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Divided Not Conquered: How Rebels Fracture and Splinters Behave Perkoski Evan

From terrorist disputes to splinter offshoots, an inside look at how armed groups break apart.Terrorist, rebel, and insurgent groups are highly unstable. Amid fears of defeat and even death, intense disagreements have torn many organizations apart, from Syria to Iraq, Ireland to Spain. And while some of these divisions have preceded a group's decline and eventual defeat, others have launched some of the most notorious and deadly organizations in recent history.In Divided Not Conquered, Evan Perkoski analyzes how armed groups fracture and how breakaway splinter groups behave. Perkoski takes an unprecedented look inside these organizations to understand the specific disagreements that cause groups to break apart, like those over ideology, leadership, and strategy. Drawing on research from organizational studies to social psychology, and leveraging

The Memory Index Vaca Julian Ray

In this electric speculative YA sci/fi novel, the world treats memories like currency, so dreams can be a complicated business. Perfect for fans of Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick.In an alternative 1987, a disease ravages human memories. There is no cure, only artificial recall. The lucky ones--the recollectors--need the treatment only once a day.Freya Izquierdo isn't lucky. The high school senior is a "degen" who needs artificial recall several times a day. Plagued by blinding half-memories that take her to her knees, she's desperate to remember everything that will help her investigate her father's violent death. When her sleuthing almost lands her in jail, a shadowy school dean selects her to attend his Foxtail Academy, where five hundred students will trial a new tech said to make artificial recall obsolete.She's the only degen on campus.

Teach Your Children Well: A Step-By-Step Guide for Family Discipleship Cowan Johnson Sarah

Half of Christian high school students walk away from their faith after graduation. But parental involvement is the most influential predictor of a child's spirituality throughout their lives. How do we parent our kids in ways that lead to lasting faith?Sarah Cowan Johnson unpacks how parents can have an active discipleship role in forming their children's faith, with age-appropriate insights and strategies for different developmental stages. She shows how we can identify God moments, facilitate spiritual encounters, clarify emerging beliefs, and encourage new faith habits in our children.Filled with exercises and activities for families to do together, this handbook is an essential resource for discipling children with confidence and

Making Projects Work: Effective Stakeholder and Communication Management Bourne Lynda

Projects are performed by people for people, with the key determinants of success being the relationships between project teams and project stakeholders. This web of relationships will either enable or obstruct the flow of information between people and, as a consequence, will largely determine project success or failure.Making Projects Work: Effective Stakeholder and Communication Management provides a framework for understanding and managing the factors required for achieving successful project and program outcomes. It presents guidelines to help readers develop an understanding of governance and its connection to strategy as the starting point for deciding what work needs to be done. - Introduces the idea of an organization's communication ecosystem where information flows freely within and among all organizational layersExplores the

King's Indian 1 Jones Gawain

The King’s Indian is the ideal response to 1.d4 to combine dynamic counterattacking play with complete theoretical soundness. A past favorite of both Fischer and Kasparov, it continues to perform well at the highest levels of modern chess.King’s Indian 1 is the first of two books presenting a complete repertoire for Black. GM Gawain Jones is the perfect guide, being both a world-class player and a longstanding expert on the King’s Indian. This book version of Jones’s Chessable course has been extensively edited and reorganized by Quality Chess.Volume 1 takes the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 as the starting point, covering White’s main possibilities, such as the Mar del Plata, lines with an early h2-h3 and the Sämisch (5.f3).The repertoire will be completed in King’s Indian 2, including antidotes to White’s tricky tries after 1.d4 Nf6, as well as the King’s Indian versus the English Opening, Reti and everything else (except for 1.e4).

Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology Daut Marlene L.

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the first antislavery and anticolonial uprising led by New World Africans to result in the creation of an independent and slavery-free nation state. The momentousness of this thirteen-year-long war generated thousands of pages of writing. This anthology brings together for the first time a transnational and multilingual selection of literature about the revolution, from the beginnings of the conflicts that resulted in it to the end of the nineteenth century.With over two hundred excerpts from novels, poetry, and plays published between 1787 and 1900, and depicting a wide array of characters including, Anacaona, Makandal, Boukman, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henry Christophe, this anthology provides the perfect classroom text for exploring this fascinating revolution, its principal actors, and the literature it

Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service

Northumberland

Each walk features a simple-to-follow route profile and accompanying description and pictures, and new-look walk mapping that makes it easier for the user to focus on the route and the points of interest along the

How to make a wildflower meadow Hewetson-Brown James

Flowering meadows are appealing to gardeners and valuable for wildlife, but they can be difficult to establish.This book will change all that with its pragmatic yet eco-friendly advice. Gardeners and landscape professionals alike will relish James Hewetson-Brown's common sense approach. There is no need to be an expert on habitat planting or plant ecology--just follow the step-by-step techniques. Using seed, plug plants, bulbs, and roll-out turf, you can establish meadow the same year you plant it.The book includes 30 case studies that describe successful meadow plantings alongside paths, utility areas, and ponds and in mixed borders, orchards, green roofs, sloping banks, and containers. Interviews offer a fascinating insight into the the installation process and the pleasures of living with a wildflower

Ministry of Lesbian Affairs NHB Modern Plays Qureshi Iman

When banks and sandwich shops have more pride than we do, where can we go to be with our tribe?It's 2022. There's a rainbow flag in every high-street window, and no lesbian bar. Enter The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs: a lesbian choir on a mission to unite a disparate and dwindling community. Led by a world-weary conductor, the choir flirt, gossip and attempt to sing their way onto the main stage at Pride.But harmony is more easily dreamt than realised in this heart-warming musical comedy about love, queerness and belonging. Iman Qureshi's play The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in May 2022, as a co-production between Soho and Damsel

Isadora Moon and the Shooting Star PB Muncaster Harriet

Isadora is looking at the night sky when she sees a falling star and is amazed when she discovers the star is a Glow Sprite, called Nova! She needs Isadora's help to find her lost kitten Nova and get back to her own planet. Luckily, Isadora and her out-of-this-world family are on hand to

NuEndo ReThinking Endodontics - A systematic approach to diagnosis and case selection Nudera William J.

Glory: Experiencing the Atmosphere of Heaven Heflin Ruth

What is the Glory? It is the realm of eternity. It is the revelation of the presence of God. He is Glory As air is to the atmosphere of the Earth, so glory is the atmosphere of Heaven. Praise...until the spirit of worship comes. Worship...until the glory comes. Then...stand in the glory. If you can capture the basic principles of Praise, Worship, and Glory which are outlined in this book--so simple that we miss them--you can have anything else you want in

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

A special hardback edition of Murakami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the author Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.

Skôr než povieš dobrú noc - Giorgio Volpe

Dojímavý, krásne ilustrovaný príbeh o priateľstve je dokonalou alegóriou na rituál pred spaním.Líška a jej najlepší priateľ Pĺšik sa veselo hrajú vo svojom lesnom domove. Do jesennej prírody však pomaly prichádza zima. Čoskoro sa malý plch začne ukladať na zimný spánok a kamaráti sa musia na dlhší čas rozlúčiť. Keď sa už blíži čas spánku, líška sa snaží udržať plcha v bdelom stave. Zimný spánok je však nevyhnutný, a tak sa obaja priatelia podelia aspoň o posledný príbeh, pretože vedia, že na jar budú opäť spolu.Upokojujúce posolstvo príbehu hovorí jasne: Budem tu pre teba, keď sa zobudíš.Pre deti od 4 rokovZ talianskeho originálu preložila Lucia Hlubeňová.Číslo vydania 1Jazyky slovenskýPočet strán 32Dátum uvedenia titulu 2022-10-05Rozmery 295x217x10Hmotnosť 435gTypKnihy viazané

Ako funguje psychológia

Najjednoduchší a vizuálne najpútavejší sprievodca psychológiouAko si môžete pretvoriť mozog, aby ste sa učili efektívnejšie? Ktoré metódy znižujú napätie pri rokovaniach? Aké psychologické triky používajú zadávatelia reklám, aby vás presvedčili, že si máte kúpiť ich výrobky?Naučte sa, ako možno psychológiu aplikovať na situácie zo skutočného života od diania na pracovisku až po komunikáciu na športovisku. Využívajte fungovanie ľudskej mysle, zistite, čo sa v nej môže pokaziť, a spoznajte mnohé dostupné formy liečby.Kniha Ako funguje psychológia je plná fascinujúcich faktov a prináša jasné, ľahko pochopiteľné grafické údaje. Vysvetlí vám všetko, čo potrebujete vedieť o tom, ako v skutočnom svete myslíte, cítite a konáte.V publikácii sú vedecké poznatky doplnené užitočnými názornými ilustráciami a infografikami.Z anglického originálu preložil Róbert Hrebíček.Číslo vydania 1Jazyky slovenskýPočet strán 256Dátum uvedenia titulu 2023-03-20Rozmery 243x204x25Hmotnosť 930gTypKnihy viazané

Dobro

Príbehy zo psychoterapiePred pár rokmi vyšla kniha Zlo. Spomienky súdneho znalca, v ktorej Anton Heretik opísal skúsenosti zo stretnutí s páchateľmi brutálnych zločinov. Teraz prichádza s knihou Dobro. Príbehy zo psychoterapie. Približuje príbehy trinástich klientov, ktorých sprevádzal počas psychoterapie pri hľadaní dobra – ich vlastnej múdrosti, ktorá im môže pomôcť zvládať duševné ťažkosti, životné problémy či zložité vzťahy. Terapeut je fascinovaný rôznorodosťou pováh i osudov a odhodlaním hľadať zmysel života. Nie je to zbierka pracovných úspechov. O svojich klientoch píše s rešpektom. A s pokorou, ktorá zodpovedá zložitosti práce psychoterapeuta.Číslo vydania 1Jazyky slovenskýPočet strán 144Dátum uvedenia titulu 2022-10-04Rozmery 206x132x17Hmotnosť 250gTypKnihy viazané

The Divider

The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker--an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious.The bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired.The Divider brings us into the Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical, revealing how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, which cabinet members had a resignation pact, whether Trump asked Japan's prime

Grendel Lajos

Grendel Lajos Kossuth-díjas szlovákiai magyar író, a kortárs felvidéki magyar irodalom egyik legismertebb alakja, a kortárs magyar széppróza megújítója. A felvidék szlovák, cseh, német, magyar nemzetiségei a 20. század viharos történelmében épp oly könnyen válhattak üldözővé, mint üldözötteké. Grendel novellái és regényei ezeket az abszurd helyzeteket tárják föl a történelem és a benne szereplő magánemberek, családok idősíkján. Írásai erejét puritánsága, rejtett és nyílt érzelmessége és nyelvének sokszor a cinizmusig vitt iróniája adja. Önmagát realista írónak tartja, mert "A mai világ realitása olyan, hogy az ember úgy érzi magát ('89 előtt és után is), mintha egy hatalmas bolondokházában lenne kénytelen élni. Ezeket az abszurd, szürrealisztikus jeleneteket a prózáimban végtelenül realista leírásoknak tartom, mert ilyen a mi közép-kelet-európai valóságunk." (Végtelenül realista. Interjú Grendel Lajos Kossuth-díjas íróval. Nyugati Jelen. 2004. február 20.)

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth ... ?Delve into this complete collection of the award-winning Good Girl's Guide to Murder trilo

Správanie vlády a ekonomická štrukturálna transformácia Číny

Ako môže silná stranícka politika prelomiť prekážky záujmových skupín a autoritárskeho systému? Je možné pretvoriť štruktúru sociálnej rovnosti ? Ako môže politický výber ovplyvniť správanie úradníkov? Použite matematické modely na analýzu čínskej vlády a použite ekonomické dáta na otestujte vody štrukturálne transformácie.Na základe solídneho teoretického a empirického výskumu sa táto kniha zameriava na transformáciu ekonomickej štruktúry Číny z pohľadu správania vlády a transformácie vládnych funkcií. Výskum zahŕňa niekoľko úrovní: z pohľadu konkurencie miestnej samosprávy navrhuje teoretické vysvetlenie ekonomickej štrukturálnej nerovnováhy Číny charakterizované nízkou spotrebou a vysokými úsporami; vykonáva empirickú štúdiu o vzťahu medzi vládnymi investíciami do infraštruktúry a spotrebou domácností a zisťuje, že vládna infraštruktúra Čím vyšší je podiel investícií do zariadení, tým nižšia je miera spotreby obyvateľstva; študujte vplyv vládnej priemyselnej politiky a trhovej konkurencie na správanie podnikov pri odchode z trhu s rozvojovými zónami a podnikovými dotáciami ako zástupnými premennými a ďalej preskúmajte vývoj priemyslu medziregionálna dynamická efektivita; Tento dokument študuje „skladačku produktivity“ čínskych exportných podnikov z pohľadu skúmania dopadu úrovne miestnej ochrany; analyzuje vplyv odňatia miest a reformy na hospodársky rast vidieka a ponuku miestnych verejných statkov.

A Brief Literary History of Disability Wang Fuson

A Brief Literary History of Disability is a convenient, lucid, and accessible entry point into the rapidly evolving conversation around disability in literary studies. The book follows a chronological structure and each chapter pairs a well-known literary text with a foundational disability theorist in order to develop a simultaneous understanding of literary history and disability theory. The book as a whole, and each chapter, addresses three key questions:Why do we even need a literary history of disability?What counts as the literature of disability?Should we even talk about a literary aesthetic of disability?This book is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to add some disability studies to their literature teaching in any period, and for any students approaching the study of literature and disability. It is also an

Functions of Medieval English Stage Directions: Analysis and Catalogue Butterworth Philip

When we speak of theatre, we think we know what a stage direction is: we tend to think of it as an authorial requirement, devised to be complementary to the spoken text and directed at those who put on a play as to what, when, where, how or why a moment, action or its staging should be completed. This is the general understanding to condition a theatrical convention known as the 'stage direction'. As such, we recognise that the stage direction is directed towards actors, directors, designers, and any others who have a part to play in the practical realisation of the play. And perhaps we think that this has always been the case. However, the term 'stage direction' is not a medieval one, nor does an English medieval equivalent term exist to codify the functions contained in extraneous manuscript notes, requirements, directions or records. The medieval English stage direction does not

A Study of Malignant Narcissism: Personal and Professional Insights Wood Richard

A Study of Malignant Narcissism offers a unique insight into malignant narcissism, exploring both its personal and professional aspects and constructing a theoretical framework that renders its origins and manifestations more accessible.With reference to his own family dynamic and to 45 years of professional experience, Richard Wood explores the psychology of malignant narcissism, positing it as a defence against love. The book first offers an overview of existing literature before examining relevant clinical material, including an analysis of Wood's relationships with his own parents. Wood presents vignettes illustrating the core dynamics that drive narcissism, illustrated with sections of his father's unpublished autobiography and with his patient work. The book makes the case for malignant narcissism to be considered a subtype of psychopathy and puts

A Pandemic of Populists Sadurski Wojciech

Over the last decade, the world has watched in shock as populists swept to power in free elections. From Manila to Warsaw, Brasilia to Budapest, the populist tide has shattered illusions of an inexorable march to liberal democracy. Eschewing simplistic notions of a unified global populism, this book unpacks the diversity and plurality of populisms. It highlights the variety of constitutional and extraconstitutional strategies that populists have used to undermine the institutional fabric of liberal democracy and investigates how ruling populists responded to the Covid-19 crisis. Outlining the rise of populisms and their governing styles, Wojciech Sadurski focuses on what populists in power do, rather than what they say. Confronting one of the most pressing concerns of international politics, this book offers a vibrant, contemporary account of modern populisms and, significantly,

Tajomná džungľa - Jessica Courtney-Tickle

Bohato ilustrovaná kniha o krásach tajomnej džungle a jej obyvateľoch.Po rušnom dni padá na džungľu súmrak. V korunách stromov sa naťahujú dva malé orangutany. Celý deň sa hrali, ale už je čas ísť spať. Navôkol sa ozývajú všakovaké zvuky, džungľa ožíva, veď život v nej sa nezastaví ani v noci...Kniha Tajomná džungľa, ktorú napísala a ilustrovala Jessica Courtney-Tickle, vás vezme na nezabudnuteľnú dobrodružnú cestu po džungliach celého sveta – od Bornea po Papuu-Novú Guineu, od Kostariky po Brazíliu, od Madagaskaru po Srí Lanku. Malí milovníci prírody sa stretnú s veľkými mačkovitými šelmami, hadmi, stromovými žabami, korytnačkami, gorilami, lemurmi a ďalšími nezvyčajnými zvieratami.Pre čitateľov od 4 rokovZ anglického originálu preložila Lucia Halová.Číslo vydania 1Jazyky slovenskýPočet strán 32Dátum uvedenia titulu 2023-01-03Rozmery 300x222x10Hmotnosť 516gTypKnihy viazané

Jaro v zahradě

Dětem určený klavírní cyklus čtyř skladeb Jaro v zahradě H. 125 Bohuslava Martinů (1890-1959) vychází v revidované podobě. Skladatelův autograf je dnes nezvěstný, a proto se editor Aleš Březina (jeho zásahy jsou v notovém textu označeny hranatými závorkami) omezil pouze na opravu několika zjevných chyb a ponechal prstoklady navržené Vilémem Kurzem, editorem 1. vydání. Snad nejviditelnější změnou oproti stávajícím vydáním je vynechání názvů jednotlivých skladeb cyklu, neboť velmi pravděpodobně nejsou autentickým výtvorem skladatelovým, nýbrž byly připojeny někým jiným (např. nakladatelem) až dodatečně. Klavírní sazba je jednoduchá a zohledňuje instruktivní zaměření díla, jehož největšími přednostmi jsou jeho zpěvnost a hravost. Publikace vyšla za laskavé podpory Nadace Bohuslava Martinů.

Zničiť

Román Zničiť miestami pôsobí ako geopolitický triler s útokmi, špiónmi a ezoterickým podtextom, no zároveň je rodinnou melodrámou s patriarchom v domove dôchodcov v srdci francúzskeho vidieka. Je to román o krehkosti existencie a osamelosti súčasného človeka vo svete bez Boha. Je o láske a manželskej oddanosti. Houellebecq napísal baladu o živote a dôvodoch, prečo ho žiť alebo sa ho vzdať, knihu o chorobe, entropii a deštrukcii, v ktorej sa všetko vznáša vo vzduchu pred dojemným vyvrcholením. V románe sa preplietajú tri príbehy. Jeden z nich patrí Brunovi Jugovi, ministrovi hospodárstva a financií, ktorý kandiduje v prezidentských voľbách v roku 2027 ako dvojka Benjamina Sarfatiho, hviezdy z televíznych tolkšou. Druhý a hlavný príbeh patrí Paulovi Raisonovi, dôverníkovi ministra Juga, ktorý je typicky houellebecqovskou cynickou a samotárskou postavou. Príbeh sa začína mŕtvicou Paulovho otca, agenta tajných služieb na dôchodku, po ktorej upadne do kómy. Choroba spojí rodinu: sestru, ktorá je oddanou katolíčkou a sympatizantkou Marine Le Penovej, švagrinú, bezohľadnú novinárku a otcovu starostlivú druhú manželku. Michel Houellebecq, francúzsky básnik, prozaik a esejista. Za román Mapa a územie dostal v roku 2010 Goncourtovu cenu. Vo vydavateľstve Inaque vyšli jeho romány Elementárne častice, Platforma, Možnosť ostrova, Podvolenie, Sérotonín a zbierka esejí Zostať nažive a iné texty.

Koniec hyper-rastu v Číne?

Táto kniha je najnovšou zbierkou diel slávneho ekonóma Zhang Juna. Odporúča ju profesor Justin Yifu Lin a prezident Yang Yuliang z univerzity Fudan.

My Family and Other Allergies Gritten Julie

Over 130 illustrated recipes and 20 chapters covering dietary issues such as diabetes, gluten and other intolerances, veganism, IBS and additives and how to work around them to cater for everyone at your table.This is a hopeful and humorous book looking forward to the time when extended families will be able to eat together again. Everybody has different eating habits, so sometimes it's awkward cooking for those you care about.The number of people who have food intolerance or allergies has multiplied over recent years, with gluten allergy rising in particular. Vegetarianism and veganism has grown steadily and there are now many more people who choose to eat only local, sustainable, organic or raw food.So, what can we feed our loved ones, when their needs are mixed? This book explains many of the reasons for our different food needs from ethics to the gut-brain