Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema
ISBN: 9781978815957 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers – Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter – who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades...
A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redire...
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676,35 zł |
Much Ado About Almost Nothing
ISBN: 9781949267969 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,85 zł |
Designing the Emerging Markets: A Quantitative History of Architectural Globalisation
ISBN: 9789819915514 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a unique glance into the process of globalisation of the architectural practice during the last three decades through the lenses of innovative methodologies in architectural history based on quantitative data. Focusing on the golden age of globalisation (1990-2019), it investigates the transnational work of more than one thousand architectural firms of different business models from Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific in a broad sample of emerging markets: Mainland China, South-East Asia, India, the Persian Gulf, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Kazakhstan, and Latin...
This book offers a unique glance into the process of globalisation of the architectural practice during the last three decades through the lenses of i...
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504,67 zł |
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906
ISBN: 9780520385504 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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223,15 zł |
Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfrried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit
ISBN: 9783031320552 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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465,84 zł |
The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media
ISBN: 9781421448114 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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507,39 zł |
The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media
ISBN: 9781421448121 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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175,33 zł |
Accelerating Economic Growth
ISBN: 9783031071973 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more? What drives technological progress and economic growth in the long run and on a global scale? And how will technological progress, economic growth, and the overall prosperity of human civilization unfold in the future? This book sheds new light on these big questions by incorporating findings from physics, anthropology, psychology, history, philosophy, and computer science in a brand-new theory of economic growth. Looking back across the millennia, it... What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more? What drives technological pr... |
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194,08 zł |
Distinguished Figures in Mechanical Engineering in Spain and Ibero-America
ISBN: 9783031310744 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume collects contributions on leading figures in mechanism and machine science (MMS) from Spain and Ibero-America over the last two centuries. The contributions examine scientists whose work resulted in relevant technical-scientific achievements, with an impact on technology and science in the historical evolution of MMS fields, and with an influence on the development of society at large. Biographical notes describing the efforts and achievements of these persons are included as well, but a technical survey is the core of each chapter, offering a modern interpretation of their legacy.
This volume collects contributions on leading figures in mechanism and machine science (MMS) from Spain and Ibero-America over the last two centuries....
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582,32 zł |
The Formation of the Swiss Hospital System (1840–1960)
ISBN: 9789811939136 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an analysis of the formation of contemporary hospital systems between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century. Based on extensive archival material and a broad international literature review, it focuses on the case of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and uses a triple approach that discusses technological innovations, hospital management, and health policy. This research is a major contribution to the history of medicine which gives a unique overview of the formation of contemporary hospital systems. This book offers an analysis of the formation of contemporary hospital systems between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century. Based on... |
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The New Stone Age - With Information on the People of this Time, Rudimentary Weapon Making, Building Methods Including Stonehenge, and Much More
ISBN: 9781528707947 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,89 zł |
Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Stations in Essex: The Centenary of Brentwood and Ongar Radio Stations
ISBN: 9781803693828 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,75 zł |
Size: How It Explains the World
ISBN: 9780063324107 / Angielski / 14-05-2024 Książka dostępna od: 14-05-2024 |
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Portuguese Philosophy of Technology
ISBN: 9783031146329 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking community, namely from Portugal itself, Africa and Brazil. Their contributions detail a unique perspective on technology, placing this important topic within the historical, ideological and social contexts of their countries, all of which share a common language. The shared history of these countries and the cultural and economic specificities of each one have stimulated singular insights into these thinkers’...
This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking co...
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427,02 zł |
Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012
ISBN: 9780262549578 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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245,62 zł |
An Institutional Approach to the G?ta Kanal: A Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Mega-Project
ISBN: 9783031444159 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,85 zł |
Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science
ISBN: 9783031182907 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the technological developments achieved by distinguished figures in the history of mechanism and machine science (MMS). This is the fifth volume of a series of books which gathered contributions on the leading scientists in the field. This book focuses specifically on the IFToMM community and its activities over the last 50 years, showcases who-is-who in MMS, and emphasizes—together with the previous books of the series—the significance of MMS through time. Each chapter recognizes persons whose scientific work resulted in relevant technical developments in the... This book discusses the technological developments achieved by distinguished figures in the history of mechanism and machine science (MMS). This is... |
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Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781474294805 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1815 to 1914 and the birth of modern chemistry. The elaboration of atomic theory - and new ideas of periodicity, structure, bonding, and equilibrium - emerged in tandem with new instruments and practices. The chemical industry expanded exponentially, fuelled by an increasing demand for steel, aluminium, dyestuffs, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. And the chemical laboratory became established in its two distinct modern settings of the university and industry. At the turn of the century, the...
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1815 to 1914 and the birth of modern chemistry. The ela...
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Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781474294652 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1700 to 1815. Setting the progress of science and technology in its cultural context, the volume re-examines the changes that many have considered to constitute a "chemical revolution". Already boasting a laboratory culture open to both manufacturing and commerce, the discipline of chemistry now extended into academies and universities. Chemists studied myriad materials - derived from minerals, plants, and animals - and produced an increasing number of chemical substances such as acids, alkalis, and...
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century covers the period from 1700 to 1815. Setting the progress of science and techn...
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Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781474294546 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages covers the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures. Arabic theories and terminology for the science of matter were introduced into the West and became known as ‘alchemy’. Based in experiment and innovation – and bound up in networks of mining, manufacturing, trade and commerce – alchemical practice largely focused on the production of new substances through various processes. At the same time, alchemy was deeply theoretical, exploring the development of mineralogy, the perfection of corruptible matter,...
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages covers the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures. Arabic theories ...
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