wyszukanych pozycji: 57
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Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
ISBN: 9780774830478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Canadians are getting sick from toxins in the air, food, water, and consumer products. In Cleaner, Greener, Healthier, David R. Boyd sets out to remedy Canada's environmental health problems. He begins by assessing the environmental burden of disease, identifies its unequal distribution, and estimates the associated economic costs. He then compares Canada's environmental laws and policies with those in the US, Australia, and the EU, delivering a provocative diagnosis of the causes of Canada's second-rate standards. Finally, he prescribes legal remedies that will enable Canada to... Canadians are getting sick from toxins in the air, food, water, and consumer products. In Cleaner, Greener, Healthier, David R. Boyd sets ou... |
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173,30 zł |
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The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution
ISBN: 9780774824132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution, David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect... Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, ... |
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142,67 zł |
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Rereading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works
ISBN: 9780802080943 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Following Northrop Frye's death in 1991, a large archive of his correspondence, unpublished criticism, and notebooks was deposited with the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto. This collection of essays, written by a distinguished group of Frye experts, begins the process of reassessing Frye's thought and writings in light of the extraordinary material contained in this archive. The eight essays included here illuminate in new and significant ways both Frye's critical theories and their philosophical underpinnings. They show that Frye's was a many-sided and yet... Following Northrop Frye's death in 1991, a large archive of his correspondence, unpublished criticism, and notebooks was deposited with the Victori... |
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163,11 zł |
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Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy
ISBN: 9780774810487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. While governments assert that Canada is a world leader in sustainability, Unnatural Law provides extensive evidence to refute this claim. A comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law, the book provides a balanced, critical examination of Canada's record, focusing on laws and policies intended to protect water, air, land, and biodiversity. Three decades of environmental laws have produced progress in a number of important areas, such as ozone depletion, protected areas, and some kinds of air and water pollution. However, Canada's... While governments assert that Canada is a world leader in sustainability, Unnatural Law provides extensive evidence to refute this claim. A ... |
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479,14 zł |
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Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
ISBN: 9780774830461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Canadians are getting sick from toxins in the air, food, water, and consumer products. In Cleaner, Greener, Healthier, David R. Boyd sets out to remedy Canada's environmental health problems. He begins by assessing the environmental burden of disease, identifies its unequal distribution, and estimates the associated economic costs. He then compares Canada's environmental laws and policies with those in the US, Australia, and the EU, delivering a provocative diagnosis of the causes of Canada's second-rate standards. Finally, he prescribes legal remedies that will enable Canada to... Canadians are getting sick from toxins in the air, food, water, and consumer products. In Cleaner, Greener, Healthier, David R. Boyd sets ou... |
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453,65 zł |
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The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment
ISBN: 9780774821612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around a key question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law, in the constitutions of democratic states? In The Environmental Rights Revolution, David Boyd, one of Canada's leading environmental lawyers, answers this question by moving beyond theoretical debate to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right to a healthy environment in constitutions. His analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100... The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around a key question: Should rights to cle... |
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173,30 zł |
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Rereading Frye: The Published and the Unpublished Works
ISBN: 9780802042521 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Following Northrop Frye's death in 1991, a large archive of his correspondence, unpublished criticism, and notebooks was deposited with the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto. This collection of essays, written by a distinguished group of Frye experts, begins the process of reassessing Frye's thought and writings in light of the extraordinary material contained in this archive. The eight essays included here illuminate in new and significant ways both Frye's critical theories and their philosophical underpinnings. They show that Frye's was a many-sided and yet... Following Northrop Frye's death in 1991, a large archive of his correspondence, unpublished criticism, and notebooks was deposited with the Victori... |
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270,15 zł |
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The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution
ISBN: 9780774824125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution, David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect... Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, ... |
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428,17 zł |
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The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future
ISBN: 9781770412385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment"
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others. "The Optimistic Environmentalist" chronicles these remarkable success stories. Endangered species from bald eagles to gray whales pulled back from the precipice of extinction. Thousands of new parks, protecting billions... "A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment"
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges climate change, pollution, an... |
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75,58 zł |
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Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter
ISBN: 9781438437484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The adaptation of literary works to the screen has been the subject of increasing, and increasingly sophisticated, critical and scholarly attention in recent years, but most studies of the subject have continued to privilege literature over film by taking the literary sources as their starting point. Rather than examining the processes by which a particular author has been adapted into a diversity of films by different filmmakers, the contributors in Hitchcock at the Source consider the processes by which a varied range of literary sources have been transformed by one filmmaker into an...
The adaptation of literary works to the screen has been the subject of increasing, and increasingly sophisticated, critical and scholarly attention in...
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144,71 zł |
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Falling Down
ISBN: 9780983248422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mike and Janet Wilson have lived together happily for twenty-five years. A successful marriage, lovely home, lucrative careers and an ambitious son is what they have to show for years of hard work, until their lives shatter at the hands of Janet's recurring nightmare of The Man in Black. Her dreams always begin the same way - she surprises him as he burglarizes their home and shoots him as he attacks. But with each successive dream, The Man in Black crawls after her and comes closer and closer until he finally touches her just before she wakes up. Mike convinces her it was all just a dream,...
Mike and Janet Wilson have lived together happily for twenty-five years. A successful marriage, lovely home, lucrative careers and an ambitious son is...
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26,48 zł |
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Estimation Problems in Hybrid Systems
ISBN: 9780521024525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Recent developments in sensor and processor sophistication have created a need for effective estimation and control algorithms for hybrid, nonlinear systems. This volume presents a highly effective, flexible family of estimation algorithms that can be used in estimating or controlling a wide variety of nonlinear plants. Several applications are studied, including tracking a maneuvering aircraft, automatic target recognition, and the decoding of signals transmitted across a wireless communications link. The authors begin by setting out the necessary theoretical background. They then develop a...
Recent developments in sensor and processor sophistication have created a need for effective estimation and control algorithms for hybrid, nonlinear s...
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235,44 zł |
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Estimation Problems in Hybrid Systems
ISBN: 9780521623209 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Recent developments in sensor and processor sophistication have created a need for effective estimation and control algorithms for hybrid, nonlinear systems. This volume presents a highly effective, flexible family of estimation algorithms that can be used in estimating or controlling a wide variety of nonlinear plants. Several applications are studied, including tracking a maneuvering aircraft, automatic target recognition, and the decoding of signals transmitted across a wireless communications link. The authors begin by setting out the necessary theoretical background. They then develop a...
Recent developments in sensor and processor sophistication have created a need for effective estimation and control algorithms for hybrid, nonlinear s...
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801,68 zł |
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Breasts and Eggs
ISBN: 9781529074413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's...
'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female...
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51,10 zł |
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Breasts and Eggs
ISBN: 9781609456702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,58 zł |
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Hit Parade of Tears
ISBN: 9781839768491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A new collection from the cult author of Terminal Boredom
A new collection from the cult author of Terminal Boredom
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61,34 zł |
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Applications of Topic Models
ISBN: 9781680833089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How can a single person understand what's going on in a collection of millions of documents? This is an increasingly widespread problem: sifting through an organization's e-mails, understanding a decade worth of newspapers, or characterizing a scientific field's research. This monograph explores the ways that humans and computers make sense of document collections through tools called topic models. Topic models are a statistical framework that help users understand large document collections; not just to find individual documents but to understand the general themes present in the collection....
How can a single person understand what's going on in a collection of millions of documents? This is an increasingly widespread problem: sifting throu...
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466,86 zł |
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Navarro
ISBN: 9781952138799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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54,12 zł |
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Psalms in the Early Modern World
ISBN: 9781409422822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Psalms in the Early Modern World is the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation, and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. In the age of Reformation, when religious concerns drove political, social, cultural, economic, and scientific discourse, the Bible was the supreme document, and the Psalms were arguably its most important book.The Psalms played a central role in arbitrating the salient debates of the day, including but scarcely limited to the nature of power and the legitimacy of rule; the proper role and purpose of nations; the...
Psalms in the Early Modern World is the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation, and influence of the Psalms in the At...
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739,10 zł |
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Understanding the Construction Client
ISBN: 9781405129787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book breaks new ground by creating a framework to understand clients' actions and needs. Most construction management books focus on improving the construction process; this one focuses on a better engagement with the client. It challenges conceptions of both the construction industry and clients' businesses so that a more effective process and greater client satisfaction can be achieved. The book suggests that 'buildings are not about building but about changing and developing the client'. The technical, organisational and psychological aspects of this are described and analysed in...
This book breaks new ground by creating a framework to understand clients' actions and needs. Most construction management books focus on improving th...
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396,77 zł |