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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, Paperback - Jeffrey D. Sachs

70,99 RON 75,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an econo...

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Art of Ideas. Creative Thinking for Work and Life, Paperback - Laura Dabalsa

72,99 RON 78,99 RON

Reducere. The Art of Ideas brings together business concepts with stories of creativity in art, politics, and history to provide a visual and accessible guid...

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What Kind of Creatures Are We', Paperback - Noam Chomsky

80,99 RON

A lifetime of research into linguistics, cognitive science and political theory is reflected on in this set of conclusions, including a philosophic...

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Sentimental Tales, Paperback - Mikhail Zoshchenko

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. Mikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bol...

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The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods, Paperback - Sun Zi

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strat...

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Necropolis, Paperback - Vladislav Khodasevich

83,99 RON 89,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of ou...

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Kitchen Mysteries, Paperback - Herve This

86,99 RON

Paperback edition of this insight into the science of cooking. This answers such fundamental questions as what causes vegetables to change colour w...

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The Successful TA. A Practical Approach to Effective Teaching, Paperback - Carol Pollock

86,99 RON

Feel confident stepping into your role as a TA with help from this short, practical guide, which demystifies everything from how to interact with c...

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Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts, Paperback - Elizabeth Hulick

92,99 RON

DescriptionAlexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napo...

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Common Sense. The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth, Hardback - Joel Greenblatt

93,99 RON

In Common Sense, the New York Times best-selling author Joel Greenblatt offers an investor's perspective on building an economy that truly works fo...

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The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy, Paperback - Michael Mann

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of t...

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New Foreign Policy, Hardcover - Sachs

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. A blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global co-operation, international law and aspirations for worldwide prosperity from the author ...

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The Little Devil and Other Stories, Paperback - Alexei Remizov

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a seemin...

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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter, Paperback - Jeffrey Bennett

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as pr...

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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded), Paperback - Michael Mauboussin

99,99 RON

Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin's popular guide to wise investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named be...

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Diagnosis: Schizophrenia: A Comprehensive Resource for Consumers, Families, and Helping Professionals, Paperback - Rachel Miller

99,99 RON

In this book, thirty-five young, recently diagnosed patients speak about schizophrenia and the process of recovery, while two specialists illuminat...

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What Is Philosophy', Paperback - Gilles Deleuze

99,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrate...

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Locked in Time. Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils, Paperback - Robert Nicholls

99,99 RON

From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, this book takes readers on a global journey deep into the earth'...

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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, Paperback - Paul Offit

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following th...

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Bad Advice. Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information, Paperback - Paul, , M.D. Offit

100,99 RON

Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation. From conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism to Ho...

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The Membranes. A Novel, Paperback - Ta-wei Chi

100,99 RON

First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes-heirloom ...

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Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide, Paperback - Jonardon Ganeri

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. Where do we look when we look inward? In what sort of space does our inner life take place? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself i...

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Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation, Paperback - William Duggan

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. William Duggan's 2007 book, Strategic Intuition, showed how innovation really happens in business and other fields and how that matches what modern...

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The Designing for Growth Field Book: A Step-By-Step Project Guide, Paperback - Jeanne Liedtka

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G) showed how organizations can use design thinking to boost innovation and drive ...

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There Is Life After the Nobel Prize, Hardcover - Eric Kandel

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his project officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed hi...

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Sex and World Peace, Paperback - Valerie Hudson

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital fac...

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The Best American Magazine Writing 2019, Paperback - Sid Holt

105,99 RON

DescriptionThis year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners include outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gen...

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Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education, Paperback - Jonathan A. Knee

105,99 RON

DescriptionThe past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market prin...

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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, Paperback - Frederick Opie

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies...

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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Paperback - Seth Lerer

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of...

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The Best American Magazine Writing 2021, Paperback - Sid Holt

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 will feature a selection of articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital ...

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Klotsvog, Paperback - Margarita Khemlin

108,99 RON

DescriptionKlotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II--and it's a novel about the petty d...

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Touch. Recovering Our Most Vital Sense, Paperback - Richard Kearney

108,99 RON

Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity o...

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So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist?, Paperback - Ashley Juavinett

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. The pursuit to understand the human brain in all its intricacy is a fascinatingly complex challenge and neuroscience is one of the fastest-growing ...

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Gardening Notes for South Carolina: A Garden Book for Zone 7-B, 8-A, Paperback - Columbia Garden Club

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Gardening Notes for South Carolina offers is a handbook for beginners and intermediate gardeners and includes expert guidance on planting and maint...

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Who Ate Up All the Shinga?. An Autobiographical Novel, Paperback - Wan-suh Park

109,99 RON

Park Wan-suh's Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a t...

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Little Lindy Is Kidnapped. How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century, Paperback - Thomas Doherty

109,99 RON

Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh...

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What Would Nature Do?. A Guide for Our Uncertain Times, Paperback - Ruth DeFries

109,99 RON

Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather contemporary crises. Exploring...

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Taste. A Book of Small Bites, Paperback - Jehanne Dubrow

109,99 RON

Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses. Structured as a series of "small bites, " the book considers the ways that we ingest the wor...

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The Terroir of Whiskey. A Distiller's Journey Into the Flavor of Place, Paperback - Rob Arnold

109,99 RON

The master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. H...

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Self-Improvement. Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Paperback - Mark Coeckelbergh

109,99 RON

This book shows how self-improvement culture became so toxic-and why we need both a new concept of the self and a mission of social change in order...

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Art and Posthistory. Conversations on the End of Aesthetics, Paperback - Demetrio Paparoni

109,99 RON

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about conte...

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Climate Change Adaptation. An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer, Paperback - Lisa Dale

109,99 RON

This book offers a concise overview of climate adaptation governance. In clear, accessible language, Lisa Dale presents the theory and practice tha...

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The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World, Paperback - David Hurst

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations--their function and their failure--both in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five yea...

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Kitchen as Laboratory, Paperback - Cesar Vega

111,99 RON

Eating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and scientists have only recently begun to deconstruct food's components, setting the stage for scie...

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Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Paperback - Andrew Smith

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of...

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Fu Ping, Paperback - Anyi Wang

112,99 RON

DescriptionNainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has c...

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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy, Paperback - John Allen Paulos

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselli...

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My Brilliant Friends. Our Lives in Feminism, Paperback - Nancy K. Miller

114,99 RON

My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the bo...

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Managing Environmental Conflict. An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer, Paperback - Joshua D. Fisher

114,99 RON

Conflicts frequently arise over environmental issues such as land use, natural resource management, and laws and regulation. This book is a primer ...

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Great Minds Don't Think Alike. Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human, Paperback - ***

114,99 RON

Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engageme...

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Longing and Other Stories, Paperback - Jun'ichiro. Tanizaki

114,99 RON

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century. This book presents three powerful stories of family fro...

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The Savage Detectives Reread, Paperback - David Kurnick

114,99 RON

David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Roberto Bolano's life and work have obscured his achievements-and that The Savage Detective...

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Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language, Hardback - Julia Kristeva

114,99 RON

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky's work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. ...

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Discovering Prices. Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints, Paperback - Paul Milgrom

116,99 RON

Paul Milgrom describes how auctions can be used to discover prices and guide efficient resource allocations. Milgrom roots his new theories in real...

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I-Novel, Paperback - Minae Mizumura

116,99 RON

Minae Mizumura's An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. This formally daring nov...

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Conversations, Paperback - Ai Weiwei

116,99 RON

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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American Resistance. From the Women's March to the Blue Wave, Paperback - Dana R. Fisher

116,99 RON

Who are the millions of people marching against the Trump administration? American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to the communi...

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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, Paperback - Michael Mann

116,99 RON

The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the cas...

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Learn or Die. Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization, Paperback - Edward D. Hess

116,99 RON

In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, and education with key research on high...

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Aimlessness, Paperback - Tom Lutz

116,99 RON

Aimlessness collects ideas and stories from around the world that value indirection, wandering, getting lost, waiting, meandering, lingering, sitti...

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Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, Paperback - Daniel Loxton

116,99 RON

Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster...

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Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century, Paperback - Bruce Usher

116,99 RON

DescriptionFrom wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now re...

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Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth, Paperback - Elizabeth Grosz

116,99 RON

DescriptionInstead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-espec...

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Strolls with Pushkin, Paperback - Andrei Sinyavsky

116,99 RON

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to a Soviet labor camp. His irreverent portrait outraged emigres and Soviet scholars ali...

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The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, Paperback - Anna Kurkina Rush

116,99 RON

DescriptionThe Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, a leading figure of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the ...

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To Write as if Already Dead, Paperback - Kate Zambreno

116,99 RON

To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herve Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Li...

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No Finish Line. Lessons on Life and Career, Hardback - Meyer Feldberg

116,99 RON

No Finish Line is Meyer Feldberg as his friends and colleagues know him. In his telling, Feldberg's story-both his successes and his failures-is a ...

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Climate Change Science. A Primer for Sustainable Development, Paperback - Dr. John C. Mutter

116,99 RON

This book is a primer on the essential science for grasping the workings of climate change and climate prediction. It is accessible for readers wit...

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The Life Written by Himself, Paperback - Avvakum Petrov

116,99 RON

Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar ec...

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