wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Religion Free: How Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins re-energized the Religion Free Community
ISBN: 9781494753030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins give voice to the aspirations of hundreds of millions of atheists and secular humanists around the world. The duo are the most influential activists for a generation, energizing secular humanists and non-believers through their landmark and best selling books The God Delusion (2006) by Dawkins and Hitchens God is Not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything (2007). Promoting rational principles and common sense logic, Hitchens and Dawkins argue for the advancement of reason, science and secularism over blind obedience to religious dogma and worn out,...
Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins give voice to the aspirations of hundreds of millions of atheists and secular humanists around the world. The...
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57,37 zł |
Dunn and Dusted
ISBN: 9781911070085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The ups and downs of life in menswear with all the amusing characters met on the way. Look in vain in Dunn's records for the people mentioned, the author has rechristened them all and spared their blushes. Keith Howard worked for Dunn & Company in London for over 50 years. This is his recollection of his years of service. Great for those nostalgic for the past.
The ups and downs of life in menswear with all the amusing characters met on the way. Look in vain in Dunn's records for the people mentioned, the aut...
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106,79 zł |
Samulnori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World
ISBN: 9780367597900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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209,82 zł |
Zimbabwean Mbira Music on an International Stage: Chartwell Dutiro's Life in Music
ISBN: 9780754657996 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chartwell Dutiro, an mbira player since childhood and a former member of the band, Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, arrived in Britain in 1994 and has lived there ever since. He works primarily with Zimbabwean and British musicians, and, while allying himself and his music to his Shona ancestors, his music represents both tradition and its transformation. Many mbira players in Europe and America now regard him as their teacher and mentor. He has built an international following during a decade spent performing at WOMAD and the United Nations, working for refugee projects and in a vast...
Chartwell Dutiro, an mbira player since childhood and a former member of the band, Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, arrived in Britain in 1994...
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603,39 zł |
Shadowshine
ISBN: 9781913294052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,35 zł |
Is This What Faith Looks Like?: A Conversational Journey
ISBN: 9780615745046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In IS THIS WHAT FAITH LOOKS LIKE? Keith Howard takes the reader on a conversational, devotion-journey. He chronicles faith through seven literary genres of the Bible. This book is the result of a year-long project in which the author wrote daily a post that appeared on Facebook, Twitter, Google+1 and Youversion. You LIKED the online posts, now like the book. At times, Howard explores deeply theological concepts, but it is theology for the common man, always mingled with whimsical humor. Steadfast determintation is the motif of the book. The author writes, "At all times be especially present...
In IS THIS WHAT FAITH LOOKS LIKE? Keith Howard takes the reader on a conversational, devotion-journey. He chronicles faith through seven literary genr...
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66,93 zł |
Perspectives on Korean Music : Volume 1: Preserving Korean Music: Intangible Cultural Properties as Icons of Identity
ISBN: 9780754638926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As Korea has developed and modernized, music has come to play a central role as a symbol of national identity. Nationalism has been stage managed by scholars, journalists and, from the beginning of the 1960s, by the state, as music genres have been documented, preserved and promoted as 'Intangible Cultural Properties'. Practitioners have been appointed 'holders' or, in everyday speech, 'Human Cultural Properties', to maintain, perform and teach exemplary versions of tradition. Over the last few years, the Korean preservation system has become a model for UNESCO's 'Living Human Treasures' and...
As Korea has developed and modernized, music has come to play a central role as a symbol of national identity. Nationalism has been stage managed by s...
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682,09 zł |
Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia
ISBN: 9780367345082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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708,33 zł |
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. Edited by Keith Howard
ISBN: 9781409439073 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Focussing on music traditions, these essays explore the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural heritage. For the first time, Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan - states that were amongst the first to establish legislation and systems for indigenous traditions - are considered together. Calls to preserve the intangible heritage have recently become louder, not least with increasing UNESCO attention. The imperative to preserve is, throughout the region, cast as a way to counter the perceived loss of cultural diversity caused by globalization,...
Focussing on music traditions, these essays explore the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural ...
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760,80 zł |
Songs for Great Leaders: Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance
ISBN: 9780190077518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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369,16 zł |
Public Library Pioneer: A.W. McClellan
ISBN: 9781910779361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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55,28 zł |
Extra Points: The Life of My Story
ISBN: 9780692819555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Extra Points is the unforgettable, motivating journey of Coach Howard, a man who understands life and what it means to overcome life's obstacles. Coach Howard presents his story in a memoir that will take you through the wins and losses of his extraordinary, unpredictable life from the time he was a young teenager. Let's face it, growing up in today's world is challenging, but growing up as a minority with big dreams is filled with even more adversities. Coach Howard's Book, "Extra Points: The Life of My Story" takes us deep into the events of Coach Howard's life to witness how he... Extra Points is the unforgettable, motivating journey of Coach Howard, a man who understands life and what it means to overcome life's obstacles. C... |
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72,25 zł |
On Account of Because
ISBN: 9780692897447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What happens when your father drunkenly humiliates you at your eighth-grade graduation? What happens when your closest friends in early childhood are the letters of the alphabet, each with its own personality, who visit you in bed? What happens when your mother, while walking out the door for good, tells you "I wish I were a knitter instead of a needlepoint artist so I could have solved you in the womb"? Fifteen-year-old Clayton Clevinger is what happens. When Clayton meets Shiny, whose mother is in prison for burning down a house and burning up a dog, all in the name of love, and whose aunt...
What happens when your father drunkenly humiliates you at your eighth-grade graduation? What happens when your closest friends in early childhood are ...
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66,75 zł |
The Reception of Machiavelli in Early Modern Spain
ISBN: 9781855662827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Arguing against historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent developments in our understanding of Machiavelli's contribution to the European tradition, the thesis of this book is that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on Spanish prose treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After reviewing in chapter 1 Machiavelli's ideological restructuring of the language of European political thought, in chapter 2 Dr. Howard shows how, before his works were prohibited in Spain in 1583, Spaniards such as Fadrique Furio Ceriol and Balthazar Ayala used...
Arguing against historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent developments in our understanding of Machiavelli's contribution to ...
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341,05 zł |
The Management of a Student Research Project
ISBN: 9780566084904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The third edition of this popular book has been extensively revised to reflect the changes that have affected student research in higher education in recent years. The ability to carry out research successfully has come to be seen as a 'key transferable skill' required of all higher education students - and The Management of a Student Research Project addresses directly the skill element of this. Furthermore the research process, at all levels, is far more systematized than in the past. The single largest change since the second edition came out in 1996 has been the impact of the World Wide...
The third edition of this popular book has been extensively revised to reflect the changes that have affected student research in higher education in ...
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194,08 zł |
Perspectives on Korean Music : Volume 2: Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity
ISBN: 9780754657293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With the rise of nationalism in the Republic of Korea, music has come to play a central role in the discourse of identity. This volume asks what Koreans consider makes music Korean, and how meaning is ascribed to musical creation. Keith Howard explores specific aspects of creativity that are designed to appeal to a new audience that is increasingly westernized yet proud of its indigenous heritage - updates of tradition, compositions, and collaborative fusions. He charts the development of the Korean music scene over the last 25 years and interprets the debates, claims and statistics by...
With the rise of nationalism in the Republic of Korea, music has come to play a central role in the discourse of identity. This volume asks what Korea...
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708,33 zł |
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. Edited by Keith Howard
ISBN: 9781138245464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Focussing on music traditions, these essays explore the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural heritage. For the first time, Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan - states that were amongst the first to establish legislation and systems for indigenous traditions - are considered together. Calls to preserve the intangible heritage have recently become louder, not least with increasing UNESCO attention. The imperative to preserve is, throughout the region, cast as a way to counter the perceived loss of cultural diversity caused by globalization,...
Focussing on music traditions, these essays explore the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural ...
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283,28 zł |
Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry
ISBN: 9781906876388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO 'Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind', signalling its global significance. It sits alongside Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, or the South Asian Mahābhārata and Rāmāyana, although politics and language have during the twentieth century conspired against allowing it to become as well known. In contrast to previously published material, this book focuses on one septegenarian...
Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNES...
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560,51 zł |
Murder Inn
ISBN: 9780874407945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,59 zł |
Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms
ISBN: 9781472418975 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For over a century, drummers have been turning to a variety of percussive traditions as prompts for the creation of new expressive possibilities on the drumset. In this book, Simon Barker sets out in detail the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset utilizing Korean rhythm/sticking cells, aesthetic conceptions, improvisatory codes, and developmental procedures. Barker offers historical overviews of Korean traditional rhythmic forms, analysis of rhythmic structures appearing in a variety of styles, an analysis and chronological account of...
For over a century, drummers have been turning to a variety of percussive traditions as prompts for the creation of new expressive possibilities on th...
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708,33 zł |