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  • Boss Life

    Surviving My Own Small Business

    by Paul Downs ...
    ****A Forbes Best Business Book of the Year, 2015****Winner of the 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in Entrepreneurship****When columnist Paul Downs was approached by The New York Times to write for their “You’re the Boss” blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for twenty-four years strong. or mostly strong. Now, in his first book, Downs paints an honest portrait of a real ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Urban Legendz

    Illustrated by Michael Yates ...
    After his mother’s death, Dwayne is forced to uproot himself and move into the home where his mother grew up: a shabby apartment in Brooklyn. When your dad is a police officer, and your brother’s too cool for school, what's an insecure teen to do? Dwayne’s personal problems are cast aside when he joins a new crew of young vigilantes, devoted to solving a series of sinister cases surrounding ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Access to Education in Europe

    A Framework and Agenda for System Change

    by Paul Downes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups. It is based on interviews with senior government officials and senior management in universities, non formal education and prisons across 12 countries in Europe. The book identifies systemic obstacles ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Boss Life

    Surviving My Own Small Business

    by Paul Downs ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Hogan ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    When columnist Paul Downs was approached by the New York Times to write for their "You're the Boss" blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for 24 years strong-or, mostly strong. Now, he embarks on a book length essay that intends to show a portrait of a real business, with a real boss, a real set of employees, and the real challenges they face, in hopes of promoting a better ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reconstructing Agency in Developmental and Educational Psychology

    Inclusive Systems as Concentric Space

    by Paul Downes ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Psychology
    This book reconstructs the foundations of developmental and educational psychology and fills an important gap in the field by arguing for a specific spatial turn so that human growth, experience and development focus not only on time but space. This regards space not simply as place. Highlighting concrete cross-cultural relational spaces of concentric and diametric spatial systems, the book argues ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Inconveniently Sentient Teapot

    by Paul Downs ...
    What happens when your kitchen objects have had enough?Edwin Bellwether is thirty-four years old, five feet ten inches tall, and has been the most statistically average man in Britain for eleven consecutive years. He processes Form 27B/6s at the Ministry of Statistical Inevitability. He eats on a rotation of forty-two meals. He has never, in eleven years of daily use, wondered what his teapot ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emotion Detectives

    by Paul Downs ...
    MAYA CHEN NOTICES THINGS MOST PEOPLE MISS.She's eleven years old, and she reads people the way others read books. Now, with her three best friends — methodical Theo, warm-hearted Finn, and the impossibly expressive Zara — she's turned that skill into something remarkable: The Emotion Detectives. Operating from a small, turpentine-scented art supply room at Maplewood Middle School, they take on the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature

    by Paul Downes ...
    Series Book 173 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplemented and challenged by the deeply controversial theory of sovereignty that was articulated in Thomas ... Read more

    $119.79 USD

  • Concentric Space as a Life Principle Beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur

    Inclusion of the Other

    by Paul Downes ...
    Concentric Space as a Life Principle beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur invites a fresh vision of human experience and search for life meanings in terms of potential openings through relational space. Offering a radical spatial rereading of foundational ideas of influential thinkers Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur, it argues that these ideas can be rethought for a more fundamental ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Really Really

    When morning-after gossip about privileged Davis and ambitious Leigh turns ugly, self-interest collides with the truth and the resulting storm of ambiguity makes it hard to discern just who’s a victim, who’s a predator, and who’s a Future Leader of America. All that’s certain is when the veneer of loyalty and friendship is stripped back, what’s revealed is a vicious jungle of sexual politics, raw ... Read more

    $10.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fly Fishing the Southern Rockies

    Small Streams and Wild Places

    Fishing small streams in the southern Rocky Mountains. Discover the tiny streams tucked in among the famous rivers you read about. Paul takes you to his favorite special places, offering detailed instructions on where/when to go and how to fish them.Paul B. Downing, author of Handbook of Western Fly Fishing and Rocky Mountain Regional Editor of Fly Fish America, has spent the last 23 years fishing ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • Action Understanding

    Series series Elements in Perception
    The human ability to effortlessly understand the actions of other people has been the focus of research in cognitive neuroscience for decades. What have we learned about this ability, and what open questions remain? In this Element the authors address these questions by considering the kinds of information an observer may gain when viewing an action. A 'what, how, and why' framing organises ... Read more

    $20.49 USD