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Sovereign Virtue - The Theory and Practice of Equality Dworkin RonaldPaperback

Equality is the endangered species of political ideas. Even left-of-centre politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In this new book the author insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable virtue of democratic sovereignty. A legitimate government must treat all its citizens as equals, that is, with equal respect and concern, and, since the economic distribution that any society achieves is mainly the consequence of its system of law and policy, that requirement imposes serious egalitarian constraints on that distribution. What distribution of a nation's wealth is demanded by equal concern for all? Dworkin draws upon two fundamental humanist principles - first, it is of equal objective importance that all human lives flourish, and second, each person is responsible for defining and achieving the flourishing of his or her own life - to ground his well-known thesis that true equality means equality in the value of the resources that each person commands, not in the success he or she achieves.Equality, freedom, and individual responsibility are therefore not in conflict, but flow from and into one another as facets of the same humanist conception of life and politics. Since no abstract political theory can be understood except in the context of actual and complex political issues, the author develops his thesis by applying it to heated contemporary controversies about the distribution of health care, unemployment benefits, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and genetic engineering.

The Westing Game Raskin EllenPaperback

A Newbery Medal WinnerFor over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite.This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense.Winner of the Newbery MedalWinner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book AwardAn ALA Notable BookA School Library Journal One Hundred Books That Shaped the CenturyA supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny. --Booklist, starred review

One Page Business Plan

Business planning has finally been simplified to One PageBankers require them. Business educators advocate them. Consultants make their living writing them. And venture capitalists won't give you the time of day without one...but most entrepreneurs or small business owners can't or won't write a business plan; it's just too difficult.The One Page Business Plan is designed to act as a catalyst for ideas. It's a powerful tool for building and managing a business. Entrepreneurs like to think and move fast and the concept of a traditional business plan may be out of the question. This is an innovative, fresh approach to business planning which is short, concise and delivers your plan quickly and effectively.Content on CD:Sample business plansPowerful Sales CalculatorsOne Page Budget Worksheet

Say It with Presentations, Second Edition, Revised & Expanded

This is the McKinsey way to impress clients and reap more business. In 45 years at McKinsey and Company, Gene Zelazny has shown hundreds of McKinsey consultants and thousands of professionals around the world how to plan strategy, visually communicate data, and dramatically improve their presentation skills. Say It With Presentations shows you, whether you`re an experienced presenter or just starting out, how to put together powerful presentations, from initial concept to post-presentation analysis.Zelazny updates his perennially popular how-to with modern, audience proven te

Be Careful What You Wish for Jordan SimonPaperback

The author made his fortune building a mobile phone company from scratch. When he sold it for GBP75 million, he bought Crystal Palace FC, the club he'd supported as a boy, and led them into the Premier League. Ten years later Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. This title tells his

World War I DKPaperback

A guide to World War I. From disaster to victory, it captivates readers and gives an insight into life in the muddy trenches, and what it was like to be a soldier, along with a broader picture of the world-changing events that led to the start of the

Petersburg Tales Gogol NikolaiPaperback

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor ('The Nose'), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success ('Nevsky Prospect') and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat ('The Overcoat'). Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.

Petit Nicolas Goscinny RenePaperback

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Pavel and I Vyleta DanPaperback

Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet General when a friend deposits the frozen body of a dead Russian spy in his

Strategize! - Julie Siciliano a kolektív

Strategize! 4e, International Edition allows learners to try out the strategy models and concepts and get feedback regarding their understanding and application of strategic management theory. The book presents a number of experiential exercises and projects for use in and out of class. Because the exercises include thought, action, and feedback-assessment components, they promote an understanding of strategic management through comprehensive active learning.All exercises and scenarios have been thoroughly updated to provide accurate and relevant information that ensure consi

Earth in the Balance - Al Gore

Al Gore leads the charge against climate change, the world's greatest threat, in an incendiary new foreword to this timeless classic that launched his environmental career. If you want to know Gore, you need this book!

Bootlegger: Isaac Bell 7

The Bootlegger is the seventh of Clive Cussler's bestselling Isaac Bell novels. It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while in pursuit of a rum-running vessel, his friend and employe e, Isaac Bell, swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to the shooting is executed in a manner peculiar to the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these were no ordinary bootleggers. Bell is facing a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs - and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States. An adventure laced with secret cargo and assassins, The Bootlegger is the seventh of Clive Cussler's Isaac Bell novels, and follows The Spy, The Thief and The Striker. Praise for Clive Cussler: "Cussler is hard to beat". (Daily Mail). "The guy I read". (Tom Clancy). "The Adventure King". (Sunday Express). Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt[registered] adventures, such as Arctic Drift; the NUMA[registered] Files adventures, most recently Zero Hour; the Oregon Files, such as Mirage; the Isaac Bell Adventures, which began with The Chase; and the highly successful most recent series, the Fargo Adventures. He lives in Arizona. Justin Scott is the author of twenty-six novels, including The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbot detective series; and five modern sea thrillers under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut.

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Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse - Inspector Maigret #58 Simenon GeorgesPaperback

When he is tasked with solving a seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truthA retired manufacturer is found murdered with his own pistol in his favorite armchair, shattering the tranquility of a quiet Paris community. The neighbors describe the Josselin household as a bastion of bourgeois compatibility, and Inspector Maigret is stymied by the absence of motive and by the reticence of the bereaved wife. It is not until a chance witness recalls an odd encounter between the deceased and a man in a bistro that the veil of propriety protecting the killer begins to dissolve.Maigret suspects that he's not being given all the facts in this case as he is drawn deeper into the complex web of family dramas and lies at the heart of it. In Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse, he must rely on his famous

Eurythmieformen zu Dichtungen von Christian Morgenstern

Im Anschluss an Rudolf Steiners Wochenspruchformen werden nun, in mehrere Bände gegliedert, alle Formen zu seinen Dichtungen dem Druck übergeben, sowie alle Formen zu Texten anderer Dichter in deutsch

Úžasný, fantastický, neuvěřitelný Stan Lee! - Peter David, Stan Lee, Colleen Doran Ilustrácie

Muž, ktorý stvoril Spider-Mana, X-Meny, Hulka a dav ďalších superhrdinov, tu predstavuje svoj život a čas v strhujúcich komiksových spomienkach. Stan Lee je tým najslávnejším menom v histórii komi

One Winter Morning

Autor : Isabelle Broom, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : One Winter Morning, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet strán : 388

Rok bez mäsa - Peter Celér

Ako po celý rok variť zdravo, chutne a bez mäsa. Realizovať zdravú výživu je pomerne jednoduché. Riešenie je tradičné a volá sa sezónne jedlá. Počas celého roka varíme hlavne z toho, čo práve u nás, na Slovensku, v Európe rastie, podľa možností v najprirodzenejšom a čerstvom stave. To zabezpečí, že strava bude pestrá, vyvážená a nebude nám nič chýbať. Vyvážená znamená, že ani sójové výrobky nebudeme používať trikrát denne. Na druhej strane je veľmi dôležité vylúčiť potraviny, ktoré obsahujú syntetické konzervačné látky, zosilňovače chuti, emulgátory či syntetické farbivá. Na obaloch potravín treba čítať nielen dátum spotreby, ale aj ich zloženie. Ešte je aj tretia strana. Nestačí, že je jedlo zdravé, musí byť aj chutné. A ako navariť zdravo, chutne a bez mäsa, o tom je táto kniha.

Co to žere a kde to spí - Petr Heteša

Obrovské vesmírne prekladisko Teranga (čiže Terminál Sycango) je okrem pristávacích a odletových rámp kompletne vybudované pod povrchom planéty a personál tvorí jedenásť tisíc ľudí a vyše dvetisíc androidov. V podstate ide o mesto s kompletným vybavením a servisom. Všetko funguje tak, ako má, až do chvíle, než sa začnú strácať ľudí. Na Zemi sa o tom nič nevie, kým sa nestratí dcéra námestníka baltimorskej FBI. Námestník na Teranga pošle vyšetrovateľku Moira Glaceovou. Jednak mu bola protivná a potreboval sa jej zbaviť, jednak mu bolo jasné, že ak má na Teranga niekto šancu niečo vyšetriť, tak jedine drzá neriadená strela, čo Moira je. Agentka hneď po prílete pochopí, že je votrelcom v dokonale funkčným, ale zároveň dokonale uzavretom systéme, ktorý za všetkých okolností držia pri sebe, a to vrátane umelej inteligencie, riadiace všetok prevádzku Teranga. Ostatne inak by to ani nešlo, pretože čierny obchod (zbrane a drogy) tvorí tridsať percent prevádzky prekladiska. Systém si veľmi rýchlo zanalyzuje, že Moira ten svoj vyšetrovací ňufák strčila príliš hlboko do jeho štruktúry, a teda už sa na Zem vrátiť nemôže. Moira má však na vec úplne iný názor. Samostatný román.

Senior Moments: Love & Marriage

Do you remember when you had that feeling of butterflies, that instant sexual chemistry and the joy of falling in love? Now do you remember getting married and forgetting what any of that feels like? Resigned to a life of birthday sex and children slowly draining your bank account? This hilarious book depicts both the early stages of love and attraction, and the laugh out loud realities of being married. Not all bad, but certainly all

Ein Sommerhaus in Cornwall Johnson DebbiePaperback

Pippa hat alle Hände voll zu tun, seit sie nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern deren Farm, die Ferienhausvermietung und die Verantwortung für ihre jüngeren Geschwister übernommen hat. An ein Date hat Pippa schon seit langem nicht einmal mehr gedacht. Doch dann spaziert Ben Retallick auf den Hof und fragt nach einer Unterkunft, und sofort ist Pippa klar: Für diesen Mann lohnt es sich definitiv, die Gummistiefel wieder einmal gegen etwas Schickeres zu tauschen und vielleicht sogar eine Sommerromanze zu riskieren. Doch Bens Vergangenheit droht sie einzuholen, und Pippa muss ihre Gefühle in den Griff bekommen. "Ein pures Vergnügen" Sunday Express "Dieses Buch hat alles, was ein perfekter Urlaubsroman braucht: die wunderschöne Küste Cornwalls, eine Familien-Farm und einen geheimnisvollen Mann mit unwiderstehlichem Charme" Yours Magazine

Bobo am Meer Osterwalder MarkusCardboard

Familie Siebenschläfer ist in den Ferien am Meer! Erst fahren Bobo und seine Eltern mit einer kleinen Bahn am Strand entlang. Dann spielt Bobo im weichen Sand. Er badet mit Papa in den Wellen, findet Muscheln und besucht mit seinen Eltern ein Aquarium. Was für ein herrlicher Tag!

Am Kap des guten Abends Seiler LutzPevná vazba

Schönheit, Prägnanz und Rhythmus in jedem einzelnen Satz ...Elke Schmitter, Kulturspiegel

Kommando Black Site Jordan Will Paperback

Die Alpen sehen und sterben Archan IsabellaPaperback

Cecile Fontane TheodorPaperback

Mein bunter Lern- und bungsblock Kindergarten. Malen, Rtseln und Verstehen Thabet Edith Paperback

Lernen macht Spaß! Mit altersgerechte Aufgaben werden Kindergarten-, Vor- und Grundschulkinder gezielt gefördert. Gleichzeit wird die Freude am Lernen geweckt - so gelingt der Schulstart garantiert

Collins Easy Learning Age 5-7 - English Ages 5-7 Collins Easy LearningPaperback

This engaging activity book builds English skills through rewarding and motivating activities designed to give children a real sense of achievement, boosting their confidence and developing good learning habits for life. The colourful pages make learning fun and helpful tips and answers are included so that parent can support their child. This book develops literacy skills. Its colourful, motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included so that parent can support their child's learning.

Lektürehilfen Clint Eastwood Gran Torino

Die beliebte Interpretationshilfe lässt zu Klausur und Abitur keine Fragen offen: bewährte Qualität jetzt mit neuen, zeitgemäßen Features für eine noch verständlichere Hilfe zur Literatur. Mit Schnell

Die Wahrheit ber MnnerPevná vazba