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Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies--and now provides a r...

Reducere. Scandal, Shock and Rivalry Can Be an Artist's Best Friends Scandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catas...

Reducere. From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in cliched claims about high technology's ability to change the course of ...

DescriptionIn this award-winning book, Philipp Ther provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe, offering a sweeping narrative fil...

Reducere. In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts our v...

Reducere. Shell shock, battle fatigue, posttraumatic stress disorder, lack of moral courage: different terms for the same mental condition, formal names that...

Graphic art is a powerful weapon of protest and propaganda, shock and subversion. From the revolutionary 1960s to the present day, Graphic Agitatio...

Reducere. The only book to deliver essential knowledge specific to the needs of ENPs Edited by the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners, this au...

Reducere. Experience: - The wonder of the earliest childhood memories. - The delight of the unexpected discovery and joy of sexual feelings and sexual play. ...

Reducere. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more i...

Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more i...

Reducere. DescriptionA Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death duri...

Though many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits...

Reducere. The basis for the NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto. In this powerful and ...

When I began writing this book, I knew what the ending would be. I feel God took me in an entirely different direction. I thank Him for that. The s...

When I began writing this book, I knew what the ending would be. I feel God took me in an entirely different direction. I thank Him for that. The s...

Reducere. To call To call the prose in this book invigorating would be an understatement. Charles Rafferty's stories invite you to damn the collar and charge...

Reducere. Conditions on Earth are becoming more and more extreme and kids want to learn about it! Is it true that millions of earthquakes happen every year o...

DescriptionIt's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. Worl...

Star Trek emerged alongside mini-skirts, bellbottoms, and VW vans; flourished in the shadow of Madonna, big hair, and greed; and expanded with comp...

Reducere. DescriptionWe all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an application of pursuit t...

Reducere. A lifetime's worth of wisdom from a teenager taken too soon...The sudden unforeseen death of Naomi's 15-year-old son Adam plunges her into painful ...

DescriptionAttorney Sabre Brown is summoned into Judge Lawrence Mitchell's chambers for an ex parte hearing. When the judge attempts to discuss one...

Reducere. "The ski world has been turned upside down." Chris Diamond's first book, Ski Inc., had just hit bookshelves in December 2016 when shock waves rever...

DescriptionIn 1914, twenty year old Eiric is droving for his father with his brothers, Ted and Joe, and Jimmy, the farm hand who always looks out f...

A radical new history of a dangerous idea Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynami...

Reducere. "A pathbreaking work about how policies forged in blood and fire in Latin America were then exported to every corner of the globe. This brilliant a...

Reducere. From the beginning of his ministry John Wesley was committed to nurturing in his own life and in the communities he served "health of body and of s...

Reducere. It is one of the most extraordinary cases in the history of science: the mating calls of insects were mistaken for a "sonic weapon" that led to a m...

Reducere. Conditions on Earth are becoming more and more extreme and kids want to learn about it! Is it true that, at any given time, about 20 volcanoes are ...

Reducere. Conditions on Earth are becoming more and more extreme and kids want to learn about it! Is it true that millions of earthquakes happen every year o...