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The Holographic World

Iwona Gajda

And what if it is true? If we are merely a projection of some deeper order, the order where time does not exist? Where past, present and future exist at once? What then? Some scientists believe that the Universe is a gigantic hologram and all information about us and about our reality are written down on a flat, two-dimensional plane. They deem that what we see, hear and feel, is merely a mirage. An illusion. Even the existence of time and the force of gravity.

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The Holy Bible (Biblia w języku angielskim)

World English Bible

World English Bible (WEB) to kompletna angielska Biblia, zawierająca 66 ksiąg Starego i Nowego Testamentu, będąca nową edycją popularnego przekładu American Standard Version (ASV). WEB nie jest przekładem wyznaniowym, przygotowanym na potrzeby określonej wspólnoty kościelnej. Stanowi raczej owoc pracy przedstawicieli różnych kościołów chrześcijańskich. Główne cechy odróżniające WEB od innych współczesnych, angielskich wydań Pisma Świętego to: przyjęcie Tekstu Większościowego jako podstawy przekładu Nowego Testamentu oraz użycie imienia Bożego (Yahweh) w Starym Testamencie. Ebookowe wydanie World English Bible wyróżnia się niezwykle przyjazną i intuicyjną nawigacją. Zawiera też słowniczek terminów biblijnych oraz ponad tysiąc uwag translatorskich dotyczących: (a) słów występujących w oryginale, (b) alternatywnych tłumaczeń hebrajskiego lub greckiego tekstu (c) oraz ważniejszych wariantów tekstowych.

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The Holy Flower

H. Rider Haggard

This story is filled with adventure and humor. Allan Quatermain receives a sample of the huge orchid, the largest ever found. In England, he meets Mr. Somers, an avid orchid collector who is willing to fund an expedition to find the plant. This is the story of this expedition.

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The Holy Terror

Herbert George Wells

A fictional biography of Rudolf Rud Whitlow, who builds a political party that slowly becomes a world dominant dictatorship. Wells wrote the work just before World War II as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany. Rud, is a baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and finally, revolutionary speeches. Through this character, Wells creates a platform for long discourses of his usual themes of social engineering. Rud eventually gets involved in socialist activism, and a group strategizing for world revolution. The revolution fails, revealing the cowardice underlying Ruds aggressiveness. The ability of new weapons to decapitate the command structure of any regional power becomes the plot device that allows Rud to make himself world leader, destroying parts of the world which do not submit to the most destructive superpower.

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The Honour of His House

Fred M. White

Borne Abbey a miracle of architecture. And there is nothing more outstanding or more beautiful in the English countryside than Borne Abbey. Indeed, this place had its own atmosphere. For nearly four hundred years the Cranwallis family had lived here, lords of broad acres and suzerain of a many goodly manors. Everything changed after the brazen millionaire came to this house.

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The Honourable Algernon Knox, Detective

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is a very clever collection of linked stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim written in 1913. Algernon Knox, pretty young, dapper, seemingly silly, has failed at everything. Although wealthy, he fails when he stands for parliament. By chance he becomes involved in a blackmail against his uncle, who is a diplomat. Knox foils the plot, and a new career is born, the gentleman detective. In some ways, the young man carries out increasingly dangerous and cleaver missions against criminals and foreign spies. Haunted by the beautiful but foreign Adele de Hagon, Knox finds his career and fortunes on the rise. An enjoyable read!

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The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There is a trial of the bare and thin peasant Denis Grigoriev. He is accused of unscrewing the nut, which rails are attached to the cross ties. The little man does not deny this, but does not see his guilt. The investigator finds out that Denis, like other men, unscrews the nuts in order to make them sinkers. The defendant sincerely does not understand that such unscrewing can lead to train accidents and death. The investigator sends the attacker to prison, but he still does not understand what he did.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.   Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor on Dartmoor in Devon. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but according to Mortimer, Sir Charles's face retained an expression of horror, and not far from the corpse the footprints of a gigantic hound were clearly visible. According to an old legend, a curse runs in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War, when Hugo Baskerville abducted and caused the death of a maiden on the moor, only to be killed in turn by a huge demonic hound. Allegedly the same creature has been haunting the manor ever since, causing the premature death of many Baskerville heirs. Sir Charles believed in the plague of the hound and so does Mortimer, who now fears for the next in line, Sir Henry Baskerville.  

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate in The Hound of the Baskervilles ?

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The Hound of the Baskervilles - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Patrick Nobes. Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles. Illustrated Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate in The Hound of the Baskervilles ?

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The Hound of the Baskervilles Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Patrick Nobes Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles. Pies Baskerville'ów - publikacja w języku angielskim i polskim

Arthur Conan Doyle

Bilingual publication - publikacja dwujęzyczna   We would like to offer you a bilingual publication, in English and Polish. It allows you both to read the original text, published for the first time in English in 1902, and at the same time to have a look on one of its first translations – an unforgettable version proposed by Eugenia Żmijewska. Additionally, the original, irreplaceable and over 100 years old illustrations of Sidney Paget are definitely worth highlighting. The novel acquaints us with the cult figure of Sherlock Holmes and his simple-minded friend, doctor Watson. The characters have enriched mythology of the Western world and have won recognition and acclaim of the readers for over a hundred years. „The Hound of the Baskervilles” is one of the most popular novels from the series of stories about the clear-sighted detective who tries to shed light on unexplained assassinations or even to prevent them. The book introduces us to dark secrets of the Baskervilles’ family and to the curse hanging over them for years. It also tells the story of a monstrous dog which seems to be a killer wandering about the nearby meadows. The successors of the Baskerville’s wealth die in mysterious circumstances, one after another, and the reader allows himself to be captured by this course of events.       Proponujemy Państwu publikację dwujęzyczną – angielską i polską. Pozwala ona czytać tekst oryginalny, wydany po raz pierwszy w języku angielskim w roku 1902, a także zapoznać się z jednym z najlepszych jego tłumaczeń – niezapomnianą wersją zaproponowaną przez Eugenię Żmijewską. Zdecydowanie warte uwagi są również oryginalne, niezastąpione, liczące przeszło 100 lat ilustracje Sidneya Pageta. Powieść zapoznaje nas z kultową postacią detektywa Sherlocka Holmesa oraz z jego prostodusznym przyjacielem , doktorem Watsonem. Postaci te wzbogaciły mitologię świata zachodniego i cieszyły się uznaniem i sympatią czytelników przez przeszło sto lat. „The Hound of the Baskervilles” to jedna z najpopularniejszych opowieści z cyklu historii mówiących o przenikliwym detektywie wyjaśniającym zbrodnie lub starającym się im zapobiec. Książka wprowadza nas w mroczne tajemnice rodziny Baskerville’ów, klątwy ciążącej nad rodem oraz opowiada historię monstrualnych rozmiarów psa – zabójcy krążącego po okolicznych łąkach. W tajemniczych okolicznościach giną kolejni spadkobiercy majątku Baskerville'ów, a czytelnik daje się porwać biegowi wypadków.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles. Pies Baskervilleów. English-Polish Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>Book in two language versions: English and Polish. (Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych polskiej i angielskiej.) Such bilingual editions are primarily intended for people learning a foreign language and / or improving their language skills. The native text makes it easier to understand the content of the work in a foreign language. It is especially useful when the reader has difficulty understanding the plot or dialogues in the language they are learning or wants to improve their translation skills.</p><p>Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate in The Hound of the Baskervilles?</p>

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The Hour of the Dragon

Robert E. Howard

The long tapers flickered, sending the black shadows wavering along the walls, and the velvet tapestries rippled. Yet there was no wind in the chamber. Four men stood about the ebony table on which lay the green sarcophagus that gleamed like carven jade. In the upraised right hand of each man a curious black candle burned with a weird greenish light. Outside was night and a lost wind moaning among the black trees.

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The House in Dormer Forest

Mary Webb

In this dense novel, the house in which the Darke family exists apparently has its own impassive but claustrophobic influence on the family, which, in turn, tied itself up too quickly in its network of special hate agreements and connections. Jasper fights against his religion, Ruby is trapped between her need for conventions and her own desires, and Peter is forced to rebel.