wyszukanych pozycji: 586
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Muse: Book Three
ISBN: 9781519311924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Blake Roberts is released from prison, he decides to follow his dream to become a successful impressionist painter and opens an art studio in Wilmington, North Carolina. But when an accident leaves him completely blind, he becomes a recluse - shutting himself away in his studio with only his shattered dreams as company. Blake is lost to total darkness until he is visited by Julian, a small boy, who comes out of nowhere. And Blake can see him. Inspired by Julian's visits, Blake begins to paint the boy's likeness. For six months he paints Julian and the portraits become famous. Blake is...
When Blake Roberts is released from prison, he decides to follow his dream to become a successful impressionist painter and opens an art studio in Wil...
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The Gifted
ISBN: 9781468574227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age
ISBN: 9780393326208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 725 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The invention of the airplane ushered in the modern age--a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and total war. Whatever the practical consequences, the sheer exhilaration of flight captured the imagination. No longer bound to the surface of the earth, humans took the first steps on a journey that would eventually carry them to other worlds. Tom Crouch weaves the people, machines, and ideas of the air age into a compelling narrative. He tells how the enthusiasm of amateurs spawned an industry that determined the rise and fall of nations. Yet this is not a tale of unalloyed...
The invention of the airplane ushered in the modern age--a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and total war. Whatever the practic...
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The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy
ISBN: 9789004335974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic and post-exilic periods as well as scholarship which limits pre-exilic identity concerns to Josianic nationalism. The argument analyses the archaeological material from the southern Levant during Iron Age II, then draws on anthropological research to argue for an ethnic response to the economic, political and cultural change of this period....
In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelit...
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Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East
ISBN: 9780567001849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers. In a departure from previous scholarship, the volume brings together the study of prophecy, as an intuitive form of divination, with the study of technical methods of communication and other forms of institutionalised communication such as prayer. Such a format allows divine-human communication to be studied in both directions... This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings so... |
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Mexicans & Americans: Cracking the Cultural Code
ISBN: 9781857883428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mexicans and Americans: Cracking the Cultural Code gets to the heart of our differences and lays the groundwork for cultural fluency. Here is a humorous and insightful firsthand look at how to succeed in working with Mexicans on either side of the border. Steeped in the richness of Mexican culture and history, Ned Crouch helps us understand the most critical elements that determine what works and what doesn't when Mexicans and Americans come together in business: our different views of time and space, and our construction and use of language. He debunks the 'manana' stereotype and offers...
Mexicans and Americans: Cracking the Cultural Code gets to the heart of our differences and lays the groundwork for cultural fluency. Here is a humoro...
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Translating Empire: Tell Fekheriyeh, Deuteronomy, and the Akkadian Treaty Tradition
ISBN: 9783161590269 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Author
ISBN: 9781840029505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tim Crouch's new play is about the abuse carried out in the name of the spectator; it is a story of hope, violence, and exploitation. Laugh with the actors, tap your feet to the music, and turn to your neighbor. Tim Crouch's new play is about the abuse carried out in the name of the spectator; it is a story of hope, violence, and exploitation. Laugh with th... |
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Adler & Gibb
ISBN: 9781783190928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The children swing their legs on the chairs. The student delivers the presentation. The older woman stands with the gun. The young couple arrives at the house. The house is returning to nature. A movie is being made. The truth is being plundered. But the house is still lived in and the spirit to resist is strong.
Janet Adler and Margaret Gibb were conceptual artists working in New York at the end of the last century. They were described by art critic Dave Hickey as the 'most ferociously uncompromising voice of their generation'. With Adler's death in 2004, however, the compromise began.... The children swing their legs on the chairs. The student delivers the presentation. The older woman stands with the gun. The young couple arrives at t...
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I, Cinna (The Poet)
ISBN: 9781849434034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. -It's a very powerful piece indeed.---The Stage The latest installment in Tim Crouch's acclaimed family-friendly series of William Shakespeare plays explored through the eyes of minor characters. Here, it's Julius Caesar from the perspective of a lowly poet, a man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the wrong name, while history thunders past. -It's a very powerful piece indeed.---The Stage The latest installment in Tim Crouch's acclaimed family-friendly series of William Sha... |
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A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905
ISBN: 9780393322279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote the last chapter in a long story. For decades prior, a small community of engineers, scientists, and dreamers men named Chanute and Langley and Herring had tried to make the ascent in every conceivable craft, from kites and gliders to an assortment of powered flying models. This fascinating assortment of characters and contraptions comes to life in Tom Crouch's classic A Dream of Wings. In the quest for flight, aeronautical societies were formed...
When Orville and Wilbur Wright soared over Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina's outer banks and solved the problem of aerial navigation, they wrote th...
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Hammer and Lock: A Texas Romance
ISBN: 9780648487814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Das befremdliche Überleben des Neoliberalismus : Postdemokratie II. Ausgezeichnet mit "Das politische Buch" 2012
ISBN: 9783518422748 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2011 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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The Media and the Tourist Imagination: Converging Cultures
ISBN: 9780415326261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global processes and both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures. The Media and the Tourist Imagination adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. The contributions are divided between those written from media...
Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowle...
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Even Spinsters Need Company
ISBN: 9780648487807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Innovation in Local Economies: Germany in Comparative Context
ISBN: 9780199551170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The study of varieties of capitalism is moving on from the analysis of static national types to embrace local and sectoral diversity and the study of systems in the process of major change. This volume addresses the issue by examining four localised sectors, comparing a German case with one in another European country. The general changes taking place in Germany itself and the other countries (Hungary, Sweden, and the UK) form the context of the studies. The case studies concern:
* Furniture making in North-Rhine Westphalia and southern Sweden, * Automotive manufacture in east Germany... The study of varieties of capitalism is moving on from the analysis of static national types to embrace local and sectoral diversity and the study of ...
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Changing Governance of Local Economies: Responses of European Local Production Systems
ISBN: 9780199259403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; and clusters of high-technology activities. Building on the work of their previous book (Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise? OUP 2001), which charted the recent development of local clusters of specialized manufacturing among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, the authors find patterns of economic governance far more complex and dynamic that usually described in a literature...
This book examines patterns of economic governance in three specific, contrasting, contexts: machinery-producing districts; declining steel cities; an...
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Will the Gig Economy Prevail?
ISBN: 9781509532445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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William Marshal
ISBN: 9781138939332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David Crouch s William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient soldier. Born the fourth son of a minor baron, he ended his days as Earl of Pembroke and Regent of England, and was the only medieval knight to have a contemporary biography written about him. Using this biography in addition to the many other primary sources dedicated to him, the author provides a narrative of William Marshal and a survey of the times in which he lived and also considers the... David Crouch s William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier... |
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Making Capitalism Fit for Society
ISBN: 9780745672229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies. Can capitalism be reshaped so that it is fit for society, or must we acquiesce to the neoliberal view that society will be at its best when markets are given free rein in all areas of life?
The aim of this book is to show that the acceptance of capitalism and the market does not require us to accept the full... Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the p...
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