wyszukanych pozycji: 84
Amber: The Natural Time Capsule
ISBN: 9780565092580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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66,76 zł |
The Sweet and Bitter Taste of Moonshine
ISBN: 9781944313173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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63,55 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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268,81 zł |
9live's "finding a Way Out"
ISBN: 9781478336853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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59,00 zł |
Everything I Ever Wanted: The Biograph of Peggy Mount
ISBN: 9781781963838 / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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66,76 zł |
Undetected scars
ISBN: 9781545654262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,20 zł |
The Microscope
ISBN: 9781514623596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,75 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. 13-18 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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118,66 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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192,97 zł |
Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits
ISBN: 9780860915676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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107,93 zł |
Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945
ISBN: 9780815633839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? "Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945" tells the fascinating story of the game off the ice, offering a play-by-play of cooperation and competition among owners, players, arenas, and spectators that produced a major league business enterprise. Ross explores the ways in which the NHL organized itself to maintain long-term stability, deal with its labor force, and adapt its product and structure to the demands of local, regional, and international markets. He argues that...
How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? "Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey ...
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308,82 zł |
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel
ISBN: 9781788730266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,31 zł |
Oh! Look a Boat!
ISBN: 9781838742232 / Miękka / 2024 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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66,76 zł |
Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice
ISBN: 9780814775059 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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172,61 zł |
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
ISBN: 9780814776292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 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... 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in stead... |
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386,05 zł |
No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Workers
ISBN: 9781859841723 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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129,56 zł |
Oh! Look, a Boat!
ISBN: 9781838742188 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,83 zł |
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
ISBN: 9780199828265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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132,28 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 (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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66,76 zł |