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  • Father, Son & Co.

    My Life at IBM and Beyond

    by Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre ...
    In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style and shared dedication to excellence united to create a unique corporate culture that became the blueprint for the entire technology boom.In the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Gay Science

    Enriched edition.

    by Friedrich Nietzsche, Peter Boyd ...
    Translated by Thomas Common, Paul V. Cohn, Maude D. Petre ...
    In "The Gay Science," Friedrich Nietzsche embarks on a philosophical journey that celebrates life, individuality, and the reassessment of values amidst a backdrop of 19th-century existential thought. Written in a poetic and aphoristic style, the work defies conventional boundaries of philosophy, blending humor and deep introspection. Nietzsche introduces his idea of the "eternal recurrence" and ... Read more

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  • Career Options in General Practice

    by Peter Aquino, Petre Jones ...
    With the government trying to bring more work into primary care, the creation of the GP With a Special Interest and the newer salaried posts, doctors may feel bewildered by the sheer choice facing them. Becoming involved in academia, education, writing, secondary care work, outside agency work, wanting to be a partner, salaried or work flexible hours — how do you negotiate these many choices? This ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Public Spending

    Actors, Motivations, and Public Responses

    by Peter Spáč, Petr Voda, Michal Tóth, Miroslav Nemčok, Lenka Hrbková ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the distribution of public money and its political and societal implications. Drawing on evidence from central and eastern Europe, it offers an innovative insight into public responses to various strategies of public spending. Given that public expenditures are funded mainly from tax revenues, it also assesses public attitudes to politically motivated ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Competitiveness, Social Inclusion and Sustainability in a Diverse European Union

    Perspectives from Old and New Member States

    Edited by Peter Huber, Petr Rozmahel, Danuše Nerudová ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book brings together the work of researchers in Eastern and Western Europe, who analyze competitiveness, social exclusion and sustainability from a range of perspectives. It examines the key challenges faced by the EU in its efforts to establish a socially inclusive and greener path to growth and develops policy recommendations to simultaneously achieve the EU 2020 agenda’s long-term goals ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Birth of Tragedy

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (German: Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik) is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism (Die Geburt der Tragödie, Oder: Griechentum und Pessimismus). The later edition contained a prefatory essay, An Attempt at Self ... Read more

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  • The Genealogy of Morals (Translated by Horace B. Samuel with an Introduction by Willard Huntington Wright)

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was one the most controversial figures of the 19th century. His evocative writings on religion, morality, culture, philosophy, and science were often polemic attacks against the established views of his time. First published in 1887, “The Genealogy of Morals,” is a work which follows and expands upon the principles of his previous works, “Thus Spoke ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Thus Spake Zarathustra

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Thus Spake Zarathustra is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Ubermensch, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Housing Struggles

    A Structural Field of Contention Approach

    by Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi, Kerstin Jacobsson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar ... Read more

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  • The Quest for Good Governance

    How Societies Develop Control of Corruption

    by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi ...
    Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks what lessons we have learned from historical ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

    by Wenfang Tang ...
    Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Dictators and Democrats

    Masses, Elites, and Regime Change

    by Stephan Haggard, Robert R. Kaufman ...
    A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the worldFrom the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian rule? ... Read more

    $31.69 USD