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Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
ISBN: 9781597401715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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545,25 zł |
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Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism
ISBN: 9780465004959 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, "The birthday of a new world is at hand," America was unique in world history. A nation suffused with the spirit of explorers, constantly replenished by immigrants, and informed by a continual influx of foreign ideas, it was the world's first truly cosmopolitan civilization.
In Beyond the Revolution, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann tells the story of America's greatest thinkers and creators, from Paine and Jefferson to Melville and William James, showing how they built upon and battled one another's ideas in the... From 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, "The birthday of a new world is at hand," America was unique in world history. A nation suffused with the ...
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266,72 zł |
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Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
ISBN: 9781597404266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called the Great American Desert. According to Goetzmann, the exploration of the West was not a haphazard series of discoveries, but a planned - even programmed - activity in which explorers, often armed with instructions from...
From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration...
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496,81 zł |
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When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860
ISBN: 9780806132235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the Eagle Screamed argues that America's expansionism between 1800 and 1860 positioned it against some of the world's most powerful and aggressive nations. As the United States moved onto the world scene in this age of Manifest Destiny, it clashed with Britain, France, Russia, Spain, and Mexico. When the Eagle Screamed argues that America's expansionism between 1800 and 1860 positioned it against some of the world's most powerful and aggres... |
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66,56 zł |
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The West of the Imagination
ISBN: 9780806135335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A landmark overview of western American art, the original edition of "The West of the Imagination" brought the region to wide public attention as a companion to a popular PBS series of the same name. This book, significantly expanded and updated, shows that the West is a vibrant mirror of American cultural diversity. Through 450 illustrations--more than 300 in color--the authors trace the visual evolution of the myth of the American West, from unknown frontier to repository of American values, covering popular and high arts alike.
A landmark overview of western American art, the original edition of "The West of the Imagination" brought the region to wide public attention as a co...
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281,19 zł |
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The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations That Created Modern Capital Markets
ISBN: 9780195175714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and global financial securities, here is a sweeping survey of financial innovations that have changed the world.
Written by a distinguished group of experts--including Robert Shiller, Niall Ferguson, Valerie Hansen, and many others--and wonderfully illustrated with over one hundred color photographs of landmark financial documents (including the first paper money), The Origins of Value traces the evolution of finance through 4,000 years... From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and gl...
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696,91 zł |
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Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
ISBN: 9780691143781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. " A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial historian William Goetzmann argues the exact opposite--that the development of finance has made the growth of civilizations possible. Goetzmann explains that... " A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a c... |
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164,43 zł |
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Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
ISBN: 9780691178370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) " A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial historian William Goetzmann argues the exact opposite--that the development of finance has made the growth of civilizations possible. Goetzmann explains that... " A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a c... |
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92,45 zł |
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The Equity Risk Premium: Essays and Explorations
ISBN: 9780195148145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is the return to investing in the stock market? Can we predict future stock market returns? How have equities performed over the last two centuries? The authors in this volume are among the leading researchers in the study of these questions. This book draws upon their research on the stock market over the past two dozen years. It contains their major research articles on the equity risk premium and new contributions on measuring, forecasting, and timing stock market returns, together with new interpretive essays that explore critical issues and new research on the topic of stock market...
What is the return to investing in the stock market? Can we predict future stock market returns? How have equities performed over the last two centuri...
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474,93 zł |
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Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains
ISBN: 9780806130408 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins's masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on new information and recent scholarship to place Thomas Moran more securely in the milieu of the Gilded Age. It also portrays more fully the controversies that surrounded the art of Moran's time, as he became "the Dean of American Painters."
The American West was the subject of Thomas Moran's greatest artistic triumphs - Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Zion Canyon, the Virgin River, Colorado's Mountain of the Holy Cross, and the... This extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins's masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on new ...
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187,69 zł |
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The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole
ISBN: 9780806130583 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For more than five hundred years, explorers roamed the wilderness of North America, some in search of a route to the East or fabled cities of gold, others seeking the glossy pelts of the beaver or souls to convert. From the early voyages of Norse seafarers to the opening of the American, Canadian, and Alaskan frontiers and the grueling twentieth-century race to the North Pole, this great adventure is captured as never before in the lavishly illustrated Atlas of North American Exploration. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann and exploration historian Glyndwr... For more than five hundred years, explorers roamed the wilderness of North America, some in search of a route to the East or fabled cities of gold,... |
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94,95 zł |
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