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What Makes Flamingos Pink?: A Colorful Collection of Q & A's for the Unquenchably Curious
ISBN: 9780060000240 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do spiders sleep? Why are barns red? Why is there a crescent moon on outhouse doors? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?As the Xerox Corporation's official webmaster, Bill McLain often fielded as many as 1,000 questions a day on just about everything under the sun -- and beyond. The wildest, funniest, and even most astute are collected here (along with their answers) in McLain's second volume that's as fascinating and enlightening as his first, Do Fish Drink Water? A "veritable Internet legend known for having all the answers" (San Francisco...
Do spiders sleep? Why are barns red? Why is there a crescent moon on outhouse doors? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?<...
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57,60 zł |
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Why Don't Cats Like to Swim?: An Imponderables Book
ISBN: 9780060751487 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does an "X" stand for a kiss?
Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit(R) gum? Why do people cry at happy endings? Why do you never see baby pigeons? Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Don't Cats Like to Swim? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing questions. Part of the Imponderables(R) series, Feldman's book arms readers with information about everyday life -- from science, history, and politics to sports, television, and radio -- that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs just don't... Why does an "X" stand for a kiss?
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65,29 zł |
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Why Do Pirates Love Parrots?
ISBN: 9780060888435 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ponder, if you will . . . Is yawning contagious? Do starfish have faces? Why do they put crinkly paper into pairs of men's socks? Why is it that cans of Diet Coke float, but cans of regular Coke don't? Pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these questions and much more in Why Do Pirates Love Parrots? One of the Imponderables(R)--the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing conundrums--and charmingly illustrated by Kassie Schwan, this book provides you with knowledge about everyday life that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and... Ponder, if you will . . . Is yawning contagious? Do starfish have faces? Why do they put crinkly paper into pairs of men's socks? Why is it that ca... |
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65,29 zł |
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What Writers Know: The Language, Process, and Structure of Written Discourse
ISBN: 9780125234801 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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690,01 zł |
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The Structure of Written Communication: Studies in Reciprocity Between Writers and Readers
ISBN: 9780125234825 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book transcends current research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it. It includes key features such as: reciprocity as a principle of discourse; language development as socialization; context, explicitness, genre, topic, and comment as concepts in discourse analysis; and writing and reading as social processes.
This book transcends current research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it. It includes...
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702,79 zł |
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Everything You Pretend to Know and Are Afraid Someone Will Ask
ISBN: 9780140513226 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You can fool some of the people all of the time but wouldn t you rather really know what you re talking about?
Why are conservatives on the right and liberals on the left ? What is an archetype? Most people drop these and other cultural references in conversation all the time without really knowing much about them. But with this witty, information-packed book, you can quickly bone up on the actual facts behind the multitude of data, events, and words that come at you each day and that you ve been casually bandying about without really understanding. Here are invaluable explanations... You can fool some of the people all of the time but wouldn t you rather really know what you re talking about?
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92,23 zł |
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The Subject of Semiotics
ISBN: 9780195031782 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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421,30 zł |
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A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain Between the Wars
ISBN: 9780198201373 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of popular national daily newspapers, the cinema, the radio, the gramophone, and other forms of mass entertainment in early 20th-century Britain threatened to upset traditional patterns of British culture and engendered a determined opposition among writers, artists, intellectuals, and others. This book explores the often antagonistic relationship between commercial and elite culture during this period. LeMahieu traces the rise of commercial culture, where success was measured by popularity rather than aesthetic merit, explores the responses of the cultivated elites, and...
The development of popular national daily newspapers, the cinema, the radio, the gramophone, and other forms of mass entertainment in early 20th-centu...
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951,68 zł |
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Similarity and Categorization
ISBN: 9780198506287 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding how objects are partitioned into useful groups to form concepts is important to many disciplines. Concepts allow us to treat different objects equivalently according to shared attributes, and hence to communicate about, draw inferences from, reason with, and explain these objects.
Similarity and Categorization provides a uniquely interdisciplinary overview of this area of inquiry. The book brings together leading researchers, reflecting key topics and important developments in the field. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in cognitive psychology,... Understanding how objects are partitioned into useful groups to form concepts is important to many disciplines. Concepts allow us to treat different o...
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674,98 zł |
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Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology
ISBN: 9780253203441 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". fifteen texts which are essential reading for anyone interested in semiotics... This collection will surely become a standard text for those who teach semiotics, aesthetics or philosophy of language." International Philosophical Quarterly This volume presents the classic statements in semiotics and touches on a vast set of problems and themes philosophical, aesthetic, literary, cultural, biological, and anthropological. "..". fifteen texts which are essential reading for anyone interested in semiotics... This collection will surely become a standard text for those w... |
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102,18 zł |
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Rigor & Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson
ISBN: 9780275907419 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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358,68 zł |
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Political Economy of Information
ISBN: 9780299115746 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The information society is real. Information - as a marketable commodity - is quickly taking up the powerful role once held by heavy industry and manufactured products. How this revolution is affecting society, and how both society and government are responding to it, is the subject of this book.
The information society is real. Information - as a marketable commodity - is quickly taking up the powerful role once held by heavy industry and manu...
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48,63 zł |
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The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present
ISBN: 9780300043822 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When oral culture becomes literate, in what way does human consciousness itself change? And how does the new form of communication affect the content and meaning of texts? In this book, one of the most original and penetrating thinkers in Greek studies describes the transformation from orality to literacy in classical times and reflects upon its continued meaning for us today.
"Fresh insights into the orality-literacy shift in human consciousness from one who has long been studying this shift in ancient Greece and has now brought his vast learning and reflections to bear on our own times.... When oral culture becomes literate, in what way does human consciousness itself change? And how does the new form of communication affect the content ...
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87,62 zł |
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Modern Cellular Automata: Theory and Applications
ISBN: 9780306417375 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is with great pleasure that I present this fourth vol ume in the series "Advanced Applications in Pattern Recognition." It would be difficult to find two authors better versed in the design and application of parallel image processing systems, due to both their own many years of pioneering in the field and their encyclopedic knowledge of what is going on in uni versity and industrial laboratories around the world. The monograph is unique in its parallel presentation of orthogonal and hexagonal dissections, and the wealth of graphic illustration of algorithmic procedures for processing and...
It is with great pleasure that I present this fourth vol ume in the series "Advanced Applications in Pattern Recognition." It would be difficult to fi...
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605,23 zł |
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I Think I Am a Verb: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs
ISBN: 9780306420368 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My writing career has been, at least in this one respect, idiosyncratic: it had to mark and chart, step by step, its own peculiar champaign. My earliest papers, beginning in 1942, were technical articles in this or that domain of Uralic linguistics, ethnography, and folklore, with a sprinkling of contributions to North and South American linguistics. In 1954, my name became fecklessly associated with psycholinguistics, then, successively, with explorations in my thology, religious studies, and stylistic problems. It now takes special effort for me to even revive the circumstances under which...
My writing career has been, at least in this one respect, idiosyncratic: it had to mark and chart, step by step, its own peculiar champaign. My earlie...
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403,47 zł |
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Classics of Semiotics
ISBN: 9780306423215 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is designed to usher the reader into the realm of semiotic studies. It analyzes the most important approaches to semiotics as they have developed over the last hundred years out of philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and biology. As a science of sign processes, semiotics investigates all types of com munication and information exchange among human beings, animals, plants, internal systems of organisms, and machines. Thus it encompasses most of the subject areas of the arts and the social sciences, as well as those of biology and medicine. Semiotic inquiry into the conditions,...
This book is designed to usher the reader into the realm of semiotic studies. It analyzes the most important approaches to semiotics as they have deve...
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403,47 zł |
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Internationalisation Strategies
ISBN: 9780312164072 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, published in association with the UK chapter of the Academy of International Business, again contains a number of contributions from leading academics. The book looks at the environmental influences on internationalisation and considers the strategic options available to firms
This volume, published in association with the UK chapter of the Academy of International Business, again contains a number of contributions from lead...
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403,47 zł |
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Useless Knowledge: Answers to Questions You'd Never Think to Ask
ISBN: 9780312290177 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can your tongue get you arrested? In the form of a lively and eccentric course catalog, this brainchild of the creator of the wildly successful www.uselessknowledge.com offers up loads of facts of little consequence for the hardcore trivia buff or the casual enthusiast. Inside, you'll find topics and entries like these: The Core Curriculum The Useless School of... How can your tongue get you arrested? |
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76,82 zł |
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Science and the Shabby Cruate of Poetry: Essays about the Two Cultures
ISBN: 9780313201912 / Angielski / Twarda / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Green offers his own arguments with C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures.
Green offers his own arguments with C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures.
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281,82 zł |
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Reader in the History of Books and Printing
ISBN: 9780313240386 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to the history of graphic communication through the ages which studies the role of books and printing in the recording, preserving, and dissemination of ideas and its impact on civilization. The readings and illustrations have been selected from the extensive literature on the book to include items of value and interest to the student, educator, librarian, historian, media specialist, bibliophile, bookman and bookwoman--all who are interested in the world of books and printing.
An introduction to the history of graphic communication through the ages which studies the role of books and printing in the recording, preserving,... |
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307,44 zł |
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