Ace fighter pilot Smilin' Jack Rawlins has managed to survive the Vietnam War both physically and emotionally. Back home, however, his fortunes start fading fast when he signs on with VVAPS, an aerospace manufacturer whose bureaucratic excess stands second only to that of the US government.  Meer

"Parts of chapters 5 and 6 were previously published as Even swaps: a rational method for making trade-offs in Harvard Business Review. Parts of Chapter 10 were previously published as The hidden traps in decision making in Harvard Business Review"--Title page verso.  Meer

Hyman Minsky herinterpreteert het werk van het gerespecteerde icoon van de economische wereld: John Maynard Keynes. Minsky is namelijk van mening dat de wat de meeste economen als 'Keynesian economics' beschouwen, niet strookt met Keyne's belangrijkste punten The General Theory of Employment, Interest en Money.  Meer

Krêft fan de presidint John Fitzgerald Kennedy is it njoggende boek yn de rige fan In Fryske Odyssee. Dêryn is it libbensferhaal fan Bouke Blomhof opnommen, boer oan de Fluezen by It Heidenskip.  Meer

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality products.  Meer

Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. This study reveals a Havel, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned.  Meer

aeo Important new book about civil society by one of the leading scholars in politics and political theory today. aeo Examines the world--wide popularisation of the term a civil societya and examines some of the key issues and debates associated with the distinction between civil society and the state.  Meer

John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling forms of socio-economic life.  Meer

In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the common sense view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually sensitive to violence.  Meer

In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the common sense view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually sensitive to violence.  Meer

John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling forms of socio-economic life.  Meer

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality products.  Meer

Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane.  Meer

We live in a revolutionary age of communicative abundance in which many media innovations - from satellite broadcasting to smart glasses and electronic books - spawn great fascination mixed with excitement.  Meer

Democracy urgently needs re-imagining if it is to address the dangers and opportunities posed by current global realities, argues leading political thinker John Keane.  Meer