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Points West – ebook
B.M. Bower
B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance – often with surprise endings. They are historical reminiscences of pioneers among the sage and bush, clearing the way for a new America. She wrote about working cowboys usually on western ranches, with the occasional visit of an eastern types. Her books were known for their factual attention to detail...Data dostępności:
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The Plunder Pit – ebook
T.C. Bridges
„Short and stout as he was, Pip could handle a boat with any man, and the speed with which he got the sail up and tied down the reef points was worth watching. As he finished, the great arch of cloud swept over the sun, wiping, out its bright light. Then with a roar the wind was on them”.Data dostępności:
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My Strangest Case – ebook
Guy Boothby
A novel about a trio that robs some jewels, one of them escapes with them. This is followed by a whirlwind trip in Europe and Asia in pursuit of blood feud. Writing and plot points (despite the fact that they are more than a hundred years old) don’t feel obsolete.Data dostępności:
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Jacques – ebook
George Sand
Le protagoniste du roman „"Jacques"” – l’incarnation des idéaux moraux élevés de l’auteur. Personne ayant une expérience de vie difficile et un cœur sensible, facilement guéri, plein de gentillesse et d’ardent soif d’amour, il se distingue par son humanité et sa noblesse des points de vue, son sens du devoir et son sens de la responsabilité personnelle à l’égard du bonheur de ses proches.Data dostępności:
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Ethics In Public Life – ebook
Ryszard Moń
Publikacja dotyczy problematyki etyki w życiu publicznym. Praca w całości w jęz. angielskim. The publication as a whole represents a valuable scientific contribution, in many points touching upon issues of great importance for moral philosophy, opening new fields in the debate concerning ethics and its role in modern society.Data dostępności:
A Changed Man and Other Tales – ebook
Thomas Hardy
The stories that make up The Changed Man were written at different points in Hardy’s life, but this collection was not published until 1913. Hardy wrote really excellent short stories – many of his stories had the scope and complexity of a full-length novel. This collection of twelve stories; Tales of soldiers, shepherds, milkmaids and dukes often contain some elements of the creepy or supernatural...Data dostępności:
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L’Assommoir – ebook
Émile Zola
L’Assommoir – le roman le plus important de l’écrivain. C’est ici, dans cette création unique et brutale, qu’Emil Zola a le mieux illustré tous ses points de vue sur la littérature. Il n’allait pas se sentir désolé pour ses héros, pour décrire leur vie quotidienne sans fin dans la richesse et le luxe. A l’inverse, l’écrivain a cherché a montrer a travers des personnages fictifs a quel point des besoins...Data dostępności:
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The Republic – ebook
Plato was the first Western philosopher to apply philosophy to politics. His ideas on, for example, the nature and value of justice, and the relationship between justice and politics, have been extraordinarily influential. „The Republic” of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the „Laws”, and is certainly the greatest of them. Presented as a series of dialogue between Socrates and...Data dostępności:
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Jerry Todd, Caveman – ebook
Leo Edwards
Red Meyers and Rory Ringer, both members of the famous gang of Jerry Todd. They disappeared into the wilds of Oak Island to create a kingdom of cavemen, taking with them a parrot and a donkey, a goat, a monkey, a cat, eleven pigs, six pies. While Jerry gets there, the king on the throne built himself a royal chariot, pottery, created a new language. A royal reception, a banquet, a moon cat hunt, a...Data dostępności:
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Out of the Blue – ebook
H.C. McNeile
The motive in the case of murder – this is the first thing that draws the attention of the police. No one except a madman commits murder for no reason. Passion, hatred, money – as soon as the motive is established, it, as a rule, unmistakably points to someone. That is why Pender took the club with Sinclair’s arm and walked with him part of the way to his house on Brook Street. A very normal phenomenon...Data dostępności:
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Three Thousand Dollars – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
This short story revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the confines of Mr. Stoughton’s business concern. Mr. Stoughton is the owner of a legendary vault that no one has ever been able to open. Though he can’t be sure that the safe contains anything valuable, speculation is rampant among those who know of its existence. Will anyone ever be able...Data dostępności:
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Lost Man’s Lane – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York aged detective inspector Mr. Gryce calls on the skills of Miss Amelia Butterworth to help him solve this most puzzling crime. In „Lost Man’s Lane” the author Anna Katharine Green shows that she has lost none of her cunning in inventing an intricate and absorbing plot, and in unfolding it carefully...Data dostępności:
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The Light Beyond – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
In this remarkable 1927 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a great conference has been called in London to renegotiate the war debt. It is clear that Germany is suffering, and all of Europe is affected. The great Financier Felix Dukane is in London with his beautiful daughter Estelle. It is rumored that he stands ready to loan Germany One Billion Pounds if the conference is able to limit the total debt....Data dostępności:
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Mr. Justice Maxell – ebook
Edgar Wallace
„Mr. Justice Maxell” follows the story of two business partners, Maxell and Cartwright, one of whom becomes a judge and sentences the other to prison, the woman they both marry, and their respective cousins whom they take on as their own wards. Spanning roughly a decade, the plot hinges on multiple coincidences involving mutual acquaintances meeting one another at critical points on different continents,...Data dostępności:
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Captains of Souls – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Ambrose Sault finds a quasi-scientific way to insert his soul into another man’s body before he is hanged for murder. The murder of Moropulos by Sault is a mystery in motive and deed. Twice a murderer, Sault is nevertheless a commanding figure and an appealing character. He is the center of a tragedy... The novel is long and breezy and a bit confusing, a comedy of manners at some points, a melodrama...Data dostępności:
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Champion of Lost Causes – ebook
Max Brand
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels. Our adventuring hero has just partaken of a poker game where he has seen a man lose heavily. Intrigued, and possessing an adventurous nature, our hero, Loring, is compelled to follow the man. This leads him to...Data dostępności:
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The Emergence of Normative Orders – ebook
Key points addresses philosophical and scientific issues connected with the origins of morality, rationality, justice and other normative orders brings together contributions by philosophers and psychologists Description A collection of essays assessing the origins of various rule-based systems including, but not limited to, morality, rationality and justice from the perspectives of both philosophy...Data dostępności:
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Annales Mathematicae Silesianae. T. 24 (2010) – ebook
Na kolejny tom złożyły się artykuły prezentujące nowe, interesujące wyniki z różnych dziedzin matematyki, a także sprawozdanie z konferencji. W publikacji zamieszczono następujące prace: Stability of the Pexider functional equation ; Orderings of higher level in multifields and multirings ; On invertible preservers of singularity and nonsingularity of matrices over a field ; The invariant straight...Data dostępności:
Śruti czyli staroindyjskie Słowo Usłyszane o dziełach stwórczego Rozumu – ebook
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Książka Marii Krzysztofa Byrskiego – wybitnego znawcy Indii, byłego ambasadora RP w tym kraju, wieloletniego wykładowcy Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz Uniwersytetu im. Jawaharlala Nehru w Delhi – przedstawia tłumaczenie i autorską interpretację wybranych hymnów Rygwedy, najstarszego zabytku hinduizmu. Wskazuje na nieoczywiste zbieżności między myślą hinduistyczną a chrześcijańską i odświeżający potencjał,...Data dostępności:
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Transfer w myśli społecznej – ebook
Mustafa Switat
Książka dotyczy transferu kulturowego i transferu między kulturami badanych z perspektywy nauk społecznych i humanistycznych. Wykorzystując nowatorskie podejście unidyscyplinarne, autor podejmuje próbę analizy i stworzenia ram teoretycznych zjawiska transferu miedzy odmiennymi kulturami w historii myśli społecznej. Wskazuje na upolitycznienie relacji między kulturą (cywilizacją) i społeczeństwem. Studium...Data dostępności:
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