wyszukanych pozycji: 238
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An Inquiry Into Well-Being and Destitution
ISBN: 9780198288350 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How should economic and social theory accommodate empirical facts about physical destitution, and how should governments respond to famines and hunger? This interdisciplinary book focuses on these and other questions about physical being. Dasgupta's aim here is to offer a description of destitution as it occurs among rural populations of the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America; to give an account of the forces at work which perpetuate destitution, and to offer prescriptions for both the public and private spheres of life.
A central concern of the author has been to reconcile... How should economic and social theory accommodate empirical facts about physical destitution, and how should governments respond to famines and hunger...
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271,90 zł |
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Empire and Nation: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780231152211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the context of India, has served as the foundation for subaltern studies, an area of scholarship he continues to develop. In this collection, English-speaking readers are finally able to experience the breadth and substance of Chatterjee's wide-ranging thought. His provocative essays examine the phenomenon of postcolonial democracy and establish the parameters for research in subaltern politics. They...
Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in th...
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160,97 zł |
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Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality
ISBN: 9780367737016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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203,84 zł |
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Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality
ISBN: 9781138685246 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein had a long conversation on the nature of reality. This conversation has been widely quoted and discussed by scientists, philosophers and scholars from the literary world. The important question that Tagore and Einstein discussed was whether the world is a unity dependent on humanity, or the world is a reality independent on the human factor. Einstein took the stand adopted by Western philosophers and mathematicians, namely that "reality "is something... The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein had a long ... |
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739,10 zł |
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Darstellung von Frauen bei Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay und Theodor Fontane
ISBN: 9783346593122 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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174,63 zł |
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A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal
ISBN: 9780691090313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. This narrative history tells an incredible story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered... In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as ... |
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241,45 zł |
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The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World
ISBN: 9780231130622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the proliferation of security and welfare technologies has created modern governmental bodies that administer populations, but do not provide citizens with an arena for democratic deliberation. Under these...
Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee....
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595,77 zł |
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Novel methods and strategies towards erythronolide synthesis
ISBN: 9783639661798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book describes a novel strategy for the synthesis of erythronolides which are analogues of the antibiotic Erythromycin. In the era of growing antibacterial resistance, the work described here may be relevant in the development of new antibiotics. This work which includes development of unprecedented synthetic methodologies and strategies aims to reduce the number of synthetic steps to almost half of what had been previously reported for the past 3 decades.
This book describes a novel strategy for the synthesis of erythronolides which are analogues of the antibiotic Erythromycin. In the era of growing ant...
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305,07 zł |
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Man and Environment
ISBN: 9783838383385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Environmental disaster is a disaster that is due to human activities and some of the most publicized environmental disasters are associated with the mining industry. These disasters are attributed to both natural and mining-related causes. Acid drainage, for example, formed by rainwater or snowmelt in contact with mineral deposits can damage nearby ecosystems by polluting streams and destroying wildlife. The mining and processing of ores, however, may accentuate and accelerate the natural processes. On a long-term basis, mining can increase the acidity of water in streams; cause increased...
Environmental disaster is a disaster that is due to human activities and some of the most publicized environmental disasters are associated with the m...
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249,55 zł |
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Multilingual restricted domain QA System with dialogue management
ISBN: 9783845428116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this book, I have developed a keyword based multilingual restricted domain question answering system with dialogue management for Railway information in Bengali and Telugu. The system accepts typed text inputs and provides text output as well. The architecture of a multilingual restricted domain question answering system with dialogue management has been proposed. The system maintains language specific domain and linguistic models. The system maintains dialogue history for each query topic and for each language containing values of information chunks and the answers for the previous...
In this book, I have developed a keyword based multilingual restricted domain question answering system with dialogue management for Railway informati...
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249,55 zł |
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The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power
ISBN: 9780691152011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. The Black Hole of Empire follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present.... When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cram... |
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187,79 zł |
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Economics of Rivalry, Conflict and Cooperation
ISBN: 9789814289832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book offers an extensive and original study of the dynamics of rivalry, evolution of costly and violent conflicts, and potential cooperation among powerful players. It unravels the special features of the global socio-economic system that can make it extremely fragile and vulnerable. It serves as a good reference source for anyone interested in some of the pressing and emerging problems of the global system, such as intra-national and interethnic conflicts, climate change challenges, poverty and terrorism, and provides useful and rigorous insights into the collective bid to resolve some...
This book offers an extensive and original study of the dynamics of rivalry, evolution of costly and violent conflicts, and potential cooperation amon...
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611,67 zł |
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Indian Art
ISBN: 9780192842213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5,000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explored through the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Colonial, and contemporary periods, incorporating discussion of modern Bangladesh and Pakistan, tribal artists, and the decorative arts. Combining a clear overview with fascinating detail, Mitter succeeds in bringing to life the true diversity of Indian culture. The influence of Islam on the Mughal court, which produced the world-famous Taj Mahal and exquisite miniature paintings, is closely examined....
This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5,000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explored t...
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126,27 zł |
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Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal
ISBN: 9780816626878 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Scholars from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta explore t genealogy of India's contemporary intellectual modernity, concentrating on Bengal the first modern province. The topics include colonial and nationalist literature, art, politics, child rearing, historical memory, and th
Scholars from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta explore t genealogy of India's contemporary intellectual modernity, concentrating ...
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122,28 zł |
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Testing Quantum Mechanics on New Ground
ISBN: 9780521026598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Recent technological advances have made it possible to perform experiments, once considered to be purely gedanken, which test the counterintuitive and bizarre consequences of quantum theory. This book provides simple accounts of these experiments and an understanding of what they aim to prove and why this is important. After introducing the main theoretical concepts and problems with the foundations of quantum mechanics, early chapters discuss experiments in the areas of wave-particle duality, cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum nondemolition measurement. The text then examines...
Recent technological advances have made it possible to perform experiments, once considered to be purely gedanken, which test the counterintuitive and...
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235,44 zł |
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Comparative Study of Two Species of Phyllanthus (Euphorbiaceae s.l.)
ISBN: 9783659642531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bhumyamalaki-an important herbal drug mentioned in ayurvedic literatures has been used in India since ancient times (with an annual consumption of about 3000 metric tons in India even today) against jaundice and other liver related disorders for its healing properties. Scientific studies clearly indicate Phyllanthus amarus Schum. & Thonn. to be the medicinally most important species found in the mentioned herbal drug, having the highest content of hepatoprotective compounds such as Phyllanthine and Hypophyllanthine among the herbaceous species of Phyllanthus in India. But the herbal drug...
Bhumyamalaki-an important herbal drug mentioned in ayurvedic literatures has been used in India since ancient times (with an annual consumption of abo...
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182,83 zł |
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Biological Extinction: New Perspectives
ISBN: 9781108711814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A must read for anyone who wants to understand why species are becoming extinct, why biodiversity matters for our wellbeing, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend. Leading thinkers provide new perspectives on this urgent issue, offering significant insights and novel solutions.
A must read for anyone who wants to understand why species are becoming extinct, why biodiversity matters for our wellbeing, and how we can protect th...
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235,44 zł |
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Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art
ISBN: 9780226532394 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the exotic. East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early twentieth century. Mitter's new Preface reflects upon the profound changes in Western interpretations of non-Western societies over the past fifteen years.
In this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the ex...
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150,23 zł |
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Mining Operations
ISBN: 9783838381725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mining coal has a tremendous environmental impact, so extracting the energy out of coal while it still is in the ground makes a lot of sense. Gasifying coal below ground eliminates the need to mine the coal. Underground coal gasification (UCG) has the potential to provide a clean convenient source of energy from coal seams where traditional mining methods are either impossible or uneconomic to develop. Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) or the use of geo-reactors offers tremendous potential to clean up coal energy and enable economic access to stranded coal deposits.
Mining coal has a tremendous environmental impact, so extracting the energy out of coal while it still is in the ground makes a lot of sense. Gasifyin...
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300,49 zł |
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Luminous Life: A New Model of Humanistic Psychotherapy
ISBN: 9780982046777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Luminous Life" is a new model of humanistic psychotherapy that is the result of over a decade of original research, thought, and clinical work. Based on the fundamental principal that each individual is a unique, beautiful person and is capable of healing oneself, the book discusses psychological modules for one to maintain - or regain - their healthy and happy life. Adopting a holistic approach to human existence through investigations of meaning, values, freedom, personal responsibility, human potential, and spirituality, Dr. Choudhury takes the reader through a series of theoretical... "Luminous Life" is a new model of humanistic psychotherapy that is the result of over a decade of original research, thought, and clinical work. Ba... |
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100,32 zł |