Staying Positive: The Story of 'the Real' Paul Banke (Banke Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Staying Positive: The Story of 'the Real' Paul Banke (Banke Paul)(Pevná vazba)

A member of the USA's stellar 1984 Olympic boxing team, Paul Banke then scaled the heights as a professional to become world champion in 1990. Unfortunately, throughout his career, he was at the mercy of his secret mistress--drugs. As part of the celebrity slipstream, Banke often had free access to

Child of the Civil Rights Movement (Shelton Paula Young)(Paperback)

In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child's unique perspective to an important chapter in America's history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks

Abandon Ship: The Real Story of the Sinkings in the Falklands War (Brown Paul)(Pevná vazba)

This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships during the Falklands War of 1982. Based on new evidence released following freedom of interest requests, it will tell the full story of these dramatic events for the first time. The Falklands War was a pivotal event in 20th

Two of a Kind - The Morecambe and Wise Story (Burton Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Let It Come Down (Bowles Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers as he gives in to his darkest

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business (Jarvis Paul)(Pevná vazba)

What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better--and smarter--solution is simply to

The Energy Bus for Kids: A Story about Staying Positive and Overcoming Challenges (Gordon Jon)(Pevná vazba)

An illustrated adaptation of the bestselling business fable, The Energy Bus, teaches children the benefits of staying positive In this illustrated adaptation of the bestselling fable, The Energy Bus, author Jon Gordon shows children how to overcome negativity, bullies and everyday challenges to be

Ceramic, Art and Civilisation (Greenhalgh Paul)(Pevná vazba)

In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millenia. Indeed, the

Les Paul - 70 Years: The definitive history of rock´s greatest guitar - Julien Bitoun

The complete story of the Gibson Les Paul.Produced in collaboration with Gibson, this is the ultimate history of rock's greatest guitar - with unprecedented access to behind-the-scenes stories and unseen photography.- The greatest Les Paul models- Stunning photography, including never-before-seen

Digital Bank: Strategies to Launch or Become a Digital Bank (Skinner Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Digital Bank tracks the innovations in banking and how the mobile internet is changing the dynamics of consumer and corporate relationships with their banks. The implication is that banks must become digitized, and that is a challenge as becoming a Digital Bank demands new services focused upon

Bank 4.0: Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank (King Brett)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of best book by a foreign author (2019) at the Business Book of the Year Award organised by PwC Russia The future of banking is already here -- are you ready? Bank 4.0 explores the radical transformation already taking place in banking, and follows it to its logical conclusion. What will

Change the World Using Social Media (Signorelli Paul)(Pevná vazba)

In this story-driven handbook to using social media to foster collaboration and positive change, people using social media describe how those tools work and how they have used social media to produce positive transformations within their extended communities. Starting with an overview of what

The Royal Aircraft Factory (Hare Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, forerunner of the World's premier aeronautical research establishment wherein were designed a diversity of aircraft including many of those that equipped the RFC, RNAS and RAF during the First World War.Originally established to build

Paula Rego(Pevná vazba)

This stunning voulme tells the story of Rego's extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. It also reveals the artist's broad range of references, from comic strips to history

The Journey of Little Charlie (National Book Award Finalist) (Curtis Christopher Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils.The National Book Award finalist by Christopher Paul Curtis Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just

Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos & the Search for Mathematical (Hoffman Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his

Social Development in the World Bank: Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea (Koch-Weser Maritta)(Pevná vazba)

Part I: Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank. Chapter 1: The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development. Chapter 2: The Road to Achieving Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank. Chapter 3: Address to the World Bank Sociological

Paula Rego: The Art of Story (Rees-Jones Deryn)(Pevná vazba)

A prolific painter and printmaker, Paula Rego is an artist of astonishing power with a unique and unforgettable aesthetic. Capturing the extraordinary aspects of Rego's work, author Deryn Rees-Jones places autobiographical narratives alongside stories suggested by Rego's pictures. She explores

Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements (Strathern Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table. **One of Bill Gates' Top Five Book Recommendations** In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the

Central Bank Independence and the Future of the Euro (Demetriades Panicos)(Paperback)

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus examines the role of the European Central Bank in the euro crisis and what role it should play in the

Borgias - Power and Fortune (Strathern Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The

This Other Eden - Paul Harding

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time.A novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers.In 1792,

At the Jerusalem (Bailey Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The story of a gentle, reserved widow who is exposed by bereavement to the alien world outside her

Yorkshire Hunter - The Paul Ingle Story (Ingle Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Yorkshire Hunter tells the story of boxing champion Paul Ingle, endearing and enduring product of one of Scarborough's toughest housing estates, who never deserted his roots. It is the tale of a fighter who won world titles and represented his country but who, left with a blood clot on his