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Hand of Compassion

	Autor: K. Monroe Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-691-11863-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł	Nasza cena: 126.4 zł Kup teraz!

Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations--such as religion or reason--but to identity. The rescuers' perceptions of themselves in relation to others made their extraordinary acts spontaneous and left the rescuers no choice but to act. To turn away Jews was, for them, literally więcej...

Vacuum Bazookas Electric Rainbow Jelly

	Autor: N. Downie Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-00986-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł	Nasza cena: 93.1 zł Kup teraz!

How do you crack nuts with a piece of string? Reverse gravity? Cobble together a clock out of a coffee cup, a soda bottle, and some water? Use a vacuum cleaner and nineteenth-century railroad technology to fashion a makeshift bazooka that can launch paper projectiles? Create a rainbow in a block of Jello? This is a one-volume romp through a whole array of counterintuitive science experiments that require little more than common household items and a sense of curiosity. Prepare to have your surprise sensors on overload as więcej...

Documenting Jesus in Context

	Autor: A. Levine Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-00992-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 77.4 zł	Nasza cena: 77.4 zł Kup teraz!

Placing the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context, this collection includes translations and descriptions of texts that shed light on the Jesus of history. It demonstrates that only by knowing the world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his message, and the spread of the Gospel. więcej...

Thinking with History

	Autor: C. Schorske Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-02946-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł	Nasza cena: 67.6 zł Kup teraz!

In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Sičcle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most intellectual and artistic fields, Schorske argues, twentieth-century Europeans and Americans have come to do their thinking without history. Modern art, modern architecture, modern music, modern science--all have defined themselves not as emerging from or even reacting against the więcej...

Secular Mind

	Autor: R. Coles Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-05805-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Child psychiatrist and best-selling author Robert Coles offers a profound meditation on how secular culture has settled into the hearts and minds of Americans. This book is a sweeping essay on the shift from religious control over Western society to the scientific dominance of the więcej...

Star of Bethlehem

	Autor: M. Kidger Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-05823-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 112.7 zł	Nasza cena: 112.7 zł Kup teraz!

Two thousand years ago, according to the Bible, a star rose low in the east and stopped high above Bethlehem. Was it a miracle, a sign from God to herald the birth of Christ? Was there a star at all, or was it simply added to the Bible to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy concerning the birth of the Messiah? Or was the Star of Bethlehem an actual astronomical event? For hundreds of years, astronomers as prominent as Johannes Kepler have sought an answer to this last baffling question. In The Star of Bethlehem, Mark Kidger więcej...

Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics

	Autor: D. Ruccio Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-0-691-05870-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 151.9 zł	Nasza cena: 151.9 zł Kup teraz!

Ruccio and Amariglio begin with a powerful argument for the general relevance of postmodernism to contemporary economic thought. They then conduct a series of case studies in six key areas of economics. From the idea of the 'multiple self' and notions of uncertainty and information, through market anomalie and competing concepts of value, to analytical distinctions based on gender and academic standing, economics is revealed as defying the modernist frame of a singular science. The authors conclude by showing how economic więcej...

Out of Crater Chronicles of Volcanologist

	Autor: Richard Fisher Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-07017-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 53.9 zł	Nasza cena: 53.9 zł Kup teraz!

Volcanologists venture to treacherous volcanoes the world over in the pursuit of their science. They work around craters of boiling magma and amidst smoke, flames, scorched rocks, and clouds of noxious gases--balancing personal risk against advancing knowledge about one of nature's most dangerous and unpredictable forces. Richard Fisher, a world-renowned volcanologist, has had more than forty years of experience in the field. In this book, he blends autobiography with clear, accessible science to introduce readers to the więcej...

Jazz Age Jews

	Autor: Alexander Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-08679-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 112.7 zł	Nasza cena: 112.7 zł Kup teraz!

The stories of Al Jolson, Felix Frankfurter, and Arnold Rothstein are told together to explore a paradox in the psychology of American Jewry: their deliberate identification in the 1920s with social groups that remained excluded. 22 halftones. więcej...

Human Rights as Politics & Idolatry

	Autor: M. Ignatieff Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-08893-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł	Nasza cena: 93.1 zł Kup teraz!

These essays by Ignatieff address difficult questions about the human rights movement's motives, assumptions, record, and rhetoric. Four scholars--K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher--comment and Ignatieff responds. więcej...

Presidential Difference

	Autor: F. Greenstein Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-09083-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 77.4 zł	Nasza cena: 77.4 zł Kup teraz!

Drawing on a quarter-century's work, Fred I. Greenstein, one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency, provides a fascinating and instructive account of the qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days to the beginning of George W. Bush's presidency. Greenstein offers a series of bottom-line judgments on each of his twelve subjects and a bold new explanation of why presidents succeed or fail. Previous analysts have placed their bets on the president's więcej...

Poland's Self-Limiting Revolution

	Autor: J. Staniszkis Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1984 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-09403-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 146 zł	Nasza cena: 146 zł Kup teraz!

The most detached and critical portrait of the Polish revolution comes, significantly, not from a Western observer, but from a Pole--and a participant in the events at that. Jadwiga Staniszkis . . . has put her personal commitments aside and approached Solidarity with a coolly sociological eye. Staniszkis is interested mostly in the dynamics of two power structures locked in inevitable combat. The result of this approach is often chillingly impersonal. Yet it provides us with a much more balanced, analytic view of both sides więcej...

Is Pluto a Planet?

	Autor: Weintraub Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-12348-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

Pluto has been subject to controversy since its discovery in 1930. Is it a planet? What exactly is a planet? Weaving the history of our thinking about planets and cosmology, this title tells the story of how the meaning of the word 'planet' has changed since antiquity. więcej...

Altruism Equation - Seven Scientists Search for the Origins

	Autor: L. Dugatkin Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-12590-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 77.4 zł	Nasza cena: 77.4 zł Kup teraz!

In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin worried that the goodness he observed in nature could be the Achilles heel of his theory. Ever since then, scientists and other thinkers have engaged in a fierce debate about the origins of goodness that has dragged politicis, philosophy, and religion into what remains więcej...

Children of Abraham-Judaism Christianity Islam-A New Edition

	Autor: E. Peters Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-12769-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł	Nasza cena: 67.6 zł Kup teraz!

Lays out the similarities and differences of the three religious siblings - Islam, Judaism and Christianity. This work traces the three faiths from the sixth century BC, when the Jews returned to Palestine from exile in Babylonia, to the time in the Middle Ages. It points out that all three faith groups share much common ground. więcej...

Ethnic Politics in Europe - The Power of Norms & Incentives

	Autor: Kelley Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-12771-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł	Nasza cena: 67.6 zł Kup teraz!

An account of ethnic minority politics, this work explains when and how European institutions successfully used norms and incentives to shape domestic policy toward ethnic minorities and why those measures sometimes failed. It also provides keen policy insights for the strategic choices made by actors in international institutions. więcej...

Of War & Law

	Autor: D. Kennedy Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-12864-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

Once a bit player in military conflict, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power and justifiable death. Examining this important development, this book attempts to retell the history of modern war and statecraft as a tale of the changing role of law and the dramatic growth of law's power. więcej...

Mathematicians under the Nazis

	Autor: Segal Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-00451-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 371.4 zł	Nasza cena: 371.4 zł Kup teraz!

Contrary to popular belief--and despite the expulsion, emigration, or death of many German mathematicians--substantial mathematics was produced in Germany during 1933-1945. In this landmark social history of the mathematics community in Nazi Germany, Sanford Segal examines how the Nazi years affected the personal and academic lives of those German mathematicians who continued to work in Germany. The effects of the Nazi regime on the lives of mathematicians ranged from limitations on foreign contact to power struggles that więcej...

Extinction

	Autor: D. Erwin Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-005-249 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł	Nasza cena: 87.2 zł Kup teraz!

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 per cent of all living species died out - a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise, 65 million years ago. How this happened remains a mystery. But there are many competing theories. Some blame huge volcanic eruptions that covered an area as large as the continental United States; others argue for sudden changes in ocean levels and chemistry, including burps of methane gas; and still others cite the impact więcej...

Farm to Factory

	Autor: R. Allen Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-0-691-00696-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 195 zł	Nasza cena: 195 zł Kup teraz!

Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to address the 'what if' questions central to Soviet history. Moreover by comparing Soviet performance not only with advanced but with less developed countries, he provides a meaningful context for its evaluation.While highlighting the previously under-emphasized achievements więcej...

Composition of Kepler's Astronomia Nova

	Autor: Voelkel Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-00738-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 224.4 zł	Nasza cena: 224.4 zł Kup teraz!

This is one of the most important studies in decades on Johannes Kepler, among the towering figures in the history of astronomy. Drawing extensively on Kepler's correspondence and manuscripts, James Voelkel reveals that the strikingly unusual style of Kepler's magnum opus, the Astronomia nova (1609), has been traditionally misinterpreted. Kepler laid forth the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in this work. Instead of a straightforward presentation of his results, however, he led readers on a wild goose chase więcej...

Garden & Workshop

	Autor: P. Hanak Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-00965-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł	Nasza cena: 67.6 zł Kup teraz!

A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figues as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Budapest produced such luminaries as Bela Bartok, Georg Lukacs, and Michael and Karl Polanyi. However, as Peter Hanak shows in these vignettes of fin-de-siecle life, the intellectual and artistic vibrancy common to the two cities emerged from deeply więcej...

Religions of US in Practice v.1

	Autor: C. McDannell Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-00999-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 102.9 zł	Nasza cena: 102.9 zł Kup teraz!

Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 1 explores faith through action from Colonial times through the nineteenth century. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people--praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while więcej...

Religions of US in Practice v.2

	Autor: C. McDannell Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-01001-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 102.9 zł	Nasza cena: 102.9 zł Kup teraz!

Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, Volume 1 explores faith through action from Colonial times through the nineteenth century. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people--praying, singing, healing, teaching, imagining, and persuading. Some documents are formal liturgies while więcej...

Law's Order

	Autor: D. Friedman Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-0-691-01016-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 155.8 zł	Nasza cena: 155.8 zł Kup teraz!

What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that for murder encourages muggers to kill their victims. This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable więcej...

Strategic Investment

	Autor: Smit Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-0-691-01039-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 224.4 zł	Nasza cena: 224.4 zł Kup teraz!

Corporate finance and corporate strategy have long been seen as different sides of the same coin. Though both focus on the same broad problem, investment decision-making, the gap between the two sides--and between theory and practice--remains embarrassingly large. This book synthesizes cutting-edge developments in corporate finance and related fields--in particular, real options and game theory--to help bridge this gap. In clear, straightforward exposition and through numerous examples and applications from various industries więcej...

Myths & Symbols in Indian Art & Civilization

	Autor: H. Zimmer Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1972 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-691-01778-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł	Nasza cena: 67.6 zł Kup teraz!

This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements. więcej...

Mikhail Larionov

	Autor: Anthony Parton Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1993 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-691-02620-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 122.5 zł	Nasza cena: 122.5 zł Kup teraz!

A revolutionary multi-media artist and flamboyant personality, Mikhail Larionov galvanized the art scene in the early twentieth century, striving for a truly Russian style of art to rival the avant-garde movement of Europe and setting the stage for Russian constructivism. With his life-long partner, Nataliya Goncharova, he led his generation in exploring mysticism and shamanism and sparked a counter-culture that flourished in the cabarets of Moscow. The development of his career, however, has long eluded the grasp of historians więcej...

Vergil in the Middle Ages

	Autor: D. Comparetti Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1996 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-02678-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 146 zł	Nasza cena: 146 zł Kup teraz!

From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet. Scholars of the time had transformed Vergil into a sage and a seer, a type of universal więcej...

Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

	Autor: R. Jensen Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1996 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-02926-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 96 zł	Nasza cena: 96 zł Kup teraz!

In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism więcej...

Illuminated Books v.4 Continental Prophecies

	Autor: W. Blake Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1996 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-691-03674-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 475.3 zł	Nasza cena: 475.3 zł Kup teraz!

The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries więcej...

Novel vol 1

	Autor: F. Moretti Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-691-04947-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 342 zł	Nasza cena: 342 zł Kup teraz!

Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's "The Novel" is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), "The Novel"'s two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the więcej...

Novel v 2

	Autor: F. Moretti Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-691-04948-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 342 zł	Nasza cena: 342 zł Kup teraz!

Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's "The Novel" is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), "The Novel"'s two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the więcej...

Parasitoid Population Biology

	Autor: Michael Hochberg Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-04982-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 116.6 zł	Nasza cena: 116.6 zł Kup teraz!

Extraordinary in the diversity of their lifestyles, insect parasitoids have become extremely important study organisms in the field of population biology, and they are the most frequently used agents in the biological control of insect pests. This book presents the ideas of seventeen international specialists, providing the reader not only with an overview but also with lively discussions of the most salient questions pertaining to the field today and prescriptions for avenues of future research.After a general introduction więcej...

Journey from Center to Sun

	Autor: J. Zirker Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-05781-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł	Nasza cena: 126.4 zł Kup teraz!

Jack Zirker takes us on an imaginary voyage from the center of the sun to its surface, showing us how sunlight is made and finally following the sun's energy to the far reaches of the solar system. Along the way, he introduces the basic processes at work in our nearest star and the exciting answers solar scientists are finding to problems that have long perplexed astronomers. "Journey from the Center of the Sun" describes how theory and practice are coming together to provide a new understanding of this old star więcej...

Twenty First Century Firm

	Autor: DiMaggio Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-0-691-05851-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 161.7 zł	Nasza cena: 161.7 zł Kup teraz!

Students of management are nearly unanimous (as are managers themselves) in believing that the contemporary business corporation is in a period of dizzying change. This book represents the first time that leading experts in sociology, law, economics, and management studies have been assembled in one volume to explain the varying ways in which contemporary businesses are transforming themselves to respond to globalization, new technologies, workforce transformation, and legal change. Together their essays, whose focal point więcej...

Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems

	Autor: Sole Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-07040-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 151.9 zł	Nasza cena: 151.9 zł Kup teraz!

Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the complexity of natural ecosystems and the simplicity of any example derived from Newtonian physics. Though ecologists have long been interested in concepts originally developed by statistical physicists and later applied to explain everything from why stock markets crash to why rivers develop particular branching patterns, applying such concepts to ecosystems has więcej...

Zen of Magic Squares Circles & Stars

	Autor: C. Pikover Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-07041-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł	Nasza cena: 126.4 zł Kup teraz!

Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clifford Pickover briefly recounts in this enthralling book, the most comprehensive in decades on magic squares, Emperor Yu was supposedly strolling along the Yellow River one day around 2200 B.C. when he spotted the creature: its shell had a series of dots within squares. To Yu's amazement, each row of squares contained fifteen dots, as did the columns and diagonals. When he added więcej...

Searching for Corporate Savior Irrational Quest for Charisma

	Autor: Khurana Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-0-691-07437-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł	Nasza cena: 126.4 zł Kup teraz!

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. Rakesh Khurana's findings are surprising and disturbing. In recent years, he shows, corporations have increasingly sought CEOs więcej...

Modern Architecture & Other Essays

	Autor: V. Scully Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: Inne ISBN: 978-0-691-07442-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made. This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, więcej...

Passion & Paradox

	Autor: Joan Cocks Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-07468-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 57.8 zł	Nasza cena: 57.8 zł Kup teraz!

From Kosovo to Québec, Ireland to East Timor, nationalism has been a recurrent topic of intense debate. It has been condemned as a source of hatred and war, yet embraced for stimulating community feeling and collective freedom. Joan Cocks explores the power, danger, and allure of nationalism by examining its place in the thought of eight politically engaged intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the antagonist of capital, Karl Marx; the critics of imperialism Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon; więcej...

America & Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe

	Autor: Berghahn Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-07479-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 175.4 zł	Nasza cena: 175.4 zł Kup teraz!

In 1958, Shepard Stone, then directing the Ford Foundation's International Affairs program, suggested that his staff "measure" America's cultural impact in Europe. He wanted to determine whether efforts to improve opinions of American culture were yielding good returns. Taking Stone's career as a point of departure and frequent return, Volker Berghahn examines the triangular relationship between the producers of ideas and ideologies, corporate America, and Washington policymakers at a peculiar juncture of U.S. więcej...

Al Quaran

	Autor: A. Ali Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 1993 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-07499-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł	Nasza cena: 93.1 zł Kup teraz!

This bilingual edition of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam, was first published in the United States in 1988. Ahmed Ali, the distinguished Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, and diplomat, presents this elegant and poetic translation in a contemporary and living voice. On each page, the original Arabic and the translated English sit side by side, encouraging the reader to draw from both texts. Professor Ali also includes notes where necessary, providing the full meaning of each word and phrase. This accessible volume is więcej...

Free Trade Under Fire

	Autor: D. Irwin Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-08843-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł	Nasza cena: 126.4 zł Kup teraz!

The 1990s began with fears of a "great sucking sound" of jobs lost due to the North American Free Trade Agreement and ended with opponents of the World Trade Organization taking to the streets in the "Battle of Seattle." Why has global trade become so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? In Free Trade under Fire, Douglas Irwin sweeps aside the misconceptions that litter the debate over trade and gives the reader a clear understanding of the issues involved. Putting the findings of więcej...

Imperialism & Jewish Society

	Autor: S. Schwartz Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-08850-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 151.9 zł	Nasza cena: 151.9 zł Kup teraz!

This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Through masterful scholarship set in rich detail, this book challenges traditional views rooted in więcej...

Public Goods Private Goods

	Autor: R. Geuss Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-08903-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł	Nasza cena: 93.1 zł Kup teraz!

Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for instance, widely held that the state may address human action in the ''public'' realm but not in the ''private.'' In Public Goods, Private Goods Raymond Geuss exposes the profound flaws of such thinking and calls for a more nuanced approach. Drawing on a series of colorful więcej...

Irrational Exuberance

	Autor: R. Shiller Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-0-691-08915-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 77.4 zł	Nasza cena: 77.4 zł Kup teraz!

Drawn from investor surveys and research, "Irrational Exuberance" synthesizes a broad range of information into a detailed picture of the market today. Written in a clear, engaging style for individual investors and financial professionals, the book contains essential wisdom for readers from Main Street to Wall Street. więcej...

Our Cosmic Habitat

	Autor: M. Rees Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-691-08926-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: ''What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.'' This highly engaging book explores the fascinating consequences of the answer being ''yes.'' Rees explores the notion that our universe is just a part of a vast ''multiverse,'' or ensemble of universes więcej...

Committing to Peace

	Autor: Walter Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-08931-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 240.1 zł	Nasza cena: 240.1 zł Kup teraz!

Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study combined the historical sweep, empirical richness, and conceptual rigor necessary to put them thoroughly to the test and draw lessons invaluable to students, scholars, and policymakers. Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, Barbara Walter details the conditions that lead combatants to partake in what she defines więcej...

Democracies At War

	Autor: Dan Reiter Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-691-08949-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł	Nasza cena: 93.1 zł Kup teraz!

Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de Tocqueville--has been that democracies are inferior in crafting foreign policy and fighting wars. In Democracies at War, the first major study of its kind, Dan Reiter and Allan Stam come to a very different conclusion. Democracies tend to win the wars they fight--specifically, about eighty percent of the time. Complementing their wide-ranging case-study analysis, the więcej...

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