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Kobiety i władza – ebook
Karolina Białas Katarzyna Jóźwik Kalina Słaboszowska
Książka przedstawia wyniki badań z zakresu historii kobiet w Polsce i innych krajach i regionach świata. Autorzy analizują związki kobiet z władzą od starożytności do końca XX wieku – od dworskiej rywalizacji w czasach Artakserksesa II, przez wizerunki władczyń z dynastii Piastów i Jagiellonów, po dziewiętnasto- i dwudziestowieczne dzieje kobiet. Publikacja powstała w setną rocznicę uzyskania praw...Data dostępności:
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The Birds – ebook
Pisfeter manages to convince the birds that their mission is to rule the world. According to his idea, the bird city of Tucekukuyshchyna is being built between heaven and earth; birds give wings to Pisfeter and Evelpid, Pisfeter becomes the ruler of the new city and puts into effect a plan whose goal is to take power from the Olympic gods. Birds intercept the smoke from the sacrifices that the gods...Data dostępności:
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The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth – ebook
William Shakespeare
The play of W. Shakespeare „King Henry VI” was written in 1590-1592. Its events take place during the war of England with France and at the beginning of the war of the Scarlet and White Roses, which led to a feudal anarchy and untold misfortunes. The limp, unable to rule the country, King Henry becomes a toy in the hands of his power-hungry wife – Queen Margarita and her lover – the Duke of Suffol...Data dostępności:
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Freya of the Seven Isles – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This is an exciting saga located in the Indian Ocean basin, against the stormy backdrop of barely suppressed military operations between the Dutch and British merchant fleets, told by one of Conrad’s classic passages. After all, Freya’s unique perspective on the sharply etched nature is one of Conrad’s most piercing studies of how power hunger can lead people to greatness – or its opposite.Data dostępności:
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The Master of Ballantrae – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson
A tale of fierce internecine feud that destroyed Lord Henry Darrissdire and his older brother James, also called the ruler of Ballantre. The story of their deaths is described by a devoted servant of the clan – old Ephraim McKellar. The novel tells how easy it is to lose honor and how difficult it is to preserve what is dear to you when money and power are at stake...Data dostępności:
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The Lion of Tiberias – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great canal men called the Nile, which connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with the...Data dostępności:
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Smoke Bellew – ebook
Jack London
The famous cycle of novels and short stories by the American writer Jack London is a peculiar and unique painting of life in inhuman conditions, where people still manage to remain human beings. The story is about a man who found the courage, courage and power to exchange the clerk’s prosperous, but dull and boring life for danger, the exciting and fascinating fate of an adventurer in the wild lands...Data dostępności:
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A Mayfair Magician – ebook
George Griffiths
George Griffiths is popular with science and science fiction novels. The desire of every person is to have the power to read minds. George Griffiths decided to make it into reality. A Mayfair Magician is a science fiction novel about a device that allows you to read minds.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 Tragedie of Macbeth – ebook
William Shakespeare
The focus of the great tragedy of William Shakespeare „Macbeth” is unreasonable ambition that turns a brave warrior and a recognized hero into an ominous killer who seized power in his hands at the cost of bloody atrocity. The play „Macbeth” is worth reading if only to enjoy the beautiful poetic language of the great playwright – here evil, intrigue, deceit and the most base vices of humanity are served...Data dostępności:
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