wyszukanych pozycji: 91
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Amber: The Natural Time Capsule
ISBN: 9780565092580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 'Amber', Andrew Ross provides an engaging overview of this prehistoric substance and its fossilized inclusions. The book explains how amber is formed, where it is found and how to distinguish genuine amber from fakes.
In 'Amber', Andrew Ross provides an engaging overview of this prehistoric substance and its fossilized inclusions. The book explains how amber is form...
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66,14 |
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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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57,37 |
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Pat Coombs: The Authorised Biography
ISBN: 9781781963661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
86,51 |
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The Visionary Gleam
ISBN: 9798822952102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
91,82 |
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Undetected scars
ISBN: 9781545654262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
83,08 |
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Too Happy a Face: The Biography of Joan Sims
ISBN: 9781781962695 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
66,14 |
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Everything I Ever Wanted: The Biography of Peggy Mount
ISBN: 9781781963838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
66,14 |
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Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice
ISBN: 9780814775042 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 243 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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Science Wars
ISBN: 9780822318712 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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Donald Ross and the Highland Clearances: 'Yet still the Blood is Strong'
ISBN: 9781398104266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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127,28 |
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No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Workers
ISBN: 9781859841723 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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114,52 |
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Science Wars
ISBN: 9780822318811 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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465,08 |
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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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202,80 |
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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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338,47 |
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Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel
ISBN: 9781788730273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men", utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabrication, and dressing is Palestine's largest employer and generator of revenue, supplying the construction industry in Israel, along with other Middle...
"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, describe...
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66,14 |
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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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66,14 |
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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
ISBN: 9780199828265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 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 like... 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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130,46 |
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No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs
ISBN: 9781592131501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. While the Internet bubble has burst, the New Economy that the Internet produced is still with us, along with the myth of a workplace built around more humane notions of how people work and spend their days in offices. This is a study of New Economy workplaces in their heyday.
While the Internet bubble has burst, the New Economy that the Internet produced is still with us, along with the myth of a workplace built around more...
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103,85 |