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09.07.2024
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Product info / Cechy produktu
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Item type
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książka / book
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Dział / Department
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Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
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Autor / Author
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Oliver Sacks
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Tytuł / Title
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Awakenings
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Język / Language
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angielski
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Wydawca / Publisher
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Picador
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Rok wydania / Year published
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2012
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Rodzaj oprawy / Cover type
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Miękka
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Wymiary / Size
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13.0x19.0 cm
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Liczba stron / Pages
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408
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Ciężar / Weight
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0,3250 kg
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ISBN
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9780330523677 (9780330523677)
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EAN/UPC
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9780330523677
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Stan produktu / Condition
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nowy / new - sprzedajemy wyłącznie nowe nieużywane produkty
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The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber . .