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This novel is a great document illustrating the anticipation of comings of the 20th century. This early H.G. Wells’ tale is about a 20 year old man who has a job as a Drapers Assistant, a job which he is probably too old for. Loaded with poor self esteem and a second class status, poor Mr. Hoopdriver takes a ten day holiday. On this holiday he falls for a young socialite named Jessie who is rebelling...

Anglozjęzyczna wersja bestsellerowej książki, która doczekała się już kilkunastu wydań, zyskała status jednej z najczęściej kupowanych pozycji literatury dziecięcej w Polsce (ponad 500 tys. sprzedanych egzemplarzy) i trafiła na listę lektur szkolnych dla klas I-III. Teraz będą mogli ją poznać także anglozjęzyczni Czytelnicy. Prosty i zabawny język sprawi, że będzie świetną motywację dla najmłodszych...

When the emperor Valentinian III murdered the general Flavius Aetius, it has been observed that he had ‘cut his right hand with his left’, and the story of the fall of the ‘last Roman’ has been put in the greater context of the subsequent dissolution of the Roman Empire in the West. However, a similar deed committed by the emperor Leo in the East in 471, when he ordered the killing of the general Aspar,...

Personal adornments, modern and ancient, are often perceived as merely decorative objects used for embellishing body or robe. This book refutes this simplified opinion by showing that jewelry carries a load of information regarding the social and financial status, gender, ethnic affiliation and religious beliefs of its wearers. Investigations into the function and meaning of personal adornments have...