Spatial Planning and Urban Development: Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 9789048188697 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban transformations and management practice has always been complex, ambiguous and unstable, and therefore difficult to set into fixed and shared concepts. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide interpretation and action in urban planning. The hypothesis of this book is that the attempts of founding an autonomous planning theory are inadequate if they do not explore two interconnected fields: architecture and public policies. In this sense,... Urban transformations and management practice has always been complex, ambiguous and unstable, and therefore difficult to set into fixed and shared... |
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Understanding UK Sport Policy in Context
ISBN: 9780415594684 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title examines whether the GB 'model' of sport is fit for purpose by investigating a range of comparative elite sport models.
This title examines whether the GB 'model' of sport is fit for purpose by investigating a range of comparative elite sport models.
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665,24 zł |
Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture
ISBN: 9780812216516 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with such nineteenth-century novels as Capitola... Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the T... |
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153,47 zł |
Keepin' It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric
ISBN: 9780814333488 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Keepin' It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric, Vorris L. Nunley investigates the role of the hush harbor (a safe place for free expression among African American speakers) as a productive space of rhetorical tradition and knowledge generation. Nunley identifies the barbershop as an important hush harbor for black males in particular and traces the powerful cultural trope and its hidden tradition of African American knowledge through multiple texts. From Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" to the recent Barbershop movies and the provocative rhetoric of Reverend... In Keepin' It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric, Vorris L. Nunley investigates the role of the hush harbor (a safe p... |
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169,37 zł |
The Military-Entertainment Complex
ISBN: 9780674724983 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace how the realities of war are deeply inflected by their representation in popular entertainment. War games and other media, in turn, feature an increasing number of weapons, tactics, and threat scenarios from the War on Terror. While past analyses have emphasized top-down circulation of pro-military ideologies through government public relations efforts and a cooperative media industry, The Military-Entertainment Complex argues for a... With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games continues to blur. In this book, the authors trace ho... |
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134,39 zł |
Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s
ISBN: 9781604737493 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s shines a new light on what was a dark decade, but an unexpectedly prolific and innovative period among artists of comics intended for adults. Blurring the lines between high art and popular consumption, artists of the Italian comics scene went beyond passively documenting history and began actively shaping it through the creation of fictional worlds where history, cultural data, and pop-realism... Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous:... |
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670,89 zł |
Education Reform: The Unwinding of Intelligence and Creativity
ISBN: 9783319019932 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the proposition that the future of education reform in Australia, and elsewhere, has to be tied to issues of community inequality which are the principal contributors to poor educational achievement. In other words, education is not the way out of poverty. Rather, a country s education gains depend on reducing the country s poverty and its impacts on families. Improving educational achievement needs joined up solutions. It is for these reasons that the book includes an essay on economics which summarizes the main features of neoclassical economics and outlines alternative...
This book addresses the proposition that the future of education reform in Australia, and elsewhere, has to be tied to issues of community inequality ...
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390,87 zł |
Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's "nazi" Novels and Their Films
ISBN: 9780230108073 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the ...
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332,24 zł |
Exploring Unequal Achievement in the Schools: The Social Construction of Failure
ISBN: 9780739124697 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most disturbing problems in American education today is the unequal achievement of children in schools. Few problems have sparked greater concern than the issue of why students from different social origins differ so significantly in their academic performance. This book explores the role played by families and schools in this troubling problem. It employs a social constructionist approach in considering how ascribed characteristics (race, gender, and class) intersect with the daily interactions of teachers and students in classrooms and with the educational practices and...
One of the most disturbing problems in American education today is the unequal achievement of children in schools. Few problems have sparked greater c...
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215,46 zł |
You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780813126029 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before. These women and others such as Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric who are successful in traditionally male-dominated fields, demonstrate how women's roles have changed in the last thirty years. In the past, the nightly news was anchored by male journalists, presidential cabinets were composed solely of male advisors, and a female presidential candidate was an idea for the distant future, but the efforts of... The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership ... |
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138,16 zł |
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis
ISBN: 9780230579699 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre.
A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of ...
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390,87 zł |
Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
ISBN: 9780316031905 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Aftermath: Readings in the Archaeology of Recent Conflict
ISBN: 9780387094656 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing and important field in archaeology, with implications on the state of the world today: how humanity has prepared for, reacted to, and dealt with the consequences of conflict at a national and international level. As the field grows, there is an increasing need for research and development in this area. Written by one of the most prominent scholars in this field of growing interest, "Aftermath," offers a clear and important overview to research in the field. It will become an essential source of information for scholars already... Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing and important field in archaeology, with implications on the state of the world today: how humani... |
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195,42 zł |
Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece
ISBN: 9780700617579 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years. . . . It is a transcendent experience, and no one who loves movies can afford to miss it.--Roger Ebert. America's most popular film critic is hardly alone in singing the praises of Singin' in the Rain. This quintessential American film--made in Hollywood's Golden Age, showcasing the genius of Gene Kelly, and featuring what Ebert calls "the most joyous musical sequence ever filmed"--has inspired love and admiration from fellow critics, film scholars, and movie buffs worldwide...
There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years. . . . It is a transcendent experience, and n...
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177,48 zł |
Are We There Yet?: The Golden Age of American Family Vacations
ISBN: 9780700617593 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang "See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage in the trunk, and took to the open highway. Chronicling this innately American ritual, Susan Rugh presents a cultural history of the American middle-class family vacation from 1945 to 1973, tracing its evolution from the establishment of this summer tradition to its decline. The first in-depth look at post-World War II family travel, Rugh's study recounts how postwar prosperity and mass consumption--abetted by paid...
When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang "See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back ...
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Artful Assassins: Murder as Art in Modern Mexico
ISBN: 9780826517265 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violence as a way of life, and murder as a political tool. This philosophy is nothing new to Mexico, most recently demonstrated in the wave of assassination and indiscriminate killing brought on by the drug war gripping the country. In Artful Assassins, author and scholar Fernando Fabio Sanchez unveils the long record of violence inspiring artistic expression in Mexico, focusing on its use and portrayal in film and literature. Sanchez is uniquely positioned to explore this topic, through his work as a novelist and poet in Mexico before entering academia in the United...
Violence as a way of life, and murder as a political tool. This philosophy is nothing new to Mexico, most recently demonstrated in the wave of assassi...
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610,17 zł |
Anti-Italianism: Essays on a Prejudice
ISBN: 9780230108295 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry. This volume is a bold attempt by an esteemed group of scholars and writers to discuss the question openly by charting the historical and cultural boundaries of stereotypes, prejudice, and assimilation. Contributors offer a continuous series of cultural encounters and experiences in television, literature, and film that deserve the attention of anyone interested in the larger themes of American history. There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and ... |
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and the road leads to nowhere - Last House on the Left: Ein Film und die Normen der Filmbewertung in Deutschland aus dem Blickwinkel seiner Rezipiente
ISBN: 9783640400065 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, Universitat Leipzig (Institut fur Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit geht es um die Entstehung institutioneller Normen. Aus theoretisch-soziologischer Sicht wird ein Modell der rational geplanten Normentstehung entwickelt, mit Hilfe dessen die Grundung der Freiwilligen Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (FSK) im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit als rational geplanter Normentstehungsprozess beschrieben werden kann. Infolge dessen werden weitere relevante Institutionen der...
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, Universitat Leipzig (Institut fur Soziologie), Sprache: ...
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Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee
ISBN: 9780199754335 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thousands have made no objections." Noralee Frankel's lively biography, Stripping Gypsy, the first ever published about the highly mythologized Gypsy, examines the struggles Lee faced in making a lucrative and unconventional career for herself while maintaining a sense of dignity and social value. Frankel shows that the famous Miss Lee was an enigma, clearly struggling with her choices and her desire to be respected and legitimized....
Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thou...
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Can Journalism Be Saved?: Rediscovering America's Appetite for News
ISBN: 9780313392085 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By some measures, it would seem that print journalism is dying. Journalism recently suffered one of its worst circulation declines in years: a drop of more than ten percent in the a six month period ending September 30, 2009. "The Rocky Mountain News" in Denver, CO, closed its doors in 2009--after it dominated the AP awards in 2008, and was lauded for an investigative expose on unfair treatment of former nuclear workers. Even the "New York Times" and the "Washington Post "are experiencing financial trouble. But print advertising revenue still trumps online advertising revenue ten-fold. Is... By some measures, it would seem that print journalism is dying. Journalism recently suffered one of its worst circulation declines in years: a drop... |
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