wyszukanych pozycji: 364
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Re-Enchantment of the West V1
ISBN: 9780567084088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religion and alternative spiritualities. Part One of the book provides the theoretical background and guides the reader through some of the principal debates. After an overview of the secularization thesis, which argues that the West is becoming increasingly disenchanted, the second chapter turns to the sociological analysis of new religions and alternative spiritualities. Particular attention is given to the ideas of the sociologist of... As a book about emergent spirituality in the contemporary West, this books focuses on the nature, evolution and significance of new forms of religi... |
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395,27 |
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
ISBN: 9781138155725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often...
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420,58 |
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Narcissism: Acquire The Skills To Develop Empathy, A Heightened Awareness That Enables You To Effectively Assist Others. Recovery
ISBN: 9781835734827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,52 |
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Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death
ISBN: 9781472534514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring bereavement, depression, suicide, violence, gore, and fans' responses to the deaths of musicians, it argues for the social and cultural significance of popular music's treatment of mortality and the apparent...
The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerab...
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737,94 |
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
ISBN: 9780415474337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 972 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety of routes from originally common stock. As well as giving the answers to questions about the derivation of individual words, it is a fascinating book to browse through, since every page points out links with other entries. It is easy to pursue such trails as the longer articles are written as continuous prose clearly divided up by means of numbered paragraphs and subheadings, and there is a careful system of... This dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connection... |
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440,60 |
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster
ISBN: 9781398719231 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,22 |
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There's No Taste Like Home
ISBN: 9781784726362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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102,30 |
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Kindred Spirits: dying to live
ISBN: 9781449564599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An American pilot flying relief missions into war torn Cambodia, deliberately crashes his airplane to avoid injuring or killing a group of orphaned children. An Apsara, a Buddhist gaurdian angel, rewards him by saving his spirit and returning him to a mortal life.
An American pilot flying relief missions into war torn Cambodia, deliberately crashes his airplane to avoid injuring or killing a group of orphaned ch...
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71,20 |
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A Dictionary of RAF Slang
ISBN: 9781405930598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Drop your visiting cards, put aside your beer-lever, stop being a half-pint hero and discover the gloriously funny slang which was part of everyday life in two world wars. Passion-killers: Airwomen's service knickers, whether twilights (the lighter, summer-weight variety) or black-outs (the navy-blue winter-weights). A wise directive has purposely made them as unromantic in colour and in design as a wise directive could imagine. Thanks to the work of Eric Partridge in 1945, the hilarious slang of the Royal Air Force during the first two World Wars has been preserved for generations to come....
Drop your visiting cards, put aside your beer-lever, stop being a half-pint hero and discover the gloriously funny slang which was part of everyday li...
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51,10 |
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What Makes You Clever: The Puzzle of Intelligence
ISBN: 9789814513036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Black Holes and Big Bangs to the Higgs boson and the infinitesimal building blocks of all matter, modern science has been spectacularly successful, with one glaring exception - intelligence. Intelligence still remains as one of the greatest mysteries in science. How do you chat so effortlessly? How do you remember, and why do you forget? From a basis of ten maxims What Makes You Clever explains the difficulties as well as the persuasive and persistent over-estimations of progress in Artificial Intelligence. Computers have transformed our lives, and will continue to do so for many...
From Black Holes and Big Bangs to the Higgs boson and the infinitesimal building blocks of all matter, modern science has been spectacularly successfu...
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347,89 |
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Sube Cane
ISBN: 9781514305607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Astride the ridgepole of his father's stable Sube Cane sat with the easy grace of a range-rider, gently rising in his stirrups in unison with the pounding of imaginary unshod hoofs on the soft turf of a dreamland prairie, as he conversed in low tones with a dark-haired maiden who rode in fancy beside him. And, as he rode, he gently rubbed his upper lip with an index finger.
Astride the ridgepole of his father's stable Sube Cane sat with the easy grace of a range-rider, gently rising in his stirrups in unison with the poun...
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31,46 |
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The Seductive Computer: Why IT Systems Always Fail
ISBN: 9781849964975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. IT systems explode budget estimates, bust production deadlines by years, and then fail to work properly. Why this IT-system crisis? Poor programmers? Inadequate project management? No. The Seductive Computer argues that the fundamental nature of programming technology itself is the real culprit; it promises perfection but can only deliver emergent chaos. It is also an insidiously compelling technology, peculiarly male oriented. IT systems, an unavoidable and increasing reality in all our lives, are something new to man - large-scale discrete complexity. The... IT systems explode budget estimates, bust production deadlines by years, and then fail to work properly. Why this IT-system crisis? Poor programmer... |
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204,55 |
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Levis Corner House
ISBN: 9781915573124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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41,83 |
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Tapping Journal
ISBN: 9780989355544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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125,97 |
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Blue Moon
ISBN: 9780244802561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,51 |
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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
ISBN: 9781452165103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,97 |
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Tommy and Grizel (1900). By: J. M. Barrie, illustrated By: Bernard Partridge: Novel (Original Classics). Sir John Bernard Partridge (11 October 186
ISBN: 9781542955430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Introduction to World Religions
ISBN: 9780745956879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A leading textbook for world religion, this edition is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach and its respected board of consulting editors, this text addresses ways to study religion, provides broad coverage of diverse religions, and offers an arresting layout with rich illustrations.
A leading textbook for world religion, this edition is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Know...
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132,94 |
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The Occult World
ISBN: 9781138219250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 722 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture. This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western... |
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250,32 |
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The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
ISBN: 9780199751402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the values and norms, texts and discourses, rituals and symbols, and codes and narratives of modern Western cultures. He shows how popular music's power to move, to agitate, to control listeners, to shape...
The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination,...
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165,18 |