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The Rehearsals – audiobook
Vladimir Sharov
Seventeenth century Russia, New Jerusalem Monastery. The recently deposed Patriarch Nikon, whose reforms lead to a schism in the Orthodox church, employs a French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming of Christ. Jacques de Sertan’s troupe consists of untrained and illiterate peasants. The actors are divided into roles, whole families play different social or ethnic groups...Data dostępności:
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The Avro Arrow. For The Record – audiobook
Palmiro Campagna
Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow. The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow - an extraordinary achievement of Canadian military aviation - continues to fire debate today. When the program was scrapped in 1959, all completed aircraft and those awaiting assembly were destroyed, along with tooling and technical...Data dostępności:
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The Matiushin Case. Tales from the Last Days. Book 2 – audiobook
Oleg Pavlov
The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the horrors...Data dostępności:
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Captain of the Steppe. Tales from the Last Days. Book 1 – audiobook
Oleg Pavlov
Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men... This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling...Data dostępności:
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 22 – eprasa
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Volume XXII of the journal Polish Archeology in the Mediterranean (PAM), documents the results of archaeologists and other specialists related to the Center of Mediterranean Archeology of the University of Warsaw.Data dostępności:
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 21 – eprasa
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The next, XXI volume of the series, documents the results of archaeologists' work from the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archeology of the University of Warsaw from 2009Data dostępności:
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Red Coat Diaries. True Stories from the Women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – audiobook
Aaron Sheedy Veronica Fox
True stories from the Women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Red Coat Diaries brings tales from the RCMP, but with a new and unique perspective. Editor Aaron Sheedy has compiled over 30 stories from the women of the RCMP. These stories include stories from officers, civilians and retired members of the Force. These true stories offer a unique insider's perspective of the "Mounties" and reveal...Data dostępności:
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 20 – eprasa
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The next volume of archaeological reports of the Center of Mediterranean Archeology of the University of Warsaw presents the results of excavation and conservation works conducted by Polish specialists in the 2008 season in the Middle East and North-East Africa (in Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Iran and Cyprus).Data dostępności:
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 25 – eprasa
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The results of Polish archaeological excavations carried out in 2014 and 2015 on sites in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, from Cyprus to Sudan and from Egypt to Armenia, are presented in a series of 27 articles and a chronicle listing all the projects of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw. Reports detailing the excavations are supplemented by comprehensive...Data dostępności:
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The Man Who Couldn't Die. The Tale of an Authentic Human Being – audiobook
Olga Slavnikova
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that...Data dostępności:
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