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Progressive governments in poor countries fear that if they undertake measures to enhance real wages and working conditions, rising labor costs would cause wealthier countries to import from and invest elsewhere. Yet if the world trading system were designed to facil... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | This is the extraordinary story of how Japan was dramatically transformed during the long reign of Emperor Meiji, from an isolated island nation to one of the five great powers of the world, poised as a rival in Asia to Russia and the European colonial powers. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | The Earths climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warmings most far-reaching threats. Sea level will keep rising long after greenhouse gas e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "e;Wrinkled deep in time"e; is how ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661 AD) has been familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which lend a factual credibility to scholarly narratives, and the competing perspec... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | After more than fifty years of blockbuster drug development, skeptics are beginning to fear we may be reaching the end of drug discovery to combat major diseases. In this engaging book, Brent Stockwell, a leading researcher in the exciting new science of chemical bio... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the context of India, has served as the foundation for subaltern studies, an a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | A shifting global economy now offers the opportunity for a more ethical system to take root, one that rectifies the crisis spots of our current downturn while balancing the injustices of extreme poverty and wealth. Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen, a scholar and ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | Kevin Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken wonder for the mysterious place of human life and language in the world. Following the philosopher's spiritual and cultural criticism and tying it more tightly to the ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas, a model of equipoise between East and West and the defender of a fierce, sovereign style. Even during the repressive regime that ruled Tunisia from 1987 to 2011, a generation of filmmakers pro... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:24 | The most authentic stories of Christian hope in the twenty-first century come from the experiences of 'ordinary' people living 'ordinary' lives. In this engaging book compiled by John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, 20 people with everyday lives, families and jobs s... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:24 | In Push Sapphire told the story of Precious Jones and in 2009 her book was adapted into the Oscar-winning film Precious. The Kid is Sapphire's heartbreaking sequel to Push.Abdul is nine years old when his mother dies. Parentless, he is sent to a foster home and then ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a chilling tale by Helen Dunmore.'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body knows better.'Florence... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures wh... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | A Penguin Special on Roy Lichtenstein by Alastair Sooke - read in 2 hours or less'Why, Brad darling, this painting is a masterpiece! My, soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work!' Roy Lichtenstein - architect of Pop art, connoisseur of the comic strip... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:25 | Fewer, Bigger, Bolder will teach you how to make billions by scaling back, expanding less and betting bigger. It's a game-changing book that couldn't be more timely. Or more needed. In company after company that Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney worked for or resear... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Unruly Spirits connects the study of seances, telepathy, telekinesis, materializations, and other parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud to an epistemological crisis that would eventually yield the French adoption of psychoanalysis. Skillfull... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent an... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | Randall P. Bezanson's How Free Can Religion Be? explores the Supreme Court's varied history of interpreting the religious guarantees outlined in the First Amendment. The book discusses eight provocative Supreme Court decisions to track the evolution of Free Exercise ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:26 | In this study, Teresa L. Ebert makes a spirited, pioneering case for a new cultural critique committed to the struggles for human freedom and global equality. Demonstrating the implosion of the linguistic turn that isolates culture from historical processes, The Task... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | This long overdue biography of the nation's first African American woman judge elevates Jane Matilda Bolin to her rightful place in American history as an activist, integrationist, jurist, and outspoken public figure in the political and professional milieu of New Yo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children. Drawing on ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | Steve Larson drew on his 20 years of research in music theory, cognitive linguistics, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence-as well as his skill as a jazz pianist-to show how the experience of physical motion can shape one's musical experience. Clarify... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:27 | The Religious Society of Friends and its service organization, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), have long been known for their peace and justice activism. The abolitionist work of Friends during the antebellum era has been well documented, and their con... Полное описание |
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