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| Autor: |
O. Ahmad |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
132 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
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978-0-14-306313-1 |
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While Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Abdali plunders 18th century Delhi, a wandering storyteller fleeing the carnage happens across an isolated casbah a day's ride from the city. When the beautiful and lonely lady of the manor invites him to stay and share a story, his grief at the destruction of his glorious city spills forth in a story of two brothers, Taka and Wara - wolf and boy - a tale of love and loyalty, hurt and distrust. The storyteller is...
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| Autor: |
A. Bernstein |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
264 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-14-302652-5 |
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In Defence of Business in Developing Economies is a view from developing countries on why corporations should stop appeasing their critics and promote the benefits of capitalism for the Global South. Ann Bernstein's inspiration for this book came in 1997 when South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission held a week of hearings focused on business and its role during apartheid. In the same week, Nelson Mandela implicitly challenged many of...
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| Autor: |
S. Blake |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
336 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-670-91868-3 |
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Letters of love, telegrams of loss - the postmistress awaits them all The wireless crackles with news of blitzed-out London and of the Second World War which is coursing through Europe, leaving destruction in its wake. Listening intently on the other side of the Atlantic, newly-wed Emma considers the fragility of her peaceful married life as America edges closer to the brink of war. As the reporter's distant voice fills the room, she sits...
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| Autor: |
L. Polman |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
224 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-670-91896-6 |
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From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this brilliantly written and at times blackly funny work of reportage shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the world over are locked in a cycle of mutual support. Drawing on her decades of first-hand experience, Linda Polman's gripping narrative introduces us to the key players in this twisted game, to the aid-workers and the warlords themselves. Among many others,...
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| Autor: |
Gilbert Elizabeth |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
286 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
9780670021680 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
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15.0x23.0cm |
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The eagerly awaited sequel to the astonishing international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love.
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| Autor: |
R. Freeman |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
384 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-670-91795-2 |
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She loved fine things and she had no doubt that she deserved them. Since her days in the orphanage, Latha has been a companion and servant to Thara, a more fortunate girl her own age. But since her trip to the hill-country when she caught her first glimpse of a rose, Latha has known she was destined for a better life. For now, she must watch silently as Thara receives all the luxuries Latha is denied, consoled only by the rose-scented soap...
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| Autor: |
A. Gregory |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
240 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
978-1-920989-61-3 |
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In 1953 Alfred Gregory was chief photographer fo the triumphant British team that took Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the summit of Everest. There he took spectacular photographs that record not only the human struggle to conquer the Himalaya but also the once-pristine beauty of the world's highest mountain. In the years that followed, Alfred Gregory travelled the world, leading mountaineering expeditions and recording cultures and...
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| Autor: |
B. Vine |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
273 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-670-91762-4 |
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It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham - an ardent womaniser and ambitious politician. On the eve of her twenty-eighth...
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| Autor: |
Grimes Martha |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
414 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
9780670018697 |
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16.0x24.0cm |
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Bestseller Grimes's compelling second novel to feature the enigmatic young woman who calls herself Andi Oliver (after 1999's Biting the Moon) begins with Andi, who's still unaware of her real name or her past, adrift in the Dakota badlands. After rescuing an abandoned donkey, Andi makes a temporary home for herself in the small town of Kingdom, where she soon creates a stir by standing up to some local bullies. She really begins to shake things...
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| Autor: |
M. Lewycka |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Liczba stron: |
320 |
| Data wydania: |
2007 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-670-91638-2 |
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A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket and who picks our strawberries? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; Emanuel, the round-eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi. And...
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The first biography to focus on Pope John Paul II's controversial reactions to recent crises in the Church and the global arena. In a bold and highly original work, The Pope in Winter brings John Paul's complex character into sharp focus. A veteran observer of the Vatican, Cornwell combines eyewitness reporting with impeccable sources. Respectful of John Paul's prodigious spirit and battles for human rights, Cornwell raises questions about a...
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| Autor: |
Gates |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Data wydania: |
1995 |
| ISBN: |
0-670-77289-5 |
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In this book Bill Gates--who built Microsoft into one of the most successful companies in the world--provides his vision of what the future holds. He shows how, just as the personal computer revolutionized the way we work, the emerging technologies of the digital age will transform forever the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with one another.
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It was pure Namath -- outrageous, almost arrogantly confident, blasphemous to old sports hands, a great big nose-thumbing to the establishment. When Joe Namath vowed that the New York Jets, representing the perennially hapless AFL, would beat the NFL's great Baltimore Colts, he was dismissed as a kid quarterback with too much money and not enough humility. After all, the Jets were 18-point underdogs in 1969's upcoming 'Third World Championship...
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| Autor: |
M. Crimes |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Viking |
| Data wydania: |
2004 |
| ISBN: |
0-670-03327-8 |
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As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the backon a shabby London street, Superintendent Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life. His colleague DI Johnny Blakeley, head of the pedophile unit of NSY, thinks he knows where this child came from -- an iniquitous house on that same street, owned by well-known financier Viktor Baumann and fronted by a woman named Murchison....
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Ciąża to wspaniały okres dla przyszłej mamy oraz jej otoczenia. Wyczekiwanie na badanie USG, pierwsze ruchy dziecka, obserwacja rosnącego brzuszka. Oprócz wielkich oczekiwań i radości, ciąża jest również czasem ogromnych zmian w sposobie odżywiania i stylu życia. Przyszła mama musi pamiętać o terminach wizyt u lekarza oraz wykonywać badania w określonym czasie.
Coraz częściej mówi się o stosowania kar wobec dzieci. Rodzice, nauczyciele i opiekunowie muszą sobie zdawać sprawę z konsekwencji jakie niesie za sobą stosowanie przemocy wobec najmłodszych.
To malowanki sprawiają, że najmłodsi lepiej się uczą, łatwiej i szybciej przyswajają materiał edukacyjny, wykazują się większą inteligencją, są bardziej kreatywne w rozwiązywaniu zadań i problemów, mają większe zaufanie do swoich możliwości.