wyszukanych pozycji: 18
The Seven Deadlies
ISBN: 9780990893516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Seven Deadlies ..".undeniably provocative and all-consuming." - Kirkus Reviews People don't show up at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting by accident, certainly not in the damp basement of an old church in rural Tartusville, Connecticut. Wasted or willing, the men and women at this Friday Early Bird AA meeting believe they know exactly what they're doing there. But trudging toward redemption, these addicts discover the road to recovery can turn ugly - even downright dangerous - when His will is misinterpreted, misapplied or otherwise abused. Moving, disconcerting and irreverent, The Seven...
The Seven Deadlies ..".undeniably provocative and all-consuming." - Kirkus Reviews People don't show up at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting by accident...
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68,40 zł |
The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang
ISBN: 9780521026567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with other villagers, visit the altars of 'divining children' and participate in 'dangerous' god-strengthening rituals. In particular they learn about the family-based cycle of reciprocity, and the tension between this and commitment to the nation. Charles Stafford's study of childhood in this community...
Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification th...
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269,59 zł |
Ordinary Ethics in China
ISBN: 9780857854605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities. How are schoolchildren judged to be good or bad by their teachers and their peers - and how should a 'bad' student be dealt with? What exactly do children owe their parents, and how should this debt be repaid? Is it morally acceptable to be jealous if one's neighbours suddenly become rich? Should the wrongs of the past be... Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of... |
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187,04 zł |
Separation and Reunion in Modern China
ISBN: 9780521784344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this distinctive book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of festivals of reunion, rituals for the sending-off of gods, silent leave-takings, poetic words of parting, and bitter political rhetoric. Stafford examines how these idioms and practices help people situate themselves in historical communities, and how they are deployed in official Chinese rhetoric concerning Taiwan. The discussion of these everyday rituals offers rich insights into Chinese and Taiwanese...
In this distinctive book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and m...
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188,42 zł |
Living with Separation in China
ISBN: 9780415305716 / Twarda / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In dealing with the central theme of separation this book also provides a good general introduction to many of the classic debates within anthropological and historical analyses of China.
In dealing with the central theme of separation this book also provides a good general introduction to many of the classic debates within anthropologi...
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753,56 zł |
The Roads of Chinese Childhood
ISBN: 9780521465748 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about virtuous mothers, share meaningful foods with other villagers, visit the altars of divining children and participate in dangerous god-strengthening rituals. In particular they learn about the family-based cycle of reciprocity, and the tension between this and commitment to the nation. Charles Stafford's study of childhood in this community (with...
Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification th...
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449,36 zł |
A Compendium of Universal History
ISBN: 9783375097172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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365,57 zł |
A Compendium of Universal History
ISBN: 9783375097165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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274,06 zł |
Ordinary Ethics in China
ISBN: 9780857854599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities.
How are schoolchildren judged to be good or bad by their teachers and their peers - and how should a 'bad' student be dealt with? What exactly do children owe their parents, and how should this debt be repaid? Is it morally acceptable to be jealous if one's neighbours suddenly become rich? Should the wrongs of the past be... Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of mo...
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493,71 zł |
The Art of Revising Poetry: 21 U.S. Poets on Their Drafts, Craft, and Process
ISBN: 9781350289253 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Using side-by-side pairings of first drafts and final versions, including full-page reproductions from the poets’ personal notebooks, as well as an insightful essay on each poem’s journey from start to finish, The Art of Revising Poetry tracks the creative process of twenty-one of the United States’ most influential poets as they struggle over a single word, line break, or thought. This behind-the-scenes look into the creative minds of working poets, including African American, Latino, Asian American, and Native poets from across the US, is an essential resource for students practicing...
Using side-by-side pairings of first drafts and final versions, including full-page reproductions from the poets’ personal notebooks, as well as an ...
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337,81 zł |
Belonging to God: A Personal Training Guide for the Deeper Catholic Spiritual Life
ISBN: 9780824521486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This practical guide to the Catholic approach to spiritual formation, using rule and principles from the spiritual tradition and examples drawn from the lives of everyday people today.
This practical guide to the Catholic approach to spiritual formation, using rule and principles from the spiritual tradition and examples drawn from t...
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82,72 zł |
Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice
ISBN: 9781350077195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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467,73 zł |
Questions of Anthropology
ISBN: 9781845207496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns. Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's "true" identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question... Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of An... |
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545,69 zł |
Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice
ISBN: 9781350077188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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171,44 zł |
The World as it is. A new and comprehensive system of Modern Geography, physical, political and commercial. [Vol. 1 and 2 by W. C. Taylor and C. Mackay; vol. 3 by W. C. Stafford.]
ISBN: 9781241562342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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165,69 zł |
Economic Life in the Real World: Logic, Emotion and Ethics
ISBN: 9781108716550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines address fundamental questions related to the psychology of economic life in human societies - questions that matter for people from every society and every background. Based around vivid examples drawn from field research in China and Taiwan, the author encourages anthropologists to take the psychological dimensions of economic life more seriously, but also invites psychologists and economists to pay much more attention than they currently do to...
This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines addres...
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139,19 zł |
Separation and Reunion in Modern China
ISBN: 9780521780179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this distinctive book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of festivals of reunion, rituals for the sending-off of gods, silent leave-takings, poetic words of parting, and bitter political rhetoric. Stafford examines how these idioms and practices help people situate themselves in historical communities, and how they are deployed in official Chinese rhetoric concerning Taiwan. The discussion of these everyday rituals offers rich insights into Chinese and Taiwanese...
In this distinctive book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and m...
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449,41 zł |
Economic Life in the Real World: Logic, Emotion and Ethics
ISBN: 9781108483216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines address fundamental questions related to the psychology of economic life in human societies - questions that matter for people from every society and every background. Based around vivid examples drawn from field research in China and Taiwan, the author encourages anthropologists to take the psychological dimensions of economic life more seriously, but also invites psychologists and economists to pay much more attention than they currently do to...
This clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines addres...
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370,64 zł |