Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0192735705 ISBN 13: 9780192735706
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A powerful, moving, and ultimately hopeful story about one boy's journey to the First World War, of the horrors he faced there, and of the time, amongst all the bloodshed, fighting gave way to football on the frozen ground of No-Man's-Land. Publishing to coincide with the centenary of the start of the First World War.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 140852354X ISBN 13: 9781408523544
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NO description available.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199670544 ISBN 13: 9780199670543
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There has been an explosion of interest in entrepreneurs in the popular media, as well as in business, policy, and education. But what do entrepreneurs do What is entrepreneurship and why is it important What is distinctive about entrepreneurs And where do they come from In this Very Short Introduction Paul Westhead and Mike Wright weave a pathway through the debates about entrepreneurship, providing a guide to the entrepreneurial process. They look at how the actions of entrepreneurs are shaped by the external environment and availability of resources, consider the types of organizations in which entrepreneurs can be found, and look at the diversity in their backgrounds, experience, and how they think and learn. Lastly, they consider the impact thatentrepreneurs have on modern market economies and look at the future of entrepreneurship in our increasingly globalized world.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199652031 ISBN 13: 9780199652037
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Your soul each moment struggles hard with death -Think of your faith as though it's your last breath.Your life is like a purse, and night and dayAre counters of gold coins you've put away'Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi's Sufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Three interweaves amusing stories with homilies to instruct pupils in mystical knowledge. It has a special focus on epistemology, illustrated with narratives that involve the consumption of food. This is the first ever verse translation of Book Three of the Masnavi. It follows the original by presenting Rumi's most mature mystical teachings in simple and attractive rhyming couplets.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1408523515 ISBN 13: 9781408523513
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NO description available.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0194786099 ISBN 13: 9780194786096
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.'David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 019932218X ISBN 13: 9780199322183
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the 'Young Guns' and one of the 'five hot minds in economics' by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil.In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it's actually a cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within philosophy-Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations, but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments-and economics, as Sedlacek shows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. 'Eventhe most sophisticated mathematical model,' Sedlacek writes, 'is, de facto, a story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us.' Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative standards, identifying ideal conditions. Science, he claims, is a system of beliefs to whichwe are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying economics, he breaks out of the field's confines with a tour de force exploration of economic thinking, broadly defined, over the millennia. He ranges from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to the emergence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the consumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economic questions: What is the meaning and the point of economics Can we do ethically all that we can dotechnically Does it pay to be good Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior, Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199333408 ISBN 13: 9780199333400
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. A story of transformation and of victory against the odds, this book reviews South Sudan's modern history.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199862052 ISBN 13: 9780199862054
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Opioid Management Tools and Tips provides health professionals with basic guidance, tools, and resources for identifying patients who may be at risk for opioid misuse and effective managing the risk of abuse, addiction, and diversion.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199837600 ISBN 13: 9780199837601
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offering a gripping narrative of one of the most notorious anti-abolition and anti-black riots to take place in the antebellum U.S., Pennsylvania Hall: A 'Legal Lynching' in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell provides a thorough explanation of the complexities of American antislavery and describes a society that was struggling to recreate itself in the wake of emancipation.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199659001 ISBN 13: 9780199659005
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dazzling study of the world's first fashion-obsessed society, in 18th century London. Reveals the secrets of how membership in the new elite was won, maintained and sometimes lost, and shows how being a Fashionable was the key to power and exclusivity in a new social order.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199896461 ISBN 13: 9780199896462
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Apostles of Reason, Molly Worthen offers a sweeping intellectual history of modern American evangelicalism, arguing that evangelicalism is a community of believers preoccupied by shared anxieties.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199322457 ISBN 13: 9780199322459
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The incredible story of the men and women who created the complex and heroic medical infrastructure that saved so many lives during the First World War, from the stretcher bearer on the frontline whose hands bore the scars of splintering, rotting handles to the surgeon working 36 hour stints in makeshift operating tents and the nurses jolted along ambulance trains, caring for patients day and night; as well as those who served and fought and could not have survived without the medical personnel's care.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199325154 ISBN 13: 9780199325153
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewitz, the grounding of revolutionary strategy in class struggles by Marx, the insights into corporate strategy found in Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, and the contributions of theleading social scientists working on strategy today. The core issue at the heart of strategy, the author notes, is whether it is possible to manipulate and shape our environment rather than simply become the victim of forces beyond one's control. Time and again, Freedman demonstrates that theinherent unpredictability of this environment-subject to chance events, the efforts of opponents, the missteps of friends-provides strategy with its challenge and its drama. Armies or corporations or nations rarely move from one predictable state of affairs to another, but instead feel their way through a series of states, each one not quite what was anticipated, requiring a reappraisal of the original strategy, including its ultimate objective. Thus the picture of strategy that emerges in thisbook is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point, not the end point.A brilliant overview of the most prominent strategic theories in history, from David's use of deception against Goliath, to the modern use of game theory in economics, this masterful volume sums up a lifetime of reflection on strategy.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199330646 ISBN 13: 9780199330645
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Noted Gulf expert Christopher Davidson contends that the collapse of these kings, emirs, and sultans is going to happen, and was always going to.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199678766 ISBN 13: 9780199678761
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Everyone uses computers today. But what do you really know about them Using the voices of pioneers and leading experts, Peter J. Bentley tells the story of computer science; explaining how and why computers were invented, how they work, looking at real-world examples of computers in use, and considering what will happen in the future.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199995443 ISBN 13: 9780199995448
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a critical history of the distinctive tradition of Indian secularism known as Tolerance. Examining debates surrounding the activities of the Arya Samaj - a Hindu reform organization regarded as the exemplar of intolerance - it finds that Tolerance functioned to disengage Indian secularism from the politics of caste.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199845298 ISBN 13: 9780199845293
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While it may seem natural and obvious that most white men don't dance, it is actually a recent phenomenon tied to changing norms of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Combining archival sources, interviews, and participant observation, this book examines how, within the U.S., recreational dance became associated with women rather than men, youths rather than adults, and ethnic minorities rather than whites.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199562296 ISBN 13: 9780199562299
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library series, this pocketbook provides a user-friendly introduction to the diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of patients with panic disorder.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0823255115 ISBN 13: 9780823255115
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The notion of a weak Messianic power serves as the focal point for this study of theological, materialist, poetic, and post-Freudian psychoanalytic approaches to time and the historical unconscious in the work of Benjamin, Celan and Derrida.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199656339 ISBN 13: 9780199656332
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Market-leading and first choice with students and lecturers, Blackstone's Statutes have a 25-year tradition of trust and quality unrivalled by others, and a rock-solid reputation for accuracy, reliability, and authority. Relied on by students in exams and for course use since 1987; they set the standard by which other statute books are measured.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 019966949X ISBN 13: 9780199669493
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides background to psychiatric classification systems, including the recently produced DSM-5 and the forthcoming ICD-11. It focuses on the processes of classification and diagnosis, and the uses to which classifications can be put.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199939934 ISBN 13: 9780199939930
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historically informed performance (HIP) has provoked heated debate amongst musicologists, performers and cultural sociologists. In The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age, author Nick Wilson answers many salient questions surrounding HIP through an in-depth analysis of the early music movement in Britain from the 1960s to the present day.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199330662 ISBN 13: 9780199330669
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides fascinating insights into how Mossad leaders such as Yaacov Nimrodi, Meit Amit and Reuven Shiloah conducted secret diplomatic missions to Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iran and elsewhere from before the founding of Israel to the present.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199672210 ISBN 13: 9780199672219
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do we have the rights to optimism Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding megatrends with the potential to reshapeopportunities for growth.Three cities of the future are emerging. The first is Petropolis, the alluringly familiar but decreasingly resilient city, locked into the century old technologies of fossil fuel-driven mass production. This is the city of rising inequality, credit-fuelled consumption, offshored jobs, climate volatility, and unsustainable household and national debt. The second city is Cyburbia . This is mass production on the steroids of IT: the latest manifestation of science fictions citywithout pain, but one inhabited by voice-activated popcorn dispensers, of athletics' shoes with in-built Twitter feeds, of sensor-packed and censoring glass towers that risk reducing their citizens to digital factors of production in the supply chain of big data. The third is the Distributed City, where technology isdeployed with the intent to connect us not virtually but physically-from Nairobi's network of innovation spaces to Hamburg's Participatory Budgeting experiments, from Barcelona's network for micro-manufacturing, to Austin's distributed smart grid.These are the cities of society's future, and they have very different implications for business success, and our ability to navigate the social, economic, and environmental megatrends that confront us. Blowfield and Johnson present the DNA of the winners of the future, high growth and disruptive businesses, emerging from the bottom up, and with the capacity to tackle society's biggest challenges head on.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199693277 ISBN 13: 9780199693276
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Organic Chemistry: A mechanistic approach provides readers with a concise review of the essential concepts underpinning the subject. It combines a focus on core topics and themes with a mechanistic approach to the explanation of the reactions it describes, making it ideal for those looking for a solid understanding of the central themes of organic chemistry.Opening with a review of chemical bonding and molecular shape and structure, the book then introduces the principal groups of organic compound before exploring the range of reactions they undergo. It retains an emphasis throughout on how and why organic compounds behave in the way they do, with a chapter on how mechanisms are investigated and the closing chapter describing the principal methods by which the structure and composition of organic compounds are studied.With an understanding of organic chemistry being central to the study and practice of a range of disciplines, Organic Chemistry is the ideal resource for those studying a one- or two-semester organic chemistry course as part of a broader programme of study in the physical and life sciences.Online Resource Centre:For registered adopters of the book:Figures from the book in electronic formatAnswers to end-of-chapter problemsExamples of organic synthesis reactions, related to topics covered in the book, for use in teachingAdditional problems (with answers), to augment those included in the bookFor students:Answers to in-chapter exercises3D-rotatable models of numerous compounds featured in the bookMultiple-choice questions for each chapter, to help students check their understanding of topics they have learned.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0195380592 ISBN 13: 9780195380590
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199897646 ISBN 13: 9780199897643
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What do Americans think about Mormons, and why do they think what they do J.B. Haws reveals the dramatic transformation of American thought about Mormons over a period of forty years, showing how a surprising range of personalities, organizations, and events helped to shape the American public's understanding of Mormon history.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199329508 ISBN 13: 9780199329502
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The essays in Christians and the Color Line complicate the research findings of Emerson and Smith's Divided by Faith (2000) and explore new areas of research that have opened in the years since its publication.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 019967261X ISBN 13: 9780199672615
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A succinct account of the logics, strengths and weaknesses of religious and non-religious pacifism.