Embracing Uncertainty: Future Jazz, That 13th Century Buddhist Monk, and the Invention of Cultures, Paperback - John W. Traphagan

Reducere. Here you have the product of my thinking as an anthropologist who has studied and traveled to Japan for over thirty years.In one sense, the book is...

Reducere. In 12 April 1937 Frank Whittle became the first person to successfully start and run a turbojet engine. In May 1941 the engine took to the air in a...

Publisher: Datum Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): John GolleyIllustration(s): Illustrations, mapsNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2010Dimensions: ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the mode...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah ...

From one of the world's preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of unde...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Monk Within is written for the person seeking a deeper, contemplative orientation to daily life. Yearning for inner realization of d...

Reducere. In this refreshingly candid look at what it takes to live a life of faith, John Ortberg takes an honest look at the misgivings and uncertainties th...

Reducere. Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry's actuarial tables and the gambler's roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probabilit...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

Reducere. What would a history that put women at the centre of the rise and fall of kingdoms be like? When the armies of Khubilai arrived on Java in 1293, th...

Reducere. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's "The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk" invites you to step inside the mysterious world of the Zendo, where monks live the...

Up to the mid 20th century, generations of anthropologists had imported their own value systems into their work, regardless of where they were stud...

Reducere. Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry's actuarial tables and the gambler's roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probabilit...

Reducere. A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of sp...

Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two...

A nuanced account of the life and art of Piero della Francesca.Illustrations: 94 colour illustrations

Reducere. During the Golden Age of Sports in the 1920s, Walter Hagen was to golf what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The first professional golfer to make his li...

Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. This is a powerful, sweeping novel, inspir...

Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 189...

Reducere. DescriptionA masterclass in enlightenment and simplicity. In The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk, Zen master and scholar D.T. Suzuki explains the...

Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the defi...

The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Jeevan V...

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

Reducere. Ruby, My DearTrinkle, TinkleOff MinorNuttyEpistrophyFunctional

A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

DescriptionAn engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe The James Webb Space Telescope, when launch...

Instant New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerIndie Bound BestsellerAuthors Round the South BestsellerMidwest Indi...

Reducere. A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a r...

Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of and debates about nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India frames and sustains ...

Reducere. CD 1 (Original Album)Evidence - 6: 42In Walked Bud - 6: 38Blue Monk - 7: 49I Mean You - 7: 58Rhythm-A-Ning - 7: 15Purple Shades - 7: 39CD 2 (The Ou...

Publisher: Rockpool PublishingAuthor(s): Luke KennedyNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 23Cover type: Paperback / so...

Gripping story of the events that led up to the sailing of the Mayflower

Reducere. L.A. Times Book PrizeOn the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the oth...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

The thirteenth century was a crucial period of reform in the English church, especially for the pastoral care of laypeople. With this holistic stud...

Reducere. Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to...

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 ...

Reducere. This gorgeous and empowering picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Evan Turk paints the portrait of Marietta Barovier, the groundbreak...

The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer, and who received a royal pardon in...

Reducere. What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries ...

DescriptionGiorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents--a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar--but he is best known for Live...

Reducere. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. So...

This ambitious and thought-provoking new work offers an overarching analysis of decision-making in all walks of life.Publisher: Little, Brown Book ...

Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argu...

An insightful socio-cultural analysis of the differences in Chinese and Western relationships to the public and the private spheres.