wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Beyond Engineering
ISBN: 9780195107722 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions that led to the Civil War. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question around to examine how society shapes technology. Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, Pool illuminates the complex,...
We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Re...
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322,56 zł |
Sloan Technology Series
ISBN: 9780195129113 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions that led to the Civil War. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question around to examine how society shapes technology. Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, Pool illuminates the complex,...
We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Re...
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110,04 zł |
Fat: Fighting the Obesity Epidemic
ISBN: 9780195118537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fat is the engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Covering the entire twentieth century, Robert Pool chronicles our evolving evolving understanding of obesity--from being a result of undisciplined behavior to subconscious conflicts, physiological disease, and environmental excess. Pool effectively reanimates the colorful characters, curious experiments, brilliant insights and wrong turns that led to contemporary scientific understanding of America's epidemic.
Fat is the engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Covering the entire twentieth century, Robert Pool chronicles...
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319,52 zł |
My Uncle Sam Needs a House-Call: The Faltering Health of a Great Nation
ISBN: 9781453642559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The United States of America is a great nation. The nation has become great by virtue of its goodness. The nation has been good because it is founded upon and has been nourished by the Judeo-Christian world view during its first 200 years. During the past fifty years our citizenry has been puzzled by increasing social evidences of pleasure seeking, criminal behavior, greed, family frailty and angry dividedness. Students of history report these misfortunes to be manifestations of decline, as seen in all fallen cultures of the past. Arnold Toynbee, one of those students, is of the opinion that...
The United States of America is a great nation. The nation has become great by virtue of its goodness. The nation has been good because it is founded ...
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68,57 zł |
Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness : Conversations in a Cameroon Village
ISBN: 9780854968732 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent force, gradually emerges as the prime mover. As destructive cannibals or respectable elders the witches are the ultimate cause of all significant illness, misfortune and death, and as diviners they are also... The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of ke... |
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704,29 zł |
Peak: For Fans of Atomic Habits
ISBN: 9780099598473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Explains that learning new skills doesn't need to be daunting. This book shows that success simply requires the right kind of practice and offers essential advice on setting goals, receiving guidance and motivating ourselves.
Explains that learning new skills doesn't need to be daunting. This book shows that success simply requires the right kind of practice and offers esse...
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56,74 zł |
Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness: Conversations in a Cameroon Village
ISBN: 9781859730164 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent force, gradually emerges as the prime mover. As destructive cannibals or respectable elders the witches are the ultimate cause of all significant illness, misfortune and death, and as diviners they are also... The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of ke... |
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198,19 zł |
Medical Anthropology
ISBN: 9780335218509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account.
This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health...
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205,52 zł |
Negotiating a Good Death: Euthanasia in the Netherlands
ISBN: 9780789010810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Should human beings be allowed to decide when to die? Should doctors be allowed to assist them?During the last ten years there has been much international interest in euthanasia in the Netherlands. In the discussion of euthanasia in the US and the UK, both sides in the debate continually refer to the "Dutch Experience." Negotiating a Good Death: Euthanasia in the Netherlands presents firsthand descriptions of euthanasia in practice in the Netherlands--something that has never been done before. This will provide a deeper understanding of the issues involved for all those...
Should human beings be allowed to decide when to die? Should doctors be allowed to assist them?During the last ten years there has been much...
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255,58 zł |
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
ISBN: 9780544947221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about."--Seth Godin, author of Linchpin "This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the th... |
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74,21 zł |
Droga na szczyt. Jak ćwiczyć, aby osiągnąć...
ISBN: 9788366337053 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 2020 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Ta książka to najlepsza pomoc dydaktyczna, jaka istnieje!
„Celowe ćwiczenie pod kierunkiem eksperta nie jest tylko dla dzieciaków, które od urodzenia trenują, aby zostać arcymistrzami w szachach, olimpijczykami w sporcie lub muzykami światowej klasy. Nie jest też wyłącznie dla członków dużych organizacji […], dysponujących środkami na opracowanie intensywnego programu szkoleniowego. Celowe ćwiczenie pod kierunkiem eksperta jest dla każdego, kto ma marzenia. Dla każdego, kto chce nauczyć się rysować, programować, żonglować, grać na saksofonie lub napisać... Ta książka to najlepsza pomoc dydaktyczna, jaka istnieje!
„Celowe ćwiczenie pod kierunkiem eksperta nie jest tylko dla dzieciaków, któ... |
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47,50 zł |