wyszukanych pozycji: 73
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The Magician Next Door
ISBN: 9781529507911 / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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35,51 zł |
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Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity
ISBN: 9780472070800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, and the role of media in identity formation." "With her elegant research design and sophisticated array of anthropological and media studies approaches, Emily Chivers Yochim has produced one of the best books about race, gender, and class that I have read in the last ten years. In a moment where celebratory... "Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, ... |
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299,88 zł |
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The Wishkeeper's Apprentice
ISBN: 9781529507904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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40,59 zł |
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Designing Gardens on Slopes
ISBN: 9781853411380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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187,43 zł |
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The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film
ISBN: 9780814252314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term "the problem body." The book is a much-needed exploration of the projection of disability on film combined with a much-needed rethinking of hierarchies of difference. The editors turned to the existing corpus of disability theory with its impressive insights about the social and cultural...
In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from t...
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162,78 zł |
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The Digestive System in Mammals: Food Form and Function
ISBN: 9780521440165 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. However well the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tracts of a wide range of mammals are described and quantified, there can be no real explanation of observed patterns without consideration of the mechanical and chemical properties of the food consumed, and digestive stages involved in its processing. This book aims to integrate findings from the many different types of investigations of mammalian digestive systems into a coherent whole. Using the themes of food, form and function, researchers discuss models of digestive processes, linking this with evolutionary aspects of food utilization....
However well the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tracts of a wide range of mammals are described and quantified, there can be no real explanation of o...
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834,10 zł |
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The Gun
ISBN: 9780743271738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through WWI, Vietnam, to present day Afghanistan when Kalashnikovs and their knock-offs number as many as 100 million, one for every seventy persons on earth. At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin's Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc's standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and...
In a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization...
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87,06 zł |
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The Digestive System in Mammals: Food Form and Function
ISBN: 9780521020855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. However well the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tracts of a wide range of mammals are described and quantified, there can be no real explanation of observed patterns without consideration of the mechanical and chemical properties of the food consumed, and digestive stages involved in its processing. This book aims to integrate findings from the many different types of investigations of mammalian digestive systems into a coherent whole. Using the themes of food, form and function, researchers discuss models of digestive processes, linking this with evolutionary aspects of food utilization....
However well the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tracts of a wide range of mammals are described and quantified, there can be no real explanation of o...
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350,37 zł |
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Marginalia: Poems and Texts from the First Ten Years
ISBN: 9781908058201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This anthology celebrates the 10th anniversary of one of the UK's most innovative literary publishers.
This anthology celebrates the 10th anniversary of one of the UK's most innovative literary publishers.
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69,64 zł |
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The Fighters: Americans In Combat
ISBN: 9781451676662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The harrowing account of US soldiers caught in America’s forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that The New York Times calls “relentless...a classic of war reporting,” by Pulitzer Prize winner and former Marine C.J. Chivers. More than 2.7 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001, and C.J. Chivers reported on both wars from their beginnings. The Fighters vividly conveys the physical and emotional experience of war as lived by six combatants: a fighter pilot, a corpsman, a scout helicopter pilot, a grunt, an infantry officer, and a Special Forces...
The harrowing account of US soldiers caught in America’s forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that The New York Times calls “relentless...a classi...
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82,91 zł |
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The Law of Majority Shareholder Power: Use and Abuse
ISBN: 9780198786320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The second edition of this important work provides an invaluable reference guide for legal practitioners advising on matters relating to company shareholders. Fully revised and updated, it addresses the major legal developments since the first edition, including key cases in relation to the expropriation of minority shareholders such as Charterhouse Capital Ltd, re Coroin, and Assenagon Asset Management SA v Irish Bank Resolution Corp Ltd. There is also discussion of cases relating to the commencement of derivative proceedings such as Kleanthous v...
The second edition of this important work provides an invaluable reference guide for legal practitioners advising on matters relating to company share...
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1154,97 zł |
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Malayan Forest Primates: Ten Years' Study in Tropical Rain Forest
ISBN: 9781475708806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The prirnates that provide the central theme of these studies by David Chivers and his colleagues are the dominant large herbi- vores of the tropical evergreen rain forest. Tothis extent, they are the ecological counterparts of the great herds of ungulates in- habiting the savannahs of tropical Africa (and the monsoonal plains of Asia in their pristine state). Both groups comprise the chief primary consumers of living vegetable tissue in their respective environments. Members of each show appropriate anatomical adapt- ations for such a diet. As efficient exploiters of a dispersed but...
The prirnates that provide the central theme of these studies by David Chivers and his colleagues are the dominant large herbi- vores of the tropical ...
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383,73 zł |
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Transition to Humanity: A Plausible Hypothesis Or To address the question of one hundred and forty-one years of speculative imagination since Charles R. Darwin published "The descent of man". Were we
ISBN: 9781681815190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The reason religion plays such an influential part in our lives is because extinction would have ended our species if it were not for religion. It also gives us hope that our children don't actually die, but have gone to a far better place called heaven. Such a place had to have a God, and at the time, we had plenty. We are all, without exception, behaviorally programmed. We are all, to a greater or lesser degree, behaviorally manipulated. And we are all, to some extent, mind-poisoned and controlled by early suggestion and example. Extreme manipulation is called radicalization, which is an...
The reason religion plays such an influential part in our lives is because extinction would have ended our species if it were not for religion. It als...
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114,06 zł |
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New Wine Revelations
ISBN: 9781524544317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,92 zł |
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1000 Turn-Of-The-Century Houses: With Illustrations and Floor Plans
ISBN: 9780486455969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A remarkable presentation of the "finished ideas of a practicing architect of high rank in his profession," this early-twentieth-century showcase of homes features a wide range of designs from a Midwest master. Reproduced from a rare edition, the workfeatures a splendid array of dwellings, from cottages and bungalows to sprawling mansions. Each house is meticulously illustrated and accompanied by complete floor plans.
"A poorly planned house is usually more expensive than a modern practical plan,"according to the author, architect Herbert C. Chivers. Combining "modern methods" with... A remarkable presentation of the "finished ideas of a practicing architect of high rank in his profession," this early-twentieth-century showcase of h...
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78,59 zł |
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Metacomet's War: A Novel of King Philip's War
ISBN: 9781440104046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Of all the wars fought in or by America, only one takes its name from a single person.
In 1675, when the English hold on New England was still fragile, one Indian, King Philip, organized the seperate Algonquin tribes into one powerful, military force with a single objective - to drive the English settlers back into the sea. King Philip's War almost did just that. For a year Algonquin forces terrorized English settlements. Out of ninety New England towns, fifty-two felt the ferocity of the Algonquin attack. Twelve were completely destroyed before the English regained the upper hand. To... Of all the wars fought in or by America, only one takes its name from a single person.
In 1675, when the English hold on New England was still fra... |
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53,71 zł |
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Ghosts of War: A Novel of the Civil War and Today
ISBN: 9781466362147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Separated from his wife, adrift in New York City, Ollie Morton returns to Pittsfield, his hometown in the Berkshire Hills, for his mother's funeral and decides to stay. He joins the law firm of his father and brother Ben - a state senator with a thriving practice. But old sibling rivalries threaten to re-ignite as the two brothers get back together. More disturbing is the ghost Ollie encounters, a ghost from over a hundred years before, with Ollie's name, and whose past life mirrors Ollie's present. The story shifts to Pittsfield in 1861 where two brothers, Oliver and Ben Morton, are heading...
Separated from his wife, adrift in New York City, Ollie Morton returns to Pittsfield, his hometown in the Berkshire Hills, for his mother's funeral an...
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43,50 zł |
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The Freedom Trap
ISBN: 9781475158267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fresh from college graduation and a break-up with his long-time girlfriend, Tom Reardon now has to decide what to do with the rest of his life. He heads off to the tiny Berkshire town of Chilton Falls, where he can think through the clean slate life has given him. He takes a job at the Iron Bear Inn, and old bar with a new owner, Gino, who has his own dreams of a new life. The world of the Iron Bear provides Tom with examples of life lessons to be followed. . . and avoided. Life at the Iron Bear also offers up its own complications for Tom. It is up to him to sort them out and choose his...
Fresh from college graduation and a break-up with his long-time girlfriend, Tom Reardon now has to decide what to do with the rest of his life. He hea...
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43,50 zł |
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A Guide to Fossil Collecting on the East Dorset Coast
ISBN: 9781838152826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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107,05 zł |
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Jurassic Fossils of the West Dorset Coast: A Time Traveller's Journal
ISBN: 9781838152857 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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107,05 zł |