wyszukanych pozycji: 94
Dyson's Drop
ISBN: 9781921665660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,21 zł |
The Depopulation Imperative: How Many People Can Earth Support?
ISBN: 9781922669216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The current world population is 7.9 billion people. Our demands are already making a massive impact on the earth. Global warming, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, these are all symptoms of a bigger problem, human numbers and excessive consumption. Given our impact on earth now we have to reduce our numbers rapidly. We don't have time to wait until 2100 for numbers to decrease gradually. After looking at all of the issues surrounding the population debate, The Depopulation Imperative argues that to achieve any reduction we need a profound moral change from an emphasis on the priority of...
The current world population is 7.9 billion people. Our demands are already making a massive impact on the earth. Global warming, biodiversity loss, r...
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95,03 zł |
Upon This Rock: The Popes and Their Changing Roles
ISBN: 9780824519391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Vatican-censured former priest, tells the history of the papacy from the point of view of the women, radicals, and marginalized who have been betrayed by conservative historians. This survey of key popes documents the evolution of the papacy from its beginning to all its monarchical trappings in our own day.
A Vatican-censured former priest, tells the history of the papacy from the point of view of the women, radicals, and marginalized who have been betray...
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111,13 zł |
Wardragon
ISBN: 9781876462581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 463 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wardragon is the culmination of The Jelindel Chronicles in a soaring saga. Finally Jelindel, with her allies, Zimak and Daretor, has tracked the alien mailshirt across two radically different worlds. But the journey is perilous when each step is lined with flying beasts, metal wasps, mercenaries and assassins . . . and the mailshirt linked up with the evil Preceptor to create a deadly enemy. All Jelindel has is a little magic, Zimak s wit and Daretor s sword to scrape through and that is not enough.Collins captures a terrifying, tense world with a touch of humour and holds it to the last...
Wardragon is the culmination of The Jelindel Chronicles in a soaring saga. Finally Jelindel, with her allies, Zimak and Daretor, has tracked the alien...
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90,87 zł |
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
ISBN: 9780312300333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated. Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different kind of book. Here are thirteen unforgettable portraits of forgotten people: men and women who might have... The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated... |
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101,81 zł |
Recovering the True Church: Challenges for Australian Catholicism Beyond the Plenary Council
ISBN: 9781922589163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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95,85 zł |
The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque
ISBN: 9780754634164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the focus of this book. Exploring the theoretical background to the style and its application by composers and performers, the author surveys the development of Athanasius Kircher's original concept and its influence on music theorists.
The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the focus of this book. Exploring the the...
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706,98 zł |
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
ISBN: 9780307592217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins. DAVE EGGERS
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began... No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins. DAVE...
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97,57 zł |
Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World
ISBN: 9781610398602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. The cardinals were scattered across Europe, and Catholics feared they would be unable to elect the next pope. Even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished. And yet, just over two hundred years later, the pope still stands "at the very center of the central conversations of our time" (Time). His influence reaches across the world--from Cuban politics to gender equality to the refugee crisis--and the strength of his "soft power" is...
In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. The cardinals were sc...
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213,80 zł |
Christian Inculturation in India
ISBN: 9781138255296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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261,80 zł |
The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century
ISBN: 9781610393683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." --Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) "A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe.... Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion." --Kirkus (starred review) The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once...
"Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." --Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) |
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80,56 zł |
Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion
ISBN: 9780567031877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Discussion of theosis is mainly undertaken within Byzantine Orthodoxy and is usually structured around an examination of patristic and medieval sources. This work builds upon such discussions and broadens the basis by including Western sources (Catholic and Protestant) in contemporary debates about salvation. In seeking to explore a relational understanding of divine nature, a discussion of personhood and communion is held. This is filtered through the works of Zizioulas, exponents of communion ecclesiology and those such as Turcescu who have provided a critique of these understandings. This...
Discussion of theosis is mainly undertaken within Byzantine Orthodoxy and is usually structured around an examination of patristic and medieval source...
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785,54 zł |
Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion
ISBN: 9780567262967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Discussion of theosis is mainly undertaken within Byzantine Orthodoxy and is usually structured around an examination of patristic and medieval sources. This work builds upon such discussions and broadens the basis by including Western sources (Catholic and Protestant) in contemporary debates about salvation. In seeking to explore a relational understanding of salvation, the construal of the doctrine of deification is examined in terms of the divine nature understood as communion. This is related in particular of the theological project of Zizioulas, and other exponents of communion ontology....
Discussion of theosis is mainly undertaken within Byzantine Orthodoxy and is usually structured around an examination of patristic and medieval source...
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198,95 zł |
Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition
ISBN: 9781138465541 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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968,82 zł |
A Tale of Two Squirrels
ISBN: 9781606932049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story takes a lighthearted look at how life might be for children in the future. Subsequent stories will explore ways in which people in different places and in different conditions cope with the problem of bringing the atmosphere back into balance.
The story takes a lighthearted look at how life might be for children in the future. Subsequent stories will explore ways in which people in different...
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42,21 zł |
Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia
ISBN: 9781910807088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. - Mountains and Lowlands is an engaging exploration of the history of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Iran from 6000 BC-AD 650Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran are usually treated separately or as part of a much broader 'Ancient Near East'. However, the developments that lie at the root of our own world - farming, cities, writing, organized religion, warfare - were forged in the tensions and relations between the inhabitants of lowland Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) and the highlands of Iran. Mountains and Lowlands explores this relationship providing a detailed but accessible account covering...
- Mountains and Lowlands is an engaging exploration of the history of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Iran from 6000 BC-AD 650Ancient Mesopotami...
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77,96 zł |
Enoch Crosby the Shoemaker Spy: An Historical Biography of a Truly Heroic American
ISBN: 9781662404078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,39 zł |
Applying Public Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future
ISBN: 9780471877363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Made to fill the major gap in the literature on public administration applied in development. This title provides a review of the state-of-the-art which is both historically-grounded and forward-looking, and which will appeal to a broad readership: policy-makers, managers, advisers, scholars and others operating at all levels of government from local community through international levels. The studies offer a practical approach, consistently linking theory with practice and experience, providing a forum for new and exciting ideas.
Made to fill the major gap in the literature on public administration applied in development. This title provides a review of the state-of-the-art whi...
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Crash Course: Gastroenterology
ISBN: 9780723434702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Covering various aspects of the syllabus, this work offers you a fast way to recap on what you need to know to get through the exams with ease. Prepared by senior medical students or junior doctors - under faculty supervision, each chapter commences with learning objectives and has ample use of Hints and Tips boxes.
Covering various aspects of the syllabus, this work offers you a fast way to recap on what you need to know to get through the exams with ease. Prepar...
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130,87 zł |
Renewal and Resistance: Catholic Church Music from the 1850s to Vatican II
ISBN: 9783039113811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Roman Catholic Church has always been concerned with the quality of the music used in the liturgy, and the essays in this volume trace the church s efforts, during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, to cultivate a more appropriate liturgical music for its Latin Rite. The task of restoration expressed, for example, in the chant revival associated with the monks of Solesmes, the efforts of the Cecilian movement, and Pius X s determination to reform sacred music in the universal church is a recurring theme in the book. Meanwhile resistance, particularly to the...
The Roman Catholic Church has always been concerned with the quality of the music used in the liturgy, and the essays in this volume trace the church ...
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400,50 zł |