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Mr. Polton Explains – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
R. Austin Freeman’s character Dr. Thorndyke is considered the first modern forensic scientist in literature. This is one of the oddities of detective fiction. The first part of this story is an „autobiography” of Thorrndyke’s lab assistant Polton. Polton, Dr. Thorndyke’s lab assistant and a servant has graced every Thorndyke mystery with his mechanical ingenuity, his sumptuous meals and teas, and his...Data dostępności:
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The Maracot Deep – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
This is one of the works of fiction published during Doyle’s life. Published in 1929, only a year before the author’s death, this short novel amply demonstrates that Doyle still retained all his great abilities as a spinner of riveting yarns, even in his twilight years. The book concerns Maracot’s exploration of the world beneath the sea. Maracot and his companions find themselves stranded on the ocean...Data dostępności:
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The Concept of Explanation – ebook
A collection of essays devoted to the problem of explanation in various disciplines of science and humanities namely mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience, economics as well as theology. The issues covered include such topics as the interplay between explanation and understanding, the problem of a priori explanation, the limits of causal explanations in physics, the application of...Data dostępności:
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Naturalism, Normativity and Explanation – ebook
Robert Audi
This book critically examines philosophical naturalism, evaluates the prospects for naturalizing such normative properties as being a reason, and proposes a theory of action-explanation. This theory accommodates an explanatory role for both psychological properties such as intention and normative properties such as having an obligation or being intrinsically good. This overall project requires distinguishing...Data dostępności:
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The Power-House – ebook
John Buchan
Edward Leithen is a young British lawyer who learns that one of his Oxford contemporaries, Charles Pitt-Heron, has just disappeared. Leithen learns from Pitt-Heron’s wife that he has been forced to flee. But a series of strange events that follow Pitt-Heron’s disappearance convinces Leithen that he is dealing with a sinister secret society. His suspicions begin to center on a wealthy, well-known, and...Data dostępności:
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Ann Veronica – ebook
Herbert George Wells
First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science,...Data dostępności:
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Daisy Miller – ebook
Henry James
A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness,...Data dostępności:
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The Hound of the Baskervilles. Pies Baskerville’ów – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Book in two language versions: English and Polish. (Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych – polskiej i angielskiej.) Such bilingual editions are primarily intended for people learning a foreign language and / or improving their language skills. The native text makes it easier to understand the content of the work in a foreign language. It is especially useful when the reader has difficulty understanding...
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The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science – ebook
Clifford Angell Bates Jr
The book concentrates on the crucial Aristotelian concept of politeia, trying to show how its understanding has evolved for years, often towards fallacious interpretations. The text also points out how reconstruction of the original meaning of the concept can help in creating the frames for modern political science to avoid the traps of ethnocentrism and methodological reductionism that appear in most...Data dostępności:
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New Models of Urban Entrepreneurship. Context for Development – ebook
Marcin Wojtysiak Kotlarski Ewelina Szczech Pietkiewicz Katarzyna Negacz
Are you already interested in eco-economy, which is one of the most widely discussed terms in contemporary economics? Would you like to have a deeper understanding regarding challenges of combining public and private interest in urban contexts? Are you aware of importance of mechanisms on national or community levels aimed at supporting urban entrepreneurship? Have you heard of the green city concept? Do...Data dostępności:
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