wyszukanych pozycji: 174
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The Art of Gesture
ISBN: 9781399529631 / Angielski / Twarda / 2026 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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511,72 |
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Natural Theology: A Reassessment
ISBN: 9781032985619 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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880,10 |
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Private Dancers or Responsible Women: A Novel of Intrigue
ISBN: 9781631352904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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145,53 |
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Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
ISBN: 9780295752297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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188,25 |
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The Spartans: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780198787600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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52,05 |
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Private Dancers or Responsible Women: A Novel of Intrigue
ISBN: 9781628574319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Journalist Paul Wills tells his friends Graham Curtis and Mary Rao about his strange experiences with the beautiful Kalitza, a mystery woman he encountered in Hong Kong and Europe. When Graham's wife is murdered, he gradually overcomes his grief with the help of his friends. Who is the mysterious Kalitza? Will Paul find her again and make love to her? Will secret agent Kim survive a grenade attack in a London hotel? Is her colleague, the grotesque Bruno, a double agent? Is Scotland the best place for proposals of marriage? Is Sutton Coldfield the sexiest little town in Britain? Find out the...
Journalist Paul Wills tells his friends Graham Curtis and Mary Rao about his strange experiences with the beautiful Kalitza, a mystery woman he encoun...
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86,92 |
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Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States
ISBN: 9780197652572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How did so many white, conservative Christians come to embrace Donald Trump? Why do many argue so vigorously for preserving Confederate monuments and against the teaching of "Critical Race Theory"? Why do many Americans seem so unwilling to acknowledge the injustices that ethnic and racial minorities experience in the United States? Why do a sizeable proportion of Americans continue to oppose women's equality in the workplace and in the home? To answer these questions, Taking America Back for God points to the phenomenon of "Christian nationalism," the belief that the United States is-and...
How did so many white, conservative Christians come to embrace Donald Trump? Why do many argue so vigorously for preserving Confederate monuments and ...
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134,36 |
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Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film
ISBN: 9781138250444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects of the composer's output in the context of his life and cultural milieu. The contributions uncover 'outside' stimuli behind Shostakovich's works, allowing the reader to perceive the motivations behind his artistic choices; at the same time, the nature of those choices offers insights into the workings of the larger world - cultural, social, political - that he inhabited. Thus his often ostensibly quirky choices are revealed as responses - by...
Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment. Each chapter covers aspects ...
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322,33 |
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The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
ISBN: 9780691243320 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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130,23 |
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Fuji: A Mountain in the Making
ISBN: 9780691256290 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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156,28 |
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Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781138251243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Exploring the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality within the context of everyday life, this volume examines contested identities, experiences, bodies and desires on the individual and collective levels. With rich case studies from the UK, USA, Europe, and Asia, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life sheds light on the manner in which individuals appropriate, negotiate, transgress, invert and challenge the norms and models of various religions in relation to gender and sexuality, and vice versa. Drawing on fascinating research from around the world, this book charts...
Exploring the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality within the context of everyday life, this volume examines contested identities, expe...
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296,74 |
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Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications
ISBN: 9780415728980 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Rooted in a long and diverse genealogy, biographical approaches have developed from a focus upon a single story, a life story and personal documents (e.g. diaries), to encompass (more routinely) autobiographical secondary and archival research and analysis - as well as multi-media, arts based creative multi-sensory methods. Biographical Research and practices as part of human understanding helps people to make sense of what has been and what is happening in their lives, cultures, communities and societies. " Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications" takes up these... Rooted in a long and diverse genealogy, biographical approaches have developed from a focus upon a single story, a life story and personal document... |
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880,10 |
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Religious and Sexual Identities: A Multi-Faith Exploration of Young Adults
ISBN: 9781138252455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Presenting qualitative and quantitative findings on the lived experiences of around seven hundred young adults from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and mixed-faith backgrounds, Religious and Sexual Identities provides an illuminating and nuanced analysis of young adults' perceptions and negotiations of their religious, sexual, youth and gender identities. It demonstrates how these young adults creatively construct meanings and social connections as they navigate demanding but exciting spaces in which their multiple identities intersect. Accessible quantitative analyses are...
Presenting qualitative and quantitative findings on the lived experiences of around seven hundred young adults from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, ...
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317,22 |
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The Age of Lovecraft
ISBN: 9780816699254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American author of "weird tales" who died in 1937 impoverished and relatively unknown, has become a twenty-first-century star, cropping up in places both anticipated and unexpected. Authors, filmmakers, and shapers of popular culture like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Guillermo del Toro acknowledge his influence; his fiction is key to the work of posthuman philosophers and cultural critics such as Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker; and Lovecraft's...Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the Am... |
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102,29 |
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Observing the Unseen: Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China
ISBN: 9780295754239 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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178,28 |
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Prisons of the World
ISBN: 9781447362470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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134,61 |
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Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism
ISBN: 9780521846752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period.
Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period.
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486,23 |
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The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980
ISBN: 9781472459916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to the Third International and Borromini's dome for Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant'Ivo, Borromini accomplished 'the movement of the whole pattern ...] from the ground to the lantern, without entirely ending even there.' And yet he merely 'groped' towards that which could 'be completely effected' in modern architecture-achieving 'the...
In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to the Third Internationa...
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880,10 |
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Out Stack and Other Places
ISBN: 9781507840818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is Gary Couzens' second anthology. The stories here demonstrate his unique style and uncanny ability to get under the skin of his characters, creating unforgettable scenes that, though set in the real world, stray into the worlds of fantasy, horror and the supernatural. These 18 stories (including a novella) cover the full range of human sexual and emotional experiences, tinged with tragedy, both real and ethereal. These stories pull no punches. They are raw, yet at the same time, convey a deep and lasting subtlety that transcends the subject matter, taking the reader to a place beyond...
This is Gary Couzens' second anthology. The stories here demonstrate his unique style and uncanny ability to get under the skin of his characters, cre...
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62,39 |
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Humour: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199552221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Humour is a universal feature of human life. It has been discovered in every known human culture, and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. In this Very Short Introduction Noel Carroll considers the nature and value of humour: from its leading theories and its relation to emotion and cognition, to ethical questions of its morality and its significance in shaping society.
About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to... Humour is a universal feature of human life. It has been discovered in every known human culture, and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand...
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52,51 |