Akustyka jako dyscyplina naukowa zajmuje się dźwiękiem, jego powstawaniem, propagacją i percepcją, a także wszystkimi efektami związanymi z występowaniem i oddziaływaniem dźwięku. Zakres zagadnień rozpatrywanych w obszarze akustyki jest bardzo rozległy, można wyliczyć kilkadziesiąt specjalistycznych działów poświęconych różnorakiej problematyce. Podstawy teoretyczne nakreśla akustyka...

Using a learner's dictionary for the first time can be daunting, but the Cambridge Essential English Dictionary makes that first step easier for learners with short definitions that are easy to understand, and lots of example sentences to put the language into context. Mapped to a ground-breaking research programme, English Profile, this brand new edition of the Cambridge Essential English...

Pytania testowe zostały opracowane na podstawie polskiego wydania pierwszego tomu Anatomii Graya. Podręcznika dla studentów. Przygotował je zespół nauczycieli akademickich. Są zatem znakomitym materiałem do powtórek i utrwalania zdobytych wiadomości, a także stanowią doskonałe przygotowanie do egzaminu. Część druga Pytań obejmuje zagadnienia dotyczące anatomii narządów wewnętrznych....

In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-opening look at human reasoning and essential reading for anyone with important decisions to make. Have you ever: Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn\'t worth it? Overpayed in an Ebay auction? Continued doing something you knew was bad for you? Sold stocks too late, or...

Let acclaimed Tolkien artist John Howe take you on an unforgettable journey across Middle-earth, from Bag End to Mordor, in this richly illustrated sketchbook fully of previously unseen artwork, anecdotes and meditations on Middle-earth. Middle-earth has been mapped, Bilbo’s and Frodo’s journeys plotted and measured, but it remains a wilderland for all that. The roads as yet...

\'There comes a moment in one\'s life or career when in order to evolve, you need to draw a line and acknowledge where you come from. This book is exactly this for me. In this book, you find the soul of Versace. I could not be any more proud to share it with the world\' Donatella Versace Founded by Gianni Versace in 1978, the family-run fashion house soon grew into a symbol of high...

Pastel Dreams The powerful architecture of North Korea Erased by bombing during the Korean War, North Korea’s trophy capital of Pyongyang was entirely rebuilt from scratch from 1953, in line with the vision of the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Designed as an imposing stage set, it is a place of grand axial boulevards linking gargantuan monuments, lined with stately piles of distinctly...

Embark upon a lavish visual journey through ancient Greece―its origins, its rise and fall, and its legacy that still permeates the Western world today. Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail―from its Minoan and Mycenaean origins to the apogee of the warring city-states of Athens and Sparta, and...

An intensely emotional and gripping companion novel to Laura Nowlin's USA Today and New York Times Bestselling novel If He Had Been With Me about the love that both breaks and heals us. Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Jenny Han. If only I'd told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn't be here now. Finn has always loved Autumn. She's not just the girl next door or...

Prawo karne z serii Last Minute to kompaktowe opracowanie, które pozwala szybko i skutecznie opanować kluczowe zagadnienia oraz efektywnie powtórzyć materiał. W części I w XV działach scharakteryzowano m.in.: zasady odpowiedzialności karnej, formy popełnienia przestępstwa, zagadnienie wyłączenia odpowiedzialności karnej, problematykę kar, środków karnych,...

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjørgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the hospital, consumed by alcoholism. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions. In this final...

Biblioteka wxWidgets jest potężnym, wieloplatformowym narzędziem, stworzonym do pisania aplikacji okienkowych, przeznaczonych dla wszystkich popularnych systemów operacyjnych. Jest wzbogacona o szereg narzędzi, umożliwiających realizację większości zadań i wymagań stawianych przed nowoczesnymi programami - w tym m.in. pełną obsługę współbieżności, obsługę protokołów sieciowych, czy też...

In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exaggerated or...

Franny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole lives ahead of them. But one weekend when Franny is visiting, amid the excitement of the big Yale game, something goes wrong and tensions begin to surface. Are they really such a perfect match after all? Franny's older brother is Zooey. They come from a sophisticated yet highly eccentric family:...

The Meditations of the great Roman Philosopher-Emperor Marcus Aurelius are simple yet profound works of stoic philosophy that continue to offer guidance and consolation to many with their eloquence, wisdom and humility.

With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. In Sanditon, Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort. This edition...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver\'s calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism....

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew...

Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to physical battle, this philosophy continues to be applied to the corporate and business world....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER \'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure\' TIMES \'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic\' ALICE SLATER \'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime\' JULIA ARMFIELD \'Lovable and joyful\' NEW YORK TIMES A BROTHER. A SISTER. A LOT OF EMOTION IN ONE...