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Chester Alan Arthur
ISBN: 9780805069518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtured him Chester Alan Arthur never dreamed that one day he would be president of the United States. A successful lawyer, Arthur had been forced out as the head of the Custom House of the Port of New York in 1877 in a power struggle between the two wings of the Republican Party. He became such a celebrity that he was nominated for vice president in 1880-despite his never having run for office before. Elected alongside James A. Garfield,... The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtured h... |
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Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation
ISBN: 9781400079216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In a narrative that is at once thoughtful and passionate, an award-winning historian reveals the history of peaceful coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews over the course of fourteen centuries until the present day. In a narrative that is at once thoughtful and passionate, an award-winning historian reveals the history of peaceful coexistence between Muslims... |
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A Visionary Nation: Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead
ISBN: 9780060084424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this penetrating volume, Zachary Karabell examines the continuous thread that runs through the tapestry of the American experience -- the belief that we can create a perfect society -- and envisions what the next great era will be. Just as the Puritan vision of a city on a hill was supplanted by the Founding Fathers' vision of individuality, just as the expansive vision of a government-led Great Society was eclipsed by the New Economy of the 1990s, so too is the New Economy being replaced by what Karabell contends will be a period when community and spirituality occupy center stage.
In this penetrating volume, Zachary Karabell examines the continuous thread that runs through the tapestry of the American experience -- the belief th...
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56,97 |
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Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
ISBN: 9780375708121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.
The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project through fifteen years of financial challenges, technical obstacles, and political intrigues. He convinced ordinary French citizens to invest their money, and he won the backing of Napoleon III... Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Can...
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Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946--1962
ISBN: 9780807123416 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In telling the story of seven significant US interventions during the key cold war years, this text aims to show the interplay between the American government and third world actors in designing US policy and their respective countries. The author describes US mediation in Greece and Italy and then moves to the core of his argument: interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Lebanon and Cuba. Those involvements, he explains, arose not only out of decisions made in Washington but also out actions in the cafes of Beirut, in the streets of Havana, in the alleys of Tehran and in the jungles of Guatemala....
In telling the story of seven significant US interventions during the key cold war years, this text aims to show the interplay between the American go...
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135,98 |
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The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World
ISBN: 9781451651225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Leading Indicators was widely and well received as a much needed corrective to the outdated, outmoded economic figures we are accustomed. Every day, we are bombarded with numbers that tell us how we are doing, whether the economy is growing or shrinking, whether the future looks bright or dim. Gross national product, balance of trade, unemployment, inflation, and consumer confidence guide our actions, yet few of us know where they come from, what they mean, or why they rule our world. Zachary Karabell tells the fascinating history of these indicators, which were invented in the...
The Leading Indicators was widely and well received as a much needed corrective to the outdated, outmoded economic figures we are accustomed. E...
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The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
ISBN: 9780375700774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore (-Dewey Defeats Truman, - the Chicago Tribune memorably and erroneously heralded), to give us a fresh look at perhaps the last time the American people could truly distinguish what the candidates stood for.
In 1948, Harry Truman, the feisty working-class Democratic incumbent was one of the most unpopular presidents the country had ever known. His Republican rival, the aloof Thomas Dewey, was widely thought to be a shoe-in. These two major party candidates were... In The Last Campaign, Zachary Karabell rescues the 1948 presidential campaign from the annals of political folklore (-Dewey Defeats Truman, - t...
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Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It
ISBN: 9781416583714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Zachary Karabell argues that the intertwined economic relationship between China and the United States will affect our long-term prosperity more than any other contemporary issue. As the world continues the slow work of repairing the damage of the financial crisis, it is crucial that the United States understands that it cannot go it alone. Its fusion with China is powerful, essential, and defining. Zachary Karabell's brilliant book lays out this complex and important economic story.
Zachary Karabell argues that the intertwined economic relationship between China and the United States will affect our long-term prosperity more than ...
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People of the Book
ISBN: 9780719567551 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A fascinating and surprising history, revealing the peaceful tradition that has existed between Islam and the West
A fascinating and surprising history, revealing the peaceful tradition that has existed between Islam and the West
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56,20 |
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What's College For?
ISBN: 9780465091522 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) President Clinton declares that a two-year education should be the right of all Americans. Congress passes a 40 billion package of tax breaks and scholarships aimed at making a degree accessible to everyone. Almost two-thirds of high school graduates now go on to some form of higher education, and yet at the same time, those colleges and universities, inundated with a new kind of student, have been slow to respond to this revolutionary change.Zachary Karabell spent over a year traveling the country interviewing students, graduate students, faculty, and adjunct teachers, and the result is a...
President Clinton declares that a two-year education should be the right of all Americans. Congress passes a 40 billion package of tax breaks and scho...
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Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World
ISBN: 9781609611804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) HOW THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPANIES ARE BUILDING BUSINESS STRATEGIES THAT TACKLE THE BIGGEST GLOBAL CHALLENGES Today's business landscape is changing in fundamental ways: Natural resources are growing ever more scarce and expensive. Technology and changing consumer expectations are making transparency a fact of life. The rise of emerging economies creates vast market opportunities for companies--and better living standards for hundreds of millions. In Sustainable Excellence, Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell tell the stories of the companies who are transforming themselves by... HOW THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPANIES ARE BUILDING BUSINESS STRATEGIES THAT TACKLE THE BIGGEST GLOBAL CHALLENGES Today's business landsc... |
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