Malcolm: 1208 books
King's African Rifles
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Whatever one may think about the rights and wrongs of colonial rule, it is hard to deny that during the first half of the this century those African countries, which then came under British administration enjoyed a period of stability which most now look back upon with a profound sense of loss. Paradoxical...
Blink
A decisão num piscar de olhos
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Por que algumas pessoas são brilhantes ao tomar decisões e outras são incapazes de fazer a escolha certa? Por que algumas são bem-sucedidas ao seguir sua intuição enquanto outras se deixam levar por preconceitos e cometem grandes erros? Como nosso cérebro funciona no trabalho, na sala de aula,...
by Malcolm Gladwell
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Em David e Golias, Malcolm Gladwell questiona a forma como encaramos as nossas limitações e desvantagens. Propõe uma nova interpretação sobre o que significa ser-se discriminado, ter incapacidades pessoais, perder o pai ou a mãe ou frequentar uma escola medíocre são revezes que causam sofrimento,...
by Malcolm Chase
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
First published in 1994, this volume features an autobiography of Allen Davenport, a key figure linking Chartism with the French Revolution, along with some of his selected works. Davenport was an important propagandist for agrarian reform, a critical follower of Robert Owen, one of the first male...
by Ian M. Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Although the Merchant Navy suffered a higher percentage loss than any of the Armed Forces in the Second World War, few people today are aware of this or have even heard of them. Thirty-three thousand merchant seamen died, while others were severely injured both physically and mentally. This book is...
The Collected Works Volume One
Rates of Exchange, The History Man, and Stepping Westward
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Three satires of academia by the beloved British critic, teacher, and novelist—including his “outstanding” comic masterpiece, The History Man (The Guardian).
“A satirist of great assurance and accomplishment,” Malcolm Bradbury remains one of the sharpest comic novelists of the twentieth...
by Alistair Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the perspective of his favourite (valido), don Luis Méndez de Haro, and of the other ministers who helped govern the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. It offers...
The Sociology of Religion
Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This clear introduction to the sociology of religion combines a discussion of key theorists with a modern emphasis on the diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Malcolm Hamilton's expanded second edition brings the discussion fully up-to-date, and extends its material on secularization and...
The Collected Works Volume Two
Cuts, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go, and Doctor Criminale
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Sharp-witted novels and social commentary by the beloved British critic, teacher, and author of the “outstanding” comic masterpiece, The History Man (The Guardian).
“A satirist of great assurance and accomplishment,” Malcolm Bradbury remains one of the sharpest comic minds of the twentieth...
Understanding Management in China
Past, present and future
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
China has become one of the fastest-growing economies ever seen in the world in recent times. In the last three decades, China has transformed itself from a command economy to a market one, albeit a nominally socialist one, and its management systems have been reformed accordingly. In the light of...
Gang Cop
The Words and Ways of Officer Paco Domingo
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Paco Domingo is a street cop, a gang cop, a composite figure derived from criminologist Malcolm Klein's real observations, actual incidents, and verbatim court testimony in over 40 years of police and gang research. Klein, well-known criminologist and police consultant, tells the story of Domingo,...
Che's Travels
The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina...
Structure and Method in Aristotle's Meteorologica
A More Disorderly Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
In the first full-length study in any modern language dedicated to the Meteorologica, Malcolm Wilson presents a groundbreaking interpretation of Aristotle's natural philosophy. Divided into two parts, the book first addresses general philosophical and scientific issues by placing the treatise in a...
Paul and the Rhetoric of Reversal in 1 Corinthians
The Impact of Paul's Gospel on his Macro-Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
The first letter to the Corinthians is one of the most discussed biblical books in New Testament scholarship today. Despite this, there has been no consensus on its arrangement and central theme, in particular why the topic of the resurrection was left until the end of the letter, and what its theological...