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Autor: H. Goldberg Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-20693-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 106.8 zł | |
However diverse their situations, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. Looking at classic rites of passage along with emerging life-milestone practices, this text reflects the culture and religious diversity within Judaism. więcej... | ||
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Autor: S. Phillips Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-520-21980-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 112.7 zł | |
The Sonoran Desert is one of the most wildly diverse regions in the world. Covering southeastern California, the southern half of Arizona, most of Baja California, and much of the state of Sonora, Mexico, this vast area is home to an amazing variety of plants and animals. Its terrain varies dramatically, from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meadows. This text provides a complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information and is an introduction to this biologically rich więcej... | ||
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Autor: J. MacArthur Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-23178-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 77.4 zł | |
"The Selling of 'Free Trade'" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespread popular opposition. John R. MacArthur chronicles the brutal and expensive campaign in 1993 that led to passage of the poorly understood, highly controversial law creating the North American Free Trade Agreement. więcej... | ||
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Autor: R. Schechter Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-23557-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 195 zł | |
This wide-ranging study of representations of Jews in 18th-century France - both by Gentiles and Jews themselves - offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Rayor Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-520-23993-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 53.9 zł | |
Rayor places the hymns in their historical and aesthetic context, providing all the information needed to read, interpret, and fully appreciate these literary windows on an ancient world. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Robert Benewick Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-520-2462-70 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
A vivid full-colour atlas, presenting a visual survey of the profound economic, political and social changes taking place in China, as well as their implications for the world at large. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-24696-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
The history of India is the engrossing story of an ancient civilization, reborn as a modern nation. More a continent than a single nation, India is home to over one-fifth of humanity, yet it remains a mystery to most non-Indians, barely appreciated and poorly understood. Stanley Wolpert'sIndia provides a much-needed, concise overview of Indian history and culture. His new preface brings the book up to date, discussing national elections, the economic effects of the new globalization, and the consequences of joining the nuclear arms race. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Helene Carrere d'Encausse Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1988 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-06504-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 214.6 zł | |
The history of modern Central Asia is of growing importance because of the Muslim role in Soviet society and the influence of the Muslim population on the Soviet Union's relations with other Muslim countries. Focusing on the state of Bukhara, this book deals with the conflict between the central authority of the Russian empire and its Muslim regions before, during, and immediately after the Russian Revolution.After the Crimean War, a Muslim reformist movement developed among the Bukharan intelligentsia who, in time, threw więcej... | ||
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Autor: Dryden Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1996 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-520-08766-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 371.4 zł | |
In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that Dryden might have the author's third-night profits. He died that night, but his family received the money. The dramatic opera, King Arthur, benefited from a fine score by Henry Purcell and has remained in the operatic repertoire to this day. Cleomenes, the tragedy, was banned until Dryden was więcej... | ||
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Autor: R. David Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: medycyna i zdrowie ISBN: 978-0-520-20760-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 161.7 zł | |
Examines the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. The text shows how the concept of "convalescence" in 19th-century medicine and philosophy - along with Whitman's personal war experiences - provide a crucial point of convergence for Whitman's work as a gay and democratic writer. In his analysis of Whitman's writings during this period, along with journalistic works and correspondance, the author argues against the standard interpretation that Whitman's więcej... | ||
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Autor: W. Corn Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-520-21049-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 244 zł | |
This text proposes a revisioning of the history of American modern art between the two world wars. Moving away from issues of style and abstraction, the author bases her work on a broad examination of culture and on discourses of national identity. She argues that the key questions for interwar modernists in New York and Paris were whether or not it was possible to create an art that was both American and modern, and if it was, what such an art would look like. Both European and American artists debated these questions and więcej... | ||
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Autor: C. Rotella Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-520-21144-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł | |
Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed pre-war Chicago at centre stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inner city, and black Southerners arriving in Chicago found themselves increasingly estranged from the nation's economic and cultural resources. For Algren, Chicago was becoming "an October sort of city even in the spring," więcej... | ||
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Autor: R. Meier Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: Inne ISBN: 978-0-520-21730-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 112.7 zł | |
A history of the planning, design, and construction of the six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles. Richard Meier takes us behind the scenes of the 13-year-long, one-billion-dollar project. więcej... | ||
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Autor: B. Wilder Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-520-21855-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
This is a facsimile edition of the screenplay to the film "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) by Billy Wilder. The film is both illusive and literate, exploring Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses. Included is an introduction which provides the background details to the film. więcej... | ||
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Autor: B. Wilder Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1996 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-520-21857-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
This is the screenplay of the film "Stalag 17" (1953) by Billy Wilder. It is the drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, adapted from a Broadway play. It is a bitter story of egoism, class conflict and betrayal in which incriminating evidence points to the wrong man. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Best Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-21978-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 83.3 zł | |
Does the number of children gunned down double each year? Does anorexia kill 150.000 young women annually? Do white males account for only a sixth of new workers? Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. This book is a lively guide to spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers. Damned Lies and Statistics is essential reading for everyone who reads or listens to the news, for students, and for anyone who relies on więcej... | ||
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Autor: Joanna Frueh Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-22114-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł | |
This work challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty-without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, the author shows us how to move beyond society's equation of youth with beauty toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being. A combination of autobiography, theory, photography and poetry, this book continues to develop the ideas about więcej... | ||
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Autor: W. Weyrauch Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-22186-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 116.6 zł | |
Approximately one thousand years ago Gypsies, or Roma, left their native India. Today Gypsies can be found in countries throughout the world, their distinct culture still intact in spite of the intense persecution they have endured. This authoritative collection brings together leading Gypsy and non-Gypsy scholars to examine the Romani legal system, an autonomous body of law based on an oral tradition and existing alongside dominant national legal networks. For centuries the Roma have survived by using defensive strategies więcej... | ||
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Autor: G. Sobin Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-22245-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 77.4 zł | |
This text explores the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc, drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, focusing on a particular place or artifact for the relevance inherent in each. A Bronze Age earring or the rippling wave pattern in Massiolite ceramic are more than archival curiosities for Gustaf Sobin. Instead they invite inquiry and speculation on existence: artefacts are read as realia, and history as an uninterrupted sequence of object lessons. As much travel writing as meditative discourse, this więcej... | ||
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Autor: J. Moore Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-22441-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł | |
The clash between evolution and creationism is one of the most hotly contested topics in education today. This book, written by one of America's most distinguished science educators, provides essential background information on this difficult and important controversy. Giving a sweeping and balanced historical look at both schools of thought, John A. Moore shows that faith can exist alongside science, that both are essential to human happiness and fulfillment, but that we must support the teaching of science and the scientific więcej... | ||
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Autor: Maria Lara Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-22632-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 244 zł | |
This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. María Pía Lara brings together a provocative set of essays that reexamine evil in the context of a 'postmetaphysical' world, a world that no longer equates natural and human evil and no longer believes in an omnipotent God. The question of how and why God permits więcej... | ||
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Autor: Breuer Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-520-22763-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł | |
This work celebrates the exceptional and extensive Anderson Graphic Arts Collection of prints, multiples, and monotypes by major contemporary American artists. The collection spans more than 30 years of print production from 1962 to 1996, surveying the American printmaking renaissance with outstanding examples of print processes - woodcut, intaglio, lithography, screenprint, and monotype - from major fine-art presses. !The best" was long held as a criterion by Mr and Mrs Harry Anderson in acquiring works of art, and więcej... | ||
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Autor: Barron Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-520-22767-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 116.6 zł | |
This companion volume to the exhibition "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers in-depth, illustrated essays on the making of California culture in the 20th century. Written by stellar cast of historians and scholars in the humanities, the essays look closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. The contributors weave their subjects around themes that are central to the milestone exhibition: the California landscape więcej... | ||
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Autor: S. Rawski Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-22837-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł | |
The Qing Dynasty was the last of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. This text looks at the success of this dynasty and argues that it derived not from the assimilation of the dominant Chinese culture but from a synthesis of Manchu leadership styles with Han Chinese policies. więcej... | ||
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Autor: A. Danto Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-22908-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
The overall subject of the essays in this text is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies. The central thesis is that we are beings who represent - and misrepresent - actual and possible worlds. Addressing philosophical questions of mental representation, Danto presents his approach to some of the most enduring topics in philosophy. He is concerned with the nature of description, the status of the external world, action theory, the philosophy of history, and the philosophical więcej... | ||
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Autor: M. Juergensmeyer Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-23206-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 77.4 zł | |
Beneath the histories of religious traditions--from biblical wars to crusading ventures and great acts of martyrdom--violence has lurked as a shadowy presence. Images of death have never been far from the heart of religion's power to stir the imagination. In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Mark Juergensmeyer asks one of the most important and perplexing questions of our age: Why do religious people commit violent acts in the name of their god, taking the lives of innocent victims and terrorizing entire populations? This więcej... | ||
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Autor: J. Byock Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 1990 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-520-23285-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł | |
This Icelandic prose epic tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung. The saga is of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle. With its magical ring acquired by the hero, and the sword to be reforged, the saga has also been a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris. Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends and myths więcej... | ||
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Autor: F. de Waal Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-520-23615-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 132.3 zł | |
For more than three decades Frans de Waal, the author of books such as "Chimpanzee Politics" and "Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape", has studied monkeys and apes in zoos, research parks and field settings. Photographing his subjects over the years, de Waal has compiled a unique family album of our closest animal relatives. To capture the social life of primates, and their natural communication, requires intimate knowledge, which is abundantly present here, in the work of one of the world's foremost primatologists więcej... | ||
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Autor: Joel Best Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-23830-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł | |
In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said 'deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk,' Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with contemporary statistics about such concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital więcej... | ||
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Autor: M. Tromble Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-520-23971-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł | |
Lynn Hershman Leeson's groundbreaking installation, performance, photography, video, digital, and film works have earned her an international reputation as a prodigious and innovative artist. This first historical and critical analysis of her work by prominent scholars and the artist herself brings nearly forty years of creative output into focus by tracking the development of her constant themes through each medium. The provocative essays in this volume, ranging from formal to theoretical to psychological to poetical analyses więcej... | ||
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Autor: M. Juergensmeyer Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-24011-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
Well-regarded look at the connection between religion and terrorism. Updated to include events of September 11, 2001. Focus: to better understand how and why some people (and the groups that support them) are willing to commit acts of violence in the name of their god(s) and a greater good. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Gries Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-24482-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the roles of perception and sentiment in the growth of popular nationalism in China. At a time when the direction of China's foreign and domestic policies have profound ramifications worldwide, Gries offers a rare więcej... | ||
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Autor: Bales Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-24507-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised exposé, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people--in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore broader themes about slavery's causes, its continuation, and how it might be ended więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Rabinowitz Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-24557-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
The authors were born weeks apart to two Haifa families. Their highly original historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique personal perspectives of both Israeli Jews and Plaestinian citizens of Israel. więcej... | ||
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Autor: e. scott Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-520-2465-08 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
Almost eighty years after the Scopes trial, the debate over the teaching of evolution continues to rage. There is no easy resolution--it is a complex topic with profound scientific, religious, educational, and legal implications. How can a student or parent understand this issue, which is such a vital part of education? Evolution vs. Creationism provides a badly needed, comprehensive, and balanced survey. Written by one of the leading advocates for the teaching of evolution in the United states, this accessible resource więcej... | ||
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Autor: M. Goozner Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: medycyna i zdrowie ISBN: 978-0-520-24670-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
Why do life-saving prescription drugs cost so much? Drug companies insist that prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development. In this gripping exposé, Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying astronomically high prices for prescription drugs. Goozner demonstrates that almost all the important new drugs of the past quarter-century actually originated from research at taxpayer-funded universities więcej... | ||
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Autor: Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-520-24682-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł | |
One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrated innovative design ideas in a social setting. This engagement with social improvement has stayed with Eckbo throughout his life, distinguishing both his intentions and achievements, from his early work for the Farm Security Administration więcej... | ||
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Autor: A. Einsohn Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: Języki obce ISBN: 978-0-520-24688-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
The Copyeditor's Handbook is a lively, practical manual for newcomers to publishing and for experienced editors who want to fine-tune their skills or broaden their understanding of the craft. Addressed to copyeditors in book publishing and corporate communications, this thoughtful handbook explains what copyeditors do, what they look for when they edit a manuscript, and how they develop the editorial judgment needed to make sound decisions. This revised edition reflects the most recent editions of The Chicago Manual of Style więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Gokturk Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-24894-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł | |
How does migration change a nation? "Germany in Transit" is the first sourcebook to illuminate the country's transition into a multiethnic society - from the arrival of the first guest workers in the mid-1950s to the most recent reforms in immigration and citizenship law. The book charts the highly contentious debates about migrant labor, human rights, multiculturalism, and globalization that have unfolded in Germany over the past fifty years - debates that resonate far beyond national borders. This cultural history więcej... | ||
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Autor: G. Hundert Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-24994-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł | |
Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not fit the pattern of integration and universalization - in short, of westernization - that historians tend to place at the origins of Jewish modernity. Hundert puts this experience więcej... | ||
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Autor: J. Fields Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-25261-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the "naughty but nice" feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields' engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments women wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals więcej... | ||
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Autor: C. Pope,P. Rauber Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-1-57805-109-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
Published in cloth in 2004, "Strategic Ignorance" revealed to countless readers the true scope of the Bush administration's assault on the environment. Midway through the second Bush term, with a Supreme Court far less likely to rein in the "wrecking crew" - as the authors describe those working to dismantle environmental protections - this book will be even more important and useful. "Strategic Ignorance" remains the indispensable guide to the Bush team's motives and tactics - and to how we więcej... | ||
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Autor: Montgomery Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-520-24870-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 83.3 zł | |
Dirt, soil, call it what you want - it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations" explores the compelling idea that we are - and have long been - using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation więcej... | ||
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Autor: C. Nordstrom Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-25096-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of illegal trade around the world - from blood diamonds and arms to pharmaceuticals, exotica, and staples like food and oil. "Global Outlaws" peels away the layers of a vast economy that extends from a war orphan in Angola więcej... | ||
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Autor: M. Trawick Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-24516-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł | |
"Enemy Lines" captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence of children in this conflict. Her beautifully written account, which więcej... | ||
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Autor: C. Pascoe Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-25230-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, "Dude, You're a Fag" sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process, but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary więcej... | ||
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Autor: A. Shapiro Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-520-24957-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł | |
The California Tortoiseshell, West Coast Lady, Red Admiral, and Golden Oak Hairstreak are just a few of the many butterfly species found in the floristically rich San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley regions. This guide, written for both beginning and experienced butterfly watchers by one of the nation's best-known professional lepidopterists, provides thorough, up-to-date information on all of the butterfly species found in this diverse and accessible region. Written in lively prose, it discusses the natural history więcej... | ||
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Autor: Meron Benvenisti Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-0-520-23825-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł | |
"Now that I am seventy years of age, it is my prerogative to offer a summing up," says Meron Benvenisti, internationally known author and columnist, Jerusalem native, and scion of Israel's founders. Born in Palestine in 1934 to a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi mother, Benvenisti has enjoyed an unusual vantage point from which to consider his homeland's conflicts and controversies. Throughout his long and provocative career as scholar, elected official, and respected journalist, he has remained intimately involved więcej... | ||
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Autor: A. Burgos Wydawnictwo: University of California Press Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Inne ISBN: 978-0-520-25143-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł | |
In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880s to the present, Adrian Burgos tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn: passing as "Spanish" in the major leagues, or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues. Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in professional leagues from the beginning. Burgos delves into archival materials from więcej... | ||
