Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Bertaud Alain)(Pevná vazba)

Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Bertaud Alain)(Pevná vazba)

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground--the width of

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America (Fine Peter Claver)(Pevná vazba)

Super Science - How Science Shapes Our World (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-Regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality (Prechel Harland)(Pevná vazba)

Can Financial Markets Be Controlled? (Davies Howard)(Pevná vazba)

The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before. But have these measures been

Future Cities: A Visual Guide (Dunn Nick)(Pevná vazba)

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these

Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life (Green William)(Pevná vazba)

Cities and crisis (Konvitz Josef W.)(Pevná vazba)

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A

How to Hold Animals (Matsuhashi Toshimitsu)(Pevná vazba)

A delightful treasure trove of tips on how to hold animals without hurting

Leadership Without Ego: How to Stop Managing and Start Leading (Davids Bob)(Pevná vazba)

Leadership Without Easy Answers (Heifetz Ronald A.)(Pevná vazba)

The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In doing do, we do them and ourselves a grave

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Posner Eric A.)(Pevná vazba)

Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for all Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking--and pretty much all

The Politics of Order in Informal Markets (Grossman Shelby)(Pevná vazba)

Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don't protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by providing an institutional structure to enforce agreements, but with this power comes the ability to extort group members. Under what circumstances, then,

Cities - Then & Now (Lonely Planet Kids)(Pevná vazba)

This fun and colourful lift-the-flap book gives a unique insight into how cities looked in the past, compared to how they look now. With ancient cities and ruins including Pompeii, Great Zimbabwe and Babylon, discover how history has shaped our planet's urban areas and changed them over

Achievement Relocked: Loss Aversion and Game Design (Engelstein Geoffrey)(Pevná vazba)

How game designers can use the psychological phenomenon of loss aversion to shape player experience. Getting something makes you feel good, and losing something makes you feel bad. But losing something makes you feel worse than getting the same thing makes you feel good. So finding $10 is a thrill;

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love (Kolko Jon)(Pevná vazba)

From Design Thinking to Design Doing Innovators today are told to run loose and think lean in order to fail fast and succeed sooner. But in a world obsessed with the new, where cool added features often trump actual customer needs, it's the consumer who suffers. In our quest to be more agile, we

Cities - The First 6,000 Years (Smith Monica L.)(Pevná vazba)

A FASCINATING INVESTIGATION INTO THE HISTORY OF CITIES: WHY DID THEY OCCUR, HOW HAVE THEY EVOLVED, WHY DO SO MANY OF US CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THEM AND HOW DO THEY AFFECT

Go Lightly: How to Travel Without Hurting the Planet (Karnikowski Nina)(Pevná vazba)

This sustainable travel handbook inspires readers to explore our fascinating planet without causing it further harm. Ten chapters help you go lightly, including how to choose the least impactful methods of travel, how best to protect wildlife, how to pack with more consideration and how to

How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings - Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women (Cooper Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too (Faber Adele)(Pevná vazba)

Superlux: Smart Light Art, Design & Architecture for Cities (Jackson Davina)(Pevná vazba)

In recent years, new lighting technologies have been used to illuminate cities and towns in creative, energy-efficient ways. 'Smart Light' is now a widely used term for the new technologies and ecological ideas that are transforming nighttime atmospheres and spectacular Smart Light festivals are

Corporate Peace: How Global Business Shapes a Hostile World (Martin Mary)(Pevná vazba)

A challenge to conventional wisdom, this eye-opening account explains how businesses can stabilise conflict and improve people's lives while still pursuing the bottom line. Ours is an era of big companies, multinational brands and global business power, but also of seemingly unending conflict

How Should One Read a Book? (Woolf Virginia)(Pevná vazba)

Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read? Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance

How Cities Work (Lonely Planet Kids)(Pevná vazba)

From the sewers to the skyscrapers, this book takes younger readers to the heart of the city. Perforated flaps let you see what's going on behind closed doors, and big gatefolds reveal what's going on under the street, plus other surprising city spaces. With illustrations from James Gulliver