Politics of Latin America: The Power Game, Vanden Harry, Prevost Gary

Автор: Anderson, Lorriane ; Diaz, Juliet
Название: Seasons of the Witch: Samhain Oracle: Harness the Intuitive Power of the Year`s Most Magical Night (44 Full-Color Cards and 180-Page Guidebook)
ISBN: 1925924653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925924657
Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK
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Описание: Samhain is one of the most enigmatic and magical nights of the year for performing divination, rituals, and spells. Our ancestors have known this for centuries, taking advantage of the night's potent energy to gain clear insight into the past, present, and future. What if every day were Halloween? Experience the clarity and electric energies of this sacred night all year long with the chilling Samhain Oracle. Each card connects you to the spirit realm to bring healing, understanding, protection, and guidance from the other side into everyday life. Discover the banshee's wrath, meet your sacred animal familiar, greet the nature spirits, or visit the graveyard with your coven to seek protection in the witching hour. The cards hold truth and unlock your intuition to find the answers to your heart's hidden desires.
This beautifully designed and illustrated book and 44 card deck set will connect you to the spirit realm to bring healing, understanding, protection and guidance. Original poetry from Juliet Diaz works as invocations for magic and ritual while intuitive guidance from Lorriane Anderson will take you through your personal readings. Finally the beautiful artwork of Giada Rose will transport you to new worlds. Unlock the secret insights with spells and recipes to make the most of Samhain energy

Автор: John Rockwell
Название: Norman Rockwell`s Faith of America
ISBN: 0896600661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780896600669
Издательство: ACC-distribution titles
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Описание: Fred Bauer writes about Rockwell's message of optimism and the artist's faith in America and its people in a forthright and sympathetic text complemented by numerous Rockwell favourites in all their warmth and colour. Bauer visits Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Arlington, Vermont, talking to the people who lived with Rockwell and posed for his anecdotal pictures, the people about whom the artist said, "If you are interested in the characters you draw and understand them and love them, why, the people who see your pictures are bound to feel the same way." This lovely book enables us to partake once again of that unique love and understanding that Norman Rockwell still communicates to America.

Автор: Acemoglu Daron, Robinson James
Название: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
ISBN: 0307719227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307719225
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it).

Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities.

The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people.

Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutionswith no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:

- China has built an authoritarian growth machine.

Will it continue to grow at such high speed andoverwhelm the West?

- Are America's best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?

- What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson's breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look atand understandthe world.

Автор: Walter Marc, Arque Sabine
Название: America 1900: A portrait in colour
ISBN: 3836567911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836567916
Издательство: Taschen
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Описание: Produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924, these rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images are the very first color pictures of North America. An unparalleled voyage across peoples, places, and time unfolds in this sweeping panorama that ranges from Native American settlements to New York`s Chinatown, from...

Автор: Greene, Robert Ellfers, Joost Elffers, Joost
Название: The 48 Laws of Power
ISBN: 1861972784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781861972781
Издательство: Profile
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Описание: Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this guide helps readers achieve for themselves what Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli learnt the hard way.

Автор: Walker Matthew
Название: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
ISBN: 1501144324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501144325
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this "stimulating and important book" (Financial Times) from the director of UC Berkeley's Center for Human Sleep Science is a fascinating dive into the purpose and power of slumber. As the Guardian said, Walker explains "how a good night's shut-eye can make us cleverer, more attractive, slimmer, happier, healthier, and ward off cancer."

With two appearances on CBS This Morning and Fresh Air's most popular interview of 2017, Matthew Walker has made abundantly clear that sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when it is absent. Compared to the other basic drives in life--eating, drinking, and reproducing--the purpose of sleep remains more elusive.

Within the brain, sleep enriches a diversity of functions, including our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge, inspiring creativity.

In this "compelling and utterly convincing" (The Sunday Times) book, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity. He also provides actionable steps towards getting a better night's sleep every night.

Clear-eyed, fascinating, and accessible, Why We Sleep is a crucial and illuminating book. Written with the precision of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Sherwin Nuland, it is "recommended for night-table reading in the most pragmatic sense" (The New York Times Book Review).

Автор: Bruder Jessica
Название: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 0393356310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393356311
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 1460.00 р.
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From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads.

Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.

Автор: Cambridge School Classics Project
Название: Cambridge latin course book 3
ISBN: 0521797942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521797948
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The leading Latin course worldwide

Автор: Groesen Michiel, Tise Larry E.
Название: Theodore de Bry. America. The Complete Plates 1590 - 1602
ISBN: 3836552094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836552097
Издательство: Taschen
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Описание: When the New World was really new, Theodore de Bry drew inspiration from history`s greatest explorers to record its wonders. From Virginia and Florida to Brazil, his work captivated the European imagination with freshly discovered landscapes, customs, and peoples. This reproduction brings together his finest engravings of travel accounts from...

Автор: Toppi Sergio
Название: The Collected Toppi Vol. 2: North America
ISBN: 1942367929 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942367925
Издательство: Diamond Books
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Описание: Presenting the second in a seven-volume library of works by master illustrator Sergio Toppi. The second volume, North America, contains eleven tales set in historical periods within the early United States, Canada, and Alaska, all presented in English for the first time, previously collected as Colt Frontier, Naugatuck 1757, and Blues.

Автор: Cambridge School Classics Project
Название: Cambridge Latin Course 2
ISBN: 0521644682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521644686
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The leading Latin course worldwide

Автор: George Antaki
Название: Nuclear Power Plant Safety and Mechanical Integrity
ISBN: 0124172482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780124172487
Издательство: Elsevier Science
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Описание: One of the most critical requirements for safe and reliable nuclear power plant operations is the availability of competent maintenance personnel. However, just as the nuclear power industry is experiencing a renaissance, it is also experiencing an exodus of seasoned maintenance professionals due to retirement. The perfect guide for engineers just entering the field or experienced maintenance supervisors who need to keep abreast of the latest industry best practices, Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance: Mechanical Systems, Equipment and Safety covers the most common issues faced in day-to-day operations and provides practical, technically proven solutions. The book also explains how to navigate the various maintenance codes, standards and regulations for the nuclear power industry.