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The Shields of the Empire: Eastern Roman Military Elites during the Reigns of the Emperors Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I – ebook
Łukasz Pigoński
When the emperor Valentinian III murdered the general Flavius Aetius, it has been observed that he had ‘cut his right hand with his left’, and the story of the fall of the ‘last Roman’ has been put in the greater context of the subsequent dissolution of the Roman Empire in the West. However, a similar deed committed by the emperor Leo in the East in 471, when he ordered the killing of the general Aspar,...Data dostępności:
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The Dark Forest – ebook
Hugh Walpole
In the first novel, which takes place in Galicia during the retreat of the Russian army in 1915, the narrator tells of a tragedy that unfolds inside a triangle: John Trenchad – Maria – Semenov. The theme of spiritual love in the novel is promoted by the motive of white nights. It was during this period (on white nights) that John Trenchad met Mary.Data dostępności:
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Smoke Bellew – ebook
Jack London
“Smoke Bellew” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Smoke Bellew Jack London's adventure novel, set in Alaska, during the "gold rush". The title character, Christopher Bellew, is a young man from a good home, educated, resident of a big city, working in the editorial office...Data dostępności:
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Michael – ebook
E.F. Benson
There has never been a city that would be so inimitable. Most trains, too, completely ignore its existence and pass through it on the way to more useful stops. The story was supposed to strengthen many people during the First World War. The book is full of sentimentalism, but it describes well the different scenes of everyday life.Data dostępności:
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Joshua’s Vision – ebook
William J. Locke
During the war, Joshua Fendik became rich against his will and found for himself an entrance to social circles, completely new to him. In particular, he falls under the influence of Robins Dale, a sculptor who supports a useless husband abroad. Robins „mothers” Joshua and prompts him to try his hand with a chisel.Data dostępności:
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Mathematical Transgressions 2015 – ebook
Basia Pieronkiewicz Piotr Błaszczyk
During the last decades of the 20th century, we have entered the Digital Era. The Third Technological Revolution has an enormous socioeconomic impact. It affects modern science, including mathematics. It also determines the reforms of national education systems. Mathematicians seek to focus on the so-called concrete mathematics. They explore finite and discrete structures, rather than infinite and...Data dostępności:
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The Lifted Veil – ebook
George Eliot
During a period of illness, Latimer first discovers he is able to read other peoples’ minds and see visions of the future. Rather than being a gift, this strange phenomenon increasingly becomes a curse. But the one thing that keeps him going is his love for Bertha. But everything changes when Latimer finally does gain sporadic insight into Bertha’s mind... and finds her thoughts are much more sinister...Data dostępności:
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The Provincial Lady in Wartime – ebook
E.M. Delafield
This is the fourth and last of autobiographical novel series by English author E. M. Delafield (1890-1943). It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman in the 1930s. The story of a volunteer in a woman’s underground canteen service in England during the World War 2 who must cope with gas masks, evacuated relatives etc.Data dostępności:
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Felix Holt, the Radical – ebook
George Eliot
Set during the time of the Reform Act of 1832, the story centers on an election contested by Harold Transome, a local landowner, in the „Radical cause”, contrary to his family’s Tory traditions. Contrasting with the opportunism of Transome is the sincere, but opinionated, Radical Felix Holt. Against this background, the author George Eliot tells a love story and weaves a plot which has many elements...Data dostępności:
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Augustus Does His Bit – ebook
George Bernard Shaw
“Augustus Does His Bit” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Augustus Does His Bit” is a comic one-act play by George Bernard Shaw about a dim-witted aristocrat who is outwitted by a female spy during World War I.Data dostępności:
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