Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage (Crenshaw Dan)(Pevná vazba)

Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage (Crenshaw Dan)(Pevná vazba)

Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules for Life meets Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership in this tough-love leadership book from a Navy SEAL and rising star in Republican politics. In 2012, on his third tour of duty, an improvised explosive device left Dan Crenshaw's right eye destroyed and

Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of Change (Ungar Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Multisystemic Resilience brings together for the first time in one volume a wide range of resilience scholars who have been wrestling with how to explain processes of recovery, adaptation, and transformation in contexts of change and adversity. With contributions from psychologists, epigeneticists,

Muscle & Chrome: Classic American Cars (Publications International Ltd)(Pevná vazba)

Muscle & Chrome: Classic American Cars captures all the wonder and excitement of a truly beloved era in automotive history.Informative profiles of 70 vehicles serve to chronicle the burst of design and engineering innovations that followed the end of World War II, the exuberant styling and the

End of the Patriarchy (Falk Gerhard)(Pevná vazba)

This book reviews the achievements of American women in the American economy, education, government, religion, the military, law enforcement, and communications. The author predicts the feminization of American life with particular reference to changes in the American family and the ever increasing

Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era (Rakhimova-Sommers Elena)(Pevná vazba)

Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate students in the twenty-first century. The time has come to ask: in the #MeToo era and beyond, how do we approach Nabokov's inflammatory masterpiece, Lolita?

British Submarines in the Cold War Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Submarines in the Cold War Era shows how a combination of evolving strategic and tactical requirements and new technology produced successive types of submarines. It is based largely on unpublished and previously classified official documentation, and to the extent allowed by security

Gesta Danorum - Deeds of the Danes (Grammaticus Saxo)(Pevná vazba)

Gesta Danorum - Deeds of the Danes In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a History of the Danes, an account of their glorious past from the legendary kings and heroes of Denmark to king Gorm. It is one of the major sources for the

Dionysiaca (Nonnos)(Pevná vazba)

Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt, who lived in the fifth century of our era, composed the last great epic poem of antiquity. The Dionysiaca, in 48 books, has for its chief theme the expedition of Dionysus against the Indians; but the poet contrives to include all the adventures of the god (as well as

Security, Resilience and Planning: Planning's Role in Countering Terrorism (Coaffee Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Security, Resilience and Planning offers key concept and practical guidance about the role of planners in countering terrorist risk, using a range of international case

Resist - Stories of Uprising (Shamsie)(Pevná vazba)

We live in a golden era of protest; from the Extinction Rebellion protests in the UK to the anti-gun rallies in the US, people are taking to the streets around the globe, standing up to governments that have fallen out of step with the popular mood. This anthology challenges 20 acclaimed authors to

The Transformation of American International Power in the 1970s (Zanchetta Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

Barbara Zanchetta analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of d tente during the Nixon administration to the policy's crisis and fall during the final years of the Carter presidency. This study traces lines of continuity among the Nixon, Ford, and Carter

Natural Selection: A Year in the Garden (Pearson Dan)(Pevná vazba)

In Natural Selection, Dan Pearson draws on ten years of his Observer columns to explore the rhythms and pleasures of a year in the garden. Traveling between his city-bound plot in South London and twenty acres of rolling hillside in Somerset, he celebrates the beautiful skeletons of the winter

Firefly: Generations (Lebbon Tim)(Pevná vazba)

A new era of Firefly canon in the fourth original novel tie-in of the much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon A mysterious star map On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The former owner insists

Topgun: An American Story (Pedersen Dan)(Pevná vazba)

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIf you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book. -- Fox & FriendsOn the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Topgun Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the remarkable inside story of how he and eight other risk-takers revolutionized the art of aerial

Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic (Cutterham Tom)(Pevná vazba)

In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles

American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940 (Takayoshi Ichiro)(Pevná vazba)

American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940 situates the major themes and aspects of the Depression era's key literary activities in the long arc of literary history. This is an excellent resource for undergraduate, graduate students, and scholars interested in American literary culture of the

Rangers In The Black & White Era (Finan Steve)(Pevná vazba)

Celtic In The Black & White Era (Finan Steve)(Pevná vazba)

Twilight of the Merkel Era: Power and Politics in Germany After the 2017 Bundestag Election (Langenbacher Eric)(Pevná vazba)

Robert Motherwell - The Making of an American Giant (Jacobson Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwell's art in the context of 20th-century American culture. America's music and literature were indigenous triumphs, while its art was slowly learning to

In the Arena: A History of American Presidential Hopefuls (Shea Peter)(Pevná vazba)

In the Arena profiles 34 American leaders who captured their party's nomination for the presidency, but never reached the Oval Office. Author Peter Shea tells of the rise, early career, campaign and later achievements of historical giants like Aaron Burr and Henry Clay, up through modern candidates

At the End of the Matinee (Hirano Keiichiro)(Pevná vazba)

Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love's fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel.Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms

Tourism and Resilience (Butler Richard W.)(Pevná vazba)

Resilience relates to the ability of organisms, communities, ecosystems, and populations to absorb and withstand the impacts and effects of external forces while retaining their integrity and ability to continue functioning. The concept is particularly applicable to tourism destinations and

The Sociotechnical Constitution of Resilience: A New Perspective on Governing Risk and Disaster (Amir Sulfikar)(Pevná vazba)

Introduction: Resilience as Sociotechnical Construct.- PART 1 DISSECTING RESILIENCE.- What (Sociotechnical) Resilience is Made of: Personal Trajectories and Erathquake Risk Mitigation in the San Francisco Bay Area.- Sociotechnical Resilience-From Recovery to Adaptation and Beyond: the Journey So