wyszukanych pozycji: 274
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
ISBN: 9780393072235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-sellingLiar's Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what...
The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the cre...
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122,93 |
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Last Words of a Dying Poet
ISBN: 9781980282730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,25 |
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Phenomenology: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780826431431 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych.
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837,70 |
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The Beautiful Animal: Sincerity, Charm, and the Fossilised Dialectic
ISBN: 9781786607553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal? Can it think of the animal as anything other than an imperfect human? This books using the Hegelian dialect to rework the philosophy of nature in order to assign a proper place to the animal.
Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal? Can it think of the animal as anything other than an imperfect human? This books using the Hegelian diale...
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177,35 |
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
ISBN: 9780393343441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we...
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as ...
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46,63 |
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Economics for Social Workers: The Application of Economic Theory to Social Policy and the Human Services
ISBN: 9780231116862 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This primer for social work students introduces the general definitions and concepts of economics and uses case studies in social work to develop applied knowledge. The case studies include stories of job training, substance abuse centers, counseling, therapy, child protective services, and services for the poor. The concluding chapters are devoted to topics directly related to social work: economics of poverty, health economics, household economics, the economics of labor, and government failure.
This primer for social work students introduces the general definitions and concepts of economics and uses case studies in social work to develop appl...
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571,22 |
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Beyond the Dyad
ISBN: 9780306414466 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How are we to understand the complex forces that shape human be havior? A variety of diverse perspectives, drawing on studies of human behavioral ontogeny, as well as humanity's evolutionary heritage, seem to provide the best likelihood of success. It is in an attempt to synthesize such potentially disparate approaches to human development into an integrated whole that we undertake this series on the genesis of behav ior. In many respects, the incredible burgeoning of research in child development over the last decade or two seems like a thousand lines of inquiry spreading outward in an...
How are we to understand the complex forces that shape human be havior? A variety of diverse perspectives, drawing on studies of human behavioral onto...
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606,65 |
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The Money Culture
ISBN: 9780393338652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade.
The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Mich...
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The Wicked Oath
ISBN: 9781913208844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Behind the walls of Blackleigh, a prestigious public boarding school in northern England lurks wickedness and bullying. Those in power form a conspiracy to devise any means to expel certain boys. Surviving for their victims becomes a matter of life and death...
Behind the walls of Blackleigh, a prestigious public boarding school in northern England lurks wickedness and bullying. Those in power form a conspira...
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45,51 |
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Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction
ISBN: 9780826497796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction argues that Heidegger's question of being cannot be separated from the question of nature and culture, and that the history of being describes the growing predominance of culture and technology over nature, resulting in today's environmental crisis. It proposes that we turn to Heidegger's thought in order fully to understand this crisis. Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction argues that Heidegger's question of being cannot be separated from the question of nature and culture, and that the... |
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778,05 |
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Losers: The Road to Everyplace But the White House
ISBN: 9780679768098 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Michael Lewis is a master at dissecting the absurd: after skewering Wall Street in his national bestseller Liar's Poker, he packed his mighty pen and set out on the 1996 campaign trail. As he follows the men who aspire to the Oval Office, Lewis discovers an absurd mix of bravery and backpedaling, heroic possibility and mealy-mouthed sound bytes, and a process so ridiculous and unsavory that it leaves him wondering if everyone involved--from the journalists to the candidates to the people who voted--isn't ultimately a loser. Michael Lewis is a master at dissecting the absurd: after skewering Wall Street in his national bestseller Liar's Poker, he packed his mig... |
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Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction: On Nature
ISBN: 9781472527097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction argues that Heidegger's question of being cannot be separated from the question of nature and culture, and that the history of being describes the growing predominance of culture and technology over nature, resulting in today's environmental crisis. It proposes that we turn to Heidegger's thought in order fully to understand this crisis. In doing so it is necessary to retrieve those elements of his thought which are most maligned by Derridean deconstruction: the pastoral, the homely, the local. In a world coming to terms with the destructive... Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction argues that Heidegger's question of being cannot be separated from the question of nature and culture, and t... |
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Fandom Analytics: Creating and Harnessing Consumer and Cultural Passion
ISBN: 9783031659249 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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133,43 |
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The Fifth Risk
ISBN: 9781324002642 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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103,57 |
New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
ISBN: 9780393347814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world s most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. Lewis also found much more, and the result the best-selling book The New New Thing is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution."
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world s most important technology entr...
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
ISBN: 9780393081817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we...
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as ...
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108,87 |
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Napoleon and His British Captives
ISBN: 9781041126805 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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364,60 |
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Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self
ISBN: 9781468435689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is always enlightening to inquire about the origins of a research en deavor or a particular theoretical approach. Beginning with the observa tion of the mental life of the infant in 1962, Michael Lewis has contrib uted to the change in the view of the infant as an insensate mass of confusion to a complex and intellectual being. Anyone fortunate enough to have participated in the infancy research of the 1960s knows how exciting it was to have discovered in this small creature such a full and complex organism. More central to the origins of this work was the perception of the infant as an...
It is always enlightening to inquire about the origins of a research en deavor or a particular theoretical approach. Beginning with the observa tion o...
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202,19 |
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Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
ISBN: 9780241778876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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126,40 |
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Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
ISBN: 9780141043197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Here, with his remorseless eye for the truth, the bestselling author of 'Liar's Poker' turns his sights on his own domestic world. The result is a wickedly enjoyable cautionary tale. Lewis reveals his own unique take on fatherhood, dealing with the big issues and challenges of new-found paternity.
Here, with his remorseless eye for the truth, the bestselling author of 'Liar's Poker' turns his sights on his own domestic world. The result is a wic...
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55,58 |