wyszukanych pozycji: 139
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Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
ISBN: 9781595340856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Moral Ground" brings together the testimony of over 80 visionaries theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturists, activists, and writers to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibilities to our planet. In the face of environmental degradation and global climate change, scientific knowledge alone does not tell us what we ought to do. The missing premise of the argument and much-needed centerpiece in the debate to date has been the need for ethical values, moral guidance, and principled reasons...
"Moral Ground" brings together the testimony of over 80 visionaries theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders...
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76,25 |
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A Better United Nations for the New Millennium: The United Nations System - How It Is Now and How It Should Be in the Future
ISBN: 9789041113443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The former President of South Africa, H.E. Nelson Mandela, states in the foreword that "the debate on the reform of the United Nations System must move beyond the cost- effectiveness and efficiency issues, to that of relevance". The President of Malta, H.E. Guido de Marco, a former President of the General Assembly calls for a reform that requires "not merely tinkering with the institutional set-up of the Organization but rather a reorientation of the principles projected in the Charter so as to enable them to be applied to current realities". The authors respond by giving a blueprint for a...
The former President of South Africa, H.E. Nelson Mandela, states in the foreword that "the debate on the reform of the United Nations System must mov...
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525,13 |
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Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities
ISBN: 9780415908054 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.
The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.
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762,24 |
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Healing the Split: Integrating Spirit Into Our Understanding of the Mentally Ill, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780791419861 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The links between madness, creative genius, and spiritual experiences have tantalized philosophers and scientists for centuries. In Healing the Split, John Nelson brings the lofty ideas of transpersonal psychology down to earth so they can be applied in a practical way to explain the bizarre effects of insanity on the human mind. Drawing on a vast knowledge of Eastern philosophy and mainstream neuropsychiatry, he heals the split between orthodox and alternative views with a comprehensive approach that goes beyond both. Starting where R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz left off, Nelson revises and...
The links between madness, creative genius, and spiritual experiences have tantalized philosophers and scientists for centuries. In Healing the Split,...
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155,30 |
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The Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit: Volume 2: The Stratigraphy, Ceramics, and Other Finds
ISBN: 9789004461895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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759,94 |
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Crucible: The President's First Year
ISBN: 9780813940960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Drawn from the Miller Center's First Year project - which seeks to provide a historical framework to guide future presidents and their teams in the crucial first year of a new administration - Crucible addresses core questions of governance facing a new president, from navigating a broken political system to thriving in a changing media environment.
Drawn from the Miller Center's First Year project - which seeks to provide a historical framework to guide future presidents and their teams in the cr...
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Crucible: The President's First Year
ISBN: 9780813941981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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103,23 |
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The Politics of Federal Prosecution
ISBN: 9780197554685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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507,13 |
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42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton
ISBN: 9780801456893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America s most distinguished presidential scholars, the essays assembled here offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and... This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second preside... |
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132,73 |
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42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton
ISBN: 9780801454066 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America s most distinguished presidential scholars, the essays assembled here offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and... This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second preside... |
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452,42 |
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Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century
ISBN: 9780847687275 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfilled expectations and escalating violence in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia forced retrenchment upon UN peace operations_but at the same time, a new opportunity to enhance capacities, review strategies, redefine roles, and reaffirm responsibilities has opened up. Here, a dynamic group of leading diplomats, academics, and journalists combines forces with UN policymakers and leaders including current Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former...
The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfille...
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245,84 |
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How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation
ISBN: 9780807132548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A national map of legalized gambling from 1963 would show one state, Nevada, with casino gambling and no states with lotteries. Today's map shows eleven commercial casino states, most of them along the Mississippi River, forty-two states with state-owned lotteries, and racetrack betting, slot-machine parlors, charitable bingo, and Native American gambling halls flourishing throughout the nation. For the past twenty years, the South has wrestled with gambling issues. In How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, Michael Nelson and John Lyman Mason examine how modern southern state... A national map of legalized gambling from 1963 would show one state, Nevada, with casino gambling and no states with lotteries. Today's map shows e... |
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Value Creation in E-Business Management: 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2009, SIGeBIZ track, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 6-9, 2009, Selected Papers
ISBN: 9783642031311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recent economic, political, and technological forces are changing the landscape of electronic business and electronic commerce. Although great strides have been made over the past in understanding, researching and advancing e-business, rarely have we witnessed its use so profound and yet its limitations so pronounced, than what has been on global public display for the past 18 months. As a result, new e-commerce strategies and techniques are emerging, collaborative value creation is essential and e-business models are being refined and developed, with special attention towards IS in financial...
Recent economic, political, and technological forces are changing the landscape of electronic business and electronic commerce. Although great strides...
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202,19 |
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Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants
ISBN: 9781493989249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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242,63 |
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Krinoi Kai Limenes : Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw
ISBN: 9781931534222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Joseph and Maria Shaw received the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in January of 2006. This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the Gold Medal Colloquium held in their honour during the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Montreal, Quebec. Additional articles have also been written for this volume. Many of the articles pertain to different aspects of Aegean Bronze Age architecture, harbors, frescoes, and trade, which are all keen interests of the Shaws.
Joseph and Maria Shaw received the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in January of 2006. This...
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388,24 |
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Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders
ISBN: 9780199378067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders aims to engage young caregivers in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work so that they will be able to become well informed about this significant--and at times confusing--illness. Because schizophrenia is considered to be one of the most complicated and severe psychiatric disorders, this book has the goal of summarizing key issues of the illness, such as its presentation, frequency and age of onset, and diagnostic characteristics. It also contains informative chapters about the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, ranging from brain...
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders aims to engage young caregivers in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work so that they will be...
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472,19 |
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Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward
ISBN: 9781849509848 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies. Professor Woodward died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her landmark book "Industrial Organization." At the time of her death, Professor Woodward was the Chair in Industrial Sociology at Imperial College London, having been elected as only the second women professor at the College in 1970. She joined the Production Engineering and Management...
It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies. Professor Woodward died in 1971 at...
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The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary
ISBN: 9780197625408 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Appellate judges wield enormous influence in the United States. Their decisions define the scope of legislative and executive power, adjudicate relationships between the federal government and the states, and determine the breadth of individuals' rights and liberties. But, compared to their colleagues on trial courts, they face a significant constraint on their power: their colleagues. The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary presents a comprehensive, first of its kind examination of the importance of interpersonal relationships among judges for judicial...
Appellate judges wield enormous influence in the United States. Their decisions define the scope of legislative and executive power, adjudicate relati...
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355,72 |
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The Durability of Cultural Influences: How American Foreign Policy Reinforced Historical Biases in El Salvador
ISBN: 9781479270897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A confluence of factors led to American engagement in one of Central America's most violent uprisings: the Salvadoran civil war. By the time of President Ronald Reagan's first term as president, the civil war had created social, political and economic fissures within the Salvadoran state; these fissures presented the United States the opportunity to promote its policy agenda with the Central American country. Reagan's administration, however, got off to a slow start; his first-term approaches to Salvadoran engagement yielded very little and may have actually exacerbated the negative...
A confluence of factors led to American engagement in one of Central America's most violent uprisings: the Salvadoran civil war. By the time of Presid...
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68,19 |