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Don't Know Much About(r) Anything Else: Even More Things You Need to Know But Never Learned about People, Places, Events, and More!
ISBN: 9780061562327 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For years, Kenneth C. Davis has enlightened and enthralled us, opening our minds and tickling our fancies with his wonderfully irreverent, fun, and factual Don't Know Much About(R) books. He has carried readers on wild and edifying rides through history, mythology, geography, the Bible, the Civil War, even across the universe. Now, following on the heels of his triumphant New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About(R) Anything, comes Don't Know Much About(R) Anything Else, his latest one-stop potpourri of intriguing... For years, Kenneth C. Davis has enlightened and enthralled us, opening our minds and tickling our fancies with his wonderfully irreverent, fun, and... |
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Theories de l'Information: Actes Des Rencontres de Marseilles-Luminy, 5 Au 7 Juin 1973
ISBN: 9783540068440 / Francuski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Twentieth-Century Literary Theory : A Reader
ISBN: 9780333677421 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists from Russian Formalists to Postmodernist and Post-colonial critics. An ideal teaching resource, with helpful introductory notes to each chapter.
A thoroughly revised edition of this successful undergraduate introduction to literary theory, this text includes core pieces by leading theorists fro...
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Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life
ISBN: 9780333438305 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Hardy in the Literary Lives series relates Hardy's life to his career as a writer, giving particular attention to his determination as a young man to make literature his career, his methodical preparation during the first thirty years of his life for that career, the writing of his fourteen published novels and the fame they brought him, and then, the culmination of his life as writer, his emergence in his remaining thirty years as one of the very greatest of English poets and the writer of The Dynasts.
Thomas Hardy in the Literary Lives series relates Hardy's life to his career as a writer, giving particular attention to his determination as a young ...
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Succession Politics in Indonesia: The 1998 Presidential Elections and the Fall of Suharto
ISBN: 9780333776025 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How was a thirty-two year old authoritarian regime brought down and what augurs in its place? This book attempts to examine the background factors as well as the trigger that led to Suharto's resignation, amidst the power struggle that has been taking place in the opaque political world of Indonesia. Equally important, the ways in which the 'new' powerbrokers, with Suharto remaining influential in the background, have tried to adapt themselves to the new environment are also examined. Finally, the meaning of Suharto's resignation and what has changed and remained static are analysed.
How was a thirty-two year old authoritarian regime brought down and what augurs in its place? This book attempts to examine the background factors as ...
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Public Finance in a Changing World
ISBN: 9780333682210 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This non-technical volume analyses topical problems of public finance in a changing world characterized by growing mobility of production factors, liberalized economic policy regimes, and the formation of new nations. It discusses alternative views of government and the way we measure its activities; the modern welfare state and its impact on entrepreneurship and employment; issues of fiscal coordination and income redistribution in a world with many jurisdictions; and the problems of raising government revenue and of allocating property rights in transition economies.
This non-technical volume analyses topical problems of public finance in a changing world characterized by growing mobility of production factors, lib...
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Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the Challenge of Modernity
ISBN: 9780333662946 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991. During this tumultuous period, the countries of this vast area were transformed from traditional, agrarian societies into modern industrial states. Like China, the Soviet Union underwent this transition under the banner of communism. After introductory chapters on traditional Russian history and lifeways, David Christian discusses how these transformations affected both governments and ordinary citizens, what they gained, what they endured, and why the Communist experiment ultimately failed.
This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991. During this tumultuous period, the countries of this v...
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201,01 |
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The Middle East in Global Change: The Politics and Economics of Interdependence Versus Fragmentation
ISBN: 9780333670798 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the prospects of the Middle East region moving 'from a warfare to a welfare'? A group of leading scholars of the MIddle East and North Africa (political scientists, economists, sociologists, strategic analysts, and historians) adopt a common political economy approach to answer this much debated question.
What are the prospects of the Middle East region moving 'from a warfare to a welfare'? A group of leading scholars of the MIddle East and North Africa...
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Women's Work in Britain and France: Practice, Theory and Policy
ISBN: 9780333683064 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. The book shows that French women, although having more full-time and continuous careers and greater social policy support, retain as great a responsibility for unpaid domestic and caring work as their British counterparts. It replaces the conventional focus upon encouraging women's increased insertion into employment as the principal strategy for achieving progress in gender relations with a new focus on changing men's work patterns.
Women's Work in Britain and France is a ground-breaking retheorization of what constitutes 'progress' in gender relations. The book shows that French ...
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201,24 |
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Financing European Transport Infrastructure: Policies and Practice in Western Europe
ISBN: 9780333718964 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Financing European Transport Infrastructure examines organisational arrangements for planning and financing transport infrastructure in Western Europe. It covers all modes of transport - road, rail, sea, air, urban, and inland waterways - and asks why their financing arrangements are so different. It looks at the division of responsibilities between central and local government, and the growing role of autonomous public bodies, the European Commission and private finance. It examines the consequences of investment failing to keep up with demand - in congestion, environmental damage and slower...
Financing European Transport Infrastructure examines organisational arrangements for planning and financing transport infrastructure in Western Europe...
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Developing Organisational Consultancy
ISBN: 9780415157032 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing Organisational Consultancy provides consultants with theoretical and practical advice on how to handle typical consultancy challenges. Well-established organisational consultants from the UK and the USA offer descriptions of problems they have encountered in their work, theoretical and practical approaches that they have found helpful, cases from their actual practice, and advice about how to apply their suggested approach generally.
Chapters are grouped together to address three key areas of interest to consultants: * evolving a professional stance *... Developing Organisational Consultancy provides consultants with theoretical and practical advice on how to handle typical consultancy challen...
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The Ascendant Organisation: Combining Commitment and Control for Long-Term Sustainable Business Success
ISBN: 9780333735800 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ascendant Organisation is about combining the commitment of people and control of business processes to achieve sustainable long-term business success. Peter Wickens' book combines innovative thinking about organisations with substantial practical experience. Since it was first published the ideas have been much debated and very influential. These are now available for the first time in paperback in a fully revised and updated edition.
The Ascendant Organisation is about combining the commitment of people and control of business processes to achieve sustainable long-term business suc...
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Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism: Feeling and Thought
ISBN: 9780333737453 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In addition to being the leading philosopher of English Romanticism and one of its greatest poets, Coleridge explores the dynamics of consciousness and mental functioning more extensively than any of his contemporaries. This book compares his psychological theories with his diverse exemplifications of Romanticism's self-reflexive quest for transcendence, showing how he continually highlights the circular and mutual influence of ideas and emotions underlying Romantic idealism and the cult of the sublime.
In addition to being the leading philosopher of English Romanticism and one of its greatest poets, Coleridge explores the dynamics of consciousness an...
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Ashtar: Revealing the Secret Identity of the Forces of Light and Their Spiritual Program for Earth: Channeled Messages From Th
ISBN: 9780938294290 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WHO IS ASHTAR? Man or Myth? Name or Title? Space Commander or Archangel? Intergalactic Spiritual Leader? The name Ashtar has become widely known in UFO Channeling circles for several decades. It is said that his messages are being beamed from a colossal Starship -- or Space Station -- beyond our atmosphere. According to his primary channel, Tuella (author of Project World Evacuation and On Earth Assignment), Ashtar is directly under the sponsorship of Lord Michael and the Great Central Sun Government of our galaxy, and is second only to the Beloved Jesus-Sananda in responsibility for the...
WHO IS ASHTAR? Man or Myth? Name or Title? Space Commander or Archangel? Intergalactic Spiritual Leader? The name Ashtar has become widely known in UF...
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Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan: The Three Careers of General Katsura Tar?
ISBN: 9780333802076 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dramatic innovations in modern Japan include a mass army, overseas empire, and constitutional polity. This is the first book to link these changes in the Meiji era (1868-1912). It focuses on the life of General Katsura Taro, one of the architects of the modern military, a leading figure in Japanese colonialism, and prime minister through the 1900s. Challenging the received wisdom about Japanese militarism and imperialism, it exposes the army's ambivalence about empire but also its positive role in political change.
Dramatic innovations in modern Japan include a mass army, overseas empire, and constitutional polity. This is the first book to link these changes in ...
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Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780333761021 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference.
Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between dis...
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Anais Nin: Literary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780333650875 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book of essays is the first to probe Anais Nin's achievements as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne Nalbantian, the collection examines the literary strategies of Nin in their psychoanalytical and stylistic dimensions. Various contributors scrutinize Nin's artistry, identifying her unique modernist techniques and her poetic vision. Others observe the transfer of her psychoanalytical positions to narrative. The volume also contains fresh views of Nin by her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell as well as innovative analyses of the reception of her works.
This book of essays is the first to probe Anais Nin's achievements as a literary artist. With an introduction by the editor, Suzanne Nalbantian, the c...
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Japanese Interfirm Networks and Their Main Banks
ISBN: 9780333719657 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based upon a major research project and a high level of access to relevant individuals this is the first book that opens the door on the closed and guarded world of Japanese banking. The book discusses in first-hand terms the nature of the bank's relationships to its client firms, to members of its 'group' and to 'outsiders'; placing these relationships within a competitive strategy which the book sets forth in an original framework, the Relational Access Paradigm.
Based upon a major research project and a high level of access to relevant individuals this is the first book that opens the door on the closed and gu...
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The Reform of Macroeconomic Policy: From Stagflation to Low or Zero Inflation
ISBN: 9780333770726 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses ways to improve macroeconomic policy in the context of the various macroeconomic problems of the past two decades, with the chapters having been written at various times over that period. It emphasises the need to find the best combinations of monetary policy and different forms of taxation and government outlays to achieve high employment and low inflation. There is a concluding chapter discussing the special problems that arise when inflation has become low, zero or even negative.
This book discusses ways to improve macroeconomic policy in the context of the various macroeconomic problems of the past two decades, with the chapte...
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Europäische Wissensgesellschaft - Leitbild Europäischer Forschungs- Und Innovationspolitik?
ISBN: 9783050045092 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Begriffe der "Wissens-" und der "Informationsgesellschaft" bezeichnen eine Transformation, nach der die Entstehung und die Verwendung von Wissen in den okonomischen Prozess eingebunden werden sollen und schlielich konsequent als Teil desselben angesehen werden. Das Wissen ist nicht mehr eine in unbestimmter Weise "produktive Kraft," sondern ein - so weit moglich - rationaler Berechnung zu unterwerfender Produktionsfaktor, der aber nicht nur die Produktion unterstutzt, sondern selbst hergestellt wird, der also Kapital darstellt, das, so weit es im einzelnen Menschen vorhanden und verfugbar...
Die Begriffe der "Wissens-" und der "Informationsgesellschaft" bezeichnen eine Transformation, nach der die Entstehung und die Verwendung von Wissen i...
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