wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Aging in Today's World: Conversations Between an Anthropologist and a Physician
ISBN: 9781571810809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous - and for the most part - healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift? What is successful aging? Why are some people better at aging than others? Where is aging located? How does it vary among individuals, within and between groups, cultures, societies, and indeed, over the centuries? Reflecting on these and other questions, the authors comment on the impact age has in their lives and work. ... Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous - and for the most part - healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, a... |
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150,98 |
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Diamond Stories
ISBN: 9780801439896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renee Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside...
Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the stren...
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281,12 |
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Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home
ISBN: 9780801421594 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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600,47 |
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Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street
ISBN: 9780801472633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renee Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside...
Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the stren...
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123,12 |
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Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home
ISBN: 9780801494901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renee Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the sources of the profound sense of unease she found at the place she calls "The Franklin Nursing Home." For fourteen months Shield participated in life at a nursing home in the northeastern United States. She got to know many of the people associated with the home doctors, nurses, custodians, kitchen workers, administrators,... "If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renee Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one Am... |
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134,54 |
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Aging in Today's World: Conversations Between an Anthropologist and a Physician
ISBN: 9781571814203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous - and for the most part - healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift? What is successful aging? Why are some people better at aging than others? Where is aging located? How does it vary among individuals, within and between groups, cultures, societies, and indeed, over the centuries? Reflecting on these and other questions, the authors comment on the impact age has in their lives and work. ... Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous - and for the most part - healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, a... |
cena:
544,66 |