wyszukanych pozycji: 38
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Life Between an Angel and a Rabbits Foot
ISBN: 9780645985825 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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126,48 |
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Sport in America, Volume II: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization
ISBN: 9780736078863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on the changes and patterns in American sport during six distinct eras over the past 400 years. The selections are entirely different from those in the first volume, discussing diverse topics such as views of sport in the Puritan society of colonial New England, gender roles and the croquet craze of the 1800s, and the Super Bowl's place in contemporary sport. Each of the six parts includes an introduction to the essays, allowing readers to relate... Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization, Volume II, presents 18 thought-provoking essays focusing on... |
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273,16 |
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The Forgotten Children: Do you know who you really are?
ISBN: 9780645985801 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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40,26 |
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What Ever Next!: 5 Classic Comedy Stories for Children
ISBN: 9781075057625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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46,21 |
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Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America
ISBN: 9780815627340 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) African-American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together 11 essays that explore this complex topic by sports studies scholar David K. Wiggins. In his writings, Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to climb their own racial mountain - their struggle to fully participate in sport while maintaining their own cultural identity and pride.
African-American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together 11 essays that explore...
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77,99 |
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Ethics : Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
ISBN: 9780140252880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. This book surveys the answers commonly proposed for such questions - gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century.
Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. This book s...
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102,64 |
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Surrender Dorothy
ISBN: 9781794752382 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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43,16 |
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The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport
ISBN: 9780252072727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 493 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This extraordinarily rich compendium of primary sources charts the significant, intertwining history of African Americans and sport. "The Unlevel Playing Field" contains more than 100 accounts taken from newspapers (both black and white), periodicals, and autobiographies, by literary and sports figures, activists, historians, and others. 65 photos.
This extraordinarily rich compendium of primary sources charts the significant, intertwining history of African Americans and sport. "The Unlevel Play...
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107,26 |
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Sameness and Substance Renewed
ISBN: 9780521456197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (Blackwell, 1980), David Wiggins examines the logic of identity, the ideas of substance and change, essence, predication and mortal predication, personhood, and personal memory. This important book will appeal to a wide range of readers in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and analytic philosophy.
In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (Blackwell, 1980), David Wiggins examines the logic of identit...
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144,93 |
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Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes
ISBN: 9781557288769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty insightful biographies that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how these changes mirrored the transformation of sports, American society, and civil rights legislation.
Some of the athletes discussed include Marshall Taylor (bicycling), William Henry Lewis (football), Jack Johnson, Satchel Paige, Jesse Owens, Joe Lewis, Alice Coachman (track and field),... The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athlete...
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102,39 |
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Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis: Ten Studies
ISBN: 9780198726173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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375,98 |
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Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity
ISBN: 9780198716624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects treated are: persistence of a substance through change, the notion of a continuant, the logic of identity, the co-occupation of space by a continuant and its matter, the relation of person to human organism, the metaphysical idea of a person, the status of artefacts, the relation of the three-dimensional and four-dimensional conceptions of reality, and the nomological underpinning of sortal classification. From a much larger body of work the author has selected,...
This volume gathers twelve essays by David Wiggins in an area where his work has been particularly influential. Among the subjects treated are: persis...
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339,01 |
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Sameness and Substance Renewed
ISBN: 9780521454117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (Blackwell, 1980), David Wiggins examines the logic of identity, the ideas of substance and change, essence, predication and mortal predication, personhood, and personal memory. This important book will appeal to a wide range of readers in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and analytic philosophy.
In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (Blackwell, 1980), David Wiggins examines the logic of identit...
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366,74 |
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Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes
ISBN: 9781557288264 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The original essays in the comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American men and women athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty insightful biographies that furnish perspectives on the changing status of these athletes and how the changes mirrored the transformation of sport, American society, and civil rights legislation. Out of the Shadon's shows us athletes struggling to make it in a Jim Crow society--Jimmy Winkfield in horse racing, Marshall Taylor in bicycling, William Henry Lewis in football, and Jack Johnson--and...
The original essays in the comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American men and women athletes f...
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165,85 |
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Needs, Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value
ISBN: 9780198237198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, drawn from twenty-five years of his work in the broad area of the philosophy of value. The author ranges between problems of ethics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic and language, looking at questions relating to meaning, truth and objectivity in judgements of value. For this third edition he has added a new essay on incommensurability, in addition to making minor revisions to the existing text. The volume will stand as a definitive...
Needs, Values, Truth brings together of some of the most important and influential writings by a leading contemporary philosopher, drawn from twenty-f...
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241,97 |
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Ball in My Hands: Essays on Black Athletes, Race, and American Culture
ISBN: 9781621909347 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
117,02 |
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Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
ISBN: 9780674034983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions--and does so in a way that the thinking reader, increasingly perplexed by the everyday problem of moral philosophy, can follow. His work is thus an introduction to ethics that presupposes nothing more than the reader's willingness to read philosophical proposals closely and literally. Gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and a twentieth-century assortment of post-utilitarian... Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins surveys the a... |
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178,94 |
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Rivals: Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History
ISBN: 9781557289216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 491 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The sixteen original essays in this collection cover influential and famous rivalries from a variety of sports, including track and field, golf, boxing, basketball, tennis, ice skating, baseball, football, soccer, and more. The essays are diverse, but together they illustrate what is common to any rivalry: equally matched opponents that often have decidedly different backgrounds, styles, and personalities. These differences may center on race and culture, political and societal ideologies, personality, geography, or religionA[a
The sixteen original essays in this collection cover influential and famous rivalries from a variety of sports, including track and field, golf, boxin...
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126,78 |
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More Than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport
ISBN: 9781442248960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the country. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race.
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African Am...
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170,72 |
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Sam Draper and DARK LIGHT
ISBN: 9798843264437 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
59,68 |