wyszukanych pozycji: 202
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Strategic Sustainability: A Natural Environmental Lens on Organizations and Management
ISBN: 9781138916555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Strategic Sustainability examines how organizations can implement environmental sustainability science, theories, and ways of thinking to become more competitive. Including examples and ideas implemented in various countries, it is based on known scientific principles about the natural world" "and organizational principles focusing on the work domain. The intersection of these two realms of research creates a powerful and new approach to comprehensive, seemingly contradictory issues. Daniel S. Fogel draws from disparate fields and creates a story about organizations, their future and... Strategic Sustainability examines how organizations can implement environmental sustainability science, theories, and ways of thinking to become mo... |
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983,54 |
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Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.: Relic, Text, Object, Fake
ISBN: 9789004243880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the year 57 C.E., the court of Later Han dynasty presented a gold seal to an emissary from somewhere in what is now Japan. The seal soon vanished from history, only to be unearthed in 1784 in Japan. In the subsequent two-plus centuries, nearly 400 books and articles (mostly by Japanese) have addressed every conceivable issue surrounding this small object of gold. Joshua Fogel places the conferment of the seal in inter-Asian diplomacy of the first century and then traces four waves of historical analysis that the seal has undergone since its discovery, as the standards of historical...
In the year 57 C.E., the court of Later Han dynasty presented a gold seal to an emissary from somewhere in what is now Japan. The seal soon vanished f...
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The Experience of Doing Science with an Artistic Spirit
ISBN: 9783639158007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In todays science-dominated society, what
importance do the arts hold? Historically, many eminent scientists engaged in the arts, but little qualitative research showcases scientists today who do. This work gives voice to four contemporary highly able scientists with expertise in their field who self-identified as actively engaged in fine arts. Shared are their perceived experiences of doing science and the role of the arts in their work and lives as scientists. Through hermeneutic phenomenological methodology using thematic analysis, four themes emerged: 1)Risking Success in a... In todays science-dominated society, what
importance do the arts hold? Historically, many eminent scientists engaged in the arts, but little... |
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265,15 |
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Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History
ISBN: 9780873323086 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form. The aim of the journal is to present the more important Chinese studies in this field in the light of the interest of those who are professionally concerned with it.
Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in ...
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290,09 |
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The Psychology of Men
ISBN: 9780300066203 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What does it mean to be a man? How do men see themselves in relation to other men, to women, and to both the feminine and the masculine aspects of their own selves? In this fascinating book, a group of outstanding psychoanalysts explore the complexities and ambiguities of masculinity, offering us fresh insights into men's fantasies and conflicts; their developmental tasks, including their role as fathers; and the ways in which men are reacting to changing sexual standards and models.
What does it mean to be a man? How do men see themselves in relation to other men, to women, and to both the feminine and the masculine aspects of the...
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214,98 |
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Books and Boats: Sino-Japanese Relations and Cultural Transmission in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
ISBN: 9781937385132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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255,72 |
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A Doubtful House: Poems
ISBN: 9780872332324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Alice B. Fogel's new collection explores what happens to boundaries--psychological, emotional, physical, formal, even syntactical--when people live together for a long time in one house. The house itself has the main point of view, and addresses all its inhabitants as -you.-
Alice B. Fogel's new collection explores what happens to boundaries--psychological, emotional, physical, formal, even syntactical--when people live to...
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Managing in Emerging Market Economies: Cases from the Czech and Slovak Republics
ISBN: 9780367007720 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since 1989, east-central Europe has plunged headlong into reform efforts, and firms large and small have been forced almost overnight to adapt to the demands of a market economy. This book of case studies on business development in the Czech and Slovak Republics illustrates how various industries and specific companies are responding to the challen
Since 1989, east-central Europe has plunged headlong into reform efforts, and firms large and small have been forced almost overnight to adapt to the ...
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762,24 |
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Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time
ISBN: 9780674032590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens, he suggests a new way to capture the relationship between China and Japan by characterizing the nature of their contact. From the first century CE, the primary reasons for contact moved from political and ceremonial to cultural, and on to commercial ties. This period ends at the dawn of the modern age, when contacts involved treaties, consulates, and international law. Switching to a microhistorical view, Fogel examines several important... Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens, he suggests ... |
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216,13 |
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Strategic Sustainability: A Natural Environmental Lens on Organizations and Management
ISBN: 9781138916579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Strategic Sustainability examines how organizations can implement environmental sustainability science, theories, and ways of thinking to become more competitive. Including examples and ideas implemented in various countries, it is based on known scientific principles about the natural world" "and organizational principles focusing on the work domain. The intersection of these two realms of research creates a powerful and new approach to comprehensive, seemingly contradictory issues. Daniel S. Fogel draws from disparate fields and creates a story about organizations, their future and... Strategic Sustainability examines how organizations can implement environmental sustainability science, theories, and ways of thinking to become mo... |
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329,44 |
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Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity
ISBN: 9781107027916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity is a collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W. Fogel on the theory and measurement of aging and health-related variables. Dr. Fogel analyzes historic data on height, health, nutrition, and life expectation to provide a clearer understanding of the past, illustrate the costs and benefits of using such measures, and note the difficulties of drawing conclusions from data intended for different purposes. Dr. Fogel explains how the basic findings of the anthropometric approach to historical analysis have helped reinterpret the nature of...
Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity is a collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W. Fogel on the theory and measurement of aging...
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369,69 |
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Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI
ISBN: 9781558607835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Blondie24 tells the story of a computer that taught itself to play checkers far better than its creators ever could by using a program that emulated the basic principles of Darwinian evolution--random variation and natural selection-- to discover on its own how to excel at the game. Unlike Deep Blue, the celebrated chess machine that beat Garry Kasparov, the former world champion chess player, this evolutionary program didn't have access to strategies employed by human grand masters, or to databases of moves for the endgame moves, or to other human expertise about the game of... Blondie24 tells the story of a computer that taught itself to play checkers far better than its creators ever could by using a program that ... |
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Between China and Japan: The Writings of Joshua Fogel
ISBN: 9789004282025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 649 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over the past thirty-five years, Joshua Fogel has pioneered the study of Sino-Japanese cultural and political relations--understood as the intersections of the histories of these two countries. This volume brings together many of his essays and reviews in this new field. For a variety of reasons discussed within, scholars have been reluctant to look at these two nation's historical connections, either through comparative analysis or actual interactions. Fogel's work has focused squarely here. Among the issues addressed are Japanese scholarly views of modern China and Chinese history, Chinese...
Over the past thirty-five years, Joshua Fogel has pioneered the study of Sino-Japanese cultural and political relations--understood as the intersectio...
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Books and Boats: Sino-Japanese Relations and Cultural Transmission in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
ISBN: 9781937385125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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132,73 |
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The Cultural Dimensions of Sino-Japanese Relations: Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: 9781563244445 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of each other, and the information that helped to fuel those perceptions. There are two sections: China in Japan, debating the Asiatic Mode of Production and kyodotai; and Japan in China, covering the Manchurian Railway.
Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of each other, and the information that helped to fuel those perceptions. There are tw...
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290,09 |
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Imagining the People: Chinese Intellectuals and the Concept of Citizenship, 1890-1920
ISBN: 9780765600981 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of citizenry. This book examines thinkers from the period 1890-1920 in modern China, and shows how China might forge a modern society with a political citizenry.
While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of citizenry. This b...
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688,47 |
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Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art: Volume 3
ISBN: 9780520289840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scholars investigates Japan's impact on Chinese art from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1930s. Individual essays address a range of perspectives, including the work of individual Chinese and Japanese painters,...
The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, a...
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270,47 |
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The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780520220072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing was about 200,000. This carefully researched, intelligent collection of original essays considers the post-World War II treatment in China of the Nanjing...
The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjin...
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Managing in Emerging Market Economies: Cases from the Czech and Slovak Republics
ISBN: 9780367157593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations
ISBN: 9780520283305 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan s immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea. Concerned by the fast-changing global environment, they had witnessed the ever-increasing number of incursions into Asia by European powersnot the least of which was Commodore Perry s arrival in Japan in 185354 and the forced opening of a handful of Japanese ports at the end of the decade. The Japanese reasoned that it was only a matter...
After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan s immediate fishing shores, Japanese s...
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