Ivan: 1319 books

A major history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in responding to the challenges of this crisis-ridden and troubled...

This new edition of Ivan T. Berend's leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance from the start of the twentieth century to the present is fully updated to incorporate recent events, including the causes and impacts of the 2008 financial-economic crisis. Praised for its clear prose...

This book is designed to be a hand book of ideas on how a manager/leader should comport himself and how to deal with individuals, team, peers, senior managers and friends within a working environment. It is not a book on theoretical management, but a book based on everyday experiences. It is a must for all levels of management

Each of the four essays reprinted here was written for a specific occasion and together comprise only the smallest selection from a larger corpus questioning commodity and energy-intensive economies. The essays are presented thematically instead of chronologically to offer a better view of the sweep...

In this political essay, Ivan Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to themselves and others outside the production of commodities for the market.

In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union is in disarray and...

Ivan Turgenev was a Russian writer and playwright in the 19th century.  Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons as well as his short stories were key contributions to Russian Realism.  This edition of Virgin Soil includes a table of contents.

Unlike “fix-it” strategies that targeted teachers are likely to resist, educator-centered instructional coaching—ECIC—offers respectful coaching for professionals within their schoolwide community. Evidence-based results across all content areas, authentic practices for data collection and...

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine...

À la suite du gigantesque incendie qui a saccagé Moscou et débouté ses troupes, que peut bien Napoléon ? Pour celui qui, enfermé dans ses rêves de grandeur, ambitionne de marcher jusqu'en Asie, il est hors de question de rentrer en France. Mais l'hiver s'installe, les armées cosaques sont...

Oblomov est un roman de l'écrivain russe Ivan Gontcharov publié en 1859. Résumé | Ilya Ilitch Oblomov, un propriétaire terrien habitant Saint-Pétersbourg, cultive comme son bien le plus précieux un penchant naturel à la paresse. D'une aboulie chronique et d'une indécrottable apathie, ce personnage,...

Au sommaire de ce 10e volume : Unlucky, signée Sztybor et Ivan Shavrin ; Motor City, de Valérie Mangin et Thomas Rouzière ; Phalanga, de Mojo et Simon « Hutt » T.

Ivan Turgenev was a Russian writer and playwright in the 19th century.  Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons as well as his short stories were key contributions to Russian Realism.  This edition of Father Alexyei’s includes a table of contents.

"The District Doctor" is a russian short story.  Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 – 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Translated by Thomas Seltzer.