wyszukanych pozycji: 100
Forever in My Heart
ISBN: 9780007339334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jade's heart-breaking diary of her fight against terminal cancer and her final precious months with her beloved family. In August 2008 Jade Goody received the shattering news that she had cervical cancer. She was only 27 years old. But with her usual strength of character, Jade was determined to beat the disease and carry on with life as normal with her two little boys Bobby and Freddy. Neither the chemotherapy, which left her weak and bald, or the hysterectomy that crushed her dreams of having a little girl, could break Jade's sunny personality or her fierce refusal to be a... Jade's heart-breaking diary of her fight against terminal cancer and her final precious months with her beloved family. In August 2008 Jade G... |
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51,62 zł |
Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781474498029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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571,67 zł |
I Met Him At The Well
ISBN: 9780244687748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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23,72 zł |
The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia
ISBN: 9780521367615 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), Professor Goody looks in depth at kinship practice in Asia. His findings cause him to question many traditional assumptions about the "primitive" East, and he suggests that, in contrast to pre-colonial Africa, kinship practice in Asia has much in common with that prevailing in parts of pre-industrial Europe. Goody examines the transmission of productive and other property in relation both to the prevailing political economy and to family and ideological...
Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), Professor ...
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227,81 zł |
Jade: Fighting to the End
ISBN: 9781844548132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The moment that Jade Goody stepped into the "Big Brother" house, she secured her place as the unofficial winner of the third season, and found instant fame as a reality star. The glitz and glamour of sudden fame was a far cry from her difficult beginnings. Brought up in a run-down area andcaring for her disabled mother, Jade didn t have an easy childhood.Butshe always lived her life with incredible spirit and that is what endeared her to millions during "Big Brother." Behind the bubbly exterior, there was a tough and fiercely determined lady. Jade was always the first to admit that she had...
The moment that Jade Goody stepped into the "Big Brother" house, she secured her place as the unofficial winner of the third season, and found instant...
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72,27 zł |
Tour De Compassion: A Long Way to No Where
ISBN: 9781514345375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An adventure tale of a young man's trials and tribulations during his cross country voyages on bicycle. Providing insights to life on and off the road. Detailing his love, loss, and everything in between. Each purchase goes to helping the Nature Conservancy protect our environment.
An adventure tale of a young man's trials and tribulations during his cross country voyages on bicycle. Providing insights to life on and off the road...
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72,32 zł |
Succession to High Office
ISBN: 9780521297325 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies.
This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies.
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215,11 zł |
War & Paracetamol
ISBN: 9781913958251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,32 zł |
Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein
ISBN: 9780230500495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, and Gertrude Stein. These three writers are placed at specific modernist moments--key points of articulation--in order to explore their work and its response to the culture around it. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, Modernist Articulations significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism.
This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the mod...
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192,30 zł |
Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein
ISBN: 9781349352685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, it significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism.
This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the mod...
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192,30 zł |
Islam in Europe
ISBN: 9780745631936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. Following the movement of people, culture and religion from East to West, Goody breaks down the perceived opposition between Islam and Europe, showing Islam to be a part of Europe's past and present. In an historical analysis of religious warfare and forced migration, Goody examines our understanding of legitimate violence, ethnic cleansing and terrorism. His comparative perspective offers important and illuminating insights into current political problems and conflicts. Goody traces three routes...
This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. Following the movement of people, culture and religion...
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87,48 zł |
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa
ISBN: 9781138585300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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171,44 zł |
The Theft of History
ISBN: 9781107683556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive Eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing, and the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism and love. Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, raises questions about theorists, historians and methodology, and proposes a new comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis which allows for more scope...
In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive ...
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86,06 zł |
Changing Social Structure in Ghana: Essays in the Comparative Sociology of a New State and an Old Tradition
ISBN: 9781138593220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of particular sub-groups and sectors in one single nation and they show that the field-worker with a wide comparative background in the range of pre-industrial societies has a positive role to play in contemporary social science. Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of p... |
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571,67 zł |
The Eurasian Miracle
ISBN: 9780745647937 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. Today there are many who still believe that this progression was part of a European miracle that underlay the rise to global supremacy of the West.
In this short book Jack Goody systematically dismantles this Eurocentric view of the world. He argues that we need to look, not for a... The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It wa...
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273,53 zł |
The Theft of History
ISBN: 9780521870696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love. The Theft of History discusses a number of theorists in detail, including Marx, Weber and Norbert Elias, and engages with critical admiration western historians like Fernand Braudel, Moses Finlay and Perry Anderson....
Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or...
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424,80 zł |
Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements
ISBN: 9781349959600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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326,93 zł |
The Expansive Moment: The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918 1970
ISBN: 9780521450485 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such as Malinowski and Fortes, and explores how far ideological approaches adopted by social anthropologists were defined by the institutions in which they developed, particularly in response to key issues of the time: colonialism, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody focuses on Britain and Africa, and draws on his own wide-ranging personal fieldwork experience.
Jack Goody's new book explores the history of social anthropology as an emergent discipline in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, su...
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449,41 zł |
Food and Love : A Cultural History of East and West
ISBN: 9781844674381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, the globalization of Chinese food, the histories of various taboos on certain types of food and drink, the uniqueness of the European family--such are the fascinating and diverse themes Goody addresses in "Food and Love."
Starting with a sustained discussion of the debates on social development in the thought of classic theorists as well as contemporary historical and sociological notions of modernization, Goody goes on to tease out the general historical processes embedded in the most intimate recesses of... The development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, the globalization of Chinese food, the histories of various taboos ...
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150,47 zł |
Defense Mechanisms
ISBN: 9780985147778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,58 zł |