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For The Defence – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Dr. Thorndyke is the CSI of his day. Most of the book is taken up with the account of how an innocent man gets himself thoroughly entangled in what looks like the certainty that he will be hanged, either for the death of a man he saw only once, or amazingly, for his own death! But, of course, Dr. Thorndyke is able to extricate him from this awful situation and triumph yet again. This is the amazing...Data dostępności:
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New Models of Urban Entrepreneurship. Context for Development – ebook
Marcin Wojtysiak Kotlarski Ewelina Szczech Pietkiewicz Katarzyna Negacz
Are you already interested in eco-economy, which is one of the most widely discussed terms in contemporary economics? Would you like to have a deeper understanding regarding challenges of combining public and private interest in urban contexts? Are you aware of importance of mechanisms on national or community levels aimed at supporting urban entrepreneurship? Have you heard of the green city concept? Do...Data dostępności:
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The Spy – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
Inspired by accusations of venality leveled at the men who captured Major Andre (Benedict Arnold’s co-conspirator, executed for espionage in 1780), Cooper’s novel centers on Harry Birch, a common man wrongly suspected by well-born Patriots of being a spy for the British. Even George Washington, who supports Birch, misreads the man, and when Washington offers him payment for information vital to the...Data dostępności:
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Green Urban Regeneration Projects – ebook
Marek Bryx Jacek Lipiec Izabela Rudzka
The terms „eco" or "green" have become vastly used worldwide. Both of them are often treated as buzzwords. However, they are significant buzzwords. The ecological orientation is perceived as the overriding goal of advanced economies to alleviate negative climate changes, but not only. Each city is changing, even if climate changes do not have a direct impact on this yet. By changing the city strives...Data dostępności:
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The Three Hostages – ebook
John Buchan
The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant, asking him to help track down three missing persons, taken so that the villain can, as well as furthering his craze for crime and stopping his activities being investigated, obtain complete mental control...Data dostępności:
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The Eyes of Max Carrados – ebook
Ernest Bramah
Short mysteries involving the blind detective Carrados. Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind – and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight. „The Eyes of Max Carrados” opens with a somewhat defensive essay which chronicles astonishing feats of the blind. Carrados himself outdoes...Data dostępności:
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The Uttermost Farthing – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet of a robber in his home, he vows to catch the man. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy savant, and he saved the fingerprints of the robber as well as some of the robber’s strange hair which Challoner’s wife had in her hand. For twenty years Humphrey hunts for...Data dostępności:
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Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This is a delightful Thorndyke mystery full of suspicious happenings, like the ugly human head found in a box checked at a railway station cloakroom. Other peculiar things are afoot too. A rich American gentleman has come to London to make a claim for an earldom, based on some far-fetched „evidence.” His lawyers seem particularly unsavory. And there’s been a daring robbery of precious platinum, with...Data dostępności:
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The Golden Pool – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This novel begins with Robert Englefield, a young Englishman, taking on a job with a vessel sailing for northern Africa. Once there, Englefield is placed in the position of running the store through which the captain sells and trades his goods. As Englefield spends more and more time at this outpost on the African coast, he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests...Data dostępności:
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Beyond The City – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
„Beyond the City” explores the relationships between the residents of three adjoining homes. The cast of characters includes a widowed doctor with two daughters, a retired admiral with a wife and son, and a feminist living with her nephew. Destiny brings these three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural...Data dostępności:
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