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The Marriage of Esther – ebook
Guy Boothby
The Marriage of Esther, surrounded by a messy community of settlers on a remote island off the coast of Australia, combines the best qualities of a classic action-adventure film with an ingeniously crafted riddle – and right in the middle of all this is a heartbreaking novel.Data dostępności:
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The Fallen Leaves – ebook
Wilkie Collins
Full of noble aspirations, a young graduate of the American Christian Community, Amelius Goldenhart, comes to his homeland in England. Here he falls in love with Regina, the niece of the wealthy merchant Farneby, but, having learned selfishness and cruelty, the hypocrisy of the world, he gives his heart to the destitute, lonely girl Sally – one of the representatives of the „fallen leaves” of bourgeois...Data dostępności:
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A Child of the Jago – ebook
Arthur Morrison
„A Child of the Jago” is London-born journalist Arthur Morrison’s best known novel. It was first published in November 1896 and is set in a fictional East End slum known as the Jago, which Morrison based a real district called the Old Nichol. The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, who is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. The Perrott family, and...Data dostępności:
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Tales of Mean Streets – ebook
Arthur Morrison
„Tales of Mean Streets”, published in 1894, is a collection of short stories describing the appalling conditions that many working people endured. These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community, that of the streets of London’s East End. Having lived and worked there, he author knew that East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but...Data dostępności:
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The Valley of Ghosts – ebook
Edgar Wallace
A murder is committed among the rich of a small town, and with more than one ghost and all the evidence seems to point to a beautiful young woman... „The Valley of Ghosts”, written as one of four detective novels in 1922, is set in the seemingly peaceful community Beverly Green, a place where upper-middle-class families live a secluded life. Why was Stella Nelson with the victim in the middle of the...Data dostępności:
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The Flying Fifty-five – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically invented the modern „thriller”. His popularity at the time was comparable to that of Charles Dickens – one of Wallace’s publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. „The Flying Fifty-Five” is a novel set in the...Data dostępności:
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The Paradise Mystery – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
A quaint and idyllic English community is rocked to its very core when a dead body of a man is found and foul play is suspected. Did he fall or was he pushed? The inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure but more than one person is dubious about the death. But with few clues to go on and no likely suspects, it appears that the brutal crime may remain unsolved. There’s another murder, lots...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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New Paradigm of the Social Housing Finance. Case Study of Poland – ebook
Anna Szelągowska
Social housing plays a crucial role in the development of housing market as well as housing exclusion. Contemporary, it is not only financed by the state, but also includes new forms of publicly supported and non-market housing, such as cooperatives, rent-geared-to-income, limited-dividend and non-profit housing provided by social agencies, community groups, non-profit private firms and political organisations...Data dostępności:
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Planning and Management in Eco-cities – ebook
Stanisław Łobejko Anna Stankowska Mariusz Zabielski
The concept of eco-city planning is different from traditional planning models. The difference lies in the emphasis on ecological principles in the designing process. An eco-city and green community model planning help local communities understand how to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants. The implementation of eco-city planning allows to plan sustainable city functioning as "interconnected...Data dostępności:
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