Donald : 3901 books

Since the beginning of recorded history, law and religion have provided "rules" that define good behavior. When we obey such rules, we assign to some external authority the capacity to determine how we should act. Even anarchists recognize the existence of a choice as to whether or not to obey, since...

This authoritative book provides a comprehensive political history of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ten members of which are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Leading scholar Donald E. Weatherbee follows...

In the years Bbetween the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the beginning of the war mobilization boom in 1930, collieries in Europe and America embraced new technologies and had long since been excluded women from working underground. In Japan, however, mining women witnessed no significant changes in...

In his fourth edition of Éléménts d'économie politique pure (1900), León Walras introduced the device of written pledges to eliminate path dependency: sellers of products and services write out commitments to supply certain quantities at suggested prices with no commodities actually produced...

Donald Sassoon “resuscita” Karl Marx per un’intervista esclusiva, nella quale il grande filosofo ha l’occasione di togliersi qualche sassolino dalla scarpa. Marx ne ha per tutti: spara a zero sui mostri sacri delle dottrine economiche e politiche; riafferma le proprie idee contro gli abusi...

Inspirant, ce chef-d’œuvre de réconfort et de compassion explore les ultimes questions de l’existence et de la transcendance. L’expérience appelée « la mort » fascine l’humanité au plus haut point, suscitant à la fois de la frayeur et du respect, le tout mêlé de crainte. Dans Retour...

Reprenant où se terminait le tome 3 de la trilogie Conversations avec Dieu, mais avec vingt ans de maturité plus tard, ce nouveau dialogue nous invite tous à nous impliquer dans l’éveil de l’espèce humaine sur Terre. Il contient également des révélations surprenantes sur notre avenir individuel...

A well-developed sense of humor is essential to successful leadership. In this book I will help you be a better leader by improving your use of humor for leadership purposes. I'll use insights from psychologists, researchers in organizations, leadership gurus and famous comedians to explain the complexities...

This volume features selections from the famous musicologist's acclaimed Essays in Musical Analysis. The contents comprise some of Donald F. Tovey's most important essays, including those on Bach's "Goldberg" Variations and The Art of Fugue as well as considerations of key works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,...

   Best friends Rumpus, Tai, Phil, and Phlox are thrilled for the chance to make their first real mural, but when they fall into the world of their own epic painting, they suddenly have to face down the piranha-pistol-packing Wildhares, cattlefish stampedes, and buzzing battlebees of their...

Throughout his career, Donald Pfaff has demonstrated that by choosing problems and methods with care, biologists can study the molecular mechanisms of brains more complex than those of fruit flies, snails, and roundworms. He offers a close-up, conversational perspective on a 50-year quest to understand how behavior is regulated in vertebrates.

Over thirty years ago, I began writing articles to send out as letters to the editor in a number of newspapers. As matters developed, a number of the articles were too long to be put on the editorial page and wound up nesting in my files. A few of the longer ones were published in magazines, but none...

Cairo, Egypt, 1948: a war weary foreign correspondent seeks shelter from the brutal July heat. He comes upon dusty old shop and discovers a hundred year-old journal. He purchases it and is intrigued by its report of an ancient and abandoned city in the desert with the promise of rich treasure awaiting...

The later-adult years are commonly viewed as a period in which one struggles to maintain a vestige of the physical, mental, and emotional vitality of one's earlier years. In Still Growing, however, Donald Capps contends that older adulthood is actually a period of growth and development, and that...