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Cold War Deceptions
ISBN: 9780295752235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance
ISBN: 9780521115506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The flourishing of secular music in England during the late Renaissance, the social environment in which it took place and the first steps towards a music profession and a music publishing trade are key elements within this book. Household music of families of varying importance is examined, shedding light on the relationship between these patrons and their musicians, on the role of the Church and the Court, on the astonishing advances in musical literacy and refinement, and on the importance of the Grand Tour and its contribution to the spread of European (especially Italian) musical...
The flourishing of secular music in England during the late Renaissance, the social environment in which it took place and the first steps towards a m...
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225,92 |
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A World of Darkness: Cotton Mather and the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials
ISBN: 9781646630202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Congressional Experience: An Institution Transformed
ISBN: 9780367626938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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766,88 |
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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
ISBN: 9781400031726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for...
A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonis...
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High-Temperature Levitated Materials
ISBN: 9780521880527 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the major experimental difficulties in studying materials at extreme temperatures is unwanted contamination of the sample through contact with the container. This can be avoided by suspending the sample through levitation. This technique also makes metastable states of matter accessible, opening up new avenues of scientific enquiry, as well as possible new materials for technological applications. This book describes several methods of levitation, the most important being aerodynamic, electromagnetic and electrostatic. It summarizes the state-of-the-art of the measurement of...
One of the major experimental difficulties in studying materials at extreme temperatures is unwanted contamination of the sample through contact with ...
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310,93 |
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Cold War Anthropology: The Cia, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
ISBN: 9780822361251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the intelligence community and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the American military complex. The rise of area studies programs, funded both openly and covertly by government agencies, encouraged anthropologists to produce...
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the...
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Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State
ISBN: 9781849350631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for use by embedded, militarized research teams. Price's inquiry into past relationships... The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control an... |
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Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the Fbi's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists
ISBN: 9780822333388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A vital reminder of the importance of academic freedom, Threatening Anthropology offers a meticulously detailed account of how U.S. Cold War surveillance damaged the field of anthropology. David H. Price reveals how dozens of activist anthropologists were publicly and privately persecuted during the Red Scares of the 1940s and 1950s. He shows that it was not Communist Party membership or Marxist beliefs that attracted the most intense scrutiny from the fbi and congressional committees but rather social activism, particularly for racial justice. Demonstrating that the fbi s focus on...
A vital reminder of the importance of academic freedom, Threatening Anthropology offers a meticulously detailed account of how U.S. Cold War su...
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Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books
ISBN: 9780199974948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities, and, unexpectedly, by Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), the founder of Christian Hebrew studies. In 1510, Reuchlin wrote an extensive, impassioned, and ultimately successful defense of Jewish writings and legal rights, a stunning intervention later acknowledged by a Jewish leader as a ''miracle within a miracle.'' The fury that...
The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This...
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Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
ISBN: 9780822342373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and skills to advance the war effort. The range of their war-related work was extraordinary. They helped gather military intelligence, pinpointed possible social weaknesses in enemy nations, and contributed to the army s regional Pocket Guide booklets. They worked for dozens of government agencies, including the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Office of War Information. At a moment when social scientists are once again being asked to...
By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and ...
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Apparently So: A collection of short humor and other articles from a distinguished writing career
ISBN: 9780986437809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Schuman's Warning of the Nazi Destruction of the Jews
ISBN: 9781365424724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In August 1942 Robert Schuman, the future founder of the European Community and the EU, escaped from his imprisonment in Germany. He arrived in the Free Zone of France with information of vital importance for the Allied war effort. He also brought what was probably the first news to reach the Allies of the systematic Nazi destruction or Holocaust of the Jews. The full English text of what Schuman made known about Nazi plans to take over the world and the Holocaust are published for the first time. World War 2 was as much or more a war against Judeo-Christian civilization as a military one of...
In August 1942 Robert Schuman, the future founder of the European Community and the EU, escaped from his imprisonment in Germany. He arrived in the Fr...
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JESUS, JAMES, JOSEPH, and the past and future Temple
ISBN: 9780244705824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 738 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Looking for Aphrodite
ISBN: 9781909276598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Knidos was renowned for its nude statue of the goddess Aphrodite. This book is about searching for Aphrodite, a memoire exploring the authores involvement with the excavation of the huge city, while his own life was transformed from adolescent gaucheness into the beginnings of maturity. Laced with poetic evocations of the ancient and modern world, it contains hilarious stories of the people he met along the way."
Knidos was renowned for its nude statue of the goddess Aphrodite. This book is about searching for Aphrodite, a memoire exploring the authores involve...
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The Age Of Pluralism: Global Intelligence For Emerging Leaders
ISBN: 9781948239943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Brexit, Miller & Henry VIII
ISBN: 9781365727412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Brexit, the act of leaving the European Union, is an issue with major repercussions for both UK and Europe. Following the Referendum vote of 23 June 2016, the Conservative Government of Theresa May has tried to submit the necessary Article 50 with little recourse to Parliament. Individuals, associations and UK's devolved governments have all reacted. Considered to be the most important legal issues of recent times, the Supreme Court and High Court Judgements in the case Gina Miller vs the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union are all here in one volume. Both the press summaries...
Brexit, the act of leaving the European Union, is an issue with major repercussions for both UK and Europe. Following the Referendum vote of 23 June 2...
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265,05 |
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STOPPING the Nuclear threat in Europe and South Asia
ISBN: 9781291638950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After World War Two, European States expected further wars. Many States including Switzerland, France, Germany, wanted to create their own A-bombs. War did not happen. Instead Europe entered the longest period of peace in more than 2000 years. Thanks to the diplomacy of Robert Schuman, creator of the European Community, European States created an Atomic Energy Community which controlled the use of fissile material for bombs. Today among worldwide crises and threats of nuclear war, Europe needs to complete the obligations in the Euratom Treaty of 1957. How should democrats deal with the Indian...
After World War Two, European States expected further wars. Many States including Switzerland, France, Germany, wanted to create their own A-bombs. Wa...
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Gazing Upon Sheba's Breasts
ISBN: 9781909276710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Swaziland, a small country on the edge of Africas Great Escarpment, is a microcosm of African environments. It was the ideal laboratory where Dr David Price Williams and a team of scientists developed a major research project to investigate the evolution of humankind from the dawn of prehistory two million years ago right up to the present. The book charts their ten year journey, along with the fascinating results of their search, and how David designed and built the Swaziland National Museum. Its full of humour and his love for Africa and its peoples.
Swaziland, a small country on the edge of Africas Great Escarpment, is a microcosm of African environments. It was the ideal laboratory where Dr David...
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You Could Be Making $100 an Hour Doing Home Inspections
ISBN: 9781483956602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This guide book gives the reader a solid foundation and direction to quickly get started in the home inspection field as a full time or part time home inspector. It holds your hand and shows you everything from how to get started to getting licensed and starting your own home based business.
This guide book gives the reader a solid foundation and direction to quickly get started in the home inspection field as a full time or part time home...
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