wyszukanych pozycji: 256
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The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard
ISBN: 9781845113988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The west's Orientalism -- its construction of the Arab ""Other"" -- has been exposed, examined and expurgated under the critical theory microscope in recent years yet the issue has acquired renewed urgency in light of the current climate of fear and hysteria about the Islamic world. At the same time post-modern thinkers from Nietzsche onwards have employed the motifs and symbols of the Islamic Orient within an ongoing critique of western modernity, an appropriation which -- this hugely controversial book argues -- runs every risk of becoming a new and subtle form of Orientalism. Examining the...
The west's Orientalism -- its construction of the Arab ""Other"" -- has been exposed, examined and expurgated under the critical theory microscope in ...
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131,39 |
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Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn 'Arabi
ISBN: 9780415578974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Examines a series of common features in the works of Derrida and the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, considered to be one of the most influential figures in Islamic thought.
Examines a series of common features in the works of Derrida and the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, considered to be one of the most influential figures in Isl...
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287,15 |
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Two Faiths, One Banner : When Muslims Marched with Christians Across Europe's Battlegrounds
ISBN: 9781845116552 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Demonstrates that in Europe, the heart of the west, Muslims and Christians were often comrades-in-arms, repeatedly forming alliances to wage war against their own faiths and peoples.
Demonstrates that in Europe, the heart of the west, Muslims and Christians were often comrades-in-arms, repeatedly forming alliances to wage war again...
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223,92 |
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History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780415897792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most important German thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries allows a new and fascinating investigation of how these thinkers, within their own bodies of work, often espoused contradicting ideas about Islam and their nearest Muslim neighbours.
This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most important German thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries allows a new and fascin...
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287,15 |
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What's the Use of Wings?
ISBN: 9780244006822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,20 |
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Graphical Belief Modeling
ISBN: 9780412066610 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This innovative volume explores graphical models using belief functions as a representation of uncertainty, offering an alternative approach to problems where probability proves inadequate. Graphical Belief Modeling makes it easy to compare the two approaches while evaluating their relative strengths and limitations.
The author examines both theory and computation, incorporating practical notes from the author's own experience with the BELIEF software package. As one of the first volumes to apply the Dempster-Shafer belief functions to a practical model, a substantial portion of the book... This innovative volume explores graphical models using belief functions as a representation of uncertainty, offering an alternative approach to proble...
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608,48 |
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The Tightrope Walkers
ISBN: 9780241003237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond - a novel of young love and tragedy from the prizewinning author of Skellig. 'I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne...' Dominic Hall grows up in the sixties on a brand-new estate, along with the other families who escaped the river. But the Tyne is still an overwhelming presence, and most of the fathers work in the shipyards. Dom is torn between his new mates: Holly Stroud, his enchanting neighbour, and Vincent McAlinden, who's something else altogether - a wild, dangerous boy with murderous instincts. After his mother's death, Dom has to decide...
The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond - a novel of young love and tragedy from the prizewinning author of Skellig. 'I was born in a hovel on the banks...
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81,93 |
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Mandala Wonder: Swear Word
ISBN: 9781537073170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,80 |
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Being Happy: 10 Keys to Unlock Overflowing Joy in Everyday Living
ISBN: 9780998384559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,88 |
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Island: A life-changing story, now brilliantly illustrated
ISBN: 9781444954180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
50,28 |
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In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels
ISBN: 9781447249160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Marc Almond is an accomplished narrator - candid, gossipy and shockingly indiscreet
Marc Almond is an accomplished narrator - candid, gossipy and shockingly indiscreet
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75,98 |
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Raven Summer
ISBN: 9780385738071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Liam and his friend Max are playing in their neighborhood when the call of a bird leads them out into a field beyond their town. There, they find a baby lying alone atop a pile of stones--with this note pinned to her clothing: Liam and his friend Max are playing in their neighborhood when the call of a bird leads them out into a field beyond their town. There, they find a... |
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45,61 |
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Skellig
ISBN: 9780440416029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. David Almond's Printz Honor-winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . ....
David Almond's Printz Honor-winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new ho...
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34,17 |
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Mein Name ist Mina
ISBN: 9783772531323 / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mehr Minas braucht die Welt!Mina ist anders als die anderen Kinder. Nachdenklich, fantasievoll und rebellisch, eckt sie immer wieder an, denn sie stellt viele ungewöhnliche Fragen: über Liebe, Freundschaft, Trauer, Vorschriften und das Leben. Sie schreibt alle ihre Gedanken in ein Notizbuch - es ist Minas Blick auf die Welt in ihren Worten. Das ist Minas Tagebuch. Das sind ihre Geschichten und Träume, Beobachtungen und Gefühle, ihre Kritzeleien und Wortspiele, ihr Unsinn, ihre Gedichte und Lieder. Und mit ihren Fragen stellt sie auch unsere!In diesem gefühlvollen, ungewöhnlichen Buch...
Mehr Minas braucht die Welt!Mina ist anders als die anderen Kinder. Nachdenklich, fantasievoll und rebellisch, eckt sie immer wieder an, denn sie stel...
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89,46 |
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Brand New Boy: A humorous and thought-provoking illustrated story about what it means to be human, from the multi-award-winning author of SKELLIG, for readers age 9, 10, 11, 12
ISBN: 9781406394689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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40,22 |
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The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781565125292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories includes a wealthy family certain they have been abducted by space aliens, a sexy magazine editor who falls for a worldclass cad, and a beleaguered dentist who refuses to read his best friend s novel. Michael Jackson and Abraham Lincoln make cameos, as do a variety of desperate and beautiful loonies, all of whom are...
Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation a...
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80,84 |
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Art Book
ISBN: 9781716178061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,83 |
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Tillie and Tara: The Birds of Happiness
ISBN: 9780983194545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
43,70 |
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The Vulnerable Alpha
ISBN: 9780228888833 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
42,53 |