wyszukanych pozycji: 389
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy
ISBN: 9780231119153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling books but also from his media appearances, including The David Letterman Show and National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" and "Science Friday," as well as articles in Newsweek, Nature, Discover, Business Week, the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. Paulos originally wrote this charming little book on analytic logic, its mathematics, and its puzzles in 1985....
The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling ...
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Rolling in the Third Eye
ISBN: 9781912963157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Quarantined Planet 2: Chloe\'s Run
ISBN: 9781483437842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Family Mediation Practice
ISBN: 9780684863924 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
Synopsis coming soon.......
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Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories
ISBN: 9780465051595 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What two things could be more different than numbers and stories? Numbers are abstract, certain, and eternal, but to most of us somewhat dry and bloodless. Good stories are full of life: they engage our emotions and have subtlety and nuance, but they lack rigor and the truths they tell are elusive and subject to debate. As ways of understanding the world around us, numbers and stories seem almost completely incompatible.Once Upon a Number shows that stories and numbers aren't as different as you might imagine, and in fact they have surprising and fascinating connections. The concepts...
What two things could be more different than numbers and stories? Numbers are abstract, certain, and eternal, but to most of us somewhat dry and blood...
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Bronze Jazz
ISBN: 9780997744590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
ISBN: 9780140291209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In this book, Paulos argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions and an increased susceptibility to pseudo-sciences of all kinds. The discussion is illustrated with many quirky stories and anecdotes.
In this book, Paulos argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers results in misinformed governmental policies, confused perso...
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Before I Forget: Short Stories from Collective Voices
ISBN: 9781728333359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,55 |
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The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry: Economic and Managerial Implications in the Age of New Media
ISBN: 9780739140048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry examines the role that new media technologies are having on the traditional media industry from a media management perspective. It provides an intriguing examination of how traditional media industries are adapting to new media technologies and evolving in the twenty-first century.
The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry examines the role that new media technologies are having on the traditional media industry from a media manage...
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Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House
ISBN: 9780739141069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Communicator-in-Chief examines the role of new media technologies such as e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, blogs, video games, texting and the Internet in the historic 2008 presidential campaign. Politicians of the twenty-first century will use the Obama campaign's new media technology strategy to not only communicate with the electorate, but also raise money and motivate voters to go to the polling places on election day.
Communicator-in-Chief examines the role of new media technologies such as e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, blogs, video games, texting and...
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Mathematics and Humor
ISBN: 9780226650258 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais, Shakespeare, James Beattie, Rene Thom, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Koestler, W. C. Fields, and Woody Allen.
"Jokes, paradoxes, riddles, and the art of non-sequitur are revealed with great perception and insight in this illuminating account of the relationship between humor and mathematics." Joseph Williams, "New York Times" "'Leave your "mind" alone, ' said a Thurber cartoon, and a really complete and... John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing ...
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Everyday Miracles: The Sacraments as Ordinary Means of Grace
ISBN: 9781482795172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Techno Politics in Presidential Campaigning: New Voices, New Technologies, and New Voters
ISBN: 9780415879798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The 2008 US presidential campaign saw politicians utilizing all types of new media -- Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, e-mail, and cell phone texting to reach voters of all ages, ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. This volume examines the use of these media and considers the effectiveness of reaching voters through these channels. It explores not only the use of new media and technologies but also the role these tactics played in attracting new voters and communicating with the electorate during the 2008 presidential debates. Chapters focus on how the...
The 2008 US presidential campaign saw politicians utilizing all types of new media -- Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, e-mail, and cell phone text...
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History of the War Between the United States and the Sac and Fox Nations of Indians, and Parts of Other Disaffected Tribes of Indians: In the Years Eighteen Hundred and Twenty-Seven, Thirty-One, and T
ISBN: 9781275818491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Bard Of The Lesser Boulevards: The Wit And Wisdom (And Occasional Lack Thereof) Of John Allen Small
ISBN: 9781517319137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Presidential Campaigning and Social Media: An Analysis of the 2012 Campaign
ISBN: 9780199355846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Social media are revolutionizing the American electoral process. Their integral role in facilitating campaign communication and networking has rapidly evolved into a standard element of candidate strategy, voter engagement, and media reporting.
Featuring work by an esteemed line-up of contributors, Presidential Campaigning and Social Media: An Analysis of the 2012 Campaign is the first book to provide a detailed analysis of the role that social media and social networking sites (SNS)--including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, and others--played... Social media are revolutionizing the American electoral process. Their integral role in facilitating campaign communication and networking has rapidly...
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Afghanistan, A Sailor in a Soldier's World
ISBN: 9781530112142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a book that explores the emotional side of warfare through words and images.
This is a book that explores the emotional side of warfare through words and images.
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Allen's Authentication of Later Chinese Porcelain (1796 AD - 1999 AD)
ISBN: 9781490568744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Real History of Tom Jones
ISBN: 9781403966438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century. This study recovers and explores the contexts necessary to understand Fielding's subtle art, such as the bloody conflict for the throne between Stuarts and Hanoverians, a contradictory class system, game laws that both protected and flouted individual property rights, and a justice system that proclaimed hanging for many crimes but let most criminals go. Drawing on evidence such as the peculiar appearance of eighteenth-century money, the...
The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century...
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