The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Nichols Tom)(Pevná vazba)

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Nichols Tom)(Pevná vazba)

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Nichols Tom)(Paperback)

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone

The League of Super Feminists (Malle Mirion)(Pevná vazba)

This hilarious and helpful primer on feminism teaches young readers what it is and why it matters The League of Superfeminists is an energetic, fierce, and disruptive comic wherein cartoonist Mirion Malle guides young readers through some of the central tenets of feminism. Issues of consent,

Why the New Deal Matters (Rauchway Eric)(Pevná vazba)

A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today 'A must-read for those who've read nothing about the New Deal before, those who've read everything about it, and anyone in between. With timeless prose and timely arguments, Why the New Deal Matters

Free Speech and Why It Matters (Doyle Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

'A fantastically timely book written by one of the smartest thinkers in Britain' Piers Morgan 'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The Times Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives

Why Fashion Matters (Corner Frances)(Pevná vazba)

Fashion matters for the economy, to society, and to each of us personally. Faster than anything else, what we wear tells the story of who we are--or who we want to be. It is the most immediate form of self-expression. Yet even as fashion touches the lives of each and every one of us, its influence

Why Does Literature Matter? (Farrell Frank B.)(Pevná vazba)

Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters (Rumelt Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and

Soup: A Recipe to Create a Culture of Greatness (Gordon Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Why it matters who's stirring the pot Soup offers an inspirational business fable that explains the 'recipe' you can use to create a winning culture and boost employee morale and engagement. The story follows Nancy, the newly anointed CEO of America's Favorite Soup Company. She has been brought in

Why Solange Matters (Phillips Stephanie)(Pevná vazba)

The dramatic story of Solange: a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name. 'Why Solange Matters is a significant and sober treatist on popular music

Moorland Matters - The Battle for the Uplands against Authoritarian Conservation (Coghill Ian)(Pevná vazba)

Moorland Matters sets out to examine the hidden issues surrounding UK moorland conservation and gives a voice to those that live and work on these rare and precious

Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death (Bloom Hyman)(Pevná vazba)

Themes of mortality and spirituality in the long-neglected art of a midcentury American pioneer 'Bloom's unsettling paintings are fueled by a sense of existence as a state of spiritual emergency and of art as a means for transfiguring fear.' -Holland Cotter, Art in America Hyman Bloom was a

Chatter - The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

Understanding and Preventing Sudden Death: Your Life Matters (Mak Koon Hou)(Pevná vazba)

Sudden death is an uncommon condition. But when it occurs, especially in a young person, the acute loss can generate a substantial amount of grief with a great sense of disbelief. This mysterious and dreadful condition instils much fear and anxiety into the living, and more specifically for family

What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters (Wills Garry)(Paperback)

Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says about the Environment and Why It Matters (Richter Sandra L.)(Paperback)

Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works (Leamon Nathan)(Pevná vazba)

How valuable is winning the toss? And how should captains use it to their advantage? Why does a cricket ball swing? Why don't Indians bat left-handed? What is a good length and why? Why are leg-spinners so successful in T20 cricket? Why did England win the World Cup? Why do all Test bowlers bowl at

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters (Pearson Tanya)(Pevná vazba)

A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic

Nine Rules to Conquer Death (Toolis Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

How should we conquer death? Our eternal existential question. The unspoken why of all action and thought. Death is all around us but unseen. A shadow companion who haunts our gnawing anxieties over what the future holds. The virus. The stab of doubt in every lump beneath the skin. Can anyone

Teaching the Eu: Fostering Knowledge and Understanding in the Brexit Age (Visvizi Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Against the backdrop of disintegrative tendencies in the EU, where Brexit perhaps most profoundly captures the spirit of current developments in the EU, this book offers a detailed understanding of the key issues, challenges, and opportunities that educators across Europe and beyond encounter on a

Nihilism (Gertz Nolen)(Paperback)

An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, 'an ideology of nothing. ' Is nihilism, then,

The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons (Hartelius E. Johanna)(Paperback)

The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons provides an extensive analysis of knowledge and creativity in twenty-first century networked culture. Analyzing massive projects like the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive, and the Creative Commons licenses, The Gifting Logos responds to a

Unquenchable Flame - Discovering The Heart Of The Reformation (Reeves Dr Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Discover the gripping story of the Protestant Reformation and why it matters for believers

Art of Gathering - How We Meet and Why It Matters (Parker Priya)(Paperback / softback)

We spend our lives gathering - first in classrooms and then in meetings, weddings, conferences and away days. Yet so many of us spend this time in underwhelming moments that fail to engage us, inspire us, or connect us. We've all sat in meetings where people talk past each other or go through the