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The World Court in Action: Judging Among the Nations
ISBN: 9780742509245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over a century ago, a precursor to the International Court of Justice, usually called the World Court, was created. The United States had an important role in founding the Court, and a U.S. citizen--Andrew Carnegie-funded the Peace Palace, the building in which the World Court still convenes. But in 1985, during the second Reagan-Bush Administration, the U.S. effectively withdrew its support and authority from the Court in respose to its ruling on the U.S. use of force in Nicaragua. Since that time, the role of the World Court has grown in importance internationally even though the U.S....
Over a century ago, a precursor to the International Court of Justice, usually called the World Court, was created. The United States had an important...
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252,61 zł |
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The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism
ISBN: 9780393018370 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The real test of Abram's historical explanations is of course whether or not they "work" --whether, when we apply the criteria of correspondence and coherence (Just as in interpreting a poem), they "make sense" out of the particulars at hand and produce useful generalizations even in the face of competing historical interpretations. Abrams' work continues to hold up. --Jack Stillinger
The real test of Abram's historical explanations is of course whether or not they "work" --whether, when we apply the criteria of correspondence and c...
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218,18 zł |
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Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
ISBN: 9780393006094 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. But Abrams offers more than a work of scholarship, for he ranges before and after, to place the age in Western culture. he reveals what is traditional and what is revolutionary in the period, providing insights into those same two forces in the ideas of today. He shows that central Romantic ideas and forms of imagination were secularized versions of traditional theological concepts, imagery, and design, and that modern literature participates in the same process. Our comprehension of this age and of our own time is deepened by a work astonishing in its learning, vision, and humane...
But Abrams offers more than a work of scholarship, for he ranges before and after, to place the age in Western culture. he reveals what is traditional...
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141,96 zł |
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Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory
ISBN: 9780393307474 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to the much-debated "Newreading" and "New Historicism." Two other essays discuss the emergence of the remarkably influential modern view that a work in the fine arts is an autonomous object, and another offers an extraordinary overview of the history of criticism from Plato and Aristotle to Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man.
This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, t...
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130,82 zł |
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The Magnificent Activist
ISBN: 9780306809545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of the pivotal social movements reshaping America for the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Cambridge, he was a fervent abolitionist, running guns to anti-slavery settlers and financing John Brown's raid. During the Civil War, he commanded the first black unit to fight for the Union, and their achievements (publicized in his classic Army Life in a Black Regiment) opened the way for further black enlistment. He also championed women's rights for...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of the pivotal ...
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122,26 zł |
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The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters
ISBN: 9781613630808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who cares about risk.
Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow We fail to evacuate when advised. We rebuild in flood zones. We don t wear helmets. We fail to purchase insurance. We would rather avoid the risk of crying wolf than sound an alarm. Our ability to foresee and protect against natural catastrophes has... The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can w...
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72,99 zł |
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The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters
ISBN: 9781613631379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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182,60 zł |
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It Runs Deeper Than Love
ISBN: 9781547201730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Taking inspiration from her own life, It Runs Deeper Than Love is an anthology of poetry and other writings by author Taylor M. Howard, dating from July 2014 to June 2016. Tackling a variety of different themes including love, loss, heartache and hope, It Runs Deeper Than Love examines the world through the lens of a young woman trying to find her place in the world.
Taking inspiration from her own life, It Runs Deeper Than Love is an anthology of poetry and other writings by author Taylor M. Howard, dating from Ju...
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36,65 zł |
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Army Life in a Black Regiment
ISBN: 9780393301571 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The commanding officer chosen for the First South Carolina Volunteers was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a militant human rights activist, writer and lecturer, and former Unitarian minister. "In all the land," writes the historian Ray Allen Billington, they "could have found no one better for this assignment." Higginson was an excellent strategist and administrator who combined firmness with warmth and charm. Closely watched in the nation's press by both friends and foes of the undertaking, he soon shaped a first-class regiment Army Life in a Black Regiment is Colonel Higginson's...
The commanding officer chosen for the First South Carolina Volunteers was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a militant human rights activist, writer and lec...
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108,98 zł |
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The Future of Risk Management
ISBN: 9780812225082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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161,72 zł |
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The Future of Risk Management
ISBN: 9780812251326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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386,05 zł |
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The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism
ISBN: 9780393303407 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the deans of literary criticism in America, M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of two landmark books, The Mirror and the Lamp and Natural Supernaturalism, and general editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. This volume collects the essays, written over three decades, which together with his books testify to his preeminence. The essays examine Wordsworth s and Coleridge s innovations in their theories about the language of poetry; the prevalence, sources, and significance of a key Romantic image, the correspondent...
One of the deans of literary criticism in America, M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of two l...
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104,61 zł |
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Science & Christianity: Four Views
ISBN: 9780830822621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Science and Christianity. Are they partners or opponents? Christians have long debated the relationship of science to faith. With the rise of Darwinism, however, the issue took on new significance. Darwinism appeared to undermine the authority of the Bible and the credibility of Christianity by freeing science of the need for a Creator. Rethinking the relationship between science and Christianity quickly became a priority.
Science and Christianity. Are they partners or opponents? Christians have long debated the relationship of science to faith. With the rise of Darwinis...
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144,10 zł |
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