Revision with unchanged content. Half of the world's population has never made or received a phone call and perhaps the same half lives on less than $2 a day. If this is not just a statistical coin...więcej »
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...więcej »
Survival can be murder . . .During a deadly snowstorm, Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school, her coach careered of...więcej »
Mongolia, a land-locked country, surrounded by two huge neighbors Russia and China, struggled to achieve democracy and new regional identity during the decade between 1990 and 2000. The book aims t...więcej »
What's eclampsia? What's eclampsia?Eclampsia is one of the most dreaded complications of severe pre-eclampsia (or toxaemia in pregnancy). It affects about 1% of women with preeclampsia and can occu...więcej »
The Ed's Story and Other Tales is a brief constellation of apparently simple but profound stories that present us colloquial and symbolic passages of their characters' lives in only one single day ...więcej »
Educational quality is where every institution must reach; that is why it is essential to raise the importance of the Educational Audit process for the improvement of the professional teaching perf...więcej »
Since the second half of the 20th century, a long debate on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been taking place. In 1953, Bowen (1953) wrote the seminal book Social Responsibilities of the ...więcej »
Interactions of scientists and policymakers are crucial to problem-adequate research and decision-making in numerous policy fields. Designing science-policy interactions, however, is a challenging ...więcej »
The book is about the impact of land-use changes on stream flows, the case of Arror river basin in Kenya. Changes in land use is a concern to many basin communities over the globe including Arror i...więcej »
Extreme prematurity represents a considerable stress for both parents and children. The construction of the bond with the child, the meeting with the child, the whole process of transition to paren...więcej »
Many teachers participate in gender-biased action without being conscious of it.Even some teachers claim that they treat all their students the same way, but when they analyse their own attitudes a...więcej »
The high volume of tourists in different regions of Guilan (province) has brought many economic impacts to the local and rural communities. The main aim of this book is spatial analysis of tourism ...więcej »
May the odds be even in your favor,,, Solving the world's problem will only take you to a brilliantly ambitious tour de force of The Elixir of Life which insistently recalls lives of people as ...więcej »
Revision with unchanged content. This book investigates the effects of an empathetic emotional disposition in political decision making. Previous research has shown that empathy has important impli...więcej »
The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton. After the deposit...więcej »
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.więcej »
Man, created in the image of God, is endowed with an unlimited faculty of learning and understanding everything around him, testifying to the colossal capacity of his brain, his insatiable curiosit...więcej »
One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to b...więcej »
THREE LIFE-CHANGING CHOICES, TWO STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, AND ONE UNCLAIMED DESTINY . . .Newly crowned as king of Maridrina, Keris watches powerless as his forbidden relationship with Zarra...więcej »