Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies
ISBN: 9781641607919 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders—and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fears—mortality, failure, loneliness—can be just as motivating as our wishes or desires. Horror movie characters uniquely reveal all of these to a wide audience. If explored in an honest and serious manner, our fears have the potential to teach us a great deal about ourselves, our culture, and certainly other people. From psychologist, researcher, and horror film enthusiast Brian A. Sharpless comes Monsters on the Couch, an exploration into...
Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders—and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fe...
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80,81 zł |
Contemporary Irish Popular Culture: Transnationalism, Regionality, and Diaspora
ISBN: 9783030942571 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uses popular culture to highlight the intersections and interplay between ideologies, technological advancement and mobilities as they shape contemporary Irish identities. Marshalling case studies drawn from a wide spectrum of popular culture, including the mediated construction of prominent sporting figures, Troubles-set sitcomDerry Girls, and poignant drama featurePhilomena, Anthony P. McIntyre offers a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Irishness, tracing its entanglement with notions of mobility, regionality and identity. The book will appeal to students and scholars...
This book uses popular culture to highlight the intersections and interplay between ideologies, technological advancement and mobilities as they shap...
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423,10 zł |
Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction
ISBN: 9783031291593 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fictiondraws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels: Dashiell Hammett'sThe Maltese Falcon,Raymond Chandler'sTheBig Sleep,Leigh Brackett'sNo Good from a Corpse,Dorothy B. Hughes'sIn a Lonely...
Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fictiondraws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity stud...
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461,56 zł |
Application of Ergonomics in Handicraft: A Laypersons Approach
ISBN: 9789819910625 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the application of ergonomics in handicraft manufacturing and design keeping in mind the two sets of users, craftsmen and customers buying handicraft items. Written in an easy to understand language and in a story telling format. It requires no prior knowledge of the subject nor any knowledge of science or technology for using this book and applying it in handicraft manufacturing and design. The book starts with an overview of the application of ergonomics in different aspects of craft manufacturing, touching upon tools, space, process and then moves into the aspects of...
This book is about the application of ergonomics in handicraft manufacturing and design keeping in mind the two sets of users, craftsmen and customers...
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576,96 zł |
So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything
ISBN: 9780226801421 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control. Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edged objects for slicing meat, making the first knives. This discovery resulted in a good meal, and eventually changed the fate of our species and our planet. With So Much Stuff, archaeologist Chip Colwell sets out to investigate why humankind went from self-sufficient primates to nonstop shoppers, from needing nothing to needing everything. Along the way, he uncovers spectacular and...
How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control. Over three million years ago, our ancient ancest...
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117,23 zł |
Welcome to the O.C.
ISBN: 9780063342798 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. “A fascinating peek behind the making of a megahit, and a delightful bit of nostalgia for those of us who remember life before streaming TV.” —Town & Country Welcome to the O.C., b*tch: it’s the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show’s creators, featuring interviews with the cast and crew, providing a behind-the-scenes look into how the show was made, the ups and downs over its four seasons, and its legacy today. On August 5th, 2003, Ryan Atwood found himself a long way from his home in Chino—he was in The O.C., an exclusive suburb full of...
“A fascinating peek behind the making of a megahit, and a delightful bit of nostalgia for those of us who remember life before streaming TV.” —T...
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117,19 zł |
Blood on the Moon
ISBN: 9780826364692 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of the movies that writers and historians call "Noir Westerns," none is more celebrated than 1948's Blood on the Moon. The comingling of the Western genre and the noir style crystalized in this extraordinary film, in turn influencing Westerns in the 1950s to become darker and more psychological. Produced during the height of the post-World War II film noir movement, Blood on the Moon is a classic Western immersed in the film noir netherworld of double crosses, government corruption, shabby barrooms, gun-toting goons, and romantic betrayals. With this volume, biographer and noir expert Alan K....
Of the movies that writers and historians call "Noir Westerns," none is more celebrated than 1948's Blood on the Moon. The comingling of the Western g...
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80,65 zł |
Representations of Technoculture in Don DeLillo’s Novels
ISBN: 9781032526652 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It explores the manner in which Don DeLillo’s characters experience technocultural everyday decade after decade. The changing technoculture is resisted at times by the characters, it points out to a transitional mode of being. This state does not dehumanize DeLillo’s characters as much as reveals their humanity in the postmodern world
It explores the manner in which Don DeLillo’s characters experience technocultural everyday decade after decade. The changing technoculture is res...
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744,88 zł |
The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist's Warning
ISBN: 9781421447223 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,86 zł |
Dear Beatle People: The Story of The Beatles North American Fan Club
ISBN: 9781946182258 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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278,93 zł |
Dear Beatle People: The Story of The Beatles North American Fan Club
ISBN: 9781946182265 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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198,08 zł |
Bridge and Tunnel Boys: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of the American Century
ISBN: 9781978835221 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born four months apart, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel both released their debut albums in the early 1970s, quickly becoming two of the most successful rock stars of their generation. While their critical receptions have been very different, surprising parallels emerge when we look at the arcs of their careers and the musical influences that have inspired them. Bridge and Tunnel Boys compares the life and work of Long Islander Joel and Asbury Park, New Jersey, native Springsteen, considering how each man forged a distinctive sound that derived from his unique position on the periphery...
Born four months apart, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel both released their debut albums in the early 1970s, quickly becoming two of the most success...
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135,14 zł |
The Fresh Prince Project: How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America
ISBN: 9781982185183 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This “one-of-a-kind” (Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardom—The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air—is perfect for fans of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest Regards. More than thirty years have passed since The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered on NBC but unlike other family sitcoms of its era, it has remained culturally relevant and beloved by new generations of fans. With fresh eyes on the show in the wake of 2022’s launch of Bel-Air, a Fresh Prince reboot on NBC’s Peacock, The Fresh...
This “one-of-a-kind” (Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith t...
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55,97 zł |
Recommender Systems in Fashion and Retail: Proceedings of the Third Workshop at the Recommender Systems Conference (2021)
ISBN: 9783030940188 / Angielski / Miękka / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book includes the proceedings of the third workshop on recommender systems in fashion and retail (2021), and it aims to present a state-of-the-art view of the advancements within the field of recommendation systems with focused application to e-commerce, retail, and fashion by presenting readers with chapters covering contributions from academic as well as industrial researchers active within this emerging new field. Recommender systems are often used to solve different complex problems in this scenario, such as product recommendations, size and fit recommendations, and social...
This book includes the proceedings of the third workshop on recommender systems in fashion and retail (2021), and it aims to present a state-of-the-ar...
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326,93 zł |
The Simpsons Secret: A Cromulent Guide To How The Simpsons Predicted Everything!
ISBN: 9781684812691 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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161,66 zł |
Punk Paradox : A Memoir
ISBN: 9780306924590 / Angielski / Inna Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,81 zł |
The Matter of Kings' Lives: The Design of Past and Present in the early fourteenth-century verse chronicles by Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng
ISBN: 9789042003446 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rhymed chronicles by Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng, written between c.1305 and 1338, form a unique pair in the history of English literature and historiography. Both were written in the North of England, both deal with the history of the kings of England from Brutus to the death of Edward I in July 1307. Yet the differences between them are significant. Langtoft wrote in Anglo-Norman with a specific purpose and a specific audience in mind. Robert Mannyng translated a large part of Langtoft's work into English for a very different kind of audience. Although he stayed close to his...
The rhymed chronicles by Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng, written between c.1305 and 1338, form a unique pair in the history of English literatu...
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352,54 zł |
Gooey Media: Screen Entertainment and the Graphic User Interface
ISBN: 9781399522762 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the influence of the graphic user interface on contemporary screen media Argues for a critical reading of screen media which centres the GUI in the production and reception of this media Offers an innovatively interdisciplinary exploration of digital screen media, employing film studies, new media studies, videogame studies, urban theory, and more Places interfaces, videogames, films, television, apps, VR, and other media on equal footing Analyses a wide variety of case studies from various contemporary mainstream media to show their connections and influences Updates ideas of...
Explores the influence of the graphic user interface on contemporary screen media Argues for a critical reading of screen media which centres the GUI...
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436,65 zł |