Never Leaving Laramie: Travels in a Restless World, Paperback - John W. Haines

Reducere. John Haines spent the better part of two decades traveling the world: biking through Tibet, kayaking the length of the Niger River, taking the Tran...

Reducere. In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home reg...

Stillness. Prayer. Sabbath. In a restless world, what do those words even mean? Public health expert Kate H. Rademacher grew up thinking it was up ...

Once in a while a travel book comes along that pushes at the boundaries of the genre. Quondam: Travels in a Once World does exactly that, asking us...

Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there's a "next-best-thing, " if only we would change o...

Reducere. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow ...

Reducere. DescriptionIcelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash...

Reducere. The first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, "The World" is a magnum opus by the most-celebrated travel writer in th...

Reducere. All families have stories. All families have history reaching back across time to the ones who came before.In the ninth century, an Irish healer re...

Level 3: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World - John Wood

Reducere. DescriptionJohnstone Country. A New Legend in the Making. The bestselling Johnstones kick off their blazing new western series with a real bang--a ...

Reducere. Whether on a crowded trolley, in a little neighborhood park with its towering sycamores, at a community garden or around neglected public spaces, t...

Reducere. Frederick Russell Burnham's (1861-1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could ...

Level 3. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World Book and MP3 Pack - John Wood

The first people in the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. On a side of the planet no human had ever seen, different groups arrived fr...

John Muir (1838-1914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wildernes...

Reducere. DescriptionUp early for class and up late for homework. Outdated, overcrowded schools are taking up our children

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

Reducere. Nowhere is Jean Rhys's talent for fully inhabiting the minds of her characters more apparent than in After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, her masterful sec...

In Tomb of the Eagles John Hedges describes vividly the activities of a tribe in Isbister in the Orkneys which had as its totem the magnificent whi...

Upon this rock, I will build my...Church - the central identifying word that encompasses the entire religious spectrum. It is the buildings we go t...

Meet the obsessives and dreamers of this remote island nation, and travel through the collections of Iceland's eclectic museums and into its curiou...

DescriptionMental health professionals provide better care to their clients when they care for themselves. This acclaimed highly practical guide--n...

The Challenge of Sustainability: Corporate Governance in a Complicated World reviews the evolution of five types of corporate governance and their ...

We are living through a unique, era-defining period. Many of our old certainties have gone, whatever our view of the world and whatever our beliefs...

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Reducere. "Travels in Alaska" is John Muir's written account of his numerous trips to America's last frontier. In his enthusiastic and vivid style, Muir desc...

Reducere. J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama--from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first in...

Reducere. How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.

Reducere. A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of S...

Reducere. Leaders rely on business people to see the big picture and get things done. They want mindset and mojo, all in one The problem is that all business...

Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, the author observed America, and the Amer...

DescriptionBuilding from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greate...

Reducere. Every week a terrorist attack, riot, or political scandal makes the headlines--and we feel the world around us shaking again. We struggle to separa...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, and the middle-class suburban boy who...

DescriptionInterest in mid-20th century British artists and the world they inhabited is growing internationally--prices are rising and exhibitions ...

Reducere. Helen of Troy's story is well known. Hers was the "face that launched a thousand ships", started a ten-year war and brought about Troy's destructio...

A detailed look at the evolution of employment and its far-reaching implications Lead the Work takes an incisive look at the evolving nature of wor...

Reducere. Bang-Bang Boys, Jedburghs, and the House of Horrors is an authoritative look at the history of the training and operations of the Office of Strateg...

Reducere. Aim Humbert (1819-1900), Swiss politician, traveler, and educator, arrived in Japan in 1863 as envoy plenipotentiary of the Swiss federal governmen...

Expert anthropologist shows missionaries how to better understand the people they serve and their historical and cultural settings.

Reducere. - The hardcover edition of LEAVING MOTHER LAKE debuted at #3 on the San Francisco Chronicle's bestseller list.- A revelation of a culture virtually...

Reducere. 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. Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, whic...

Reducere. DescriptionA Guide for Exploring the Horizons of Your Heart More people than ever find themselves unfulfilled by merely material abundance and pros...

Reducere. Description'To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.'First published in 1915, Travels in Alaska is...

Reducere. Mr. Lasch combines an analytic overview of the psychological and sociological literature on the American family with his own trenchant analysis of ...