89,43 zł

Away Down South Oxford University Press Inc

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America. As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist critics, black and white. After the Civil War, defeated and embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms.After World War I, white writers like Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner and other key figures of "Southern Renaissance" as well as their African American counterparts in the "Harlem Renaissance"--Cobb is the first to show the strong links between the two movements--challenged the New South creed by asking how the grandiose vision of the South's past could be reconciled with the dismal reality of its present. The Southern self-image underwent another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the "Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their regional, as well as racial, identity. As the millennium turned, the South confronted a new identity crisis brought on by global homogenization: if Southern culture is everywhere, has the New South become the No South? Here then is a major work by one of America's finest Southern historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship with provocative new insights into what the South means to southerners and to America as well.

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77,19 zł

Twenty-First Century Plague The Story of SARS John Hopkins University Press

Medycyna > English Division

In the autumn of 2002 in southern China, a previously unknown virus jumped the species barrier from animal to man and sparked the first global epidemic of the new century. The disease sped along the air routes of a globalized world, spreading within months to thirty-one countries on every continent. Before it was reined in by a remarkable international scientific effort, the SARS virus demonstrated human society's vulnerability to disease. New infectious diseases like SARS have been emerging at an alarming rate over the past few decades. There is every indication the world will continue to face new viral diseases, some of them much more lethal and contagious than SARS. This book traces the emergence of SARS, in the process examining the global politics and economics of disease. It provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how the global battle against SARS was fought and the incredible research efforts that finally led to identification of the virus. Drawing on unprecedented access to scientists, doctors, and recovered patients, Thomas Abraham recounts the pressures and heartbreaks suffered by brave researchers who battled the clock to solve the SARS puzzle-even as colleagues and friends succumbed to the disease. "The caller at the other end of the phone was from the Manila office of the World Health Organization (WHO), and his message was alarming. Flying over the Atlantic Ocean on a Singapore Airlines flight was a critically ill man who had to be hospitalized in an isolation ward as soon as possible...There were over 300 passengers on the jet, which was bound for Singapore via Frankfurt, and unless the man was taken off the plane, they were all in danger." "On March 15, while David Heymann and his team were toiling away on their global travel alert in Geneva, a 72-year-old man boarded Air China flight 112 from Hong Kong to Beijing...Not only was he sick, he also happened to be a super-spreader of the disease. From his seat, 14E, he infected 21 other passengers and crew members." Twenty-First Century Plague describes many of the people, events, political settings, and other contributing factors in a fascinating view of the story behind the story of the outbreak. Science 2005 Abraham gives us an excellent and dispassionate account of the cultural and political background to the cover-up and the unfortunate consequences. Nature 2005 The book is richly filled with facts, and they are conveyed in a captivating manner. It is as impressive as the film Outbreak. New England Journal of Medicine 2005 Abraham offers insights into the 'dos and don'ts' of managing a public health crisis and provides key learning points. JAMA 2005 A ringside account of the world's recent encounter with the emerging infectious disease SARS. Engagingly written by an accomplished journalist. American Scientist 2005 The rush to contain and unmask the agent responsible... had more plot twists than anything Robert Ludlum ever wrote. The Lancet 2005 The book provides an important summary of many aspects of the global experience with a new disease and discusses important lessons learned from the SARS response. Journal of Clinical Investigation 2006 In this detailed report by Abraham, the inability of health care systems to cope with such newly emergent infections is clear. Choice 2005 A beautifully written book. Medical History 2007 Timely and well-presented. -- Debra Rose Wilson and William A. Wilson Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2010

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92,65 zł

Stephen Turnbull - Pirate Thames & Hudson Ltd

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Pirates have a well-earned bad reputation, and this book invites the reader to join their ranks. Here you will discover everything the aspiring pirate needs to know in order to join a crew and start

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200,18 zł

Understanding Nanomaterials CRC Press Inc.

Medycyna > English Division

With a selective presentation of topics that makes it accessible for students who have taken introductory university science courses, Understanding Nanomaterials is a training tool for the future workforce in nanotech development. This introductory textbook offers insights into the fundamental principles that govern the fabrication, characterization, and application of nanomaterials. Provides the Background for Fundamental Understanding Assuming only a basic level of competency in physics, chemistry, and biology, the author focuses on the needs of the undergraduate curriculum, discussing important processes such as self-assembly, patterning, and nanolithography. His approach limits mathematical rigor in the presentation of key results and proofs, leaving it to the instructor's discretion to add more advanced details, or emphasize particular areas of interest. With its combination of discussion-based instruction and explanation of problem-solving skills, this textbook highlights interdisciplinary theory and enabling tools derived from chemistry, biology, physics, medicine, and engineering. It also includes real-world examples related to energy, the environment, and medicine. Author Malkiat S. Johal earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in England. He later served as a post-doctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, where he worked on the nonlinear optical properties of nanoassemblies. Dr. Johal is currently a professor and researcher at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His work focuses on the use of self-assembly and ionic adsorption processes to fabricate nanomaterials for optical and biochemical applications. ... physical chemists will enjoy building their teaching around the well-explained material in this book ... students will find it clear and informative. In particular, the end- of-chapter questions are valuable. -Chemistry World ... will serve students well in their goal to gain a greater understanding of why nanoscaled systems are of great interest, how they are fabricated, and how they are characterized using a wide variety of analytical instrumentation very commonly found in university and industrial settings. -Marcus D. Lay, University of Georgia, Athens, USA The writing is very fluid. The problems and figures are good. Overall, I learned a great deal about surface science techniques from this manuscript. -Lisa Klein, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

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216,90 zł

Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Zdrowie, medycyna

The thoroughly revised Ninth Edition of this best selling text continues an established tradition of excellence

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115,96 zł

Investing for Growth Harriman House Publishing

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Buy good companies. Don

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40,80 zł

Shadow of the Sun Penguin

Literatura faktu

'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on the mosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft. The Beginning: Collision, Ghana 1958 More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Just yesterday, an autumnal London was drenched in rain. The airplane drenched in rain. A cold, wind, darkness. But here, from the morning

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80,49 zł

Regression AuthorHouse

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This book is written for therapists as well as for the layperson. It explains step by step how to proceed. This handbook teaches you how to travel through time. You get to see past lives and help send the deceased into the Light. Shamans and healers all over the world see illnesses as energetic blockages. A regression can assist you in removing entities, dark clouds, and other aspects from the body and the aura. It can be achieved with this extremely safe and easy method. Many people choose to revisit their childhood in order to install new programs for the future using the ideal scenario method, as well as to heal the inner child. There is also the spacecraft technique and the physical scan of the body, which allow the client to understand and treat physical problems. At the end of a session, there is a future integration and the exploration of positive affirmations to support the entire process. In the end, you are more aware of the leitmotif that runs through your present and past lives, which allows you to understand your life lessons. You generally become a happier person, and you can engage with life on a deeper level. Regression therapy is a definite recommendation for anyone looking to understand life, and for those who are seeking psychological and spiritual growth.

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121,59 zł

Beau Brummell Simon & Schuster

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"If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable."-- Beau BrummellLong before tabloids and television, Beau Brummell was the first person famous for being famous, the male socialite of his time, the first metrosexual -- 200 years before the word was conceived. His name has become synonymous with wit, profligacy, fine tailoring, and fashion. A style pundit, Brummell was singly responsible for changing forever the way men dress -- inventing, in effect, the suit.Brummell cut a dramatic swath through British society, from his early years as a favorite of the Prince of Wales and an arbiter of taste in the Age of Elegance, to his precipitous fall into poverty, incarceration, and madness. Brummell created the blueprint for celebrity crash and burn, falling dramatically out of favor and spending his last years in a hellish asylum. For nearly two decades, Brummell ruled over the tastes and pursuits of the well heeled and influential, and for almost as long, lived in penury and exile.With vivid prose, critically acclaimed biographer Ian Kelly unlocks the glittering, turbulent world of late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century London -- the first truly modern metropolis: venal, fashion-and-celebrity obsessed, self-centered and self-doubting -- through the life of one of its greatest heroes and most tragic victims. Brummell personified London's West End, where a new style of masculinity and modern men's fashion were first defined.Brummell was the leading Casanova and elusive bachelor of his time, appealing to both men and women of his society. The man Lord Byron once claimed was more important than Napoleon, Brummell was the ultimate cosmopolitan man. "Toyboy" to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and leader of playboys including the eventual king of England, Brummell inspired Pushkin to write Eugene Onegin, and Byron to write Don Juan, and he influenced others from Oscar Wilde to Coco Chanel.Through love letters, historical records, and poems, Kelly reveals the man inside the suit, unlocking the scandalous behavior of London's high society while illuminating Brummell's enigmatic life in the colorful, tumultuous West End. A rare rendering of an era filled with excess, scandal, promiscuity, opulence, and luxury, Beau Brummell is the first comprehensive view of an elegant and ultimately tragic figure whose influence continues to this day.

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171,24 zł

Hydrogen Economy - The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth Polity Press

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In The Hydrogen Economy, best--selling author Jeremy Rifkin takes us on an eye--opening journey into the next great commercial era in history. He envisions the dawn of a new economy powered by hydrogen that will fundamentally change the nature of our market, political and social institutions, just as coal and steam power did at the beginning of the industrial age. Rifkin observes that we are fast approaching a critical watershed for the fossil--fuel era, with potentially dire consequences for industrial civilization. Experts had been saying that we had another forty or so years of cheap available crude oil left. Now, however, some of the worlda s leading petroleum geologists are suggesting that global oil production could peak and begin a steep decline much sooner, as early as the end of this decade, sending oil prices through the roof. While the fossil fuel era is entering its sunset years, a new energy regime is being born that has the potential to remake civilization. Hydrogen is the most basic and ubiquitous element in the universe. It is the stuff of the stars and of our sun and, when properly harnessed, it is the "forever fuel."It never runs out and produces no harmful CO2 emissions. Commercial fuel--cells powered by hydrogen are just now being introduced into the market for home, office and industrial use. The major automakers have spent more than two billion dollars developing hydrogen cars, buses, and trucks, and the first mass--produced vehicles are expected to be on the road in just a few years. In the new era, says Rifkin, every human being could become the producer as well as the consumer of his or her own energy -- so called "distributed generation." When millions of end--users connect their fuel--cells into local, regional, and national hydrogen energy webs (HEWs), using the same design principles and smart technologies that made possible the World Wide Web, they can begin to share energy -- peer--to--peer -- creating a new decentralized form of energy use. Hydrogen has the potential to end the worlda s reliance on imported oil and help diffuse the dangerous geopolitical game being played out between Muslim militants and Western nations. It will dramatically cut down on carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate the effects of global warming.And because hydrogen is so plentiful and exists everywhere on earth, every human being could be "empowered," making it the first truly democratic energy regime in history.

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25,50 zł

I'll Give You the Sun w. ukraińska Vivat Vivat

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The twins Jude and Noah have a very warm relationship, they are equally sensitive to the beauty of the world around them, there is almost a telepathic connection between them. At the same time, they are very different: the sister is a sociable, active and popular long-haired beauty, and the brother is an eccentric young artist, immersed in creativity. At one point, the characters became too enthusiastic and began to share parental love, friends and even the whole world Sudden tragic events, as well as a knot of conjecture, mutual suspicion and personal secrets forced them to close from each other for several years. Who will give the sun to whom in the end, where will Frieda Kahlo come from and what is the reason to carry an onion in the pocket of sweatshirt? This incredibly bright novel provides answers to such questions, and also helps to understand how ambiguous, colorful and rainbow our world is.

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1094,40 zł

Geopolitics Rowman & Littlefield

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Now, in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic forces unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen, one of the world's leading political geographers, considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations. Beginning with a survey of geopolitics and its practitioners, Cohen explains geopolitical terms, structure and theory. He traces the developmental process that guides the geopolitical restructuring of the world's different realms and regions, its major and regional powers, and the global networks that link them, thus creating a map of dynamic equilibrium. The author illustrates why the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa are "Shatterbelts" while South America's role as a separate region within the Maritime realm is reinforced by Brazil's dominance as a regional power. The author argues that the era of a world dominated, and precariously balanced, first by the American and Soviet superpowers and then by the United States alone, has run its course.The international system is now divided and better balanced by a number of major powers, each of which dominates its geopolitical region. He posits that whether certain areas become Gateways or Shatterbelts is the key question influencing global stability. For example, American influence within the Middle East is rapidly declining both because of the push of the Arab Spring and the pull of U.S. self-sufficiency in oil and natural gas. The United States is likely to give way to Russia, China, India and Japan as the main external players in the Middle East Shatterbelt. Cohen analyzes especially the current forces favoring accommodation, including the economic benefits of globalization, the common battle against terrorism, and the need to contain Iran and Venezuela, as well as to stabilize certain key failed states. Presenting a global spatial scope, the book considers the entire hierarchy of geopolitical units-subnational, national states, and quasi-states; geopolitical regions; and geostrategic realms. By emphasizing the interaction between geographical settings and changing ideological and economic forces, Cohen has succeeded in creating a new global geopolitical map.

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215,76 zł

Creo Parametric 4.0 Black Book CADCAMCAE Works

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The Creo Parametric 4.0 Black Book is the second edition of our series on Creo Parametric. With lots of additions and thorough review, we present a book to help professionals as well as learners in creating some of the most complex solid models. The book follows a step by step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give real-world examples with real challenges in designing. We have tried to reduce the gap between university use of Creo Parametric and industrial use of Creo Parametric. In this edition of book, we have included many new features of Creo Parametric like 3D printing, MBD (Model Based Definition), Family tables, Mechanism Design, 3D PDFs, and so on. There are about 60 topics newly added in this book which were not in the previous edition. The book covers almost all the information required by a learner to master Creo Parametric. The book starts with sketching and ends at advanced topics like Sheetmetal, Surface Design, 3D Printing and MBD. Some of the salient features of this book are :In-Depth explanation of conceptsEvery new topic of this book starts with the explanation of the basic concepts. In this way, the user becomes capable of relating the things with real world.Topics CoveredEvery chapter starts with a list of topics being covered in that chapter. In this way, the user can easy find the topic of his/her interest easily.Instruction through illustrationThe instructions to perform any action are provided by maximum number of illustrations so that the user can perform the actions discussed in the book easily and effectively. There are about 1200 small and large illustrations that make the learning process effective.Tutorial point of viewAt the end of concept's explanation, the tutorial make the understanding of users firm and long lasting. Almost each chapter of the book has tutorials that are real world projects. Moreover most of the tools in this book are discussed in the form of tutorials.ProjectFree projects and exercises are provided to students for practicing.For FacultyIf you are a faculty member, then you can ask for video tutorials on any of the topic, exercise, tutorial, or concept.New AdditionIf anything is added in this edition but is not available in the previous editions, then it is displayed with symbol in table of content.

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537,24 zł

Geopolitics Rowman & Littlefield

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Now, in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic forces unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen, one of the world's leading political geographers, considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations. Beginning with a survey of geopolitics and its practitioners, Cohen explains geopolitical terms, structure and theory. He traces the developmental process that guides the geopolitical restructuring of the world's different realms and regions, its major and regional powers, and the global networks that link them, thus creating a map of dynamic equilibrium. The author illustrates why the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa are "Shatterbelts" while South America's role as a separate region within the Maritime realm is reinforced by Brazil's dominance as a regional power. The author argues that the era of a world dominated, and precariously balanced, first by the American and Soviet superpowers and then by the United States alone, has run its course.The international system is now divided and better balanced by a number of major powers, each of which dominates its geopolitical region. He posits that whether certain areas become Gateways or Shatterbelts is the key question influencing global stability. For example, American influence within the Middle East is rapidly declining both because of the push of the Arab Spring and the pull of U.S. self-sufficiency in oil and natural gas. The United States is likely to give way to Russia, China, India and Japan as the main external players in the Middle East Shatterbelt. Cohen analyzes especially the current forces favoring accommodation, including the economic benefits of globalization, the common battle against terrorism, and the need to contain Iran and Venezuela, as well as to stabilize certain key failed states. Presenting a global spatial scope, the book considers the entire hierarchy of geopolitical units-subnational, national states, and quasi-states; geopolitical regions; and geostrategic realms. By emphasizing the interaction between geographical settings and changing ideological and economic forces, Cohen has succeeded in creating a new global geopolitical map.

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145,91 zł

Your Hidden Face American Federation of Astrologers

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Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung referred to projection as "an unconscious, that is, unperceived and unintentional, transfer of subjective psychic elements onto an outer object." If a person projects such "subjective psychic elements" onto an outer object, he will not see that outer object accurately. Rather, he will see some mixture of the outer object with the "subjective psychic elements" and thus not see the object objectively. In looking at the world and relating to it, a person will see, not the world "as it really is," but as a mixture of his own (generally unconscious) psychic contents with external elements. . . . from Chapter One By studying horoscopes with Jung's words in mind, and aided by the observations of quantum physicists, Middle Way Buddhists, and general semanticists, we can develop clarity and insight about our own projections and those of others-and about the projections that wreak such havoc in national and international affairs. In the end, we can begin to understand something about the ongoing connection between mind and world, between what we reject from ourselves and what we encounter in experience, between self-conception and self-acceptance. We may even get a glimpse of something akin to "truth." After introducing the basic idea of projection from a Jungian point of view, Tim Lyons takes the reader on a journey through various types of projection indicated by specific horoscope factors: gender-based projections; projections indicated by aspect, house, and sign; projections related to Saturn and the Moon; collective projections and the outer planets; projections in international affairs. He also investigates the relationship between projection and perception. By referring to numerous horoscopes of well-known people, he illustrates how the relevant principles manifest in people's lives.

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