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Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination
ISBN: 9780822336006 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for the future and its fears of ecological devastation on Earth. Robert Markley draws on planetary astronomy, the history and cultural study of science, science fiction, literary and cultural criticism, ecology, and astrobiology to offer a cross-disciplinary investigation of the cultural and...
For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in sci...
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524,64 |
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The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730
ISBN: 9780521819442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination as insatiable markets for European goods, and as vast, inexhaustible storehouses of spices and luxury wares. Robert Markley explores the significance of attitudes to the wealth and power of East Asia in rethinking conceptions of national and personal identity in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English literature. Alongside works by canonical English authors, this study examines the writings of Jesuit missionaries, Dutch merchants, and English and continental geographers,...
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination as insatiable markets for European good...
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438,90 |
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The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730
ISBN: 9780521126953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An investigation of the idea of the powerful Asian empires in the works of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift.
An investigation of the idea of the powerful Asian empires in the works of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift.
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257,82 |
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Kim Stanley Robinson
ISBN: 9780252042751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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442,06 |
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Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination
ISBN: 9780822336389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for the future and its fears of ecological devastation on Earth. Robert Markley draws on planetary astronomy, the history and cultural study of science, science fiction, literary and cultural criticism, ecology, and astrobiology to offer a cross-disciplinary investigation of the cultural and...
For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in sci...
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155,45 |
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Kim Stanley Robinson
ISBN: 9780252084584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Award-winning epics like the Mars Trilogy and groundbreaking alternative histories like The Days of Rice and Salt have brought Kim Stanley Robinson to the forefront of contemporary science fiction. Mixing subject matter from a dizzying number of fields with his own complex ecological and philosophical concerns, Robinson explores how humanity might pursue utopian social action as a strategy for its own survival. Robert Markley examines the works of an author engaged with the fundamental question of how weas individuals, as a civilization, and as a speciesmight go forward. By building stories...
Award-winning epics like the Mars Trilogy and groundbreaking alternative histories like The Days of Rice and Salt have brought Kim Stanley Robinson to...
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97,10 |
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Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
ISBN: 9781843844457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his diplomatic credentials and ambassadorial robes, Amherst resisted, and left the palace in anger. The emperor, believing he had been insulted, dismissed the embassy without granting it an imperial audience and rejected its "tribute" of gifts. This diplomatic incident caused considerable disquiet at the time. Some 200 years...
On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to a...
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