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Afghanistan

A History from 1260 to the Present

Autor: Lee Jonathan L.

Wydawca: Reaktion Books

Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient trade routes and strategic position between India, Inner As...

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170,88 zł 189,87 zł

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The Great Convergence

Information Technology and the New Globalization

Autor: Richard Baldwin

Wydawca: Belknap Harvard

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. A...

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58,28 zł 64,75 zł

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Crucible of Islam

Autor: Bowersock G. W.

Wydawca: Harvard University Press

Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account f...

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44,78 zł 49,75 zł

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China Questions

Critical Insights into a Rising Power

Redakcja: Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi

Wydawca: Harvard University Press

Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the ...

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62,78 zł 69,75 zł

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Ordinary Virtues

Moral Order in a Divided World

Autor: Michael Ignatieff

Wydawca: Harvard University Press

What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are our values converging or diverging? In particular, are human rights becoming a global ethic? T...

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49,28 zł 54,75 zł

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Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid

Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph ...

Autor: Matt Susan J., Luke Fernandez

Wydawca: Harvard University Press

This wide-ranging account of our emotional responses to technologies, from the telegram to Instagram, shows that technology changes not only how we feel, but what our feelings mean.Face...

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112,50 zł 125,00 zł

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Ripples in Spacetime

Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy

Autor: Govert Schilling

Wydawca: Belknap Harvard

It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ...

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58,28 zł 64,75 zł

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Next Billion Users

Digital Life Beyond the West

Autor: Payal Arora

Wydawca: Harvard University Press

"New-media pundits obsess over online privacy and security, cyberbullying, and revenge porn, but do these things really matter in most of the world? ""The Next Billion Users"&qu...

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112,50 zł 125,00 zł

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World of the Crusades

Autor: Christopher Tyerman

Wydawca: Yale University Press

"Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusader...

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112,50 zł 125,00 zł

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Mescaline

A Global History of the First Psychedelic

Autor: Mike Jay

Wydawca: Yale University Press

"Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's ""The Doors of Perception"", after which the word ""psychedelic"&q...

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85,46 zł 94,95 zł

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Arabs

A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

Autor: Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Wydawca: Yale University Press

"This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture o...

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112,50 zł 125,00 zł

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How Dogs Work

Autor: Raymond Coppinger

Wydawca: University Chicago Press

"How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as ""man's best friend"", but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-...

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63,00 zł 70,00 zł

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Sex on the Kitchen Table

The Romance of Plants and Your Food

Autor: Ellstrand Norman C.

Wydawca: University Chicago Press

At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the p...

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63,00 zł 70,00 zł

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How to Lie with Maps

Autor: Mark Monmonier

Wydawca: University Chicago Press

"An instant classic when first published in 1991, ""How to Lie with Maps"" revealed how the choices mapmakers make – consciously or unconsciously – mean that ev...

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76,50 zł 85,00 zł

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Anthropology and Ethnology During World War II

The Activity of Sektion Rassen- und Volkstumsforschung ...

Redakcja: Marcin Brocki, Małgorzata Maj, Stanisława Trebunia-Staszel

Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

After reading this voluminous and, contrary to what the title might suggest, engaging study, I have no doubt that it is a great scientific achievement. Firstly, the authors managed to develop an ap...

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35,11 zł 39,90 zł

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What Happened in the Twentieth Century?

Autor: Peter Sloterdijk

Wydawca: Polity Press

When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 2...

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81,90 zł 91,00 zł

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American political issue ownership and framing

A Functional Theory of Electoral Advantage-Seeking in P...

Autor: Tomasz Płudowski

Wydawca: Aspra

This analysis is probably the first English-language book on U.S. political communication published by a Polish scholar. Based in empirical research, it offers considerations leading towards an att...

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44,10 zł 49,00 zł

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Tłumaczenie poezji - negocjowanie wyobraźni

Poszukiwania formy

Redakcja: Agata Mikołajko, Szczepan-Wojnarska Anna M.

Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego

Tłumaczenie form, tyleż nieuniknione, co i oczywiste, jawi się jako efekt uboczny tłumaczenia poezji, jak gdyby te dwie wartości były rozdzielne. Oczywistość tłumaczenia formy podlega jednak polary...

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19,80 zł 22,00 zł

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The Long '68

Radical Protest and Its Enemies

Autor: Richard Vinen

Wydawca: Penguin Books

'Fresh, compelling ... an important book, revealing that 50 years on, 1968 is still unfinished business' Andrew Hussey, Financial Times'A thoughtful, readable account of a moment in his...

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49,66 zł 55,18 zł

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The Future of Humanity

Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, an...

Autor: Michio Kaku

Wydawca: Penguin Books

The No.1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future in spaceHuman civilization is on the verge of living beyond Earth. But how will it ha...

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59,40 zł 66,00 zł

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Afghanistan

The Great Convergence

Crucible of Islam

China Questions

Ordinary Virtues

Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid

Ripples in Spacetime

Next Billion Users

World of the Crusades

Mescaline

Arabs

How Dogs Work

Sex on the Kitchen Table

How to Lie with Maps

Anthropology and Ethnology During World War II

What Happened in the Twentieth Century?

American political issue ownership and framing

Tłumaczenie poezji - negocjowanie wyobraźni

The Long '68

The Future of Humanity