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King Alfred of England – ebook
Jacob Abbott
It’s a brief review of the life of King Alfred, but with very detailed events. A truly moving account of one of England’s greatest heroes. The author, in turn, was again able to passionately convey those events, that atmosphere of that time. Explains why he has been named and considered so „"great."” Alfred really deserved the title.Data dostępności:
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The Road to Wigan Pier – ebook
George Orwell
In the 1930s, George Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Orwell went further than just studying unemployment – not wanting to watch from the outside, he learned what it is: to be a miner, live in slums, eat poorly and do backbreaking work in the mines. Everything he saw and wrote down helped him to clarify his feelings...Data dostępności:
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Earthlings – ebook
Shirman Stoone
This is one of the most important books of the XXI century. It should be included in your book collection. What does it contain that is so out of the ordinary? It is a code and a key to immortality. Answers to the most important questions and eternal dilemmas: Why do I live? What is the purpose of my life? How did this happen that I am alive? Who is the one that made it possible for me to be alive?...Data dostępności:
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Dlaczego jesteśmy ateistami – ebook
Russel Blackford Udo Schuklenk
Dlaczego jesteśmy ateistami to wyjątkowy, prowokujący do przemyśleń zbiór esejów, które łączy temat osobistej niewiary w siłę wyższą. Ich autorzy, starannie wybrani spośród wysokiej klasy wykładowców akademickich, naukowców, pisarzy, przedstawicieli mediów i polityki, w przemyślany i uporządkowany sposób opisują powody, dla których odrzucają ideę bóstwa panującego nad światem i ludźmi. Kilka esejów...Data dostępności:
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Albert Savarus – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
Wonderful tale set in the provincial town of Besançon, and focusing on the de Watteville family – the fiercely religious and independently wealthy wife, the ineffectual husband, who absents himself, spending his days working his lathe and 19-year-old daughter, Rosalie. She falls in love with the mysterious stranger who took up residence a few yards away from her family’s home. Through her maid, herself...Data dostępności:
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A House to Let – ebook
Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Elizabeth Gaskell Adelaide Ann Procter
„A House to Let” is a novella originally published in 1858 by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens, making it fit together seamlessly as a whole. This novella is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue...Data dostępności:
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The Country Doctor – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„The Country Doctor” („Le Médecin de Campagne”), by Honoré de Balzac, belongs to the series known as „Scenes from Country Life”; a part of his great cycle of fiction, „The Comedy of Human Life”. It is one of Balzac’s noblest pieces of fiction, presenting beautiful traits of human nature with sympathy and power. The scene is laid in a village near Grenoble in France, and the story begins with the year...Data dostępności:
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Green Project Funding – ebook
Hanna Godlewska Majkowska Katarzyna Sobiech Grabka Paweł Nowakowski
Do venture capitalists, headliners of today’s financial news, really play the leading role in financing green start-ups? Why is every source of capital not equally welcomed by entrepreneurs? What are the advantages of EU funds applied to eco-innovative investments? What makes the difference between green and traditional investments? Does location matter? What is psychic income? The authors of the...Data dostępności:
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New Paradigm of the Social Housing Finance. Case Study of Poland – ebook
Anna Szelągowska
Social housing plays a crucial role in the development of housing market as well as housing exclusion. Contemporary, it is not only financed by the state, but also includes new forms of publicly supported and non-market housing, such as cooperatives, rent-geared-to-income, limited-dividend and non-profit housing provided by social agencies, community groups, non-profit private firms and political organisations...Data dostępności:
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Zmierzch Wschodu. Jak Chiny stały się potęgą i czy grozi im upadek – ebook
Yasheng Huang
W jaki sposób Chiny zbudowały i od wieków utrzymują swoją potęgę oraz dlaczego teraz grozi im upadek i porażka w wyścigu z Zachodem. Chińskie społeczeństwo od czasów starożytnych jest kształtowane przez model EAST (egzaminy, autokrację, stabilność i technikę). Od funkcjonującego od 587 roku egzaminu do służby cywilnej, znanego jako keju, po system zarządzania kadrami Komunistycznej Partii Chin (KPCh)...Data dostępności:
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