identity
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In Quest of Identity – ebook
Mirosław Michalak
red. Mirosław Michalak, Magdalena Rodziewicz Stability and changeability of identities, especially in the context of their disappearance and revival, is one of the leitmotifs of the current publication, which is a fruit of a collective effort of scholars who represent diverse areas of the humanities and varied approaches to the issue of identity in the lands occupied by the Persian-language civilization....Data dostępności:
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The Great Impersonation – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Originally published in 1913, „The Great Impersonation” is probably the most famous spy novel of all time. This tale is full of murder, crime, confused identity, blackmail, war, romance, politics, and there’s even a ghost... In 1913, a German spy assumes a dead Englishman’s identity and infiltrates British society as a sleeper agent, but when he falls in love with the Englishman’s wife and his Hungarian...Data dostępności:
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Above the Law – ebook
Max Brand
Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In his first western tale, „Above the Law”... Max Brand, villain, the bandit Black Jim, has the books of Scott, Shakespeare, Poe, Byron, Malory at his bunk. Poetic...Data dostępności:
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The False Rider – ebook
Max Brand
The False Rider is one of "Silver Tip" series of pulp Western novels by Max Brand featuring Silvertip, a heroic lone rider who metes out justice to various wrong-doers he runs across in his travels. Arizona Jim Silver finds his reputation endangered when a clever thief of similar appearance appropriates his identity, leaving Jim no choice but to hunt him down. Max Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure...Data dostępności:
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Przeznaczeni do wielkości! – ebook
Alicja Cecylia Curanović
Wielość książek poświęconych współczesnej Rosji może przyprawić o zawrót głowy. Badacze tego niewątpliwie fascynującego państwa niejednokrotnie zastanawiają się, czy istnieją jeszcze jakieś białe plamy warte opisania i przybliżenia Czytelnikowi. Niewielu uznałoby za terra incognita mesjanizm, powszechnie uważany za zjawisko głęboko zakorzenione w rosyjskiej kulturze politycznej. Jednak wyniki kilkuletnich...Data dostępności:
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Heritage and Environment. The 5th Heritage Forum of Central Europe – ebook
The 5th Heritage Forum of Central Europe, organised in September 2019, was dedicated to the links between cultural heritage and environment , as well as their mutual engagement. In recent years, and especially very recently, we have become increasingly aware that the environmental context is of paramount importance to the complete understanding of values and the very meaning of cultural heritage, which...Data dostępności:
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The Mystery of the Sycamore – ebook
Carolyn Wells
Another thrilling mystery by author Carolyn Wells. Instead of prison time, former governor, Samuel Appleby, sentences his former rival, Daniel Wheeler to imprisonment on his homestead with a very strange addendum. He then endeavors to convince Mr. Wheeler to endorse his son’s candidacy for governor with a promise of commuting his sentence. In the meantime, Samuel Appleby is murdered in Wheeler’s study,...Data dostępności:
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The Red Ledger – ebook
Frank L. Packard
Ewen Stranway answers an advertisement to meet an old gentleman Henri Raoul Charlebois who has told him that he is in debt. At his flat, he removes from his safe a large book bound in red morocco in which it lists his debts. When he was very poor, Stranway’s father had given him a dime. Now, fabulously wealthy, he desires to pay back all those who helped him as well as those who did not and he recruits...Data dostępności:
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Initials Only – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
A detective story first published in 1911, it is one of the book of Ebenezer Gryce series, „Initials Only” deals with the case of beautiful young heiress Edith Challoner. She is murdered in the writing room of a luxury hotel while nobody is near her, and no shot is heard and no bullet found in the deadly wound. She is seemingly stabbed to death, yet no one was seen near her. How then was she killed?...Data dostępności:
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The Cinema Murder – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London, half-starved, both mentally and physically. His cousin, Douglas, has everything and even buys Beatrice, Philip’s fiancée. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his identity. Douglas had booked passage to America for the next day, so after a pleasant sea voyage Phillip arrives at the Waldorf Hotel in New York as Douglas Romilly. Philip’s...Data dostępności:
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