China in Ten Words. China in zehn Wörtern, englische Ausgabe Random House

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic and social transformation. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular - people,leader,reading, writing,Lu Xun (one of the most influential Chinese writers of the twentieth century), disparity, revolution,grassroots, copycat, and bamboozle - China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world's most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In Disparity, for example, Yu Hua illustrates the mind-boggling economic gaps that separate citizens of the country. In Copycat, he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in Bamboozle, he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society.§Characterized by Yu Hua's trademark wit, insight, and courage, China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the 'Chinese miracle' and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today.

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Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe - Souad

Książki & Multimedia > Książki

Opis - Pierwsze na świecie świadectwo ofiary zbrodni honorowej. Miała siedemnaście lat i zakochała się: zhańbiła rodzinę. Więc rodzina wydała na nią wyrok śmierci... Pokochała go pierwszą miłością. Myślała, że się z nią ożeni. Ale ukochany zniknął, a ona odkryła, że jest w ciąży. A w jej świecie to najcięższa zbrodnia... W zapomnianej przez Boga wiosce w Cisjordanii kobiety są warte mniej niż zwierzęta domowe. Tu mężczyzna jest panem życia i śmierci żony, córki, siostry. Brat może bezkarnie zabić siostrę, matka - córkę, kolejną bezużyteczną dziewczynkę, jaka się urodzi. Tu kobiecie odbiera się godność, a nawet życie zgodnie z odwiecznym obyczajem i uświęconą tradycją. A śmierć jest karą dla dziewczyny, która zhańbi rodzinę. Tak jak Souad. Wyrok wydaje jej ojciec. Szwagier dokonuje egzekucji. Oblewa Souad benzyną i podpala... SOUAD przeżyła - cudem, ale rodzina usiłowała zabić ją nawet w szpitalu. Na zawsze jednak pozostanie straszliwie okaleczona - na ciele i duszy. I wciąż musi się ukrywać; dopóki żyje, jej rodzinę okrywa hańba. Spalona żywcem, opublikowana pod pseudonimem szokująca opowieść o piekle, jakim było jej dzieciństwo i młodość, stała się międzynarodowym bestsellerem. Wydana w 37 w krajach książka przerywa tabu milczenia wobec istniejącej nadal w krajach muzułmańskich barbarzyńskiej tradycji. Nieludzkiego obyczaju, prawa mężczyzn, na mocy którego co najmniej pięć tysięcy kobiet pada co roku ofiarą zbrodni honorowej. Nazwa - Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe Autor - Souad Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Amber Kod ISBN - 9788324159406 Kod EAN - 9788324159406 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2016 Tłumacz - 31182,maria rostworowska; Format - 110 x 175 x 14 Ilość stron - 224 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2016-06-23

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Network Society Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Manuel Castells - one of the world's pre-eminent social scientists - has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies around the world in terms of the critical role of electronic communication networks in business, everyday life, public services, social interaction and politics. The contributors demonstrate that the network society is the new form of social organization in the Information age, replacing the Industrial society. The book analyzes processes of technological transformation in interaction with social culture in different cultural and institutional contexts: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Finland, Russia, China, India, Canada, and Catalonia. The topics examined include business productivity, global financial markets, cultural identity, the uses of the Internet in education and health, the anti-globalization movement, political processes, media and identity, and public policies to guide technological development.Taken together these studies show that the network society adopts very different forms, depending on the cultural and institutional environments in which it evolves. The Network Society is an outstanding and original volume of direct interest in academia - particularly in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, and business schools - as well as for policymakers engaged in technological policy and economic development. Business and management experts will also discover much of value to them within this book.

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Społeczne tworzenie seksualności - Steven Seidman

Książki & Multimedia > Książki

Opis - 'Spokojna, umiarkowana debata publiczna na tematy seksualne została w dużej mierze popsuta przez polityków, którzy dla korzyści politycznych grają na lękach seksualnych obywateli. Politycy i media wpatrzone w słupki sondaży często tworzą wokół seksu atmosferę paniki moralnej. [...] Żeby wesprzeć racjonalną debatę publiczną na temat seksualności, musimy unikać niepotrzebnego ewokowania emocji przez odwoływanie się do retoryki zagrożeń narodowych albo upadku społecznego. Spory seksualne w istocie wywołują różne obawy dotyczące znaczenia i sposobu organizacji rodziny, ról płciowo-kulturowych oraz zachowań prywatnych i publicznych, a także roli państwa. Musimy jednak starać się koncentrować na wąsko pojętych kwestiach seksualnych i rozważać je w świetle dostępnych badań oraz potencjalnych konsekwencji społecznych rozmaitych stanowisk i programów'. (z tekstu) Steven Seidman - amerykański socjolog związany ze State University of New York w Albany, jeden z najbardziej znanych teoretyków z zakresu socjologii seksualności. Autor licznych artykułów i książek na temat ponowoczesnej teorii społecznej, teorii queer czy socjologii kultury, m.in. Romantic Longings. Love in America 1830-1980, Embattled Eros. Sexual Ethics and Politics in America, The New Social Theory. Contemporary Debates, Queer Theory/ Sociology, Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Beyond the Closet. The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life. Nazwa - Społeczne tworzenie seksualności Oryginalny tytuł - The Social Construction of Sexuality. Autor - Steven Seidman Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Kod ISBN - 9788301169312 Kod EAN - 9788301169312 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2012 Język - polski Tłumacz - Tomanek Paweł Seria wydawnicza - Socjologia Współczesna Format - 14.0x20.5cm Ilość stron - 280 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2012-08-28

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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village Monthly Review Pr

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff.

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Columbia History of American Television Columbia University Press

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we are, what we value, and where we might be headed in the future. Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural relevance of TV from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948-1975) and the Cable Era (1976-1994). He begins with the laying of the first telegraph line in 1844, which gave rise to the idea that images and sounds could be transmitted over long distances. He then considers the remodeling of television's look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country.He talks of the birth of prime time and cable, the influence of innovators like Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, Roone Arledge, and Ted Turner, as well as television's entrance into the international market, describing the ascent of such programs as Dallas and The Cosby Show, and the impact these exports have had on transmitting American culture abroad. Edgerton concludes with a discerning look at our current Digital Era (1995-present) and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America's social, political, and economic landscape. Richly researched and engaging, Edgerton's history tracks television's growth into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social catalyst, a viable art form, and a complex and dynamic reflection of the American mind and character. It took only ten years for television to penetrate thirty-five million households, and by 1983, the average home kept their set on for more than seven hours a day.The Columbia History of American Television illuminates our complex relationship with this singular medium and provides historical and critical knowledge for understanding TV as a technology, an industry, an art form, and an institutional force.

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Columbia History of American Television Columbia University Press

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we are, what we value, and where we might be headed in the future. Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural relevance of TV from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948-1975) and the Cable Era (1976-1994). He begins with the laying of the first telegraph line in 1844, which gave rise to the idea that images and sounds could be transmitted over long distances. He then considers the remodeling of television's look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country.He talks of the birth of prime time and cable, the influence of innovators like Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, Roone Arledge, and Ted Turner, as well as television's entrance into the international market, describing the ascent of such programs as Dallas and The Cosby Show, and the impact these exports have had on transmitting American culture abroad. Edgerton concludes with a discerning look at our current Digital Era (1995-present) and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America's social, political, and economic landscape. Richly researched and engaging, Edgerton's history tracks television's growth into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social catalyst, a viable art form, and a complex and dynamic reflection of the American mind and character. It took only ten years for television to penetrate thirty-five million households, and by 1983, the average home kept their set on for more than seven hours a day.The Columbia History of American Television illuminates our complex relationship with this singular medium and provides historical and critical knowledge for understanding TV as a technology, an industry, an art form, and an institutional force.

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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain Oxford University Press

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses the developments that led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the sixteenth century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the eighteenth century. These new products, regarded as luxuries by the rapidly growing urban and middling-class people of the eighteenth century, played an important part in helping to proclaim personal identities,and guide social interaction. Customers enjoyed shopping for them; they took pleasure in their beauty, ingenuity or convenience. All manner of new products appeared in shop windows; sophisticated mixed-media advertising seduced customers and created new wants.This unparalleled 'product revolution' provoked philosophers and pundits to proclaim a 'new luxury', one that reached out to the middling and trading classes, unlike the elite and corrupt luxury of old.Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain is cultural history at its best, built on a fresh empirical base drawn directly from customs accounts, advertising material, company papers, and contemporary correspondence. Maxine Berg traces how this new consumer society of the eighteenth century and the products first traded, then invented to satisfy it, stimulated industrialization itself. Global markets for the consumer goods of private and domestic life inspired the industrial revolution and British products 'won the world'.

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Społeczne tworzenie seksualności wydawnictwo naukowe pwn

Nauki społeczne, ekonomiczne, prawne >Psychologia

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Społeczne tworzenie seksualności PWN Wydawnictwo Naukowe

Socjologia. SpołeczeństwoRelacje interpersonalneSex. Życie intymneWydawnictwa naukowe i popularno-naukowe

?Spokojna, umiarkowana debata publiczna na tematy seksualne została w dużej mierze popsuta przez polityków, którzy dla korzyści politycznych grają na lękach seksualnych obywateli. Politycy i media wpatrzone w słupki sondaży często tworzą wokół seksu atmosferę paniki moralnej. [...] Żeby wesprzeć racjonalną debatę publiczną na temat seksualności, musimy unikać niepotrzebnego ewokowania emocji przez odwoływanie się do retoryki zagrożeń narodowych albo upadku społecznego. Spory seksualne w istocie wywołują różne obawy dotyczące znaczenia i sposobu organizacji rodziny, ról płciowo-kulturowych oraz zachowań prywatnych i publicznych, a także roli państwa. Musimy jednak starać się koncentrować na wąsko pojętych kwestiach seksualnych i rozważać je w świetle dostępnych badań oraz potencjalnych konsekwencji społecznych rozmaitych stanowisk i programów?.(z tekstu)Steven Seidman ? amerykański socjolog związany ze State University of New York w Albany, jeden z najbardziej znanych teoretyków z zakresu socjologii seksualności. Autor licznych artykułów i książek na temat ponowoczesnej teorii społecznej, teorii queer czy socjologii kultury, m.in. Romantic Longings. Love in America 1830?1980, Embattled Eros. Sexual Ethics and Politics in America, The New Social Theory. Contemporary Debates, Queer Theory/ Sociology, Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Beyond the Closet. The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life.

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Społeczne tworzenie seksualności Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN

Literatura > Socjologia

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Społeczne tworzenie seksualności Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN

Książki > Nauki społeczne, humanistyczne, ekonomiczne > Psychologia. Psychoterapia > Relacje interpersonalne

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Sztuka krańców Europy, długie lata 90 i dziś w.ang CSW Zamek Ujazdowski

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The starting point of the exhibition British British Polish Polish. Art from Europe's Edges in the Long '90s and Today presented in 2013 at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle was to show the unique simultaneous bloom of contemporary art in the UK as well as in Poland at the turn of the eighties and nineties, often associated with Young British Artists and Polish Critical Art. Their representatives, in a direct manner, undertook basic human questions - life and death, sex and violence, ethics and politics - thereby provoking lively and important discussions in their countries, also involving the media, which helped to transform contemporary art in the UK and Poland from a niche field - arousing interest only for the privy as it would seem into the broader popular culture. This process was taking place during rapid economic and social changes in both countries: in Britain it was the Big Bang, caused by the sudden deregulation of financial markets in 1986, the same year in which Damien Hirst began his studies at Goldsmiths' College; in Poland, there was the turbulent process of political transformation after the fall of communism in 1989. The presentation of the most important works of British and Polish art from the nineties was complemented with the works of young artists from the UK and Poland, who appeared after the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. From this, the question was asked: do eminent contemporary artists refer to the legacy of their predecessors, or do they reject it, or perhaps simply ignore it? And are we still stuck in the "long-nineties," or are we already living in new, yet unnamed times? Along with the exhibition British British Polish Polish, work began on an extensive publication (in English and Polish) containing the texts of the curators - Tom Morton and Marek Goździewski as well as J.J. Charlesworth, Isobel Harbison, Izabela Kowalczyk, Paweł Możdżyński, and Jakub Bąk. The book also contains interviews with all the artists who partook in the exhibition, as well as rich calendar - developed by Oliver Basciano and Maryla Sitkowska - of British and Polish cultural and political scenes from the nineties and a selection of excerpts from the British and Polish press commenting on the achievements of Young British Art and Polish Critical Art. Appended later to the book was documentation depicting activities related to the controversy around one of the works displayed in the exhibition as well as a rich collection of press releases divulging the varied reception of the exhibition, which was recorded both as an important event in the history of modern art in Poland, as well as an expression of the reflection on the specificity of art from the nineties, arousing more and more interest today. The completion of this publication became an important task of the CCA Ujazdowski Castle as an institution, which was notably active in its participation in shaping the face of contemporary Polish art in the nineties.

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Społeczne tworzenie seksualności wydawnictwo naukowe pwn

Nauki społeczne, humanistyczne, ekonomiczne>Psychologia. Psychoterapia>Relacje interpersonalne

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Społeczne tworzenie seksualności wydawnictwo naukowe pwn

Książki naukowe>Socjologia

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