wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
ISBN: 9780618773442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the president's character and his leadership. Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health from the time he was a young man. Shenk draws from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of his... A thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. |
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68,38 |
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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
ISBN: 9781848545922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. All of us have experienced creative connection, and glimpsed its power. Yet, for centuries, the myth of the lone genius has obscured the critical story of the power of collaboration. In Powers of Two, Joshua Wolf Shenk argues that creative pairs are the exemplars for innovation. Drawing on years of research on great partnerships in history - from Lennon and McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie, plus hundreds more in fields including literature, popular culture, art and business - Shenk identifies the common journey pairs take from the spark of initial connection, through the passage to a...
All of us have experienced creative connection, and glimpsed its power. Yet, for centuries, the myth of the lone genius has obscured the critical stor...
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55,31 |
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Powers of Two: How Relationships Drive Creativity
ISBN: 9780544334465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "This is a book about magic, about the Beatles, about the chemistry between people, about neuroscience, and about the buddy system; it examines love and hate, harmony and dissonance, and everything in between. The result is wise, funny, surprising, and completely engrossing." -- Susan Orlean
Lennon and McCartney, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Pierre and Marie Curie. Throughout history, partners have buoyed each other to better work -- though often one member is little known to the general public. (See Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, or Vincent and Theo van Gogh.) In... "This is a book about magic, about the Beatles, about the chemistry between people, about neuroscience, and about the buddy system; it examines lov...
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75,98 |