wyszukanych pozycji: 31
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India'S World
ISBN: 9788129119575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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Globalization: Millennial Quartet II
ISBN: 9780822364726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This second installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet seeks to intervene in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization, which includes debates about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term. The volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites—local, regional, diasporic—are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of violence.
Seeking an alternative to the dead-end debate between those who... This second installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet seeks to intervene in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the...
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58,73 |
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Varungaala Thamizhagam
ISBN: 9788199705937 / Tamil Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
46,20 |
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Canada: The Dynamic of Global Immigration
ISBN: 9781728370750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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183,38 |
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The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780521357265 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture.
The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging t...
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134,87 |
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Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
ISBN: 9780226318776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008-while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking-was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has become the core of contemporary trading and the primary target of blame for the collapse and all our subsequent woes. With incisive argumentation, he analyzes this challengingly technical world, drawing on thinkers such as...
In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008-w...
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108,27 |
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Canada-An Evolving Vision
ISBN: 9781524618629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Canada: An Evolving Vision " is a special blend of analysis, wit, and humor that takes into account the uneasy history of immigration, the changing demographics, the challenges on the economy, the position of the global village, the political dimensions of this country, and where Canada is likely to see itself in the near future. "Canada: An Evolving Vision" is not only a thoughtful book; it is one filled with optimism, the humble optimism that Canadians are known all over the world. "Canada: An Evolving Vision " is a special blend of analysis, wit, and humor that takes into account the uneasy history of immigration, the changin... |
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96,25 |
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Globalization
ISBN: 9780822327257 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization. While including discussions about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term, the volume focuses in particular on the way that changing sites--local, regional, diasporic--are the scenes of emergent forms of sovereignty in which matters of style, sensibility, and ethos articulate new legalities and new kinds of...
Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a strik...
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651,40 |
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Worship and Conflict Under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case
ISBN: 9780521053587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India.
This study interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India.
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206,36 |
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Canada: The Meat of the World Sandwich
ISBN: 9781438979274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
114,60 |
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Agricultural Reason in the Shadow of Subsistence Capitalism: A Rural Ontology from Western India
ISBN: 9781914363061 / Miękka / 2024 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
103,11 |
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Canada: A Nation in Motion
ISBN: 9781477274767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Canada a Nation in Motion is a bold look at issues facing Canada today from the perspective of a Canadian who truly understands the issues. In his special blend of analysis, humor and wit, Samy Appadurai offers up an intelligent discussion of issues ranging from the history of immigration in Canada, the G20 Summit and the Vancouver Olympics to the position of Canada on the world stage. Along with masterful storytelling, Samy provides a detailed analysis and commentary on each subject he covers in a way that anyone can easily understand. The perspective that Samy Appadurai takes is one of a...
Canada a Nation in Motion is a bold look at issues facing Canada today from the perspective of a Canadian who truly understands the issues. In his spe...
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96,90 |
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The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition
ISBN: 9781844679829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This major collection of essays, a sequel to "Modernity at Large" and "Fear of Small Numbers," is the product of ten years research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality.
Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on firsthand research among urban slum dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their... This major collection of essays, a sequel to "Modernity at Large" and "Fear of Small Numbers," is the product of ten years research and writing, const...
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113,37 |
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Canada-An Evolving Vision
ISBN: 9781524618605 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Canada: An Evolving Vision " is a special blend of analysis, wit, and humor that takes into account the uneasy history of immigration, the changing demographics, the challenges on the economy, the position of the global village, the political dimensions of this country, and where Canada is likely to see itself in the near future. "Canada: An Evolving Vision" is not only a thoughtful book; it is one filled with optimism, the humble optimism that Canadians are known all over the world. "Canada: An Evolving Vision " is a special blend of analysis, wit, and humor that takes into account the uneasy history of immigration, the changin... |
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146,70 |
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Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization Volume 1
ISBN: 9780816627936 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today's world, providing new resources for identity and energies for creating alternatives to the nation-state, whose era some see as coming to an end. Appadurai examines the current epoch of globalization, which is characterized by the win forces of mass migration and electronic mediation, and provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption patters, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence. He considers the way images--of lifestyles,...
Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today's worl...
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97,90 |
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Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger
ISBN: 9780822338345 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other?
"Fear of Small Numbers" is Arjun Appadurai s answer to that question. A leading theorist of globalization, Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics fueling large-scale,... The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional ...
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386,93 |
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Canada: The Dynamic of Global Immigration
ISBN: 9781728370774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
132,94 |