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Challenges of Ethiopian Commodity Exchange in a Coffee Market
ISBN: 9783659455872 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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252,48 zł |
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Wenn eine eine Reise tut : Nordzypern entdeckt
ISBN: 9783741827655 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Im November 2015 begab ich mich auf eine Studienreise nach Nordzypern. Während mich Land und Leute stark beeindruckten, wühlten mich die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Gegebenheiten auf.
Im November 2015 begab ich mich auf eine Studienreise nach Nordzypern. Während mich Land und Leute stark beeindruckten, wühlten mich die politischen...
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41,35 zł |
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Ich, Udo : Gespräche mit Christian Simon
ISBN: 9783784434087 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,98 zł |
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Vom Alk zum Hulk : Es war einmal in Südberlin
ISBN: 9783868838336 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,94 zł |
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Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men
ISBN: 9780202308678 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radio, television, and the press form the vast stage on which the publicdramas of our time are played to a responsive audience of millions-thepeoples of our nation and of the world. Almost anyone can steal the sceneand become a public hero, a favorite villain, or a lamented victim. How dothese persons-the symbolic leaders-emerge? Who are they? How does theclimate of public opinion affect the would-be leader? How does the publicuse its leaders?
Radio, television, and the press form the vast stage on which the publicdramas of our time are played to a responsive audience of millions-thepeoples ...
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230,81 zł |
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Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany
ISBN: 9780226010502 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer.
"A wonderfully evocative memoir. . . . Agee evoked for me the atmosphere of postwar Berlin more vividly than the actual experience of it and I was there." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "New York Times" "One of those rare personal memoirs that brings to life a whole country and an epoch." Christopher... Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privi...
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149,12 zł |
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Madumo, a Man Bewitched
ISBN: 9780226029726 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one answered when I tapped at the back door of Madumo's home on Mphahlele Street a few days after my return to Soweto, so I pushed the buckling red door in a screeching grind of metal over concrete and entered calling, "Hallo?"
So begins this true story of witchcraft and friendship set against the turbulent backdrop of contemporary Soweto. Adam Ashforth, an Australian who has spent many years in the black township, finds his longtime friend Madumo in dire circumstances: his family has accused him of using witchcraft to kill his mother and has thrown him out on the street.... No one answered when I tapped at the back door of Madumo's home on Mphahlele Street a few days after my return to Soweto, so I pushed the buckling ...
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127,03 zł |
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The Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography
ISBN: 9780226037332 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Best known as the writer who introduced French existentialism to English-speaking readers through her translation of Sartre's "Being and Nothingness," Hazel E. Barnes has written an autobiography that is both the success story of a professional woman as well as a profoundly moving reflection on growing older. Transcending the personal details of her life, Barnes' memoir stands as an important contribution to the intellectual history of our century.
"An intimate record of our times and of the ongoing issues that challenge us to define ourselves over and over again." "Kirkus Reviews"... Best known as the writer who introduced French existentialism to English-speaking readers through her translation of Sartre's "Being and Nothingness,"...
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132,55 zł |
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Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
ISBN: 9780226080437 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvin's application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earth's age and the heated debate his ideas sparked among British Victorian physicists, astronomers, geologists, and biologists.
"Anyone interested in geologic time, and that should include all geologists and a fair smattering of biologists, physicists and chemists, should make Burchfield's commendable and time-tested volume part of their personal library" Brent Darymple, "Quartely Review of Biology"" Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvin's application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earth's age and the heated debate...
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305,95 zł |
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Jean-Jacques: The Early Life and Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1754
ISBN: 9780226118628 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first volume of his trilogy, noted political philosopher Maurice Cranston draws from original manuscript sources to trace Rousseau's life from his birth in provincial obscurity in Geneva, through his youthful wanderings, to his return to Geneva in 1754 as a celebrated writer and composer.
" An] admirable biography which is as meticulous, calm, reasonable, and judicious as its subject is passionate and tumultuous." Keith Michael Baker, "Washington Post Book World" "The definitive biography, as scholarly as it is entertaining." "The Economist" "Exceptionally fresh . . . . ... In the first volume of his trilogy, noted political philosopher Maurice Cranston draws from original manuscript sources to trace Rousseau's life from ...
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154,64 zł |
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Studying Animal Behavior: Autobiographies of the Founders
ISBN: 9780226144108 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these autobiographical essays by pioneers in the field of animal behavior, the authors discuss childhood, education, moments of discovery, and the attractions of the research that each pursued. The field of animal behavior has been interdisciplinary throughout its history, and the two psychologists and seventeen biologists in Donald Dewsbury's collection provide a fascinating assortment of backgrounds and interests. Chosen by a panel of seven distinguished animal behaviorists, the men whose essays are collected here include two Nobel Prize winners and one Pulitzer Prize winner. All provide...
In these autobiographical essays by pioneers in the field of animal behavior, the authors discuss childhood, education, moments of discovery, and the ...
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276,15 zł |
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In the Open: Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic
ISBN: 9780226157689 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compelling, raw, and painfully self-aware, "In the Open" describes an existence most people can barely imagine. A first-hand account of one man's struggle with homelessness and alcoholism, this diary records a world full of physical degradation and despair that is not without unpredictable moments of striking beauty.
Donohue's experiences are brutal, but his perceptions are poetic. This account of an intelligent and sensitive man in the grip of alcoholism and homelessness challenges our perceptions of those on the margins of American contemporary life. "Donohue recorded this... Compelling, raw, and painfully self-aware, "In the Open" describes an existence most people can barely imagine. A first-hand account of one man's stru...
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115,98 zł |
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Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society
ISBN: 9780226173368 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emile Durkheim is best known in this country as a great sociologist and methodologist. Yet it was Durkheim's reflections on morality and society that spoke most deeply of his vital concerns. In his informative introduction to this work, Robert N. Bellah describes Durkheim as moralist, philosopher, theologian, and prophet, as well as sociologist, and the selections in this volume are representative of these aspects of Durkheim's many-faceted scholarship. The first two selections of the volume set the context for the development of Durkheim's sociology of morality. Section I, "The French...
Emile Durkheim is best known in this country as a great sociologist and methodologist. Yet it was Durkheim's reflections on morality and society that ...
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132,55 zł |
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The Papers of James Madison: v. 7: 7 March 1788- 1 March 1789
ISBN: 9780226363004 / Angielski / Twarda / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the first six of the ten months covered by this volume, Madison completed his initial period of service as a delegate from Virginia in the Congress of the Confederation. His correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph, as well as his other papers, reveal the mounting difficulties besetting him and his fellow nationalists who sought to preserve a union among the thirteen states. The major problems, which included demobilizing the discontented army, obtaining public revenue, funding the Confederation debt, pressing the British to evacuate their military posts, enforcing the...
During the first six of the ten months covered by this volume, Madison completed his initial period of service as a delegate from Virginia in the Cong...
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320,33 zł |
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The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre
ISBN: 9780226410371 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As it changed forever the political landscape of the modern world, the French Revolution was driven by a new type of personality: the confirmed, self-aware revolutionary. Maximilien Robespierre originated the role and embodied its ideological essence and extremes; the self that he projected to the people was equated with the ideals for which he strove. In creating this intellectual biography of so enigmatic a figure, David Jordan has stressed the words of the man about himself. With great imagination and insight, Jordan places Robespierre's self-conceptualization within the context of events...
As it changed forever the political landscape of the modern world, the French Revolution was driven by a new type of personality: the confirmed, self-...
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165,69 zł |
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The Last Fine Time
ISBN: 9780226443355 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The chronicle of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, this book recalls the pre-war days when 'George and Eddie's' was a Polish tavern, through the swinging forties when it became a swank nightspot, to its eventual demise amid the changing social scene of modern America.
The chronicle of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, this book recalls the pre-war days when 'George and Eddie's' was a Polish tavern, through the s...
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91,73 zł |
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The Letters of Machiavelli
ISBN: 9780226500416 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of the most brilliant and characteristic letters of Niccolo Machiavelli displays the vital and penetrating mind of the man who wrote the first work of modern political science. These letters, which reveal Machiavelli's critical intelligence, sense of humor, and elegant sense, are our chief source of information about his personal life. As such, they will serve as a vivid introduction to the personalities and events of the most turbulent period of the Renaissance, and they will also enlighten people who have been fascinated by the political thinker who wrote" The Prince" and...
This collection of the most brilliant and characteristic letters of Niccolo Machiavelli displays the vital and penetrating mind of the man who wrote t...
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132,55 zł |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Origins of a New Poetry
ISBN: 9780226520391 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was the first major woman poet in the English literary tradition. Her significance has been obscured in this century by her erasure from most literary histories and her exclusion from academic anthologies. Dorothy Mermin's critical and biographical study argues for Barrett Browning's originative role in both the Victorian poetic tradition and the development of women's literature.
Barrett Browning's place at the wellhead of a new female tradition remains the single most important fact about her in terms of literary history, and it was central to her... Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was the first major woman poet in the English literary tradition. Her significance has been obscured in this cent...
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154,64 zł |
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La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman
ISBN: 9780226531601 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "La Chicana" is the story of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or fully American, who suffer under triple oppression: as women, as members of a colonized culture, and as victims of a cultural heritage dominated by the cult of "machismo." Tracing the role of Chicanas from pre-Columbian society to the present, the authors reveal the antecedents and roots of contemporary cultural expectations in Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary Mexican historical periods. A discussion of the contribution of modern Chicanas to their community and to feminism and a look at literary stereotypes...
"La Chicana" is the story of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or fully American, who suffer under triple oppression: as women, as me...
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165,69 zł |
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Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology
ISBN: 9780226684734 / Angielski / Miękka / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Provine's thorough and thoroughly admirable examination of Wright's life and influence, which is accompanied by a very useful collection of Wright's papers on evolution, is the best we have for any recent figure in evolutionary biology." Joe Felsenstein, "Nature"
"In "Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology" . . . Provine has produced an intellectual biography which serves to chart in considerable detail both the life and work of one man and the history of evolutionary theory in the middle half of this century. Provine is admirably suited to his task. . . . The resulting book is clearly a... "Provine's thorough and thoroughly admirable examination of Wright's life and influence, which is accompanied by a very useful collection of Wright's ...
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220,92 zł |
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