Maintaining A Satisfactory Environment
This book is an outcome of a seminar organized to discuss an agenda for saving the environment of Europe. It covers the issues in international environmental policy and explores how to achieve an integration of environmental policies with other go...
Huset : grupputveckling i praktiken
Huset¿ är en praktisk bok som du kommer att få stor användning av. Den vänder sig till dig som leder en grupp men inte är expert på grupputveckling. Boken lär dig bygga framgångsrika grupper. Och ett aktivt medarbetarskap får du på köpet....
The manager and the employee
There are thousands of books about being a manager and a leader, but only a handful about being an employee. This book therefore fills a gap as regards the important interaction between both sides of an organisation. The interaction which, at its ...
Klimathotets labyrint : en upptäcktsresa
Är det dags att skrika "Vargen kommer"? FN:s generalsekreterare António Guterres gör det. "Vi står vid randen av en avgrund." Avgrund? Det låter farligt, ödesmättat och helt orimligt. Framför allt är det svårt att ta i...
We the People
We the People
IRON MAN VOL. 1: THE STARK-ROXXON WAR
A new, brutal era begins for the Golden Avenger With his company restored, Tony Stark's first order of business is getting Stark Unlimited back out of the weapons game. But a multinational company doesn't just stop selling weapons overnight, and the board is more concerned with profit margins than super-hero ethics. Now they've made a deal with the devil: Stark Unlimited is for sale, and the highest bidder represents the combined might of Tony's two biggest competitors, Roxxon and A.I.M. But they're ready for the old Tony Stark. This one? He's a lot angrier than he used to be. New armor, old enemies and unbelievable twists abound in this fresh take on a fury-powered Iron Man Collecting IRON MAN (2024) #1-5.
The Zookeeper's Wife
The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel
A synthetic reconstruction of women's religious engagement and experiences in preexilic Israel ¿ "This monumental book examines a wealth of data from the Bible, archaeology, and ancient Near Eastern texts and iconography to provide a clear, c...
The Human Age - The World Shaped by Us
As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our tal...
The Bird Way
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and What an Owl Knows, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. 'There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.' But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries -- What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are
What an Owl Knows
'And if anyone knows anything about anything? it's Owl who knows something about something.'¿Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne From prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso, owls have captivated and inspired us for millennia. Wh...
What an Owl Knows
'And if anyone knows anything about anything? it's Owl who knows something about something.'¿Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne From prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso, owls have captivated and inspired us for millennia. Wh...
Revolutionary Constitutions
A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America's most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars-the award-winning author of We the People. Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds...
Counterterrorism Strategies for Corporations
When America's corporate leaders need reliable information and expertise about dealing with threats to personnel both here and abroad, they turn to Mike Ackerman, who for more than thirty years has helped the business community deal with everythin...
A Natural History of the Senses
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. 'Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.'--The New York Times. (Literature--Classics & Contemporary)
Foundations
Bruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation's constitutional experience and its promise for the future. Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts the past, present, and...
Bird Way
A SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR It's flight and egg and feathers and song. It's the demure plumage of a mountain thornbill and the extravagant tail feathers of an Indian paradise flycatcher, the solo song of a superb lyrebird and the perfec...
Human Age
'Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.' In The Human Age award-winning nature writer...
Zookeeper's Wife
Now a major motion picture, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, based on a remarkable true story of bravery and sanctuary during World War II - out in Spring 2017. When Germany invades Poland, Luftwaffe bombers devastate Warsaw and the cit...
Fifth Act
A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy. Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his ti...