wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon
ISBN: 9780300204667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken?
This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores the century-long history of "fake silk," or cellulose viscose, used to produce such products as rayon textiles and tires, cellophane, and everyday kitchen sponges. Paul Blanc uncovers the grim history of a product that crippled and even served a death sentence to many industry... When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken?
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166,01 zł |
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies)
ISBN: 9781608466252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of that often-neglected laboring majority. Employing a blend of economic, social, and political history, Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been and continue to be in the forging of our nation s history. Within a broad analytical framework he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of U.S. labor, including Cesar...
Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact...
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87,57 zł |
Us Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence: Left Opposition in the United States. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781642590562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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304,34 zł |
Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism
ISBN: 9780415877466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Work and struggle: voices from U.S. labor radicalism focuses on the history of U.S. labor with an emphasis on radical currents, which have been essential elements in the working-class movement from the mid nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Showcasing some of labor's most important leaders, Work and Struggle offers students and instructors a variety of voices to learn from -- each telling their story through their own words -- through writings, memoirs and speeches, transcribed and introduced here by Paul Le Blanc. This collection of revolutionary voices will inspire anyone...
Work and struggle: voices from U.S. labor radicalism focuses on the history of U.S. labor with an emphasis on radical currents, which have been essent...
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499,35 zł |
Us Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part III: Resurgence: Uneven and Combined Development. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 4
ISBN: 9781642590586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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304,34 zł |
From Marx To Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics
ISBN: 9781608466238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From Marx to Gramsci offers a readable introduction to the historical contexts, lives, and revolutionary ideas of six central thinkers in the Marxist traditionKarl Marx, Frederick Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, V. I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Antonio Gramsci. A clear and well-documented introduction demonstrates how their varied contributions represent a revolutionary Marxist synthesis, providing an understanding of capitalist development, a theory of the labor movement, a strategy for revolution, and a conception of the transition to socialism. The bulk of the volume provides a representative...
From Marx to Gramsci offers a readable introduction to the historical contexts, lives, and revolutionary ideas of six central thinkers in the M...
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114,04 zł |
The Living Flame: The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg
ISBN: 9781642590340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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82,95 zł |
Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine
ISBN: 9781608463664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "One doesn t have to be a Leninist to read and appreciate Paul Le Blanc s brilliant essays. This is indeed an outstanding study of Lenin s ideas, his relation to Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg, as well as his unfinished democratic revolutionary legacy."Michael Lowy As a leader of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin was perhaps the greatest revolutionary of the twentieth century. These clearly written essays offer an account of his life and times, a lively view of his personality, and a stimulating engagement with his ideas. Paul Le Blanc is a professor of history at... "One doesn t have to be a Leninist to read and appreciate Paul Le Blanc s brilliant essays. This is indeed an outstanding study of Lenin s ideas, h... |
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94,02 zł |
How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
ISBN: 9780520261273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every daya tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling expose, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, How Everyday Products Make People Sick is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies."
This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every daya tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bot...
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138,34 zł |
Us Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part II: Endurance: The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3
ISBN: 9781642590579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 836 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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332,01 zł |
October 1917: Workers in Power (None)
ISBN: 9780850367270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Was October 1917 a coup d'etat or a social revolution? Writing as both a historian and political activist, Ernest Mandel sets out to analyse the events and vigorously reasserts the deep legitimacy of the Russian Revolution. He considers the gains of the revolution, discusses the mistakes made by the Bolshevik leadership in 1917-21, and sets out lessons to be learnt for revolutionary Marxists today.
Was October 1917 a coup d'etat or a social revolution? Writing as both a historian and political activist, Ernest Mandel sets out to analyse the event...
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146,87 zł |
Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism
ISBN: 9780415878241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Work and struggle: voices from U.S. labor radicalism focuses on the history of U.S. labor with an emphasis on radical currents, which have been essential elements in the working-class movement from the mid nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Showcasing some of labor's most important leaders, Work and Struggle offers students and instructors a variety of voices to learn from -- each telling their story through their own words -- through writings, memoirs and speeches, transcribed and introduced here by Paul Le Blanc. This collection of revolutionary voices will inspire anyone...
Work and struggle: voices from U.S. labor radicalism focuses on the history of U.S. labor with an emphasis on radical currents, which have been essent...
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131,37 zł |
The Living Flame: The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg
ISBN: 9781642591828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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287,74 zł |
Leon Trotsky
ISBN: 9781780234304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 20 dni roboczych There are few more divisive names in history than the Soviet communist Leon Trotsky. To some, he was a betrayer, a hypocrite, and a totalitarian, and yet to many others he was a revolutionary of high esteem, who battled an outdated, oppressive dynasty and helped to usher in a new political era, and whose name became a political moniker: trotskyist. Whether colored by disdain or admiration, one thing is certain: Trotsky was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century.
In Leon Trotsky, Paul Le Blanc delves deep into Trotsky s life and relationships to reveal and make... There are few more divisive names in history than the Soviet communist Leon Trotsky. To some, he was a betrayer, a hypocrite, and a totalitarian, and ...
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62,55 zł |
The 'American Exceptionalism' of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades, 1929–1940: Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 1
ISBN: 9789004224438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first 'American Exceptionalists' belonged to a left-wing current led by Jay Lovestone. Briefly in control of, then dramatically expelled from, the US Communist Party, they maintained an independent existence on the US Left from 1929 to 1940. Some became prominent in the labour and civil rights movements, while Will Herberg became a prominent Jewish theologian and an editor of the conservative National Review, and Bertram Wolfe worked as an anti-Communist ideologist with the US State Department. Lovestone himself collaborated with the CIA to help shape the Cold War foreign policy of the...
The first 'American Exceptionalists' belonged to a left-wing current led by Jay Lovestone. Briefly in control of, then dramatically expelled from, the...
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910,83 zł |
U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence: Uneven and Combined Development. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 4
ISBN: 9789004224469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence: Uneven and Combined Development is the third of a documentary trilogy on a revolutionary socialist split-off from the U.S. Communist Party, reflecting Leon Trotsky’s confrontation with Stalinism in the global Communist movement. Spanning 1954 to 1965, this volume surveys the Cold War era, the civil rights and black liberation movements, the 'third wave' of feminism, and other social and cultural developments of the 1950s and 1960s. Documenting responses to a variety of anti-colonial and revolutionary insurgencies, the volume also surveys the...
U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence: Uneven and Combined Development is the third of a documentary trilogy on a revolutionary socialist sp...
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1002,79 zł |
Parkes' Occupational Lung Disorders
ISBN: 9780367574253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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525,63 zł |
Parkes' Occupational Lung Disorders
ISBN: 9781482240702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 547 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This authoritative text on occupational lung disorders builds upon the fundamentals, including clinical, epidemiological, and predictive approaches. It discusses interstitial and malignant diseases, airways diseases, and other respiratory issues, such as diving, working at high altitudes, and abnormal sleep conditions. It also covers related long-term conditions, such as asthma and COPD. This edition has been completely revised and brought up to date for all physicians dealing with pulmonary disorders caused by the environment or the workplace. This authoritative text on occupational lung disorders builds upon the fundamentals, including clinical, epidemiological, and predictive approaches... |
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893,67 zł |
Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 12th International Conference, ACIVS 2010, Sydney, Australia, December 13-16, 2010, Proceedings, Part II
ISBN: 9783642176906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 379 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2010, held in Changchun, China, in August 2010. The 78 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image processing and analysis; segmentation and edge detection; 3D and depth; algorithms and optimizations; video processing; surveillance and camera networks; machine vision; remote sensing; and recognition, classification and tracking.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2010, h...
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195,87 zł |
Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 12th International Conference, ACIVS 2010, Sydney, Australia, December 13-16, 2010, Proceedings, Part I
ISBN: 9783642176876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 491 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at the 12th Int- national Conference on "Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems" (ACIVS 2010). Following the ?rst meeting in Baden-Baden (Germany) in 1999, whichwaspartofalargemulticonference, theACIVSconferencethendeveloped into an independent scienti?c event and has ever since maintained the tradition of being a single track conference. ACIVS 2010 attracted computer scientists from 29 di?erent countries, mostly from Europe, Australia, and the USA, but also from Asia. Although ACIVS is a conference on all areas of image and...
This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at the 12th Int- national Conference on "Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems" (...
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195,87 zł |