Memoir of Sir Bejamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with Notices of his Daughter

&#8220;Delicious fun&#8230;Spenser is back in his element&#8212;out-punching and out-quipping adversaries in Beantown. An entertaining supporting cast puts this one on the top shelf&#8230;one of the author&#8217;s wittier outings. Bottom line: A merry Widow.&#8221;&#8212;People&#160;&#8220;Priceless moments.&#8221;&#8212;The New York Times Book Review&#160;&#8220;Top-notch stuff.&#8221;&#8212;The Seattle Times&#160;&#8220;Parker&#8217;s energies remain as formidable as his hero&#8217;s.&#8221;&#8212;Boston Globe&#160;&#8220;Prime Spenser&#8230;an enjoyable ride.&#8221;&#8212;The Times Union (Albany, NY.)&#160;&#8220;Widow&#8217;s Walk ranks among the best in the Spenser series&#8212;just enough of the hard-boiled stuff, a touch of good-natured cynicism, some mature reflection on the nature of life and a well-knotted whodunit. It&#8217;s a great way to spend the weekend&#8230;For those who have yet to have the pleasure of our hero&#8217;s company, it&#8217;s a stellar introduction.&#8221;&#8212;Calgary Herald&#160;&#8220;It&#8217;s the dialogue that marks Parker as the undisputed master of the hard-boiled universe.&#8221;&#8212;Ottawa Citizen&#160;&#8220;The writing is as clean as fresh ice, and from the opening sentence, it&#8217;s clear that readers are in the hands of a vet who knows what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;&#8212;Publishers Weekly&#160;&#8220;ANY book by Robert B. Parker is a treat but there is something extra-special when he gives us a new detective story starring the inimitable Spenser. &#91;Widow&#8217;s Walk is&#93; classic Parker, with that beautifully pared-down style that wastes no words but still conjures up richly detailed characters and a vibrant sense of place&#8230;funny&#8230;touching&#8230; compassionate.&#8221; &#8212;Sunday Mercury&#160;&#8220;Spencer is back, as quick with a quip and as free with his fists as ever&#8230;So enjoy.&#8221;&#8212;The San Diego Union Tribune&#8220;One of the great series in the history of the American detective story.&#8221;&#8212;The New York Times&#8220;A cat&#8217;s cradle of conspiracies&#8230;fun to read as ever.&#8221;&#8212;Los Angeles Times

Widow's Walk

Every Day Is Remarkable and Remakable

Nothing Is As It Was

The Fall Reconsidered

Die Grundlagen

Wie die Wikingerinnen: Drahtschmuck stricken I

Ein unterhaltsames, lesenswertes Kinderbuch.

Liliane Susewind – Giraffen übersieht man nicht

Strong Horses: Systems Thinking: Strategic Communication

Griefs Nouveaux Des Cabinets Européens Contre Le Cabinet Russe

&ldquo;Gary Wasserman is a splendid tour guide to a country few of us know anything about, let alone visited. Deeply insightful, he has written a wonderful book with ingratiating humility, honesty and respect. The Doha Experiment reads like an edgy sitcom, as humorous as it is sad.&rdquo; &#8212;Lewis Black, comedian, actor, and New York Times bestselling author of Nothing&rsquo;s Sacred &ldquo;This book despite its many moments of levity offers a serious and important lesson about the possibilities,and limitations, of American education as a bridge between cultures.&rdquo; &#8212;Senator Dick Durbin, from the foreword &ldquo;Given the number of American universities that have established satellites in distant parts of the world, it&rsquo;s remarkable so few people have written about this phenomenon. Gary Wasserman&rsquo;s account of his experience in Qatar is a fascinating introduction to this very twenty-first century meeting of cultures: subtle, full of insight, often wise and sometimes hilarious.&rdquo;  &#8212;Adam Hochshild, author of King Leopold&rsquo;s Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts &ldquo;The Doha Experiment is a thought-provoking memoir about the experience and difficulty of imparting a liberal education in a segment of the Arab Gulf. The challenges confronting the bright and highly motivated women students are richly drawn. Wasserman describes the tensions between the boundaries imposed by tradition and the impact of a western college education that expanded horizons and promoted individualism. Were women students being educated for a world inimical to their environment? Would they become change makers or revert to their previous lives? It&rsquo;s a fascinating read.&rdquo;  &#8212;Melanne Verveer, former US ambassador for global women&rsquo;s issues, author of Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose &ldquo;This is a richly informative first-hand account of what it is like to live and to teach US politics in a conservative Arab-Muslim society. Professor Wasserman went to Qatar armed with wry wit, street smarts and no pretensions; he receives an &lsquo;A&rsquo; for his ability to understand, sympathize, and identify with his students.&rdquo;  &#8212;Ira M. Lapidus, emeritus professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic history at the University of California at Berkeley, author of A History of Islamic Studies &ldquo;Gary Wasserman has written a funny, intelligent, insightful, little book about an important experiment in higher education that is still unfolding. There is a lot that is uplifting and promising about the story, but there is much that points to the limits of the engagement as well, and Wasserman does not spare the reader. It is an honest book with a good story, warts and all.&rdquo;  &#8212;Robert Gallucci, former dean of the School of Foreign Service, former president of the MacArthur Foundation &ldquo;This is a lively, highly readable, and informative book. Perceptive, frank, and relentlessly probing, Wasserman takes on one of the most important and controversial questions currently facing America&rsquo;s liberal &lsquo;super brand&rsquo; universities: whether they can successfully transplant their liberal curricula and scholastic traditions to parts of the world where liberalism has yet to secure a firm foothold. To get a handle on the problems of globalized Western education, there is no better place to begin than Wasserman&rsquo;s wise, sensitive and unbiased assessment.&rdquo;  &#8212;Robert G. Wirsing, professor of government (retired), Georgetown University School of Foreign Service at Qatar &ldquo;A fascinating, deeply personal account of a remarkable experiment. Wasserman captures the promise and peril of seeking to impart liberal education in an illiberal environment while maintaining the integrity of the providers.&rdquo;  &#8212;Robert J. Lieber, professor of government and international affairs, Georgetown University, author of Retreat and Its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order &ldquo;It is amazing, so smooth to read, too friendly to realize easily it is not only a narrative of a personal experience, but a journey to a different culture that has been misrepresented by simplifications, and stereotypes.&rdquo;  &#8212;Abbas Al-Tonsi, senior instructor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar &ldquo;&lsquo;A Jewish guy walks into a Catholic school in an Arab country&hellip;&rsquo; Not surprisingly, the guy&rsquo;s family get ready to chant the customary prayer for the dead. &lsquo;Stay away from the Arabs,&rsquo; his elderly aunt pleads. Fortunately for us, Gary Wasserman did not take their advice and lived to tell this amusing and informative story of The Doha Experiment. This is a highly entertaining and insightful book from a natural story-teller and teacher who possesses an instinct for bending people&rsquo;s views by getting them to laugh with him.&rdquo;  &#8212;John Harte, author of How Churchill Saved Civilization and Churchill The Young Warrior &ldquo;Gary Wasserman has written a marvelously engaging study of Qatar&rsquo;s ambition to transform itself from an oil kingdom into an educational oasis. It is rich in insight about teachers and students, the roles of women and men, and the clash between Westerners and Middle-Easterners. The themes it touches upon are as timeless as the call to prayers, and as relevant as today&rsquo;s news headlines. Read it. It will help you understand the world you live in.&rdquo;  &#8212;Chris McNickle, author of Bloomberg: A Billionaire&rsquo;s Ambition &ldquo;The Doha Experiment is riveting reading about the complexities of introducing American-style university education in a distinctly non-American culture. But it is also important for its insights into the unexpectedly important state of Qatar, which is at the center of current Middle Eastern politics. Though very much about universities and their missions, it is written in a conversational style that is accessible to any reader. And it deserves a wide audience!&rdquo;  &#8212;Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution &ldquo;Students at Georgetown&rsquo;s Doha campus master the art of thinking globally while living locally. They hold the promise of a new generation of culturally-rooted and broad-minded global leaders. Gary Wasserman&rsquo;s striking account is candid about the challenges but also shows how much has been accomplished.&rdquo;  &#8212;Jim O&rsquo;Donnell, former provost, Georgetown University &ldquo;In this gripping narrative, Gary Wasserman reflects not only on what the globalization of American education in the twenty-first century means for a troubled region, what opportunities it opens up, and what challenges it poses, but also how this rich journey helped him overcome his apprehensions and see the region in a different light. Written in a lucid style and accessible language, the book offers a firsthand account of what it means for an expatriate academic living in the Middle East to venture outside his or her zone of comfort and discover how culture, religion and politics intersect in complex ways.&rdquo;  &#8212;Mohamed Zayani, editor of The Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age &ldquo;This memoir about living and teaching in Doha, Qatar, offers an intriguing look inside an Arab country: the tension between fundamentalism, custom and liberalism; the impact of wealth in a society where only a tiny proportion are Qataris; the place of outsiders; and the value of an education, particularly for women. Wasserman offers an insightful take on the difficulties (and modest successes) in teaching western liberal ideas in a Middle Eastern setting. An invaluable read for anyone interested in cross-cultural education.&rdquo;  &#8212;Julia C. Tobey, editor, Captain McCrea&rsquo;s War &ldquo;In The Doha Experiment, Gary Wasserman blends entertainment with education as he describes his experiences as a Jewish teacher at Georgetown&rsquo;s newly-established School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Using humor as a tool, not only while teaching his students about the ways of American democracy but also in detailing his eight years as a fish out of water in the desert of the Middle East, Wasserman finds the common denominators that hold us together as human beings instead of the differences that tear us apart. He learned as much as he taught, and readers will do the same.&rdquo; &#8212;Mike Farris, author of the Amazon bestseller A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow &ldquo;Gary Wasserman's laugh-out-loud book is a rarity in an age of social media narcissism: an acutely self-aware book about the writer&rsquo;s limitations set against a quixotic attempt to resolve the Middle East to the West. The best parts are when he lets his students speak: They are funny, heart-breaking. and wise, and his love for them will make your day.&rdquo; &#8212;Ron Kampeas, Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraph Agency &ldquo;Awash in a sea of liquid natural gas, Qatar enjoys the world's highest per capita GDP. The &lsquo;Doha experiment&rsquo; is fueled by that wealth and has many faces&#8212;Al-Jazeera, &lsquo;charitable&rsquo; donations to terrorist groups, military bases for Americans, a ludicrously extravagant $200 billion bid for the 2022 World Cup, and the importation of US universities lock, stock, and barrel to Doha's &lsquo;Education City.&rsquo; Gary Wasserman was a key player in Georgetown's Doha program, and his entertaining account of eight years teaching there to a mix of students from Qatar, the surrounding Arab world, and big non-Arab states like Pakistan reveals as well as any analysis the sharp limits to change in today&rsquo;s Islamic world.&rdquo;  &#8212;Geoffrey Wawro, author of Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East

Arab Kingdom, Catholic College, Jewish Teacher

The Doha Experiment

The Three Social Dilemmas of Workforce Diversity

Diversity Science Research Series. Volume I - An Attributional Case Analysis

'In this excellent book on the British crime movie, a follow-up to his valuable studies of English-language and Scandinavian crime fiction, Forshaw interrogates the usual suspects, discovers many neglected pictures, and places them all in a larger social context. It's a work to read for pleasure and instruction, and then to keep on the reference shelf.'
- Philip French, The Observer

'Crime fiction in films and literature is my meat. So Barry Forshaw's terrific book not only rekindled memories of films seen but provided clues to others yet to be revelled in. This rave has nothing to do with getting an honourable mention.'
- Mike Hodges, Director, Get Carter

'An incredible work; so thorough, so informed and at the same time so very readable and entertaining.'
- Peter James, Chair, Crime Writers' Association

'This book provides a much-needed shot in the arm for writing on British crime film. The colourful case-studies draw out the political complexities of this stalwart genre, opening up the films in insightful and often revisionary readings. Calling upon his compendious knowledge of the subject and injecting wit into his precise prose, Forshaw reinvigorates the field.'
- Steven Peacock, Reader in Film and Television Aesthetics, Programme Coordinator MA Film and Television Aesthetics, University of Hertfordshire, UK

'Barry Forshaw has penetrated the locked-room mystery of the British crime film and brought it to book ... the verdict is "outstanding".'
- Kim Newman, Author, Nightmare Movies

'Destined to become an essential volume on any self-respecting cinephile's bookshelf. Forshaw is bang-on about the British crime films you already know, but (even more importantly) makes you eager to track down and watch the lesser-known gems you haven't seen.'
- Anne Billson, The Guardian

Subverting the Social Order

British Crime Film

Yang-Baxter Equation In... (V10)

Proceedings of the 5th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference

Taking Charge in Troubled Times

War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters

Journey to the Wilderness

Women of a Generous Spirit

Les jurassiens recommandables (Éd.1828)

"With a chapter of his work dedicated to each Maccabiah, Kaplan presents abalanced view of the 'Jewish Olympics,' highlighting both issues and successes. His wit, fluidity and straightforwardness provide an all-encompassing picture of the Maccabiahs, from the inaugural Games in 1932 to the 19th edition in 2013."&#151;Shana Medel, Jerusalem Post&#147;A useful guide to a significant sporting event that was &#145;born out of exclusion and anti-Semitism.&#8217;&#8221;&#151;Kirkus Reviews"THE JEWISH OLYMPICS is a fascinating history that goes beyond sports."&#151;Stuart Shiffman, Book Reporter&#147;This important international sporting event needed a definitive book and Ron Kaplan has at long last provided it.&#8221;&#151;Marty Appel, author of Pinstripe Empire&#147;Ron Kaplan makes a valuable addition to the study of Jewish participation in sports.&#8221;&#151;Bob Wechsler, author of Day by Day in Jewish Sports History&#147;Ron Kaplan is the expert on where sports and Judaism meet. Now Kaplan has written an entertaining, comprehensive history of the Maccabiah Games, the competition where sports and Judaism so often coalesce in fascinating, inspirational ways. This was the moment for such a book, and Kaplan was the perfect choice to write it.&#8221;&#151;Howard Megdal, author of The Baseball Talmud and The Cardinals Way&#147;Ron Kaplan has produced an interesting, fact-filled account of the &#145;Jewish Olympics,&#8217; the Maccabiah Games. It&#8217;s filled with the recognizable names of great athletes, as well as the thousands of Jews from around the world who came to Israel to compete. This is a fun read.&#8221;&#151;Daniel Kurtzer, Professor at Princeton University and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt&#147;Kaplan&#8217;s compelling descriptions of the controversies surrounding the Maccabiah Games are what distinguish this book.&#8221;&#151;Peter Ephross, Forward

The History of the Maccabiah Games

The Jewish Olympics

The Cia's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954

Secret History, Second Edition

From the reviews:This is an exceptionally informative book, well structured and well written. Without being too long it covers all the relevant ground thoroughly.The book is excellent in looking at all the details of energy sources, and shows realism in what is likely to be politically possible. Outstanding in many ways, and it is in sharp contrast to many popular articles and books based on starry-eyed optimism about what technology is likely to deliver.Andrew FergusonHonorary Editor, OPT Journal, Optimisation Population Trust, Manchester UK.“This brief volume seeks to document the consequences of a carbon-based economy, limitations to continued use of fossil fuels, and solutions to reduce the resulting climate change. It thus encapsulates information from the IPCC reports. … This work contains a wealth of interesting material … . The book’s structure is coherent and systematic; the index appears accurate. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, two-year technical program students, general readers.” (S. C. Pryor, Choice, Vol. 48 (8), April, 2011)“Key aspects of global environmental and resource problems and their technical mitigation solutions are considered in this book. It provides a valuable background for anybody who is interested in global climate change and its challenges. In a very instructive way, even amateurs will obtain an overview of what the possible strategies are to solve these current problems. For students, technical professionals, and researchers … as well as politicians, this book provides a well-structured overview and a lot of valuable references to continue their study.” (Felix Witing and Daniela Thrän, Energy, Sustainability and Society, Vol. 2 (17), 2012)

Resolving Global Environmental and Resource Problems

Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation

Le guide de l'Exposition de 1900 (Éd.1900)

DC Finest: Horror: The Devil's Doorway

Porti e approdi fluviali in Italia peninsulare: dall'eta romana all'anno mille

La Normandie Vue Par Les Écrivains Et Les Artistes (Éd.19e)

The Metropolitan Districts Volume 5

The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor

Policia / Police

A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution

Adiós Muchachos

Bullies Grown Up

From the Eyes of a Target

An Indian Story

Mentoc

Individual Student Edition Purple (Levels 19-20)

A New School for Megan

Clean Energy: Hydrogen/Fuel Cells Laboratory Manual (with DVD-ROM)

Report Of Transactions During The Third Quinquennial Term Terminating With The Third Quinquennial Meeting Held In Berlin, June 1904 (1910)

The International Council Of Women

Memoir of Sir Bejamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with Notices of his Daughter

Autor:

Verlag:

Sprache:

CHF 114.00

Bewertungen