wyszukanych pozycji: 20
Waiting for a Sign
ISBN: 9780692286982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Shelly and Ian used to be close, but after Ian leaves home to attend the Hawthorne School for the Deaf, Shelly feels abandoned, and the two drift apart. When Ian returns home with news that the future of Hawthorne is in jeopardy, Shelly isn't sure she wants him back. And Ian, who has enjoyed living with students and staff who sign all the time, feels angry when his family forgets to do the same. An explosive argument that could drive brother and sister further apart actually offers hope for reconciliation-a hope that grows as Shelly's spirited best friend, Lisa, helps... Shelly and Ian used to be close, but after Ian leaves home to attend the Hawthorne School for the Deaf, Shelly feels abandoned, and the two drift a... |
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42,89 zł |
Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him
ISBN: 9780615799933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him tells the riveting story of Muhammad Yunus's life-long struggle to end global poverty. When Muhammad Yunus lent $27 dollars to 42 women in rural Bangladesh, he sparked what became the microcredit movement that has empowered millions of poor women in nearly 100 countries. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the US Congressional Gold Medal on April 17, 2013. Social psychologist Katharine Esty paints a cool-eyed and richly textured portrait...
Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him tells the riveting story of Muhammad Yunus's life-long str...
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102,43 zł |
Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the Future
ISBN: 9780881322057 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. There is growing consensus that new international rules and principles are needed to reconcile conflicts, and promote complementarities, between trade and environmental goals. The issue is especially acute for very poor countries striving for rapid economic growth. Esty, a former Environmental Protection Agency official with extensive experience in trade and environmental negotiations, examines the vital connections between trade, environment and development. He argues that current international trade rules and institutions must be significantly reformed to address environmental concerns...
There is growing consensus that new international rules and principles are needed to reconcile conflicts, and promote complementarities, between trade...
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109,41 zł |
The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits
ISBN: 9781503633315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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57,12 zł |
Unseasonable Youth
ISBN: 9780199857968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot, but also to explore the contradictions inherent in mainstream developmental discourses of self, nation, and empire. The intertwined tropes of...
Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or en...
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419,87 zł |
Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development
ISBN: 9780199307234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot, but also to explore the contradictions inherent in mainstream developmental discourses of self, nation, and empire. The intertwined tropes of...
Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or en...
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217,96 zł |
A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England
ISBN: 9780691115498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist... This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shr... |
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191,47 zł |
Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and Esg Reporting
ISBN: 9783030556150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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173,87 zł |
The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function
ISBN: 9780470590751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Implement the green strategies outlined in Dan Esty's and Andrew Winston's bestseller Green to Gold"
Hard-nosed business advice for gaining competitive advantage through sustainability action in buildings and operations, information technology, product design, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics and transportation, marketing, accounting, and other key business functions Whether you are a climate change skeptic or an environmentalist, sustainability issues cannot be ignored in today's corporate world. With rising energy and natural resource costs, intensified regulations,... "Implement the green strategies outlined in Dan Esty's and Andrew Winston's bestseller Green to Gold"
Hard-nosed business advice for gaining... |
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180,64 zł |
Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and Esg Reporting
ISBN: 9783030556129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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193,19 zł |
The Labyrinth of Sustainability: Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders
ISBN: 9781783089130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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191,11 zł |
Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9780198299059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This study addresses one of the hottest policy questions on both sides of the Atlantic--at what level of government should regulation be undertaken?. The editors bring together leading scholars to examine the various aspects of the debate between "harmonization" and "regulatory competition" across three comparative dimensions. The book provides a sharp focus on the circumstances that would yield gains from regulatory competition and to contrast those cases where heightened cooperation in standard setting or broader regulatory harmonization might increase social welfare.
This study addresses one of the hottest policy questions on both sides of the Atlantic--at what level of government should regulation be undertaken?. ...
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449,41 zł |
A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9780300246247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability with a foreword by Yale's dean of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Ingrid C. "Indy" Burke.
A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability with a foreword by Yale's dean of Fores...
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109,36 zł |
Modern Project Finance: A Casebook
ISBN: 9780471434252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This cutting-edge financial casebook is divided into four modules: Structuring Projects, Valuing Projects, Managing Project Risk, and Financing Projects. The cases have been carefully selected to reflect actual use of project finance over the past five years in terms of geographic location (the cases come from 15 different countries) and industrial sectors.
* Benjamin Esty, of the Harvard Business School, is one of the leading scholars in project finance. * Project finance is becoming the financing mechanism of choice for many private firms. * Cases require the reader to... This cutting-edge financial casebook is divided into four modules: Structuring Projects, Valuing Projects, Managing Project Risk, and Financing Projec...
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853,13 zł |
Advanced Introduction to U.S. Environmental Law
ISBN: 9781800374898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world'AEos leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Providing a comprehensive overview of the current and developing state of environmental governance in the United States, this Advanced Introduction lays out the foundations of U.S. environmental law. E. Donald Elliott and Daniel C. Esty explore how...
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written b...
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464,99 zł |
Advanced Introduction to U.S. Environmental Law
ISBN: 9781800374911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world'AEos leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Providing a comprehensive overview of the current and developing state of environmental governance in the United States, this Advanced Introduction lays out the foundations of U.S. environmental law. E. Donald Elliott and Daniel C. Esty explore how...
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written b...
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120,08 zł |
The Labyrinth of Sustainability: Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders
ISBN: 9781783089123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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627,93 zł |
A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9780300255225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability with a foreword by Yale's dean of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Ingrid C. "Indy" Burke.
A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability with a foreword by Yale's dean of Fores...
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76,53 zł |
Smart Power Anniversary Edition: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities
ISBN: 9781610915892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Few industries in the U.S. are as stuck in the past as our utilities are. In the face of growing challenges from climate change and the need for energy security, a system and a business model that each took more than a century to evolve must now be extensively retooled in the span of a few decades. Despite the need, many of the technologies and institutions needed are still being designed or tested. It is like rebuilding our entire airplane fleet, along with our runways and air traffic control system, while the planes are all up in the air filled with passengers. In this accessible and...
Few industries in the U.S. are as stuck in the past as our utilities are. In the face of growing challenges from climate change and the need for energ...
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169,59 zł |
Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History
ISBN: 9781978816367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very...
The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its r...
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244,26 zł |