Maria Edgeworth's first book makes a humorous contribution to the 1790s debate on women's intellectual emancipation. In three linked sections, the "gentleman" advises his friend ag...9999903409922Edgeworth, Maria
Editors Varis
miércoles, 17 de diciembre de 2025
Now in its fifth edition, Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas.In this renowned book, Everett M. Rogers, professor and chair of the Department of C...9999903392231Everett M. Rogers
Charles Scribner's Sons
sábado, 25 de octubre de 2025
The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door)What will it take to roll back a culture that applauds rudeness and finds it so amusing? Taking on the boorish behaviour that has become a point of pride for some, this work is aim...9999903380894Truss, Lynne
Profile Books
martes, 7 de octubre de 2025
The Ten Reason We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think*the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller * Irish Times bestseller * Au...9999903378556Hans Rosling Ola Rosling ...
Hodder
viernes, 3 de octubre de 2025
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityProfiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to bu...9999903375890Katherine Boo,
Random House Trade Paperbacks
martes, 30 de septiembre de 2025
How Extremists are Taking OverThe internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly inf...9999903370185Julia Ebner
Editors Varis
sábado, 13 de septiembre de 2025
From Socrates to South Park, Hume to HouseWhat can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light o...9999903368533William Irwin David Kyle ...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 10 de septiembre de 2025
Looks at the theory that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics a...9999903364719James Surowiecki
New York : Anchor Books, c2005.
lunes, 8 de septiembre de 2025
How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's ScapegoatsCulture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referre...9999903344247Jim Goad
Charles Scribner's Sons
sábado, 12 de julio de 2025
Political Emotions and Public Health in the UKThis open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom's public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As th...9999903343332Fred Cooper Luna Dolezal ...
Editors Varis
sábado, 12 de julio de 2025
The All-consuming Epidemicaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. We tried to warn you! The 2008...9999903338147John De Graaf David Wann ...
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
lunes, 30 de junio de 2025
The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that "informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows ...9999903326243Alex Kotlowitz
New York : Anchor Books, 1992.
jueves, 5 de junio de 2025
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most under-appreciated forces: shame."superb ...9999903303367Jon Ronson
Pan Books
viernes, 11 de abril de 2025
Scientific investigator Alex Boese has collected together a wonderfully entertaining anthology of the best urban myths of recent years. From bonsai kittens reared in jars to keep t...9999903303350Alex Boese
Pan Books
viernes, 11 de abril de 2025
Monograph exploring sociological aspects of woman worker industrial workers in the UK tobacco industry - based on interviews, examines human relations, working conditions, the wage...9999903301509Anna Pollert
Macmillan
jueves, 10 de abril de 2025
The Ten Reason We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think*the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller * Irish Times bestseller * Au...9999903301189Hans Rosling Ola Rosling ...
Hodder
miércoles, 9 de abril de 2025
North American Edition of the UK Bestseller How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to k...9999903245957David Baddiel
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
The French-American ExperienceRaymonde Carroll presents an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans ??and indeed any members of different cultures ??can misinterpret each other, ...9999903228233Raymonde Carroll
University Of Chicago Press
miércoles, 20 de noviembre de 2024
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