wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back Into the History of Our Desires
ISBN: 9780520068780 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead, Sachs examines the history of the automobile from the late 1880s until today for evidence on the nature of dreams and desires embedded in modern culture. Written in a lively style and illustrated by a wealth of cartoons, advertisements, newspaper stories, and propaganda, this book explores the nature of Germany's love affair with the...
In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transporta...
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281,59 zł |
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Global Ecology
ISBN: 9781856491648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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116,83 zł |
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The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
ISBN: 9781786997517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The concise, critical guide to key concepts in development studies.
The concise, critical guide to key concepts in development studies.
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116,04 zł |
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Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice
ISBN: 9781842777299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 'The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not enough for everyone's greed.' Mahatma Gandhi
Oil crisis, water conflicts, declining food security - we hear one report after another about resource scarcity - while with growing populations and huge poverty, nations are demanding their right to development. In the age of globalization this right cannot be disputed, yet the planet is already exhibiting signs of acute environmental stress. Indians want more roads and Chinese more oil: the struggle over nature will partly shape the crises of the twenty-first century. Clashes over... 'The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not enough for everyone's greed.' Mahatma Gandhi
Oil crisis, water conflicts, declining food secu... |
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176,61 zł |
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The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
ISBN: 9781848133792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this classic collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse.
Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view, highlights its particular bias, and exposes its historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility. The authors argue that a bidding farewell to the whole Eurocentric development idea is urgently needed, in order to liberate people s minds in both North and South for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. The combined... In this classic collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse.
Each es... |
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429,03 zł |
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The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
ISBN: 9781786997500 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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429,03 zł |
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The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
ISBN: 9781350359840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars and practitioners. Each essay in this now classic collection examines one key development concept, from the 'environment' to 'needs' and 'progress' to 'production'. Each concept is reviewed from a historical and anthropological point of view, with particular bias and intellectual flaws being highlighted. Overall, the authors argue that we must bid farewell to the whole idea of Eurocentric development in order to liberate people's minds in both North and...
The original critical guide to key concepts in development studies from some of the world's most eminent critical development scholars and practitione...
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111,00 zł |
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Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development
ISBN: 9781783603404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Amid the hubbub of daily life and the seemingly endless bounty of capitalism, it s easy to forget that all human action must be played out within our planet s limitations. Any hope of infinityof infinite growth, infinite prosperity, and the likeis an illusion. Yet that very acknowledgment of the earth s limits, highlighted by environmentalists for decades, has been assimilated almost seamlessly into the rhetoric, dynamics, and power structures of development.
Wolfgang Sachs predicted as much nearly twenty years ago in Planet Dialectics, his now-classic collection of trenchant and... Amid the hubbub of daily life and the seemingly endless bounty of capitalism, it s easy to forget that all human action must be played out within our ...
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85,75 zł |