City of the great machine

City of the Great Machine

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Great American City

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Machine-Guns and the Great War

Vivid reconstruction of the role of the machine-gun in the Great War.

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Angel Pavement

Angel Pavement is one of the great London novels. First published in 1930, it is a social panorama of the city of London seen largely through the eyes

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The Time Machine (0141199342)

Kniha - autor Herbert George Wells, 106 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare'When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by b...

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The Great Thinking Machine: "the Problem of Cell 13" and Other Stories

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London Sketchbook

A celebration of one of the world's great cities, London Sketchbook is packed with over 200 evocative watercolor illustrations of the author's favorit

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Great Houses of London

Great Houses of London tells the stories of some of the grandest and most fascinating houses in this historic city, from their famous owners and occup

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The Great Mistake

Set at the turn of the 20th century, the story of the father of New York City, his mysterious assassination and his hidden life, for fans of Golden Hi

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I Want to Be A Machine

Fascinating compare-and-contrast examination of Eduardo Paolozzi and Andy Warhol and their fascination with the machine in their art. A great introduc

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Structuring Poverty in the Windy City

The Great Chicago Fire in 1871 left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In the aftermath the mayor handed all relief duties to

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City of Refuge

Tells a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and

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City of Refuge

In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance an

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Great Gatsby

A poetic portrait of the Roaring Twenties in New York City brought to dazzling life in this stunning collectors edition of a classic in American liter

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Love Letters of Great Men

Remember the wonderfully romantic book of letters by Beethoven, Byron and Napoleon that featured in the Sex and the City film? That collection didnÂ’t

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Love Letters of Great Men

Remember the wonderfully romantic book of letters by Beethoven, Byron and Napoleon that featured in the Sex and the City film? That collection never a

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Dungeons a Dragons desková hra Lords of Waterdeep english

Waterdeep, the City of Splendors - the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings. In this game, the players are powerful lords vying for control of this great city. Its treasures and resources are ripe for the taking, and that which cannot be gained through trickery and negotiation must be taken by force!...

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Love Letters of Great Men

Searching for the book of love letters from the Sex in the City movie? This beautiful hard-cover book contains those letters as well as some of the most passionate and romantic poems and love letters ever written.Explore the private longings and passions of the greatest men in history and the women they loved. Find yourself in the middle of torrid love affairs, undying de...

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City of Bohane

**Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award** ‘A electrifying masterpiece’ Joseph O’Connor The once-great city of Bohane on the west

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City of Night

The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god.

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Little Book of Edinburgh

A vibrant collection of trivia from all around this great city, new in paperback

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City of Babylon

One of the world's leading authorities offers an accessible and up-to-date account of a great civilisation, the city of Babylon. It lay at the heart o

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Time Machine illustrated

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a science fiction classic, which lends itself well to visualization. This version, illustrated by Yoann Laurent-Rouault, an illustrator master who graduated from the Beaux-Arts, and published in the international literary collection Memoria Books, is a reference on the time travel theme.Wells transports us in the year 802 701, in a socie...

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Treasure Hunters: Secret of the Forbidden City

The Kidds – treasure hunting family extraordinare – are heading to China, on a journey that will lead them beyond the Great Wall and into th

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Dublin: Mapping the City

Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Through a carefully chosen s

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The Time Machine - Wells Herbert George

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics."In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back . . . You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked - those pale chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!"An English scientist regales hi...

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The City of Mirrors - Cronin Justin

Anotace: In life I was a scientist called Fanning. Then, in a jungle in Bolivia, I died. I died, and then I was brought back to life...Prompted by a voice that lives in her blood, the fearsome warrior known as Alicia of Blades is drawn towards to one of the great

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Flesh and Steel during the Great War

An acclaimed study of how the First World War transformed the French army into a modern, industrialized military machine, translated into English for

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Great Glasgow Stories

Glasgow city has been the silent witness to some of the most significant events. This title presents such notable events as the launching of the Queen

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Love Letters of Great Men (0230739466)

Kniha - 144 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Remember the wonderfully romantic book of letters by Beethoven, Byron and Napoleon that featured in the Sex and the City film? That collection never actually existed, but all of the letters referenced in the film were real; so Macmillan decided to create Love Letters of Great Men...

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Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favourite city: Austin. Maybe you want to know whe

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Great Galactic Ghoul

Age range 6 to 9From the first shopping cart on the moon to New York City, these universal poems cover most subjects in the universe. These out-of-thi

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Judge Dredd: Mechanismo - Machine Law

A buddy cop tale like no other! Man and mechanismo, on the mean streets of Mega-City One.

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Time Machine - Herbert George Wells

Anotace: A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads the scientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. He is forced to revise this ass...

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Devil In The White City

He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. These two disparate but driven

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Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities

American author, journalist, and activist Jane Jacobs was born in 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City in 1934, where she became

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City of Laughter - Fruchter Temim

Anotace: A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years.The City of Laughter follows a young queer woman stuck in a thicket of generational secrets back to her family`s origins, where ancestral clues begin to re...

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Persians: The Age of The Great Kings - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

<p>THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepolis where the Achaemenid monarchs held court in unparalleled ...

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Fire City

A great war, which had raged for three years ended, and the reign of the Demons began... Within the crumbling walls of Fire City, fifteen-year-old M

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The Time Machine, 1. vydání - Herbert George Wells

<p>A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads the scientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. He is forced to revise this asse...

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Level 4: The Time Machine - Wells Herbert George

Anotace: Classic / British English The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened o...

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Railway Empire: Great Britain Ireland

New scenario – Transport Revolution (1830 - 1850) Map expansion: Great Britain & Ireland (available in Free Game and Sandbox Modes) 10 historical engines like the Rocket (0-2-2) or Firefly (0-2-0) 13 new tradeable goods (e.g. cider and whisky) and 45 new cities New songs and reworked city buildings England - Home of the first steam engines is experiencing an age of...

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The City of Tears, 1. vydání - Kate Mosse

<p>A breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss, The City of Tears by Kate Mosse follows on from her Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers. May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matt...

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Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis (147291323X)

Kniha - 298 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - 298 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work? Cities are built using some...

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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Abydos: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian Holy City and Burial Site

*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingAfrica may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to

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Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes Will

Anotace: `A monumental work filled with first-person accounts of the master`s life and a dizzying array of never-before heard details` Michael Imperioli, author of The Perfume Burned His Eyes The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year.Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed`s living presence has only grown. The great ro...

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Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories

CAN a machine really do the job of a writer?HOW would you take exact revenge on a cruel tabloid journalist?WHY does no one emerge from the house of an

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Railway Empire: Great Britain & Ireland (PC)

New scenario – Transport Revolution (1830 - 1850) Map expansion: Great Britain &amp; Ireland (available in Free Game and Sandbox Modes) 10 historical engines like the Rocket (0-2-2) or Firefly (0-2-0) 13 new tradeable goods (e.g. cider and whisky) and 45 new cities New songs and reworked city buildings England - Home of the first steam engines is experiencing an ag...

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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - Gaskill Malcolm

Anotace: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*`A bona fide historical classic` Sunday Times`Simply one of the best history books I have ever read` BBC HistoryIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer f...

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Istanbul

A traveller's history of Istanbul from the ancient time to nowadays Turkey. An account of city's great buildings, delicious food and vibrant life.

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Hard by a Great Forest - Leo Vardiashvili

<p>* AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 * 'A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER 'I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINI 'Hugely impressive' NEW EUROPEAN 'Novels like this might help light the way' GUARDIAN 'Beguiling...with glinting lyricism' SUNDAY TIMES Tbilisi's littered with memor...

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Really Easy Piano - Great Film Songs

Tento titul nabízí 22 známých filmových hitů ve snadné úpravě pro klavír (včetně textu a akordových značek). Každá skladba je krátce představená a pak následuje doporučení, jak ji zahrát. Jazyk: angličtina Obsah: Angel (City Of Angels) [McLachlan, Sarah] Blue Velvet (Blue Velvet) [Vinton, Bobby] Born Free (Born Free) [Monro, Matt] Break...

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City is an Ecosystem

This book maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, and soc

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Level 4: The Time Machine Book and MP3 Pack - Wells Herbert George

Anotace: Classic / British EnglishThe Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of...

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PER | Level 4: The Time Machine Bk/MP3 Pack - Herbert George Wells

<p>Classic / British EnglishThe Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of ...

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Victory City - Salman Rushdie

<p>The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie. In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old gir...

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Victory City - Rushdie Salman

Anotace: 'A total pleasure to read, a bright burst of colour in a grey winter season' Sunday Times She will whisper an empire into existence - but all stories have a way of getting away from their creators . . . In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine en...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Audiokniha MP3 Oscar Wilde, čte Rodilý mluvčí Audiokniha The Picture of Dorian Gray namluvená rodilým mluvčím. Jazyková úroveň B1 pro středně pokročilé posluchače. Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar Wilde takes the reader into this strange and fascinating world throu...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’ Tag Fantasy In this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wilde’s life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style activities - Exit test Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contra...

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