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The Cultural Values of Europe
What is the cultural identity of Europe? Are there specifically European values? Questions like these are at the centre of a considerable number of political and scholarly debates in contemporary...
Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Conflict management expert Robert C. Bordone and leading behavioral neurologist Joel Salinas, M.D., join forces to introduce conflict resilience : the radical science of standing...
A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards: Scottish
**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'In his absorbing book about the lost and...
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
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Since it was first published in 1977, the MLA Handbook has sold nearly four million copies worldwide. Now completely revised and updated, the guide contains detailed information on using computers...
Making a Difference in Families: Research that creates change
'This 'must read' volume will challenge every researcher to re-examine their assumptions and approach to research with families. Munford and Sanders emphasise the positive contribution research can make through the...
What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the
A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, this "moving and deeply relatable" (Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country...
More Noble Than War: The Story of Football in Israel and Palestine
By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football has never been shy of politics. This is especially...
Mission: Invincible Marriage - A Battle-Tested Guide to an Enduring
From Jason Redman, the former Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author of The Trident , writing with his wife, Erica, a battle-tested guide to marital bliss, drawing on...
From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
From the author of Work Won't Love You Back , a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss,...
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
How can statistics help us understand the world? Can we come to reliable conclusions when data is imperfect? How is statistics changing in the age of data science? Statistics has...
Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape
An award-winning Oxford professor explains why the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed - and how to fix it Why do the revolving doors of power always leave...
Fathers, Sons and Daughters: Exploring Fatherhood, Renewing the Bond
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The book titled Fathers, Sons and Daughters: Exploring Fatherhood, Renewing the Bond by the author Charles Scull. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Violence
Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx,...
Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality and Why Men
'You should read this book' Philippa Gregory - The most lucrative industries are male-dominated - yet half of men think they're the ones being discriminated against. - Post #MeToo, we're...
War of the World Records
Who will win the title of World's Most Record-Breaking Family? The Whipples? Or the Goldwins? Arthur Whipple hasn't broken a single world record. But he may be his record-breaking family's...
Why We Die: The New Science of Longevity - 'Changed my perspective on
'Changed my perspective on the whole living world but most of all myself.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'E nthralling and packed with insights.' - BILL BRYSON 'A must-read.' - STEPHEN...
Fathers An Anthology
Ideal fathers, cruel fathers, imagined fathers, puffed-up with pride fathers, noble fathers, and humanly flawed fathers, loving fathers, exasperated fathers. Literature is full of these but nobody, until Louise Guiness,...
A Mother's Ordeal: Story of Chi An - One Woman's Fight Against China's
Written in the first person by Steven Mosher, who has helped the Chi family find asylum in the US, this is an account of a young Chinese woman named Chi...
Bad News: The Decline Of Reporting, The Business Of News, And The
At a time when the world has been blindsided by failures of intelligence, a veteran CBS News correspondent reveals how the news media has betrayed our trust and endangered our...
Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society
The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
The Dish: The Story of One Restaurant Meal, from Farm to Kitchen to
"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." - Wall Street Journal Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes...
Lost Boys: THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THE NETFLIX DRAMA ADOLESCENCE
The book that explains the masculine subculture of the hit Netflix drama, Adolescence Rarely has there been a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an...
Can Feminism be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question
What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one? And what does it mean to centre selfhood in this journey? In this shining,...
DOING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT
If you are a beginner researcher, the problems facing you are much the same whether you are producing a small project, an MEd dissertation or a PhD thesis. You will...
Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves "Remarkable, brave and compassionate."-Rowan Williams,...
All About Love: The Deluxe Collector's Edition: New Visions
Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector's Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth case stamping with red foil, bold endpapers, and red sprayed edges! A New York Times...
How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World's Happiest
'Top-notch' Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS 'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee 'A well researched study injected...
Paper Cranes: A Mother's Story of Hope, Courage and Determination
Cheryl Koenig's life changed forever the day her twelve-year-old son Jonathan was involved in a horrific car accident. Given very little chance of survival, Jonathan was in a coma for...
Up Shit Creek in a Barbed Wire Canoe
If you've ever been up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe, you'll know that you long for a way out. You're depressed, your bum hurts, and you feel like...
Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation
From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the...
Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
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From the editors of the cutting-edge online magazine Salon come provocative essays that take an unflinching look at the gritty truths and unreserved pleasures of contemporary motherhood. Mothers Who Think:...
Intimate Relationships across Cultures: A Comparative Study
Intimate relationships exist in social domains, in which there are cultural rules regarding appropriate behaviors. But they also inhabit psychological domains of thoughts, feelings, and desires. How are intimate relationships...
The Oxford Book of Work
Primal curse or sacred duty? Painful drudgery or the only sure route to human happiness? Work has always evoked conflicting reactions. Yet whether we view it as a tedious necessity...
Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public Sphere
Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama....
Creating a Magical Relationship: A Practical Guide to What Men Want
Provides strategies for identifying and addressing the key issues and concerns that impact on us and our relationships. This book is full of common-sense presented in an-easy-to-read manner.
Enlightenment and Despair: A History of Social Theory
Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial new conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA from the...
State of the Waratah: The Floral Emblem of New South Wales in Legend,
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the Exhibition: 'State of the Waratah' which was an official Olympic Arts Festival event.
Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town
Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times - has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns...
Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders
WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP What makes a leader credible? Who would be an expert in a world where expertise is...
The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells us about the Power of the Female
'Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in.' Cat Bohannon A myth-busting vindication of women's physical strengths For decades, Starre...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
The history of British gambling is a history that stretches back nearly one thousand years, reaching into some of the nation's most fabled periods. It's now an industry worth billions...
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living
A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and a driving desire to thrive A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can...
Why Marriage Matters: Reasons to Believe in Marriage in Postmodern
Drawing from 100 years of social science research, Why Marriage Matters examines the state of marriage in America today and gives readers solid reasons to believe in marriage in a...
Conscious Marriage : a New Model for Making Marriage Work
The book titled Conscious Marriage : a New Model for Making Marriage Work. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
People and Places: Autobiography
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People and Places is a delightful collection of 22 articles and reviews written by Richard Cobb over the past ten years. The selections-- many appearing here for the first time--include...