wyszukanych pozycji: 767
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On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation
ISBN: 9781439191262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, this "elegant and entertaining" (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments "does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world--in fact, many worlds--we've been missing" (USA TODAY). Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary--to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan...
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, this "elegant and entertaining" (The Boston Globe) explanati...
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Moonflower Murders: by the global bestselling author of Magpie Murders
ISBN: 9781529124347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A labyrinth of clues. A mystery novel hiding a deadly secret. A killer with a fiendish plot: a brilliantly intricate and original thriller from the bestselling author of Magpie Murders. ______________ 'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn't as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, Susan is beginning to miss her...
A labyrinth of clues. A mystery novel hiding a deadly secret. A killer with a fiendish plot: a brilliantly intricate and original thriller from the be...
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In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process
ISBN: 9780813554266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How do we know when physicians practice medicine safely? Can we trust doctors to discipline their own? What is a proper role of experts in a democracy? In the Public Interest raises these provocative questions, using medical licensing and discipline to advocate for a needed overhaul of how we decide public good in a society dominated by private interest groups. Throughout the twentieth century, American physicians built a powerful profession, but their drive toward professional autonomy has made outside observers increasingly concerned about physicians' ability to separate their own...
How do we know when physicians practice medicine safely? Can we trust doctors to discipline their own? What is a proper role of experts in a democracy...
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The Dream Rule
ISBN: 9781533066916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After graduating high school in 1973, best friends Mark, Benji and Kenny take a cross-country road trip by bus in search of adventure before heading off to college. They discover a world far different and more complex than their suburban upbringing has prepared them for, and that traveling together doesn't mean they are on the same journey. The narrator, Mark, tall, lanky, inexperienced and younger looking than his 19 years, is a keen and articulate observer of life who longs to be more of a participant. His sense of history, current events, music and baseball combine to make The Dream Rule...
After graduating high school in 1973, best friends Mark, Benji and Kenny take a cross-country road trip by bus in search of adventure before heading o...
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Helping Hyperactive Kids ? a Sensory Integration Approach: Techniques and Tips for Parents and Professionals
ISBN: 9780897934817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sensory integration has provided help to children with behavior, learning, and motor skills problems for over 40 years. A treatment based on play, it helps children absorb, process, and respond to information in an appropriate manner. This book provides a complete overview and explanation of the therapy, as well as practical sensory integrationbased techniques that can be used by teachers and parents to help the hyperactive child. This non-medical approach can be used in conjunction with, or as a substitute for, traditional drug treatments."
Sensory integration has provided help to children with behavior, learning, and motor skills problems for over 40 years. A treatment based on play, it ...
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On Retirement: How Aging Is Transforming American Lives
ISBN: 9781479841219 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Agile Retrospectives, Second Edition: A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning and Improvement
ISBN: 9798888650370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Multiethnic Democracy: The Logic of Elections and Policymaking in Kenya
ISBN: 9780198852735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation
ISBN: 9780801882418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, Putting Meat on the American Table explains how America became a meat-eating nation--from the colonial period to the present. It examines the relationships between consumer preference and meat processing--looking closely at the production of beef, pork, chicken, and hot dogs. Roger Horowitz argues that a series of new technologies have transformed American meat. He draws on detailed consumption surveys that shed new light on America's eating preferences--especially differences associated with income, rural versus urban areas, and... Engagingly written and richly illustrated, Putting Meat on the American Table explains how America became a meat-eating nation--from the col... |
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Health Care Management
ISBN: 9780816079698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. According to U.S. government projections, employment in the health services industry is projected to increase 27 percent through 2014, adding about 3.6 million new jobs over the 2004-2014 period. While many of those opportunities will be for medical practitioners such as doctors and nurses, demand is also expected to increase for those who manage health care, such as hospital administrators. The expanding and increasingly complex health care system in the United States requires skilled, capable workers to develop and maintain the administrative framework within which doctors work.
According to U.S. government projections, employment in the health services industry is projected to increase 27 percent through 2014, adding about 3....
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Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle
ISBN: 9780520267442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: If the Met s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy.
Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalitiesHenry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry... Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: If the Met s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because ...
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Kostrows Wahrheit
ISBN: 9783748528203 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Privatermittler Jokim Kostrow fühlt schon seit einiger Zeit, dass sich die Dinge ändern. Auf seine Heimatstadt München rollt eine dunkle Bedrohung zu, die sich nicht konkret fassen lässt.
Privatermittler Jokim Kostrow fühlt schon seit einiger Zeit, dass sich die Dinge ändern. Auf seine Heimatstadt München rollt eine dunkle Bedrohung ...
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Boys and their Toys : Masculinity, Class and Technology in America
ISBN: 9780415929325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text, the second volume in a series with the Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, places class and work at the core of gender formation. Covering topics from the turn-of-the-century to the present, the book reveals how masculine roles were and are made. Negotiating the divide between respectable manhood and rough manhood, this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labour unions, railroads, vocational training programmes, and NASCAR racing.
This text, the second volume in a series with the Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, places class and work at the core...
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The War Game: Studies of the New Civilian Militarists
ISBN: 9781412851817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. War gaming has become a characteristic feature of modern life. From amateur clubs to professional academicians playing the war game in the company of military circles, we have come up against the phenomenon of the "robotization" of human life. Irving Louis Horowitz argues that those who protest the idea that war is a game do so on moral grounds that leave unanswered tough questions: What is the alternative to playing the game? What will become of us if we allow the opponent to become the better "player" in an all-or-nothing game of extinction? Horowitz provides answers in a logical manner...
War gaming has become a characteristic feature of modern life. From amateur clubs to professional academicians playing the war game in the company of ...
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Bounce Back: How to Rescue Your Finances During Tough Times Featuring George S. Clayson, Joseph Murphy, Russell H. Conwell, Ralph W
ISBN: 9781722505165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Richest Man in Babylon (Condensed Classics): Discover the Essentials of the Legendary Guide to Wealth!
ISBN: 9781722501860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Luminescent Ultraviolet
ISBN: 9781985145160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
ISBN: 9780812243956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious or analytical discussion, let alone appreciation, of popular culture, which they viewed as morally questionable. Beginning in the 1950s, however, new perspectives emerged outside and within the United States that challenged this dominant thinking. "Consuming Pleasures" reveals how a group of... How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize p... |
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The Good, The Bad, and The Fallen
ISBN: 9781411602540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An adventure of a high school student who stumbles on the supernatural reality that includes angels, demons, and devils...but he never realized that he was one of them.
An adventure of a high school student who stumbles on the supernatural reality that includes angels, demons, and devils...but he never realized that h...
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