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What's Next: Predictions from 50 of America's Most Compelling People
ISBN: 9780061672910 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life asks fifty experts, artists, business leaders, trendsetters, doctors, athletes, environmentalists, and intellectuals What will the next decade look like? Where are we headed? That is the question professional trendspotter Jane Buckingham posed to fifty influential leaders in a wide variety of fields--and their responses are surprising, provocative, compelling, and important. The result of her conversations with some of the most fascinating men and women in America today, What's Next is an essential collection of highly... The author of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life asks fifty experts, artists, business leaders, trendsetters, doctors, athletes, environmenta... |
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Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World
ISBN: 9780062002730 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For every girl who marches to the beat of her own drum, Leslie Simon has your manifesto: a smart, expansive, and winningly entertaining celebration of comedy queens, film geeks, bookworms, craft mavens, indie chicks, and other all-star women. Following the breakaway hit book Everybody Hurts, Simon's energizing look at today's pop-culture and counterculture heroines--like Amy Sedaris, Tina Fey, Sofia Coppola, Regina Spektor, and Jenny Hart--is an empowering, eye-opening, and, above all, fun journey. Readers of The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking and The Modern Girl's Guide...
For every girl who marches to the beat of her own drum, Leslie Simon has your manifesto: a smart, expansive, and winningly entertaining celebration of...
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When the Monkeys Run the Zoo: The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies
ISBN: 9780999147900 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every change takes its toll. Stefan KUhl critically examines the blind enthusiasm that continues to celebrate the leveling of hierarchies and the decentralization of organizations. Relying on studies performed in European and U.S. companies, KUhl describes why these management concepts can carry organizations to the edge of extinction. Organizations are facing the challenge of coming to grips with the threat of losing their identity, ever-escalating complexity, and the power struggles that result from both. Every change takes its toll. Stefan KUhl critically examines the blind enthusiasm that continues to celebrate the leveling of hierarchies and the d... |
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Useful Illegality: The Benefits of Breaking the Rules in Organizations
ISBN: 9781734961942 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Future We're Building: How Today's Innovations Will Shape Tomorrow's World
ISBN: 9781456657833 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Epileptic Warrior Princess: Life With Epilepsy
ISBN: 9781918096101 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Scars of Silence: A Journey through Trafficking and Survival
ISBN: 9781535603874 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World
ISBN: 9780385473033 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more than her own family's story. But through the story of raising her son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, Golden discovered she was also confronting the causes of the violence that surrounds African-American men.
In the fierecely lyrical and revealing narrative of Saving Our Sons, she has created a work of profound and lasting importance one that sensitively and uniquely addresses the problems of boyhood and emerging... When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more th...
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Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety
ISBN: 9780679758860 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, social critic Wendy Kaminer illuminates the various ways in which society has come to value emotion over reason, faith over fact, and argues that declarations of intense belief have largely taken the place of rational discourse. In a world in which -How do you feel, - seems to be a more frequently asked question than -What do you know, - Kaminer's examination of the rise of spiritualism, the mushrooming junk science, and the habitual merging of political and evangelical speech, blazes with relevance and incisive wit.
Probing the amusing and... In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, social critic Wendy Kaminer illuminates the various ways in which society has come to value emotion over r...
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Immigration and the Future of Canadian Society: Proceedings of the Second S.D. Clark Symposium on the Future of Canadian Society
ISBN: 9781772440911 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Inequality and the Future of Canadian Society: Proceedings of the First S.D. Clark Symposium on the Future of Canadian Society
ISBN: 9781772441437 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Future of Social Movements in Canada: Proceedings of the Fourth S.D. Clark Symposium on the Future of Canadian Society
ISBN: 9781772441802 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories
ISBN: 9780679777526 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character is sharper than ever, whether he writes about Gary Hart stumbling through life after Donna Rice or Mario Cuomo, who now presides over a Saturday morning radio talk show, fielding questions from crackpots, or about Michael Jordan's awesome return to the Chicago Bulls -- or Reggie Jackson's last times at bat.
Remnick's portraits of... Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surpris...
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Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
ISBN: 9781509565504 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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El Halconazo, la masacre de estudiantes en M?xico de 1971
ISBN: 9781936885527 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex
ISBN: 9780385184991 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative book reveals how the real sexualrevolution was initiated by women -- not men --and how it transformed both our behavior and ourunderstanding of what sex means in our lives."
This provocative book reveals how the real sexualrevolution was initiated by women -- not men --and how it transformed both our behavior and ourunders...
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Telling: Confessions, Concessions, and Other Flashes of Light
ISBN: 9780679755227 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things Considered. Now, in Telling, she takes us on a journey both personal and universal, a tour of the minefield of chance and circumstance that make up a life. Along the way, she offers razor-sharp takes on everything from adolescence in suburban New Jersey ("Yes, I wanted to be a wild teenage rebel, but I wanted to do it with my parents' blessing") to hellish houseguests and bad-news...
Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has capti...
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The Increase in Leisure Inequality, 1965-2005
ISBN: 9780844743134 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent research documents increasing income inequality in the United States in particular, a widening gap between well-educated and less-educated American workers. But income is not the sole measure of prosperity. The amount of time Americans spend in leisure is also crucial to our understanding of American well-being, changes in well-being over time, and differences in well-being among citizens. This meticulously-researched monograph examines trends in leisure inequality to present a more complete picture of prosperity in America. Using data spanning forty years and tens of thousands of...
Recent research documents increasing income inequality in the United States in particular, a widening gap between well-educated and less-educated Amer...
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