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The Future of Europe - V4 - Strength and Unity

The importance of national identity, the preservation of traditional Christian culture, the dan-ger of mass and illegal migration, the pr...

"Brother Woodrow" - A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson by Stockton Axson

This memoir of Woodrow Wilson is a long-neglected treasure, full of the candid and perceptive observations of Wilson's brother-in-law and...

Social Roots - Lowcountry Foodways, Reconnecting the Landscape

"Social Roots is a militantly interdisciplinary volume that draws on contributions from inside and outside the academy to explore the rel...

A New Organon - Science Studies in Interwar Poland

When Poland gained independence in 1918, it became an urgent priority to secure information on just how the state and society ought to be...

The Cultural Legacy of Disney - A Century of Magic

This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. The c...

Criminological Understandings of Horror Films - Reel Fear

This book examines horror films through a critical criminological lens. Each chapter considers how the genre impacts audiences and their ...

Jeff Bezos - In His Own Words

I think everybody has their own passion their own thing that they're interested in, and then you are, very alert to the things that are i...

Vitalizing Relationships - The Effects of the Social Network on the Subjective Quality of Like

Az ember helyzetét másokéhoz képest ítéli kedvezőnek vagy kedvezőtlennek. Ha a távolság nem túlságosan nagy, szűkös feltételei ellenére i...

The Making Of The Greatest Sony - SONY

Innovation has been the cornerstone of Japanese legend Masaru Ibuka's business philosophy. Starting from a small radio-repair unit in a b...

Evaluation Essentials - From A to Z

Beloved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key develop...

The Rockefeller File

As America's royal family of finance, the Rockefellers are this country's super capitalists. Or are they? The original John D. hated comp...

Rosa Bonheur - Influential Women in History

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features the French painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur. She achieved notori...

Honor of Hope. Life is a Story - story.one

Can dreams really come true? This is the question 19-year- old Sophia asks herself after dreaming about him. Growing up in a strict arabi...

Central Europe 2020 - A Hungarian Perspective

The future of Europe, and in turn the future of the European Union depends on whether it can create an integrated and politically, econom...

Central Europe 2020

The future of Europe, and in turn the future of the European Union depends on whether it can create an integrated and politically, econom...

Carl Friedrich von Siemens 1872-1941 - Entrepreneur in Times of Upheaval

Entrepreneur in an Age of Upheaval Carl Friedrich von Siemens was one of the significant business figures in an era filled with crises an...

Female Force - Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama. A mother, political force, and now...first lady, it's obvious that Michelle Obama has lived a life many have only dreamed...

As Far As I Remember

Michael Bawtree owes his cultured start in life to the rambling country house hotel his parents owned and managed in the 1950s. What it l...

Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein - a biography - With an overview of the history of the House of Liechtenstein

Monarch, businessman, banker, art collector, visionary and outspoken controversialist: Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein is all of the...

Qualitative Data Analysis with Nvivo

Straightforward and insightful, this is the go-to book for any qualitative researcher who wants to use NVivo to conduct robust data analy...

The Legends of Wrestling - "Classy" Freddie Blassie - Listen, You Pencil Neck Geeks

With a forty-year career spanning the very early days of television to the consolidation of all the local wrestling leagues under the Wor...

The Bounty Mutiny - Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)

A trip across the Pacific turns into a life or death scenario when the crew of the HMS Bounty stages a revolt against their commander. Th...

I Love My Hair, I Love Me

This children's book was inspired by the little African American girls in my family and the experiences and challenges they face on the s...

Politics and Sociology - General Sociology, Volume 5

This is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the t...

Dear langston, It Explodes!

Dear Langston, It Explodes! is the first title published by author Regina Faye Brown. It is a unique, genre-bending compilation of over t...

Social Research Methods

Clear, comprehensive, and trusted, Bryman's Social Research Methods has guided over a quarter of a million students through their researc...

Head-On, Stories of Alopecia

This collection of personal narratives follows the courageous journeys of over 75 writers as they find their way after being diagnosed wi...

The Money Man - A True Life Story of One Man's Unbridled Ambition, Downfall, and Redemption

The Money Man shows readers solid ground on which to stand, and how to be free from anxiety, in an impermanent and disappointing world.

The 1980s - Image of a Decade

Nostalgia has never felt so current. As younger generations turn to past decades for inspiration and clues to help them navigate the cult...

Heart of a Game Ranger - Stories from a Wild Life

Predictability isn't a word you will find in any Bushveld dictionary, and the life of wildlife guardian Mario Cesare has been anything bu...

From a Child Soldier to a humanitarian - The journey of turning scars to a star

During the turmoil last years of the 20th century, Sierra Leone was plagued by a devastating civil war. Ishmeal, a young boy at the time,...

LEADERSHIP Followers, Behaviors, Tools - A Practical Guide for Leaders

It's rare you run across a book that gives practical tools for the CEO and middle manager. When you do, you buy 3 copies. One to read for...

Farewell Britain's Television Queen

Focusing purely on Queen Elizabeth II's relationship with television, this book shows how she was ahead of the game in helping to change ...

The Paris Notebooks

In 2007, Quentin S. Crisp visited Paris and kept a diary of his stay there and his return to Britain. An experiment in literary improvisa...

Crisis in Economics? - Studies in European Political Economy

Professor Csaba raises in this timely book the crucial issues - for theory and policy - which emerge from the current crisis and its impl...

Crisis in Economics?

Professor Csaba raises in this timely book the crucial issues - for theory and policy - which emerge from the current crisis and its impl...

The Fury of the Tsar II. - Vicious Circle

Fires are spreading around the globe; the world is at its most precarious moment since 1939. Europe is on the brink of war and tensions a...

How You Bear It - Triumph and Resiliency in Life

Jiu-jitsu champion, professional fighter, and world-class coach Tom DeBlass became a hero in the martial arts community for his blue-coll...

Toward Life's Sunset - A Memoir by J. Ralph De Coste

Ralph De Coste was one of five children born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and times were challenging. His father was a WWI vet...

Where are you from? - 'Playing White' under Apartheid

My family did the unthinkable: after getting away with 'playing white' for some years, we went one step further and 'jumped the colour li...

May Contain Lies - How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

'A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all. Timely and very provocative!' - Gillian Tett, ...

Ever After

"This is the stuff of fairy tales," said the Archbishop of Canterbury on July 23, 1981, after the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrived ...

The Wah-Wah Diaries - The Making of a Film

Structural Equation Modeling of Multiple Rater Data

The use of multiple raters can improve the validity of conclusions made on self- (and other) reports of emotions, attitudes, goals, and s...

The Black Sheep of the Blue Family

After graduating at the top of my police academy class, I was given the opportunity to put on a police uniform and serve those around me....

Never Bullshit the Client - My Life in Investment Consulting

Richard Ennis was a slow starter. Recounting his "misspent youth," Ennis shares he had little interest in school and spent much of his ti...

Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorismus

In this collection of illuminating, incisive and thought-provoking essays, Eric Hobsbawm examines every aspect of the issues that have in...

2030

A nomadic political analyst realizes he will soon become a grandfather. So he decides to write a digital letter to his grandson-to-be; an...

To Whom It May Concern

This is a compilation of vignettes of things that have happened to members of our family. It is recollections of events and people and of...

Hague Girls Part One: Fleeing

After being targeted by a coordinated campaign of threats and media harassment, Ewurabena was forced to flee Ghana with her young family....

Last Hero

The death of Mickey Charles Mantle sparked a nationwide outpouring of emotion. How could someone who had stood for so long as a symbol of...

Meher & Me - A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn

A Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way. My mo...

A New Universal Dream - My Journey from Silicon Valley to a Life in Service to Humanity

This book is an opportunity for big and meaningful change... it is a beautiful place to start... for guidance and inspiration to walk you...

Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation

Considering the overlooked importance of science-fiction fandom and the occult to queer history in the US Science fiction and occult comm...

From Slavery to Segregation - Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American South

Keith M. Finley's From Slavery to Segregation explores the key features shaping southern politics during the nineteenth and twentieth cen...

The Youth Climate Uprising - From the School Strike Movement to an Ecophilosophy of Democracy

Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the ...

Sidney Herbert - too short a life

Christian philanthropist and patron of Florence Nightingale, Sidney Herbert was hailed in his own times as a statesman, administrative re...

Life Support - Surviving Guillain-Barre Syndrome - A Mother's Story of Hope and Recovery

Weeks after giving birth, Holly Frances went from being a healthy 26-year-old new mom to paralyzed and on life support-in less than 72 ho...

Paris for Life - Notes from a Lifetime in and out of Paris

"Paris police were to my left, and the protesters to my right. Naively, I strolled between them. Then I heard the gunshots." When a chanc...

Tribute - Tina Turner

Born Anna Mae Bullock, Tina Turner started her life as a singer in her local church and elementary schools. Her ill-fated relationship wi...