wyszukanych pozycji: 110
Modern Dreams
ISBN: 9780877277309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A fascinating ethnographic study of the cultural politics of urban redevelopment in Kampung Serani, one Penang community, in the 1990s. Through interviews, newspaper reports, and other records, Goh considers changing notions of culture, ethnic...
A fascinating ethnographic study of the cultural politics of urban redevelopment in Kampung Serani, one Penang community, in the 1990s. Through inter...
|
|
cena:
115,37 zł |
Principles of Noology: Toward a Theory and Science of Intelligence
ISBN: 9783319321110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The idea of this book is to establish a new scientific discipline, "noology," under which a set of fundamental principles are proposed for the characterization of both naturally occurring and artificial intelligent systems.
The methodology adopted in Principles of Noology for the characterization of intelligent systems, or "noological systems," is a computational one, much like that of AI. Many AI devices such as predicate logic representations, search mechanisms, heuristics, and computational learning mechanisms are employed but they are recast in a totally new... The idea of this book is to establish a new scientific discipline, "noology," under which a set of fundamental principles are proposed f...
|
|
cena:
587,67 zł |
Chinese Religion in Malaysia: Temples and Communities
ISBN: 9789004429864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Based on long-term ethnographic study, this is the first comprehensive work on the Chinese popular religion in Malaysia. It analyses temples and communities in historical and contemporary perspective, the diversity of deities and Chinese speech groups, religious specialists and temple services, the communal significance of the Hungry Ghosts Festival, the relationship between religion and philanthropy as seen through the lens of such Chinese religious organization as shantang (benevolent halls) and Dejiao (Moral Uplifting Societies), as well as the development and transformation of Taoist...
Based on long-term ethnographic study, this is the first comprehensive work on the Chinese popular religion in Malaysia. It analyses temples and commu...
|
|
cena:
210,19 zł |
Chinese Religion in Malaysia: Temples and Communities
ISBN: 9789004357860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Based on long-term ethnographic study, this is the first comprehensive work on the Chinese popular religion in Malaysia. It analyses temples and communities in historical and contemporary perspective, the diversity of deities and Chinese speech groups, religious specialists and temple services, the communal significance of the Hungry Ghosts Festival, the relationship between religion and philanthropy as seen through the lens of such Chinese religious organization as shantang (benevolent halls) and Dejiao (Moral Uplifting Societies), as well as the development and transformation of Taoist...
Based on long-term ethnographic study, this is the first comprehensive work on the Chinese popular religion in Malaysia. It analyses temples and commu...
|
|
cena:
582,41 zł |
Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias
ISBN: 9780814760895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. - "Fresh and compelling analyses... Always witty, sometimes hilarious, making this provocative new work of scholarship a pleasure and a revelation." - Lisa Duggan, New York University "Finely crafted, meticulously analyzed, and intensely provocative multi-sited research... a touchstone for future works and debates..." - Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- "Fresh and compelling analyses... Always witty, sometimes hilarious, making this provocative new work of scholarship a pleasure and a revelation." -...
|
|
cena:
341,05 zł |
In Lieu of Ideology: An Intellectual Biography of Goh Keng Swee
ISBN: 9789814311311 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born in Malacca in 1918, Dr Goh Keng Swee reached maturity at a time when European colonialism was breathing its last. By the time this keen-eyed Malayan Became self-governing Singapore's first Minister of Finance in 1959, he had made a name for himself s the colony's foremost social scientist, having carried out groundbreaking surveys on urban poverty and housing. He immediately initiated pioneering projects that laid the ground for the island's economic success. When Singapore separated from Malaysia in 1965, Dr Goh took charge of building an army from scratch.
Born in Malacca in 1918, Dr Goh Keng Swee reached maturity at a time when European colonialism was breathing its last. By the time this keen-eyed Mala...
|
|
cena:
318,52 zł |
Brain Chemistry and Mental Disease: Proceedings of a Symposium on Brain Chemistry and Mental Disease Held at the Texas Research Institute, Houston, Te
ISBN: 9781468430592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth international symposium held in November 1970 at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in Houston. Leading psychiatrists, biochemists, and pharmacologists from the United States and Great Britain presented new material and reviewed current concepts concerning schizophrenia and the affective disorders, with particular reference to the neurochemical basis of the etiology and chemotherapy of these diseases. Although the multiple mechanisms of mental disease are still not fully understood, substantial progress has definitely been made....
This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth international symposium held in November 1970 at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in...
|
|
cena:
195,87 zł |
Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias
ISBN: 9780814759400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. - "Fresh and compelling analyses... Always witty, sometimes hilarious, making this provocative new work of scholarship a pleasure and a revelation." - Lisa Duggan, New York University "Finely crafted, meticulously analyzed, and intensely provocative multi-sited research... a touchstone for future works and debates..." - Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- "Fresh and compelling analyses... Always witty, sometimes hilarious, making this provocative new work of scholarship a pleasure and a revelation." -...
|
|
cena:
125,87 zł |
Serving a New Nation: Baey Lian Peck's Singapore Story
ISBN: 9789814345422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story of Dr Baey Lian Peck should be well known, but it is not. Not even among Singaporeans, and especially not among the young. This tells us a lot about a Singapore caught in pathological haste and prone towards ignoring values that do not add to the financial bottom line. The innovativeness of Dr Baey did not only make him a very wealthy man before he was forty, it also made him an indispensable actor in the implementation of urgently constructed national policies. Political leaders such as Dr Toh Chin Chye, Lim Kim San, Chua Sian Chin and Dr Goh Keng Swee picked him to solve pressing...
The story of Dr Baey Lian Peck should be well known, but it is not. Not even among Singaporeans, and especially not among the young. This tells us a l...
|
|
cena:
235,38 zł |
March 8: Eclipsing May 13
ISBN: 9789812308962 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For a whole generation of Malaysians, no proper closure to the traumas of the racial riots of May 13, 1969 has been possible. But then came March 8, 2008 The surprising results of the General Election on that special day have started eclipsing the fears linked for so long to that spectral night forty years ago. All the three researchers from ISEAS who each authored separate chapters for this book were in different parts of Malaysia monitoring its 12th General Election during the thirteen days of campaigning. Their analyses provide new insights into the phenomenon that Malaysians now simply...
For a whole generation of Malaysians, no proper closure to the traumas of the racial riots of May 13, 1969 has been possible. But then came March 8, 2...
|
|
cena:
211,77 zł |
Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring XV
ISBN: 9783319794099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
430,95 zł |
The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and His Time
ISBN: 9789812304254 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the long-awaited biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, who passed away of a heart attack on 2 August 1973. It is based on his private papers and on numerous interviews with his relatives and with people who knew him well, including Ghafar Baba, Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Robert Kuok, Lee Kuan Yew and Ghazalie Shafie. New perspectives are provided about the struggle for independence, Malaysia's relationship with Singapore, the origins of Southeast Asian regionalism, the internal conflicts of the ruling...
This is the long-awaited biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, who passed away ...
|
|
cena:
254,73 zł |
As Empires Fell: The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of Malaya
ISBN: 9789814881449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
139,69 zł |
Instructional Design Principles for High-Stakes Problem-Solving Environments
ISBN: 9789811328077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
195,87 zł |
Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater
ISBN: 9781933947839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. By examining the life and career of the most prominent noh practitioner of the furyu noh composer, Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435-1516), the author showcases the critical presence of the late Muromachi period in the history of noh. By examining the life and career of the most prominent noh practitioner of the furyu noh composer, Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435-1516), the author s... |
|
cena:
566,66 zł |
Communalism and the Pursuit of Democracy
ISBN: 9783031362385 / Twarda / 2023 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
156,68 zł |
Chinese Transnational Networks
ISBN: 9780415395830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are therefore ties with Chinese communities overseas. Unlike most other works, which cover either China or the Chinese overseas, this book examines both China and the Chinese overseas in relation to qioaxiang. With clearly presented chapters that examine the ancestral homeland, Chinese overseas, China and transnational networks, and the diversity of settlements and homelands, the... The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from ... |
|
cena:
760,80 zł |
Performance Analysis Of Ultra-Wideband Transmitted Reference System : For Radio Frequency Identification Application
ISBN: 9783838333045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
225,87 zł |
After Migration and Religious Affiliation: Religions, Chinese Identities and Transnational Networks
ISBN: 9789814583909 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is a timely book that fills the gap in the study of Chinese overseas and their religions in the global context. Rich in ethnographic materials, this is the first comprehensive book that shows the transnational religious networks among the Chinese of different nationalities and between the Chinese overseas and the regions in China. The book highlights diverse religious traditions including Chinese popular religion, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, and discusses inter-cultural influences on religions, their localization, their significance to cultural belonging, and the transnational...
This is a timely book that fills the gap in the study of Chinese overseas and their religions in the global context. Rich in ethnographic materials, t...
|
|
cena:
682,09 zł |
Another Stage
ISBN: 9781933947631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. By examining the life and career of the most prominent noh practitioner of the furyu noh composer, Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435-1516), the author showcases the critical presence of the late Muromachi period in the history of noh. By examining the life and career of the most prominent noh practitioner of the furyu noh composer, Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu (1435-1516), the author s... |
|
cena:
146,86 zł |