wyszukanych pozycji: 64
The Last Weekend of the Summer
ISBN: 9781611882711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,90 zł |
Wandering in Exile
ISBN: 9781611881820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Danny Boyle was hoping for a fresh start in Canada. With the help of his uncle Martin, he'd soon found a job and a regular gig with a bar band. And when his sweetheart, Deirdre, joined him, Danny seemed set for life.
But Fate wasn t done with Danny, and when his uncle was stricken with AIDS, Deirdre did the only thing she could think of to save him from the darkness she got pregnant. Rising to the occasion, Danny became a father with enthusiasm. With the arrival of their second child, though, mortgages, day-care, and the press of the day took their toll on the young couple. Battling... Danny Boyle was hoping for a fresh start in Canada. With the help of his uncle Martin, he'd soon found a job and a regular gig with a bar band. And wh...
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87,90 zł |
John the Revelator
ISBN: 9780547336909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother, Lily, and spied on by the "neighborly" Mrs. Nagle. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town, John s life suddenly seems full of possibility. His loneliness dissipates. He is taken up by mischief and discovery, hiding in the world beyond as Lily s mysterious illness worsens. But Jamey and John s nose for trouble may be their undoing and soon John will be faced with a terrible moral dilemma. Joining... This is the story of John Devine stuck in a small town in the eerie landscape of Southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bibl... |
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70,69 zł |
River and Enoch O'Reilly
ISBN: 9780547904771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "This book is majestic and squalid at the same time, as if the Bible were actually about Elvis. The rhythms and music carry you like a baby on a raft on the river, but it's the precision of the words that cinches you."--Richard Hell, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
"A passionate dream of a book. Dazzling, but lucid--as though Flannery O'Connor had gone back to the Ireland of her forebears to write a novel."--Peter Behrens, author of The Law of Dreams A small Irish town. A river flood. The return of a prodigal son. On the banks of the river... "This book is majestic and squalid at the same time, as if the Bible were actually about Elvis. The rhythms and music carry you like a baby on a raft ...
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70,69 zł |
England's Coastal Heritage: A Review of Progress Since 1997
ISBN: 9781848021075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The English Heritage Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (RCZAS) programme has produced a wealth of new information, with over 45 survey reports now completed. Alongside this, the offshore survey completed as part of the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund has increased understanding of early prehistoric coastal change, while other researchers have extended back the time scale for a human presence in England to at least 900,000 years. From a wider Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management perspective, there has been increased participation by English Heritage in Defra and Environment...
The English Heritage Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (RCZAS) programme has produced a wealth of new information, with over 45 survey reports now ...
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332,01 zł |
The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures
ISBN: 9781138581258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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604,54 zł |
Evidence and Advocacy
ISBN: 9781854317674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The aim of this book is to provide a helpful guide for practitioners in the magistrates' and county courts to the realities of conducting a successful case. The revised text includes the latest developments in all areas of the law of evidence, including confessions and the Codes of Practice, character and similar-fact evidence, the evidence of children and the use of written witness statements in civil cases.;References are made to the changes that may be introduced by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill. Peter Murphy has also written " A Practical Approach to Evidence" and was...
The aim of this book is to provide a helpful guide for practitioners in the magistrates' and county courts to the realities of conducting a successful...
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242,81 zł |
Fire and Rescue Services: Leadership and Management Perspectives
ISBN: 9783319621531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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508,15 zł |
Tourism: A Community Approach
ISBN: 9780415751490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Written in 1989 when the modern tourist industry had reached a crucial stage in its development, when increased mobility and affluence had led to more extensive and extravagant travel, and competition within the industry had intensified, this book is comprehensive examination of tourism development. The author provides a new perspective for its evaluation, and a suggested strategy for its continued development and evolution. He examines tourism from the viewpoint of destination areas and their aspirations, and recommends an ecological, community approach to developing and planning.
Written in 1989 when the modern tourist industry had reached a crucial stage in its development, when increased mobility and affluence had led to more...
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231,25 zł |
Stranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity
ISBN: 9789004680098 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, and imaginative contribution of these metaphysical fundamentals form the background of Australia’s distinctive urban civilization with its bustling stranger populations, ocean-facing portal cities, revealing art and architecture, and cyclical worlds of markets and industries, war and peace. Murphy...
Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilizatio...
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694,68 zł |
Limited Government: The Public Sector in the Auto-Industrial Age
ISBN: 9780367585099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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210,22 zł |
Public Service Accountability: Rekindling a Debate
ISBN: 9783319933832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Synthesising empirical work across local government, health and social care, the police, and fire services, this book also explores the relationship between financial and performance accountability and makes the case for the need for a distinctive sense of public service accountability.
Synthesising empirical work across local government, health and social care, the police, and fire services, this book also explores the relationship b...
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254,06 zł |
Evidence, Proof, and Facts: A Book of Sources
ISBN: 9780199261956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of materials concerned not only with the law of evidence, but also with the logical and rhetorical aspects of proof; the epistemology of evidence as a basis for the proof of disputed facts; and scientific aspects of the subject. The editor also raises issues such as the philosophical basis for the use of evidence.
This book is a collection of materials concerned not only with the law of evidence, but also with the logical and rhetorical aspects of proof; the epi...
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703,52 zł |
Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
ISBN: 9781433105296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back and asks what advances the arts and sciences? This book explores the collective, social and global dimension of human imagining and the ambivalent relationship of social institutions, including universities, schools, economies, media and culture industries, to the collective imagination. Basic discovery requires high levels of creative thinking: Imagination looks at the social conditions that make path-breaking thought possible on a large...
Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back...
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249,05 zł |
With the Passage of Time
ISBN: 9781915798404 / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,70 zł |
The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies
ISBN: 9781409421351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the collective expression of the imagination in our economies, universities, cities, and political systems, providing a tour-de-force account of the power of the imagination to unite opposites and find similarities among things that we ordinarily think of as different. It is not only individuals who possess the power to imagine; societies do as well. A compelling journey through various peak moments of creation, this book examines the cities and...
The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the...
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762,24 zł |
Covid-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distancing
ISBN: 9789811575136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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254,06 zł |
The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies
ISBN: 9781138117082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the collective expression of the imagination in our economies, universities, cities, and political systems, providing a tour-de-force account of the power of the imagination to unite opposites and find similarities among things that we ordinarily think of as different. It is not only individuals who possess the power to imagine; societies do as well. A compelling journey through various peak moments of creation, this book examines the cities and...
The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the...
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231,25 zł |
Auto-Industrialism: DIY Capitalism and the Rise of the Auto-Industrial Society
ISBN: 9781473961715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. DIY check-outs, drones, self-driving cars, and e-government: all are signs of the coming auto-industrial age. Will this end in mass unemployment or will new kinds of work emerge? Will 3D print production, desktop workshops and mass customization make up for lost blue-collar jobs? What will happen to health and education in the auto-industrial age? Will machines replace teachers and doctors? What might the economic and social future dominated by self-employment and a large DIY industry look like? Peter Murphy's lively, provocative book addresses these questions head-on. DIY check-outs, drones, self-driving cars, and e-government: all are signs of the coming auto-industrial age. Will this end in mass unemployment or... |
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278,61 zł |
The English Coast
ISBN: 9781847251435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines the interaction between people and the coast of England. It spans from 700,000 years ago, and the earliest evidence of humans in this remote corner of north-west Europe, to the end of the 20th century. The coastline has witnessed interesting and significant events throughout history and looks set to do so in the future. Often it is the first place where changes can be seen, for example the effects of climate change. It is also where evidence for human adaptation to environmental changes can most readily be seen. This book examines the interaction between people and the coast of England. It spans from 700,000 years ago, and the earliest evidence of humans in... |
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735,96 zł |