wyszukanych pozycji: 22
The Columbia History of Post-World War II America
ISBN: 9780231121262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Beginning with an analysis of cultural themes and ending with a discussion of evolving and expanding political and corporate institutions, The Columbia History of Post-World War II America addresses changes in America's response to the outside world; the merging of psychological states and social patterns in memorial culture, scandal culture, and consumer culture; the intersection of social practices and governmental policies; the effect of technological change on society and politics; and the intersection of changing belief systems and technological development, among other issues....
Beginning with an analysis of cultural themes and ending with a discussion of evolving and expanding political and corporate institutions, The Colu...
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387,35 zł |
Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation But Missed the History Books
ISBN: 9780195168839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of the figures who have shaped our country have receded from public memory. In order to celebrate and call attention to these lives, Oxford University Press asked fifty accomplished personalities from a diverse range of interests to each select a person from the 24-volume American National Biography that they felt deserved more attention.
In Invisible Giants, the biographies of these forgotten figures appear alongside the often-personal comments of their selectors. We discover the man who inspired Sherwin Nuland to become a... Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of the figures who have shaped our country have receded from public memory. In order ...
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158,14 zł |
The Columbia History of Post-World War II America
ISBN: 9780231121279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Beginning with an analysis of cultural themes and ending with a discussion of evolving and expanding political and corporate institutions, The Columbia History of Post-World War II America addresses changes in America's response to the outside world; the merging of psychological states and social patterns in memorial culture, scandal culture, and consumer culture; the intersection of social practices and governmental policies; the effect of technological change on society and politics; and the intersection of changing belief systems and technological development, among other issues....
Beginning with an analysis of cultural themes and ending with a discussion of evolving and expanding political and corporate institutions, The Colu...
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121,74 zł |
Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
ISBN: 9780674984097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why are so many students intellectually disengaged? Mark Carnes says it is because students are so deeply absorbed in competitive social play. He shows how month-long role-immersion games in the curriculum can channel those competitive impulses into transformative learning experiences, and how bricks-and-mortar colleges can set young minds on fire.
Why are so many students intellectually disengaged? Mark Carnes says it is because students are so deeply absorbed in competitive social play. He show...
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143,60 zł |
Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America
ISBN: 9780300051469 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias-why did millions of nineteenth-century American men belong to these and other secret orders? In this engrossing study, Mark C. Carnes argues that fraternal rituals created a fantasy world antithetical to prevailing religious practices, gender roles, and institutional structures, offering a male religious counterculture that opposed an increasingly liberal and feminized Protestantism. " An] original and compelling study. . . . Making use of anthropology as well as social history, Carnes is probably the first outsider to take these rituals seriously....
Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias-why did millions of nineteenth-century American men belong to these and other secret orders? In this engro...
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220,85 zł |
American National Biography
ISBN: 9780195206357 / Angielski / Pudełko z zestawem (boxed set) / 1999 / 22968 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produc...
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7750,44 zł |
The Educator\'s Guide to Designing Games and Creative Active-Learning Exercises: The Allure of Play
ISBN: 9780807767733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Every educator's imaginative instincts will be guided by this book's practical design method, which harnesses the power of play for student learning. Teachers from all disciplines and levels can create a full spectrum of engaging exercises through the authors' six accessible ALLURE steps: Ask where to apply the play. List the mental moves. Link the mental moves to the play. Understand how the learning principles operate. Run the activity-game. Evaluate the learner experience. Along with principles from game-based learning pedagogy, readers will explore a framework of original...
Every educator's imaginative instincts will be guided by this book's practical design method, which harnesses the power of play for student learning. ...
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569,95 zł |
Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction
ISBN: 9780310256571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Mark has eloquently unraveled the mystery behind addictive behavior: when our relationships are not alive and growing, the temptation for various kinds of addictions is unleashed.."--Dr. Gary Smalley With today's rampant availability of Internet pornography, sexual addiction has become a national epidemic that affects up to 10 percent of Christians. As devastating as any drug habit, it brings heartbreak and despair to those it entangles. But there is help for men and women caught in sexual addiction's downward spiral. This book offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and...
"Mark has eloquently unraveled the mystery behind addictive behavior: when our relationships are not alive and growing, the temptation for various kin...
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72,56 zł |
The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the New Cosmology, and the Catholic Church, 1616-1633
ISBN: 9781469670812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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165,51 zł |
Historical Atlas of the United States
ISBN: 9780415941112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This full-colour atlas is an authoritative guide to the history of the United States. From the formation of the continent up through current events and information based on the most recent census, this work uses the geography of the United States to portray the history of the land and its people. The 300-plus maps tell the engaging story of America with detailed, clear information; accompanying text highlights key information presented in each map.
This full-colour atlas is an authoritative guide to the history of the United States. From the formation of the continent up through current events an...
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946,23 zł |
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England
ISBN: 9781469670782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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165,51 zł |
Meanings for Manhood
ISBN: 9780226093659 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The stereotype of the Victorian man as a flinty, sexually repressed patriarch belies the remarkably wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of manhood during the mid- to late- nineteenth century. A complex pattern of alternative and even competing behaviors and attitudes emerges in this important collection of essays that points toward a "gendered history" of men.
The stereotype of the Victorian man as a flinty, sexually repressed patriarch belies the remarkably wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of ...
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154,94 zł |
Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791
ISBN: 9781469670744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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165,51 zł |
The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America
ISBN: 9780415921312 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charting the history and geographic development of the major American religions, this atlas displays in detail the intimate relationship between American religion and the events that formed the nation. These maps explore a wide range of American creeds, encompassing such diverse groups as the English Puritan settlers, the Catholic immigrants of the 19th and 20th-centuries, and the African American Southern Baptist movement.
Charting the history and geographic development of the major American religions, this atlas displays in detail the intimate relationship between Ameri...
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867,37 zł |
Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945
ISBN: 9781469670799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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165,51 zł |
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England
ISBN: 9780393937336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Trial of Anne Hutchinson re-creates one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in early American history: the struggle between the followers and allies of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and those of Anne Hutchinson, a strong-willed and brilliant religious dissenter. The controversy pushed Massachusetts to the brink of collapse and spurred a significant exodus. The Puritans who founded Massachusetts were poised between the Middle Ages and the modern world, and in many ways, they helped to bring the modern world into being. The Trial of Anne...
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson re-creates one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in early American history: the struggle between t...
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160,47 zł |
The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America
ISBN: 9780415921374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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189,19 zł |
Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587
ISBN: 9781469670805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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165,51 zł |
Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587
ISBN: 9780393937275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped them. Students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment. An award-winning active-learning pedagogy, Reacting to the Past improves speaking, writing, and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts and history, and builds learning communities. Reacting can be used across the curriculum, from the first-year general education class to "capstone"... Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped th... |
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110,62 zł |
Blackbeard's Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge
ISBN: 9781469640525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 1717, the pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and renamed it Queen Anne's Revenge. But in June 1718 Blackbeard reportedly ran the ship aground off the coast of North Carolina. When divers discovered the wreck in 1996, it was heralded as a major find in maritime archaeology. Now the story of Queen Anne's Revenge is revealed in full detail.
In 1717, the pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and renamed it Queen Anne's Revenge. But in June 1718 Blac...
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131,13 zł |