Green Zone Diary: A Diplomat`s War Story, Madsen Amy
Автор: Madsen Pirie Название: How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic ISBN: 147252912X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472529121 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4431.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win arguments. By including new chapters on how to win arguments in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and in 140 characters (on Twitter), Pirie provides the complete guide to triumphing in altercations ranging from the everyday to the downright serious. He identifies with devastating examples all the most common fallacies popularly used in argument. We all like to think of ourselves as clear-headed and logical - but all readers will find in this book fallacies of which they themselves are guilty. The author shows you how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and identify the weaknesses in other people arguments. And, more mischievously, Pirie also shows how to be deliberately illogical - and get away with it. This book will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and opponents will all wish that you had never read it. Publisher's warning: In the wrong hands this book is dangerous. We recommend that you arm yourself with it whilst keeping out of the hands of others. Only buy this book as a gift if you are sure that you can trust the recipient.
Автор: Axel Madsen Название: Chanel ISBN: 0805016392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805016390 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Journalist Axel Madsen, the biographer of such icons as John Jacob Astor, Jacques Cousteau, and John Huston, presents the life and legend of French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Chanel. The name alone evokes fashion and perfume, emancipation and allure. In this revealing, intimate biography, Axel Madsen brings to life Gabrielle Coco Chanel, who was born an illegitimate pauper and rose to become the reigning queen of fashion who revolutionized women's styles forever. Madsen traces Chanel's extrordinary life, from her beginnings as an orphan, to the first small boutique she opened in 1910, using her lover's financial backing, to the founding of the House of Chanel where she altered the look of fashion entirely, inventing sportswear, the little black dress, costume jewelry, and the perfume that Marilyn Monroe said was all she wore to bed. Although loved by many men, Coco remained wed only to her business, and when she died in 1971, at the age of eighty-eight, she was wealthy, an international celebrity, and utterly alone. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of Coco Chanel and her celebrated circle of friends and lovers, Chanel: A Woman of Her Own is the story of the magnificent woman whose legend lives on.
Описание: Body and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysk’s long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk. The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.
Автор: Falck-Madsen Judy Название: To Denmark, With Love ISBN: 1882190424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781882190423 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2200.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Madsen Julia Название: Home Movie, Nowhere ISBN: 1934832812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781934832813 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1655.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this work, the Heartland is not an inert pastoral surface. It's a worn-out VHS tape you find under the bed. It's the scratching sound of a rat in the wall. Somewhere between C.D. Wright and James Agee, this book wields the tools of documentary and reduces them to their barest elements with a clarity both beautiful and terrifying. Her Iowa is filled with spider sacs, cataracts, pornographic theaters, bottomless mystery, cruel bosses who piss into Mountain Dew bottles. Like any good country poet, Madsen knows that writing pulls you closer to the root while simultaneously dragging you adrift. -Marty Cain
Madsen creates a reality where the reader is the director of a world that can sometimes appear to be a dream but perhaps is a life forgotten. Memories layered with rich scenery in an unforgiving landscape clash in the most hurtful of ways. What feels like a small distance between self and land is deceiving. Madsen invites us so far inside we'll never want to leave. -Hillary Leftwich
Автор: Madsen Cindi Название: Confessions of a Former Puck Bunny ISBN: 1545256721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545256725 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Madsen Sarah Название: Weaver`s Folly ISBN: 1645540774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645540779 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4596.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Alyssa D'Yaragen is just an elf trying to make ends meet. Thankfully, working as a freelance thief - a runner by the street name Lysistrata-pays more than she would make in a month selling cell phones to retropunks at her antique shop. Though she's low-tech, she has an advantage over her fellow larcenists. She has magic.
Logan Turner, a techie and fellow runner, offers to bring her in on a high paying run stealing data from megacorporation Americorp. She accepts, partially for the payout, mostly for the challenge. Things get complicated, though, when her ex-boyfriend Tristan McCullough shows up with apologies-and, infuriatingly, the perfect recon opportunity for the Americorp job. Adding more fuel to the bad-decision fire is the mysterious Seraphina Dubhan, and Alyssa finds herself falling hard for the enigmatic elf.
But when Alyssa suddenly becomes the target of mystical attacks, things stop being about the money and become all about survival. With others caught in the crossfire, she needs to find and stop the attacker before the Americorp job is ruined and she-or one of her friends-pays the ultimate price.
Описание: Empirically-based analyses of the intricate dynamics of the formal and informal institutions influencing women`s political representation in Africa.
Описание: A guide for teachers and leaders who aspire to create curious and collaborative learning cultures using Graphic Facilitation.
Автор: Stewart, Douglass Madsen, Elaine Название: Texaner und das niederlandische gas ISBN: 1698702205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781698702209 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1776.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Man schreibt das Jahr 1960, als Shell und Esso in den Niederlanden ein riesiges Gasfeld finden, das nicht nur die Nation, sondern auch die lgesellschaften vor gro e Herausforderungen stellt. Bis Esso den richtigen Mann mit einer kreativen L sung schickt. Ein seltener Blick hinter die Kulissen von Verhandlungen internationaler Konglomerate und Regierungen. Der Texaner und das niederl ndische Gas ist ein spannendes St ck Zeitgeschichte, untermauert mit Gedanken und Bedenken derjenigen, die eng mit der radikalsten Ver nderung des europ ischen Energiemarktes seit der industriellen Revolution verbunden sind.
Автор: Madsen Tom Название: Relentless: From Both Sides of the Veil ISBN: 1977227589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977227584 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4407.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Writing first out of despair, but gradually opening to a broader awareness, Tom Madsen captures all the emotion and wonder of a family's journey with cancer, death, and the depths of grief. But they emerge from - or are pulled out of - the morass of grief by their son from the Other Side of the Veil.
Tom's son Kevin is the Relentless personality threading through this story. As a boy and a young man, Kevin exults in his physical abilities. He climbs rocks and trees with animal grace and power. He's a formidable athlete, especially on the football and rugby fields. He is strikingly handsome. His physique, chiseled.
We follow the Madsens from California to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Boston, and finally back to California. The boys (Kevin has a brother, Gustavo) grow up speaking English, Portuguese, and Spanish. They spend the boys' formative years in Danville, California, near San Francisco. It is an idyllic family setting.
But in December 2014, their idyllic life shatters. Kevin - now sixteen - finds a lump on the back of his left thigh. The diagnosis comes back as Rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft-tissue cancer. So begins a three and a half year battle: surgeries; radiation; chemotherapy. Hair loss. Retching. Life in patches, between remissions and relapses.
Kevin exceeds all doctor's predictions, and handles cancer with courage, grace, and composure beyond his years. But the disease is patient, and slowly drains even his immense drive and reserves. He passes in June 2018, just one month shy of his twentieth birthday.
But this is where the story really begins...
"My wife Marilene and I belong to that club that none of us wants to join, and that I would not wish on anyone: the club of parents who've lost children." says Tom. "No other loss can compare. You're emptied: a shell."
"But soon after Kevin passed, we began to receive signs from him. They came in many forms: animals; insects; birds; lights; cell phones acting up; license plates; messages in films; odd encounters. You can dismiss some as coincidence. But as you receive more and more, and as they defy the probabilities of coincidence, as they become more insistent, we were forced to acknowledge them. We thanked Kevin. And we asked for more. We even made specific requests. And Kevin answers most of our requests, and he always seems to answer them with Love, Warmth, and often with humor or with the steely determination he showed in life."
"All my life, I believed that our spirits survived death." Tom continues. "The gift that Kevin has given us is that now we know our spirits survive. He has made this abundantly - sometimes even bluntly - clear. So much of Kevin comes across - and so strongly - that we no longer doubt the afterlife at all. And this knowing alters how we think about this life, in a freeing, liberating way."
"Through it all, I felt a pull, a role reversal. I morphed from father, teacher, coach, disciplinarian... to pupil, novice, as Kevin taught and revealed more from the other side."
"Relentless is the story I wish we had had while Kevin was fighting cancer." Tom concludes. "Had we known then what we know now, we might have handled some things differently, or taken more comfort in the knowledge that - whatever the outcome - he and we would be alright."
For everyone who has suffered loss. For everyone who has ever wondered what's there after we die. In short, Relentless is for everyone.
Автор: Steven Madsen, Madsen Название: Die schwalben von berlin ISBN: 1364227339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781364227333 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3536.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tracking initial ocean (de)oxygenation is critical to better constrain the coevolution of life and environment. Development of thallium isotopes has provided evidence to track the global manganese oxide burial which responds to early (de)oxygenation for short-term climate events. This Element provides an introduction to the application of thallium isotopes, case studies, and future directions.
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