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Islands: From Atlantis to Zanzibar
ISBN: 9781780230320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When Lost's Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe's novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The...
When Lost's Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe's novel, Robinson Crus...
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A History of Writing
ISBN: 9781789143492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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76,02 |
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A History of Language
ISBN: 9781861890801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Fischer analyses the emergence of language as...
It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of ...
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76,29 |
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Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island
ISBN: 9781861892829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically...
On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and d...
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101,81 |
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A History of the Pacific Islands
ISBN: 9780230362697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with work in archaeology and anthropology as well as in history enriches the text, making this a book with wide appeal for students and general readers.
A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history o...
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126,00 |
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A History of Reading
ISBN: 9781789140682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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75,06 |
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History of Reading
ISBN: 9781861892096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Steven Roger Fischer s fascinating book traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day. Describing ancient forms of reading and the various modes that were necessary to read different writing systems and scripts, Fischer turns to Asia and the Americas and discusses the forms and developments of completely divergent dimensions of reading.
With the Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East, innovative re-inventions of reading emerged silent and liturgical reading; the custom of lectors; reading s focus in... Steven Roger Fischer s fascinating book traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the electronic tex...
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76,29 |
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A History of the Pacific Islands
ISBN: 9780230362680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with work in archaeology and anthropology as well as in history enriches the text, making this a book with wide appeal for students and general readers.
A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history o...
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408,24 |
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A History of Language
ISBN: 9781780239033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A History of Language charts the history of linguistics from the times of Homo erectus through to the nineteenth century when the science of linguistics was developed and analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form.
A History of Language charts the history of linguistics from the times of Homo erectus through to the nineteenth century when the science of linguisti...
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75,06 |
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A History of Writing
ISBN: 9781861891679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Commencing with the first stages of information storage, Fischer focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. He documents the rise of Phoenician and its effect on the Greek alphabet, generating the many alphabetic scripts of the West. Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese writing systems are dealt with in depth, as...
From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investi...
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76,29 |
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Oceanic Voices - European Quills: The Early Documents on and in Chamorro and Rapanui
ISBN: 9783050062785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) of the Austronesian tongues to inspire linguistic investigation within greater Oceania. These pioneering efforts are honored in nine articles which document, translate, chronicle, describe and analyze the earliest relics from these two island cultures. This collection of articles reveals fundamental insights not... "Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the ... |
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699,29 |
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