Gordon: 4430 books

From credit crunch to golden parachute barking up the wrong tree to storm in a tea cup in this book Gordon Jarvie explains all you need to know about these and 3 000 other common English idioms. Packed with nuggets of fascinating information the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms traces the origins of...

Home foreclosures became epidemic in 2006. Since then banks created over 45,000,000 homeless America refugees. They’re not evacuating down roads with their belongings on their backs so they remain invisible. They're refugees of a massive fraud and government's failure to protect them. This is a...

Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. Quarreling over the merits of each other’s accounts of...

An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin...

Parenting can be a magical journey full of bliss and wonder . . . if you're on the right meds. For the rest of us, it's another thing altogether. Fowl Language Comics takes an unvarnished look at the tedium and aggravation of parenting, while never forgetting that the reason we put up with those little...

In Information Tomorrow, Gordon brings together 20 of todays leading thinkers on the intersections between libraries and technology. They address various ways in which new technologies influence librarians actions and goals and offer ideas for using technology to meet patrons where they are. The result...

Harlequin Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes: HEART SURGEON TO SINGLE DAD by Janice Lynn After suddenly...

After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one...

Why does quality matter?  Voluntary and community organisations/groups want to provide the best services possible for their service users and for other stakeholders that is, those who have an interest in what they do.  As voluntary organisations/groups work more and more...

Skill Wars shows how to increase productivity and profits by making investments in human capital development. It addresses the disparity between the available jobs and available workers. By education and training only 20% of all American workers can fit well into our demanding high-tech workplace....

Dit e-book uit de serie PrismaDyslexie bevat het lettertype Dyslexie. De letters van dit lettertype zijn zodanig aangepast dat dyslectici minder moeite hebben ze van elkaar te onderscheiden, waardoor er minder leesfouten gemaakt worden en het lezen gemakkelijker wordt. Niet eerder was iemand in staat...

The history of the last two hundred years is a story of the immense and relentless growth of the State at the expense of other social institutions. We are now so familiar and accepting of the State's pre-eminence in all things, that few think to question it, and most suppose that democratic endorsement...

When Gordon Noel was five years old he came home from school to find that his father had left his mother for another woman. There were no roadmaps for divorced kids in 1940s Montana, and for the next thirteen years, Noel seldom saw his father despite living in the same town. In Out of Montana, Noel...

In 1976, journalist Gordon McLauchlan wrote his most famous work, The Passionless People a best-selling social commentary on New Zealand, where he probed the murky recesses of our national pscyhe. In The Passionless People Revisited he looks back at how New Zealanders have changed, or otherwise, over...