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The John Carlos Story

The Sports Moment That Changed the World

by Dave Zirin, John Carlos ...

"A powerful and poignant memoir" of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Race Matters).An NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/AutobiographyJohn Carlos was a bronze medalist in the two hundred-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, but he is remembered for more than his ... Read more

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"A powerful and poignant memoir" of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Race Matters).An NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/AutobiographyJohn Carlos was a bronze medalist in the two hundred-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, but he is remembered for more than his
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The Cheese and the Worms

The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

by Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...

Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, Stephen Twilley ...

The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition.The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. In the fiftieth anniversary edition of this now-classic ... Read more

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The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition.The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. In the fiftieth anniversary edition of this now-classic
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A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology

The Deaf, The Battle with the Slum, Degeneracy, The Leaven in a Great City, Boyville, etc.

by Harry Best, Jacob A. Riis, W. T. Stead, Eugene S. Talbot, Lillian William Betts, John E. Gunckel, Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke, Guy Thorne, Bernard Mandeville, Samuel Merwin, Arthur Lawrence Hayward, James Harold Romain, Clifton R. Wooldridge, William Booth, L. O. Curon, Mary Higgs, George M. White, Sigmund Engel, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, John Josiah Munro, Caroline H. Woods, Nels Anderson, Charles Kingston, Josiah Flynt, Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg, V. M. Masten, Hans Kurella, R. M. Algie, A-No. 1, Louis Albert Banks, Samuel Paynter Wilson, W. A. Chapple, Roland Burnham Molineux, Carlo de Fornaro, John Thomas Smith, Roy K. Anderson, Jacobus X, Wellington Scott ...

Delve into the profound and multifaceted world of societal imperfections with 'A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology.' This anthology presents a panoramic exploration of social issues, ranging from urban poverty and criminality to behavioral psychology and societal reform. The collection encompasses a variety of literary styles, including investigative narratives, ... Read more

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Delve into the profound and multifaceted world of societal imperfections with 'A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology.' This anthology presents a panoramic exploration of social issues, ranging from urban poverty and criminality to behavioral psychology and societal reform. The collection encompasses a variety of literary styles, including investigative narratives,
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Changing for Good

A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward

by John C. Norcross, James O. Prochaska, Carlo C. DiClemente, PhD ...

This groundbreaking book offers simple self-assessments, informative case histories, and concrete examples to help clarify each stage and process. Whether your goal is to start saving money, to stop drinking, or to end other self-defeating or addictive behaviors, this revolutionary program will help you implement positive personal change . . . for life.How many times have you thought about ... Read more

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This groundbreaking book offers simple self-assessments, informative case histories, and concrete examples to help clarify each stage and process. Whether your goal is to start saving money, to stop drinking, or to end other self-defeating or addictive behaviors, this revolutionary program will help you implement positive personal change . . . for life.How many times have you thought about
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The 3 Keys to Empowerment

Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results

by John P. Carlos, Alan Randolph, Ken Blanchard ...

An action guide and macro-level understanding of the process required to foster the workplace culture envisioned in Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute.As Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph clearly demonstrated in their previous bestseller, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, empowerment is not a goal that can be achieved in a minute. Empowerment is a process that requires ongoing ... Read more

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An action guide and macro-level understanding of the process required to foster the workplace culture envisioned in Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute.As Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph clearly demonstrated in their previous bestseller, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, empowerment is not a goal that can be achieved in a minute. Empowerment is a process that requires ongoing
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The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi, John Hooper, Anna Kraczyna ...

Translated by John Hooper, Anna Kraczyna ...

revelatory new edition of the most widely translated Italian book in the world--soon to be a Netflix animated feature film co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz, John Turturro, and Tilda SwintonA Penguin ClassicCarved from a piece of wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and wants nothing more ... Read more

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revelatory new edition of the most widely translated Italian book in the world--soon to be a Netflix animated feature film co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz, John Turturro, and Tilda SwintonA Penguin ClassicCarved from a piece of wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and wants nothing more
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Click to Kill

by John Carlo ...

You can't be dead, if you were never alive... An assassination in Belgrade. A spy on the run in London. Witnesses vanishing into thin air. Caught in the crossfire is Rigby Goode, a hacker with a heart of gold whose ability to erase personal identities makes him the man everyone wants, and some will stop at nothing to get their hands on.Cycling mad, coffee-addicted, and bacteria-phobic, Rigby was ... Read more

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You can't be dead, if you were never alive... An assassination in Belgrade. A spy on the run in London. Witnesses vanishing into thin air. Caught in the crossfire is Rigby Goode, a hacker with a heart of gold whose ability to erase personal identities makes him the man everyone wants, and some will stop at nothing to get their hands on.Cycling mad, coffee-addicted, and bacteria-phobic, Rigby was
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Benedetto Cotrugli – The Book of the Art of Trade

With Scholarly Essays from Niall Ferguson, Giovanni Favero, Mario Infelise, Tiziano Zanato and Vera Ribaudo

Edited by Carlo Carraro, Giovanni Favero ...

This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile practices, and includes the first scholarly mention of double-entry bookkeeping. Its four parts focus respectively on trading techniques, ... Read more

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This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile practices, and includes the first scholarly mention of double-entry bookkeeping. Its four parts focus respectively on trading techniques,
... Read more
Street Design

The Secret to Great Cities and Towns

by John Massengale, Victor Dover, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk ...

A comprehensive blueprint for fixing America’s cities and towns, updated and expanded“This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.”—ELIZABETH PLATER-ZYBERK, DPZ coDESIGN, former Dean of the School of Architecture at ... Read more

$66.00 USD

A comprehensive blueprint for fixing America’s cities and towns, updated and expanded“This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.”—ELIZABETH PLATER-ZYBERK, DPZ coDESIGN, former Dean of the School of Architecture at
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Fly, Dumbo, Fly! (Disney Dumbo)

by Jennifer Liberts Weinberg ...

Illustrated by John Kurtz, Carlo Lo Raso ...

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In this fun-filled story based on the Disney classic, Dumbo learns what can happen when he tries to fly. From clowning in the circus to doing loop-the-loops, Dumbo’ s antics will fill kids with confidence and delight! ... Read more

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In this fun-filled story based on the Disney classic, Dumbo learns what can happen when he tries to fly. From clowning in the circus to doing loop-the-loops, Dumbo’ s antics will fill kids with confidence and delight!
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The Night Battles

Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

by Carlo Ginzburg ...

Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, Stephen Twilley ...

The classic study of witchcraft and popular belief, newly revisited.A landmark of microhistory, The Night Battles remains one of the most daring and influential investigations of witchcraft and popular belief in early modern Europe. Through meticulous research in the inquisitorial archives of northern Italy, Carlo Ginzburg reconstructs the story of the benandanti—the "good walkers"—peasants of the ... Read more

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The classic study of witchcraft and popular belief, newly revisited.A landmark of microhistory, The Night Battles remains one of the most daring and influential investigations of witchcraft and popular belief in early modern Europe. Through meticulous research in the inquisitorial archives of northern Italy, Carlo Ginzburg reconstructs the story of the benandanti—the "good walkers"—peasants of the
... Read more
Animals and Business

An Interspecies Approach to Responsible Management

by Helen Wadham, José-Carlos García-Rosell, John Lever ...

This book explores the role, impact and experiences of animals within organisations and the wider socioeconomic contexts in which they participate.Animals are vital to business. From agriculture to tourism, logistics to digital media, animals work, reproduce, create value and support livelihoods. Yet business and management theory still largely treats organisations as purely human domains. Animals ... Read more

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This book explores the role, impact and experiences of animals within organisations and the wider socioeconomic contexts in which they participate.Animals are vital to business. From agriculture to tourism, logistics to digital media, animals work, reproduce, create value and support livelihoods. Yet business and management theory still largely treats organisations as purely human domains. Animals
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