wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Free Flight: A New Age of Air Travel
ISBN: 9781586481407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological innovation in airplanes in the last thirty years has been devoted to moving passengers more efficiently between major hubs. But what was left out of this equation was the convenience and flexibility of the average traveler. Now, because of heightened security, hours of waiting are tacked...
The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years...
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105,32 |
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Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
ISBN: 9780679758563 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because show like "The McLaughlin Group" reduce participating journalists to so many shouting heads. Or because, increasingly, the profession treats issues as complex as health-care reform and foreign policy as exercises in political gamesmanship. These are just a few of the arguments that have made Breaking the News so controversial and so widely acclaimed. Drawing on his own experience as a National Book Award-winning journalist--and on the gaffes of colleagues from George Will to Cokie Roberts--Fallows shows why the media have not...
Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because show like "The McLaughlin Group" reduce participating journalists to so many shouting head...
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76,02 |
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China Airborne: The Test of China's Future
ISBN: 9781400031276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China's modernization--its plan to rival America as the world's leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future. In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of China's project, making clear how it stands to...From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China's modernization--its ... |
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79,82 |
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Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq
ISBN: 9780307277961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the autumn of 2002, Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows wrote an article predicting many of the problems America would face if it invaded Iraq. After events confirmed many of his predictions, Fallows went on to write some of the most acclaimed, award-winning journalism on the planning and execution of the war, much of which has been assigned as required reading within the U.S. military.
In Blind Into Baghdad, Fallows takes us from the planning of the war through the struggles of reconstruction. With unparalleled access and incisive analysis, he shows us... In the autumn of 2002, Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows wrote an article predicting many of the problems America would fac...
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72,22 |
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
ISBN: 9780307456243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic, environmental, political, and social goals they care about defending as Chinese influence grows.
from China Makes, the World Takes Since December 2006, The Atlantic Magazine's James Fallows has been writing some of the most discerning accounts of the economic and political... Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the s...
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79,82 |
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Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System
ISBN: 9780679761624 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Offers an economic, political, and social analysis of East Asia's growing power, explaining how it challenges the West's economic strength and political ideals and detailing its potential for long-term impact.
Offers an economic, political, and social analysis of East Asia's growing power, explaining how it challenges the West's economic strength and politic...
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87,42 |
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The Human Element: A Time Capsule from the Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780847870882 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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307,44 |