wyszukanych pozycji: 40
Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs
ISBN: 9781591431022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments - Presents a stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statues of Ramses II and the tunnels of the Serapeum - Reveals that highly refined tools and mega-machines were used in ancient Egypt From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over Egypt, unique marks that reveal craftsmanship we would be hard pressed to duplicate today. Drawing together the results of more than 30 years of research and nine field study journeys to Egypt,...
A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments - Presents a stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, incl...
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106,05 zł |
The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9781879181502 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled such a civilization? The technology of harmonic resonance, claims renowned master craftsman and engineer Christopher Dunn. In a brilliant piece of reverse engineering based on twenty years of research, Dunn reveals that the Great Pyramid of Giza was actually a large acoustical device By its size and dimensions, this crystal edifice created a harmonic resonance with the Earth and converted Earth's vibrational energies to microwave radiation....
Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled...
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76,36 zł |
The Institutionalized Cabinet
ISBN: 9780773512832 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this systematic investigation of how central executives in western Canadian provinces actually function, Christopher Dunn describes the evolution of cabinet decision making into the institutionalized (or structured) cabinet of the postwar era.
In this systematic investigation of how central executives in western Canadian provinces actually function, Christopher Dunn describes the evolution o...
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535,29 zł |
Giza: The Tesla Connection: Acoustical Science and the Harvesting of Clean Energy
ISBN: 9781591434610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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93,30 zł |
Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
ISBN: 9781469630014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians often inspired by the international counterculture that flourished in the United States and parts of western Europe, Dunn shows how new understandings of race,...
Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during th...
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594,24 zł |
Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, Third Edition
ISBN: 9781442633995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Provinces is now established as the most comprehensive yet accessible exploration of Canadian provincial politics and government. The authors of each chapter draw on their particular expertise to examine themes and issues pertaining to all the provinces from a comparative perspective. The book is organized into four major sections - political landscapes, the state of democracy in the provinces, political structures and processes, and provincial public policy. The third edition features eleven new chapters, including: province building, provincial constitutions, provincial... Provinces is now established as the most comprehensive yet accessible exploration of Canadian provincial politics and government. The author... |
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218,27 zł |
Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
ISBN: 9780807849767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985. With key manifestations in theater, cinema, visual arts, literature, and especially popular music, Tropicalia dynamically articulated the conflicts and aspirations of a generation of young, urban...
In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying consi...
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227,16 zł |
Infancy and Parental Love, a Didactic and Domestic Poem.
ISBN: 9781241028428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,51 zł |
Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
ISBN: 9781469628516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians often inspired by the international counterculture that flourished in the United States and parts of western Europe, Dunn shows how new understandings of race,...
Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during th...
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173,71 zł |
Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy
ISBN: 9780847691029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fall of communism, the emergence of the information age, and the expansion of economic globalism are the point of departure for this text. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change. This edition also evaluates studies of the modern world-system and assesses the implications for the future of the contemporary system.
The fall of communism, the emergence of the information age, and the expansion of economic globalism are the point of departure for this text. The aut...
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371,99 zł |
Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development
ISBN: 9780742508675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume presents research, analysis and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involement of Mayan communities in national development; the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions; and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change.
This volume presents research, analysis and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the inv...
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251,64 zł |
Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds
ISBN: 9780367164676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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197,43 zł |
Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems
ISBN: 9780367320157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, state-based regional empires, and the modern global capitalist political economy, it reveals the underlying processes at work in the reproduction and transformation of social, economic, and political s
Spanning ten thousand years of social change, this book examines the ways in which world-systems evolve. A comparative study of stateless societies, s...
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701,59 zł |
Global Struggles and Social Change: From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781421438627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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144,97 zł |
Social Change : Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present
ISBN: 9781612053288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, agricultural states, and industrial capitalist societies formed, flourished, and declined. Drawing evidence from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, historical documents, statistics, and survey research, the authors trace the growth of human societies and their complexity, and they probe the conflicts in hierarchies both within and among societies. They also explain the macro-micro links that connect cultural...
From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gat...
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478,07 zł |
Top Wing
ISBN: 9780316141260 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When his father is accused of causing a fire through faulty wiring, Dana tries to get to the bottom of the allegations. But when he discovers the shocking truth, he must decide whether to keep quiet or ruin a reputation by going public.
When his father is accused of causing a fire through faulty wiring, Dana tries to get to the bottom of the allegations. But when he discovers the shoc...
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46,62 zł |
Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization
ISBN: 9781138169142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century.
This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century.
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961,44 zł |
Sleep Tight Big Truck
ISBN: 9780991046621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,86 zł |
Unity on the Global Left: Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International
ISBN: 9780367552220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amin's proposal is applauded, criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways forward toward a more egalitarian world society. Samir Amin, a leading scholar and co-founder of the world-system tradition, died on August 12, 2018. Just before his death, he published, along with close allies, a call for 'workers and the people' to establish a 'fifth international' to coordinate...
This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of pro...
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701,59 zł |
The Submarine Pitch
ISBN: 9780316142502 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When he learns why his best friend taught him an unbeatable pitch instead of using it himself, Bernie learns a sad lesson about friendship.
When he learns why his best friend taught him an unbeatable pitch instead of using it himself, Bernie learns a sad lesson about friendship.
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42,38 zł |