wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies toward a Global Environmental History
ISBN: 9780739124154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred million people are directly affected by natural disasters--seven times the number of people who are affected by war. Discussions about global warming and fatal disasters such as Katrina and the Tsunami of 2004 have heightened our awareness of natural disasters and of their impact on both local and global communities. Hollywood has also produced numerous disaster movies in recent years, some of which have become blockbusters. This volume demonstrates...
Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred milli...
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682,50 zł |
Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History
ISBN: 9780739124161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first global history of natural catastrophes. It brings together some of the best scholars from different continents and different disciplines to discuss human responses to natural catastrophes.
This is the first global history of natural catastrophes. It brings together some of the best scholars from different continents and different discipl...
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289,38 zł |
Shades of Green: Environment Activism Around the Globe
ISBN: 9780742546479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discuss...
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600,60 zł |
Amerikanische Geschichte
ISBN: 9783406692239 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Kenntnisreich, informativ und unterhaltsam führt Christof Mauch den Leser mit 101 Fragen und Antworten in die Grundzüge der amerikanischen Geschichte.
Kenntnisreich, informativ und unterhaltsam führt Christof Mauch den Leser mit 101 Fragen und Antworten in die Grundzüge der amerikanischen Geschicht...
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49,33 zł |
Paradise Blues: Travels through American Environmental History
ISBN: 9781912186785 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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218,56 zł |
The United States and Germany During the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence
ISBN: 9780521145619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries the world s leading rising powers of the time were both more similar and more different than is widely understood. Above all, their dual encounter with modernity brings out the richness of both societies as they faced unprecedented internal and external challenges, sometimes in isolation, but more often in combination or in parallel with one another."
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th an...
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170,25 zł |
The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service
ISBN: 9780231120456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of his famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we know of other methods, new methods of attack. The Trojan horse. The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs, and traitors are the actors in this new strategy." Having identified a new type of war--a shadow war--being perpetrated by Hitler's Germany, FDR decided to fight fire with fire, authorizing the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to organize and oversee covert operations. Based on an...
Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of his famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we kno...
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224,86 zł |
Nature in Germany History
ISBN: 9781571814388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "This inspiring, well illustrated survey, provided with a useful index...opens up, for the first time, for the non-German reader possibilities for fascinating international perspectives." - Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Germany is a key test case for the burgeoning field of environmental history; in no other country has the landscape been so thoroughly politicized throughout its past as in Germany, and in no other country have ideas of 'nature' figured so centrally in notions of... "This inspiring, well illustrated survey, provided with a useful index...opens up, for the first time, for the non-German reader possibilities for fas...
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513,51 zł |
Shades of Green: Environment Activism Around the Globe
ISBN: 9780742546486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discuss...
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207,48 zł |
Paradise Blues
ISBN: 9783423290036 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Christof Mauch hat 15 Jahre in den USA gelebt und ist immer und immer wieder durchs Land gereist. Sein Augenmerk galt dabei atemberaubend schönen Landstrichen und den tiefen Wunden, die die Menschen in 200 Jahren in die Natur geschlagen haben. Und dennoch ist der Mythos vom großen, freien, unberührten, von Gott geschenkten Land bis heute eine tragende Säule amerikanischer Identität. In diesem klug beobachteten, meisterhaft geschriebenen Buch erzählt und analysiert Mauch seine Reisen zu acht so unterschiedlichen wie ikonografischen Orten, die alle für einen... Christof Mauch hat 15 Jahre in den USA gelebt und ist immer und immer wieder durchs Land gereist. Sein Augenmerk galt dabei atemberaubend schönen ... |
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121,62 zł |
The United States and Germany During the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence
ISBN: 9780521197816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries the world s leading rising powers of the time were both more similar and more different than is widely understood. Above all, their dual encounter with modernity brings out the richness of both societies as they faced unprecedented internal and external challenges, sometimes in isolation, but more often in combination or in parallel with one another."
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th an...
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237,26 zł |
Poesie - Theologie - Politik
ISBN: 9783484181182 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from the early modern period to the present day. It particularly embraces comparative, cultural and historical-epistemological questions and serves as a tradition-steeped forum for innovative literary research. All submitted manuscripts undergo a double peer-review process. Please contact the editor Dr. Anja-Simone Michalski (anja-simone.michalski@degruyter.com) for further information regarding manuscript submission and subsidies. The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from... |
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470,51 zł |
Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America
ISBN: 9780822959885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle of Western civilization, and served as physical and psychological boundaries among nations. Rivers have become a crux of transportation, industry, and commerce. They have been loved as nurturing providers, nationalist symbols, and the source of romantic lore but also loathed as sites of conflict and natural disaster.
"Rivers in History" presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North... Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed th...
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273,20 zł |
The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe
ISBN: 9780821417683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, the view from the road was the be-all and end-all of the highway; in others, such as the Italian autostrada, the view of a fast, efficient transportation machine celebrating either Fascism or its absence was the goal. These varied environments are neither necessary nor accidental but the outcomes of historical negotiations, and whether we abhor them or take delight in them, they have become part of the fabric of human existence.
" The World... For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, th...
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124,44 zł |
The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe
ISBN: 9780821417676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, the view from the road was the be-all and end-all of the highway; in others, such as the Italian autostrada, the view of a fast, efficient transportation machine celebrating either Fascism or its absence was the goal. These varied environments are neither necessary nor accidental but the outcomes of historical negotiations, and whether we abhor them or take delight in them, they have become part of the fabric of human existence.
" The World... For better or worse, the view through a car's windshield has redefined how we see the world around us. In some cases, such as the American parkway, th...
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212,94 zł |
Wie der Mensch die Erde verändert
ISBN: 9783954164219 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die Welt von oben neu betrachtet
Wer sind wir? Wo kommen wir her? Was haben Menschen aus dem Planeten gemacht, dessen Biosphäre tausendmal älter ist als die menschliche Spezies? Was sind die Perspektiven der Menschheit? Wer die Erde von oben betrachtet, entdeckt sie neu und findet Antworten auf einige der großen Fragen zum Verhältnis von Mensch und Natur in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, sowie Hinweise darauf, wie die Zukunft aussehen könnte. Christof Mauch erzählt Geschichten, die die Bilder von Bernhard Lang eindrucksvoll zum Leben erwecken.
Die Welt von oben neu betrachtet
Wer sind wir? Wo kommen wir her? Was haben Menschen aus dem Planeten gemacht, dessen Biosphäre tausend... |
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225,18 zł |
American Intelligence And The German Resistance : A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780813336367 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 479 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Even paranoids have enemies. Hitler's most powerful foes were the Allied powers, but he also feared internal conspiracies bent on overthrowing his malevolent regime. In fact, there was a small but significant internal resistance to the Nazi regime, and it did receive help from the outside world. Through recently declassified intelligence documents, this book reveals for the first time the complete story of America's wartime knowledge about, encouragement of, and secret collaboration with the German resistance to Hitlerincluding the famous July 20th plot to assassinate the Fuehrer.The U.S....
Even paranoids have enemies. Hitler's most powerful foes were the Allied powers, but he also feared internal conspiracies bent on overthrowing his mal...
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186,68 zł |