wyszukanych pozycji: 118
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Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850's
ISBN: 9780804724807 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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397,87 zł |
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Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice, and Politics
ISBN: 9780415747691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods - how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of... Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods - how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people... |
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303,63 zł |
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China's Provinces in Reform: Class, Community and Political Culture
ISBN: 9780415164047 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. China is a far larger and more diverse country than many people in the West realise. The provinces that make up the country are considerable social, economic and political systems in their own right. They are comparable in size and complexity to European states.
China's Provinces in Reform is concerned with the impact of economic reform and social and politial change within the provinces at the immediate sub-central level of the People's Republic of China. One of the main aims of this book is to question over-generalizations about China's development in the reform era. However,... China is a far larger and more diverse country than many people in the West realise. The provinces that make up the country are considerable social, e...
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257,30 zł |
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China Rising: Nationalism and Interdependence
ISBN: 9780415160278 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. China's dramatic economic growth since the 1970s has seemed inexorable. The resulting rise in international profile has provoked a lively argument regarding the fundamental economic and strategic challenges to the rest of the world that China now presents.
China Rising examines the extent to which that country's future foreign policy stance may be shaped by its own agendas and constrained through interdependence and interaction with the outside world. In the process it also questions the extent to which the rest of the world can attempt to shape that future to non-Chinese... China's dramatic economic growth since the 1970s has seemed inexorable. The resulting rise in international profile has provoked a lively argument reg...
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746,33 zł |
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The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives
ISBN: 9780415455640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Including sections on class, status and power, agency and structure and life style the book develops the concept of the New Rich further in light of China's accelerated social change and the ever-increasing affluence of some of the population.
Including sections on class, status and power, agency and structure and life style the book develops the concept of the New Rich further in light of C...
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772,07 zł |
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Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New South Africavolume 56
ISBN: 9780520232037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. South Africa has experienced one of the world's most dramatic political transformations. David Goodman, a journalist and activist who has witnessed South Africa's struggles since the darkest days of apartheid, chronicles the historic transition from apartheid to democracy. This compelling story is told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans who have experienced apartheid from opposite sides of the racial and political divide. Taken together, these profiles provide the first in-depth look at the social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa.
Part social history and part... South Africa has experienced one of the world's most dramatic political transformations. David Goodman, a journalist and activist who has witnessed So...
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197,45 zł |
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The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald's and Middle Class Revolution
ISBN: 9780415113359 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the first volume in the The New Rich in Asia series which examines the economic, social and political construction of the 'new rich' in the countries and territories of East and South East Asia, as well as their impact internationally. From a western perspective the rise of the emergent business and professional class may seem very familiar. However, it is far from clear that those newly enriched by the processes of modernization in East and South East Asia are readily comparable with the middle classes of the West. For example, civil and human rights seem to play a different...
This is the first volume in the The New Rich in Asia series which examines the economic, social and political construction of the 'new rich' ...
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772,07 zł |
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Spanish Naval Power, 1589 1665: Reconstruction and Defeat
ISBN: 9780521580632 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first book to attempt a comprehensive analysis of the state of Spain's naval forces in the years following the defeat of the Great Armada in 1588 and during the seventeenth century. This was a period in which all of Europe's maritime powers were attaching increasing importance to naval warfare in their bid to topple Spain and to seize the rich pickings of her vast empire. The book's findings throw new light on the conservation of Spain's timber resources, naval funding, and the recruitment and status of the Spanish seaman, in a study of the political, social, economic and...
This is the first book to attempt a comprehensive analysis of the state of Spain's naval forces in the years following the defeat of the Great Armada ...
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671,29 zł |
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Seymour and Blair: Their Lives and Services: With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction.
ISBN: 9781275852679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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122,86 zł |
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Tangram Puzzle Book, The: A New Approach to the Classic Pieces
ISBN: 9789813235205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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128,68 zł |
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Soma Puzzle Book, The: A New Approach to the Classic Pieces
ISBN: 9789813275942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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128,68 zł |
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Tangram Puzzle Book, The: A New Approach to the Classic Pieces
ISBN: 9789813234000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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231,62 zł |
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Soma Puzzle Book, The: A New Approach to the Classic Pieces
ISBN: 9789813275317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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231,62 zł |
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Laughing Stocks Are Free: Sharing a Laugh in 'Troubled Times'
ISBN: 9781438978093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The laugh out-loud humor is captivating. The true recounts go in rapid succession, from one hilarious story to the next. The backdrop of this book is a shy skinny kid growing up in small towns. From kid to adulthood is non-stop hilarity. It immediately grabs you with the first story. There is something for everyone in this book. David M. Goodman includes five of his fictional stories. There is a reason he chose 'lower-case letters' for the title "dirt road....old farmhouse." The book stands alone to share Humor and Inspiration with, readers of all ages. If you don't want to laugh, this is the...
The laugh out-loud humor is captivating. The true recounts go in rapid succession, from one hilarious story to the next. The backdrop of this book is ...
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49,36 zł |
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Power and Penury: Government, Technology and Science in Philip II's Spain
ISBN: 9780521524773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first book in any language to attempt a comprehensive discussion of the relations between government, technology and science in Philip II's Spain. In histories of early-modern European technology and science, Spain has consistently been overlooked; yet the assumption that Spain contributed little in these fields has hardly been tested against archival evidence. Dr Goodman redresses this misconception. Through extensive research of source material he offers a reconsideration of Philip's relations with technology and the sciences, showing the crown's considerable involvement in...
This is the first book in any language to attempt a comprehensive discussion of the relations between government, technology and science in Philip II'...
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213,54 zł |
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The Return of the Gods
ISBN: 9781885445162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1988 and now available in a photo-reprint paperback edition, this book provides an important perspective on the theatre, culture, and politics of Japan in the 1960s. It contains translations of five plays representative of the period, with analytical commentary by a leading authority on postwar Japanese drama. The author's central thesis is that the 1960 demonstrations against the renewal of the U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty was a major turning point in Japanese intellectual life, one characterized by disillusionment with the old left and the legacy of prewar left-wing...
First published in 1988 and now available in a photo-reprint paperback edition, this book provides an important perspective on the theatre, culture, a...
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102,56 zł |
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The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard
ISBN: 9781785659409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard tells the story of one of the most celebrated names in Starfleet history.
The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard tells the story of one of the most celebrated names in Starfleet history.
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48,71 zł |
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Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype
ISBN: 9780739101674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Shortly before releasing deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult published a vicious 95-page antisemitic tract that declared war on its Jewish archenemy. The gassing of the Tokyo subway was the culmination of a century of Japanese theorizing about Jews, an important part of which has been antisemitic. In recent years, books blaming Jews for everything from the designs on Japanese currency to the 1995 Kobe earthquake have appeared, and some have sold millions of copies. What explains this virtual obsession with Jews in Japan--a country that has no...
Shortly before releasing deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult published a vicious 95-page antisemitic ...
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238,39 zł |
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Probability and Stochastic Processes
ISBN: 9781118324561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This text introduces engineering students to probability theory and stochastic processes. Along with thorough mathematical development of the subject, the book presents intuitive explanations of key points in order to give students the insights they need to apply math to practical engineering problems. The first seven chapters contain the core material that is essential to any introductory course. In one-semester undergraduate courses, instructors can select material from the remaining chapters to meet their individual goals. Graduate courses can cover all chapters in one semester. This text introduces engineering students to probability theory and stochastic processes. Along with thorough mathematical development of the subje... |
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1256,43 zł |
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An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present
ISBN: 9781405180627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.
A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Ar...
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162,27 zł |