ISBN: 9780520256095 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2009
When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to...
ISBN: 9780520249578 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 360 Rok wydania: 2007
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...
ISBN: 9780520290877 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 992 Rok wydania: 2016
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion...
ISBN: 9780520265455 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 584 Rok wydania: 2011
From gray whales giving birth in the lagoons of Baja California to sea otters nestled in kelp beds off California to killer whales living around Vancouver Island - this spectacular stretch of the...
ISBN: 9780520260566 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 392 Rok wydania: 2010
Sociocultural anthropologists have taken increasing interest in the global communities established by Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, but the many streams of Eastern Christianity have so...
ISBN: 9780520294455 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2018
From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and...
ISBN: 9780520279414 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 248 Rok wydania: 2017
Agn s Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative "mother" of the French New...
ISBN: 9780520081161 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 3 Rok wydania: 1992
Volume III investigates what Braudel terms "world-economies" - the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterdam, London, New York.
ISBN: 9780520081147 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 3 Rok wydania: 1992
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial people around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Volume I describes food and drink,...
ISBN: 9780520288263 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2015
Traditional medical practice has seen a dynamic revival in China and throughout many countries in the Western world. This book provides the historical and philosophical foundations of this Chinese...
ISBN: 9780520044777 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 570 Rok wydania: 1992
This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date.
ISBN: 9780520271470 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2011
Over one million copies sold. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora...
ISBN: 9780520256200 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 688 Rok wydania: 2008
This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed...
ISBN: 9780520242630 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 377 Rok wydania: 2005
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and...
ISBN: 9780520286245 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 410 Rok wydania: 2015
Provides a look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries. The author asks what religious conflict meant to those...
ISBN: 9780520256378 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 1022 Rok wydania: 2008
Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by...
ISBN: 9780520257184 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 1168 Rok wydania: 2012
First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries and more than one hundred new artists. Stiles has...
ISBN: 9780520042063 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 664 Rok wydania: 1992
'An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide...
ISBN: 9780520278868 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 2015
Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. This book provides a...
ISBN: 9780520291355 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 408 Rok wydania: 2017
Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism$636 Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way$637 What, if anything, can be done...