The End of Aspiration?: Social Mobility and Our Children's Fading Prospects, Paperback - Duncan Exley

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The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experience...

The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experience...

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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 ...

Instant New York Times Best-seller From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a captivating exploratio...

A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown-of population growth, economies, and technological innovation

A riveting account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand Greenland's rapidly melting ice: a dramatic harbinger of climate change.

The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the be...

Instant New York Times Best-seller "A splendid and invigorating read." --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings From the world-renowned physicist and best-se...

Publisher: 1517 MediaAuthor(s): Mallory McDuffNumber of pages: 211Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 125 x 204 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

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Reducere. "Suddenly and Unexpectedly-Non-Fiction-The End of Our Times" is factual and non-speculative. It is based upon the author's 42 years of accumulated ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, po...

Reducere. Fiction. An unnamed narrator returns to her ancestral home in an environmentally depleted harbor city with a baby in her care. She has escaped from...

Reducere. International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facet...

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

Description"For some time now, I have been writing a simple blessing each day. I share it with those who are connected to me on social media. My fr...

Reducere. An MSNBC political analyst and former Hillary Clinton staffer examines the past and present problems of the Left--and makes a compelling case for h...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick o...

The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set th...

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What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Duncan PritchardNumber of pages: 258Collection: Soochow University Lectures in PhilosophyPublicatio...

Discover how we can all work to end one of the most corrosive issues of our time: unconscious bias.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Jessica Nordel...

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Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic histo...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 16 Line drawings, black and white; 33 Tables, black and white; 49 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Chris (University of Lincoln, UK) O'RourkeIllustration(s): 18 bw illusNumber of pages: 224Collection...

The authors provide a wide range of ideas and strategies to ensure that students are using digital technology in order to further their ability to ...

Examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces.Publisher: Duke Universit...

Reducere. Stratusphunk - George Russell was a unique figure in jazz. He was a theoretician, a composer of note, a working musician, and an educator. He began...

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DescriptionMobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our dayWe are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experie...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Sanjay Badri-MaharajIllustration(s): 69 colour photos, 15 colour profiles, 1 map, 8 tablesNumber of pages: 78...

Unintentional bias is one of the great social problems of our time; its effects are corrosive, even lethal. But it can be overcome. Here's how.Publ...

Reducere. The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in th...

Tolerance in the 21st Century investigates some of the key philosophical and practical dilemmas surrounding the implementation and realization of t...

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This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate s...

The book introduces the age of intra-African migration, a period from the 19th century onwards in which the centre of gravity of African migration ...

Reducere. Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transf...

The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants go...

Reducere. Humans have long been concerned with the ultimate clash of civilizations, but never more so than now. Religious wars, global terrorism, and genocid...