wyszukanych pozycji: 100
Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781474498029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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571,67 zł |
The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia
ISBN: 9780521367615 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), Professor Goody looks in depth at kinship practice in Asia. His findings cause him to question many traditional assumptions about the "primitive" East, and he suggests that, in contrast to pre-colonial Africa, kinship practice in Asia has much in common with that prevailing in parts of pre-industrial Europe. Goody examines the transmission of productive and other property in relation both to the prevailing political economy and to family and ideological...
Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), Professor ...
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227,81 zł |
Jade: Fighting to the End
ISBN: 9781844548132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The moment that Jade Goody stepped into the "Big Brother" house, she secured her place as the unofficial winner of the third season, and found instant fame as a reality star. The glitz and glamour of sudden fame was a far cry from her difficult beginnings. Brought up in a run-down area andcaring for her disabled mother, Jade didn t have an easy childhood.Butshe always lived her life with incredible spirit and that is what endeared her to millions during "Big Brother." Behind the bubbly exterior, there was a tough and fiercely determined lady. Jade was always the first to admit that she had...
The moment that Jade Goody stepped into the "Big Brother" house, she secured her place as the unofficial winner of the third season, and found instant...
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72,27 zł |
I Met Him At The Well
ISBN: 9780244687748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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23,72 zł |
Tour De Compassion: A Long Way to No Where
ISBN: 9781514345375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An adventure tale of a young man's trials and tribulations during his cross country voyages on bicycle. Providing insights to life on and off the road. Detailing his love, loss, and everything in between. Each purchase goes to helping the Nature Conservancy protect our environment.
An adventure tale of a young man's trials and tribulations during his cross country voyages on bicycle. Providing insights to life on and off the road...
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72,32 zł |
Forever in My Heart
ISBN: 9780007339334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jade's heart-breaking diary of her fight against terminal cancer and her final precious months with her beloved family. In August 2008 Jade Goody received the shattering news that she had cervical cancer. She was only 27 years old. But with her usual strength of character, Jade was determined to beat the disease and carry on with life as normal with her two little boys Bobby and Freddy. Neither the chemotherapy, which left her weak and bald, or the hysterectomy that crushed her dreams of having a little girl, could break Jade's sunny personality or her fierce refusal to be a... Jade's heart-breaking diary of her fight against terminal cancer and her final precious months with her beloved family. In August 2008 Jade G... |
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51,62 zł |
Succession to High Office
ISBN: 9780521297325 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies.
This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies.
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215,11 zł |
War & Paracetamol
ISBN: 9781913958251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,32 zł |
Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein
ISBN: 9780230500495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, and Gertrude Stein. These three writers are placed at specific modernist moments--key points of articulation--in order to explore their work and its response to the culture around it. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, Modernist Articulations significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism.
This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the mod...
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192,30 zł |
Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein
ISBN: 9781349352685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, it significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism.
This book explores the theoretical concerns of recent literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the mod...
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192,30 zł |
Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology
ISBN: 9780521286961 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticises those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasises in this book. The...
The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists ...
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134,26 zł |
Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements
ISBN: 9781349959600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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326,93 zł |
Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate
ISBN: 9780745631912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. challenges assumptions about long-term European supremacy of a 'cultural' kind, as was a feature of many theories current in social science. He argues that the divergence came with the Industrial Revolution and that the earlier bourgeois revolution of the sixteenth century was but one among many Eurasia-wide expressions...
This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, ...
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87,48 zł |
Defense Mechanisms
ISBN: 9780985147778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,58 zł |
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
ISBN: 9780521339629 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book assesses the impact of writing on human societies, both in the Ancient Near East and in twentieth-century Africa, and highlights some general features of social systems that have been influenced by this major change in the mode of communication. Such features are central to any attempt at the theoretical definition of human society and such constituent phenomena as religious and legal systems, and in this study Professor Goody explores the role of a specific mechanism, the introduction of writing and the development of a written tradition, in the explanation of some important social...
This book assesses the impact of writing on human societies, both in the Ancient Near East and in twentieth-century Africa, and highlights some genera...
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134,26 zł |
Dog Anatomy: A Pictorial Approach to Canine Structure
ISBN: 9780851316369 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This text is intended to provide the reader with the essentials of dog anatomy and has been produced for people who enjoy dogs and wish to know a little more about their overall structure. Consequently dog owners, breeders, exhibitors, judges--anyone requiring information about the anatomy of the dog--should find the book useful. It should also be of interest to students beginning a course in veterinary anatomy. The emphasis throughout the book is placed on those points of anatomy that can be seen or felt from the surface through the skin. Surface views therefore form an important component...
This text is intended to provide the reader with the essentials of dog anatomy and has been produced for people who enjoy dogs and wish to know a litt...
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92,95 zł |
Death and the Ancestors: A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa
ISBN: 9781138861794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he attended 25 burial services.
First published in 1962. Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, th...
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228,62 zł |
Comparative Studies in Kinship
ISBN: 9780415330107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology.
Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in pract...
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1091,37 zł |
Changing Social Structure in Ghana: Essays in the Comparative Sociology of a New State and an Old Tradition
ISBN: 9781138594128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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171,44 zł |
Renaissances: The One or the Many?
ISBN: 9780521768016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the heart of our notions of modernity?
Addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the heart of our notions of modernity?
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252,47 zł |