Автор: Seth Vikram Название: A Suitable Boy ISBN: 1780227892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780227894 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The 20th-anniversary edition of the bestselling novel by Vikram Seth. Now a major BBC drama. NAMED ONE OF THE BBC`S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
Автор: Seth,Vikram Название: Two lives ISBN: 0349117985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349117980 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: * A story of love and survival amidst the great events of the twentieth century.
We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back?
At the height of the 2014 Ebola epidemic, a man who had recently returned from West Africa with a fever and severe abdominal pain entered a hospital in Dallas--and was sent home. Even after healthcare workers learned their patient had come from Liberia, ground zero of the Ebola hot zone, not one of those treating him considered the deadly virus as a possible cause of his condition. Shortly after the man died, one of the nurses who had treated him sought clearance from the Centers for Disease Control to board a commercial flight. She reported a fever of 99.5 degrees, but because the protocol restricted travel at 100.4 degrees or higher, she was cleared. She was later confirmed to be infected with Ebola. A public health disaster akin to the one depicted in the movie Contagion was averted, but only by sheer luck.
How could this happen? As Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening and perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology. We've stopped thinking for ourselves. (Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot?) With stark and compelling examples drawn from business, sports, and everyday life, the author illustrates how in a very real sense we have outsourced too much of our thinking, relinquishing our autonomy.
Of course, experts, protocols, and computer-based systems are essential to helping us make informed decisions. What we need is a new approach for integrating these information sources more effectively, harnessing the value they provide without undermining our own autonomy. The author provides principles and techniques for doing just that, empowering readers with a more critical and nuanced approach to making decisions.
Think for Yourself is an indispensable guide for those looking to restore self-reliant thinking in a data-driven and technology-dependent yet overwhelmingly uncertain world.
Автор: Bhargava Vikram Название: Robust Plastic Product Design: A Holistic Approach ISBN: 1569905800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781569905807 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tooling, molding, secondary operations, material selection, evaluation and testing, design, project management, costing, value engineering, international supplier management and enhancement, and more: this book provides a broad insight from the author`s over 40 years of experience in the plastics industry.
Автор: Talwar Vikram Название: Crossing the Abyss: The Path to the Royal Road ISBN: 1543700764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781543700763 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18367.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Crossing the abyss is the highest form of spiritual manifestation, a universal law, in which the soul slowly ascends toward the highest states of consciousness and self in relation to the movements of the celestial kingdom in which reality is undeniable. All Abrahamic religions go back to the ultimate experience of self, I, in which truth is unified in one. "Behold, thou art one in me, a Son of God; and thus, may all become my sons Amen" (Moses 6:68). This book is an evidence based on facts and real-life experiences on what lies ahead as we may have engaged ourselves in self-destructive practices in meeting the challenges of this millennium. It answers the very question about truth as the highest form of divinity present in every human being and not as a hypocritical function of blind faith practiced by religion. Transcending mortality into immortality, an Aryan Kshatriya of a warrior class scaling strength in character and annihilation in traits on the road to self-realization made an atonement post 9/11 in protecting Christians and the royal crowns on the path to the royal road a discipline, with Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II. Enforcing the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq in 2007, the release of fifteen MI agents in Ira, the remission in histories and celestial performances in establishing global financial equilibrium from 2007 to 2010 with G20, he fulfilled the measure of creation in twelve celestial kingdoms and fifty-three godheads at the cost of $10.8 trillion. Born to a family of patriots, martyrs, and freedom fighters during the Indian revolution in 1930 AD, the Talwars of Pathan Land are legacies written in Roman histories in defending the 325 BC invasions of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan in 1200 AD, and the first Anglo-Afghan war with Sher Ali Khan as amir in 1836 AD, and the ancestral inheritances in serving Maharajah Ranjit Singh in 1839 AD.
Автор: Seth Vikram Название: Rivered Earth ISBN: 1780228686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780228686 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: `A rich poetic experience` (Independent) from the author of A SUITABLE BOY
Автор: Paralkar Vikram Название: The Afflictions ISBN: 1941360351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941360354 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3215.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
The legendary Encyclopedia of Medicine is a dizzying collection of maladies: an amnesia that causes everyone you've ever met to forget you exist, while you remain perfectly, painfully aware of your history. A wound that grows with each dark thought or evil deed you commit but shrinks with every act of kindness. A disease that causes your body to imitate death, stopping your heart, cooling your blood. Will the fit pass before they bury youƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚€ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"or after?
The Afflictions is a magical compendium of pseudo-diseases, an encyclopedia of archaic medicine written by a contemporary physician and scientist. Little by little, these bizarre and mystical afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire and the limits of bodily existence.
First published in English in the United States, The Afflictions has since been published in Argentina, Italy, and India. This second U.S. edition features the original illustrations created by Pia Valentinis for
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