wyszukanych pozycji: 122
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Nowhere: Space Time and Modernity
ISBN: 9780520080188 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia--such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and space assume new global meanings. This provocative volume presents an eclectic group of contributors who attempt to make sense of the "now" and the "here" that define the modern age. The essays, by anthropologists, religionists, geographers, linguists, sociologists, and historians, explore the temporal and spatial facets of social life....
The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia--such events have been fundamentall...
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The Case of Valentine Shortis: A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada
ISBN: 9780802067289 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895. A third victim, shot through the head, managed to survive. Charged with the murders was Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant. His trial, the longest on record at the time in Canada, was played out against one of the most dramatic periods in Canadian political history. Before the case closed it had involved some of the most important names in the country. Did Valentine Shortis commit murder in the course of a bold robbery, as the Crown and the citizens of... Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895. A third victim, shot through ... |
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Information-Driven Machine Learning
ISBN: 9783031394799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book transcends traditional machine learning approaches by introducing information measurement methodologies that revolutionize the field. Stemming from a UC Berkeley seminar on experimental design for machine learning tasks, these techniques aim to overcome the 'black box' approach of machine learning by reducing conjectures such as magic numbers (hyper-parameters) or model-type bias. Information-based machine learning enables data quality measurements, a priori task complexity estimations, and reproducible design of data science experiments. The benefits... This groundbreaking book transcends traditional machine learning approaches by introducing information measurement methodologies that revolutionize... |
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There Was a Time for Everything: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781487546953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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98,70 |
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Strands of Hope: How to Grieve the Loss of a Horse
ISBN: 9781732710528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Doing Well and Good: The Human Face of the New Capitalism (PB)
ISBN: 9781593117870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A volume in Ethics in Practice Series Editors Robert A. Giacalone, Temple University and Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Louisiana State University Ethical business creates social value. That's the theme of this bold new volume, heralding and defending this rapidly-growing new conception of capitalism making its way into the mainstream. It provides clear and succinct guidelines for how to evaluate what counts as an ethical business as well as how and why ethical businesses tend to succeed better over the long term. The book is jargon-free and targeted primarily at thoughtleaders and academics in...
A volume in Ethics in Practice Series Editors Robert A. Giacalone, Temple University and Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Louisiana State University Ethical busi...
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Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France
ISBN: 9780199592692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, capital punishment in France, as in many other countries, was staged before large crowds of spectators. Paul Friedland traces the theory and practice of public executions over time, both from the perspective of those who staged these punishments as well as from the vantage point of the many thousands who came to 'see justice done'. While penal theorists often stressed that the fundamental purpose of public punishment was to strike fear in the hearts of spectators, the eagerness with which crowds flocked to executions, and the extent to...
From the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, capital punishment in France, as in many other countries, was staged before large crowds of spect...
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A House Divided
ISBN: 9781449976798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jonathan Geller, an ambitious young academic, is struggling to build a new life for himself in the US. An American born Jew who had immigrated to Israel with his family as a child, Geller fled the Jewish State after a deadly incident that occurred during his service in the Israeli army. Ten years into his self imposed exile, Geller's younger brother is killed in the line of duty, so he reluctantly returns to Israel to attend the funeral. Once back, Geller is forced to confront his broken family and a life and country he thought he had left behind for good. Colored by his own military...
Jonathan Geller, an ambitious young academic, is struggling to build a new life for himself in the US. An American born Jew who had immigrated to Isra...
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Our Imperfect Bodies
ISBN: 9781950063536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Tales from the Teacup Palace
ISBN: 9781950063420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution
ISBN: 9780801488092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of convergence between theater and politics included the election of dramatic actors to powerful political and military positions and reports that deputies to the National Assembly were taking acting lessons and planting paid "claqueurs" in the audience to applaud their employers on demand. Meanwhile, in a mock national assembly that gathered in an enormous circus pavilion in the center of Paris, spectators paid for the privilege of acting the role of...
From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality of political events. Examples of converg...
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Quoi s'est passé après Golgotha?: Le Christ
ISBN: 9783842390881 / Francuski / Miękka / 2015 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Restoring the Spirit : The Beginnings of Occupational Therapy in Canada, 1890-1930
ISBN: 9780773539228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The untold story of early-twentieth-century women's role in developing an essential area of health care
The untold story of early-twentieth-century women's role in developing an essential area of health care
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The Death of Old Man Rice: A True Story of Criminal Justice in America
ISBN: 9780814726594 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Story of One of the Most Remarkable Trials in All History Sensational trials--the Menendez brothers, the Rodney King case, the Preppie Murder--are not unique to the age of television. The year 1900 saw one of the most dramatic criminal trials in American history, described by one newspaper at the time as America's most remarkable murder case. The Story of One of the Most Remarkable Trials in All History Sensational trials--the Menendez brothers, the Rodney King case, the Preppie Murder-... |
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Writing Successful Science Proposals
ISBN: 9780300226706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An authoritative how-to guide that explains every aspect of science proposal writing
An authoritative how-to guide that explains every aspect of science proposal writing
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Dancing, Out of Germany: a bicultural reflection
ISBN: 9781462001439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Multimodal Location Estimation of Videos and Images
ISBN: 9783319098609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents an overview of the field of multimodal location estimation. The authors' aim is to describe the research results in this field in a unified way. The book describes fundamental methods of acoustic, visual, textual, social graph, and metadata processing as well as multimodal integration methods used for location estimation. In addition, the book covers benchmark metrics and explores the limits of the technology based on a human baseline. The book also outlines privacy implications and discusses directions for future research in the area.
This book presents an overview of the field of multimodal location estimation. The authors' aim is to describe the research results in this field in a...
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Marguerite, Misty and Me
ISBN: 9781732710559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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To Rule Jerusalem
ISBN: 9780520220928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Twentieth-century Jerusalem is doubly divided. As well as being a holy site for both Judaism and Islam, the city contains secular Israelis and Palestinians who ground their respective national identities within its borders. To Rule Jerusalem provides a historical and ethnographic account of how Jerusalem has become the battleground for conflicts both within and between the Israeli and Palestinian communities. Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht examine the relation between Zionism and Judaism and between Palestinian nationalism and Islam. Based on hundreds of interviews with powerful...
Twentieth-century Jerusalem is doubly divided. As well as being a holy site for both Judaism and Islam, the city contains secular Israelis and Palesti...
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ISBN: 9781922647641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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