wyszukanych pozycji: 84
Who Cares?: Rediscovering Community
ISBN: 9780813332086 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A wonderfully engaging and accessible book, Who Cares? emphasizes finding humane responses to developmentally and physically disabled individuals that are community driven rather than solely reliant on problem-solution oriented social service organizations. David Schwartz examines the roles of both informal communities and sectarian communities for examples and practical techniques that can be applied to the reader's situation. The beautifully written, touching accounts of individual lives swept under the carpet of the social services system make it impossible to read this book without...
A wonderfully engaging and accessible book, Who Cares? emphasizes finding humane responses to developmentally and physically disabled individua...
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256,31 zł |
Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond
ISBN: 9780415935579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II and now, at the beginning of the 21st century, most Americans live within a four-hour drive of a casino. What explains the success of places like Las Vegas? The self-contained casino resort removes gambling and its social problems from cities and provides Americans with the comfort of gambling in a setting matched to their suburban lifestyle. In a detailed look at the growth of the earliest casino resorts to the...
Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans int...
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117,87 zł |
Consuming Choices: Ethics in a Global Consumer Age
ISBN: 9781442275461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering, and environmental damage. Consuming Choices considers the ethical dimensions of consumer life by exploring several basic questions: Exactly what sorts of unethical practices are implicated in today's consumer products? Does moral culpability for these practices fall solely on the companies that perform them, or does it also fall upon consumers...
Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to u...
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161,91 zł |
Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City: How the people of a New Jersey resort built a seaside paradise, los
ISBN: 9780990001621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Queen of the Coast. The World's Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Beloved, maligned, always-hustling since its 1854 founding, the seaside resort has seen it all: first class hotels, popular amusements on the world famous Boardwalk and its piers, Prohibition, gangsters, speakeasies, conventioneers, celebrities, urban pride, urban decay, a casino revival, a casino collapse-and it hasn't given up yet. Boardwalk Playground shares a hundred stories of Atlantic City's high spots and low points of the past century and a half,... The Queen of the Coast. The World's Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Beloved, maligne... |
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81,06 zł |
Political Alienation and Political Behavior
ISBN: 9780202309453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why do people adopt attitudes of political alienation--attitudes of estrangement from, or lack of identification with, the political system? Why do some politically alienated people react to their alienation by engaging in revolutionary behavior, while others similarly alienated--become reformers or ritualists, and still others simply drop out of political activity? In Political Alienation and Political Behavior, David C. Schwartz attempts to answer these questions, challenging accepted theories of social status and economic difficulties and developing a completely new,... Why do people adopt attitudes of political alienation--attitudes of estrangement from, or lack of identification with, the political system? Why do... |
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225,54 zł |
Medicine Science and Dreams: The Making of Physician-Scientists
ISBN: 9789400789746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Physician-scientists are unusual creatures. While we are drawn to the clinical challenges of our patients, we are also drawn to the opportunities that our patients medical problems bring to science. This book contains the unique experiences and encounters that drew 20 accomplished physician-scientists to this profession. These personal stories are those of people and circumstances that have had profound effects on our career decisions, our creative opportunities, and our lives. These stories also serve to highlight the lessons learned along the way and the distinct attributes of these... Physician-scientists are unusual creatures. While we are drawn to the clinical challenges of our patients, we are also drawn to the opportunities t... |
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578,30 zł |
Medicine Science and Dreams: The Making of Physician-Scientists
ISBN: 9789048195374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Physician-scientists are unusual creatures. While we are drawn to the clinical challenges of our patients, we are also drawn to the opportunities that our patients medical problems bring to science. This book contains the unique experiences and encounters that drew 20 accomplished physician-scientists to this profession. These personal stories are those of people and circumstances that have had profound effects on our career decisions, our creative opportunities, and our lives. These stories also serve to highlight the lessons learned along the way and the distinct attributes of these... Physician-scientists are unusual creatures. While we are drawn to the clinical challenges of our patients, we are also drawn to the opportunities t... |
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578,30 zł |
Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond
ISBN: 9780415935562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II and now, at the beginning of the 21st century, most Americans live within a four-hour drive of a casino. What explains the success of places like Las Vegas? The self-contained casino resort removes gambling and its social problems from cities and provides Americans with the comfort of gambling in a setting matched to their suburban lifestyle. In a detailed look at the growth of the earliest casino resorts to the...
Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans int...
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194,79 zł |
Consuming Choices: Ethics in a Global Consumer Age
ISBN: 9781442275454 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering, and environmental damage. Consuming Choices considers the ethical dimensions of consumer life by exploring several basic questions: Exactly what sorts of unethical practices are implicated in today's consumer products? Does moral culpability for these practices fall solely on the companies that perform them, or does it also fall upon consumers...
Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to u...
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367,00 zł |
The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch V. Maryland
ISBN: 9780197582138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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122,83 zł |
At the Sands: The Casino That Shaped Classic Las Vegas, Brought the Rat Pack Together, and Went Out With a Bang
ISBN: 9780990001638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,34 zł |
La Magia de Pensar en Grande
ISBN: 9787313673008 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,07 zł |
Political Alienation and Political Behavior
ISBN: 9781138530027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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692,17 zł |
The Magic of Thinking Success
ISBN: 9789353174330 / Marathi / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,96 zł |
The Magic of Thinking Success
ISBN: 9780879804206 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Magic of Thinking Success starts with a dream If you could choose to follow any profession in the world, what would it be? Where would you really like to live? Precisely what kind of car would you drive? Success starts with knowing what you want from life-then single-mindedly chasing your dream. Enthusiasm plus action equals success. You CAN be anyting you want to be. David J. Schwartz, author of the best selling "Magic of Thinking Big" here brings you the secret success forumulas of the wealthy including: How to build confidence for success Five sure steps to success through... The Magic of Thinking Success starts with a dream If you could choose to follow any profession in the world, what would it be? Where would you rea... |
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77,36 zł |
Badi Soch Ka Bada Jadoo
ISBN: 9788186775264 / Hindi / Miękka / 2002 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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100,34 zł |
Escape From Johnson Island: A daring Rescue from a Union prison on an icebound island
ISBN: 9781542599078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Based in the period 1864-65, this book describes the adventures of Jeb Wolf, who takes his pregnant wife south to visit her father in Tennessee. When they arrive, her father is missing, he has been falsely convicted of spying and taken to Johnson Island, a Confederate prison on Sandusky Bay in Ohio. Jeb goes to rescue him from the island in the middle of winter, manages to get him free and takes him back to Tennessee. In the meantime, a group of Hendersons, who were behind the false accusation, have taken over his father-in-law's farm. Jeb rallies his friends and father and heads south again...
Based in the period 1864-65, this book describes the adventures of Jeb Wolf, who takes his pregnant wife south to visit her father in Tennessee. When ...
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63,96 zł |
Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising, 1987-1992
ISBN: 9780231100953 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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150,84 zł |
Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising, 1987-1992
ISBN: 9780231100946 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Examines the non-violent protests by monks and nuns in Tibet for independence from China. The movement began in 1987 partly as a result of official Chinese encouragement for cultural and religious revival during the 1980s. The ongoing struggle and response is a case study of the control methods and
Examines the non-violent protests by monks and nuns in Tibet for independence from China. The movement began in 1987 partly as a result of official Ch...
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662,21 zł |
If You Made a Million
ISBN: 9780688136345 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. If You Made a Million
Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explain the nuts and bolts -- as well as the mystery and wonder -- of earning money, investing it, accruing dividends and interest, and watching savings grow. Hey, you never know An ALA Notable Book A Horn Book Fanfare Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Teachers' Choices Selection If You Made a Million
Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explai... |
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40,70 zł |