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Political Brain
The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Av Drew Westen
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
250 kr
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The Political Brain is a ground-breaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more …
Me, Myself, and Us
The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being
Häftad, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
217 kr
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How does your personality shape your life , and what, if anything, can you do about it?Are you hardwired for happiness, or born to brood? Do you think you're in charge of your future, or do you surf the waves of unknowable fate? Would you be happier, or just less socially adept, if you were less …
Winter Is Coming
Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Häftad, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
169 kr
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The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship,and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.The ascension of Vladimir Putin,a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB,to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from …
Hero of Two Worlds
The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Av Mike Duncan
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
179 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERFew in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, …
A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, And The Price He Paid To Save His Country
Häftad, 2005
325 kr
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Ending Parkinson's Disease
A Prescription for Action
Av Bastiaan R. Bloem, Michael S. Okun m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
217 kr
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In this "must-read" guide (Lonnie Ali), four leading doctors and advocates offer a bold action plan to prevent, care for, and treat Parkinson's disease-one of the great health challenges of our time.Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability. The fastest growing of these is …
The Storm Before the Storm
The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Av Mike Duncan
Inbunden, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
346 kr
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The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of …
The Parkinson's Plan
A New Path to Prevention and Treatment
Inbunden, 2025
346 kr
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA groundbreaking prescriptive guide to preventing and fighting Parkinson's disease"The Parkinson's Plan meets this moment with science, clarity, and a path forward." (Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent, CNN)In The Parkinson's Plan, two doctors on the …
Living the Asian Century
An Undiplomatic Memoir
Häftad, 2024
225 kr
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In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouseGrowing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after finishing high school. Instead, a …
The Dictator's Handbook
Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Av Alastair Smith, Bruce de Mesquita
Häftad, 2022
250 kr
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"A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority." -Wall Street JournalBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do …
Revenge of Analog
Real Things and Why They Matter
Av David Sax
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
205 kr
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A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once looked outdated, from film photography to brick-and-mortar retail, are now springing with new life. …
The World's Worst Bet
How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)
Inbunden, 2025
346 kr
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Why globalization failed so many Americans and why we must defend it in the face of burgeoning economic nationalism. The triumphant globalization of the 1990s and early 2000s has given way to a world economy riven by conflict and populism, as the United States, China and other world powers embrace …
Boom
Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Häftad, 2020
293 kr
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Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer. It was 1947, and the art world would never be the same. From the early …
Lisbon
War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945
Häftad, 2012
196 kr
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Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host …
We Are As Gods
Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
Av Kate Daloz
Inbunden, 2016
287 kr
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At the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, and soon utterly out of money. But they knew paradise when they saw it.When Loraine, Craig, …
Why Nothing Works
Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
Inbunden, 2025
309 kr
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A provocative exploration about the architecture of power, the forces that stifle us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in democratically elected government-"the best book to date on the biggest political issue that nobody is talking about" (Matthew Yglesias)America was …
The Space Barons
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Häftad, 2019
174 kr
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The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard …
First Person
An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin
Av Andrei Kolesnikov, Nataliya Gevorkyan m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
233 kr
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Who is this Vladimir Putin? Who is this man who suddenly- overnight and without warning- was handed the reigns of power to one of the most complex, formidable, and volatile countries in the world? How can we trust him if we don't know him? First Person is an intimate, candid portrait of the man who …
After the Wall
Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life that Came Next
Av Jana Hensel
Häftad, 2008
264 kr
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Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with …
Ask Me About My Uterus
A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Av Abby Norman
Häftad, 2019
179 kr
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In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. Unable to get out of bed, …
Perfect Strangers
A Story of Love, Strength, and Recovery After the Boston Marathon Bombing
Häftad, 2019
167 kr
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As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life was about to change-that in a matter of minutes she would look up from the sidewalk, burned and deaf, staring at her detached foot, screaming for help amid the smoke and …
The Reactionary Spirit
How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World
Inbunden, 2024
309 kr
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With keen and original insight, Vox journalist Zack Beauchamp traces how a reactionary antidemocratic ethos born and bred in America has come to infect democracies around the worldThere is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American politics that has endured since our nation's birth. The …
Dust Of Empire
Häftad, 2004
234 kr
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When Charles de Gaulle learned that France's former colonies in Africa had chosen independence, the great general shrugged dismissively, "They are the dust of empire." But as Americans have learned, particles of dust from remote and seemingly medieval countries can, at great human and material …
Great Depression: A Diary
Av James Ledbetter, Benjamin Roth m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
202 kr
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When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great …
Creative Construction
The DNA of Sustained Innovation
Inbunden, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
285 kr
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Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable research conducted over three decades, …
When The War Was Over (Revised Edition)
Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition
Häftad, 1998
312 kr
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award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post , when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of …
Voices from the Grave
Two Men's War in Ireland
Av Ed Moloney
Häftad, 2010
254 kr
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The dawning of peace in Northern Ireland has not brought with it much truth about what happened during'the long war'. Very few of the paramilitary leaders on either side have ever spoken candidly about their role in that bloody conflict. But here, in a dramatic break with the unwritten laws of …
Invisible Rulers
The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
Inbunden, 2024
309 kr
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A brilliant, original investigation into the radical shift of power as invisible rulers create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society.Anyone who wishes to destroy legitimate political and social power has a new weapon. It is the anarchist's dream, a force so shockingly …
You Don't Belong Here
How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
Häftad, 2022
201 kr
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Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade.At a time …
