ilość książek w kategorii: 45769
Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong
ISBN: 9780060780722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his groundbreaking book, Marc Hauser puts forth a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Combining his cutting-edge research with the latest findings in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and anthropology, Hauser explores the startling implications of his provocative theory vis-a-vis contemporary bioethics, religion, the law, and our everyday lives. In his groundbreaking book, Marc Hauser puts forth a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously p... |
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73,90 zł |
Skin City: Behind the Scenes of the Las Vegas Sex Industry
ISBN: 9780060838799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Part expose, part x-rated travel guide -- the ultimate insider's look at America's adult playground Vegas. It's a place where Midwestern couples become uninhibited swingers, where shy schoolgirls morph into sexy strippers pulling in $1,000 a night, and where randy tourists come to score at more than just blackjack and craps. What happens here, stays here -- and Vegas nightlife is hotter than it's ever been before. In Skin City, journalist and longtime Vegas resident Jack Sheehan goes beyond the bright lights to explore the dark thrills of the city's sex... Part expose, part x-rated travel guide -- the ultimate insider's look at America's adult playground Vegas. It's a place where Midwes... |
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82,07 zł |
Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All
ISBN: 9780060853952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At a time when the world has been blindsided by failures of intelligence, a veteran CBS News correspondent reveals how the news media has betrayed our trust and endangered our democracy. Tom Fenton is the senior European correspondent for CBS News. In his long journalistic experience, he has reported on everything from the fall of the Shah of Iran to the crumbling of communism in East Germany to the bombing of Israel during the first Gulf War. Today he has covered the movements of al Qaeda throughout Europe-a story he was tracking before 9/11. And in the three years since, he has... At a time when the world has been blindsided by failures of intelligence, a veteran CBS News correspondent reveals how the news media has betrayed ... |
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82,07 zł |
Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
ISBN: 9780060919900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Marin Harris tells how we evolved from apes, acquired powers of speech, and went on to fill the world with a dazzling diversity of societies and cultures. Writing with the same wit, humor and style of his earlier bestsellers, this noted anthropologist traces our roots and views our eventual destiny.
Marin Harris tells how we evolved from apes, acquired powers of speech, and went on to fill the world with a dazzling diversity of societies and cultu...
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77,96 zł |
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
ISBN: 9780060920876 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through...
Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with...
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77,96 zł |
Upon This Rock: Miracles of a Black Church, the
ISBN: 9780060924591 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this widely acclaimed bestseller, the author of Small Victories tackles another explosive issue, this time race in America, by taking an in-depth look at the pastor of a thriving black church in one of New York's most desperate slums.
In this widely acclaimed bestseller, the author of Small Victories tackles another explosive issue, this time race in America, by taking an i...
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65,65 zł |
The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
ISBN: 9780060925055 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies--a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.
The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a ca... |
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61,54 zł |
Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
ISBN: 9780060926304 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson's reflections bring theses narratives homes, proposing surprising new vision of our own diverse and changing society and offering us the courage to participate even as we are still... Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from expe... |
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77,96 zł |
The Manitous: Supernatural World of the Ojibway, the
ISBN: 9780060927356 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These are the stories of the manitous--the spirits who inhabit the supernatural world of the Ojibway (the Native American tribe of the Great Lakes and central Canada region). Harvested by an eminent expert from an ancient oral tradition, these sacred stories introduce wily tricksters, fearsome giants, timorous tree spirits, seductive maidens, and wise grandmothers. Here, a coward masquerading as a hero becomes one; a powerful warrior is riled and routed by a younger sibling with a gift for dancing and disguises; and the ever-hungry evil weendigos--evil manitous--haunt the land. In...
These are the stories of the manitous--the spirits who inhabit the supernatural world of the Ojibway (the Native American tribe of the Great Lakes and...
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69,75 zł |
America Is Me: Most Asked and Least Understood Questions about Black American History, the
ISBN: 9780060927851 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Arranged in a dynamic question-and-answer format, this engaging reference addresses the most asked and least understood questions about Black history, ranging through such topics as African culture, slavery and the Black resistance, important Black inventors, the origins of jazz and rap music and more. Written with wit and candor, using the most up-to-date scholarship and research available, and featuring timelines and a bibliography for further reading, America Is Me explodes the myths and misconceptions to reveal the human side of the Black experience in America. It is a vitally... Arranged in a dynamic question-and-answer format, this engaging reference addresses the most asked and least understood questions about Black histo... |
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86,22 zł |
A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
ISBN: 9780060931049 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferred Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States--the first one being segregation--emerged from the civil rights era when the country was overtaken by a powerful impulse to redeem itself from racial shame. According to Steele,1960s liberalism had as its first and all-consuming goal the expiation of America guilt rather than the... From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story beh... |
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82,07 zł |
Don't Know Much About(r) Mythology: Everything You Need to Know about the Greatest Stories in Human History But Never Learned
ISBN: 9780060932572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill? Since the beginning of time, people have been insatiably curious. They've asked questions about where we come from, why the stars shine and the seasons change, and what constitutes evil. The imaginative answers crafted by our ancestors have served as religion, science, philosophy, and popular literature. In this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About(R) series, Kenneth... What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill? |
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61,54 zł |
This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience
ISBN: 9780060934248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith isthe story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movementin American history -- the U.S. Civil Rights movement. Hailed upon publication as a beautiful, seminal book on the role of the church in the African American community as well as on the social history of America, This Far by Faith reveals the deep religious conviction that empowered a people viewed as powerless to blaze a path to freedom and deliverance, to stand and be counted in this one nation under God. Here are the stories of politics, tent... A companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith isthe story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movementin American histo... |
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106,70 zł |
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
ISBN: 9780060934545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s.
The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken identity to witty one-liners -- reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales weaves a vibrant tapestry that celebrates African American life in the rural South and represents a major part of Zora Neale... Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the ...
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73,86 zł |
Sex and Temperament: In Three Primitive Societies
ISBN: 9780060934958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambuli -- Mead advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Helen...
First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tri...
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65,65 zł |
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
ISBN: 9780060935931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected black America. Losing the Race explores the three main components of this cultural virus: the cults of victimology, separatism, and antiintellectualism that are making blacks their own worst enemies in the struggle for success. More angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more... Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. No... |
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73,86 zł |
The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation
ISBN: 9780060937706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At a time when we are once again talking and thinking about the meaning of America, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Dan Rather provides a powerful look at Americans who struggle to achieve their desires and ambitions. With the stories of ordinary men and women accomplishing the extraordinary, Rather demonstrates how the American dream brings us together and guides us, as it has for more than 200 years.For some, the American dream is simply to own a home or rise out of poverty. Some wish to serve God, country, or community. There are those who want to learn to read or run...
At a time when we are once again talking and thinking about the meaning of America, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Dan Rather provide...
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82,07 zł |
The Universe, the Gods, and Men
ISBN: 9780060957506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this enchanting retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his deep knowledge of the subject with an original storytelling style. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of Uranus, the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods, the wily ruses of Prometheus and Zeus, and the creation of Pandora, the first woman. His narrative takes readers from the Trojan War to the voyage of Odysseus, from the story of Dionysus to the terrible destiny of Oedipus, to Perseus's confrontation with the Gorgons. Jean-Pierre Vernant has... In this enchanting retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his deep knowledge of the subject with an original storytelling style. Beg... |
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69,75 zł |
Letters from the Field, 1925-1975
ISBN: 9780060958046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny, and often poetic letters tell us much about Mead's passion for and understanding of preliterate cultures. But they are... Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence fr... |
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73,86 zł |
New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation--Manus, 1928-1953
ISBN: 9780060958060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology. Economically vulnerable and burdened by a complex moral code, the Manus seemed ill-equipped to handle the massive impact that World War II had on their secluded world. But a unique set of circumstances allowed the Manus to adapt swiftly to the twentieth century, and their experience led Mead to develop a revolutionary theory of cultural transformation, one that favors rapid, over piecemeal, change. As relevanttoday as it was a half-century ago, New Lives for Old...
When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology. Economically vulnerable and ...
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90,28 zł |