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The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life
ISBN: 9781108836487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book offers an account of the historical development of the novel as a means of imagining and fashioning our bodies and our environments, in order to suggest that prose fiction can help us to understand new forms of artificial life as they are emerging in the twenty-first century.
This book offers an account of the historical development of the novel as a means of imagining and fashioning our bodies and our environments, in orde...
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225,42 zł |
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A Wonderful Change - the story of Robert Wrede including his Journal 1837-41
ISBN: 9781291155204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There are few, if any, books about nineteenth century piano tuners. Their lives might be expected to be unexciting and their experiences unremarkable. But the life of Robert Wrede, especially as told in his journal, was far from dull. In the three years he documents (October 1837 - January 1841), he travelled from England to Cape Town, Sydney, to the young Melbourne, and to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Adelaide, Surabaya, Singapore, three cities in India, and a number of small islands in between. He was almost lost at sea on several occasions, and suffered numerous horse riding or carriage...
There are few, if any, books about nineteenth century piano tuners. Their lives might be expected to be unexciting and their experiences unremarkable....
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132,04 zł |
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The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price: Ethnographies of Market Exchange
ISBN: 9781787435742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Prices permeate contemporary life. From the cost of basic foodstuffs in developing countries to the pay of CEOs in rich ones, the question of the politics and ethics of pricing everything through the market dominates public life. At the same time, we know that dilemmas about how to value fairly, but also efficiently, goods and services have been with us for more than two thousand years, since the times of Aristotle in Ancient Greece. Through the course of the centuries, important thinkers like Thomas Aquinas, Adam Smith and Karl Marx all devoted considerable effort to try to understand how...
Prices permeate contemporary life. From the cost of basic foodstuffs in developing countries to the pay of CEOs in rich ones, the question of the poli...
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402,36 zł |