wyszukanych pozycji: 20
Framing Roberto Bolaño: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics
ISBN: 9781108735568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolaño's work have established him as a representative, generational figure in not only Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and work, but throughout Europe and the Americas, increasingly on a global scale. At the heart of Bolaño's 'poemas-novela', his poet- and poetry-centered novels, is the history and legacy of the prose poem. Challenging the policing of boundaries between verse and prose, poetry and fiction, the literary and the non-literary, the aesthetic and the...
Poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics. These four cornerstone concerns of Roberto Bolaño's work have established him as a representative, g...
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160,13 zł |
Choral Constructions in Greek Culture
ISBN: 9781107527577 / Miękka / 2022 / 783 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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170,46 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
ISBN: 9781108481328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently generated innovative and timely perspectives on the history, meaning, and scope of human rights. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature introduces this new and exciting field of study in the humanities. It explores the historical and institutional contexts, theoretical concepts, genres, and methods that literature and human rights...
Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central...
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373,43 zł |
Applying Research Evidence in Social Work Practice
ISBN: 9781137276100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Good social work practice draws upon relevant and current research to ensure that interventions are as effective as possible. As a result of this, social workers are increasingly required to demonstrate their knowledge of the research and evidence that underpin the daily decisions they make and actions they take. It is therefore vital that they are not only up to date with the latest research, but that they have the tools and understanding to successfully apply this to their practice.
Written by leading experts in the field, this book provides a step-by-step guide to implementing research... Good social work practice draws upon relevant and current research to ensure that interventions are as effective as possible. As a result of this, soc...
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165,29 zł |
A Sky Without Eagles
ISBN: 9780985452346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,39 zł |
The Director's Idea: The Path to Great Directing
ISBN: 9781138168244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As a director, you must have a concept, a "director's idea", to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With this clear idea your film will be deeper and more effective, and you will be able to differentiate--and therefore make the choice--between competent directing and great directing. Using case studies of famous directors as real-world examples of "director's ideas", the author has provided the theory and the practice to help directors immediately improve their work.
As a director, you must have a concept, a "director's idea", to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With this clear idea y...
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697,56 zł |
From Access to Engagement and Beyond
ISBN: 9781803820408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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228,39 zł |
Storm Over Asia
ISBN: 9781845113742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 'Storm over Asia' ('The Heir to Genghis Khan') was the third of Vsevolod Pudovkin's great silent films. Released in 1928 it confirmed the director's reputation and Soviet cinema's growing stature internationally. It was subsequently re-edited, sonorised and re-released in 1949.
The Buriat-Mongolian actor Valeri Inkizhinov stars as the trapper hero, Bair, a character partly inspired by the actual Revolutionary figure, Sukhebator. Many of the extras in the film had participated in the events depicted. The film acknowledges a debt to D.W. Griffith and documents the everyday life and rituals... 'Storm over Asia' ('The Heir to Genghis Khan') was the third of Vsevolod Pudovkin's great silent films. Released in 1928 it confirmed the director's r...
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134,30 zł |
Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity
ISBN: 9780367406257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While the relationship between sport and religion is deeply rooted in history, it continues to play a profound role in shaping modern-day societies. This edited collection provides an inter-disciplinary exploration of this relationship from a global perspective, making a major contribution to the religious, social scientific and theological study of sport. It discusses the dialectical interplay between sport and Christianity across diverse cultures, extending beyond a Western perspective to include studies from Africa, South America and Asia, as well as Europe, the UK and the US....
While the relationship between sport and religion is deeply rooted in history, it continues to play a profound role in shaping modern-day societies. T...
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206,63 zł |
The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity: Networks and the Movement of Culture
ISBN: 9781108409551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How did Christianity make its remarkable voyage from the Roman Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent? By examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antique Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, central Asia, and Iran, this book contemplates the social relations that made such movement possible. It also analyzes how the narrative tradition regarding the apostle Judas Thomas, which originated in Upper Mesopotamia and accredited him with evangelizing India, traveled among the social networks of an interconnected late antique world. In this way, the book probes how the...
How did Christianity make its remarkable voyage from the Roman Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent? By examining the social networks that connect...
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160,13 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture
ISBN: 9781107002524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading authorities writing on Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections,...
Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward a...
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279,02 zł |
Mate Selection in China: Causes and Consequences in the Search for a Spouse
ISBN: 9781787693326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In the context of dramatically changing contemporary patterns of mate selection in China, Mate Selection in China focuses upon both the causes and consequences the societal changes which have resulted in a considerable shift in the ways in which young adults go about finding a spouse. Tracking a period of change, from a long history of patriarchal families and arranged marriages, into an environment wherein individuals are relatively free to choose their intimate partners, Blair, Madison and Fang demonstrate and analyse how recent shifts in divorce, cohabitation, and pre-marital sex have...
In the context of dramatically changing contemporary patterns of mate selection in China, Mate Selection in China focuses upon both the causes and con...
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402,43 zł |
How special are early birds? Foreign language teaching and learning
ISBN: 9783985540471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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200,43 zł |
Ladies of the Veldt: Two Accounts of Remarkable Women in South Africa During the Boer War-South African Memories by Sarah Wilson & a Lady T
ISBN: 9781782821939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Two resolute women-the first female 'warco' and the trader This special Leonaur two-in-one volume contains accounts by two resourceful and independent women who made their way through the often hostile bushlands of Southern Africa in the 19th Century. The youngest daughter of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and aunt to Winston Churchill, the future Prime Minister, Lady Sarah-Spencer Churchill became the first female war correspondent when she was recruited to cover the siege of Mafeking, during the Second Boer War, for the Daily Mail. Baden-Powell and his garrison including (Lady Sarah's...
Two resolute women-the first female 'warco' and the trader This special Leonaur two-in-one volume contains accounts by two resourceful and independent...
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118,78 zł |
Executive Decision-Making and the Courts: Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review
ISBN: 9781509944774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book, leading experts from across the common law world assess the impact of four seminal House of Lords judgments decided in the 1960s: Ridge v Baldwin, Padfeld v Minister of Agriculture, Conway v Rimmer, and Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission. The ‘Quartet’ is generally acknowledged to have marked a turning point in the development of court-centred administrative law, and can be understood as a 'formative moment' in the emergence of modern judicial review. These cases are examined not only in terms of the points each case decided, and their contribution to...
In this book, leading experts from across the common law world assess the impact of four seminal House of Lords judgments decided in the 1960s: Ridge ...
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227,29 zł |
Stochastic Interest Rates
ISBN: 9781107002579 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume in the Mastering Mathematical Finance series strikes just the right balance between mathematical rigour and practical application. Existing books on the challenging subject of stochastic interest rate models are often too advanced for Master's students or fail to include practical examples. Stochastic Interest Rates covers practical topics such as calibration, numerical implementation and model limitations in detail. The authors provide numerous exercises and carefully chosen examples to help students acquire the necessary skills to deal with interest rate modelling in a...
This volume in the Mastering Mathematical Finance series strikes just the right balance between mathematical rigour and practical application. Existin...
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356,53 zł |
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
ISBN: 9789027207524 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and genres. Tailored to students in EMI programs, the content was piloted and revised during a longitudinal writing study. The innovative approach prepares students to write for the academic community through the dual lenses of Art (developing a writer's voice through choices in language, style, and topics) and Architecture (mastering norms of academic language, genre,...
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core wr...
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543,90 zł |
International Crime and Justice
ISBN: 9780521144490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. This book examines the field from a global perspective. It provides an introduction to the nature of international and transnational crimes and the theoretical perspectives that assist in understanding the relationship between social change and the waxing and waning of the crime opportunities resulting from globalization, migration, and culture conflicts. Written by a team of world experts, it examines the central...
International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream cri...
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393,69 zł |
Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy
ISBN: 9781138194748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection brings together essays to address the crisis of Higher Education today, focusing on its neoliberalization. Higher Education has been under assault for several decades as neoliberalism s preference for market-based reforms sweeps across the US political economy. The recent push for neoliberalizing the academy comes at a time when it is ripe for change, especially as it continues to confront growing financial pressure, particularly in the public sector. The resulting cutbacks in public funding, especially to state universities, led to a variety of debilitating changes:... This collection brings together essays to address the crisis of Higher Education today, focusing on its neoliberalization. Higher Education has bee... |
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185,97 zł |
The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature
ISBN: 9780521307031 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Comprising over 750 entries in a single alphabetical sequence, the 'Cambridge Handbook of American Literature' offers a compact and accessible guide to the major landmarks of American literature from colonial times to the present day.
Comprising over 750 entries in a single alphabetical sequence, the 'Cambridge Handbook of American Literature' offers a compact and accessible guide t...
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444,32 zł |