Cieľom monografie je prehľadným spôsobom priblížiť problematiku rôznych foriem globalizácie, a to v historickom, ekonomickom a sociologickom kontexte a analyzovať aktuálny stav slovenských médií v ére globalizácie... Zobraziť viac
Monografie se zabývá problematikou zdánlivě okrajových témat, přestože je jejich dopad do sociální reality Balkánu zjevný. Zaměřuje se na opomíjené a marginalizované osobnosti, jevy a sociální skupiny různých etnik, národností a náboženských... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Great fun … brash, stubborn, entertaining, opinionated, curious, cajoling (Stephen J. Dubner, Author Of... Zobraziť viac
Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From Earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and... Zobraziť viac
Profile Books Ltd: Sunday Times Magazine 'Invaluable manual on the use and abuse of power... indispensable and... Zobraziť viac
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? ... Zobraziť viac
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict.Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation.... Zobraziť viac
From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences... Zobraziť viac
Elliott & Thompson Limited: THE INTERNATIONAL AND NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAll leaders are constrained by... Zobraziť viac
"If you want to get beyond gestures and slogans and to the truth, this is the book to get you there" Russell Brand "Kehinde Andrews is a crucial voice walking in a proud tradition of Black radical criticism and action... Zobraziť viac
What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing... Zobraziť viac
Geospatial information plays an important role in managing location dependent pandemic situations across different communities and domains. Geospatial information and technologies are particularly critical to strengthening urban and rural... Zobraziť viac
Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and... Zobraziť viac
Now, for the first time ever, discover the story of YouTube: how it started, how it works, and how it came to control our culture... Zobraziť viac
This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our times in their movement - possibly at birth, at a stage... Zobraziť viac
In contrast to the time-line narratives of previous books on Enron that offer interesting but largely unsystematic insight into individual actions and organizational processes, Innovation Corrupted pursues a more methodical analysis of the causes and... Zobraziť viac
Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come and what is their experience of this arrangement? Do... Zobraziť viac
In spite of its widespread use within criminology, the term 'criminological imagination', as derived from C. Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Imagination, has yet to be fully developed and clarified as an analytic concept capable of guiding... Zobraziť viac
Andrew Keen, 'the Christopher Hitchens of the internet', describes his urgent worldwide search for ways in which humanity... Zobraziť viac
'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976–84 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment... Zobraziť viac
