wyszukanych pozycji: 24
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Magic: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199588022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Magic is a much-used term with a complex and controversial history. As a concept and a practice, it has attracted the attention of theologians, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, artists, and historians over the centuries. This Very Short Introduction explains why. Magic has been defined in terms of the false religions of others, as an evolutionary stage in human thought, a universal state of mind, and a liberating expression of the imagination. For hundreds of millions of people today, no matter their religious persuasion, magic is a real force that helps them to overcome...
Magic is a much-used term with a complex and controversial history. As a concept and a practice, it has attracted the attention of theologians, anthro...
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50,87 |
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A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
ISBN: 9780198862659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,50 |
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Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World
ISBN: 9780748675647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Explore how history was brought to life on the silver screen and how the Hollywood's epic movies dictated our vision of the past. This lively study analyses how Hollywood producers, directors, designers, costumiers, publicity agents, movie stars, and, inevitably, 'a cast of thousands' literally designed the ancient world from scratch.
Explore how history was brought to life on the silver screen and how the Hollywood's epic movies dictated our vision of the past. This lively study an...
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169,52 |
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Bread Givers
ISBN: 9780892553723 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence and self-fulfillment resonates with a passion all can share. Beautifully redesigned page for page with the previous editions, Bread Givers is an essential historical work with enduring relevance.
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the yo...
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145,30 |
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Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780190280109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 |
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
ISBN: 9780195117974 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime Minister Edward Heath later said that the United States in the post-War era enjoyed "the greatest prosperity the world has ever known." It was a boom that produced a national euphoria, a buoyant time...
Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginab...
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122,02 |
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Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
ISBN: 9780198873006 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,11 |
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Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes
ISBN: 9781421425399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of the Appalachian Mountains, and a historical geography of spaces and places in the twentieth century.
Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of the ...
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215,25 |
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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
ISBN: 9780521590815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This book sheds new light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing novel accounts of the "British problem" in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of the British...
David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial...
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374,85 |
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Clinical Handbook of Veterinary Medicine
ISBN: 9781682868720 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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608,64 |
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A Sermon Delivered on the Day of General Election: At Montpelier, October 13, 1825, Before the Honorable Legislature of Vermont.
ISBN: 9781275837126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 22 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,93 |
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A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom
ISBN: 9780197536865 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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133,83 |
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Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s
ISBN: 9780190066338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,28 |
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Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780198706953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Nazi Germany may have only lasted for 12 years, but it has left a legacy that still echoes with us today. This book discusses the emergence and appeal of the Nazi party, the relationship between consent and terror in securing the regime, the role played by Hitler himself, and the dark stains of war, persecution, and genocide left by Nazi Germany.
Nazi Germany may have only lasted for 12 years, but it has left a legacy that still echoes with us today. This book discusses the emergence and appeal...
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50,87 |
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780198825005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the Plantation of Ulster to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict. This book explores the pivotal moments in Northern Irish history - the rise of republicanism in the 1800s, Home Rule, the growth of Sinn Fein, and the DUP, before bringing the story up to date.
From the Plantation of Ulster to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict. Thi...
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50,87 |
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The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas that Changed the World
ISBN: 9780197777374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,03 |
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The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780198792963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Habsburg Empire reached at various times across most of Europe and the New World. At all the critical moments of European history it is there - confronting Luther, launching the Thirty Years War, repelling the Ottomans, and taking on Napoleon. Martin Rady introduces the fascinating and colourful history of the Habsburgs.
The Habsburg Empire reached at various times across most of Europe and the New World. At all the critical moments of European history it is there - co...
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50,87 |
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Waterloo
ISBN: 9780199663262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,05 |
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Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain
ISBN: 9780198800187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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171,68 |
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
ISBN: 9780190053765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 968 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along with Reconstruction-its conflicts, rapid and disorienting change, hopes and fears-formed the template of American modernity.
The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along with Reconstru...
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113,84 |