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Anatomy of a Miracle: Sacrilege and Reparation
ISBN: 9781522746591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The story of a Jewish merchant in Paris who procured a host, the Blessed Sacrament of Christianity, from an indigent Christian woman and witnessed the miracle of its bleeding and indestructibility when he abused was doctrinally and economically opportune for religious and secular authorities. The burning of the Jew after he refused to convert to Christianity added to the force of the narrative. This book explores the origins of the story, presented as a historic event occurring at Eastertime, 1290, and its transformations over time and through different media. Its institutionalization split...
The story of a Jewish merchant in Paris who procured a host, the Blessed Sacrament of Christianity, from an indigent Christian woman and witnessed the...
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65,93 zł |
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The Wounded Goddess: A Pursuit in the Iliad and After
ISBN: 9781731330727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,11 zł |
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What the Bullets Said: Changing Rounds and Unstoppable Assailants
ISBN: 9781490377759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,16 zł |
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X-Ray Vision: A Way of Looking
ISBN: 9781612331089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. X-ray vision at first was the revival of the phantasmagoria and ground-penetrating sight of earlier centuries attached to the new technology of X-rays in the early twentieth century. The image-idea of the existence of rays that allow prepared eyes to see into clothing, through walls and into the earth, not feasible in fact, generated fictions and surrogates of how living beings would experience such an ability, what they would do with it and what it would do to them. Expressing both a need and a desire, X-ray vision underwent its own development gathering elements of play, inquiry and assault...
X-ray vision at first was the revival of the phantasmagoria and ground-penetrating sight of earlier centuries attached to the new technology of X-rays...
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144,95 zł |
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Voices: An Anthropologist's Dialogue with an Italian-American Festival
ISBN: 9780879723651 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a study of the St. Peter's Fiesta celebrated annually by the Italian, or better, Sicilian-American community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA. The study deals specifically with the fiesta that took place 25-28 June 1970.
This is a study of the St. Peter's Fiesta celebrated annually by the Italian, or better, Sicilian-American community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA...
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41,79 zł |
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Anthrax: A History
ISBN: 9780786418916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bacillus anthracis - anthrax - had largely faded from public consciousness until it resurfaced as a terrorist weapon in 2001. It was always with us, lurking in the soil and hosted by our livestock. Long before it was identified as a specific bacterium in the late 1800s, anthrax was a catchphrase for a variety of diseases and symptoms, from ancient biblical plagues to a painful carbuncle on George Washington's leg. Only when industrialization turned anthrax into a widespread disease that threatened economies did a true understanding of Bacillus anthracis begin to emerge. This history of...
Bacillus anthracis - anthrax - had largely faded from public consciousness until it resurfaced as a terrorist weapon in 2001. It was always with us, l...
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241,21 zł |
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A Plague of the Imagination: Cruentation, the Night Visitor and the Names of the Vampire
ISBN: 9781795343718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,34 zł |
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Poison Eaters: Snakes, Opium, Arsenic, and the Lethal Show
ISBN: 9781599428345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them. Readers interested in the human history of drugs and medicine, in feats of endurance usually survived and in the play of controlling and regulatory authorities that always accompanies drug and poison use will find Poison Eaters especially appealing.
Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to...
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144,95 zł |
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Quicksilver: A History of the Use, Lore and Effects of Mercury
ISBN: 9780786435968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work traces the history of mercury in popular culture, beginning in the early 18th century when Dr. Thomas Dover, nicknamed Dr. Quicksilver, began prescribing doses of raw mercury to clear out intestinal blockages and rid the body of syphilis and other diseases. The author details the role of mercury in several medical, industrial, and cultural applications.
This work traces the history of mercury in popular culture, beginning in the early 18th century when Dr. Thomas Dover, nicknamed Dr. Quicksilver, bega...
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241,21 zł |
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Arctic Bodies: In Touch with the Cold and the Dark from Afar
ISBN: 9781502567581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A moment of the human body came and passed in the late 19th -early 20th century. For the first time numbers of people from temperate climates travelled far to the north by land and sea and remained there for extended periods of time. Their purpose was to seek resources, animal, mineral and human, to exploit and to find a route that would bypass continental land masses and permit ocean trade of a world scope. The nature of the polar region was not known. It might be continuous land, clusters of islands, ice or open ocean. It might be inhabited or empty, but in any case it was enticing for the...
A moment of the human body came and passed in the late 19th -early 20th century. For the first time numbers of people from temperate climates travelle...
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79,16 zł |
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Calomel in America: Mercurial Panacea, War, Song and Ghosts
ISBN: 9781599424675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Formed as a word and a chemical compound in an culturally diverse Europe, calomel came to America as a solution to epidemics also imported. It grew into a primary gesture, both medical and commercial, of the healing professions. Opposition to its use, founded on experience with the effects of consuming it, took the form of song and satire that echoed faintly after the drug was forgotten.
Formed as a word and a chemical compound in an culturally diverse Europe, calomel came to America as a solution to epidemics also imported. It grew in...
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144,95 zł |
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The Metamorphosis of English: Versions of Other Languages
ISBN: 9780897894685 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beginning with the motley crew of invaders who mingled with the Gaelic, Norse, Latin, and French speakers to produce a small nation of empire-builders who would carry their language to the far corners of the globe, the story of the birth and migration of the English language is well known to us through the popular works of Robert McNeil, Robert McCrum, and Bill Bryson. Swiderski expands and extends our understanding of the predatory aspects of the language as he shows how English acquires and is transformed by the myriad other languages with which it comes into contact. Swiderski's... Beginning with the motley crew of invaders who mingled with the Gaelic, Norse, Latin, and French speakers to produce a small nation of empire-build... |
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291,64 zł |
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Teaching Language, Learning Culture
ISBN: 9780897893268 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Whenever a new language is learned, a new culture is also learned. Swiderski provides instructive examples of language learning situations by describing multilingual events using more than twenty of the world's languages. All aspects of language learning from the physical environment of the classroom to the perceptions of events and emotions that languages express are considered. Australian aboriginal languages and Native American languages are analyzed to illustrate the world of differences of which English, Chinese, and Russian are also a part. The politics of language teaching and the... Whenever a new language is learned, a new culture is also learned. Swiderski provides instructive examples of language learning situations by descr... |
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371,18 zł |
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