Wielka Historia Ma Ej Wyspy Jak Islandia Zmieni A Wiat
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Wielka Historia Ma Ej Wyspy Jak Islandia Zmieni A Wiat
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Author : Egill Bjarnason
language : pl
Publisher: Znak
Release Date : 2022-05-19
Wielka Historia Ma Ej Wyspy Jak Islandia Zmieni A Wiat written by Egill Bjarnason and has been published by Znak this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19 with Social Science categories.
LEKTURA OBOWIĄZKOWA DLA KAŻDEGO, KTO MARZY O PODRÓŻY NA ISLANDIĘ. Kiedy 1200 lat temu wódz WikingówIngólfur Arnarson osiadł statkiem na mieliźnie na środku północnego Atlantyku, nie wiedział, że odkrył wyspę, która na zawsze zmieni świat. To właśnie tam powstał naród, który po cichu odegrał kluczową rolę w kształtowaniu świata, jaki znamy. Zaczynając choćby od tego, że to Islandczycy (a nie Kolumb) pierwsi odkryli Amerykę, ale są zbyt skromni, żeby mówić o tym głośno. Gdyby nie Islandia, Avengersi nie mieliby Thora, człowiek nie postawiłby stopy na Księżycu, a Tolkien nigdy nie napisałby Władcy Pierścieni i być może nie doszłoby do wybuchu Rewolucji Francuskiej. Wielka historia małej wyspy jest pełna niezwykłych opowieści przedstawiających dzieje tego fascynującego kraju, który stał się jednym z najchętniej odwiedzanych miejsc. Islandia niezmiennie jest marzeniem podróżników. Ta mała wyspa na „końcu świata” to nie tylko oszałamiające widoki, wulkany, gejzery, lodowce, zorze polarne i czerwone domki w Reykjaviku. To również miejsce, gdzie doszło do pierwszego strajku kobiet, przywódcy mocarstw debatują o losach świata podczas spotkań w nawiedzonym domu, a najstarszy na świecie parlament usunął z alfabetu literę „z” (z wyjątkiem słowa „pizza” oczywiście). Poznaj niesamowitą historię Islandii i jej mieszkańców. „Fascynujący wgląd w islandzką kulturę i świeże spojrzenie na jej globalny wpływ. UWAGA: może sprawić, że czytelnicy zapragną być Islandczykami”. – Helen Russell, autorka Życia po duńsku
Made In Sweden
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Author : Elisabeth Åsbrink
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2019-04-30
Made In Sweden written by Elisabeth Åsbrink and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with History categories.
What are the real Swedish Values? Who is the real Swedish Model? In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi — their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in their perfectly designed society from the future. But what if we have invested all our faith in a fantasy? What if Sweden has in fact never been as moderate, egalitarian, dignified, or tolerant as it would like to (have us) think? The recent rise to political prominence of an openly neo-Nazi party has begun to crack the illusion, and here now is Swede Elisabeth Åsbrink, who loves her country ‘but not blindly’, presenting twenty-five of her nation’s key words and icons afresh, in order to give the world a clearer-eyed understanding of this fascinating country …
The Serpent And The Rainbow
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Author : Wade Davis
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-10-05
The Serpent And The Rainbow written by Wade Davis and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with Social Science categories.
A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
Hypothermia
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Author : Arnaldur Indridason
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-11-10
Hypothermia written by Arnaldur Indridason and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-10 with Fiction categories.
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; María had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur with a tape of a séance that María attended before her death and his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur begins an unofficial investigation into María's death. But he is also haunted by another unsolved mystery - the disappearance of two young people thirty years ago - and by his own quest to find the body of his brother, who died in a blizzard when he was a boy. Hypothermia is Indridason's most compelling novel yet.
Heida
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Author : Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-04-18
Heida written by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'HEIDA IS A FORCE OF NATURE . . . EXACTLY THE RIGHT SORT OF MODERN ROLE MODEL' SUNDAY TIMES The inspiring story of Icelandic sheep farmer, former model and feminist heroine Heida Asgeirsdottir has become a double prize-winning international bestseller. As heard on Radio 4's Start the Week I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable over the years. Men offer themselves, their sons . . . drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: "Do you need a farmhand?" "I can lift the hay bales" "I can repair your tractors". . . Heida is a solitary farmer with a flock of 500 sheep in a remorseless area bordering Iceland's highlands. It's known as the End of the World. One of her nearest neighbours is Iceland's most notorious volcano, Katla, which has periodically driven away the inhabitants of Ljótarstaðir ever since people first started farming there in the twelfth century. This portrait of Heida written with wit and humour by one of Iceland's most acclaimed novelists, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, tells a heroic tale of a charismatic young woman, who walked away from a career as a model to take over the family farm at the age of 23. I want to tell women they can do anything, and to show that sheep farming isn't just a man's game. Divided into four seasons, Heida tells the story of a remarkable year, when Heida reluctantly went into politics to fight plans to raise a hydro-electric power station on her land. This book paints a unforgettable portrait of a remote life close to nature. Translated into six languages, Heida has won two non-fiction prizes and has become an international bestseller. We humans are mortal; the land outlives us, new people come, new sheep, new birds and so on but the land with its rivers and lakes and resources, remains. 'UTTERLY CHARMING' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'REVELATORY AND INSPIRING' HERALD
Viking Economics
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Author : George Lakey
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2016-07-12
Viking Economics written by George Lakey and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too individualistic, or too . . . something. In Viking Economics George Lakey dispels these myths. He explores the inner workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world’s happiest, most productive workers, and explains how we can enact some of the changes—including universal healthcare, affordable childcare, and a month of paid vacation for all—that the Scandinavians fought for surprisingly recently. We, too, can refuse to be governed by the elites and embrace equality in our economic policy—here’s how.
Gottland
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Author : Mariusz Szczygiel
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Gottland written by Mariusz Szczygiel and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with History categories.
Winner of the Europe Book Prize One of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic—the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka—to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century. For example, there’s the story of the small businessman who adopted Henry Ford’s ideas on productivity to create the world’s largest shoe company—and hired modernist giants such as Le Corbusier to design his company towns (which were also the birthplaces of Ivana Trump and Tom Stoppard). Or the story of Kafka’s niece, who loaned her name to writers blacklisted under the Communist regime so they could keep publishing. Or the story of the singer Karel Gott, winner of the country’s Best Male Vocalist Award thirty-six years in a row, whose summer home, Gottland, is the Czech Dollywood. Based on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews with everyone from filmmakers to writers to pop stars to ordinary citizens, Gottland is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a resilient people living through difficult and often bizarre times—equally funny, disturbing, stirring and absurd . . . in a word, Kafkaesque. From the Hardcover edition.
Timeline
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Author : Peter Goes
language : en
Publisher: Gecko Press USA
Release Date : 2016
Timeline written by Peter Goes and has been published by Gecko Press USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Timeline explores Earth from the time of the Big Bang through to the threats of climate change.
How Iceland Changed The World
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Author : Egill Bjarnason
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2021-06-03
How Iceland Changed The World written by Egill Bjarnason and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-03 with categories.
'A joyously peculiar book' - The New York Times 'A fascinating insight into Icelandic culture and a fresh perspective on her global influence. Warning: may well make readers wish they were Icelandic, too.' - Helen Russell, author of The Year of Living Danishly The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries. The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer just a layover for the Arctic tern. Instead, it became a nation whose diplomats and musicians, sailors and soldiers, volcanoes and flowers, quietly altered the globe forever. How Iceland Changed the World takes readers on a tour of history, showing them how Iceland played a pivotal role in events as diverse as the French Revolution, the Moon Landing, and the foundation of Israel. Again and again, one humble nation has found itself at the frontline of historic events, shaping the world as we know it - How Iceland Changed the World paints a lively picture of just how it all happened. 'Egill Bjarnason has written a delightful reminder that, when it comes to countries, size doesn't always matter. His writing is a pleasure to read, reminiscent of Bill Bryson or Louis Theroux. He has made sure we will never take Iceland for granted again.' A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of Thanks a Thousand and The Year of Living Biblically 'Bjarnason's intriguing book might be about a cold place, but it's tailor-made to be read on the beach.' - New Statesman 'Egill Bjarnason places Iceland at the center of everything, and his narrative not only entertains but enlightens, uncovering unexpected connections.' Andri Snær, author of On Time and Water 'Icelander Egill Bjarnason takes us on a high-speed, rough-and-tumble ride through 1,000-plus years of history-from the discovery of America to Tolkien's muse, from the French Revolution to the NASA moonwalk, from Israel's birth to the first woman president-all to display his home island's mind-opening legacy.' Nancy Marie Brown, author of The Real Valkyrie and The Far Traveller 'I always assumed the history of Iceland had, by law or fate, to match the tone of an October morning: dark, gray, and uninviting to most mankind. This book challenges that assumption, and about time. Our past, much like the present, can be a little fun.' Jón Gnarr, former mayor of Reykjavík and author of The Pirate and The Outlaw 'How Iceland Changed the World is not only surprising and informative. It is amusing and evocatively animates a place that I have been fascinated with for most of my life. Well worth the read!' - Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres 'An entertaining, offbeat (and pleasingly concise) history of the remote North Atlantic nation ... perfect for a summer getaway read' - The Critic
Wielka Encyklopedia Pwn Suplement
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Author : Jan Wojnowski
language : pl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Wielka Encyklopedia Pwn Suplement written by Jan Wojnowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Polish categories.