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- Public Affairs, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-1-61039-680-6
EAN 9781610396806
In this exuberant celebration of the worlds museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Muse Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. These essays, collected from the pages of ...
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Stalingrad
The City that Defeated the Third Reich
- Public Affairs, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-718-6
EAN 9781610397186
Drawn from previously hidden archives, these candid accounts from Red Army combatants at the Battle of Stalingrad open a heart-rending window onto the lives lived and lost at an epic and pivotal turning point in the Second World War Just days after the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad, legendary Red Army sniper Vasily Zaytsev described the ...
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The Culture Map
Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures
- Public Affairs, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-276-1
EAN 9781610392761
Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected ...
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The Unraveling
High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
- Public Affairs, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 383 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-593-9
EAN 9781610395939
When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure, giving her an unrivaled perspective ...
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Me, Myself and Us
Lessons from the New Science of Personality
- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-58648-967-0
EAN 9781586489670
A revelatory, entertaining exploration of the newest research in personlaity psychology and what it reveals about our traits, emotional states and potential for success and hapiness, by a renowned scholar and expert.
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935 Lies
The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity
- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-117-7
EAN 9781610391177
Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction-always a formidable challenge- is now more difficult than ever, as a constant stream of questionable information pours into media outlets.In The Future of Truth, Charles Lewis ...
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- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-549-6
EAN 9781610395496
Tastemaker, n. Anyone with the power to make you eat quinoa. Kale.Spicy sriracha sauce. Honeycrisp apples. Cupcakes.These days, it seems we are constantly discovering a new food that will make us healthier, happier, or even somehow cooler. Chia seeds, after a brief life as a novelty houseplant and I Love the '80s punchline, are suddenly ...
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- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 173 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-421-5
EAN 9781610394215
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The Great Convergence
Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-369-0
EAN 9781610393690
The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet ...
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To Save Everything, Click Here
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-370-6
EAN 9781610393706
In the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect ...
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Games without Rules
The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-319-5
EAN 9781610393195
By the author of Destiny Disrupted: an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showing how Great Power conflicts have interrupted its ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nationToday, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is ...
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The Birth of the West
Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century
- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-368-3
EAN 9781610393683
Stimulating, encyclopaedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." , Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe, . Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion." , Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. ...
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The Rise of the Warrior Cop
The Militarization of America's Police Forces
- Public Affairs, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-211-2
EAN 9781610392112
The American approach to law enforcement was forged by the experience of revolution. Emerging as they did from the shadow of British rule, the country's founders would likely have viewed police, as they exist today, as a standing army, and therefore a threat to liberty. Even so, excessive force and disregard for the Bill of ...
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- Public Affairs, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-188-7
EAN 9781610391887
" E vocative... Lochery skillfully documents the experiences of the rich and glamorous as well as the less fortunate and even sinister of the city's war time arrivals.... Distilling an enormous quantity of research, Lochery has rendered a fascinating and readable account of this small country's role in World War II, protected, as it was, ...
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- Public Affairs, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-171-9
EAN 9781610391719
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- Public Affairs, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 28,15 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-177-1
EAN 9781610391771
This concise, entertaining book shows us how wrong-headed metaphors and deceptive language have muddled our economic thinking, and how better word choice alone can win the debate.After everything that's happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over voters by claiming that their solutions ...
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- Public Affairs, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-093-4
EAN 9781610390934
"A marvelously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty." -Amartya SenWhy do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these ...
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