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Związek Dziewanny i Dobromira zakończył się tragicznie. Ukąszona przez jadowitą żmiję młoda żona i matka przed śmiercią łączy dłonie Rzepki i swego męża, wyrażając pragnienie, by się pobrali i zostali rodzicami małego Radosława. W niedługim czasie Rzepka rodzi bliźnięta – Milenę i Ludomira – które wychowują się razem z synem Dziewanny. Mijają lata i dzieci dorastają. Każde poznaje miłość i musi wybrać własną drogę, na której szczęście przeplata się z bólem, radość ze smutkiem, a nadzieja z...
| Автор | Monika Rzepiela |
Najnowsza powieść autora bestsellera „Czerń i purpura”! Szpiedzy, wielka historia, a zarazem uniwersalna opowieść o miłości, która nie miała prawa zaistnieć… Warszawa, rok 1936. Młody dyplomata, hrabia Antoni Mokrzycki, wyjeżdża na zlecenie wywiadu do pogrążonej w kryzysie Hiszpanii. Mokrzycki zostawia w Polsce narzeczoną „z rozsądku” i kochankę, która jako jedyna zna jego sekret. Kiedy w czasie hiszpańskiej misji na drodze dyplomaty pojawia się Teo, młody anarchista a zarazem uczeń szkoły...
| Автор | Wojciech Dutka |
Związek Dziewanny i Dobromira zakończył się tragicznie. Ukąszona przez jadowitą żmiję młoda żona i matka przed śmiercią łączy dłonie Rzepki i swego męża, wyrażając pragnienie, by się pobrali i zostali rodzicami małego Radosława. W niedługim czasie Rzepka rodzi bliźnięta – Milenę i Ludomira – które wychowują się razem z synem Dziewanny. Mijają lata i dzieci dorastają. Każde poznaje miłość i musi wybrać własną drogę, na której szczęście przeplata się z bólem, radość ze smutkiem, a nadzieja z...
| Автор | Monika Rzepiela |
Rok 966. W osadzie Polana wciąż żyje się według pradawnych pogańskich zwyczajów. Matka puszcza karmi, odziewa i chroni ludzi. Dni oraz pory roku naznaczają ich dolę odwiecznym rytmem pracy i odpoczynku, a bogowie czuwają. Dwie siostry – Rzepka i Dziewanna – zakochują się w Dobromirze, mężnym woju z książęcej drużyny. Jedna z nich zwraca się po pomoc do szeptuchy, ale czy ziołami i magią można zdobyć miłość? Mieszkańcy pogańskiej kniei wiodą proste życie, lecz okrutny los o nich nie zapomina. ...
| Автор | Monika Rzepiela |
Trzeci tom cyklu krzyżackiego. Akcja powieści osnuta jest wokół Bitwy pod Grunwaldem. Podobnie, jak w poprzednich tomach wątki fantastyczne, łączą się z historią. Plastyczna narracja i wartka akcja, to niewątpliwie największe atuty książki. Dodatkową zaletą jest idealne wyważenie proporcji pomiędzy fantastyką i historią. Świetnie poprowadzony wątek kabalistyczny oraz niebanalne zakończenie, czynią z audiobooka Domagalskiego pozycję obowiązkową dla koneserów gatunku.
| Автор | Dariusz Domagalski |
Najbardziej niewygodne prawdy o niemieckiej historii, kontynuacja bestsellerowych „Żydów” i „Sowietów” Trzecia po bestsellerowych Żydach i Sowietach książka z niepoprawnego politycznie cyklu autora Obłędu ’44 i Paktu Ribbentrop–Beck . W Niemcach Piotr Zychowicz jak zwykle zmusza czytelnika do przemyślenia i ponownej oceny spraw – jak nam wmawiano – nie podlegających dyskusji. Burzy mit Hitlera ultraprawicowca, w rzeczywistości zatwardziałego lewaka. Pisze o fatalnych błędach Niemców...
| Автор | Piotr Zychowicz |
A treasure trove of useful (and just plain fun) information about Colorado’s mountain country. A handy-dandy, comprehensive, wide-ranging reference guide to settling (good-naturedly) any arguments about Colorado’s high country. We’re not just talking about population figures, elevation stats, or lists of Fourteeners and rivers, although these are included. You will learn far more including mountain lexicons (so that you’ll know what a gutter bunny, potato chip, and prune really mean), Colorado...
| Автор | John Fayhee |
<P>The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice looks at the role the Connecticut Prison Association played in the formation of the state's criminal justice system. Now organized under the name Community Partners in Action (CPA), the Connecticut Prison Association was formed to ameliorate the conditions of criminal defendants and people in prison, improve the discipline and administration of local jails and state prisons, and furnish assistance and...
| Автор | Gordon S. Bates |
First published in 1958, Centenary at Jalna brings us to 1953 when the Whiteoaks gather to mark the 100th anniversary of their estate. It has now been a century since Captain Philip and Adeline Whiteoak arrived in Canada and built their legacy. While this should be a time of festivity for the clan, tension and discontent surround the forthcoming marriage of a new generations Adeline and Philip, grandchildren of the originals. To make matters worse, young Dennis risks tragedy and Wakefield...
| Автор | Mazo de la Roche |
First published in 1935, Young Renny takes us even further back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just eighteen. His twenty-year-old sister Meg is engaged to marry the young man next door, Maurice Vaughan Uncle Nick and Uncle Ernest, now in their fifties, have squandered their inheritances abroad on high living and reside again at Jalna. But the plot thickens further, when two outsiders join the mix: A gypsy woman, who seduces Renny, and a distant cousin...
| Автор | Mazo de la Roche |
This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed. Drawing on a collection of family letters, Kiril Feferman provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don...
| Автор | Kiril Feferman |
In <i>Haj to Utopia</i>, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar—which is translated as «mutiny»—quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and East Africa. Ramnath brings this epic struggle to life as she traces Ghadar’s origins to the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, its establishment of headquarters in Berkeley,...
| Автор | Maia Ramnath |
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided, and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan. With detailed descriptions and over 100 illustrations, authentic samurai, farmers, craftsmen, merchants, courtiers, priests, entertainers and outcasts come to life in this magnificently illustrated portrait of a colorful society. Most works of Japanese...
| Автор | Charles Dunn |
In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who—France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)—would exercise sovereignty of Algeria. The fight between the two sides was not simply a military affair; it also involved diverse and competing claims about who was positioned to better care for the Algerian people's health and welfare. Johnson...
| Автор | Jennifer Johnson |
Gibler's is the first and only book available in English that is based on extensive interviews with survivors of the September 2014 killings and abductions of students in Iguala, Mexico. It is a peerless expose of the crimes and the official cover up. The only other book available in English on the subject («The Iguala 43: The Truth and Challenge of Mexico's Disappeared Students» (Semiotext(e) – February 3, 2017) is, according to Gibler, based on Web searches and conjecture: the writer...
| Автор | John Gibler |
How the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of historical materialism, while casting a fascinating light on the Ancient world, the Germanic...
| Автор | Perry Anderson |
Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism. Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism, and assesses their various trajectories. Why...
| Автор | Perry Anderson |
Galicia, a non-state nation in north-west Spain, has often been portrayed as a sentimental nation, a misty land of poets and legends. This book offers the first study of this trope as a feminizing, colonial stereotype that has marked Galician cultural history since the late nineteenth century. Through a close reading of the main texts of Galician literary history, the author shows how this trope has helped sustain the unequal power relation between Galicia and the Spanish State. As a...
| Автор | Helena Miguélez-Carballeira |
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas. Clarence Lusane juxtaposes significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for democratic, civil, and human rights by black Americans and demonstrates that only during crises...
| Автор | Clarence Lusane |
How taking Indigenous sovereignty seriously can help dismantle the structural racism encountered by other people of color in the United States Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law provides a timely analysis of structural racism at the intersection of law and colonialism. Noting the grim racial realities still confronting communities of color, and how they have not been alleviated by constitutional guarantees of equal protection, this book suggests that settler colonial theory provides a...
| Автор | Natsu Taylor Saito |
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."—The New YorkerOne week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of love, lust, and jealousy. This revelatory new translation by renowned playwright Richard Nelson along with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky—the foremost contemporary translators of...
| Автор | Ivan Turgenev |
– The racist violence on display in Charlottesville struck an alarming wake-up call about the rise of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and pro-fascism have during the Trump presidency. As these flash points continue to occur and tip into the news cycle, Jamey Tracy and Hilary Moore will be able to address them from the standpoint of the history of radical groups’ efforts to confront similar outbreaks when white supremacists felt they had a friend in the White House. – Will be...
| Автор | Hilary Moore |
Five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in America's heartland during the 1930s to 1990s. Each became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. Collectively, they wove a sisterhood of mutual support in their common-sometimes thwarted-pursuit of shared human rights and equality for all. Dorothy C. Stratton, Helen B. Schleman, M. Beverley Stone, Barbara I. Cook, and Betty M. Nelson opened new avenues for women and became conduits for change, fostering...
| Автор | Angie Klink |
In her captivating new novel, New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell returns to the stark majesty of medieval Scotland and the realm of the unforgettable Murray clan, as a seductive knight and a mysterious young woman unite to stop a murderous enemy. . . Sir Tormand Murray is certainly a rogue, but a callous killer? Never. Yet he cannot explain how he came to wake up next to the butchered body of one of his former lovers. Someone is prepared to kill again and again until Tormand is...
| Автор | Hannah Howell |