wyszukanych pozycji: 14
Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement
ISBN: 9781934691083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More people were involuntarily displaced in the twentieth century than ever before, and not only by war and natural disasters. Capital-intensive, high-technology, large-scale projects compel the displacement and resettlement of an estimated 15 million people every year in the process of converting farmlands, fishing grounds, forests, and homes into reservoirs, irrigation systems, mines, plantations, colonization projects, highways, urban renewal zones, industrial complexes, and tourist resorts. Aimed at generating economic growth and strengthening the region or nation, these projects have... More people were involuntarily displaced in the twentieth century than ever before, and not only by war and natural disasters. Capital-intensive, h... |
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219,51 zł |
Defying Displacement: Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development
ISBN: 9780292728905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The uprooting and displacement of people has long been among the hardships associated with development and modernity. Indeed, the circulation of commodities, currency, and labor in modern society necessitates both social and spatial mobility. However, the displacement and resettlement of millions of people each year by large-scale infrastructural projects raises serious questions about the democratic character of the development process. Although designed to spur economic growth, many of these projects leave local people struggling against serious impoverishment and gross violations... The uprooting and displacement of people has long been among the hardships associated with development and modernity. Indeed, the circulation of co... |
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124,44 zł |
Dream Big: Dream It...Believe It...Receive It....
ISBN: 9781449769413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many times in life, we give up on our dreams because of different things that happened. Do not let your past or personal pain prevent you from pursuing your dream and destiny. God has a plan for all those who submit to His Lordship and will ensure we accomplish that dream. The only person that can hinder you from your personal dream is yourself. Be bold, stay prayerful, stay focused, and stay committed and connected to watch God unleash your powerful dream to solve an issue in our world today. Sometimes the best things in life are worth waiting for. Sometimes the best things in life are... Many times in life, we give up on our dreams because of different things that happened. Do not let your past or personal pain prevent you from purs... |
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61,97 zł |
The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
ISBN: 9781138237841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between society and environment. In the second edition, each chapter has been updated with an addendum to reflect on recent developments in the field. There is also new material on key present-day topics including epidemics, drought, famine, non-governmental organizations, and displacement and resettlement. This book demonstrates the relevance of studying disaster from an anthropological perspective and is a valuable resource not only for...
This volume explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship b...
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248,92 zł |
The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
ISBN: 9781138237834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between society and environment. In the second edition, each chapter has been updated with an addendum to reflect on recent developments in the field. There is also new material on key present-day topics including epidemics, drought, famine, non-governmental organizations, and displacement and resettlement. This book demonstrates the relevance of studying disaster from an anthropological perspective and is a valuable resource not only for...
This volume explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship b...
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700,25 zł |
Seeing Beneath the Soil: Prospecting Methods in Archaeology
ISBN: 9781138405233 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Scientific soil prospecting methods can give dramatic pictures of buried archaeological sites, and sometimes information on what occurred within them, before any earth has ben removed. Dr Clark, who was one of the earliest to work in this field, has written the first general survey of an increasingly important area of practical archaeology. The emphasis is on the principles and practical application of the well established techniques of resistivity, magnetometry and magnetic susceptibility, with shorter sections on emerging and less common techniques such as ground-penetrating radar,...
Scientific soil prospecting methods can give dramatic pictures of buried archaeological sites, and sometimes information on what occurred within them,...
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933,66 zł |
Shell Art & Advertising
ISBN: 9781848223783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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245,70 zł |
The African Middle Ages, 1400-1800
ISBN: 9780521298940 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The African Middle Ages covers the period of African history from 1400 to 1800.
The African Middle Ages covers the period of African history from 1400 to 1800.
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217,74 zł |
Medieval Africa, 1250-1800
ISBN: 9780521790246 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history from about 1250 AD, when African societies were expanding their political and economic scope, and when Islamic influences were already reaching across the Sahara and down the Indian Ocean coastline. It continues through the period of early European contact from the fifteenth century onward, with much emphasis on expanding Atlantic trade.
This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history fro...
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330,57 zł |
Disasters in Paradise: Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development Decisions
ISBN: 9780739177372 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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491,40 zł |
Medieval Africa, 1250-1800
ISBN: 9780521793728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history from about 1250 AD, when African societies were expanding their political and economic scope, and when Islamic influences were already reaching across the Sahara and down the Indian Ocean coastline. It continues through the period of early European contact from the fifteenth century onward, with much emphasis on expanding Atlantic trade.
This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes African history fro...
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178,24 zł |
The Plants, Androids and Operators: A Post-Media Handbook
ISBN: 9781906496968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book documents the f irst life-cycle of the Post-Media Lab (2011-2014). Taking up Felix Guattari's challenge, the Lab aimed to combine social and media practices into collective assemblages of enunciation in order to confront social monoformity. Here we draw together some key essays, images and art projects by the Lab's participants, as well as a close documentation of its associated events, talks, and exhibitions, to create a vivid portrayal of post-media practice today. With contributions by: Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Micha Cardenas, Sean Dockray, Mina Emad, Bogdan...
This book documents the f irst life-cycle of the Post-Media Lab (2011-2014). Taking up Felix Guattari's challenge, the Lab aimed to combine social and...
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77,78 zł |
The Human Strike Has Already Begun & Other Essays
ISBN: 9781906496883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this volume, passionate texts from the last decade by artist and theory collective Claire Fontaine are brought together with an extended concluding essay and foreword. Moving across militant, aesthetic and poetic registers these texts consider what resistance might look like in the age of human capital, where all dimensions of the self are infiltrated and conscripted by capital in its pursuit of value. Their answer is the human strike - a strike against the demands on the self imposed by power - in the interest of 'changing ourselves', becoming who we want to become. This strike has been...
In this volume, passionate texts from the last decade by artist and theory collective Claire Fontaine are brought together with an extended concluding...
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30,88 zł |
Digital Solidarity
ISBN: 9781906496920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Felix Stalder's extended essay, Digital Solidarity, takes it's point of departure from the waves of new forms of networked political organisation which have met the onset of the global economic crisis of 2008. Following Karl Marx, Stalder lays out how in the current period there are emergent contradictions between applied innovation and technical progress and the economic institutions whch organise or restrain this progress. The contradictions between forces of production and relations of production are placed in a context in which we have left McLuhan's Gutenburg Galaxy behind for good and...
Felix Stalder's extended essay, Digital Solidarity, takes it's point of departure from the waves of new forms of networked political organisation whic...
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32,94 zł |