Fragile World

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gerard CaseyIn Freedom's Progress?, Gerard Casey argues that the progress of freedom has largely consisted in an intermitte...

Reducere. Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security iss...

DescriptionIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purp...

This book illuminates a set of crisis and conflicts that marked the 1920s and 1930s in the area between the Baltic and the Black Seas, demonstratin...

Reducere. Eine praktische Lernhilfe zur Ergänzung von Futures' Technical Analysis, die in einfacher Frage- und Antwortform zusammen mit vielen Beispielen das...

Reducere. Discover how to apply software engineering patterns to develop more robust firmware faster than traditional embedded development approaches. In the...

Reducere. Did the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, the massive power blackout of 2003, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the Gulf oil spill of 20...

Reducere. Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its...

Spectacular images from one of the most celebrated wildlife photographers in a much-anticipated photo book. Krebs focuses his lens on this fragile ...

DescriptionEnter the world of contemporary art's new idol. Christian Rex van Minnen's art is challenging, intriguing, and disturbing. His provocati...

Reducere. In today's world of specialization, people are attempting to protect the Earth's fragile state by swapping limousines for hybrids and pesticide-lac...

Brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Stretching 625 miles through the Caribbean Sea alon...

Reducere. A fresh, meaty, sink - your - teeth - in - and - hold - on - tight new adult fantasy series kicks off with King Hallâ ] King Hall - where the Mysti...

Reducere. Tayshas ReadingDo you believe in fairies? How about high fashion? Enter the exquisite world of fairie fashion - where feathered hats are designed f...

Reducere. Book three for the Far Forest Scrolls series. The world tips into a barbarous conflict that threatens to drown the world in agony and bloodshed. Th...

DescriptionThis collection of noir-ish photographs presents numerous elements of the natural world imperiled by humanity's havoc. Bil Zelman highli...

DescriptionInternationally renowned artist, Sally Gall's attention and focus is devoted skyward in her highly-anticipated artist book, Heavenly Cre...

Gods in Print is the first comprehensive collection of early hand-colored lithographs, multiple-block chromolithographs, and offset print images of...

The League of Nations - Perspectives from the Present is an accessible and richly illustrated edited volume displaying a wide variety of cutting-ed...

Traces discourses and practices associated with normalcy in world politics. The authors focus on how dominant states and international organisation...

Reducere. Long live Solaris. One bloodthirsty ruler has been overthrown by another, casting the shadow of death over the Solaris Empire. Vhalla Yarl stands u...

"Khan has unraveled the mystery of Chinese grand strategy, showing why insecurity lies at the root of Chinese power projection... Readers will not ...

Reducere. For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the r...

Reducere. Ethic is fighting for love. Alani is everything he has ever wanted in a woman, but with tragedy haunting them it is a constant struggle to stay on ...

Based on in-depth fieldwork, this critical analysis of the realities of security on a local level within 'fragile states' provides a bottom-up pers...

DescriptionThe current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weima...

Reducere. We live in a broken, sad, scary place. We don't need to watch the natural disasters and political unrest in the news to know what our bodies alread...

Reducere. 'Stop! Hey, What's That Sound? - The 1960's Revolution and the Birth of the Jesus People' is a historical and spiritual adventure! It rides the wav...

Reducere. This highly readable, spectacularly illustrated compendium is an ecological journey into a wondrous land of extremes. The California Deserts explor...

Reducere. DescriptionWeingart Lieutenant Richard Mertzbow (aka "Mertz") has been stuck on the mysterious Abakan Base in solitude for decades, while war raged...

Reducere. From a Harvard historian, this riveting portrait of four trailblazing American journalists highlights the power of the press in the interwar period...

Reducere. Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the...

Reducere. An American Family. A world war.A first love. A small hotel.It's the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York's Thousand Islands are at the h...

Reducere. This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one...

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the democratic ascendency of the post-Soviet era is under severe challenge. While fragile demo...

The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely una...

DescriptionAvailable post-free in the UK from the publisher's website, www.lifeisamazing.co.uk. When in 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual included a s...

Reducere. China today has become a world economic giant in just three decades. The country's central bank holds more than $3.5 trillion in foreign exchange r...

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foun...

In a world of growing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, ensuring a safe Anthropocene for humankind is essential. Managing an increasin...

Economic theory and government actions have not adequately anticipated statistically unpredictable events such as disasters and pandemics. These ev...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Wayne LynchPhotographer: Wayne Lynch The internationally successful movie March of the Penguins showcases the life of these...

Reducere. Famous theologian Jrgen Moltmann returns here to the theme that he so powerfully addressed in his groundbreaking work, Theology of Hope. In the twe...

Reducere. A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction "A moving portrait ...

Contributor(s): Author: Michel SerresMarginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language ...

Step into an epic world of sword and sorcery, intrigue and betrayal...The realm of Drinnglennin hangs poised on the cusp of chaos, for Urlion Konig...

Reducere. Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this "timely and p...

Reducere. Trees are being cut down around the world. But why are rain forests being cleared, and what happens if they disappear? In this nonfiction graphic n...

Reducere. In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne S rbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the pr...

Reducere. It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform t...

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other c...

DescriptionSince taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the...

Reducere. From his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, to his most recent, Murder City: Cuidad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, Charles...

Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World is a critical guide on how we can better understand the fragile world around us before it is too late...

Reducere. Before there was Glenn Gould or Liberace, before there was Vladimir Horowitz, before there was Arthur Rubinstein . . . there was Frederic Chopin.On...

Reducere. Whether recalling the poignant presence of her friend Joseph Cornell or simply marveling at the facades along a Venice canal, "their filmy reflecti...

Reducere. The death of a seemingly respectable missionary draws Denis Nayland Smith and his devoted companion, Dr. Petrie, back into the web of the diabolica...

Reducere. DescriptionA multicultural American family comes together just as the world around them begins to fall apart When Vic Singh finds a dead blue butte...

Reducere. Brystal and her friends have saved the world from the evil Snow Queen and secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community. But in this magic...

Reducere. An American Family. A world war.A first love. A small hotel.It's the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York's Thousand Islands are at the h...

Reducere. Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in Europe. Aro...

DescriptionThe year 1187 is one of the most fateful for the Christian crusades in the Holy Land, and one of the most disastrous. With an act of sav...

Reducere. In this scorching prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the f...

Reducere. Long live Solaris. One bloodthirsty ruler has been overthrown by another, casting the shadow of death over the Solaris Empire. Vhalla Yarl stands u...

Reducere. BOOK 2 IN THE SAVAGE LANDS SERIESBrexley has endured starvation and survived torture and even Warwick Farkas, the brutal legend who still haunts h...

Reducere. In the Trenches of the Abortion Battle Every day, thousands of children-fragile, innocent, alone-are abandoned. They are brutally snuffed from the ...

Reducere. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDSOn a warm summer night in New York City, the apocalypse begins.Within days, the deadly Medusa virus is sweeping the g...

Reducere. As ancient immortals are left reeling, a modern Athena and Hermes search the world for answers in Mortal Gods, the second Goddess War novel by Kend...

Reducere. It's two decades in the future, and a Christian college student named Ace Hartwick has just destroyed his neighbor's so-called "wife"-actually a se...