In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest (Lo Andrew W.)(Pevná vazba)

In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest (Lo Andrew W.)(Pevná vazba)

How the greatest thinkers in finance changed the field and how their wisdom can help investors today Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten of the

Origin Stories - The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World (Lee Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World charts the growth of the game in each major footballing country, from the very first kick to the first World Cup in 1930. Football's global spread from muddy playing fields to colossal, purpose-built stadiums is a story of class, race,

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel (Ross Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

The Story of Palestine's Stonemasons and the Building of Israel 'They demolish our houses while we build theirs.' This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian 'stone men,' utilizing some of the best quality

They Did It First. 50 Scientists, Artists and Mathematicians Who Changed the World (Leung Julie)(Pevná vazba)

A gorgeously illustrated collection of true stories, featuring the women and men who were pioneers of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and

The Perfect Gentleman: The Pursuit of Timeless Elegance and Style in London (Sherwood James)(Pevná vazba)

In an age of globalization with fashion trends that change by the day, the quality and workmanship of the great British luxury brands endure and flourish like never before. Valued for their craftsmanship, superlative quality, exclusivity, and the status they confer on their owners, these 'heritage

Photo Icons. 50 Landmark Photographs and Their Stories (Koetzle Hans-Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our collective consciousness, defining eras, making history, or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe

Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales (.. Various Authors)(Pevná vazba)

This classic collection features 25 tales shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre.In addition to the world-famous title novel, the anthology includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which launched the gothic novel craze, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary

Voices of the Future: Stories from Around the World(Pevná vazba)

The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier (Johnson Keyshawn)(Pevná vazba)

The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in

The Foreign Cinema Cookbook: Recipes and Stories Under the Stars (Pirie Gayle)(Pevná vazba)

Foreign Cinema opened its doors in 1999 in the Mission District of San Francisco, pioneers in transforming the neighborhood into a culinary destination. The dramatic experience of dining in the sweeping atrium, where films screen nightly, still enchant visitors 18 years later. Now, for the first

Good Enough - The Myth of Success and How to Celebrate the Joy in Average (Ross Eleanor)(Pevná vazba)

Exploring the way in which our quest to succeed and our pursuit of perfection blinds us to what life is all about, Good Enough combines sobering memoir and the science, stats and people propping up the myth of

Heart Shaped Tears: Art, Comics and Dark Secrets (Jame Abby)(Pevná vazba)

In the age of the Anthropocene, girls are tired and jaded. And yet, we are the last reminders of glittering purity. Not dumb sexual purity, but light and love, laughing in beds, sneaking out like the most important thing in the entire world is on the other side of your parent's driveway. We feel

Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories (Spencer Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

On her centennial, a contemporary of Flannery O'Connor and Harper Lee joins the Library of America with a volume that restores to print her searing novel about the late Jim Crow South Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major figure of the Southern Renaissance, though today her many books and

Consider the Fork - A History of How We Cook and Eat (Wilson Bee)(Paperback / softback)

Explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live. This title tells the story of how we have tamed fire and ice, wielded whisks, spoons, graters, mashers, pestles and mortars, all in the name of feeding

The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry (Horrow Rick)(Pevná vazba)

If you love sports and are fascinated by business dealings in this trillion-dollar global industry, then this is the anthology you've been waiting for. The Sport Business Handbook: Insights From 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry provides insider perspectives from more than 100 of the

Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola (Schubert Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system--an emic notion of their current political and

Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe (Holloway Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The former Bishop of Edinburgh returns with a history of the universe and the ways we try to make meaning of it, and in the process takes a personal journey into his own beliefs. Waiting for the Last Bus and Leaving Alexandria were both Sunday Times bestsellers; the latter won the PEN/Ackerley

A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People (Botkin B. A.)(Pevná vazba)

Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top '100 Books that Shaped America,' this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of

Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 (Madeline Laurence)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and museums, studios and salons. Featuring

The Inner Voice in Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Mediating Between Modes of Cognition in the Humanities and Sciences (Fuyarchuk Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

The inner word in Gadamer's hermeneutics refers to the meaning that exceeds anything explicitly said. This explanation has been subsumed within metaphysical and theological parameters of interpretation with little regard for the implication of Gadamer's turn to the living language for understanding

From Kilts to Sarongs - Scottish Pioneers of Singapore (Berry Graham)(Pevná vazba)

The first book on the subject, it appeals to not only those who are interested in the history of the Scottish, but also all who are interested in the history and heritage of

Adaptive Markets - Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought (Lo Andrew W.)(Pevná vazba)

A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists

The Plight of the Palestinians: A Long History of Destruction (Cook W.)(Pevná vazba)

A collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in Palestine beginning in the 1940s. Voices decrying in startling, vivid, and forceful language the calculated atrocities taking

100 People Who Made History - Meet the People Who Shaped the Modern World (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Meet the people who helped shape the world we know today. In this title, inventors and explorers rub shoulders with political leaders, sports stars, and entertainers. From Marco Polo to Marie Curie via Pele, it lets you meet the people that have changed our world and discover how they did