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Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor, Hardcover - William Davis

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. Conventional health care is no longer working in your favor--but thankfully, Dr. Davis is.In his New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly, Dr. William...

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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (and How to Fix It), Hardcover - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

121,99 RON

DescriptionLook around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men...

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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread But Can't Be Computed, Hardcover - Christof Koch

148,99 RON

An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack....

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Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead, Hardcover - Tony Saldanha

137,99 RON

DescriptionFormer Procter & Gamble Vice President for IT and Shared Services, Tony Saldanha gives you the keys to a successful digital transformati...

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China, Trade and Power: Why the West's Economic Engagement Has Failed, Hardcover - Stewart Paterson

135,00 RON

DescriptionFrom a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed. A rapid rise in living standards in China has hel...

london school of economics and political scie, carti, carte straina, economics

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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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Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, Hardcover - James Geary

119,99 RON

Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the ...

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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...

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The E-Myth Attorney: Why Most Legal Practices Don't Work and What to Do about It, Hardcover - Michael E. Gerber

119,99 RON

The complete guide to the business of running a successful legal practice Many attorneys in small and mid-size practices are experts on the law, bu...

wiley, carti, carte straina, economics

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Why the Best Are the Best: 25 Powerful Words That Impact, Inspire, and Define Champions, Hardcover - Kevin Eastman

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWinning the NBA Championship in 2008. Losing in the NBA Finals in 2010. Though they were completely different endings, emotionally, both...

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Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start -- And Why They Don't Go Away, Hardcover - Heidi J. Larson

173,99 RON

Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around t...

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

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Hardcover - Robin Diangelo

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, ...

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Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me This Sh*t Before?: Wit and Wisdom from Women in Business, Hardcover - Marcella Allison

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Description"Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me This Sh*t Before?" is the book you wish you had already read. A collection of more than 60 letters from fema...

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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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Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters, Hardcover - Rebecca Prince-Ruiz

170,99 RON

In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. Starting with a small group of people in the city of P...

columbia university press, carti, carte straina, technology

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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

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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

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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, Hardcover - Jesse Singal

121,99 RON 163,99 RON

Reducere. An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today's bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychol...

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Blank: Why It's Fine to Falter and Fail, and How to Pick Yourself Up Again, Hardcover - Giles Paley-Phillips

107,99 RON

From Blank the podcast comes Blank: Why It's Fine to Falter and Fail, and How to Pick Yourself up Again. Blank is an informal, insightful podcast i...

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The Stress Effect: Why Smart Leaders Make Dumb Decisions--And What to Do about It, Hardcover - Henry L. Thompson

132,99 RON

Reveals the powerful and undermining effects of stress on good decision making-and what leaders can do about it The ability to make sound and timel...

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Why Peacocks?: An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird, Hardcover - Sean Flynn

92,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. An acclaimed journalist seeks to understand the mysterious allure of peacocks--and in the process discovers unexpected and valuable life lessons. W...

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The Blue Wonder: Why the Sea Glows, Fish Sing, and Other Astonishing Insights from the Ocean, Hardcover - Frauke Bagusche

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. "If you like your books to be brimming with interesting science, then dive in!"--Tristan Gooley, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Read W...

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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

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God, Why Won't You Talk To Me?: From Silence To Hearing God Every Day, Hardcover - Edward L. Carpenter

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Following a youth mission trip that reinforced his faith and taught him to hear God, Ed Carpenter spent years in business and building a family. Fa...

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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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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...

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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens, Hardcover - Benedict Carey

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really kn...

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Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us, Hardcover - Amanda Carpenter

170,99 RON

A Cnn contributor, former Ted Cruz staffer, and "never Trump" adherent reveals a shocking truth: Donald Trump's lies and fabrications don't horrify...

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Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know about Success Is (Mostly) Wrong, Hardcover - Eric Barker

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. Wall Street Journal BestsellerMuch of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest...and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wro...

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Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: Why the Path to Transformational Customer Experience Runs Through Employee Experience, Hardcover - Lance Gibbs

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. The name of the game in business is to deliver an exceptional customer experience to consumers and clients. But if a company's employee experience ...

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Japan Restored: How Japan Can Reinvent Itself and Why This Is Important for America and the World, Hardcover - Clyde Prestowitz

42,99 RON

DescriptionIn Japan Restored, New York Times bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz envisions post-bubble Japan in the year 2050, when the country's e...

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The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--And Reality, Hardcover - Chris Mooney

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today's Republicans reject reality--it's...

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The Boy Who Asked Why: The Story of Bhimrao Ambedkar, Hardcover - Sowmya Rajendran

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. Why do I have to sit separately in a corner of the classroom? Why can't I drink water from the tap like other children? Why do the teachers never t...

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Why Should Anyone Be Led by You': What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader, Hardcover - Rob Goffee

175,99 RON

Are you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to...

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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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Uncontrolled Spread: Why Covid-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic, Hardcover - Scott Gottlieb

150,99 RON

Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything?In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows h...

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Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed about How and What We Buy, Hardcover - Christopher Mims

138,99 RON

The Wall Street Journal technology columnist reveals the fascinating story behind the misleadingly simple phrase shoppers take for granted--"Arrivi...

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Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling, Hardcover - Paula Faris

119,99 RON

Too often we lean into the wrong things and burn out. We buy society's lie that our worth is our work, our value is our vocation, our calling is ou...

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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

Prevention Myths: Why Stress Tests Can't Predict Your Heart Attack and Which Tests Actually Do, Hardcover - Todd C. Eldredge

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Heart Attacks and Strokes are the leading causes of death worldwide. Collectively they account fo...

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Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet--And Why We're Following, Hardcover - Gabrielle Bluestone

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. "Hype is the best kind of nonfiction: juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining, with a celebrity behaving badly on every page. What more could ...

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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do, Hardcover - Erik J. Larson

157,99 RON 169,99 RON

Reducere. "If you want to know about AI, read this book...it shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it...

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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...

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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...

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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

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This Is Why We Pray: Islamic Book for Kids: A Story about Islam, Salah, and Dua, Hardcover - Ameenah Muhammad-Diggins

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. Build a bond with Allah through this top choice in Islamic books for kids ages 5 to 7 Join Aliya and Amar as their Mama and Papa tell them all abou...

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Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different, Hardcover - Philip Ball

145,99 RON 156,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philip Ball"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, ...

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10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less, Hardcover - Garett Jones

158,99 RON

During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were hurting the economy. But, drawing together evid...

stanford university press, carti, carte straina, economics

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United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It., Hardcover - Dinesh D'Souza

151,99 RON

For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can s...

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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...

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The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio: Warren Buffett Stock Picks: Why and When He Is Investing in Them, Hardcover - Mary Buffett

116,00 RON

Bestselling authors Mary Buffett and David Clark examine seventeen companies that Warren Buffett has bought for himself and for his holding company...

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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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Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do about It, Hardcover - Evan Davis

125,99 RON

'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening StandardLow-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of e...

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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters, Hardcover - Anne Boyd Rioux

159,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Anne Boyd RiouxSoon after its publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of Amer...

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Jewcentricity: Why the Jews Are Praised, Blamed, and Used to Explain Just about Everything, Hardcover - Adam Garfinkle

178,99 RON

Award NameNational Jewish Book AwardAward categoryJewish LifeDescriptionAdvance Praise for Jewcentricity""Adam Garfinkle punctures the myth of the ...

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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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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

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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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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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A Leader's Guide to Cybersecurity: Why Boards Need to Lead--And How to Do It, Hardcover - Thomas J. Parenty

126,99 RON 199,99 RON

Reducere. Cybersecurity threats are on the rise. As a leader, you need to be prepared to keep your organization safe.Companies are investing an unprecedented...

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Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy, Hardcover - Vicky Pryce

119,99 RON

The free market as we know it cannot produce gender equality. This is the bold but authoritative argument of Vicky Pryce, the government's former e...

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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...

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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

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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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To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy, Hardcover - Henry J. Hendrix

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. The national conversation regarding the United States Navy has, for far too long, been focused on the popular question of how many ships does the s...

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Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths--And How We Can Stop, Hardcover - Bill Eddy

125,99 RON

DescriptionBestselling author, therapist, lawyer, and mediator Bill Eddy describes how dangerous, high-conflict personalities have gained power in ...

berrett-koehler publishers, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough, Hardcover - Pawan Dhingra

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to ...

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

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Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!, Hardcover - Arne Klingenberg

157,99 RON 169,99 RON

Reducere. Who are we? Are we our DNA or is it all in the brain? Are we our conscious minds, an unconscious one or both? What is the real nature of consciousn...

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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...

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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 ...

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