A really top-notch literary thriller from Edgar Wallace. The story is set in Russia and England around the time of WW1. We follow a 22-year-old man on his first assignment for a Russian-English oil company as he becomes embroiled in intrigue and romance involving a beautiful Grand Duchess, American mobster Cherry Bim, and the influential Israel Kensky and his magical book of „all power”. It is through Hay’s eyes that we see the steady erosion of the existing Russian aristoc...

Wallace was a prolific author responsible for several series of popular novels featuring bold adventurers and crime fighters. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial Administrator Sanders and his eccentric companion Lieutenant Tibbetts, known to all as „Bones”. However, yet again, the trouble-prone Bones, while meaning to assist, only manages to spread his own unique style of innoce...

Pewnego wieczora dziewięcioletni Antoś znajduje pod śmietnikiem malutkiego, zmarzniętego na kość pieska i zabiera go ze sobą do domu. Rodzice początkowo nie są zachwyceni pomysłem zatrzymania szczeniaka, jednak Marcelka – bo okazuje się, że to suczka – szybko zaskarbia sobie miłość domowników i staje się nieodłączną częścią rodziny. Charcica dostaje do spania ciepłą poduszkę, uczy się nowych rzeczy, a podczas spacerów poznaje inne psy z sąsiedztwa – amstaffa Dextera, wi...

Przełom XII i XIII wieku, Europa Zachodnia. Eleonora Akwitańska, najpotężniejsza kobieta ówczesnej Europy, udaje się w podróż do Kastylii, by wskazać przyszłą królową Francji. Podjęta przez nią decyzja szokuje wszystkich i na zawsze zmieni dzieje starego kontynentu. Tymczasem w Langwedocji coraz większa część możnowładców, drwiąc z kościelnych kar, zaczyna jawnie wspierać katarską społeczność. Katarzy, od zawsze będący antagonistami wobec opływających bogactwem katolick...

Jo Boaler, profesor Uniwersytetu Stanforda i uznana pedagog matematyki, przez wiele lat badała wpływ ludzkich przekonań i uprzedzeń na edukację. W swojej rewolucyjnej książce przedstawia sześć zasad pozwalających odblokować nasz potencjał uczenia się.Panuje powszechne przekonanie, że od chwili, gdy jako dzieci rozpoczynamy naukę, nasze zdeterminowane przez genetykę mózgi przyswajają pewne rzeczy lepiej, a inne gorzej lub wcale. Zazwyczaj akceptujemy opinie o swoich umiejętnoś...

Diagnostyka laboratoryjna, dzięki dynamicznemu rozwojowi w ciągu ostatnich lat, stanowi istotny element postępowania diagnostycznego. Dzięki efektywnej współpracy klinicystów i diagnostów laboratoryjnych, łączy zarówno elementy podstawowe, jak i kliniczne nauk medycznych. Autorzy podręcznika, doświadczeni klinicyści i eksperci medycyny laboratoryjnej, w sposób syntetyczny przedstawili zasady diagnostyki najczęściej występujących chorób, ze szczególnym uwzględn...

Many years ago the Monrovian Government sent one Bosambo, a native of the Kroo coast and consequently a thief, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. Bosambo, who had other views on the matter, was given an axe and a saw in the penal settlement and told to cut down and trim certain mahogany trees in company with other unfortunate men similarly circumstanced. Those who love classic adventure especially set against an African backdrop will discover a rich vein o...

Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial Administrator Sanders and his eccentric companion Lieutenant Tibbetts, known to all as „Bones”. It is a time when the world’s most powerful nations are vying for colonial honor, a time of trading steamers and tribal chiefs. In the mysterious African territories administ...

This collection of episodes in the Commissioner Sanders series continues Wallace’s subtly humorous look at colonial Africa. In „Bones”, Wallace spins an engaging yarn about the adventures of an intrepid lieutenant as he travels through Africa on a series of life-or-death missions. When Commissioner Sanders goes on leave, the trusty Lieutenant Hamilton takes over administration of the African territories. However, yet again, the trouble-prone Francis Augustus Tibbetts, known...

Bones is back in the second story of The Lieutenant Bones series. After a tour of duty overseas, the eccentric character Augustus Tibbetts (known as ’’Bones’’ to his associates) returns to London to embark on civilian life. A mischievous businessman, he seems to have every financial schemer in London coming after him, but somehow he always comes out on top. In a series of loosely connected but consistently hilarious tales and vignettes, Bones inadvertently stumbles into a s...

Czy Biblia usprawiedliwia wycinanie lasów? Skąd się wziął mit, że ekologia to lewacka mrzonka, z którą katolikom jest nie po drodze? Po co papież mówi o zmianie klimatu? I co zrobić z argumentem, że człowiek jest koroną stworzenia i wolno mu do woli eksploatować Ziemię?O. Stanisław Jaromi przekonuje, że chrześcijaństwo od zawsze było „zielone”. Pisze o idei kosmicznego braterstwa, grzechach ekologicznych i męczennikach Ziemi. Pokazuje też, że dylemat: albo interes człowieka, ...

When Ferdie van Wyk was arrested for being found in the barracks of the Larkshire Regiment under suspicious circumstances, he very naturally objected to being marched through the one little street of Simon’s Town by a military escort.

Fleeing unfavorable regulation at home, American millionaire King Kerry and other American „robber barons” begin buying up London real estate and important London-based businesses, much to the dismay of their competitors and the people of the city. As his empire expands, Kerry is bedeviled by a mysterious enemy troubled by a dark secret from a past romance. Along the way we meet some good, honest people whom he brings into the fold and assists them to a better life, while d...

W 1884 r. Abercrombie Smith, sportowiec i student medycyny na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim, zostaje wezwany do pokoi swojego sąsiada i kolegi Edwarda Bellinghama. Bellingham, fanatycznego student egiptologii, który posiada wiele starożytnych egipskich artefaktów, który zemdlał z powodu szoku. Kiedy Smith wykorzystuje swoje umiejętności medyczne, aby ożywić Bellinghama, przyjaciel tego ostatniego, William Monkhouse Lee wyjaśnia, że Bellingham ma dziwną obsesję na punk...

Beloved Western author B. M. Bower is back with another classic yarn of the Old West. Much like her best-known works, „The Uphill Climb” showcases the inner lives of the cowhands and ranchers who made the region livable – and whose rough-and-tumble lifestyles all too often exacted a harsh toll. Also this story deals with one man’s fight to overcome alcohol addiction. Still very relevant to today. But it also has romance and a good bit of humor from supporting characters. Bo...

„The Lookout Man” is a 1917 novel by American author B. M. Bower. Fans of B. M. Bower’s fast-paced Western novels will love „The Lookout Man”. One man discovers how the Law in the Wild West can be bent, broken, and even beaten. Set in Northern California when the region was still teetering between civilization and Old West devilry, the novel tells the tale of a young protagonist who has a good heart but a seemingly insatiable taste for danger. A Northern California story fu...

B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance – often with surprise endings. Her gift for creating engaging, human characters is just as evident in „Tiger Eye”, a book with a much tougher, more serious plot than some of her early works. The main character, nicknamed Tiger Eye because of his one yellow eye, is a young Texan who has left home to escape being drawn into an old feud. Arriving in Montana, he literally wande...

Take a trip along the dusty byways of the Old West in this book from renowned author B.M. Bowers. Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought him back to the city, where he grew up and became a writer. To revive his stale writing, he returns to the West, and may just find what he is really missing. Thurs...

In „The Phantom Herd” from 1916 we follow a film director Luck Lindsay who wants to make an authentic western, therefore using the Happy Family boys and some of their friends as actors instead of professional actors. There are many difficulties along the way, some of which bid fair to be insurmountable and they are up against big problems, mostly the weather and deadline. The story is absolutely thrilling and at the same time Bower, with the help from a real western actor, ...

The „Thunder Bird” is a sequel of Johnny Jewel’s story and it looks like our heroes didn’t learn their lessons, as Johnny seems more stubborn and Mary V more spoiled. Johnny is determined to pay his debt before going back to the ranch and to Mary V, but this time his affairs take a foray into an international intrigue. „The Thunder Bird” is written in the year 1919 by B. M. Bower and contains all of the elements that made B. M. Bower’s books a mainstay of the genre of class...

Equal parts daring and prone to disaster, B. M. Bower’s beloved hero with a heart of gold, Casey Ryan, is at it again in „The Trail of the White Mule”. Whether he’s veering through traffic at high speed in the boomtown of Los Angeles or pursuing bootleggers in the country, Ryan always seems to find himself in the middle of a maelstrom. He willingly got involved with moonshiners and transporting booze – but lucked out in the end by helping the authorities. „The Trail of the ...

The career of prolific writer of Westerns novels B. M. Bower was notable for several reasons. The author, who always used initials as part of her pen name, was born Bertha Muzzy and was the first female writer to make a significant mark in the genre. Secondly, many of Bower’s books were adapted for the big screen, and her characters and landscape descriptions have been indelibly stamped on the conventions of classic Western films. Our hero, Jess Robison, a cowboy with talen...

B. M. Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected „an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters, the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting. „The Parowan Bonanz...

„The Gringos” recounts the massive clash of cultures that arose when European-American prospectors streamed into California in pursuit of gold and other natural resources. Dade Hunter and Jack Allen are two cowboys who got caught up in the 1849 California Gold Rush, and had a good fortune in the gold fields. They decide to spend a winter in San Francisco, where Jack gets hooked on gambling, while Dade quickly gets tired of it and moves on. Dade meets Andres, a Spanish Don w...