wyszukanych pozycji: 259
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Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity
ISBN: 9781442211322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, now ranking with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the concept of domicide--the eradication of a home against the will of its dwellers--to the sweeping destruction of neighborhoods, families, and life patterns to make way for the new Shanghai. Here we find the holdouts and protesters, men and women who have stubbornly resisted domicide and demanded justice. Qin Shao follows, among others, a...
Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, now ranking with New York and London as a hub of global finance. ...
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219,12 |
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The Visions of Rome in Spanish Golden Age Narrative : Aleman, Cervantes, and Gracian
ISBN: 9783639202588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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306,31 |
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Pulling a Dragon's Teeth
ISBN: 9780822958352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 65 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There is a proverb in China, "hu kou ba ya," literally pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth, used to describe any extremely difficult task. When Shao Wei first arrived in the United States at age thirty-one, her desire to write poems in English seemed almost impossible. "Pulling a Dragon's Teeth," a first stop on the successful journey toward that goal, is filled with the rhythms and visions of this exciting young poet.
Shuttling between her childhood in a small mountain city on the shores of the Yangtze River (soon to be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam Project) and adulthood in Manhattan,... There is a proverb in China, "hu kou ba ya," literally pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth, used to describe any extremely difficult task. When Shao We...
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77,91 |
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Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China
ISBN: 9780804770255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of southwestern China. Through a nuanced analysis of the Nuosu population, this book seeks to answer why the Nuosu has a disproportionately large number of opiate users and HIV positive individuals relative to others in Sichuan. By focusing on the experiences of Nuosu migrants and drug users, it shows how multiple modernities, individual yearnings, and societal resilience have become entwined in the Nuosu's calamitous...
Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young ...
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101,28 |
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Mathematical Statistics
ISBN: 9781441929785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 22 dni roboczych This graduate textbook covers topics in statistical theory essential for graduate students preparing for work on a Ph.D. degree in statistics. The first chapter provides a quick overview of concepts and results in measure-theoretic probability theory that are usefulin statistics. The second chapter introduces some fundamental concepts in statistical decision theory and inference. Chapters 3-7 contain detailed studies on some important topics: unbiased estimation, parametric estimation, nonparametric estimation, hypothesis testing, and confidence sets. A large number of exercises in each...
This graduate textbook covers topics in statistical theory essential for graduate students preparing for work on a Ph.D. degree in statistics. The fir...
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Web and Big Data: Third International Joint Conference, Apweb-Waim 2019, Chengdu, China, August 1-3, 2019, Proceedings, Part I
ISBN: 9783030260712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 433 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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299,96 |
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The Fundamental Dynamic Effect on Reform and Opening in China
ISBN: 9789004417175 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Fundamental Dynamic Effect on Reform and Opening in China is the seventh volume of the series China in the World. The year 2018 marks the fortieth year of China’s reform and opening. China’s reform and opening has involved many areas. This volume focuses on reform and opening’s dynamic mechanisms, but it also touches on how to look at some of the problems that these dynamic mechanisms face today. The articles in this volume explore the driving force of China’s reform and opening up from the perspective of institutional changes, such as the political economy of globalization and...
The Fundamental Dynamic Effect on Reform and Opening in China is the seventh volume of the series China in the World. The year 2018 marks the fortieth...
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China and the World: Balance, Imbalance and Rebalance
ISBN: 9789004255838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What is China's rightful place on the world stage? Will the world remain unipolar as signs of American decline appear to be mounting? How can China maintain a harmonious relationship with its neighbors? What does China intend to do with the new power and influence that appears to be at its disposal? In light of emergent post-2008 economic realities, how should China adjust its foreign economic relations? This volume, the first of its kind, gathers a collection of translations of influential essays, talks, and papers on Chinese foreign policy, national security, and foreign economic relations...
What is China's rightful place on the world stage? Will the world remain unipolar as signs of American decline appear to be mounting? How can China ma...
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1077,65 |
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Interkulturelle Kommunikation in der deutsch-chinesischen Wirtschaftskooperation : Eine praktische Einführung in die Grundlagen der chinesischen Kultur für deutsche Unternehmen
ISBN: 9783639042870 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2008 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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New Perspectives on Geography of Media
ISBN: 9789819921133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Based on the ancient Chinese concept of the unity of Heaven and Man (天人合一, ‘tian ren he yi’), guided by principles governing the connections and interdependencies between Heaven, Earth, Man, and the media, and in accord with the coexistence of these four elements in balance and in harmony, this monograph outlines the scope of the study, fundamental concepts and theories, and future directions of research in the interdisciplinary field of the geography of media. The author delves deeply into the themes of time, space, place, landscape, and scale to...
Based on the ancient Chinese concept of the unity of Heaven and Man (天人合一, ‘tian ren he yi’), guided by principles governing the...
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445,90 |
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Letters Home
ISBN: 9781632212177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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124,30 |
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time-zero Santa Cruz: Manipulated Polaroid Images from Santa Cruz
ISBN: 9781492191490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a book of manipulated Polaroid SX-70 images of Santa Cruz created by Portia Shao. Time-zero is the film used in the Polaroid SX-70 instant camera which can be manipulated using a pointed object while the emulsion is still wet. The resulting images have a painterly look, and each one is unique. Portia Shao created these images in and around Santa Cruz, including downtown, along Pacific avenue, and the Boardwalk.
This is a book of manipulated Polaroid SX-70 images of Santa Cruz created by Portia Shao. Time-zero is the film used in the Polaroid SX-70 instant cam...
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163,41 |
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Pharmacological Potential of Marine Natural Products
ISBN: 9783725827954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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337,59 |
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Electrocatalysis
ISBN: 9783030432966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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1418,88 |
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Large-Scale Graph Analysis: System, Algorithm and Optimization
ISBN: 9789811539275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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608,07 |
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Cable Supported Composite Bridges
ISBN: 9789819932078 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book introduces the latest developments in long-span cable-supported composite cable-stayed bridges, suspension bridges, and mid- and through-type cable-supported composite arch bridges. Based on the engineering application and practice of cable-supported composite bridges, this book systematically expounds the structural systems of these bridge types. It also summarizes the main construction methods, analyzes the mechanical properties of cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges with composite girders and the influence rule with alternative spans, and proposes the reasonable...
This book introduces the latest developments in long-span cable-supported composite cable-stayed bridges, suspension bridges, and mid- and through-typ...
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Microrna Protocols
ISBN: 9781493976003 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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526,98 |
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Ai-Empowered Iot Communications
ISBN: 9783031988158 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
729,69 |
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Investigation of electron acceleration and deceleration in plasmas
ISBN: 9783838151069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
359,91 |
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Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management: Including Perspectives on Collaboration and Integration
ISBN: 9781402043055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Forests provide goods and services essential to human societies and the natural environment, but they are disappearing faster today than ever before. What should forestry do in the information era? How can we use computer technologies to better manage forests in a sustainable manner? Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management provides critical information needed for forestry professionals to address such questions. Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management presents state-of-the-art computer applications in a variety of... Forests provide goods and services essential to human societies and the natural environment, but they are disappearing faster today than ever befor... |
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608,07 |