Heroic Failure. Brexit and the Politics of Pain, Paperback - Fintan O'Toole

A mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engag...

Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson.

This bestselling book recreates the actual course of events during that tumultuous week, based on contemporary witnesses, memoirs and later recolle...

For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. For years, those with economic power had been investing in a...

Reducere. The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever re...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

Tanja Lucic teaches at the University of Amsterdam and lives on the edge of the city's red light district. She and her pupils, fleeing the violent ...

The social media-popular poet behind YouTube TEDx talk 'Finding Home Through Poetry' applies verse to life as a Muslim woman, finding a voice, and ...

Pain has many valuable functions. It can be a warning or force us to rest our bodies. This book examines various facets of pain: the psychological ...

The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their invo...

Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose work radiated humour and good cheer.

Reducere. Suffering is a philosophical problem, but it is much more. It is deeply personal. Why is this happening to me? How can I respond to friends and fam...

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all - `If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pa...

Addresses pain in many forms, including the pain inflicted by torture; the pain suffered in disease; and the pain of anxiety, grief and depression....

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

Reducere. DescriptionThe Most Trusted Study Guide to Understanding The Problem of Pain Why must humanity suffer? Why doesn't God alleviate our pain, even som...

The inside story of the Brexit negotiations - from the EU side, showing how and why the UK got it so badly wrong

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality - Sundhya Pahuja

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 ...

We may think of video games as being "fun, " but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play vide...

This third volume in the Law and Politics of Brexit series provides a comprehensive analysis of the new framework of relationship between the Unite...

A tale of a world at the brink of falling apart being abruptly thrust into a new beginning - life changes forever. Our hero finds a mysterious and ...

Reducere. In Jesus and the Politics of Mammon, Phelps uses contemporary critical theory, continental philosophy, and theology to develop a radical reading of...

"I had to understand that grief would be a constant in my life, and that it would be different every time it returned to me: the same face hidden b...

Reducere. A top neurosurgeon and acclaimed author's unique and highly readable study of the paradox of pain, with fascinating anecdotes on childbirth, migrai...

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 ...

This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements acros...

A radical re-assessment of the post-modern study of musicPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): James R. CurrieIllustration(s): 21 music exx...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Douglas MullikenIllustration(s): 29 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: World CinemaPublication ...

Reducere. Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a cla...

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 ...

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 ...

View "Public Restrooms": A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly.So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right d...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expr...

Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro? This book, by a former British diplomat in Pari...

The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and auto...

The book critically questions the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, tru...

The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and auto...

Reducere. Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in ...

As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of internatio...

There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Philippe Le (Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, UK) GoffNumber of pages: 272Publication dat...

Reducere. In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth's miss...

In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in ...

DescriptionMerrily Watkins, parish priest, single mother, and exorcist, works for the Diocese of Hereford in a remote village on the border of Engl...