• Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum

  This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne's Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 and is the earliest surviving commentary in question form on Aristotle's Politics. As the introduction explains, the Questiones was philosophically innovative and became the most influential question commentary on the Politics in the Middle Ages. The volume also includes a critical edition...

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• Carol Ann Lee Anne Frank's Story

  The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months of her life in the concentration camps. Narrated in six clearly written chapters, this biography for children answers the many detailed questions about Anne that readers of the Diary often have, and includes interesting anecdotes from friends who survived her. There is an Historical Note at the beginning of the book and a map of Europe, so that children...

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• David Kynaston Austerity Britain, 1945-1951

  For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid, unselfconscious, and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone's troubles but his own. An array of working-class...

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• Manage teams successfully

  Managing just one person can be difficult enough, but pulling together a team of people can be tricky even for experienced leaders. This book helps you create an effective team that can really get things done. It helps you form a good team in the first place, deal with tensions that may arise, communicate well, and motivate team members towards your overall goal. Most of us have to work with other people for some or most of our day. If you're a project manager in particular, you'll need to be able...

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• Origins and ends of the mind

  Psychoanalysis claims that the individual human mind is structured by its childhood relationships with its parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently re-introduced new dimensions of innateness into mental development and pathology. If attachment is an instinct, then what is the psychological status of the child's relation to the mother? If the mind is in part a product of evolution, then how far down do the inhibitory mechanisms...

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• Bart de Koning Vriendjespolitiek

  In 'Vriendjespolitiek' laat gerenommeerd onderzoeksjournalist Bart de Koning zien dat ons land minder netjes is dan we denken of geloven - tegen beter weten in. Want hoe vaak zijn we er niet getuige van geweest dat Nederland geschokt werd door een affaire? De Koning plaatst de vele Nederlandse affaires van de afgelopen decennia in een breder perspectief en verklaart hoe ze ontstaan en waarom er steeds weer nieuwe affaires opduiken. In Vriendjespolitiek bespreekt hij er tientallen (o.a. Lockheed,...

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• Berthold Gunster Omdenken, the Dutch art of flip-thinking

  This practical booklet shows what omdenken means and how to do it. To flip through, to come up with ideas, to be put on the wrong track and especially to trigger your own creative ability. In short, look, think and - particularly - create. It’s not only a Dutch way of life, but every single person, from all over the world, could use a little bit of Omdenken. Take your problem and transform it into a new chance or opportunity. Guided by this booklet. Berthold Gunster (1959) is the founding father...

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• Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #9: Twisted

  #1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe ninth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.It's been a year since the mystery of their former friend's disappearance was finally laid to rest, and Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily have worked hard to put their lives back together. Now seniors in high school, the pretty little liars are older, but they're not any wiser. Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something unforgivable. The girls...

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• John Burningham The Time of Your Life

  Ageing is that part of the future that we try to keep in the future. And `nobody likes to get old ... that doesn't mean to say you have to be an old fart sitting in the pub talking about what happened in the 1960s' Mick Jagger. John Burningham has collected fine examples of the wisdom and wit that comes with age from those in the know, woven with a rich selection of quotes and fifty poignant drawings by Burningham himself.

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• Robyn Davidson Tracks

  WITH A NEW POSTSCRIPT BY THE AUTHOR AND A STUNNING COLOUR PICTURE SECTION I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back. ' So begins Robyn Davidson's perilous journey across 1, 700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company. Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them...

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