wyszukanych pozycji: 36
Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion
ISBN: 9781932031348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The voice of a renowned professor of philosophy in Poland, who is also a Roman Catholic priest, is introduced to the United States in this collection of his provocative essays on the interplay of science and religion. Michael Heller progressively outlines systematic steps that might lead to a peaceful coexistence of these traditionally separate fields of study. Some essays have their roots in the author's work in physics and cosmology, while others present his theories on the language of God, creation, and transcendence, inspired by his work in the applications of so-called noncommutative... The voice of a renowned professor of philosophy in Poland, who is also a Roman Catholic priest, is introduced to the United States in this collecti... |
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114,06 zł |
Within the Inscribed: selected prose and conversations
ISBN: 9781848617513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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99,74 zł |
Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics
ISBN: 9781848612181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. These essays concern the uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry. Dealing with such major figures as Pound, Stevens, Moore, Oppen, Duncan, Niedecker, Lorca, Rilke and Mallarme and of poets in more contemporary modernist and post-modernist lineages, they examine how these poets articulate, virtually in the same breath, both affirmation and doubt concerning poetry, history and knowledge.
"For decades, Michael Heller has been making in his poetry one of the most careful explorations we have of the lyric imagination. For nearly as... Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. These essays concern the uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry. Dealing with such major figure...
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108,41 zł |
Philosophy in Science: An Historical Introduction
ISBN: 9783642177040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" -- space, time, causality, the structure of the universe -- are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the grand unified theories of contemporary science. In the light of this historical development, it becomes clear that modern science gives us not only a technological power over the world, but also a deeper...
The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" -- space, time, causality, the structure of the universe -- are overwhelmingly present in our mod...
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191,40 zł |
Philosophy in Science: An Historical Introduction
ISBN: 9783642446511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" -- space, time, causality, the structure of the universe -- are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the grand unified theories of contemporary science. In the light of this historical development, it becomes clear that modern science gives us not only a technological power over the world, but also a deeper...
The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" -- space, time, causality, the structure of the universe -- are overwhelmingly present in our mod...
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191,40 zł |
The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
ISBN: 9780465018987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These problems have solutions that can jump-start innovation and help save our troubled economy. So, what's holding us back?
Michael Heller, a leading authority on property, reveals that while private ownership creates wealth, too much ownership means that everyone loses. Startling and accessible, The Gridlock Economy offers insights on how... Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cance...
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139,81 zł |
Commons and Anticommons
ISBN: 9781845426576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 1192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This two-volume collection brings together the most important articles on the tragedies of the commons and anticommons. The first volume presents the bedrock articles that define commons and anticommons theory, from Aristotle to the present. The second volume continues with cutting edge property theory and applications. A judicious selection of articles shows how commons and anticommons metaphors inform current debates at the innovation frontier, ranging from patent thickets to broadcast spectrum licensing.
This two-volume collection brings together the most important articles on the tragedies of the commons and anticommons. The first volume presents the ...
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The Flesh of the Soul: The Body We Work with: Selected Papers of the 7 Th Congress of the European Association of Body Psychotherapy, 2-6 September 19
ISBN: 9783906764986 / Miękka / 2001 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book shows what issues and themes dominate body psychotherapy at the beginning of the new millennium. The focus of the Travemunde Congress, and of this volume, is on how the bodily dimension can be linked with theories that are used in psychotherapy. The selection of authors ensures that this volume allows the reader to have an overview of major trends in this field."
This book shows what issues and themes dominate body psychotherapy at the beginning of the new millennium. The focus of the Travemunde Congress, and o...
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305,22 zł |
Ultimate Explanations of the Universe
ISBN: 9783642021022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more important than to understand the Universe and ourselves as a part of it? To find a window onto our origin and our destiny? This book examines how far our modern cosmological theories - with their sometimes audacious models, such as inflation, cyclic histories, quantum creation, parallel universes -... We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, pr... |
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191,40 zł |
Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Poetry of George Oppen
ISBN: 9781848612082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These essays cover the range of George Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots through his abandonment of poetry for political activism in the thirties to his renewed poetic output after the 1950s.
These essays cover the range of George Oppen's poetry and the ways it has been read at all stages of his career, from his overtly Objectivist roots th...
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86,73 zł |
Chariots of Firefighters (Black & White Version)
ISBN: 9780578026268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the beginning, firemen have been competing with each other for the honor of being first to a fire. In New York State, firematic contests between "drill teams" of volunteer firefighters have reached a level of competition that is unique in the entire world; there is nowhere else in terms of speed. technique or sophistication that even comes close. Chariots of Firefighters chronicles the growth of these contests, from foot races and fistfights between neighboring fire companies in New York City to the formation of the New York State Volunteer Firemen's Parade and Drill Team Captain's...
Since the beginning, firemen have been competing with each other for the honor of being first to a fire. In New York State, firematic contests between...
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157,45 zł |
Chariots of Firefighters: Volume II: The Practice, The History and Practice of Firematic Competition in New York State - (B&W Version)
ISBN: 9781312409637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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194,03 zł |
Die Exekutionsordnung: Mit Entscheidungen, Literaturangaben Und 71 Aktenmustern
ISBN: 9783662275535 / Angielski / Miękka / 1928 / 908 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben."
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen...
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178,88 zł |
Infinity: New Research Frontiers
ISBN: 9781107003873 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The infinite No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. David Hilbert This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world renowned researchers in the fields of mathematics, physics,...
The infinite No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other...
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551,75 zł |
London Clerical Workers, 1880-1914: Development of the Labour Market
ISBN: 9781848930544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new...
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752,12 zł |
Beckmann Variations and Other Poems
ISBN: 9781848610873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Poetry. Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's meditations in poetry and prose on work by the painter Max Beckmann. Heller navigates, sometimes with Yeats as his Virgil, through a gallery of Beckmann's pictures, seeing them as uniquely bringing home contemporary civilization's catastrophic impulses ("as if days were not for sanity"), impulses at once horrific and unsettling yet strangely beautiful and restorative.
Poetry. Ekphrasis, that ancient mode found in Homer's description of Achilles' shield or Keats' Grecian Urn, is here transformed in Michael Heller's m...
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78,06 zł |
Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780415482592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Schumpeter, Weber, Hayek, Popper and Parsons, this book challenges current orthodoxies about varieties of capitalism and relativist recipes for economic growth. It criticises culturalist and incremental viewpoints and calls for prosperous open societies.
Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Schumpeter, Weber, Hayek, Popper and Parsons, this book challenges current orthodoxies abou...
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752,12 zł |
Postural Dynamics & Social Status
ISBN: 9783841615138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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220,27 zł |
Infinity
ISBN: 9781107685482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The infinite No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. David Hilbert This interdisciplinary study of infinity explores the concept through the prism of mathematics and then offers more expansive investigations in areas beyond mathematical boundaries to reflect the broader, deeper implications of infinity for human intellectual thought. More than a dozen world renowned researchers in the fields of mathematics, physics,...
The infinite No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other...
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309,57 zł |
London Clerical Workers, 1880-1914: Development of the Labour Market
ISBN: 9781138661332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new...
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248,92 zł |