ilość książek w kategorii: 85
Aesthetic Creation
ISBN: 9780199261871 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is the purpose of a work of art? What drives us to make art? Why do we value art and consume it? Nick Zangwill argues that we cannot understand the nature of art without first having answers to these fundamental questions.
What is the purpose of a work of art? What drives us to make art? Why do we value art and consume it? Nick Zangwill argues that we cannot understand t...
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437,90 zł |
Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden
ISBN: 9780199234301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and conferred on him titles such as "the glory of the English nation" (Hugo Grotius), "Monarch in letters" (Ben Jonson), "the chief of learned men reputed in this land" (John Milton). Although scholars have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and constitutional...
In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an ext...
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334,91 zł |
Civilian Immunity in War C
ISBN: 9780199290741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The protection of noncombatants from deadly violence is the centerpiece of any account of ethical and legal constraints on war. It was a major achievement of moral progress from early modern times to World War I. Yet it has been under constant attrition since -- perhaps never more so than in our time, with its "new wars," the specter of weapons of mass destruction, and the global terrorism alert.
Civilian Immunity in War, written in collaboration by eleven authors, provides the first comprehensive analysis of all main aspects of this highly topical subject. It considers the... The protection of noncombatants from deadly violence is the centerpiece of any account of ethical and legal constraints on war. It was a major achieve...
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325,10 zł |
Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC
ISBN: 9780199228409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the largest and historically most important of the ancient Greek city-states, depended for its survival on the constant importation of grain from overseas lands as remote as Ukraine and southern Russia, and this trade was ultimately controlled by powerful politicians, wealthy landowners, and kings. Alfonso Moreno examines how this resource need...
The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of...
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680,67 zł |
Scottish and Irish Romanticism
ISBN: 9780199232796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of 'national literature'. He proposes certain determining 'triggers' for the recognition of the presence of a national literature, and also deals with two major problems which are holding back the development of a new and broader understanding of British Isles Romanticisms: the survival of outdated assumptions in ostensibly...
Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pitt...
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509,02 zł |
Commodity Prices and Development
ISBN: 9780199234707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. More than 50 developing countries depend on three or fewer commodities for more than half of their exports and, in fact, many rely on a single commodity for a large share of export earnings. This reliance inevitability exposes countries to the risk of export earnings instability as a result of price shocks and, perhaps even more significantly, the falling purchasing power of exports over the long run due to declining real prices. Presenting for the first time a complete analysis of the issues surrounding commodity prices and development, this book is the culmination of three years of research...
More than 50 developing countries depend on three or fewer commodities for more than half of their exports and, in fact, many rely on a single commodi...
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545,80 zł |
Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800
ISBN: 9780199543472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield for what was otherwise Britain's bloodless (and so Glorious) Revolution. The eighteenth century, by contrast, was a period of peace, permitting...
For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By...
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334,91 zł |
Life on Air: A History of Radio Four
ISBN: 9780199550241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Radio Four has been described as "the greatest broadcasting channel in the world," the "heartbeat of the BBC," a cultural icon of Britishness, and the voice of Middle England. Defined by its rich mix, encompassing everything from journalism and drama to comedy, quizzes, and short-stories. Many of its programs- such as Today, The Archers, Woman's Hour, The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, Gardeners' Question Time, and The Shipping Forecast--have been part of British life for decades. Others, less successful, have caused offence and prompted derision. Born as it was in the Swinging Sixties,...
Radio Four has been described as "the greatest broadcasting channel in the world," the "heartbeat of the BBC," a cultural icon of Britishness, and the...
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89,63 zł |
Organizing Words: A Critical Thesaurus for Social and Organization Studies
ISBN: 9780199213221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Organizing Words presents a series of essays on some 220 widely used--and much debated--terms in the social sciences, and organization studies. Each essay explores the meanings and uses of the word; and also the controversies they have sparked. The book aims to be a first port of call for students, researchers and scholars who wish to familiarize themselves with these key ideas and use them in their own work.
The book is neither an encyclopaedia nor a dictionary, but a thesaurus. As such it combines both the original meaning of a thesaurus as a treasure trove, with its more contemporary... Organizing Words presents a series of essays on some 220 widely used--and much debated--terms in the social sciences, and organization studies. Each e...
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349,62 zł |
The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960
ISBN: 9780195374483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated--New York Governor Al Smith in 1928--he was routed in the general election. From the outset, Kennedy saw the religion issue as the single most important obstacle on his road to the White House. He was acutely aware of, and deeply frustrated by, the possibility that his personal religious beliefs could keep him out of the White House.
In The Making of a... The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had ne...
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126,41 zł |
Engineering Hydrology
ISBN: 9780195694611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Engineering Hydrology is designed as a textbook for undergraduate students of Civil Engineering and introduces several new concepts and analytical methods and seeks to address the present day needs of graduating engineers.
The book starts with a basic knowledge of water, its forms and locations, the hydrologic cycle and methods to analyze hydrograph applications. Full justice is done to key areas such as simulation and synthetic methods in hydrology, with emphasis on Monte Carlo simulation, rainfall-runoff relationships, statistical methods in hydrology, flood frequency analysis... Engineering Hydrology is designed as a textbook for undergraduate students of Civil Engineering and introduces several new concepts and analytical met...
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138,67 zł |
Transformation of the Self in the Thought of Schleiermacher
ISBN: 9780199206377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The work of German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher (17681834) has played a key role in the development of Protestant thought. Despite the importance of Schleiermacher's ethical theory, it has received little attention in the English-speaking world. Jacqueline Marina's book offers a corrective to this neglect, inviting philosophers and theologians to reassess his work and influence and the relevance of his thought to contemporary debates concerning the relation of religion and morality.
Marina begins by acknowledging Schleiermacher's early struggle to come to terms with Kant's... The work of German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher (17681834) has played a key role in the development of Protestant thought. Despite the importan...
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339,81 zł |
A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath
ISBN: 9780195370195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Sabbath is the original feast day, a day of joy and freedom from work, a holy day that allows us to reconnect with God, our fellows and nature. Now, in a compelling blend of journalism, scholarship and personal memoir, Christopher D. Ringwald examines the Sabbath from Creation to the present, weaving together the stories of three families, three religions and three thousand years of history.
A Day Apart is the first book to examine the Sabbath in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A marvelously readable book, it describes the three weekly holy days--the Muslim Juma on Friday, the... The Sabbath is the original feast day, a day of joy and freedom from work, a holy day that allows us to reconnect with God, our fellows and nature. No...
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87,17 zł |
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man. Duncan Wu
ISBN: 9780199549580 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Duncan Wu's portrait of William Hazlitt - covering Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era.
Duncan Wu's portrait of William Hazlitt - covering Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal ...
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231,86 zł |
Acoustic Microscopy
ISBN: 9780199232734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Acoustic microscopy enables you to image and measure the elastic properties of materials with the resolution of a good microscope. By using frequencies in microwave regime, it is possible to make the acoustic wavelength comparable with the wavelength of light, and hence to achieve a resolution comparable with an optical microscope. Solids can support both longitudinal and transverse acoustic waves. At surfaces a unique combination of the two known as Raleigh waves can propagate, and in many circumstances these dominate the contrast in acoustic microscopy. Following the invention of scanning...
Acoustic microscopy enables you to image and measure the elastic properties of materials with the resolution of a good microscope. By using frequencie...
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607,11 zł |
Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra
ISBN: 9780195320930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. In this book, Leighton explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei D?gen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese S?t? Zen tradition, which currently enjoys increasing popularity in the West. The Lotus Sutra, arguably the most...
As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materia...
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533,54 zł |
Vergil's Georgics. Edited by Katharina Volk
ISBN: 9780199542932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume, together with its companion on the Eclogues and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collects ten classic papers on the Georgics written between 1970 and 1999 by leading scholars from several different countries. The contributions are representative of recent developments in Vergilian scholarship, with some discussing general issues raised by the work and others treating important individual poems and passages. The editor's Introduction places the essays in their context. A conspectus...
This volume, together with its companion on the Eclogues and the previously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage of Vergil's poetry ...
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680,67 zł |
Pilgrimage and Power: The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954
ISBN: 9780195338942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according to the government of Uttar Pradesh, 30 million pilgrims were drawn to the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna on the most auspicious day for bathing. In an impressive feat of organization and administration, the first mela of the new millennium was managed to the overwhelming satisfaction of most, with an impressive health and safety record. The loudest complaint had to do with the intrusive presence of the media. Journalists, largely...
Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according t...
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472,24 zł |
A Dictionary of Hinduism
ISBN: 9780198610250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new authoritative dictionary covers all aspects of Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts. Almost 2,800 entries cover everything from Tantra to temples, from bhakti to Divali. The most wide-ranging dictionary of its kind, this brand new AZ also contains biographical entries for key thinkers, teachers, and scholars. All entries are clear, concise, up to date, and fully cross-referenced. Detailed appendices include maps, pronunciation guide, a chronology, principal sources and further reading, and useful websites that will be...
This new authoritative dictionary covers all aspects of Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religiou...
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290,77 zł |
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Image of God
ISBN: 9780195308990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Scholars universally acknowledge the role that Christian belief played in the social movement engendered by Martin Luther King Jr. Yet few have actually delved into the complexity of King's theology itself. The centrality of one aspect of his theology in particular - imago Dei, the belief that human beings are made in God's image - has been surprisingly overlooked. In this book, Richard W. Wills Sr. offers a comprehensive analysis of King's appeal for civil rights by investigating his understanding of imago Dei. Wills begins by tracing the evolution of this idea through...
Scholars universally acknowledge the role that Christian belief played in the social movement engendered by Martin Luther King Jr. Yet few have actual...
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447,71 zł |