wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
ISBN: 9780143108054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An English professor starts training in mixed martial arts, exploring the science and history behind the violence of men An English professor starts training in mixed martial arts, exploring the science and history behind the violence of men |
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106,09 zł |
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
ISBN: 9780230609037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a...
Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual en...
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195,42 zł |
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
ISBN: 9780544002340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A NYTimes.com Editor's ChoiceA Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist A jaunty, insightful new book . . . that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.
New York Times Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Now Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He... A NYTimes.com Editor's ChoiceA Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist A jaunty, insightful new book . . . that] draws from dispa...
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83,95 zł |
The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer
ISBN: 9780521870382 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall analyses Homeric conflict from the perspective of modern evolutionary biology, attributing its intensity to a shortage of available young women. The warrior practice of taking enemy women as slaves and concubines meant that women were concentrated in the households of powerful men. In turn, this shortage drove men to compete...
Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is...
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454,51 zł |
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
ISBN: 9780230609013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a...
Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual en...
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195,42 zł |
The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer
ISBN: 9780521690478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks. Using a fascinating and innovative approach, Professor Gottschall analyses Homeric conflict from the perspective of modern evolutionary biology, attributing its intensity to a shortage of available young women. The warrior practice of taking enemy women as slaves and concubines meant that women were concentrated in the households of powerful men. In turn, this shortage drove men to compete...
Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is...
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205,45 zł |
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
ISBN: 9781541645967 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,77 zł |