wyszukanych pozycji: 37
Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism
ISBN: 9780231167581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and fleeting media moments in our age of fast capitalism. This phenomenon has given rise to communities of nostalgia whose members remain loyal to the toys, television, and music of their youth. They return to the theme parks and pastimes of their upbringing, hoping to reclaim that feeling of childhood wonder or teenage freedom....
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for ...
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158,45 zł |
Machines of Youth: America's Car Obsession
ISBN: 9780226341644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A history of America's love of cars, taking in everything from gangsters to hot rodders.
A history of America's love of cars, taking in everything from gangsters to hot rodders.
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443,65 zł |
Exploring Wisdom with Humps in Mind
ISBN: 9781544756486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,05 zł |
Exploring a Good Life with Humps in Mind
ISBN: 9781519263810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,62 zł |
Freak Show Legacies: How the Cute, Camp and Creepy Shaped Modern Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781350145139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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376,31 zł |
Machines of Youth: America's Car Obsession
ISBN: 9780226551135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A history of America's love of cars, taking in everything from gangsters to hot rodders.
A history of America's love of cars, taking in everything from gangsters to hot rodders.
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147,88 zł |
Exploring the Way of Epicurus: His destination, directions and strategies
ISBN: 9781481977685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who lived 2300 years ago, suggested that we all seek happiness which he defined as having a healthy body and tranquil psyche. This book explores Epicurus' way to happiness, including the problems that Epicurus tells us we will encounter trying to achieve happiness; the directions that Epicurus offers to help us to achieve happiness; and finally, the strategies that Epicurus offers to help us to overcome these problems and to successfully follow his directions. Quotations are new translations from the Greek texts available today. All key words are linked to the...
Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who lived 2300 years ago, suggested that we all seek happiness which he defined as having a healthy body and tranquil ps...
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50,17 zł |
A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940
ISBN: 9780520372016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri...
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559,31 zł |
A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940
ISBN: 9780520335516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri...
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297,07 zł |
Technology and American Society: A History
ISBN: 9781138090330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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677,36 zł |
Technology and American Society: A History
ISBN: 9781138090347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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295,97 zł |
Exploring Wisdom
ISBN: 9781544751290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What is wisdom? What stops us from being wise? How can we increase our wisdom? The aim of this book is to help you to answer these questions. Explorations are offered that will help you to better understand: what wisdom is; your own directions to increase wisdom; the problems that make it difficult for you to be wise; and strategies to help you to cope with these problems and thus be wiser. The wiser we are, the better the chance we, and those around us, will have a good life. Wisdom is central to attaining good life. This book is part of the series 'Exploring a Good life', in which we...
What is wisdom? What stops us from being wise? How can we increase our wisdom? The aim of this book is to help you to answer these questions. Explorat...
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65,05 zł |
Exploring a Way to a Good Life
ISBN: 9781694651129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,21 zł |
Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant
ISBN: 9780292747777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted to go somewhere, there was no stopping him. This dynamic president called for Air Force One as others summon a taxi--at a moment's notice, whatever the hour or the weather. And the man who made sure that LBJ got his ride was General James U. Cross, the president's hand-picked pilot, top military assistant, and personal confidante. One of the few Air Force One pilots to have a position, simultaneously, in the White House, General Cross is also the only member of LBJ's inner circle who has not publicly offered his recollections of the president. In this... When Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted to go somewhere, there was no stopping him. This dynamic president called for Air Force One as others summon a ta... |
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103,74 zł |
Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
ISBN: 9780226121277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure, delight, thrill--and addiction. In Packaged Pleasures, Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor delve into an uncharted chapter of American history, shedding new light on the origins of modern consumer culture...
From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipit...
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163,73 zł |
Consumer Engineering, 1920s-1970s: Marketing Between Expert Planning and Consumer Responsiveness
ISBN: 9783030145668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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306,98 zł |
Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780807161074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost Cause that resurrected the fallen heroes of the Confederacy as secular saints, and mourning rites revived by Native Americans forcibly removed from the American Southeast. To capture the manifold forms... Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Wa... |
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235,76 zł |