Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (Laurent loi)(Pevná vazba)

Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (Laurent loi)(Pevná vazba)

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainability Never before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things--those that will help us solve

Britain and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Between Ambition and Pragmatism (Beswick Danielle)(Pevná vazba)

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour

Woven & Worn: The Search for Well-Being and Sustainability in the Modern World (Press Canopy)(Pevná vazba)

Woven & Worn showcases innovative makers of mindful wearables. Unravel the world of sustainable fashion and discover your importance within

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (Hill Fiona)(Pevná vazba)

The Age of Football - The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century (Goldblatt David)(Pevná vazba)

The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first

Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture (Bickford Tyler)(Pevná vazba)

In the early years of the twenty-first century, the US music industry created a new market for tweens, selling music that was cooler than Barney, but that still felt safe for children. In Tween Pop Tyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the 'tween' music industry, showing how it marshaled

Retreat: The Modern House in Nature (Broadhurst Ron)(Pevná vazba)

The most forward-looking spaces designed for rustic living in the twenty-first century. Across the globe, architects are creating innovative houses for country living, reimagining the way we escape into the natural world. Some combine industrial materials like metal and concrete with traditional

Lonely Century - A Call to Reconnect (Hertz Noreena)(Pevná vazba)

'Indispensable, engaging and brilliant book about the pervasiveness of loneliness in the twenty-first century and its far-reaching impact...a hopeful book that couldn't be more important or timely.' Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had

Everyone Leads (Schmitz Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Praise for Everyone Leads 'If America is going to continue to thrive in the twenty-first century, we must strengthen our sense of community. In Everyone Leads, Schmitz lays out the challenges for those of us who have a passion to make a difference and, more important, the strategies to spark

Virgin Monologues - Confessions of a Christian Girl in a Twenty-First-Century World (Lloyd Carrie)(Pevná vazba)

An insightful, inspirational, amusing and honest guide to relationships for the modern single Christian

French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century (Belenky Masha)(Pevná vazba)

This interdisciplinary volume analyzes previously understudied sources from nineteenth- and twentieth- century France and the Francophone world and situates them in their social, cultural and political

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,

An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order (Lissner Rebecca)(Pevná vazba)

In this ambitious and incisive book, Lissner and Rapp-Hooper outline a new vision for American grand strategy and international order that will advance American interests in the face of political polarization, technological innovation and diffusion, and major global power shifts that empower rivals

The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right (Traverso Enzo)(Pevná vazba)

What is fascism in the twenty first century? What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, and genocide. These images

Western Art of the Twenty-First Century: Cowboys (Rooney E. Ashley)(Pevná vazba)

The first in a two-volume survey, readers are invited to reexamine the history of the West and its art through a multifaceted modern lens. More than 40 artists are included who reflect the tremendous diversity, depth, and breadth of a field steeped in history. While some follow the traditions

The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland: From the First Century to the Twenty-First (Bray Gerald)(Pevná vazba)

The history of Britain and Ireland is incomprehensible without an understanding of the Christian faith that has shaped it. Introduced when the nations of these islands were still in their infancy, Christianity has provided the framework for their development from the beginning. Gerald Bray's

Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies (Keller Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred a public debate over what it means to be a 'cinephile.' In Anxious Cinephilia, Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies

Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century (Meadow Tey)(Paperback)

Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their

Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan: Contested Terrain in the Twenty-First Century (Ashraf Dilshad)(Pevná vazba)

This book analyzes the successes and impediments of various educational policies in Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. The authors analyze how current and past discourses on gender, religion, culture, politics, and the economy affect formal education and communal transformation in mountainous

Democratic Failure: Nomos LXIII (Schwartzberg Melissa)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the challenges facing democracies in the twenty-first century In Democratic Failure, Melissa Schwartzberg and Daniel Viehoff bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars in political science, law, and philosophy to explore the key questions and challenges facing

The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century (Denning Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

A radical new management model for twenty-first century leaders Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by

The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre (Hannigan Tim)(Pevná vazba)

Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make

German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Different Republic After All? (Wittlinger R.)(Pevná vazba)

Wittlinger takes a fresh look at German national identity in the 21st century and shows that it has undergone considerable changes since unification in 1990. Due to the external pressures of the post-cold war world and recent domestic developments, Germany has re-emerged as a nation which is less

NATO and Article 5: The Transatlantic Alliance and the Twenty-First-Century Challenges of Collective Defense (Deni John R.)(Pevná vazba)

For much of the last 25 years, NATO has focused on crisis management in places such as Kosovo and Afghanistan, resulting in major changes to alliance strategy, resourcing, force structure, and training. Re-embracing collective defense -which lies at the heart of the Treaty of Washington's Article 5