Erik: 1534 books
Het Tweede machinetijdperk
hoe de digitale revolutie ons leven zal veranderen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Internationale bestseller over de impact van technologie op ons leven: Google Glasses, zelfrijdende auto's, computers die het menselijk brein vervangen... De digitalisering heeft ons leven drastisch veranderd, en we staan nog maar aan het begin van deze revolutie. 'Vanaf nu wordt de verandering pas...
by Erik Christian Haugaard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
An American Library Association Notable Book and his first book for children, Erik Christian Haugaard’s Hakon of Rogen’s Saga is a remarkable novel that perfectly catches the mood of a harsh but heroic people. Set at the end of the Viking period, it tells of a young boy, Hakon, from the island of...
Authoritarian El Salvador
Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could...
The Institutional Imperative
The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not? If democracy is the supposed panacea for the developing world, why have Southeast Asian democracies had such uneven results? In exploring these questions, political scientist Erik Martinez Kuhonta argues...
by Erik Orsenna
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2016
« Un père et un fils n’échangeaient guère. Vient un été où ils divorcent ensemble. Le fils de sa première femme. Le père de la mère du fils. Alors le père et le fils ne vont plus arrêter de parler d’amour.
Tout nous réussit sauf nos amours. Nos échecs viendraient-ils d’un gène...
The People's Martyr
Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In 1840s Rhode Island, the state's seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wilson Dorr's failed attempt to rectify that situation through constitutional reform ultimately...
Education Unchained
What it takes to Restore Schools and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Are we going about education the wrong way? The somewhat shocking demonstration of this book is that "we" simply cannot reform "our" schools "together". We don't actually even know what schools or education really are. Education can only be improved the same way we improve...
Soccer Without Borders
Jürgen Klinsmann, Coaching the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team and the Quest for the World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A GAME-CHANGING AND FASCINATING BOOK ON HOW TO USE WISDOM FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO CREATE A LASTING, POWERFUL SOCCER TEAM, BY ONE OF THE SPORT'S MOST ICONIC AND EFFECTIVE COACHES
Jurgen Klinsmann, head coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team, has become a household name after the United...
Utopia Drive
A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically,...
by Erik Ga Bean
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
When he asked her to keep house, she didn't realise that he meant forever.
by Erik Arneson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2018
Games are great, especially board games. But there are times when you find yourself stuck somewhere without any games: No cards, no dice, not even a coin to flip. This book will save the day!
As long as you have a pencil and paper, you can play any of these 17 awesome games, including laugh-out-loud party games, deep-thinking strategy games, clever word games, and more!
The Coming of Age of the Green Community
My neighbourhood, my planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives. Governments have serially failed to do the job at the...
by Matthew Wisnioski, Humera Fasihuddin, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring...
by Erik Dahlén
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
I have continued my thoughts in "What Black Hole can teach us about gravity" and formed an idea about dark energy. What dark energy is and how it is connected to gravity. Before reading this I recommend to read my previous publication.