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The Bars of Iron – ebook
Ethel M. Dell
Avery Denys, the novels heroine, lost her husband and her blind daughter. But in response to these tragic events, Avery simply reflects that she was „left with nothing to do”, and finds a job that allows her to act out the mother role she now misses. A rock to her female friends, Avery is rational yet caring, but also submissive in the face of her eventual second husband’s violence towards her and...Data dostępności:
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Perkins of Portland – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. „Perkins of Portland „ are...Data dostępności:
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The Devil-Tree of El Dorado – ebook
Frank Aubrey
Frank Aubrey was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. The first and most successful of the three was „The Devil Tree of El Dorado: A Romance of British Guiana”, which capitalized on the contemporary interest in the Roraima Plateau lying athwart the disputed border...Data dostępności:
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Smithy – ebook
Edgar Wallace
A collection of 23 stories from every-day life in the British military, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. Edgar Wallace, who is also famous for his own stories of colonial life – the Sanders stories – was principally a writer of crime and detective fiction. However, he was well aware that the irrepressible spirit of Kipling’s famous rankers would live on, and he wrote his own...Data dostępności:
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Smithy, Nobby & Co. – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Between 1904 and 1918 Edgar Wallace wrote a large number of mostly humorous sketches about life in the British Army relating the escapades and adventures of privates Smith (Smithy), Nobby Clark, Spud Murphy and their comrades-in-arms. Set at a later-and, when first published, contemporary time, and on a different stage, this substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and...Data dostępności:
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The New Adam – ebook
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Edmund Hall, born a mutant with too many joints in his fingers and a double mind, tries to find a purpose in a society of humans. This superman is no caped crusader fighting for justice though. Rather, he is a dual-brained super-intellect with an IQ so far off the charts that normal human beings appear as Neanderthals next to him. In this story, our evolved human is born into modern society without...Data dostępności:
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Kultura koreańska od kuchni – ebook
Romuald Huszcza Anna Wojakowska-Kurowska
Teksty zawarte w tomie nawiązują do najdawniejszych dziejów koreańskiej kultury kulinarnej, symboliki ryżu i jego rytualizacji, roli herbaty oraz napojów alkoholowych w kulturze życia codziennego, obejmują też wątki biesiadne w poezji i przekazy na temat historycznej i współczesnej tradycji kulinarnej. ****** Korean Cuisine from the Inside – Rituals, Etiquette and Aesthetics The texts included...Data dostępności:
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The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, no 1/2017 – eprasa
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„The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs” jest anglojęzycznym kwartalnikiem Instytutu poruszającym i analizującym kwestie istotne dla Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej. Stanowi forum debat nad współczesnymi wydarzeniami międzynarodowymi. Każde wydanie zawiera zbiór autorskich artykułów poddanych ocenie peer review, a także recenzje specjalistycznych publikacji. The Polish Quarterly of International...Data dostępności:
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The Soul of a Bishop – ebook
Herbert George Wells
H.G. Wells is an English author best known as a sci-fi writer, though he is also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, but in this 1917 novel, H. G. Wells weaves a more intuitive tale, about a bishop haunted by strange dreams and visions that challenge his faith. Lyrical, poetic, and verging on stream-of-consciousness in places,...Data dostępności:
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The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, no 1/2016 – eprasa
Nodar Kharshiladze Igor Sutyagin Wojciech Lorenz Pavel K. Baev Maria Raquel Freire Bastian Giegerich George Targamadze Jakub Janda John Nomikos A.Th. Symeonides Habib M. Sayah Jiri Sedivy Vincenzo Camporini Jacek Durkalec Matthew Kroenig Maris Andzans Licinia Simao Mario Nicolini Michito Tsuruoka Anna Wieslander
„The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs” jest anglojęzycznym kwartalnikiem Instytutu poruszającym i analizującym kwestie istotne dla Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej. Stanowi forum debat nad współczesnymi wydarzeniami międzynarodowymi. Każde wydanie zawiera zbiór autorskich artykułów poddanych ocenie peer review, a także recenzje specjalistycznych publikacji. The Polish Quarterly of International...Data dostępności:
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