wyszukanych pozycji: 12
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Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary: The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944
ISBN: 9781350248069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany and Italy in feature output. Yet by 1944, Hungary's cinema was in shambles, internal and external forces having destroyed its unification experiments and productive capacity. This original cultural and political history examines the birth, unexpected ascendance, and wartime collapse of Hungary's early sound cinema by placing it within a complex international nexus. Detailing the interplay of Hungarian cultural and political elites, Jewish film...
Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany a...
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154,07 zł |
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Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary: The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944
ISBN: 9781780764511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany and Italy in feature output. Yet by 1944, Hungary's cinema was in shambles, internal and external forces having destroyed its unification experiments and productive capacity.
This original cultural and political history examines the birth, unexpected ascendance, and wartime collapse of Hungary's early sound cinema by placing it within a complex international nexus. Detailing the interplay of Hungarian cultural and political elites,... Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany a...
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616,46 zł |
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Failure to Pursue: How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War
ISBN: 9781476666693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? From the outset, both North and South had anticipated a brief conflict but despite more than 50 bloody battles neither could force a decisive conclusion. For most of the war, these battles followed a pattern: the victors claimed the field and the vanquished retreated to rest, resupply and fight another day.
Some generals began to realize that pursuit to capture or destroy the retreating enemy was needed to end the war--not an easy task. Taking a fresh look at the tactics...
Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? From the outset, both North and S...
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235,92 zł |
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Mastering Manhood: The Ever-Expansive Male Self
ISBN: 9781793056771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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51,73 zł |
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The Unbound Heart: Love Eternal
ISBN: 9781461190639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Is about developing and maintaining positive relationships throughout life and making an impact on those that you care for by being objective to all situations. Uses references to things that have transpired in my life to clearly define the ideas of having a strong willed heart and keeping in thought the reality of the worlds role on partnerships.
Is about developing and maintaining positive relationships throughout life and making an impact on those that you care for by being objective to all s...
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43,11 zł |
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The Quaternary of the U.S.
ISBN: 9780691624426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 934 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era--the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States. Over eighty Quaternary scientists have contributed to the fifty-five chapters divided into four main parts. Part 1 treats the areal geology, with emphasis on the stratigraphy of the glaciated areas east of the Rocky Mountains, unglaciated eastern and central United States, and western United States. Part 2 deals with biogeography:... This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Qua... |
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993,77 zł |
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Economic Ideas You Should Forget
ISBN: 9783319474571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts. Economics is a vigorous and progressive science, which does not lose its force when particular parts of its theory are empirically invalidated; instead, they contribute to the accumulation of knowledge.
By discussing problematic theoretical assumptions and drawing on the latest empirical research, the authors question specific hypotheses and reject major economic ideas from the -Coase Theorem- to -Say's Law- and -Bayesianism.- Many... Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics c...
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154,54 zł |
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Teaching Communication Activism: Communication Education for Social Justice
ISBN: 9781612891354 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Education remains the best hope for addressing the significant social injustices that dominate society. Few educators, however, focus on social justice directly, and even when they do, typically, they make students aware of injustice but they do not teach students how to do something about it. This book introduces a unique form of education-communication activism pedagogy (CAP)-that involves communication educators teaching students how to use their communication knowledge and skills to intervene with community partners to promote social justice. After explains CAP's foundations (its...
Education remains the best hope for addressing the significant social injustices that dominate society. Few educators, however, focus on social justic...
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259,29 zł |
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Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility
ISBN: 9780521564618 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The issue of social welfare and individual responsibility has become a topic of international public debate in recent years as politicians around the world now question the legitimacy of state-funded welfare systems. The authors of this book debate the ethical merits of individual versus collective responsibility for welfare. David Schmidtz argues that social welfare policy should prepare people for responsible adulthood rather than try to make that unnecessary. Robert Goodin argues against the individualization of welfare policy and expounds the virtues of collective responsibility.
The issue of social welfare and individual responsibility has become a topic of international public debate in recent years as politicians around the ...
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229,57 zł |
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The Scholar's Guide to Economic Ideas: 21st Century Economics (1) and Economic Ideas You Should Forget (2)
ISBN: 9783030334499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This two-volume set presents a selection of commentaries by respected economists and social scientists that reveal the weaknesses and strengths of several core economics concepts. In the volume "Economic Ideas You Should Forget", the authors question specific hypotheses and reject major economic ideas. In the volume "21st Century Economics: Economic Ideas You Should Read and Remember", the authors state their personal opinion on what matters most in contemporary economics.
This two-volume set presents a selection of commentaries by respected economists and social scientists that reveal the weaknesses and strengths of sev...
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154,54 zł |
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Manifest Destiny
ISBN: 9780313323089 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Colonial times through the 19th century, European Americans advanced toward the west. This book explains the origins of territorial expansion and traces the course of Manifest Destiny to its culminating moment, the conquest of Mexico and the acquisition of the western territories. It also weighs major historical interpretations that have evolved over the years, from those praising expansionism to those condemning it as imperialistic and racist. A mixture of essays, biographical portraits, primary documents, a timeline, and an annotated bibliography gives students and researchers... From Colonial times through the 19th century, European Americans advanced toward the west. This book explains the origins of territorial expansion ... |
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264,97 zł |
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The Quaternary of the U.S.
ISBN: 9780691651026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 934 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era--the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States. Over eighty Quaternary scientists have contributed to the fifty-five chapters divided into four main parts. Part 1 treats the areal geology, with emphasis on the stratigraphy of the glaciated areas east of the Rocky Mountains, unglaciated eastern and central United States, and western United States. Part 2 deals with biogeography:... This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Qua... |
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1892,63 zł |