wyszukanych pozycji: 22
From Classical to Quantum Plasmonics in Three and Two Dimensions
ISBN: 9783319485614 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This thesis provides a comprehensive introduction to two active research directions within the field of plasmonics: (i) nonclassical, or quantum, aspects of the plasmonic response;
This thesis provides a comprehensive introduction to two active research directions within the field of plasmonics: (i) nonclassical, or quantum, aspe...
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384,63 zł |
From Classical to Quantum Plasmonics in Three and Two Dimensions
ISBN: 9783319839738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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384,63 zł |
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
ISBN: 9780521686983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations, as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A co...
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261,78 zł |
Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis
ISBN: 9780226626925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Stories of Tonality in the Age of Fran ois-Joseph F tis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist Fran ois-Joseph F tis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the term in the nineteenth century. Thomas Christensen weaves a rich story in which tonality emerges as a theoretical construct born of anxiety and alterity for Europeans during this time as they learned more about "other" musics and alternative tonal systems. Tonality became a central vortex in which French musicians thought--and argued--about a...
Stories of Tonality in the Age of Fran ois-Joseph F tis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist Fran...
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262,08 zł |
Partimento and Continuo Playing in Theory and in Practice
ISBN: 9789058678287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory. Thomas Christensen, in his contribution, shows how the development of tonal harmonic theory went hand in hand with the practice of thoroughbass. Both Robert Gjerdingen and Giorgio Sanguinetti focus on the Neapolitan tradition of partimento. Gjerdingen addresses the relation between the realization of partimenti and contrapuntal thinking, illustrated by examples of contrapuntal imitation and combination in partimenti, leading to the "partimentofugue." Sanguinetti... This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory. Thomas Christensen,... |
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152,88 zł |
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
ISBN: 9780385420174 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The bestselling phenomenon and inspiration for the award-winning film. Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance and bittersweet wit. This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food...
The bestselling phenomenon and inspiration for the award-winning film. Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life i...
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74,08 zł |
Landfilling of Waste : Barriers
ISBN: 9780419159902 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Although much information and experience in landfill design and operation has been obtained in recent years, only a few meet the current standards for an environmentally acceptable landfill. In view of the increasing public awareness and new scientific understanding of waste disposal problems, the standards for landfilling of waste may improve even further in the years to come.
Although much information and experience in landfill design and operation has been obtained in recent years, only a few meet the current standards for...
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1945,13 zł |
Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958
ISBN: 9780691026374 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek's KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States. Christensen first develops a novel... This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the ... |
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273,00 zł |
The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
ISBN: 9780393081138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues against this zero-sum vision. Instead, he describes a new paradigm in which the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while encouraging the country to contribute to the global order. Drawing on decades of scholarship and experience as a senior diplomat, Christensen offers a compelling new assessment of U.S.-China relations that is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the... Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thom... |
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120,07 zł |
Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience
ISBN: 9780849320248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Insects are among the most diverse and adaptable organisms on Earth. They have long been our chief competitors for food and are responsible for spreading devastating afflictions such as malaria and encephalitis. The insects ability to thrive is due in large part to their well-developed sensory systems, which present a host of novel physiological, biochemical, and behavioral attributes that underlie their remarkable feats of sensory performance.
Methods in Insect Neuroscience is the first text to showcase the tremendous variety of methods that are available to study the sensory... Insects are among the most diverse and adaptable organisms on Earth. They have long been our chief competitors for food and are responsible for spread...
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Worse Than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia
ISBN: 9780691142616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantage. However, most international security politics involve coercive diplomacy and negotiations short of all-out war. Worse Than a Monolith demonstrates that when states are engaged in coercive diplomacy--combining threats and assurances to influence the behavior of real or potential adversaries--divisions, rivalries, and lack of coordination within the opposing camp often make it more difficult to prevent the onset of conflict, to prevent... In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantag... |
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191,10 zł |
Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience
ISBN: 9780367393465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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321,54 zł |
Understanding Surface and Thin Film Science
ISBN: 9781482233032 / Angielski / Mixed media product / 2022 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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477,15 zł |
The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
ISBN: 9780393352993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues against this zero-sum vision. Instead, he describes a new paradigm in which the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while encouraging the country to contribute to the global order. Drawing on decades of scholarship and experience as a senior diplomat, Christensen offers a compelling new assessment of U.S.-China relations that is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the... Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thom... |
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76,39 zł |
Healing Church Strife in the New Testament and Today
ISBN: 9781498233941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution. This book opens our eyes to the rich variety of conflict solutions that are described throughout the New Testament. Healing Church Strife explores options for our time, and the reader receives practical suggestions that are biblically based. ""Doctors James Christensen and Thomas F. Johnson have done the church a much-needed favor in providing practical, biblically-based wisdom by which to deal with the most challenging social and spiritual juggernaut of its existence: conflict....
When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution. This book opens our eyes to the ric...
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69,72 zł |
An African Tree of Life
ISBN: 9781498278669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An African Tree of Life demonstrates how mission involves not only a ""bringing-to"" a people, but a ""discovering-of"" those deep symbols in human culture and God's creation that, in the light of the gospel, draw humanity to Christ. This book, in a scholarly yet intriguing way, explores the stories and rituals of the Gbaya people of the Cameroon and the Central African Republic. These deep symbols are typically centered not in the esoteric or exotic but in the familiar and everyday. Christensen focuses on the especial importance of the peace-bringing tree of life--the sore tree--central to...
An African Tree of Life demonstrates how mission involves not only a ""bringing-to"" a people, but a ""discovering-of"" those deep symbols in human cu...
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126,37 zł |
The Work of Music Theory: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9781472430557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years, the selected articles provide a historical conspectus about a range of vital topics in the history of music theory, focusing in particular upon writings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Christensen examines a variety of theorists and their arguments within the intellectual and musical contexts of their time, in the process highlighting the diverse and idiosyncratic nature of the discipline of...
This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published ...
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959,60 zł |
Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire
ISBN: 9780802138651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as a thrilling discovery . . . a reversal of the letters of] Saul Bellow's Herzog . . . with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts. J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small...
Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as a thrilling discovery . . . a reversal of the l...
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78,44 zł |
Towards Tonality. Aspects of Baroque Music Theory
ISBN: 9789058675873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Towards Tonality is a collection of essays based on lectures presented at the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory on "Historical Theory, Performance, and Meaning in Baroque Music." The often complex connections and intersections between, e.g., modal and tonal idioms, contrapuntal and harmonic organisation, were considered from various perspectives as to the transition (towards tonality) from the Renaissance to the Baroque era. Contents: Thomas Christensen Genres of Music Theory, 1650-1750 Penelope Gouk Science and Music, or the Science of Music: Some Little-known Examples of...
Towards Tonality is a collection of essays based on lectures presented at the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory on "Historical Theory...
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117,39 zł |
Healing Church Strife in the New Testament and Today
ISBN: 9781498233965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution. This book opens our eyes to the rich variety of conflict solutions that are described throughout the New Testament. Healing Church Strife explores options for our time, and the reader receives practical suggestions that are biblically based. ""Doctors James Christensen and Thomas F. Johnson have done the church a much-needed favor in providing practical, biblically-based wisdom by which to deal with the most challenging social and spiritual juggernaut of its existence: conflict....
When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution. This book opens our eyes to the ric...
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148,16 zł |