Why', Hardcover

Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), Hardcover - Susan D. Blum

820,99 RON 878,99 RON

Reducere. The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen educators write about th...

west virginia university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

Why Construction Claims Occur and How to Prevent Them, Hardcover - Richard Long

760,99 RON 814,99 RON

Reducere. Construction has always been a risky business; however, today's construction marketplace contains risk elements that relate to responsibilities and...

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How People Matter: Why It Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work, and Society, Hardcover - Isaac Prilleltensky

704,99 RON 754,99 RON

Reducere. Mattering, which is about feeling valued and adding value, is essential for health, happiness, love, work, and social well-being. We all need to fe...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, psychology

elefant.ro

Materials and Manufacturing: An Introduction to How They Work and Why It Matters, Hardcover - Mark Atwater

684,99 RON

DescriptionPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access t...

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Why Monet Matters: Meanings Among the Lily Pads, Hardcover - James H. Rubin

683,99 RON

Claude Monet's Water Lilies are widely recognized as a celebration of nature and a call to visual experience. The skilled brushwork, vivid color, a...

penn state university press, carti, carte straina, the arts

elefant.ro

On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt, Hardcover - Richard Carrier

673,99 RON

The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any do...

sheffield phoenix press ltd, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, religion & beliefs

elefant.ro

Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America, Hardcover - Jennifer E. Cobbina

658,99 RON

Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racismFollowing the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Br...

new york university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

How and Why Are Some Therapists Better Than Others': Understanding Therapist Effects, Hardcover - Louis G. Castonguay

639,99 RON 684,99 RON

Reducere. Some therapists are more effective than others, that much is clear; why they are more effective is less clear. Editors Louis Castonguay and Clara H...

american psychological association (apa), carti, carte straina, medicine & nursing, medical specialties

elefant.ro

Good University: WHAT UNIVERSITIES ACTHB: What Universities Actually Do and Why Its Time for Radical Change, Hardcover - Raewyn Connell

638,99 RON

DescriptionIn the fall of 2018, 19.9 million US students will attend college. Over the next decade, the US Department of Education expects that num...

zed books, carti, carte straina, children's

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Understanding Animal Behaviour: What to Measure and Why, Hardcover - Sergio Pellis

593,99 RON 635,99 RON

Reducere. All students and researchers of behaviour - from those observing freely-behaving animals in the field to those conducting more controlled laborator...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science

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Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists, Hardcover - Natsu Taylor Saito

481,99 RON 515,99 RON

Reducere. How taking Indigenous sovereignty seriously can help dismantle the structural racism encountered by other people of color in the United States Sett...

new york university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

Why on Earth Did God Let This Happen for Heaven's Sake?: Dear God Kneemail Book 1: November 2006 - December 2007, Hardcover - Kent Hovind

454,99 RON 486,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis book covers the 1st year of a 9year unjust imprisonment of Creation Science Evangelist Dr. Kent Hovind. Get closer to our Lord Jesu...

creation science evangelism, inc., carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, religion & beliefs

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Why Containment Works: Power, Proliferation, and Preventive War, Hardcover - Wallace J. Thies

419,99 RON 449,99 RON

Reducere. Why Containment Works examines the conduct of American foreign policy during and after the Cold War through the lens of applied policy analysis. Wa...

cornell university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, warfare & defence

elefant.ro

A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics: Understanding Why and How, Hardcover - F. M. Dekking

391,99 RON 419,99 RON

Reducere. Suitable for self study Use real examples and real data sets that will be familiar to the audience Introduction to the bootstrap is included - this...

springer, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science

elefant.ro

Inside the Minds of Serial Killers: Why They Kill, Hardcover - Katherine Ramsland

371,99 RON 398,99 RON

Reducere. There are many cultural myths about serial killers, often propagated even by mental health professionals. Many assume there is a profile of a seria...

praeger, carti, carte straina, law

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Why Did Yahweh and His Son Yahshuah Say What They Said?: Why Did Yahweh and His Son Yahshuah Say What They Said?, Hardcover - Justin G. Prock

368,99 RON 394,99 RON

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 ...

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The Decline of Natural Law: How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped, Hardcover - Stuart Banner

364,99 RON

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, law

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Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience, Hardcover - Paula Davis

353,99 RON 378,99 RON

Reducere. A first-of-its-kind, science-backed toolkit takes a holistic approach to burnout prevention by helping individuals, teams, and leaders build resili...

wharton school press, carti, carte straina, economics

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Why the Jews?: How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture, Hardcover - Robert Cherry

340,99 RON 364,99 RON

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

rowman & littlefield publishers, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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The Instruction Myth: Why Higher Education Is Hard to Change, and How to Change It, Hardcover - John Tagg

327,99 RON

DescriptionHigher education is broken, and we haven't been able to fix it. Even in the face of great and growing dysfunction, it seems resistant to...

rutgers university press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle

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Why Biblical Counseling?: An Appeal for Scriptural Sufficiency, Hardcover - Abercrombie

301,99 RON 323,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhy Biblical Counseling? Because God's Word is fully sufficient for the counseling task and is superior to any secular method of care th...

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Demanding More: Why Diversity and Inclusion Don't Happen and What You Can Do about It, Hardcover - Sheree Atcheson

299,99 RON 320,99 RON

Reducere. Look around you. Is your workplace as diverse and accepting as it should be? From accusations of racism in high political office, award-winning act...

kogan page, carti, carte straina, economics

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The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters, Hardcover - Matthew Kroenig

292,99 RON 313,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Matthew KroenigFor decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

elefant.ro

The Success Trap: Why Good People Stay in Jobs They Don't Like and How to Break Free, Hardcover - Amina Aitsi-Selmi

290,00 RON

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2021 - Personal Development & Wellbeing Do you feel trapped in a toxic work culture? Or stuck in a job you're gre...

kogan page, carti, carte straina, health

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Banking on a Revolution: Why Financial Technology Won't Save a Broken System, Hardcover - Terri Friedline

287,99 RON 308,99 RON

Reducere. Can grassroots social movements impact the financial system? Technological advancements are poised to completely transform the financial system, an...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, economics

elefant.ro

Why China Leads the World: Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom, Hardcover - Godfree P. Roberts

286,99 RON 307,99 RON

Reducere. The First Book to Explain China's Success Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom.The Coronavirus epidemic triggered a chang...

godfree roberts, carti, carte straina, economics

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Warriors and Fools: How America's Leaders Lost the Vietnam War and Why It Still Matters, Hardcover - Harry E. Rothmann

284,99 RON 304,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWarriors and Fools is not just another book about the Vietnam War. It is different from most. Unlike some others, the author is a vetera...

rothmann consulting, inc., carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Antitrust Analysis of Platform Markets: Why the Supreme Court Got It Right in American Express, Hardcover - David S. Evans

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. This book explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ohio et al. v. American Express, and the preceding litigation, for the tr...

competition policy international, carti, carte straina, law

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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It, Hardcover - Paul Collier

262,99 RON

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion p...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, economics

elefant.ro

The E-Myth Chief Financial Officer: Why Most Small Businesses Run Out of Money and What to Do about It, Hardcover - Michael E. Gerber

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. The E-Myth Chief Financial Officer fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful practice from scratch o...

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The Influential Author: How and Why to Write, Publish, and Sell Nonfiction Books that Matter, Hardcover - Gregory V. Diehl

254,99 RON 272,99 RON

Reducere. 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medalist2019 American Book Fest Best Book Awards 1st Place Winner Do you have something importan...

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Why Materials Matter: Responsible Design for a Better World, Hardcover - Seetal Solanki

251,99 RON

DescriptionThis visually stunning investigation of natural and man-made materials will change the way you look at the world around you, while offer...

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Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall ACT, Hardcover - Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr

245,99 RON

Banks were allowed to enter securities markets and become universal banks during two periods in the past century - the 1920s and the late 1990s. Bo...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, economics

elefant.ro

Why Plan?: Theory for Practitioners, Hardcover - Graham Houghton

239,99 RON

Why do we plan? Who decides how and where we plan and what we should value? How do theories and ideologies filter down into real policies and plans...

lund humphries publishers ltd, carti, carte straina, the arts

elefant.ro

How We Teach Science: What's Changed, and Why It Matters, Hardcover - John L. Rudolph

239,99 RON

DescriptionA former Wisconsin high school science teacher makes the case that how and why we teach science matters, especially now that its legitim...

harvard university press, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics, language teaching & learning

elefant.ro

The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It, Hardcover - Douglas W. Hubbard

239,99 RON

DescriptionA practical guide to adopting an accurate risk analysis methodology The Failure of Risk Management provides effective solutionstosignifi...

john wiley & sons inc, carti, carte straina, economics

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Behavioral Flaws and the Human Malfunction: Why Is the Truth Called Hate Speech?, Hardcover - Seth Abrahms

239,00 RON

This is a journey into the mind and life of humanity. From inception, the foundations of our consciousness, thoughts, desire, and actions are expla...

liferich, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, psychology

elefant.ro

Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives, Hardcover - Leigh Gilmore

232,99 RON

In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience....

columbia university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, society & culture: general

elefant.ro

The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future, Hardcover - Jeff Booth

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. We live in an extraordinary time. Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that mo...

stanley press, carti, carte straina, economics

elefant.ro

Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?, Hardcover - Alexander Keyssar

231,99 RON

With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Ri...

harvard university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

The E-Myth HVAC Contractor: Why Most HVAC Companies Don't Work and What to Do About It, Hardcover - Michael E. Gerber

226,99 RON 242,99 RON

Reducere. Leading an HVAC company can seem like a dauntingtask, with too few hours in the day, too many pettymanagement issues, and problems HVAC contractors...

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Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us, Revised and Updated Edition, Hardcover - Sara E. Gorman

224,99 RON 240,99 RON

Reducere. With science denial as a rising danger to public health, Sara E. Gorman and Jack M. Gorman analyze society's resistance to scientific evidence rela...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, medicine & nursing

elefant.ro

The Chief Growth Officer's Manifesto: Why Every Business Leader Must Think Like a Chief Growth Officer, Hardcover - Allen R. D'Angelo

221,99 RON

Why This Manifesto Is Written For Chief Executive Officers, Chief Marketing Officers And Entrepreneurial Business LeadersThe Chief Growth Officer's...

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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, Hardcover - Donald R. Prothero

217,99 RON

Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engagin...

columbia university press, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science, biology

elefant.ro

No Cooked Breakfast: Lighthearted reflections on my life and how I opened Bear Mountain Lodge, guest notes on why they visited and what the, Hardcover

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhat does it really take to turn a home into a bed and breakfast?Jim Meade transformed his home into Bear Mountain Lodge, a north woods ...

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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste, Hardcover - Nolan Gasser

211,99 RON

DescriptionFrom the chief architect of the Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of how your mind,...

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Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder, Hardcover - Margaret M. Chin

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. A behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplace In the classroom, Asian Americans, often singled out as so-called "model minori...

new york university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health, Hardcover - Hyman, Mark

207,99 RON 222,99 RON

Reducere. A revolutionary new diet program based on the latest science showing the importance of fat in weight loss and overall health, from # 1 bestselling ...

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Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do about It, Hardcover - James M. Lang

205,99 RON

Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to ...

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Breaking the News: What's Real, What's Not, and Why the Difference Matters, Hardcover - Robin Terry Brown

204,99 RON

Headlines leap out at us from mobile phones, TV screens, computers, newspapers, and everywhere we turn. Technology has opened up exciting new ways ...

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Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust, Hardcover - Gotz Aly

201,99 RON 216,99 RON

Reducere. A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy the Germans? Why t...

st. martins press-3pl, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its Place, Hardcover - Robert B. Talisse

200,99 RON

We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our so...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

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The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage, Hardcover - Roger L. Martin

199,99 RON

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game--changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new cate...

harvard business school press, carti, carte straina, economics

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Why Art Museums?: The Unfinished Work of Alexander Dorner, Hardcover - Sarah Ganz Blythe

198,99 RON

Alexander Dorner's radical ideas about the purpose of museums and art, examined through his tenure as Director of the RISD Museum.Alexander Dorner ...

mit press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, education

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Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters, Hardcover - David J. Hand

193,99 RON

DescriptionA practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing dataIn the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the ...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, computing & information technology

elefant.ro

Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal, Hardcover - Eugene Soltes

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the insider traders at McKinsey, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the fail...

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Why America Misunderstands the World: National Experience and Roots of Misperception, Hardcover - Paul Pillar

193,99 RON

Being insulated by two immense oceans makes it hard for Americans to appreciate the concerns of more exposed countries. American democracy's rapid ...

columbia university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World, Hardcover - Daniel Bell

193,99 RON

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are org...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

elefant.ro

Adam, Where Are You?: And Why this Matters: A Theological Evaluation of the Evolutionist Hermeneutic, Hardcover - Willem J. Ouweneel

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, many Christian theologians have been converted to the theory of evolution--a theory whose scientific tenability they ...

paideia press, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science

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The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups, Hardcover - William J. Bernstein

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries...

atlantic monthly press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Why Does Inequality Matter', Hardcover - T. M. Scanlon

191,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: T. M. ScanlonInequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Deman...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, philosophy

elefant.ro

In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book, Hardcover - Joel Stein

191,99 RON

DescriptionThe night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Prize finalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine, inst...

grand central publishing, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, society & culture: general

elefant.ro

How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts, Hardcover - David Ropeik

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. "Clear, balanced, and lively." -- Steven Pinker, bestselling author of How the Mind Works ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE "RIGHT" RISKS? Do you worry more ab...

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elefant.ro

The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters, Hardcover - Ulrike Schaede

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise o...

stanford business books, carti, carte straina, economics

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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does, Hardcover - Philip Ball

188,99 RON

Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from t...

university of chicago press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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Unintended Consequence: Transforming America- How and Why We Came to This Place, Hardcover - Sr. Kane, William L.

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. Being a citizen requires more than just being a resident.If you intend to vote in 2020 or beyond, then you should read this book before you vote. I...

page publishing, inc, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct, Hardcover - Niklas Hageback

188,99 RON

DescriptionSigmund Freud's death drive remains among the most controversial concepts in psychoanalysis, something which post-Freudians never could ...

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Why Can't I, Hardcover - III Barry, John

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. For almost 100 years photos, journals, newspaper clippings, Naval records and love letters waited quietly to tell the story of how a Depression-era...

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Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works, Hardcover - Rucker C. Johnson

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAn acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful -- and argues that ...

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Minimalist Website Strategy: Why Most Professional Firms Fail To Attract Ideal Clients With Their Website, Hardcover - Justin Page Wood

185,99 RON 199,99 RON

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 ...

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