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Lucy Gayheart is well known in her small Nebraska town for her great looks, energy and piano playing. Everyone assumes that she will marry the son of banker Harry Gordon, including Harry, but at 18 she goes to Chicago to study piano and ends up making money accompanying the famous international vocalist when he spends time in Chicago. Her life, other people’s lives and people’s expectations changed...

This collection includes three short novels from „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” Max Brand (Frederick Faust). The stories here are character studies of outlaws, the lives they lead and the lies and myths that spring up about them. The title novel, „Peter Blue”, is an excellent character study. Blue, wounded in a gunfight, has lost the use of his gun hand and is desperately trying...

The book is aimed at those who want to investigate translation-related problems and write a Master’s thesis that is an academic thesis as part of their second cycle of studies in the European Higher Education Area. This target audience may be enlarged to include Bachelor’s degree students (the first level) for whom certain remarks and chapters in the book will be equally pertinent. The...

Po raz pierwszy wydana w 1921 roku, czyli przed niemal stu laty, książka Edwarda Sapira o oryginalnym tytule Language: An introduction to the study of speech uznawana jest za jedno z najważniejszych dzieł w historii językoznawstwa. Można się w niej doszukać nie tylko zalążków słynnej hipotezy Sapira-Whorfa o relatywizmie językowym, ale również źródeł inspiracji dla późniejszych wybitnych badaczy. Przede...