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Parteneri perfec?i
Parteneri perfec?i
Amanda Quick
¥7.36
Joel Blackstone a petrecut zece ani ca s? transforme Thornquist Gear dintr-un mic magazin local ?ntr-un juc?tor important pe pia?a echipamentelor sportive ?i de camping. Recompensa pentru munca sa era promisiunea b?tr?nului Thornquist de a-i vinde afacerea ?n mai pu?in de un an. Din p?cate, proprietarul moare pe nea?teptate ?i-i las? mo?tenire imperiul unei nepoate din Vestul Mijlociu – nimeni alta dec?t o bibliotecar?. Joel consider? acest lucru doar o piedic? minor? – se va oferi pur ?i simplu s? cumpere compania de la ea.Leticia Thornquist este profund ?ndurerat? de moartea unchiului ei ?i vede ?n mo?tenire ocazia perfect? de a-?i schimba radical via?a, mai ales dup? ce ??i surprinde logodnicul ?ntr-o postur? extrem de compromi??toare. Drept pentru care se hot?r??te s?-?i dea demisia, s? se mute la Seattle ?i s? preia conducerea companiei. Cur?nd ?ns? ??i d? seama c? un obstacol major ?i st? ?n cale – Joel Blackstone.Prin urmare, este inevitabil ca, profesional, Joel ?i Letty s? se ?nfrunte cu ?nfl?c?rare pentru c??tigarea controlului asupra companiei… dar asta nu ?i ?mpiedic? s? realizeze c? sunt parteneri perfec?i ?n toate celelalte privin?e.
101 Blagues
101 Blagues
Remy Blanche
¥8.18
Super compilation avec les meilleures blagues. Lire blagues de tous types et go?ts.
Conselhos que os livros de auto-ajuda n?o ensinam
Conselhos que os livros de auto-ajuda n?o ensinam
Fernando Braga
¥7.63
Prepare-se para aprender valiosas li??es de auto-ajuda que nem Augusto Cury vai lhe ensinar. S?o ensinamentos que, se n?o lhe ajudarem a viver melhor, também n?o o deixará viver pior.
Inim? de piatr?
Inim? de piatr?
Mary Balogh
¥7.36
Via?a grea l-a ?nv??at pe Lucas Kendrick, Duce de Harndon, s?-?i p?streze o inim? de piatr? ?i s? nu-?i dezv?luie sentimentele. Respins de logodnic?, tr?dat de fratele lui, alege s? se dueleze cu acesta ?i aproape ?l ucide. De aceea, este nevoit s? fug? la Paris unde locuie?te timp de 10 ani. Aici ajunge cel mai c?utat burlac, un adev?rat dandy al vremii respective ?n societatea monden?. Dup? moartea fratelui, unchiul lui insist? s? se ?ntoarc? acas? pentru a prelua titlul de duce ?i s? se ocupe de proprit??ile familiei. Lucas este amuzat de sfatul de a se ?nsura c?t mai repede pentru a-i fi mai u?or s? ?in? ?n fr?u certurile din familie ?i s? aib? grij? de uria?a mo?tenire. Totu?i, atunci c?nd o cunoa?te pe Lady Anna Marlowe la un bal, se hot?r??te ?ndat? s? o ia de so?ie ?i se c?s?toresc ?n doar o s?pt?m?n?. Frumoasa ?i vesela fat? ascunde ?ns? un secret ?nfior?tor din trecutul ei. Un necunoscut o amenin?? ?i va fi ?n pericol s? fie r?pit?, pericol care ?l va amenin?a ?i pe copilul lor nen?scut. Nici familia nu-i ofer? lui Lucas prea mult? lini?te. Intrigile sunt la ele acas? ?n castelul ducelui: mama, sora, fratele mai mic ?i so?ia fratelui decedat nu se las? ?i ?ncearc? s? pun? m?na pe putere. Iar ceva – mai degrab? cineva – ?i va ?nmuia inima lui Lucas ?i ?l va schimba ?n mod nea?teptat.
Jocul seduc?iei
Jocul seduc?iei
Lindsey Johanna
¥7.36
Pirat, crai ?i burlac ?nr?it – dar dragostea are propriile c?i de a-?i g?si ?mplinirea Dup? ce descoper? c? logodnicul pe care l-a a?teptat ani ?ntregi a tr?dat-o ?n cel mai m?r?av mod, disperat?, Georgina Anderson se hot?r??te s? se ?ntoarc? c?t mai cur?nd acas? ?n America, pentru a-l da uit?rii ?i a-?i lecui inima fr?nt?. A?a c? adopt? solu?ia nebuneasc? de a se ?mbarca la bordul navei Fecioara Anne deghizat? ?n mus, f?r? s? aib? nici cea mai vag? b?nuial? c? va fi cu totul la dispozi?ia tiranicului c?pitan al vasului, James Mallory.Oaia neagr? a unei familii m?ndre ?i pline de firi furtunoase, chipe?ul c?pitan, fost pirat, a jurat c?ndva c? nu exist? femeie care s?-l poat? prinde ?n mrejele c?sniciei. Iar asta pentru c? ?ntreaga lui via?? a fost un adev?rat crai, poate cel mai renumit din Londra, fiind martor la superficialitatea femeilor m?ritate care abia a?teptau s?-?i ?n?ele so?ii ne?tiutori chiar cu… el ?nsu?i. Dar ?n largul m?rii, hot?r?rea aparent nestr?mutat? va fi sl?bit? de o pasiune mai fierbinte ca iadul ?i de frumuse?ea temperamentalei Georgina, a c?rei dragoste pentru libertate ?i aventur? se potrive?te at?t de bine cu ceea ce simte el ?nsu?i. Iar c?nd dou? suflete-pereche se ?nt?lnesc, nici un obstacol nu poate rezista ?n calea iubirii.
Alias Grace
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
¥84.69
A regény alapján készült sorozat november 3-tól a Netflix m?során. A Kanadába emigrált Grace Markot gyilkosságért ítélték el 1840-ben. ?llítólagos szeret?jével együtt kegyetlenül végeztek Grace munkaadójával és annak házvezet?n?jével. Véd?je Grace elmeállapotára hivatkozva eléri, hogy ne k?tél általi halálra, csupán életfogytiglanra ítéljék. Sokan vannak meggy?z?dve arról, hogy gonosz és ?rült teremtés, de ugyanennyien az ellenkez?jér?l is: ártatlan teremtés, aki a k?rülmények áldozata lett. Egy fiatal és felt?rekv? orvos elhatározza, hogy kideríti az igazságot, ezért hetente leül beszélgetni a lánnyal, aki egyre inkább megnyílik neki, ám azt állítja, a gyilkosságból semmire sem emlékszik… Margaret Atwood valós t?rténelmi eseményen alapuló regénye felkerült a Man Booker-díj shortlistjére, és 2017-ben tévésorozat készült bel?le.
Bebidas naturales para su salud
Bebidas naturales para su salud
Cristina Rebiere
¥9.16
Un jugo fresco curativo o un té de hierbaspara su salud Pequea guía digital con recetas de jugos frescos de frutas y verduras y con tés de hierbas La vida está llena de simples placeres que pueden convertirse fácilmente en pura felicidad Por qué no pasar a lo natural … o más bien volver N°0 - Bebidas naturales para su salud En este número "cero" de la colección "eGuide Nature" vamos a ver cómo preparar bebidas naturales, jugos frescos o tés de hierbas para cuidar de su salud. Qué vas a encontrar en este eGuide Nature Nuestros consejos para preparar jugos frescos curativos Nuestros consejos parapreparar tés de hierbas 20recetas par su salud Atentamente, Cristina Olivier Rebiere
101 Piadas de loira
101 Piadas de loira
Mauro Penha
¥8.18
Quer se divertir e dar boas risadas? Curta esta sele??o com as melhores piadas de loira.
My Dilemma is You. Vol. 1
My Dilemma is You. Vol. 1
Cristina Chiperi
¥68.34
My dilemma... este senzaia internetului i a librriilor, deopotriv. Cititorii i fanii au nnebunit complet: nimic altceva nu mai exist.“ – La RepubblicaCristina Evans triete la Los Angeles i crede c are o via perfect, pn n ziua n care prinii ei hotrsc s se mute la Miami. Totul se nruie pentru adolescenta de aisprezece ani, care se vede obligat s-i prseasc prietenii dintotdeauna i s ia totul de la capt ntr-un alt ora, la o alt coal. Dei Los Angeles-ul i cei mai buni prieteni de acolo rmn permanent n gndurile ei, Cristina reuete foarte repede s se acomodeze n noua cas i s se mprieteneasc cu civa dintre cei mai populari elevi ai liceului. Toi o primesc n cercul lor, mai puin Cameron i Susan, iubita lui, care o privesc amndoi cu ostilitate. i astfel, printre tot felul de ntmplri mai mult sau mai puin plcute, Cris reuete s-i fac o nou prieten, Sam, i se ndrgostete de Matt. Dei lucrurile par s mearg din ce n ce mai bine n viaa ei, iele inimii ajung s se ncurce tot mai mult cnd Cris i Cameron ncep s-i dea seama c antipatia pe care o simt unul fa de cellalt ascunde, n realitate, un sentiment complet diferit. Vor accepta oare cei doi tineri s priveasc n fa aceast descoperire i s lupte pentru a fi mpreun
Maps and Civilization
Maps and Civilization
Thrower, Norman J. W.
¥282.53
In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples made using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), illuminate the many ways in which various human cultures have interpreted spatial relationships.The third edition of Maps and Civilization incorporates numerous revisions, features new material throughout the book, and includes a new alphabetized bibliography.?Praise for previous editions of Maps and Civilization:"e;A marvelous compendium of map lore. Anyone truly interested in the development of cartography will want to have his or her own copy to annotate, underline, and index for handy referencing."e;-L. M. Sebert, Geomatica
The Theory of Ecology
The Theory of Ecology
Samuel M.Scheiner,Michael R.Willig
¥394.36
Despite claims to the contrary, the science of ecology has a long history of building theories. Many ecological theories are mathematical, computational, or statistical, though, and rarely have attempts been made to organize or extrapolate these models into broader theories. The Theory of Ecology brings together some of the most respected and creative theoretical ecologists of this era to advance a comprehensive, conceptual articulation of ecological theories. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, from ecological niche theory to population dynamic theory to island biogeography theory. Collectively, the chapters ably demonstrate how theory in ecology accounts for observations about the natural world and how models provide predictive understandings. It organizes these models into constitutive domains that highlight the strengths and weaknesses of ecological understanding. This book is a milestone in ecological theory and is certain to motivate future empirical and theoretical work in one of the most exciting and active domains of the life sciences.
Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence
Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence
Tarde, Gabriel
¥282.53
Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his continuing relevance to a new generation of students and thinkers.Tarde's landmark research and empirical analysis drew upon collective behavior, mass communications, and civic opinion as elements to be explained within the context of broader social patterns. Unlike the mass society theorists that followed in his wake, Tarde integrated his discussions of societal change at the macrosocietal and individual levels, anticipating later twentieth-century thinkers who fused the studies of mass communications and public opinion research.Terry N. Clark's introduction, considered the premier guide to Tarde's opus, accompanies this important work, reprinted here for the first time in forty years.
Contesting Nietzsche
Contesting Nietzsche
Acampora, Christa Davis
¥311.96
In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche's philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche.?Though existence-viewed through the lens of Nietzsche's agon-is fraught with struggle, Acampora illuminates what Nietzsche recognized as the agon's generative benefits. It imbues the human experience with significance, meaning, and value. Analyzing Nietzsche's elaborations of agonism-his remarks on types of contests, qualities of contestants, and the conditions in which either may thrive or deteriorate-she demonstrates how much the agon shaped his philosophical projects and critical assessments of others. The agon led him from one set of concerns to the next, from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, via Homer, Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In showing how one obsession catalyzed so many diverse interests, Contesting Nietzsche sheds fundamentally new light on some of this philosopher's most difficult and paradoxical ideas.
Maimonides and Spinoza
Maimonides and Spinoza
Parens, Joshua
¥353.16
Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza-as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization-among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact much closer than was previously thought. In his perceptive new book, Parens sets out to challenge the now predominant view of Maimonides as a protomodern forerunner to Spinoza-and to show that a chief reason to read Maimonides is in fact to gain distance from our progressively secularized worldview.Turning the focus from Spinoza's oft-analyzed Theologico-Political Treatise, this book has at its heart a nuanced analysis of his theory of human nature in the Ethics. Viewing this work in contrast to Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed, it makes clear that Spinoza can no longer be thought of as the founder of modern Jewish identity, nor should Maimonides be thought of as having paved the way for a modern secular worldview. Maimonides and Spinoza dramatically revises our understanding of both philosophers.
THE Affect Effect
THE Affect Effect
George E. Marcus,W. Russell Neuman
¥265.87
two sections branch out to explore how politics work at the societal level and suggest the next steps in modeling, research, and political activity itself. Opening up new paths of inquiry in an exciting new field, this volume will appeal not only to scholars of American politics and political behavior, but also to anyone interested in political psychology and sociology.
Animal Personalities
Animal Personalities
Claudio Carere and Dario Maestripieri
¥394.36
Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals-from invertebrates to monkeys and apes-behave in consistently different ways, meeting the criteria for what many define as personality. But why the differences, and how are personalities shaped by genes and environmentHow did they evolveThe essays in Animal Personalities reveal that there is much to learn from our furred and feathered friends.?The study of animal personality is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in behavioral and evolutionary biology. Here Claudio Carere and Dario Maestripieri, along with a host of scholars from fields as diverse as ecology, genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, and psychology, provide a comprehensive overview of the current research on animal personality. Grouped into thematic sections, chapters approach the topic with empirical and theoretical material and show that to fully understand why personality exists, we must consider the evolutionary processes that give rise to personality, the ecological correlates of personality differences, and the physiological mechanisms underlying personality variation.
Global Pigeon
Global Pigeon
Jerolmack, Colin
¥247.21
The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance-if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also kept for pleasure, sport, and profit by people all over the world, from the "e;pigeon wars"e; waged by breeding enthusiasts in the skies over Brooklyn to the Million Dollar Pigeon Race held every year in South Africa.Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents, Colin Jerolmack traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice's Piazza San Marco and London's Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin. By exploring what he calls "e;the social experience of animals,"e; Jerolmack shows how our interactions with pigeons offer surprising insights into city life, community, culture, and politics. Theoretically understated and accessible to interested readers of all stripes, The Global Pigeon is one of the best and most original ethnographies to be published in decades.
Early Antiquity
Early Antiquity
I. M. Diakonoff, Alexander Kirjanov
¥759.29
The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I.M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians inthis survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East,Central Asia, India, and China. Diakonoff and hiscolleagues, nearly all working within the general Marxisthistoriographic tradition, offer a comprehensive, accessiblesynthesis of historical knowledge from the beginnings ofagriculture through the advent of the Iron Age and the Greekcolonization in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea areas.Besides discussing features of Soviet historicalscholarship of the ancient world, the essays treat thehistory of early Mesopotamia and the course of PharaonicEgyptian civilization and developments in ancient India andChina from the Bronze Age into the first millennium B.C.Additional chapters are concerned with the early history ofSyria, Phoenicia, and Palestine, the Hittite civilization,the Creto-Mycenaean world, Homeric Greece, and the Phoenicianand Greek colonization.This volume offers a unified perspective on earlyantiquity, focusing on the economic and social relations ofproduction. Of immense value to specialists, the book willalso appeal to general readers.I. M. Diakonoff is a senior research scholar of ancienthistory at the Institute of Oriental Studies, LeningradAcademy of Sciences. Philip L. Kohl is professor ofanthropology at Wellesley College.
Personal Knowledge
Personal Knowledge
Polanyi, Michael
¥206.01
The publication of Personal Knowledge in 1958 shook the science world, as Michael Polanyi took aim at the long-standing ideals of rigid empiricism and rule-bound logic. Today, Personal Knowledge remains one of the most significant philosophy of science books of the twentieth century, bringing the crucial concepts of "e;tacit knowledge"e; and "e;personal knowledge"e; to the forefront of inquiry.In this remarkable treatise, Polanyi attests that our personal experiences and ways of sharing knowledge have a profound effect on scientific discovery. He argues against the idea of the wholly dispassionate researcher, pointing out that even in the strictest of sciences, knowing is still an art, and that personal commitment and passion are logically necessary parts of research. In our technological age where fact is split from value and science from humanity, Polanyi's work continues to advocate for the innate curiosity and scientific leaps of faith that drive our most dazzling ingenuity.For this expanded edition, Polyani scholar Mary Jo Nye set the philosopher-scientist's work into contemporary context, offering fresh insights and providing a helpful guide to critical terms in the work. Used in fields as diverse as religious studies, chemistry, economics, and anthropology, Polanyi's view of knowledge creation is just as relevant to intellectual endeavors today as when it first made waves more than fifty years ago.
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty
Gross, Neil
¥158.92
On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as "e;one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers."e; Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of living philosophers. In this masterly biography, Neil Gross explores the path of Rorty's thought over the decades in order to trace the intellectual and professional journey that led him to that prominence.The child of a pair of leftist writers who worried that their precocious son "e;wasn't rebellious enough,"e; Rorty enrolled at the University of Chicago at the age of fifteen. There he came under the tutelage of polymath Richard McKeon, whose catholic approach to philosophical systems would profoundly influence Rorty's own thought. Doctoral work at Yale led to Rorty's landing a job at Princeton, where his colleagues were primarily analytic philosophers. With a series of publications in the 1960s, Rorty quickly established himself as a strong thinker in that tradition-but by the late 1970s Rorty had eschewed the idea of objective truth altogether, urging philosophers to take a "e;relaxed attitude"e; toward the question of logical rigor. Drawing on the pragmatism of John Dewey, he argued that philosophers should instead open themselves up to multiple methods of thought and sources of knowledge-an approach that would culminate in the publication of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, one of the most seminal and controversial philosophical works of our time.In clear and compelling fashion, Gross sets that surprising shift in Rorty's thought in the context of his life and social experiences, revealing the many disparate influences that contribute to the making of knowledge. As much a book about the growth of ideas as it is a biography of a philosopher, Richard Rorty will provide readers with a fresh understanding of both the man and the course of twentieth-century thought.
Wolves on the Hunt
Wolves on the Hunt
Mech, L. David
¥412.02
The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature-displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting-or more infamous, more misjudged-than the wolf. Because of wolves' habitat, speed, and general success at evading humans, researchers have faced great obstacles in studying their natural hunting behaviors. The first book to focus explicitly on wolf hunting of wild prey, Wolves on the Hunt seeks to fill these gaps in our knowledge and understanding.Combining behavioral data, thousands of hours of original field observations, research in the literature, a wealth of illustrations, and-in the e-book edition and online-video segments from cinematographer Robert K. Landis, the authors create a compelling and complex picture of these hunters. The wolf is indeed an adept killer, able to take down prey much larger than itself. While adapted to hunt primarily hoofed animals, a wolf-or especially a pack of wolves-can kill individuals of just about any species. But even as wolves help drive the underlying rhythms of the ecosystems they inhabit, their evolutionary prowess comes at a cost: wolves spend one-third of their time hunting-the most time consuming of all wolf activities-and success at the hunt only comes through traveling long distances, persisting in the face of regular failure, detecting and taking advantage of deficiencies in the physical condition of individual prey, and through ceaseless trial and error, all while risking injury or death.By describing and analyzing the behaviors wolves use to hunt and kill various wild prey-including deer, moose, caribou, elk, Dall sheep, mountain goats, bison, musk oxen, arctic hares, beavers, and others-Wolves on the Hunt provides a revelatory portrait of one of nature's greatest hunters.