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American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
ISBN: 9780142181003 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers powerful messages for both the head and heart ("Entertainment Weekly")
From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion on controversial topics political or otherwise. Now, he addresses issues ranging from parenting and the gay agenda to the Catholic Church and health care. Among them: Why straight people should have straight pride parades, tooWhy Obamacare, as good as it is, is still kinda evil Why what passes for... On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers powerful messages for both the head and heart ("Entertainment Weekly") <...
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The Last Midnight: Essays on Apocalyptic Narratives in Millennial Media
ISBN: 9781476663234 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you find yourself contemplating the imminent end of the world? Do you wonder how society might reorganize itself to cope with global cataclysm? (Have you begun hoarding canned goods and ammunition?
Visions of an apocalypse began to dominate mass media well before the year 2000. Yet narratives since then present decidedly different spins on cultural anxieties about terrorism, disease, environmental collapse, worldwide conflict and millennial technologies.
Many of these concerns have been made metaphorical: zombie hordes embody fear of out-of-control appetites and encroaching...
Do you find yourself contemplating the imminent end of the world? Do you wonder how society might reorganize itself to cope with global cataclysm? (Ha...
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de la Emigración Al Transtierro
ISBN: 9781940075327 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an innovative approach to the study of Caribbean diaspora in the United States. It includes: a historical overview of the immigration process from the Caribbean countries to the US; an analysis of common trends and divergent experiences among the different Caribbean groups in the US; and the personal story of the author's "transtierro."
This book is an innovative approach to the study of Caribbean diaspora in the United States. It includes: a historical overview of the immigration pro...
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Progress and History
ISBN: 9781473310360 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Francis Sydney Marvin was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Progress and History is a work on the developments in civilisation that founded the modern world. Francis Sidney Marvin was born in 1863, in London, son of Francis Bentham Marvin and his wife Julia Chase. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School in London and went on to study lassics and modern history at St. Johns College, Oxford. Marvin retained a keen interest in history throughout his life and organised many courses and lectures on the subject...
This early work by Francis Sydney Marvin was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Prog...
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The Economic Crisis in Retrospect: Explanations by Great Economists
ISBN: 9781782545323 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the United States continues its slow recovery from the global financial crisis of 2008, politicians, policymakers and academics are increasingly turning to the lessons of history to gain insight into how we might address both current and future economic challenges. This volume offers contributions by eminent economists and historians, each commenting on the theories of a particular 20th century economist and the ways in which those theories apply to modern economic thought.
As the United States continues its slow recovery from the global financial crisis of 2008, politicians, policymakers and academics are increasingly tu...
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The Environment in Jewish Law: Essays and Responsa
ISBN: 9781571814319 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jacob (president, Abraham Beiger College, Berlin/Potsdam) and Zemer (director, Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah ) present essays on Judaism and the environment. Rabbis and academics explore issues surrounding areas such as urban planning in Jewish environmental law, Judaism and animal welfare, recycling of sacred books, the use of tobacco,
Jacob (president, Abraham Beiger College, Berlin/Potsdam) and Zemer (director, Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah ) present essays on Judaism a...
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Perspectives in Developmental Change
ISBN: 9780813152271 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume a number of distinguished social scientists representing the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, and political science, explore essential problems of developmental change against the theoretical background and empirical data of their own and related disciplines. Developmental change is here viewed under a broad perspective. The considerations range from the problems that arise when human beings are confronted by change, to investment planning and decision-making in a specific case against a background of general poverty and a high birthrate,... In this volume a number of distinguished social scientists representing the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, and poli... |
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The Asymmetric Society
ISBN: 9780815601722 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Nothing but Wickedness: The Delusions of Our Culture
ISBN: 9781908096968 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the reasons for the decline of our culture? Theodore Dalrymple has spent a lifetime observing it close-up and personal as an inner-city GP and prison psychiatrist. In Nothing But Wickedness he looks at the things that make us behave the way we do, and all the subtle ways in which we delude ourselves and destroy our own culture.
What are the reasons for the decline of our culture? Theodore Dalrymple has spent a lifetime observing it close-up and personal as an inner-city GP an...
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Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World
ISBN: 9781137462558 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-feminist ways. Essays explore new alternative models of masculinity by a wide variety of contemporary authors and texts, ranging from Paul Auster to Jonathan Franzen.
Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-femini...
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Men Explain Things to Me
ISBN: 9781608464661 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit."--Boston Globe "The antidote to mansplaining."--The Stranger "Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions."--Salon "Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society."--San Francisco Chronicle Top Shelf "Solnit is] the perfect writer... "This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit."--Boston Globe<... |
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Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521154260 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays. It covers a range of key issues in race and ethnicity studies, such as genetics and race, post-race debates, racial eliminativism and the legacy of Barack Obama, and mixed race identities. The contributions are by leading writers on a range of perspectives employed in studying ethnicity and race, including critical race...
How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and ...
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Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
ISBN: 9780816696871 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reinhold Martin's Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ecologies that rewrite biopolitics, the ruins of socialism strewn amid the transnational commons, and memories of revolution stored in everyday urban hardware. For Martin, these mediators--the...
Reinhold Martin's Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social system...
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The Relative Native – Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
ISBN: 9780990505037 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere. Rounded out with new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works, the resulting book is a wide-ranging portrait of one of the towering figures of contemporary thoughtphilosopher, anthropologist,... This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues,... |
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Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521763738 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays. It covers a range of key issues in race and ethnicity studies, such as genetics and race, post-race debates, racial eliminativism and the legacy of Barack Obama, and mixed race identities. The contributions are by leading writers on a range of perspectives employed in studying ethnicity and race, including critical race...
How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and ...
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Inherent and Instrumental Values: Excursions in Value Inquiry
ISBN: 9780761864943 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smith, and Jan Narveson. Portions examine the theoretical foundations of values and valuation exploring the rational groundwork for judgments. Other aspects, appealing to value distinctions of inherent, intrinsic, and instrumental, drawn most notably by C. I. Lewis, bring to light matters of aesthetic, social political, ethical, and ontological issues. Throughout Inherent and Instrumental Values, the authors address questions assessing the intrinsic...
The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smith,...
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Culture and Liberty: Writings of Isabel Paterson
ISBN: 9781412856799 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isabel Paterson is widely recognized as an advocate of radical individualism and a prophet of the libertarian movement. She influenced a wide variety of libertarian and conservative writers and public figures, from Ayn Rand to William F. Buckley, Jr. In her own time, Paterson was noted as a literary critic and novelist, and one of the wittiest writers in America. She is best known for The God of the Machine, also published by Transaction. Culture and Liberty includes many of Paterson's works that are out of print or have never before been published. Stephen Cox... Isabel Paterson is widely recognized as an advocate of radical individualism and a prophet of the libertarian movement. She influenced a wide varie... |
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A Voice in the Wilderness
ISBN: 9781608625802 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Voice in the Wilderness is a variety of expressions generated over the decades. Each is a result of the author's life's journey. The longer we live, the more opportunities we have to make a positive impact on the world in which we live and have our being.
A Voice in the Wilderness is a variety of expressions generated over the decades. Each is a result of the author's life's journey. The longer we live,...
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Tan Lark Sye: Advocator and Founder of Nanyang University
ISBN: 9789814641494 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University.Hailing from Jimei, Fujian Province of China, Mr Tan Lark Sye (1897 - 1972) was a leading rubber industrialist in Southeast Asia. Being a social activist, he believed in the value of education. As Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s, he fought for citizenship for the Chinese in Singapore, and for the Chinese language to be one of Singapore's official languages. Mr Tan's most outstanding contribution, however, was the initiating of the founding of Nanyang University in...
This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University.Hailing from Jimei, Fujian Province of China,...
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Tan Lark Sye: Advocator and Founder of Nanyang University
ISBN: 9789814644754 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University.Hailing from Jimei, Fujian Province of China, Mr Tan Lark Sye (1897 - 1972) was a leading rubber industrialist in Southeast Asia. Being a social activist, he believed in the value of education. As Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s, he fought for citizenship for the Chinese in Singapore, and for the Chinese language to be one of Singapore's official languages. Mr Tan's most outstanding contribution, however, was the initiating of the founding of Nanyang University in...
This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University.Hailing from Jimei, Fujian Province of China,...
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