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Max Weber: A Biography
ISBN: 9780745641485 / Angielski / Miękka / 700 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences - there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential. The affinity between capitalism and protestantism, the religious origins of the Western world, the force of charisma in religion as well as in politics, the all-embracing process of rationalization and the bureaucratic price of progress, the role of legitimacy and of violence as offsprings of leadership, the 'disenchantment' of the modern world together with the never-ending power of...
Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences - there is simply no one in the ...
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Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist
ISBN: 9780816515714 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Field Man is the captivating memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden, a man who held no professional degree or faculty position but who camped and argued with a who's who of the discipline, including Emil Haury, Malcolm Rogers, Paul Ezell, and Norman Tindale. This is the personal story of a blue-collar scholar who bucked the conventional thinking on the antiquity of man in the New World, who brought a formidable pragmatism and "hand sense" to the identification of stone tools, and who is remembered as the leading authority on the prehistory of the Sierra...
Field Man is the captivating memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden, a man who held no professional degree or facult...
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Jung: His Life and Work, a Biographical Memoir
ISBN: 9781888602074 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This full-scale study of Jung's life and work is written by a close student, friend, and associate of more than thirty years. It is a lucid, penetrating account of his career, stressing the essential wholeness of the man and tracing the difficult path that led to that wholeness. From his earliest years to his death, through the crowded inner and outer events of his long ifetime, Hannah presents a view of the real Jung, not the creature of legend and cult. She treats his theoretical apparatus as well as such personal matters as his relationship with Toni Wolff and his supposed...
This full-scale study of Jung's life and work is written by a close student, friend, and associate of more than thirty years. It is a lucid, penetrati...
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119,20 |
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A Life Through Poetry: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781453729304 / Angielski / Miękka / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of musings and observations of a consumer and marketing professional as he looks back through his academic, professional and personal life.
A collection of musings and observations of a consumer and marketing professional as he looks back through his academic, professional and personal lif...
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99,78 |
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High Times & Rough Rides of a Bipolar Addict
ISBN: 9781463513214 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If anyone can prevent even a single child or teenager from repeating the mistakes described in this book... or help a loved one or family member avoid unnecessary future suffering... then my struggles will not have been in vain." Imagine being arrested, handcuffed and locked behind the bars of a dark, cold, jail cell. The next day you are forcibly dragged to a downtown high-rise and thrust into a 4'x 8' steel-walled cage. Your freedom has been ripped away, even though you haven't been charged with a single crime. The prison guard tells you, "They are going to lock you up and throw away the...
"If anyone can prevent even a single child or teenager from repeating the mistakes described in this book... or help a loved one or family member avoi...
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60,83 |
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Freud and Jung: Years of Friendship, Years of Loss
ISBN: 9781466432826 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One evening years after the rupture between Freud and Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist C. A. Meier spent an hour alone with Freud in his study at Berggasse 19. "There was one topic of conversation," Meier remembered. "Jung. Freud was full of questions about Jung, about his family, his life and what he was doing. Every conceivable question," Meier said. "Because he still cared." Meier would find the same anguish in Jung. "He didn't like to talk about Freud because it was so painful." Another Swiss analyst agreed. "The wound was always there, it never healed. It was a tragedy." The hours that...
"One evening years after the rupture between Freud and Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist C. A. Meier spent an hour alone with Freud in his study at Berggas...
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Love of Beginnings
ISBN: 9781853431296 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Prix Femina and considered a masterpiece of autobiography, this is J. B. Pontalis' lyrical meditation on his own life. One of France's pre-eminent psychoanalysts, he is co-author of the classic The Language of Psychoanalysis and he has also been a member of the editorial committee of Les Temps Modernes.
Winner of the Prix Femina and considered a masterpiece of autobiography, this is J. B. Pontalis' lyrical meditation on his own life. One of France's p...
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68,42 |
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Irving Fisher (1867-1947), Arthur Hadley (1856-1930), Ragnar Frisch (1895-1973), Friedrich von Hayek (b.1899), Allyn Young (1876-1929), Ugo Mazzola (1
ISBN: 9781852785055 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sixth volume in the final section of the Pioneers in Economics series. This section of the series offers an assessment of significant economists of the 20th century, and this volume deals with Irving Fisher, Arthur Hadley, Ragnar Frisch, Friedrich von Hayek, Allyn Young and Ugo Mazzola.
The sixth volume in the final section of the Pioneers in Economics series. This section of the series offers an assessment of significant economists o...
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Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist
ISBN: 9780465031399 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its highest honors--for distinguished research, teaching, and writing-- Elliot Aronson is living proof that humans are capable of capturing the power of the situation and conquering the prison of personality.
A personal and compelling look into Aronson's profound contributions... How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his...
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97,10 |
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Through and Beyond Together
ISBN: 9781619047136 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through and Beyond, TOGETHER Scary things that happen in childhood do not have to affect you forever. It was bewildering for this four year-old boy to leave my happy family in wartime "to be safe " To be nearly shipwrecked made me terrified, then fearful throughout childhood. My parents never stopped loving us from afar, and praying. Our new American family had faith and love too. Peace did come. We did return to England There we moved to Ilford, Young fun-loving Christian friends there accepted stuttering little me. As I grew up still feeling fragile, they pushed me to apply for college...
Through and Beyond, TOGETHER Scary things that happen in childhood do not have to affect you forever. It was bewildering for this four year-old boy to...
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Through and Beyond Together
ISBN: 9781619047129 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through and Beyond, TOGETHER Scary things that happen in childhood do not have to affect you forever. It was bewildering for this four year-old boy to leave my happy family in wartime "to be safe " To be nearly shipwrecked made me terrified, then fearful throughout childhood. My parents never stopped loving us from afar, and praying. Our new American family had faith and love too. Peace did come. We did return to England There we moved to Ilford, Young fun-loving Christian friends there accepted stuttering little me. As I grew up still feeling fragile, they pushed me to apply for college...
Through and Beyond, TOGETHER Scary things that happen in childhood do not have to affect you forever. It was bewildering for this four year-old boy to...
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68,07 |
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Secrets of a Good Mistress: One Woman is Not Enough...For All
ISBN: 9780984870905 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Secrets of a Good Mistress uncovers a subject that is full of controversy. For too long the mistress has long been regarded as the marriage wrecker and destroyer of family peace & security. Secrets of a Good Mistress chronicles my journey as a woman and good mistress approaching 4 decades.
Secrets of a Good Mistress uncovers a subject that is full of controversy. For too long the mistress has long been regarded as the marriage wrecker an...
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Frederick Starr: Popularizer of Anthropology, Public Intellectual, and Genuine Eccentric
ISBN: 9780759120976 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This definitive, detail-packed biography is the first of Frederick Starr (1856-1933), a founding father of American anthropology at the University of Chicago. It presents a major reevaluation of Starr's place as the missionizer of anthropology, illuminates the consequences of the professionalization of anthropology, and yields a greater understanding of the United States as it moved into a position of global power. Donald McVicker considers Frederick Starr's colorful life in the context of the times. In many respects Starr's early career paralleled that of Franz Boas, "the architect of...
This definitive, detail-packed biography is the first of Frederick Starr (1856-1933), a founding father of American anthropology at the University of ...
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Economic Fables
ISBN: 9781906924775 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model." Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts...
"I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel,...
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The Road to Ruins
ISBN: 9780826347558 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the last explorer and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. It is also full of adventure and high society, for the self-deprecating Graham traveled to remote lands such as Afghanistan in wonderful company. He tells entertaining stories about his encounters with a host of notables beginning with Rudyard Kipling, a family friend from Graham's childhood.Born in 1923 into an aristocratic...
For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the last explorer and ...
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Brain, Mind, and Medicine: Charles Richet and the Origins of Physiological Psychology
ISBN: 9781412849548 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Richet was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of medical science. He is best known for his work on the body's immune reactions to foreign substances for which he won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1913. Richet was also a poet, playwright, historian, bibliographer, political activist, classical scholar, and pioneer in aircraft design. Brain, Mind, and Medicine is the first major biography of Richet in any language. Wolf brilliantly situates Richet's work in the intellectual currents of Europe during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth... Charles Richet was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of medical science. He is best known for his work on the body's immune reactio... |
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Growing Up Sexual: An Autobiography (With Tips for Advancement)
ISBN: 9781477557419 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An illicit memoir that reflects on sex, relationships, psychological and social theories, and advocacy. Psychologist and sex therapist, Jay Kinsey Ehnn, a pseudonym, the middle name likely an homage to his adolescent hero, Alfred Kinsey, attracts and repulses with his multi-purpose agenda: to recount, analyze, entertain, shock, inform, instruct, and improve both himself and the reader. Fascinating and candid..." says Kirkus Reviews This book celebrates human sexuality as the author writes about his early life "with testosterone." His story is not a run-down of "conquests," but told from the...
"An illicit memoir that reflects on sex, relationships, psychological and social theories, and advocacy. Psychologist and sex therapist, Jay Kinsey Eh...
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Perceiving the Affordances: A Portrait of Two Psychologists
ISBN: 9780415650779 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development. It is also a biography of her husband, James J. Gibson, who was a major perceptual theorist and the founder of the ecologically-oriented theory of perception. This is the story of their lives together and how each came to make particular contributions. This book is of interest to people who study perception, perceptual development, infancy, developmental psychology, and the...
Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was in...
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267,13 |
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Interesting Times: An Encounter with the 20th Century 1924-
ISBN: 9780415655224 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an autobiographical account of George Mandler--born in 1924--who grew up in a middle class Jewish family in Vienna. It details the fears and attempts to find a safe haven when Austria was invaded and absorbed into Nazi Germany in 1938, followed by Mandler's escape to England and residence in a small boarding school. The threat of the holocaust and reaction to anti-semitism are explored and the author describes the life of an emigre youth group run by a branch of the Austrian communist party. Drafted in 1943, Mandler is trained in military intelligence and ends up as a front line...
This book is an autobiographical account of George Mandler--born in 1924--who grew up in a middle class Jewish family in Vienna. It details the fears ...
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Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition
ISBN: 9781936235582 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition examines the role that Jewish cultural tradition played in the work of the Russian psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky and the British sociologist Basil Bernstein by highlighting aspects of their respective lives and theories revealing significant influences of Jewish thoughts and beliefs. The authors demonstrate that theories and human life are dialectically interconnected: what research can reveal about a man can also provide a better understanding of the very nature of his theory. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists,...
Vygotsky & Bernstein in the Light of Jewish Tradition examines the role that Jewish cultural tradition played in the work of the Russian psychologist ...
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