ISBN: 9780691170817 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Levinson, Marc Ilość stron: 544 Rok wydania: 2016
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom...
ISBN: 9780691017761 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 1992
Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together aby their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of...
ISBN: 9780691167176 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Castello, Jose R. Ilość stron: 664 Rok wydania: 2016
Bovids are a diverse group of ruminant mammals that have hooves and unbranched hollow horns. Bovids of the World is the first comprehensive field guide to cover all 279 bovid species, including...
ISBN: 9780691157276 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Campbell, Iain / Woods, Sam / Leseberg, Nick Ilość stron: 392 Rok wydania: 2014
Australia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly...
ISBN: 9780691152554 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Akerlof, George A. / Kranton, Rachel E. Ilość stron: 200 Rok wydania: 2011
"Identity Economics" provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities - and not just economic incentives - influence our decisions. In...
ISBN: 9780691116730 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Corballis, Michael C. Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2003
Theories on how languge developed from a gestural system to the spoken word. A witty and readable evaluation. 13 colour illus.
ISBN: 9780691174952 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2018
Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled żeby the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But...
ISBN: 9780691122458 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2005
Subtitled, }Identity & Imposture In Twentieth-Century Russia{
ISBN: 9780691138152 Oprawa: twarda Autor: Auden, W. H. Ilość stron: 200 Rok wydania: 2011
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the...
ISBN: 9780691165851 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Starr, S. Ferick Ilość stron: 680 Rok wydania: 2015
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and...
ISBN: 9780691136462 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 200 Rok wydania: 2008
Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats,...
ISBN: 9780691152844 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2014
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with...
ISBN: 9780691158464 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 528 Rok wydania: 2014
Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally...
ISBN: 9780691160870 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Bernard Lewis Mark R. Cohen Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2014
This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy...
ISBN: 9780691146010 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2010
Subtitled, }A Mathematical Novel{. A fictional introduction to concepts in maths.
ISBN: 9780691156170 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Ikenberry, G. John Ilość stron: 392 Rok wydania: 2012
In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has...
ISBN: 9780691172286 Oprawa: twarda Autor: Koerner, Joseph Leo Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 2016
In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the...
ISBN: 9780691176383 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2017
According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus...
ISBN: 9780691174860 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2017
In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the...
ISBN: 9780691116723 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2003
Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only...