wyszukanych pozycji: 66
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Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice
ISBN: 9781439909881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1975, National Airlines was shut down for 127 days when flight attendants went on strike to protest long hours and low pay. Activists at National and many other U.S. airlines sought to win political power and material resources for people who live beyond the boundary of the traditional family. In Deregulating Desire, Ryan Patrick Murphy, a former flight attendant himself, chronicles the efforts of single women, unmarried parents, lesbians and gay men, as well as same-sex couples to make the airline industry a crucible for social change in the decades after 1970. Murphy... In 1975, National Airlines was shut down for 127 days when flight attendants went on strike to protest long hours and low pay. Activists at Nationa... |
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433,26 zł |
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Cpd Blue: True Crime
ISBN: 9780578676913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,94 zł |
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From Fairy Tale to Film Screenplay: Working with Plot Genotypes
ISBN: 9781349561292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. For Field, the budding screenwriter needs a clear screenplay structure, one which includes two well-crafted plot points, the first at the end of Act I, the second at the end of Act II. This is the level of the plot genotype.This book will offer you a richer theory of plot structure than the one Field outlines.
For Field, the budding screenwriter needs a clear screenplay structure, one which includes two well-crafted plot points, the first at the end of Act I...
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251,16 zł |
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The Government
ISBN: 9780595662135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Government" is a unique explanation of current American political activities and its relation to a world that is quickly learning how to cope with the United State's attempt to control the planet. With troops stationed in over 140 countries world wide, the impact of Americanization is as widely accepted as it is rejected. The threat does not escape China and the European Union rapidly competing for the same economic real estate. At home, the country faces a staggering 75 plus trillion-dollar debt that has encumbered future generations for as far as families can envision. "The...
"The Government" is a unique explanation of current American political activities and its relation to a world that is quickly learning how to cope wit...
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206,10 zł |
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Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama
ISBN: 9780313272707 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Staging the Impossible" explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. While a few monographs treat a particular dimension of the fantastic in drama, the Gothic or the fairy tale for instance, no other volume provides a critically sophisticated introduction to the diversity of fantastic drama written and performed in this century. The essays here lay to rest the illusion that realism is the only genuine form of theatrical expression and the notion that cinema special... "Staging the Impossible" explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary... |
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566,30 zł |
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The Fairytale and Plot Structure
ISBN: 9781137547071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used, the reader or creative writer will obtain a much better understanding of many other types of fiction, including short stories, dramatic texts and Hollywood screenplays.
This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how...
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502,35 zł |
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To the Top of the Tree
ISBN: 9780692955611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,16 zł |
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The Book of Pictures - A New Race
ISBN: 9781492811077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Adrian is an unbelievably rich twenty-six year old introverted recluse with a secret. Aside from the fact he is still a virgin, no one has an inkling the Patents which made him rich come from dreams he has of cat-people, dog-people, and bear-people on an alien world called Eros. His dreams might be a secret on Earth, but everyone on Eros has heard of the furless man depicted in the ancient Book of Pictures. The furless man is supposed to end the five hundred year old war between Eros and the reptile-people of the Gorlon Empire. It would all be so easy if they only knew where to find this...
Adrian is an unbelievably rich twenty-six year old introverted recluse with a secret. Aside from the fact he is still a virgin, no one has an inkling ...
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74,94 zł |
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The Roots of Football Hooliganism (Rle Sports Studies): An Historical and Sociological Study
ISBN: 9781138989894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors' study starts in the 1880s, when professional football first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war periods and revealing that England's World Cup triumph formed a watershed. The changing social composition of football crowds and the changing class structure of British society is discussed and the genesis of modern... This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at associa... |
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234,42 zł |
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Echte Waffen
ISBN: 9781921479458 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2010 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jon ist, wie viele Jungs in seinem Alter, fasziniert von Waffen: sowohl von Spielzeugwaffen als auch von echten Waffen. Eines Nachts hort er zufallig, wie sein Vater und seine Mutter uber eine Waffe reden, die im Haus versteckt ist. Am nachsten Tag beginnt er sie zu suchen. Tatsachlich findet er die schwere Kiste unter dem Bett seiner Eltern, und da ist sie - eine echte Waffe Er fuhlt das kalte schwere Metall in seinen Handen... Was als nachstes passiert, verandert das Leben von Jon und seinen Eltern fur immer.
Jon ist, wie viele Jungs in seinem Alter, fasziniert von Waffen: sowohl von Spielzeugwaffen als auch von echten Waffen. Eines Nachts hort er zufallig,...
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71,54 zł |
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Hooligans Abroad (Rle Sports Studies): The Behaviour and Control of English Fans in Continental Europe
ISBN: 9781138971981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make special reference to the troubled European championships in West Germany in 1988 and look critically at political responses to the problem. The authors used 'participant observation' in their research on British fans at the World Cup in Spain, and at matches in Rotterdam and Copenhagen, and capture the authentic voice of football hooliganism in their interviews. In this analysis of patterns of football violence the authors suggest some short-term proposals for... This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make special reference to the ... |
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224,23 zł |
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Catching Up
ISBN: 9783844316360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written by the author of Way Below E, the short stories in this collection sparkle with a wry, occasionally dark, humor. Murphy probes with literate skill the cracks and fissures inside us all and illuminates our sometimes precarious grip on modern life. In two stories, cracks open up on the water. In the first, a young man goes fishing and catches more than he bargained for. In the second, a sailor in a foreign port suddenly finds himself with a friend who is running amok. Another fissure develops on two journeys. On one, a father tries to save his son from a woman the son cant...
Written by the author of Way Below E, the short stories in this collection sparkle with a wry, occasionally dark, humor. Murphy probes with literat...
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249,55 zł |
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The Tempest: Critical Essays
ISBN: 9780415763790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present. The volume reprints influential criticism, and it also offers eight originalessays which study The Tempest from a variety of contemporary perspectives, including cultural materialism, feminism, deconstruction, performance theory, and postcolonial studies. Unlike recent anthologies about The Tempest which reprint contemporary articles along with a few new essays, this volume contains a mixture of old...
The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeen...
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275,19 zł |
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Science Fiction from China
ISBN: 9780275933432 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Despite periods of heavy censorship and political opposition, science fiction has emerged in the People's Republic of China as a popular literary genre. This anthology of stories by six major Chinese science fiction writers is the first such collection to be published in English. The stories are enriched by China's ancient tradition of fantastic literature as well as that nation's fascination with futuristic science and technology, and they provide illuminating glimpses of Chinese attitudes, values, and daily life. Wu provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Chinese science... Despite periods of heavy censorship and political opposition, science fiction has emerged in the People's Republic of China as a popular literary g... |
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212,61 zł |
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Breaking the Silence: The Little Rock Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963
ISBN: 9781557285157 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A leader of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open our Schools recounts the Little Rock integration crisis and Gov. Orval Fabus's closing of the local schools.
A leader of the Women's Emergency Committee to Open our Schools recounts the Little Rock integration crisis and Gov. Orval Fabus's closing of the loca...
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150,92 zł |
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Global Media Studies : An Ethnographic Perspective
ISBN: 9780415314404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text explores the theoretical and methodological threats that are defining global media studies as a discipline. Emphasizing the connection of globalization to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, and the performative and creative relationships that audiences develop with and through the media. Through ethnographic case studies from Brazil, Denmark, the UK, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey and the United States, the contributors address such questions as what links media consumption to a lived...
This text explores the theoretical and methodological threats that are defining global media studies as a discipline. Emphasizing the connection of gl...
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688,13 zł |
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Essentials of the Theory of Fiction
ISBN: 9780822335214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature of culture and interpretation. This third edition of the bestselling "Essentials of the Theory of Fiction" provides a comprehensive view of the theory of fiction from the nineteenth century through modernism and postmodernism to the present. It offers a sample of major theories of fictional technique while emphasizing recent developments in...
What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students o...
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155,55 zł |
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Marketing and the Common Good : Essays from Notre Dame on Societal Impact
ISBN: 9780415828826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Marketing is among the most powerful cultural forces at work in the contemporary world, affecting not merely consumer behaviour, but almost every aspect of human behaviour. While the potential for marketing both to promote and threaten societal well-being has been a perennial focus of inquiry, the current global intellectual and political climate has lent this topic extra gravitas. Through original research and scholarship from the influential Mendoza School of Business, this book looks at marketing s ramifications far beyond simple economic exchange. It addresses four major topic... Marketing is among the most powerful cultural forces at work in the contemporary world, affecting not merely consumer behaviour, but almost every a... |
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688,13 zł |
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Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy
ISBN: 9781784719968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Innovation has become a buzzword that promises dramatic changes in almost every field of business. Absent from this attention is a serious discussion of the ethical sides of dramatic change. To address this, editors Georges Enderle and Patrick E. Murphy gather a team of experts to fully examine the ethics of innovation within business and the economy in this standout addition to the Studies in TransAtlantic Business Ethics series.
Innovation has become a buzzword that promises dramatic changes in almost every field of business. Absent from this attention is a serious discussion ...
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622,40 zł |
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Forecasting Informatics Competencies for Nurses in the Future of Connected Health: Proceedings of the Nursing Informatics Post Conference 2016
ISBN: 9781614997375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nursing informatics has a long history of focusing on information management and nurses have a long history of describing their computer use. However, based on the technical advances and through the ongoing and consistent changes in healthcare today, we are now challenged to look to the future and help determine what nurses and patients/consumers will need going forward.This book presents the proceedings of the Post Conference to the 13th International Conference on Nursing Informatics, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2016. The theme of the Post Conference is Forecasting Informatics...
Nursing informatics has a long history of focusing on information management and nurses have a long history of describing their computer use. However,...
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610,40 zł |