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The Renaissance
ISBN: 9780333669273 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study Peter Burke distances himself from the traditional interpretation of the Renaissance as essentially Italian, self-consciously modern and easily separable from the Middle Ages. He emphasises the survival of medieval traditions and the process of the creative adaptation of classical forms and values to their new cultural and social contexts in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. The story is carried down to the seventeenth century and the diffusion and disintegration of what had once been a coherent movement. Illustrated with black and white plates, this edition has been updated...
In this study Peter Burke distances himself from the traditional interpretation of the Renaissance as essentially Italian, self-consciously modern and...
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146,02 zł |
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Developmental Psychology: From Infancy to Adulthood
ISBN: 9780333669594 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A welcome second edition of this popular text which offers comprehensive coverage of developmental psychology for first-time readers. As well as up-dating and extending the existing text, new material is included on the ecology of development, cultural variations, early social interactions, the measurement of intelligence and Vygotsky's theory of mind. As before, the style is readable and 'user-friendly'; key concepts are highlighted throughout and each chapter contains objectives, self-assessment questions, and recommended further reading
A welcome second edition of this popular text which offers comprehensive coverage of developmental psychology for first-time readers. As well as up-da...
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172,11 zł |
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Stratification and Differentiation
ISBN: 9780333671917 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This accessible text explores the staggering rise in inequality in recent years. It includes recent empirical material on all the key dimensions of inequality, including class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability, and considers both classical and new theoretical approaches to the study of these dimensions of social stratification and difference. The exercises and overall active learning approach offer students ample scope to exercise and develop their sociological skills.
This accessible text explores the staggering rise in inequality in recent years. It includes recent empirical material on all the key dimensions of in...
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208,62 zł |
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Stalinism
ISBN: 9780333672297 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on research based on access to recently-opened Soviet archives, this revised edition provides a thematic account of the nature of Stalinism. The book surveys the arguments about the origins of the Stalinist phenomenon and discusses the way in which the different faces of Stalinism (economic, social, cultural and political) changed over time. It concludes that the fall of the USSR was connected to the nature of Stalinism.
Drawing on research based on access to recently-opened Soviet archives, this revised edition provides a thematic account of the nature of Stalinism. T...
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135,59 zł |
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Applied Economics
ISBN: 9780333673829 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a team of experienced writers with contributions from specialist economists, Applied Economics combines up-to-date information with theory to provide an excellent introduction to real-world economics. The book includes chapters on the most important aspects of micro and macro economics, each containing the appropriate theory, but with the main emphasis on application. There are numerous examples, with a focus on Europe in every chapter.
This is an essential text for students on undergraduate courses in economics, business and social science. Written by a team of experienced writers with contributions from specialist economists, Applied Economics combines up-to-date information wit...
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156,46 zł |
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Structures: Theory and Analysis
ISBN: 9780333677605 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive textbook that encompasses the full range of material covered in undergraduate courses in Structures in departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. The approach taken aims to integrate a qualitative approach - looking at the physical reality of phenomena - with a quantitative approach - one that models the physical reality mathematically. An innovative introductory chapter looks at different types of structures - from the commonplace, such as chairs and aeroplanes, and the historically significant, such as the Pont du Gard in southern France, through to modern and novel...
A comprehensive textbook that encompasses the full range of material covered in undergraduate courses in Structures in departments of Civil and Mechan...
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391,22 zł |
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Mental Health Matters
ISBN: 9780333678480 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users. Combining classic writings about mental health practices and problems from psychiatry, sociology and psychology with specially commissioned new articles, it considers theories and debates in mental health and distress; the social and historical dimensions of mental health; involving users in mental health services and practically improving those services.
Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, em...
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236,08 zł |
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The Linguistic History of English: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780333684573 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The great structural changes of the English language in the course of its history are taught in this textbook by continuous reference to translations of identical Biblical passages, which date from different periods and are printed in parallel. Analysis progresses from spelling and phonology to inflexion, word-formation, syntax, lexicology and semantics and ends with a chapter on foreign influences. Description is consistently based on functional-structuralist methods which provide the best tool for the didactic aim here envisaged. The book is intended for an introductory course into English...
The great structural changes of the English language in the course of its history are taught in this textbook by continuous reference to translations ...
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203,41 zł |
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Literary Feminisms
ISBN: 9780333689196 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary Feminisms provides a map for charting the difficult waters that feminist theories have created in literary studies. Ruth Robbins shows the reasons for the development of feminist literary critiques, explains the difficulties and exposes some of feminism's blindspots. A wide range of theorists is discussed, ranging from Wollstonecraft to Kristeva, showing the ways in which materialist, psychoanalytic and literary accounts of feminist thinking creatively intersect. Through a series of exemplary readings, of texts such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Yellow...
Literary Feminisms provides a map for charting the difficult waters that feminist theories have created in literary studies. Ruth Robbins sho...
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626,03 zł |
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Managing Information System Security
ISBN: 9780333692608 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book demonstrates that the solutions to security in information systems are to be found through adopting appropriate management strategies and mechanisms, rather than merely seeking technical solutions. The arguments are supported by case studies from the health care and local government sectors.
The book demonstrates that the solutions to security in information systems are to be found through adopting appropriate management strategies and mec...
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365,14 zł |
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Approaches to Landscape
ISBN: 9780333693933 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Approaches to Landscape introduces and explores the main perspectives in this increasingly popular field of study. Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout with relevant photographs, maps and diagrams, it provides a comprehensive review of the literature and key concepts for Landscape Studies.
Approaches to Landscape introduces and explores the main perspectives in this increasingly popular field of study. Written in an accessible s...
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224,28 zł |
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The Media and the Military
ISBN: 9780333719053 / Angielski / Miękka / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive study of the contentious issue of the public's right to know in time of war or limited conflict. The book traces the uneasy relations between the military and a generally unprepared and gullible media, from the Crimea to the present day. It shows how the advent of nuclear warfare has outlawed the nationalistic wars of survival of the past, and freed the citizen from his age-old obligations in time of war, able to make up his or her own mind on the merits of the situation. It is here that the battle lies, in the struggle for public opinion as a necessary precursor to...
The first comprehensive study of the contentious issue of the public's right to know in time of war or limited conflict. The book traces the uneasy re...
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193,19 zł |
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Post Keynesian Monetary Economics
ISBN: 9780333721247 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Post Keynesian critique of monetarism and of contemporary Keynesian theory, calling for a return to the original ideas of John Maynard Keynes. Its primary emphasis is on the endogeneity of the money supply and on the financial innovations that have served to limit the effectiveness of monetary policy. It calls for the addition of a selective control over the flow of credit in the economy as an addition to the conventional Keynesian contracyclical tools for keeping the economy at full employment, along with a recognition that inflation is a function of money wages and not the aggregate...
A Post Keynesian critique of monetarism and of contemporary Keynesian theory, calling for a return to the original ideas of John Maynard Keynes. Its p...
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181,60 zł |
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Economic Development
ISBN: 9780333722282 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic development continues to be an area of interest to students on a variety of courses. The second edition of this book provides a lively and interesting introduction to the subject covering all of the major issues, including Third World debt, income distribution and environmental problems. Its issue-based approach makes it ideal for A-level and first year undergraduate students.
Economic development continues to be an area of interest to students on a variety of courses. The second edition of this book provides a lively and in...
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83,42 zł |
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Interaction for Practice in Community Nursing
ISBN: 9780333727799 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting book covers a range of models and approaches to advanced communication within the context of contemporary community health care nursing. Theoretical definitions of communication will be given and the intricacies involved in initiating, maintaining and closing a therapeutic relationship are examined. The essential skills for health-giving communication, relating to information giving, health promotion, counselling and the therapeutic use of the self, are highlighted. Barriers to effective communication will be discussed, together with practical suggestions for overcoming these...
This exciting book covers a range of models and approaches to advanced communication within the context of contemporary community health care nursing....
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224,28 zł |
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From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society: The Changing Context of Social Policy in a Postmodern Era
ISBN: 9780333730386 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The welfare state is being subjected to fundamental re-appraisal. It is now commonly argued that modern Western societies require a new 'moral economy' in which responsibility for welfare and social care is shifted from the state to the family and community. This text critically assesses the range of academic and political debates around the questions such a shift raises, exploring how far social solidarity is possible when social inequality has become so in evidence in the last two decades of the twentieth century.
The welfare state is being subjected to fundamental re-appraisal. It is now commonly argued that modern Western societies require a new 'moral economy...
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208,62 zł |
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Weimar and the Rise of Hitler
ISBN: 9780333734735 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fourth edition of the classic text on the Weimar Republic begins with Germany's defeat in 1918 and the revolutionary disturbances which followed the collapse of Wilhelm II's Empire. It describes the strengths and weaknesses of the new regime, and the stresses created by the economic difficulties of the 1920s. Adolf Hitler's career is traced from its early beginnings in Munich, and the nature of his movement is assessed.
This edition, updated throughout and considerably expanded, takes full account of the last decade of research, including recent debates on the nature of the German... This fourth edition of the classic text on the Weimar Republic begins with Germany's defeat in 1918 and the revolutionary disturbances which followed ...
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198,19 zł |
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Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
ISBN: 9780333737316 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Opening chapters in this book on the narrative frame, characters, imagery and symbols, structure and themes use practical analysis to build and refine our insight into Wuthering Heights. It goes on to give information about Emily Bronte's life and works, a discussion of this novel's place in the development of fiction, and a comparison of three important critical views.
Opening chapters in this book on the narrative frame, characters, imagery and symbols, structure and themes use practical analysis to build and refine...
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130,37 zł |
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Facilities Management: An Explanation
ISBN: 9780333737989 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Facilities management (FM) is the growth profession for all concerned with the management of premises and the assets within them. It represents a field of activity beyond the design, procurement and furnishing of buildings into the skills of managing the use of a facility and how it evolves and develops in response to the changing demands of the occupier.
In this revised edition changes have been made to several chapters and two additional chapters have been added: one dealing with the management of the property portfolio and the other presenting a range of practical case studies. The... Facilities management (FM) is the growth profession for all concerned with the management of premises and the assets within them. It represents a fiel...
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365,14 zł |
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Charlotte Bronte: The Novels
ISBN: 9780333747797 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical approach to Charlotte Bronte's best- known novels, which shows how coherent criticism can be evolved from close reading. The intention is to help students develop skills in practical criticism and encourage them to follow through their ideas. The major part of the book contains worked examples, with detailed guidance and suggestions for further work which will be useful for both teachers and students. There is additional material on Bronte's background, and on critical views of her work. The novels covered are Jane Eyre, Shirley and Vilette.
A practical approach to Charlotte Bronte's best- known novels, which shows how coherent criticism can be evolved from close reading. The intention is ...
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130,37 zł |
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