The Breakdown: Making Sense of Politics in a Messed Up World (Spiller Tatton)(Pevná vazba)

The Breakdown: Making Sense of Politics in a Messed Up World (Spiller Tatton)(Paperback)

We're living through The Breakdown. A time of enormous political upheaval and polarised opinion. Many of us feel ill-equipped to understand and debate the issues currently rocking our world. At last, here is a sane voice of reason that cuts through the noise. Brexit: a chance to take back control

The Breakdown: Making Sense of Politics in a Messed Up World (Spiller Tatton)(Pevná vazba)

A smart, entertaining handbook showing how we can understand - and feel better about - modern

Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes (Reid David)(Pevná vazba)

In Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes, veteran literary scholar David Reid examines figures of speech, arguing that figures of speech in prose and poetry, literature and talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance, clat). Reid analyzes figures from

Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics (Bricmont Jean)(Pevná vazba)

Physicists in Wonderland.- The First Mystery: Interference and Superpositions.- 'Philosophical' Intermezzo.- The Second Mystery: Nonlocality.- The de Broglie-Bohm Theory.- Are There any Alternative Theories?.- Revisiting the History of Quantum Mechanics.- Quantum Mechanics and Our

Railway Breakdown Cranes - The Story of Steam Breakdown Cranes on the Railways of Britain (Tatlow Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown (Lawrence Mathew)(Pevná vazba)

A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdown In the age of environmental breakdown, breakdown, the political status quo has no answer to the devastating and inequitably distributed consequences of the climate emergency. We urgently need an alternative to bring about the rapid

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Susskind Jamie)(Pevná vazba)

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful

Making Civilizations: The World Before 600 (Gehrke Hans-Joachim)(Pevná vazba)

Distinguished historians of the ancient world analyze the earliest developments in human history and the rise of the first major civilizations, from the Middle East to India and China. In this volume of the six-part History of the World series, Hans-Joachim Gehrke, a noted scholar of ancient

Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World: Religion, Politics and Identity (Wilson David A.)(Pevná vazba)

Money Box: Making Money (Hubbard Ben)(Pevná vazba)

Learn all about the world of money in these friendly illustrated

Change and the politics of certainty (Edkins Jenny)(Pevná vazba)

The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and autobiographical illustrations, the book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on

The Making of a Royal Naval Officer (Carne William)(Pevná vazba)

A firsthand account of British Naval life in World Wars I and II. Like so many others in the twentieth century, William Carne's life was defined by the world wars. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet aged just sixteen in 1914. This is the story of his life at sea, drawn from his memoirs, letters,

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe (Siklodi Nora)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe explores contemporary models of national and European Union (EU) citizenship in the context of intra-EU mobility. Scholars have often addressed these models from separate disciplinary standpoints. National citizenship has been studied through the prism

The Politics of Inequality (David Pettinicchio)(Pevná vazba)

In The Politics of Inequality, David Pettinicchio has gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing inequalities literature through a political sociology lens. Broad social, political and economic forces associated with neoliberalism and

Broken Signposts - How Christianity Makes Sense of the World (Wright Tom)(Pevná vazba)

In this deeply insightful extended meditation on the Gospel of John, Tom Wright shows how Christianity points us to a compelling explanation for the world, and for our role and reponsibility within

The Making of the Modern World: 1945 to the Present: Education, Poverty, and Inequality (Perritano John)(Pevná vazba)

A Perfectly Messed-Up Story (McDonnell Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

In this interactive and engaging read-aloud, bestselling author and award-winning artist Patrick McDonnell creates a funny, engaging, and almost perfect story about embracing life's messes.Little Louie's story keeps getting messed up, and he's not happy about it What's the point of telling his

Augustus and the Destruction of History - The politics of the past in early imperial Rome(Pevná vazba)

European Union Governance and Policy Making: A Canadian Perspective (Brunet-Jailly Emmanuel)(Pevná vazba)

European Union Governance and Policy Making introduces Canadian students to the politics of the EU. Divided into three parts, the collection examines its political system (history, theories, institutions), specific policies, and some of the challenges that the EU currently faces. Geared toward

Humour, Subjectivity and World Politics: Everyday Articulations of Identity at the Limits of Order (Wedderburn Alister)(Pevná vazba)

Making Sense of Problems in Primary Headship (Dunning Gerald)(Pevná vazba)

Managing problems has always been a major responsibility of headship, but a substantial number of primary heads now regard their role as especially problematic. With a steadily expanding set of responsibilities and an increasingly demanding set of constituencies to satisfy, the problems which

Epic Drives of the World 1 (Planet Lonely)(Pevná vazba)

Buckle up for the next installment in our 'Epic' series and the follow-up to Epic Bike Rides of the World. Epic Drives of the World, abeautiful hardback, showcases 50 of the greatest road trips on Earth, from classic routes in America, Australia and Europe, to incredible adventures in Asia and

The World of Bob Dylan (Latham Sean)(Pevná vazba)

Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact. Leading rock and pop critics and music scholars address themes and topics central to Dylan's life and work: the Blues,

Music Making in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Smith Adrian)(Pevná vazba)