Port Royal - The Sunken City (Marx Robert F.)(Pevná vazba)

Port Royal - The Sunken City (Marx Robert F.)(Pevná vazba)

The true story of the city of Port Royal in Jamaica. In 1692 an earthquake and tidal wave caused the city to sink beneath the sea. Robert F. Marx was one of the men caught up in the legends of buried treasure and this book describes the fulfillment of his childhood dream: a two-and-a-half year

The Sunken Tower (Howard Tait)(Pevná vazba)

Set deep underground in a sunken city, a young wizard and his two companions embark on a journey to escape the clutches of an evil cult. Dig is having a very bad day. His bag is broken, he can't catch a break at the local market, and just when things are looking up, he's kidnapped by a couple of

Julius Caesar and the Roman People (Morstein-Marx Robert (University of California Santa Barbara))(Pevná vazba)

A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Argues that Caesar was not an aspiring autocrat seeking to overthrow the Republic, but an unusually successful republican political leader against whom a determined opposition ultimately preferred to

The Necronomnomnom: Recipes and Rites from the Lore of H. P. Lovecraft (Slater Mike)(Pevná vazba)

Reading about the slime- covered, non- Euclidean ruins of the sunken city of R'lyeh or the squamous, tentacled deity who slumbers there would make anyone hungry. Starting with the puns and working from there, authors Mike Slater and Thomas Roache have summoned forth 50 funny, bizarre, and horrible

Harry and Meghan Our Royal Baby - Our Royal Baby (Jobson Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Joe Golem Occult Detective, Volume 1: The Rat Catcher and the Sunken Dead (Mignola Mike)(Pevná vazba)

Forty years after disaster left Lower Manhattan submerged in thirty feet of water, the Drowning City has taken a turn for the weird and Joe Golem is there to investigate. A mysterious and terrifying creature has been snatching children and pulling them into the depths of the canals, and the those

Flying Light Helicopters with the Royal Marines: Collective Tales from Marine Air 489 (Wilsey Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Little has been written about Royal Marines rotary aviation, the small and select unit which operated light helicopters between 1965 and 1995. Officer and senior non-commissioned officer pilots had the unique privilege of being both Commandos and aviators, flying from warships and operating ashore

Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility (Lbe) (Karatani Kojin)(Pevná vazba)

Classic study of Marx by Japan's leading critical theorist Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been amongst his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the New Left had collapsed

The Royal Ranger: The Missing Prince (Flanagan John F.)(Pevná vazba)

International bestselling author John Flanagan returns to world of Ranger's Apprentice in the fourth installment of the Royal Ranger series starring Maddie, Will Treaty's fearless young apprentice. Will Treaty and his apprentice, Maddie have been urgently summoned to Castle Araluen. When they

The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings - Karl Marx

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition contains the most salient extracts from Marx's great work, selected and introduced

Shorefall (Bennett Robert Jackson)(Pevná vazba)

As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy. 'An absolutely wild ride . . . Foundryside blew me away, and this is a perfect sequel.'--Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book

Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning (Desnos Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsair's pursuit of the siren Louise Lame: these are the essential ingredients of Liberty or Love , a masterpiece of early Surrealism written by Robert Desnos (1900-1945) and first published in 1924 to immediate acclaim

The Royal Family Operations Manual: The History, Dominions, Protocol, Residences, Households, Pomp and Circumstance of the British Royals (Jobson Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The Royal Family of the United Kingdom is one of the most instantly recognized institutions in the world. Since the current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, was crowned in 1952, it has undergone a huge amount of cultural and social change, but over the course of many decades the Royal Family has

Faces in the Crowd - 36 Extraordinary Tales of Tianjin (Jicai Feng)(Pevná vazba)

In the gateway city, only the best stories survive The port of Tianjin is where the ancient Chinese empire met the sea. The turn of the 20th century was a tumultuous time for the city, with the Qing dynasty on its last legs and the Boxers unleashing their ill-fated rebellion against the European

City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago (Spinney Robert G.)(Pevná vazba)

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city--from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants

The Siege and Fall of Troy (Graves Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The ancient city of Troy really existed. The Trojan War that figures in Homer's two great epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, really happened. But there is much more to it. Leave it to one of the English language's greatest practitioners, Robert Graves, to flesh out the story in a very short

Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds (Goddio Franck)(Pevná vazba)

Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, at the edge of the Nile Delta, lie the submerged remains of ancient Egyptian cities that sank over 1,000 years ago only to be rediscovered in the late twentieth century. Pioneering underwater excavations have yielded a wealth of ancient buildings and artifacts,

Marx, Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times (Merrifield Andy)(Pevná vazba)

A contemporary interrogation of Marx's masterwork Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so

Emerging Perspectives on Community Schools and the Engaged University (Kronick Robert F.)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the importance of civic engagement in various school settings, but especially in higher education settings. The book features a wide range of topics, including service learning, charter schools, and

Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies and Best Practices (Smallwood Robert F.)(Pevná vazba)

The essential guide to effective IG strategy and practice Information Governance is a highly practical and deeply informative handbook for the implementation of effective Information Governance (IG) procedures and strategies. A critical facet of any mid- to large-sized company, this

With a Royal Engineers Field Company in France and Italy: April 1915 to the Armistice (Eberle V. F.)(Pevná vazba)

VF Eberle MC joined up on the outbreak of the war in No 2 Field Company Royal Engineers, 48th (South Midland) Division, the same company as his brother, who was a captain in it. He was commissioned before sailing for France at the end of March 1915 and remained with it for the rest of the war. In

Sunken Gold - First World War Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History (Williams Joseph A.)(Pevná vazba)

The first book to recount the remarkable story of the hunt for HMS Laurentic's

Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing from Persecution (Barsky Robert F.)(Pevná vazba)

In this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and discovers that many beloved characters therein encounter obstacles similar to those faced by contemporary refugees and undocumented persons. The struggles of Odysseus, Moses, Aeneas,

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Shaw Robert)(Pevná vazba)