Public Affairs,U.S.
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Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
From the creators of the theory of ethical blindness comes an investigation into how corporate scandals happen, revealing the common pattern behind them and how your organization can avoid them Too often, the stories of…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
The Devil''s Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Economy, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith''s canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don''t care about…627 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
From a star theoretical physicist, “a love letter to the wonderous universe we call home, and an urge to think critically about how we explore its depths” (Smithsonian Magazine) In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A pioneering professor of organizational behavior turns the concept of networking on its head, arguing that we must move beyond the standard mentorship model to embrace sponsorship, where we use our social networks and political…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
From Tolstoy to Lenin, from Diaghilev to Stalin, The Empire Must Die is a tragedy of operatic proportions with a cast of characters that ranges from the exotic to utterly villainous, the glamorous to the…1 320 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A chilling analysis of how Western indecision and apathy made possible the return of brutal Russian expansionism with catastrophic consequences – “A must-read for anyone who wants to understand what went wrong…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Synthetic biology is the technique that enables us not just to read and edit but also write DNA to program living biological structures as though they were tiny computers. Unlike cloning Dolly the sheep-which cut…627 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America. In 2010, a sleepy small-town business plaza in rural New Hampshire rented space to an unusual tenant:…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
A New York Times bestsellerThe Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington''s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A “compelling” (New York Times) and personal daily account of the experience of the Great Depression in the mid-west, full of anxieties about the economic future, with powerful echoes for today. In the early 1920s, Benjamin…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based…660 Kč Koupit
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