Walden and Civil Disobedience
ISBN: 9781619490932 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written after he built and lived in a cabin off the shore of Walden Pond, Walden and Civil Disobedience chronicles Thoreau's experiences living a self-reliant life void of modern civilization's, and the government's, influence. Through this collection of essays, Thoreau rejects the notion that inner peace and contentment are attainable through outward advances such as economic, technological, and territorial development. He provides, instead, the argument that rather than improve a man's life, such developments strip it of dynamism and even meaning.
Written after he built and lived in a cabin off the shore of Walden Pond, Walden and Civil Disobedience chronicles Thoreau's experiences living a self...
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Zakazane bogactwo
ISBN: 9788362908721 / Polski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gdyby w 1989 r. nasi politycy wybrali inną drogę polityki gospodarczej, dziś polska byłaby wsród 20 najbogatszych dużych krajów świata, gdzieś między Francją a Wielką Brytanią. W kolejnych latach byśmy ich prześcigneli i dołączyli do światowej elity bogaczy, obok USA i Szwajcarii.?
Gdyby w 1989 r. nasi politycy wybrali innÄ… drogÄ™ polityki gospodarczej, dziÅ› polska byÅ‚aby wsród 20 najbogatszych dużych krajów Å›wiata, gdzieÅ...
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Land Questions in Modern Ireland
ISBN: 9780719078804 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the nature and dynamics of Ireland's land questions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and also the ways in which the Irish land question has been written about by historians.
The book makes a vital contribution to the study of historiography by including for the first time the reflections of a group of prominent historians on their earlier work. These historians consider their influences and how their views have changed since the publication of their books, so that these essays provide an ethnographic study of historians' thoughts on the... This collection of essays explores the nature and dynamics of Ireland's land questions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and also the way...
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British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780719088940 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. British queer history builds on the first wave of sexual diversity scholarship in the 1970s but, since the turn of the millennium, there has been a remarkable efflorescence of deeply researched, theoretically savvy work, covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that has taken the study of 'gay and lesbian' history in intriguing new... This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultu... |
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Od komunikacji do manipulacji płyta DVD
ISBN: 9788097005825 / Polski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Posiadanie wiedzy z zakresu komunikacji stwarza możliwości poznawania i rozumienia ludzkich zachowań, ale również otwiera drogę do manipulowania i sterowania przekonaniami oraz decyzjami innych ludzi.Z manipulacją mamy do czynienia nie tylko wtedy, gdy osiąga się swoje cele przez wprowadzenie w błą uczestników działania, ale też kiedy tendencyjnie gloryfikuje się własną działalność i równocześnia w złym świetle stawia się motywy i osiągnięcia przeciwnika.
Pozycja ta stanowi niezwykłe kompendium wiedzy. Autor poza swymi własnymi przemyśleniami, w sposób prosty i... Posiadanie wiedzy z zakresu komunikacji stwarza możliwości poznawania i rozumienia ludzkich zachowań, ale również otwiera drogę do manipulowania...
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The Discomfort Zone : A Personal History
ISBN: 9780007234257 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'.
A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'.
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The Communist Manifesto
ISBN: 9780099540748 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution... Workers of the World, unite " --The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised as one of the most important political texts ever written. Maintaining that the history of all societies is a history of class struggle, the manifesto proclaims that communism is the only route to equality, and is a call to action aimed at the proletariat. It... "Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution... Workers of the World, unite " --The Communist Manifesto
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Rural Rides
ISBN: 9780140435795 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with labourers, and outbursts at the encroaching cities and sufferings of the poor. Ian Dyck places these accounts in the context of Cobbett's political and social beliefs.
William Cobbett provides evocative descriptions of the 19th century southern English countryside, his encounters with labourers, and outbursts at the ...
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
ISBN: 9780140443639 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten meditations written in the two years before Rousseau's death in 1778 provide an excellent introduction to the thinker's complex world, expressing in its full force the agony of isolation and alienation For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars...
Ten meditations written in the two years before Rousseau's death in 1778 provide an excellent introduction to the thinker's complex world, expressing ...
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De Anima (On the Soul)
ISBN: 9780140444711 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms - the enormous range of their behaviour, their powers and their perceptual sophistication - convinced him of the inadequacy both of a materialist reduction and of a Platonic sublimation of the soul. In...
For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct...
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The Social Contract
ISBN: 9780141018881 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blue-print for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy.
Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another eve...
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The Uncanny
ISBN: 9780141182377 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his contemporaries. In this probing biographical essay he deconstructs both da Vinci's character and the nature of his genius. As ever, many of his exploratory avenues lead to the subject's sexuality - why did da Vinci depict the naked human body the way hedid? What of his tendency to surround himself with handsome young boys that he took on as his pupils?...
An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Fr...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
ISBN: 9780141184388 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps...
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the und...
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
ISBN: 9780141192567 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism.
Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of capitalism: that it would l...
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The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise
ISBN: 9780141192949 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and more. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion.
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philos...
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Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
ISBN: 9780192802019 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Real ladies do not travel--or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels that notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travelers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and overcome by these women.
Life is never dull for Jane Robinson's intrepid women. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, this book includes tales of derring-do and great danger. It also tells tales of unimaginable hardship,... Real ladies do not travel--or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels that notion by showing how there are few corners ...
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Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems and Letters
ISBN: 9780198328780 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students' understanding, comments to explain literacy and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.
Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on the...
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Walden
ISBN: 9780199538065 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of history--social, economic, and natural. An ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which he gave close attention as he became acclimated to his life...
Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accum...
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On Murder
ISBN: 9780199539048 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The titular essay in this volume of work by Thomas De Quincey centers on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head, celebrating and coolly dissecting the art of murder and its perfections. This volume also contains De Quincey's best-known piece of literary criticism, "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," and his finest tale of terror, "The Avenger," a disturbing exploration of violence, vigilantism, and religious persecution. Ranging from...
The titular essay in this volume of work by Thomas De Quincey centers on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally kill...
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Principles of Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780199589494 / Angielski / Twarda / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Electron tunnelling spectroscopy is a research tool which has strongly advanced understanding of superconductivity. With the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, STM, by Nobelists G. Binnig and H. Rohrer, beautiful images of atoms, rings of atoms and of exotic states in high temperature superconductors have appeared. Some of the most famous images of any kind, at this date, are STM topographs. This book explains the physics and the instrumentation behind the advances illustrated in the famous images, and summarizes the state of knowledge that has resulted. It presents the current...
Electron tunnelling spectroscopy is a research tool which has strongly advanced understanding of superconductivity. With the invention of the scanning...
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