Ship of Fools. How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger, Paperback - Fintan O'Toole

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...

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

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.

Reducere. The Ship of Fools has established Cristina Peri Rossi, author of a dozen other books of poetry and prose, as a leading writer in Europe and Latin A...

Towards a Second Republic. Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger - Peadar Kirby, Mary P. Murphy

Reducere. Published in 1494 in Basel, The Ship of Fools was soon translated into every major European language. It provoked a vast number of imitations and r...

Mariah Mundi and Jack Charity are sailing to America on the magnificent ship Triton, the biggest and fastest steam cruiser the world has ever seen....

Why do smart people do stupid things at work? Welcome to the idea of functional stupidity. Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause o...

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THE SECOND DEATH is the twenty-sixth spine-chilling mystery in Peter Tremayne's much-loved series featuring 7th-century Irish super-sleuth Sister F...

Using case studies to understand the different forms of corruption (bribery, political corruption, kleptocracy and corrupt capital) the book builds...

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Takes us around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history - the court jester. This work includes anecdotes, jokes, quot...

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We need books like this one. --Steven Pinker At last, stupidity explained And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, D...

Stupendous (or just plain stupid) new adventure for Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face as bees take over the island of Great Kerfuffle. The zany humour and...

Reducere. Leadership is a much-discussed topic. What does it actually mean for us as Christians? Does Christian leadership have its own distinctive shape and...

Reducere. From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that...

Reducere. Celtic Christianity-the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages- has gained a great deal of atte...

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON brings to life the trauma of the Titanic through the true story of one family.

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Some of the world's smartest people explain stupidity, among them: Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aar...

Reducere. In 2015, FIFA-the multibillion dollar governing body of the world's most-loved sport-was brought down by allegations of industrial-scale bribes, ki...

Ancient fayerie is a place of pilgrimage... to the heart of an enchanted kingdom... to the heart of your soul.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor...

But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop I'd like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.' Oliver ReedTh...

Some of the world's smartest people explain stupidity, among them: Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnick, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aa...

A dark and sexual manga series about dungeons, succubi, and black magic. (Rated Mature.) At the end of his life, after decades of painstaking resea...

An ingenious thriller, set in Edinburgh, from the master of French noirPublisher: Pushkin PressAuthor(s): Frederic DardTranslator: Louise Rogers La...

A book of prayers, meditations, and liturgies based on the eight points of the Celtic year - the four season changes, and the four midpoints of eac...

Reducere. A charmingly funny read-aloud that asks an important question: "Who sank the boat?" Beside the sea, there once lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pi...

Reducere. When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exci...

Reducere. DescriptionWarriors and Fools is about the Vietnam War. It seeks to answer one specific question - why did the US fail to achieve its principal obj...

Reducere. The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dyna...

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Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose

Reducere. The ancient Celts found God's presence in each ordinary moment of the day. Everything they encountered revealed to them the presence of the sacred;...

DescriptionBusinessman Ron Johnson achieved the bulk of his wealth with his long-time wife, Ava Johnson. However, having committed decades of infid...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael PearlThere is a troubling trend that is rising in Christian Families today: Their children are discontent and rebel...

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 ...

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Reducere. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and t...

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