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Злободневный интеллектуальный нон-фикшн, в котором рассматривается вопрос: как людям творческих профессий зарабатывать на жизнь в век цифровых технологий. Основываясь на интервью с писателями, музыкантами, художниками, артистами, автор книги утверждает, что если в эпоху Возрождения художники были ремесленниками, в XIX веке – богемой, в XX веке – профессионалами, то в цифровую эпоху возникает новая парадигма, которая меняет наши представления о природе искусства и роли художника в обществе. ...
| Автор | Уильям Дерезевиц |
Книжки Мері Роуч дуже популярні у світі. І це недивно, адже вона глибокий, старанний дослідник, пропагандист науки й чудовий оповідач з гарним почуттям гумору. У «Вояках» письменниця дає цінні поради щодо того, як уціліти й зберегти бадьорий дух, здорову психіку й неушкоджене тіло, якщо доля закинула вас у гущу бойових дій. І якщо ви й дотепер думаєте, що головну небезпеку для солдата складає ворог, то ви помиляєтесь. Його основні супротивники – паніка, виснаження, спека, шум. Заступіть на...
| Автор | Мэри Роуч |
Have you ever had a person talk out of turn, raise their hand at a bad time or even ignore you when you ask them to stand up? Why so uncultured and brash? It is because they did not understand parliamentary procedures. These rules help to keep a meeting on time, on agenda, and safe from rouge individuals who wish to derail the meeting with foolish antics. A guidebook can help your organization stand out by providing a baseline framework for things such as member elections, payment of dues,...
| Автор | Speedy Publishing |
eBookIt Publishers announced release of a timely and politically charged autobiography of Nick Velli entitled "America's Death Spiral – Blaming Obama, Democrats and Political Correctness". <br><br>The author is an American octogenarian who was raised during the Great Depression and experienced the travail's of WWII and the following military interventions of Korea and Vietnam that changed the temperament and patriotism of Americans in many respects...
| Автор | Nick Velli |
First published on January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one the most influential and best-selling works from the colonial period. It has been suggested that it may have been the single biggest factor in inspiring the people of the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for their independence from Great Britain beginning in the summer of 1776. One of the central political arguments amongst the colonists of the pre-revolutionary period was whether or not they should indeed seek...
| Автор | Thomas Paine |
First published in 1848, “The Communist Manifesto” is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which initiated in one of the greatest movements of political change that the world has ever seen. At the heart of the economic writings of Marx and Engels is the materialist conception of history, or that productive capacity is the primary organizing factor of society. This conception gives rise to the fundamental inequality that exists between the socioeconomic...
| Автор | Karl Marx |
Thomas More, a 16th century English lawyer, statesman, and philosopher, was one of the most controversial figures of his time. More opposed the Protestant reformation and denied the King’s position as head of the Church of England. This act would ultimately lead to his trial for treason and execution. Despite his tragic downfall, he will forever be remembered for his pioneering work “Utopia.” Thomas More first coined the word utopia in his 1516 book of the same name. Although the concept of a...
| Автор | Thomas More |
Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato’s Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric,...
| Автор | Aristotle |
Published in 1960 under the name of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, “The Conscience of a Conservative” is a widely influential and important book on the American conservative political movement. While the book was published under Goldwater’s name, it was ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr., the brother-in-law of William F. Buckley and Goldwater’s speech writer in the 1950s. The book was instantly popular and catapulted Goldwater, a Senator from Arizona when the book was published, into the...
| Автор | Barry Goldwater |
Originally published in 1762, “The Social Contract” is Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s treatise on how to best organize politics in the face of commercial society. Rousseau writes, “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” This statement exemplifies the main dilemma of government, that despite mankind having an inherent natural right to freedom, modern, especially autocratic, governments had gone too far in restricting it. The question which Rousseau is asking within this work is whether or...
| Автор | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
What happens when a leading conservative economist goes mano a mano with today’s most influential exponent of left-liberal economics, over free markets versus government interventionism? Here are highlights of that showdown between Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation and Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate.Moore and Krugman sparred over eight major economic issues in our national debate – from whether the policy response to the crisis of 2008 was successful, to the outlook for...
| Автор | Stephen Moore |
The long-simmering crises challenging the European Union have worsened with the 2008 financial crisis, the influx of Middle East refugees in 2015, several bloody terrorist attacks, and England’s departure from the E.U. in 2016. Yet these are all the wages of persistent flaws in the idea of the Union itself. Excessive regulations, welfare, and taxes impede economic growth. Centralization of power in Brussels has created a “democracy deficit” and lessened autonomy and freedom. Populations are...
| Автор | Bruce S. Thornton |
Vi elsker demokrati, men ingen af os kan rigtig sAette ord pa kAerligheden. Det er nok derfor, diktatorer kan udrabe sig selv som sande demokrater. Og derfor deres undersatter bilder sig ind, at det er svaret pa deres bonner. Men et folkestyre forer ikke altid til fornuftige beslutninger; det er bade omstridt og uretfAerdigt og loser ikke verdens problemer pa magisk vis – undtagen det med tyranni. Heldigvis er Svend-Erik Skaaning, demokratiforsker ved Aarhus Universitet, ikke bange for at hAeve...
| Автор | Svend-Erik Skaaning |
Man har et standpunkt, til … ja, tak, den kender vi. Politikere skifter holdning, som vinden blAeser. Men er vi selv meget bedre? Ikke ifolge Michael Bang Petersen, politisk psykolog ved Aarhus Universitet. For vores hjerne er ikke bygget til nutidens komplekse finansforhandlinger og paragraf 20-sporgsmal. Den tAenker politik, som da vi levede i sma grupper pa den ostafrikanske savanne for tusindvis af ar siden. Sa den skifter holdning pa baggrund af sukker, muskler og hormoner frem for logiske...
| Автор | Michael Bang Petersen |
Danmark vinder nok aldrig VM i fodbold. Derimod kan vi bryste os af at vAere verdens bedste til at afholde valg. Det er ikke sa darlig en trostprAemie, for ethvert folkestyre forudsAetter, at magthaverne regelmAessigt star til ansvar over for borgerne. Hvis vAelgerne ikke har noget reelt valg, eller hvis fusk og sjusk dominerer dagsordenen, bliver demokrati nemt til diktatur. Heldigvis er Jorgen Elklit, upartisk professor i statskundskab ved Aarhus Universitet, ekspert i at tAelle stemmer: Det...
| Автор | Jorgen Elklit |
Kold, mork og beskidt, prAeget af overtro og brutalitet. Faktisk lige til historiens modding. Sadan tAenker vi tit pa middelalderen. Men den lagde ifolge Jorgen Moller, professor i statskundskab ved Aarhus Universitet, brostenene til nutidens Europa. For uden periodens genstridige adelsmAend, magtbegAerlige paver og griske kobmAend ville demokratier, retsstater og frie markedsokonomier aldrig have set dagens lys i Europa. Og Europa ville ikke vAere en mirakulos undtagelse fra historiens regel om...
| Автор | Jorgen Moller |
Культуролог Мартин Буркхардт (род. 1957) показывает, что цифровая эра началась еще в 1746 году. У нас не было бы интернета, если бы аббат Нолле тогда не открыл, что электричество распространяется почти мгновенно, если бы Жозеф-Мари Жаккар не изобрел свой ткацкий станок и если бы Чарльз Бэббидж не создал свою аналитическую машину – прототип современного компьютера. Цифровизацией движет не математика, а человеческие страсти и стремления. Эта книга дает возможность взглянуть на компьютер не как...
| Автор | Мартин Буркхардт |
Американская журналистка и писательница Наоми Вульф, автор культового «Мифа о красоте», посвятила свою новую книгу… вагине. Предпринятое Вульф исследование превратилось в увлекательное и полное неожиданных открытий путешествие во внутренний мир женщины. То, как относятся к вагине в разных культурах – с уважением или презрением, внимательно или пренебрежительно, – демонстрирует отношение к женщине как таковой. Для адептов тантры вагина – это путь к просветлению, для средневековых отцов церкви...
| Автор | Наоми Вульф |
This special 2-book bundle contains two cutting edge pieces of political analysis. Irresponsible Government examines the current state of Canadian democracy in contrast to the founding principles of responsible government established by the Fathers of Confederation. The book examines the failure of modern elected representatives to perform their constitutionally mandated duty to hold the prime minister and his cabinet to account. It further examines the modern lack of separation between the...
| Автор | Douglas L. Bland |
In late 2009, well-known journalists Max du Preez and Mandy Rossouw compiled a range of around 80 famous and infamous sayings by Julius Malema, then-leader of the ANC Youth League. What did he have to say back then about Zille, Zuma, women (all three still some of his favourite subjects), not to mention Nando’s? And what did his words then reveal about the new generation of the ANC and where the government was heading? In a foreword to the book, du Preez and Rossouw explore and examine the...
| Автор | Max du Preez |
See hetkel kõige rohkem tõlgitud raamat Venemaa poliitikast on osalt Putini elulugu, samas aga kirjeldus praeguse Venemaa võimumehhanismide toimimisest. Autor Masha Gessen sündis 1967. aastal Moskvas, emigreerus 1981 USA-sse ja naasis 1991 Venemaale. Ta on kirjanik ja ajakirjanik, töötanud mitmete väljaannete juures. Selle raamatu ilmumise ajal on ta ajakirja U.S. News & World Report korrespondent. Putin on tema arvates tõeline KGBlane, kes usubki siiralt, et Nõukogude Liit oli parim riik, ja...
| Автор | Masha Gessen |
„Must tuul, valge lumi” pakub värske ja põneva lähenemise natsionalismi esilekerkimisele viimaste aastakümnete Venemaal. Cloveri põhjalik analüüs traageldab kokku tõendid Kremli mõtteviisi südames tänapäeval peituvast eurasianismist ja uurib, kuidas on see mõjutanud hiljutisi sündmusi – Krimmi annekteerimist ning läänevastase paranoia ja imperialistliku retoorika esiletõusu Venemaal, aga ka Putini vahel nii jahmatavaid poliitilisi samme ja ambitsioone. Raamatu aluseks on uurimistöö, millega...
| Автор | Charles Clover |
Mass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008. Across the world students and workers and environmentalists are taking to the streets. Discontent is seething even in the wealthiest countries, as the world saw with Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Protest Inc. tells a disturbingly different story of global activism. As millions of grassroots activists rally against capitalism, activism more broadly is increasingly mirroring business management and echoing calls for market-based...
| Автор | Peter Dauvergne |
Now in its ninth edition, this popular introduction tackles the most recent trends in American politics and society through explanation, analyses, and interpretations of government processes – adding valuable context for students by considering these procedures and developments from an international perspective. Fully updated to take account of the many recent developments in American politics and society – exploring developments characterized by the deepest ideological divisions in recent...
| Автор | David McKay |