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Dogs Are Better Than People: Encountering Good and Evil in the Animal Rescue World
ISBN: 9780692776315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A mystery story, an animal rescue story and a feel-good story told with humor in the style of beloved veterinarian and author, James Herriot,"Dogs Are Better Than People" is the story of one woman's transformation from armchair sympathizer to animal activist. Powerful and humorous; it is part memoir, undercover report and love letter to companion animals everywhere. During one difficult year, Lori Bradley-Millstein's parents became terminally ill, she found herself in yet another new town after years of relocating for jobs with a busy husband often away at work and without any family nearby....
A mystery story, an animal rescue story and a feel-good story told with humor in the style of beloved veterinarian and author, James Herriot,"Dogs Are...
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91,07 zł |
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The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation
ISBN: 9780231181341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have relied on short-term share price increases to sustain their companies long term. Driven by a desire for prosperity, not posterity, these actions can doom any company. In The Activist Director, attorney Ira M. Millstein looks back at fifty years...
Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality grow...
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120,12 zł |
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The Underground Railroad: A Movement That Changed America
ISBN: 9781511569958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Untold Story A fascinating broad critical overview An accessible and enjoyable read One of America's most important movements, the Underground Railroad changed the course of our Nation's history. It was composed of people who risked their lives by defying the Fugitive Slave Law that maintained that slaves were essentially property. A compelling saga that had never fully been told, this book recounts the first interracial movement led by African Americans, heroic men and women who helped destroy slavery in our land and helped make the Union victory possible. With its lively style and...
The Untold Story A fascinating broad critical overview An accessible and enjoyable read One of America's most important movements, the Underground Rai...
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77,18 zł |
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The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780226834481 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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167,25 zł |
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Promoting the Health of Adolescents: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780195091885 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Chronic diseases and premature death can often be linked to social, environmental, and behavioral factors that are subject to modification, especially during adolescence when many habits--both good and bad--are formed. In order to effectively encourage good health-related behaviors among adolescents, health providers need an integrated understanding of the many factors involved. This volume fills that need by providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date review of the pertinent issues, including in-depth discussions on adolescent sexuality, substance abuse, the future of adolescent health...
Chronic diseases and premature death can often be linked to social, environmental, and behavioral factors that are subject to modification, especially...
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296,23 zł |
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Speaker for the God
ISBN: 9781734631302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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147,44 zł |
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The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium
ISBN: 9780226834467 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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567,84 zł |
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Dogs Are Better Than People: Encountering Good and Evil in the Animal Rescue World
ISBN: 9780998507903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dogs Are Better Than People is the story of one woman's transformation from armchair sympathizer to animal activist. Powerful, lively and humorous; it is part memoir, undercover report and love letter to companion animals everywhere. During one difficult year, Lori Bradley-Millstein's parents became terminally ill, she found herself in yet another new town after years of relocating for jobs with a busy husband often away at work and without any family nearby. Then, suddenly, her favorite dog passed away. Suddenly, Lori became deeply and profoundly depressed. In searching for a way out of... Dogs Are Better Than People is the story of one woman's transformation from armchair sympathizer to animal activist. Powerful, lively and humorous;... |
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130,10 zł |
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The Limits of Corporate Power: Existing Constraints on the Exercise of Corporate Discretion
ISBN: 9781587982026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written in 1981, this text examined legal and economic constraints that limited corporate behavior in the United States at that time. The authors look at state and federal charter laws, as well as other legal constraints on corporation creation and structure. They then examine antitrust and security
Written in 1981, this text examined legal and economic constraints that limited corporate behavior in the United States at that time. The authors look...
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180,36 zł |
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Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment
ISBN: 9780754668886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society. Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of critical approaches and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors examine secretive actors with respect to a broad range of subjects, including the narrator in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, John...
Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing...
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752,12 zł |
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We, the American Women: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780595196678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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103,86 zł |
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Dogs Are Better Than People: Encountering Good and Evil in the Animal Rescue World
ISBN: 9780998507910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dogs Are Better Than People is the story of one woman's transformation from armchair sympathizer to animal activist. Powerful, fun and humorous; it is part memoir, undercover report and love letter to companion animals everywhere. During one difficult year, Lori Bradley-Millstein's parents became terminally ill, she found herself in yet another new town after years of relocating for jobs with a busy husband often away at work and without any family nearby. Then, suddenly, her favorite dog passed away. Suddenly, Lori became deeply and profoundly depressed. In searching for a way out of... Dogs Are Better Than People is the story of one woman's transformation from armchair sympathizer to animal activist. Powerful, fun and humorous; it... |
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69,38 zł |
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The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance
ISBN: 9781349512959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. This book proposes specific changes in conduct to resolve these crises, principally by putting the board of directors in charge of management. This detailed analysis and critique of performance of current governance specifies reforms that will make that possible. The reforms are tightly connected to the authors' analysis of the causes of breakdowns in the largest corporations in which...
Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of invest...
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191,40 zł |
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The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance
ISBN: 9781403916662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of investor trust in financial management in the late 1990s. This book proposes specific changes in conduct to resolve these crises, principally by putting the board of directors in charge of management. This detailed analysis and critique of performance of current governance specifies reforms that will make that possible. The reforms are tightly connected to the authors' analysis of the causes of breakdowns in the largest corporations in which...
Since the mid-1980s two crises have overtaken governance of the American corporation - the loss of competitiveness in the 1980s and the loss of invest...
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191,40 zł |
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Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners
ISBN: 9780820354811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Sidney J. Hare and S. Herbert Hare launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture and planning practice in the Midwest. Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein document the extraordinary achievements of this little-known firm.
When Sidney J. Hare and S. Herbert Hare launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape archite...
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229,22 zł |
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Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
ISBN: 9783031233043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil society organizations worldwide. It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are...
This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic s...
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191,40 zł |
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Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
ISBN: 9783031233074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil society organizations worldwide. It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are...
This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic s...
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153,11 zł |
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Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment
ISBN: 9781138250543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society. Victorian Secrecy explores the myriad ways in which knowledge was both zealously accumulated and jealously guarded by individuals, institutions, and government entities in Victorian Britain. Offering a wide variety of critical approaches and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors examine secretive actors with respect to a broad range of subjects, including the narrator in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, John...
Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing...
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280,05 zł |
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Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics
ISBN: 9789400724532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This volume addresses fundamental issues in the philosophy of science in the context of two most intriguing fields: biology and economics. Written by authorities and experts in the philosophy of biology and economics, Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics provides a structured study of the concepts of mechanism and causality in these disciplines and draws careful juxtapositions between philosophical apparatus and scientific practice. By exploring the issues that are most salient to the contemporary philosophies of biology and economics and by presenting comparative... This volume addresses fundamental issues in the philosophy of science in the context of two most intriguing fields: biology and economics. Written ... |
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574,29 zł |
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Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics
ISBN: 9789400793484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This volume explores issues in the philosophy of science relating to biology and economics. It interrogates the concepts of mechanism and causality in these disciplines and draws careful juxtapositions between philosophical apparatus and scientific practice.
This volume explores issues in the philosophy of science relating to biology and economics. It interrogates the concepts of mechanism and causality in...
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574,29 zł |
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