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Death In Venice And Other Stories
2001 || Paperback || Thomas Mann || Vintage Publishing
TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY DAVID LUKE. Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel.
Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
The battle for your mind. How to be seen and heard in the overcrowded marketplace
2001 || Paperback || Al Ries e.a. || McGraw-Hill
Helps you deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public. This book describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors.
Statistical Inference / 2nd edition
2023 || Hardcover || Roger Berger e.a. || Cengage Learning
This book builds theoretical statistics from the first principles of probability theory. Starting from the basics of probability, the authors develop the theory of statistical inference using techniques, definitions, and concepts that are statistical and are natural extensions and consequences of previous concepts. Intended for first-year graduate students, this book can be used for students majoring in statistics who have a solid mathematics background.
It can also be used in a way that stre...
Relax, it's Only Uncertainty
2001 || Paperback || Philip Hodgson e.a. || Pearson
Holy War
he Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
2001 || Paperback || Karen Armstrong || Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God," skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. And, as Armstron...
Designing Dynamic Organizations
2001 || Paperback || Jay R. Galbraith e.a. || HarperCollins
Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a company, division, or department reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact? This title shows business leaders at all levels how to examine their choices by leading them systematically through these fundamental questions.
The Order of Things / 2nd edition
2001 || Paperback || Michel Foucault || Taylor & Francis
When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century.
Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation a...
Multi-Level Governance and European Integration
2001 || Paperback || Liesbet Hooghe e.a. || Rowman & Littlefield
European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization and decentralization. At the same time that authority in many policy areas has shifted to the suprantional level of the European Union, so national governments have given subnational regions within countries more say over the lives of their citizens. At the forefront of scholars who characterize this dual process as multi-level governance, Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks argue that its emergence in the sec...
Italian Volcanoes
Classic Geology in Europe
2001 || Paperback || Christopher J. Kilburn e.a. || Dunedin Academic Press
Based on an intimate knowledge and extensive research, Italian volcanoes, provides a complete introductory guide to one of the world's best known and most intensively studied volcanic areas. It is a unique guide to volcanic geology and an exciting introduction to how volcanoes work. Twelve detailed itineraries have been specially chosen to highlight the spectrum of volcanic products, their threat to human activity and their importance to understanding how volcanoes behave.
Richly illustrated ...
Art in Theory 1648-1815 / 1st edition
An Anthology of Changing Ideas
2001 || Paperback || Charles Harrison e.a. || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its highly successful companion volumes, Art in Theory (1815-1900) and Art in Theory (1900-1990), its' primary aim is to provide students and teachers with the documentary material for informed and up-to-date study. Its' 240 texts, clear principles of organization and considerable editorial content o...