wyszukanych pozycji: 33
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Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941
ISBN: 9780816512980 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Originally a presidio on the frontier of New Spain, Tucson was a Mexican community before the arrival of Anglo settlers. Unlike most cities in California and Texas, Tucson was not initially overwhelmed by Anglo immigrants, so that even until the early 1900s Mexicans made up a majority of the town's population. Indeed, it was through the efforts of Mexican businessmen and politicians that Tucson became a commercial center of the Southwest.Los Tucsonenses celebrates the efforts of these early entrepreneurs as it traces the Mexican community's gradual loss of economic and political...
Originally a presidio on the frontier of New Spain, Tucson was a Mexican community before the arrival of Anglo settlers. Unlike most cities in ...
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124,18 |
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Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'Odham
ISBN: 9780816527496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the land in southern Arizona have been repeatedly robbed of their way of life. History has recorded more than three centuries of speculative failures that never amounted to much but left dispossessed people in their wake. This book seeks to excavate those failures, to examine the new social spaces the schemers struggled to create and the existing social spaces they destroyed. Landscapes of Fraud explores how the penetration of the evolving capitalist...
From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the land in southern A...
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144,89 |
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Helping the Good Do Better: How a White Hat Lobbyist Advocates for Social Change
ISBN: 9781538725542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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75,62 |
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So Mr. Mayor
ISBN: 9781548071295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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30,30 |
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Astronomical Weather
ISBN: 9781728371153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,74 |
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Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control
ISBN: 9780262515474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For the past three decades, the author and his colleagues in the MIT Man-Machine Systems Laboratory have been carrying out experimental research in the area of teleoperation, telerobotics, and supervisory control - a new form of technology that allows humans to work through machines in hazardous environments and control complex systems such as aircraft and nuclear power plants. This timely reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common themes, presenting experiments and hardware embodiments as... For the past three decades, the author and his colleagues in the MIT Man-Machine Systems Laboratory have been carrying out experimental research in... |
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276,05 |
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A Worthy Experience
ISBN: 9781511527576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A WORTHY EXPERIENCE presents an Astro College seminar on economic policy. Astro College and Professor Regina Worthy are fictional. But the issues are real and vital to the viability of the nation's economy. This topic should be of great concern to everyone. Over the past seven years median household income declined $5,000. Even worse, it has been in decline since 1999. What policies promote growth or conversely stymie growth? This seminar addresses these questions and suggests appropriate actions to unshackle the sluggish economy. The author, John Sheridan Thomas, is a management consultant...
A WORTHY EXPERIENCE presents an Astro College seminar on economic policy. Astro College and Professor Regina Worthy are fictional. But the issues are ...
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24,08 |
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A Cool Experience
ISBN: 9781505435917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A COOL EXPERIENCE is about climate science. It is presented in a fictional setting, and consists of conversations among a science professor and her students probing into the consequences of carbon dioxide emissions on the earth's ecosystem. Climate science should be a real concern to everyone. The economy of the nation and indeed the entire world is being impacted for better or worse by the manner in which we respond to fears arising from human-induced carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. We need assurance that valuable natural resources are not abandoned without appropriate and...
A COOL EXPERIENCE is about climate science. It is presented in a fictional setting, and consists of conversations among a science professor and her st...
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24,08 |
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A Discourse Being Introductory to His Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language
ISBN: 9781023304306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,84 |
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Two of Cups: A New York Poet in Galway
ISBN: 9781479286034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Two of Cups" is a collection of poems written about love found and lost in Galway, Ireland. Includes mentions of some of the most well known spots in and outside Galway: Sally Long's, The G, Clonmacnoise and more.
"Two of Cups" is a collection of poems written about love found and lost in Galway, Ireland. Includes mentions of some of the most well known spots in...
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49,69 |
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Final Report and Recommendations for Research on Human-Automation Interaction in the Next Generation Air Transportation System
ISBN: 9781495247019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the final report of a project to review JPDO documents as they pertain to human-automation interaction, review past system failures in aviation and other contexts involving human-automation interaction, conduct a workshop of JPDO, NASA and academic experts in the area, perform analyses of selected problems, and make recommendations for NASA research needed to support JPDO on these aspects of NGATS. This report first reviews reports issued separately on the failures review and the workshop findings as well as several papers and technical notes. Recommendations for needed research in...
This is the final report of a project to review JPDO documents as they pertain to human-automation interaction, review past system failures in aviatio...
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64,70 |
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A Review of Human-Automation Interaction Failures and Lessons Learned
ISBN: 9781494877330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This report reviews 37 accidents in aviation, other vehicles, process control and other complex systems where human-automation interaction is involved. Implications about causality with respect to design, procedures, management and training are drawn. A number of caveats and recommendations from the salient literature are discussed with respect to human-automation interaction.
This report reviews 37 accidents in aviation, other vehicles, process control and other complex systems where human-automation interaction is involved...
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72,79 |
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Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes
ISBN: 9780226165714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranchers, and forest workers are bucking preconceptions to establish common ground. As they join together to protect the wide open spaces, diverse habitats, and working landscapes upon which people, plants, and animals depend, a new vision of management is emerging in which the conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, and sustainable resource...
News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they...
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160,47 |