ingenuity rivaling those of "old Greece." Innovation in architecture, engineering, philosophy and literature flourished in mixed cultural communities.

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42,60 zł

Warriors Super Edition: Tigerheart's Shadow HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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An epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter

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50,34 zł

Short History of Russia Ebury Publishing

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'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times'An amazing achievement' Peter FrankopanCan anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone's 'other'. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries. In this essential whistle-stop tour of the world's most complex nation, Mark Galeotti takes us behind the myths to the heart of the Russian story: from the formation of a nation to its early legends - including Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great - to the rise and fall of the Romanovs, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, Chernobyl and the end of the Soviet Union - plus the rise of a politician named Vladimir Putin, and the events leading to the Ukrainian war.

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177,27 zł

Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica OUP USA

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At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the world, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and lowland rainforests, to dry tropical evergreen and deciduous forests. Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica is a must-have reference guide for beginner and expert naturalists alike. It provides a thorough survey of more than 850 plant species, each entry accompanied by color photos and a concise yet detailed narrative description. Plants are conveniently grouped by the different types of vegetation: palms, tall trees, shrubs, woody vines, herbaceous vines, herbs, grasses and ferns. Along with 1400 color photographs, the guide also includes an illustrated glossary of plant parts, five maps of Costa Rica, and laminated covers for durability in the field. With so much readily accessible information, this book is essential for exploring Costa Rica's common and conspicuous flora from the plants growing along the roadside to the best natural parks.

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89,23 zł

Soulcraft New World Library

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For millennia, ceremonies and initiation rites have helped societies survive and thrive by marking life transitions. In contemporary America, except for bar mitzvahs, graduations, and weddings, these rituals are conspicuous by their absence. Written for people in search of their true selves -- particularly those on the verge of adulthood and those at a major crossroads such as divorce or career change -- Soulcraft restores the ritual to its rightful place as a crucial part of personal growth and self-empowerment. Exercises and insightful stories explain how to discover one's unique gift, or "soul purpose," to be shared with others through a ceremonial event. Drawing on ancient traditions, this vision quest serves as a modern rite of initiation that helps people find their life purpose.

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73,25 zł

My Tender Matador Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

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Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. My Tender Matador is an extraordinary novel of revolution and forbidden love, and a stirring portrait of Chile at an historical crossroads. By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel's lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the mind of Pinochet himself as the world of Carlos and the Queen prepares to collide with the dictator's own in a fantastic and unexpected way.

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144,70 zł

Birds of Costa Rica University of Texas Press

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At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts an astonishing array of plants and animals - over half a million species! Ecotourists, birders, and biologists come from around the world, drawn by the likelihood of seeing more than three or four hundred species of birds and other animals during even a short stay. To help all of these visitors, as well as local residents, identify and enjoy the wildlife of Costa Rica, Carrol Henderson published "Field Guide to the Wildlife of Costa Rica" in 2002, and it became the instant and indispensable guide. Now Henderson has created a dedicated field guide to the birds that travellers are most likely to see, as well as to the unique or endemic species that are of high interest to birders. "Birds of Costa Rica" covers 310 birds - an increase of 124 species from the earlier volume - with fascinating accounts of the birds' natural history, identification, and behaviour gleaned from Henderson's forty years of travelling and birding in Costa Rica. All of the accounts include beautiful photographs of the birds, most of which were taken in the wild by Henderson.There are new updated distribution maps and a detailed appendix that identifies many of the country's best bird-watching locations and lodges, including contact information for trip planning purposes.

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1269,26 zł

Cambridge History of Turkey Cambridge University Press

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This volume examines the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia from the arrival of the first Turks at the end of the eleventh century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Taking the period as a whole, the volume covers the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural history of the region as the Byzantine empire crumbled and Anatolia passed into Turkish control to become the heartland of the Ottoman empire. In this way, the authors emphasise the continuities of the era rather than its dislocations, situating Anatolia within its geographic context at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The world which emerges is one of military encounter, but also of cultural cohabitation, intellectual and diplomatic exchange, and political finesse. This is a state-of-the-art work of reference on an understudied period in Turkish history by some of the leading scholars in the field.

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21,00 zł

GŁAZ GOREJĄCY KORONA GWIAZD T.3 Kate Elliott Zysk

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GŁAZ GOREJĄCY KORONA GWIAZD T.3 Kate Elliott Nadchodzi krytyczny moment dla rozdartych wojną królestw Wendaru i Varre. Ludzie, uważający Liath za swoją, proponują jej i Sanglantowi schronienie oraz możliwość poznania starożytnych sztuk. Tych dwoje, których miłość uczyniła wyrzutkami, uciekło z obozu króla Henryka tylko po to, by się przekonać, iż nigdzie nie ma dla nich naprawdę bezpiecznego miejsca. Ich uczucie i życie znajdują się w niebezpieczeństwie, odkąd pod presją wymogów polityki, rodziny i zakazanej wiedzy stanęli wobec konieczności wyboru ścieżki, którą będą podążać. Obdarzona od urodzenia, znajdującą się poza kontrolą i zrozumieniem, niebezpieczną mocą, Liath rozdarta jest pomiędzy miłością do Sanglanta i dziecka, którego się spodziewają, a wołaniem magii mogącej otworzyć drogę do królestwa Aoi, Zaginionych. Podczas gdy Liath zmaga się z kuszącym zaklęciem magii, wywodząca się z Aoi matka Sanglanta powraca na ten świat, by odszukać syna, którego porzuciła, kiedy był niemowlęciem... Kate Elliott (pseudonim literacki Alis A. Rasmussen) opublikowała swoje pierwsze opowiadanie w wydawnictwie DAW Books w 1992 roku. Epicki cykl fantasy Korona Gwiazd, którego akcja toczy się w alternatywnej Europie, przyniósł jej nominację do Nebula Award w 1998 roku. Na cykl składają się powieści: Królewski Smok, Książę psów, Głaz gorejący, Dziecko płomienia, The Gathering Storm, In the Ruins, The Crown of Stars. W swoim pisarskim dorobku Kate Elliott ma także cykle fantasy i science fiction: The Spiritwalker Trilogy, Crossroads, The Novels of the Jaran. Napisana wspólnie z Melanie Rawn i Jennifer Roberson bestsellerowa powieść fantasy Golden Key znalazła się w ścisłym finale World Fantasy Award w roku 1997. Autorka wraz ze swym mężem Jayem Silvesteinem, archeologiem i antropologiem, oraz trójką dzieci mieszka na Hawajach. Dane techniczne: Autor: Kate Elliott,, Oprawa miękka, Rok wydania: 2014, Stron: 856 wymiary(mm): 145x205,

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61,09 zł

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Profile Books

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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and stoked divisions.Tech companies gather our information online and sell it to the highest bidder, whether government or retailer. Profits now depend not only on predicting our behaviour but modifying it too. How will this fusion of capitalism and the digital shape our values and define our future?Shoshana Zuboff shows that we are at a crossroads.We still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in, and what we decide now will shape the rest of the century. Our choices: allow technology to enrich the few and impoverish the many, or harness it and distribute its benefits. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight.As it explores this new capitalism's impact on society, politics, business, and technology, it exposes the struggles that will decide both the next chapter of capitalism and the meaning of information civilization. Most critically, it shows how we can protect ourselves and our communities and ensure we are the masters of the digital rather than its slaves.

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230,03 zł

Pentecostalism - Origins and Developments Worldwide Baker Publishing Group

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One of the premier interpreters of Pentecostalism, Walter J. Hollenweger has written what is in many ways a sequel to his magisterial The Pentecostals (1972). This volume assesses the origins of perhaps the fastest-growing religious phenomenon in this century in light of its current development. Hollenweger contends Pentecostalism is at a critical crossroads in its evolution. Focusing on the theological stories of the Pentecostal movement within the contexts of its "Black Oral Root," "Catholic Root," "Evangelical Root," "Critical Root," and "Ecumenical Root," Hollenweger calls our attention to the significance of this movement for religion, politics, and, indeed the future of the world.

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288,42 zł

Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire Cambridge University Press

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The Ottoman empire stood at the crossroads of intercontinental trade at the dawn of the era of capitalism. This volume examines the monetary history of that empire from its beginnings in the fourteenth century to the end of the first world war. Through a detailed examination of the currencies and related institutions of an empire which stretched from the Balkans through Anatolia, Syria, Egypt and the Gulf to the Maghrib, the book demonstrates the complexity of the monetary arrangements and their evolution in response to both local developments and global economic forces. The volume also affords some valuable insights into social and political history and the evolution of Ottoman institutions. This is an important book by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field.

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56,31 zł

Girl Gone Greek Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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Rachel is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore her sister's derision, society's silent wagging finger and her father's advancing years. She's travelled the world, but now finds herself at a crossroads at an age where most people would stop globetrot

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167,93 zł

Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy Brookings Institution

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The multilateral trading system stands at a crossroads. Despite its widely acknowledged contribution to global prosperity over the past half century, the movement toward further liberalization has increasingly been challenged. These essays by leading scholars and trade officials honor Raymond Vernon, one of the architects of the international economic institutions established following the Second World War. The book examines several key issues at the heart of the debate over the multilateral trading system. What are the global efficiency gains from further liberalization? How can efficiency gains be maximized while respecting legitimate claims to sovereignty? Is the trading system affording an equitable distribution of benefits between countries and among various groups within societies? Does civil society have a role in the trading system? What role should the World Trade Organization and its dispute settlement procedures play in resolving disputes and enhancing legitimacy?

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44,01 zł

Allegiance of Honor Penguin Publishing Group

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The "unparalleled romantic adventure" of Nalini Singh's New York Times bestselling series continues as a new dawn begins for the Psy-Changeling world...A staggering transformation has put the Psy, humans, and changelings at a crossroads. The Trinity Accord promises a new era of cooperation between disparate races and groups. It is a beacon of hope held together by many hands: old enemies, new allies, wary loners.But a century of distrust and suspicion can't be so easily forgotten, and it threatens to shatter Trinity from within at any moment. As rival members vie for dominance, chaos and evil gather in the shadows and a kidnapped woman's cry for help washes up in San Francisco, while the Consortium turns its murderous gaze toward a child who is the embodiment of change, of love, of piercing hope: a child who is both Psy...and changeling.To find the lost and protect the vulnerable-and to save Trinity-no one can stand alone. This is a time of loyalty across divisions, of bonds woven into the heart and the soul, of heroes known and unknown standing back to back and holding the line. But is an allegiance of honor even possible with traitors lurking in their midst? Publishers Weekly on Shards of Hope

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