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Ever wondered how, despite your hardest efforts in the office, nothing ever seems to get done? With the subtitle: the Corporate Saboteurs Handbook, summing up its raison d'etre, this very clever, very funny and very sharp little book cuts briliantly to the chase, attacking the very heart of business...

Este libro expone con sencillez la complejidad de una poesía simple en apariencia, pero honda y trascendente. Analiza lo que se entiende por poesía de lo cotidiano y señala cómo esta cotidianidad parriana ha evolucionado. Estudia cómo el poeta logró crearse un espacio propio entre los ámbitos...

‘Whenever I look at him, it is as though the Messiah has returned.’ That's how Jimmy Murphy, manager of Wales’ 1958 World Cup side, described John Charles. In Italy, where he played for Juventus and Roma, Charles was known as Il Gigante Buono – the Gentle Giant – because of his placid temperament. One...

A tout juste 60 ans, mamie Poldi est fatiguée : tout ce qu’elle veut, c’est aller quelque part au soleil pour terminer sa vie. Donc, direction la Sicile, la terre natale de Peppe, son défunt mari. Là, le soleil brille, la nourriture et les vins sont délicieux et sa belle-famille respire la...

Lowell never thought a library could be the most dangerous place in the universe. Then he gets an assignment to retrieve a book from the Universal Library. He soon encounters marauding bands of library patrons crazed with blood lust. Before long Lowell is in a battle to the death that will test his courage, and his dedication to the beneficial effects of books and literature. (short story)

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 **"Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--**The New York Times Book Review Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a...

Providing in-depth coverage of the Mexican American population from social, cultural, and psychological (clinical) perspectives, this book promotes the understanding of cultural practices and sociological characteristics of this important ethnic group. • Addresses the characteristics of members...

This book examines the vast range of human experience with British and American literature, from the publishing industry to film adaptations to literary puzzles. Our experience with literature is more than what we read; it is also how we read, how literature is produced and the eternal puzzles it creates.

If God can be used by the powerful to justify violence in the name of order, he can also be used by the weak to illuminate the position of the victims of political conflict. Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God explores the theological possibilities of a God who is a prisoner and a victim of...

At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is...

結合心理學與神經科學最新研究， 揭開人類探索這個世界最強大的驅動力！ 因為好奇心，人類踏上月球、發明網路、在科學與藝術領域不斷推出新的創見， 也因為好奇心，你會不斷滑手機、想多瞄一眼交通事故現場、豎起耳朵聽八卦。 但是，好奇心到底是什麼？人類真的是唯一會問「為什麼」的物種嗎？ 人類為了探索和理解周遭世界所做的各種努力，早已遠遠超過維繫自身生存所需。我們是好奇心幾乎無窮盡的物種，有些人的好奇甚至到達痴迷的地步。好奇心是組成人類的一大要素，是我們與其他物種最大的差別之一，也是將人類帶到今日這一步的推動力。愛因斯坦更曾說過：「我沒有什麼特殊天賦，只是擁有熱切的好奇心。」那麼，好奇心究竟是什麼？人類為何如此好奇？ 馬里歐．李維歐很早就想知道「是什麼引發了好奇？」、「好奇心的運作機制是什麼？」，於是他進行了大量的研究、探訪眾多心理學家與神經科學家，更與不同學門領域的科學家請益討論，甚至為本書訪問了許多好奇心特別旺盛的傑出人士——包括取得六個跨領域學位的太空人、從音樂轉向物理學研究的歐洲核子研究組織主任、擁有天體物理學博士學位的「皇后合唱團」首席吉他手等等。 本書先從心理學領域著手，一步步探索好奇心的類型與本質，再從神經科學領域的角度挖掘好奇心埋在我們大腦的哪些區塊、影響好奇心的物質與機制為何。從中世紀到現代、自達文西到費曼、再由孩子到成人，李維歐介紹了不同時代與年齡層的好奇心，再引領我們深入數個極具指標的研究實驗，一窺科學界研究好奇心的初衷與最新進展。 書系共同策畫——清華大學生命科學系助理教授...

24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla...

Alien races clash on a remote planet laden with mineral riches. Earth successfully intervenes to save the peace, quell the fighting, and protect the valuable resources. Now human soldiers must deploy to the battlefield planet and make friends with the locals. No one will be safe.