wyszukanych pozycji: 688
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Zoar in the Civil War
ISBN: 9780873389068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Traces the response of the Zoar community to the Civil War Zoar Village, located in Ohio's Tuscarawas Valley, functioned from 1817 to 1898 as a communal society. Formed by German separatists seeking religious freedom, Zoar became one of the most successful experiments in communal living in America's history. One cardinal principle in the Zoarite's faith and practice was the refusal to bear arms. In the 1860s, with the rise of the Civil War, conflict emerged between the community's pacifist stance and its strong support for the Union cause and for the abolition of slavery. Some Zoarites...
Traces the response of the Zoar community to the Civil War Zoar Village, located in Ohio's Tuscarawas Valley, functioned from 1817 to 1898 as a commun...
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75,81 |
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The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire
ISBN: 9780742557574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region, the book provides both a theoretical framework for assessing the state of the Left and a set of cases highlighting key movements, successes, and failures. Its theoretical scope covers socialist strategy, working-class formation, peasant social movements, the role of women in popular politics, and the response of outside powers. These themes provide the...
This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive ...
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685,23 |
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Mining Men: Britain’s Last Kings of the Coalface
ISBN: 9781529921502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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66,45 |
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Serving the Marginalized through Design Education
ISBN: 9781032705903 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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120,13 |
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High Altitude Geoecology
ISBN: 9780367171056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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225,29 |
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From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales
ISBN: 9781608461066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeffery R.Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office."
Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic... |
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Biotechnology: Assessing Social Impacts and Policy Implications
ISBN: 9780313274541 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of 14 essays written by leading researchers on a variety of topics related to biotechnology focuses on the social, ethical, economic, legal, and political aspects of biotechnological applications. Usually defined as any technique that uses living organisms or processes to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop micro-organisms, biotechnology has political characteristics similar to those of other technological advances, such as applications of artificial intelligence in manufacturing or new procedures in medicine. In all of these innovations,... This collection of 14 essays written by leading researchers on a variety of topics related to biotechnology focuses on the social, ethical, economi... |
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The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire
ISBN: 9780742557581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region, the book provides both a theoretical framework for assessing the state of the Left and a set of cases highlighting key movements, successes, and failures. Its theoretical scope covers socialist strategy, working-class formation, peasant social movements, the role of women in popular politics, and the response of outside powers. These themes provide the...
This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive ...
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289,85 |
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The Impasse of the Latin American Left
ISBN: 9781478018216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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100,10 |
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Aida's Story
ISBN: 9781665773751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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151,98 |
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The European Avant-Garde: 1900-1940
ISBN: 9780745627045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian.
Andrew Webber presents striking examples to illustrate a time of unprecedented experiment and energetic performance in all aspects of culture. Readings of some of the most important and characteristic avant-garde texts, pictures and films are set against some of the key developments... This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides compara...
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289,91 |
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Sam Altman: From Y Combinator to OpenAI - The man Behind Silicon Valley's Greatest Successes
ISBN: 9798307293775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,77 |
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Sam Fender: The Journey of Extraordinary Rise of The Working-Class Hero of Modern Rock
ISBN: 9798305393408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,77 |
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American to the Backbone
ISBN: 9781605983882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery prior to the Civil War. Just ten years after his escape, Pennington was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church after studying at Yale. Moving to Hartford, he became involved with the Amistad captives and founded the first African American mission society. As he fought for equal rights in America, Pennington's voice was not limited to the preacher's pulpit. He wrote the first-ever -History of the Colored People- as well as a... At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery pr... |
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121,60 |
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Global Statesman: How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World
ISBN: 9781474423564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Global Statesman revisits Gordon Brown's decade as the New Labour Chancellor and his crucial but neglected attempts to eliminate global poverty. From DFID to Brown's own faith and social philosophy, Webber explores, problematises and critiques Brown's policies on overseas aid, Third-World debt and addressing HIV/AIDS. Drawing on nearly two decades' worth of primary research, including an extensive and exhaustive survey of speeches and policy statements made by Gordon Brown both prior to and throughout his time in government, David Webber provides a body of evidence currently absent from...
Global Statesman revisits Gordon Brown's decade as the New Labour Chancellor and his crucial but neglected attempts to eliminate global poverty. From ...
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606,17 |
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Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual
ISBN: 9781433158865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence, shame, mental illness, suicide, humanity, and the virtual. Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual offers a series of readings of school shooting episodes in the United States as well as similar cases in Finland, Germany, and Norway, among others and their relatedness. The book expands the author''s central premise from her earlier book Failure to Hold, which explores the hidden curriculum of American culture that is rooted in...
School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence,...
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303,93 |
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Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival
ISBN: 9780300240245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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224,73 |
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Explorations Into Urban Structure
ISBN: 9780812274158 / Angielski / Twarda / 1964 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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337,34 |
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The Doppelgänger: Double Visions in German Literature
ISBN: 9780198159049 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenka (1796), the concept of Doppelganger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal, but nonetheless significant, manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siecle and transfer to the silent screen.
" Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenka (1796), the concept of Doppelganger has had significant influence upon representations ...
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1061,82 |
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Geschichten von der Süd-Grenze : Zweiter Teil
ISBN: 9783750900677 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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65,93 |