wyszukanych pozycji: 84
Pat Coombs: The Authorised Biography
ISBN: 9781781963661 / Twarda / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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86,11 zł |
The Microscope
ISBN: 9781514623596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,83 zł |
The Sweet and Bitter Taste of Moonshine
ISBN: 9781944313173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Author Andrew Ross spins a poignant and magical tale with The Sweet and Bitter Taste of Moonshine, his rich and multilayered novel of the American South that has humanity's classic, most-often-asked existential questions at its core. Ross paints a deftly rendered portrait of this beautiful and deeply historied landscape with this utterly palpable backdrop as the novel's setting.
Ambrose Wells, a young man with virtually no loved ones, has a dead-end job he despises assessing property for tax purposes for the state. He is given the assignment to travel to Wellspring Island, a... Author Andrew Ross spins a poignant and magical tale with The Sweet and Bitter Taste of Moonshine, his rich and multilayered novel of the Ameri...
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63,70 zł |
Patricia Laffan: 'Devil Girl' Remembered
ISBN: 9781781963678 / Miękka / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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40,50 zł |
Undetected scars
ISBN: 9781545654262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,37 zł |
Financial Management in Construction Contracting
ISBN: 9781405125062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Provides a general introduction to costing and budgeting for construction, in particular, covers cost and reconciliations. This textbook offers a useful framework for students by giving an outline of the key requirements, together with an evaluation of the alternatives. It guides students through capital budgeting and good CVR practice.
Provides a general introduction to costing and budgeting for construction, in particular, covers cost and reconciliations. This textbook offers a usef...
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260,59 zł |
9live's "finding a Way Out"
ISBN: 9781478336853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is an excellent "couldn't put it down" serious pager turner Mr. Ross should be commended for writing an unflinchingly honest and inspirational memoir about his personal triumph over a life once filled with violence, brutality, addiction and crime. He was raised in Southeastern Queens at a time when gang violence, juvenile delinquency and drug trafficking statistics were at their highest in the nation. Furthermore, Andrew was raised in a home, where he experienced habitual physical and psychological abuse by his father. As a result, he was compelled to "act out" his frustration and...
This book is an excellent "couldn't put it down" serious pager turner Mr. Ross should be commended for writing an unflinchingly honest and inspiratio...
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59,15 zł |
Canada's Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
ISBN: 9781442612860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose entrepreneurialism has shaped the face of Canadian business as we know it. This captivating collection of biographies profiles Canada's most prominent and innovative business people from the early 1600s through the first quarter of the twentieth century. Beginning with an accessible... Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature,... |
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187,12 zł |
Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice
ISBN: 9780415187596 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Real Love, Andrew Ross, one of our preeminent social critics, explores the vital connection between economic life and cultural expression. From the consequences of cyberspace for work and play to the uses and abuses of genetics in the O.J. trial, from world scarcity to world music, Ross interrogates the cultural forms through which economic forces take their daily toll upon our communities and environment.
Examining the effects of debates about race, technology, ecology, and the arts on social and legal change, Ross focuses in particular on how demands for certain forms of... In Real Love, Andrew Ross, one of our preeminent social critics, explores the vital connection between economic life and cultural expression....
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187,07 zł |
No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781138152205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture. Andrew Ross examines how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is bound up with the changing face of popular taste in America. He argues that the making of "taste" is hardly an aesthetic activity, but rather an exercise in cultural power, policing and carefully redefining...
The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mic...
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885,03 zł |
Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits
ISBN: 9780860915676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Who speaks for science in a technologically dominated society? In his latest work of cultural criticism Andrew Ross contends that this question yields no simple or easy answer. In our present technoculture a wide variety of people, both inside and outside the scientific community, have become increasingly vocal in exercising their right to speak about, on behalf of, and often against, science and technology. Arguing that science can only ever be understood as a social artifact, Strange Weather is a manifesto which calls on cultural critics to abandon their technophobia and contribute to the...
Who speaks for science in a technologically dominated society? In his latest work of cultural criticism Andrew Ross contends that this question yields...
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106,42 zł |
Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice
ISBN: 9780814775059 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In a world increasingly beset by ethnocultural conflicts, the pursuit of cultural rights has taken on new urgency. Claims for cultural justice affect economic distribution as much as they do address demands for recognition from marginalized groups. It is this vital connection between economic life and cultural expression that Andrew Ross, one of our preeminent social critics, explores in Real Love. From the consequences of cyberspace for work and play to the uses and abuses of genetics in the O.J. trial, from world scarcity to world music, Ross interrogates the cultural forms... In a world increasingly beset by ethnocultural conflicts, the pursuit of cultural rights has taken on new urgency. Claims for cultural justice affe... |
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173,03 zł |
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
ISBN: 9780814776919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that--a dream? In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys the new topography of the global workplace and finds an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven development on a massive scale. Combining detailed case studies with lucid analysis and graphic prose, he looks at what the new landscape of... 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in stead... |
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121,33 zł |
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
ISBN: 9780199975525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights.
In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places that... Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square mile...
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155,66 zł |
Science Wars
ISBN: 9780822318811 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt s book Higher Superstition, presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers posed by the science-bashers, set the shrill tone of this reaction and led to the appearance of a growing number of scare stories about an antiscience movement in the op-ed sections of newspapers across the country. Unwilling to be political scapegoats for the decline in the public funding of...
In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social cri...
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450,10 zł |
No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Workers
ISBN: 9781859841723 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study tells the story of the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
This study tells the story of the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
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129,87 zł |
David Livingstone: Mission and Empire
ISBN: 9781852855659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Born in poverty in Blantyre, Scotland, David Livingstone educated himself by heroic endeavor, later proving him-self to be a remarkable linguist and scientist. His missionary journeys brought him into contact with a wide range of African peoples, for whom he showed remarkable sympathy. This is an account of his life and of his achievements.
Born in poverty in Blantyre, Scotland, David Livingstone educated himself by heroic endeavor, later proving him-self to be a remarkable linguist and s...
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319,36 zł |
Cars and Jails: Dreams of Freedom, Realties of Debt and Prison
ISBN: 9781682193495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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65,84 zł |
My Story and I'm Stuck With It: A Personal Journey of Overcoming Hepatitis C
ISBN: 9781105438776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a vibrant chronicle of Mr. Ross long difficult journey through pain, fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss while over coming a life threatening disease. His frank, no holds barred approach provides a powerful narrative about what a patient who is suffering from the effects of Hepatitis C must face in order to overcome this disease.
This is a vibrant chronicle of Mr. Ross long difficult journey through pain, fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss while over coming a life threateni...
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118,94 zł |