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The Second Deluge – ebook
Garrett P. Serviss
The protagonist is a rich scientist who predicts the onset of a new flood due to the passage of the Earth through a nebula. Instead of panic, people had laughter, because no one believed in his words. They thought he was crazy. While everyone was laughing, the mad scientist built the ark. The rains did not stop. The world is sinking, but will the main character survive?Data dostępności:
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – ebook
Mark Twain
A chance meeting in the Warwick Castle leads to an unusual acquaintance. An American who was born and raised in Connecticut shares his diary, which describes in detail his journey to England in the VI century. Darkness and horror, hunger and poverty – the main companions of the time. Wild laws, the incredible power of the church and the nobility, unlimited faith in words. Absolutely implausible, but...Data dostępności:
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The Gods of Bal-Sagoth – ebook
Robert E. Howard
...Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, two sailors find traces of a lost civilization – and memories of their own impossible part in it! ...The „last words” of an operatic tenor bring the music of hell to the man who destroyed him....Turlogh O’Brien, mighty Gaelic warrior who serves no master but gold and blood, battles for a kingdom against the fearful ancient gods of Bal-Sagoth. All together for...Data dostępności:
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Skin and Bones – ebook
Thorne Smith
Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel „Skin and Bones” takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself...Data dostępności:
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Studia semiologiczne – ebook
Jan Mukarovsky
Publikacja zawiera dwa teksty Jana Mukařovskiego w przekładzie bohemistki Anety Daszuty: „Sztuka jako fakt semiologiczny” (1934) i „Semiologia sztuki” (1936-1937). Oba dotyczą znakowego charakteru sztuki (w tym literatury jako sztuki słowa). Pokazują, jakie znaczenie w historii i rozwoju praskiej szkoły strukturalizmu miała reorientacja semiologiczna, która dokonała się w połowie lat trzydziestych...Data dostępności:
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The Mirror of Kong Ho – ebook
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction. A lively and amusing collection of letters sent from a highly bemused Chinaman sojourning amongst the English barbarians in the first decade of the 19th century to his revered father back home, with a view to coming to grips with their inferior culture, which...Data dostępności:
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A Brief Outline of the History of English – ebook
Jerzy Wełna
Publikacja stanowi zwięzły zarys historii języka angielskiego, z uwzględnieniem jego wariantów używanych na Wyspach Brytyjskich i poza nimi. Książka zawiera fragmenty dokumentów historycznych i literackich ilustrujących omawiane zagadnienia, wraz z tłumaczeniem trudniejszych wyrazów i fraz. Praca jest przeznaczona dla studentów anglistyki oraz szerokiego ogółu czytelników, zainteresowanych historią...Data dostępności:
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Customer engagement. Management practices in the consumer goods and services sector – ebook
Katarzyna Żyminkowska Joanna Wiechoczek Małgorzata Kieżel
Customer engagement is a customer’s voluntary contribution of resources to a firm’s marketing function, extending beyond financial patronage. In other words, it is a customer behavioural manifestation toward the brand or firm that goes beyond transactions and results from motivational drivers. Customer engagement in this book refers to the engagement of individual customers, that is, consumer...Data dostępności:
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The Voyage Out – ebook
Virginia Woolf
Rachel Vinrace sets out on a voyage from the confines of her home in England, where she is raised by her spinster aunts, to the exotic coast of South America in the early twentieth century. But more than just the physical journey from one shore to another, „The Voyage Out” is a story of the transformation of this essentially unworldly girl to a more self-possessed woman in love with the seemingly enlightened...Data dostępności:
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Al-Gahiz and his theory of social communication – ebook
Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska
Al-Ğāhiz, an Arabic scientist of the 9th century, belongs to the thinkers whose participation in and contribution to the development of the world science has not been recognized and appreciated. The great erudite and author of numerous works in various areas formulated, among others, the theory of social communication which may be compared to the late 20th century Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of...Data dostępności:
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