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...
'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, Guardi...
“Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has...
W książce przedstawiono interdyscyplinarną analizę czynników decydujących o zdolnościach rozwojowych lokalnych społeczności w pięciu wybranych regionach Polski. Analizie poddano wskaźniki ek...
This book is a result of research on both theory and practice of capital flows in the global economy. The research has been performed by a team of economics from the Collegium of Busine...
This book is a result of research on both theory and practice of capital flows in the global economy. The research has been performed by a team of economics from the Collegium of Busine...
"On the densely and richly populated Polish intellectual scene, Stanisław Obirek is one of the most prominent and significant, indeed outstanding actors. He stands out from the rest of actors ...
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 ...
Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual assumptions and critical frameworks. This prevents st...
Exploring the ‘dark side’ of digital diplomacy, this volume highlights some of the major problems facing democratic institutions in the West and provides concrete examples of best pract...
Equality at work expert Ann Francke reveals how to understand and tackle the damaging consequences of gender imbalance in the workplaceGender balance is first and foremost a business is...
Teoria opracowana przez brytyjską socjolog Margaret Scotford Archer może być słusznie uważana za jedną z najbardziej znaczących we współczesnych naukach społecznych. Teksty monografii dotycz...
This book presents a cross-cultural approach to the study of urban space from variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. Essays written by major contributors to contemporary urban studies e...
The broadest framework for this work is provided by one of the leading anthropolo- gical themes - cultural change - yet here it is elaborated with reference to the pheno- menon of international mig...
Hanna Mamzer: The Role of Trust in Multicultural WorldSaid Mentak: Dialogue and Difference: an Islamic PerspectiveMarta Kosińska: Intercultural Internet: Trust Performing Strategies
Virtual Reality has long been one of the dominant clichés of science fiction. Now Virtual Reality is a reality: those big headsets that make people look ridiculous, even while radiating star...
Czy możliwe jest przeprowadzenie jasnego podziału między rozwojem a upadkiem we współczesnym miejskim życiu? W tym tomie twierdzimy, że nie. Nieregularności rozwoju wyrażają się w kontrastac...
The idea of democracy which emerged in the Athenian polis constitutes a major determinant of social and political life at the and of the 20th and the begining of the 21st century. Both indirect and...
Across the world, mass political protest has shaped the course of modern history. Building on decades of theory, we hypothesize that the extent and intensity of political protest is a function of m...
The book collects the most contemporary issues related to the process of ageing of societies in Central and Eastern Europe. The multiplicity of topics presented with the variety of theoretical and ...