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In Naked Economics, journalist Charles Wheelan does "the impossible"-he makes economic principles relevant, interesting and fun. Brimming with scores of down-to-earth examples and sprinkled with humorous anecdotes, this comprehensive overview will keep listeners smiling and wide awake.
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Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas-eager to be a good wife and strong queen-she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly fails to consummate...
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"Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom--naked, covered in strange tattoos--to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall--along with all of Europe--to the empire's all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been...
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[2013]
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Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for Rembrandt's glorious portraits. But the deeper history of Amsterdam, what makes it one of the most fascinating places on earth, is bound up in its unique geography--the constant battle of its citizens to keep the sea at bay--and the democratic philosophy that this enduring...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2016]
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"The best-selling author of Naked Statistics and Naked Economics explores the colorful world of money and banking to answer such questions as how money creation is used to counter financial crises, why the shared European currency has caused so much trouble and how Bitcoin will impact the future." --
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This new, completely revised second edition of her bestselling classic is a design compendium that is as practical as it is inspirational. Designing with Succulents shares design and cultivation basics; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and profiles of 50 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Lavishly illustrated with 400 photographs, you will find everything you need to visualize, create, and nurture a thriving, water-smart succulent...
11) Naked men
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Europa Editions
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2018.
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"Irene's husband has left her for a younger woman and her family business is on the verge of collapse, but the last thing she wants is to be the subject of gossip or pity. So she starts spending time with Genoveva, a divorcée who, in liberating herself from the bonds of marriage, has also freed herself from the clutches of the old crowd of "couple friends." Javier is a literature teacher who suddenly loses his job at a Catholic school. He's not ambitious...
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Don't Run Naked Through The Office reveals the secrets of employee engagement from the employee's perspective. It has been called a must read for anyone frustrated with their jobs, business leaders with a desire to increase employee engagement and productivity in challenging economic times, new college graduates heading into a competitive workplace, and others wanting to avoid missteps in the advancement of their careers.
Penned from a workers perspective...
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This book is about how governments could, if they really wanted to, create jobs for all those who want them and pay decent pensions or benefits to those who are unable to work. It is also about how to ensure easily affordable, even free, education at all levels; and affordable healthcare, energy, transport, communications and much more. It is, in short a prescription for enabling and ensuring sustainable equity in the distribution of income and other...
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We may not often think of our clothes as having a function beyond covering our naked bodies and keeping us a little safer from the elements. But to discount the enormous influence of clothing on anything from economic cycles to the future of water scarcity is to ignore the greater meaning of the garments we put on our backs. Disrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism...
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Capitalism's agenda is the endless pursuit of private accumulation of socially produced wealth. In our system, the corporation-created by law-is meant to hide this agenda, to distract us so that flesh and blood capitalists can do what they like. But when the workings of the corporation are examined, they reveal a betrayal of the very values and norms that, for their legitimacy's sake, capitalists in our parts of the world purport to share. Harry Glasbeek...
16) Giving It All
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Christi Barth's smoking-hot contemporary romance series continues as the five best friends who survived a tragedy as teenagers take to their Naked Men podcast to open up about women. In Giving It All, the group's globe-trotting hunk discovers that you need to go home to find love. Logan Marsh never stays in one place for long. Through his family's foundation, Logan spends his days traveling to the world's most dangerous places to deliver disaster...
17) Trying It All
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Christi Barth's smoking-hot contemporary romance series continues as the five best friends who survived a tragedy as teenagers take to their Naked Men podcast to open up about women. In Giving It All, the group's globe-trotting hunk discovers that you need to go home to find love. Logan Marsh never stays in one place for long. Through his family's foundation, Logan spends his days traveling to the world's most dangerous places to deliver disaster...
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College students crammed into phone booths. Couples dancing until they drop. Daredevils swallowing one live goldfish after another. Streakers dashing naked down the street. Planking and flash mobs and robotic pets. These are just some of the crazy fads that have caught hold in the United States over the last century. Where do these ideas come from and why do they catch people's imagination? Fads reflect the mood and spirit of a particular time, and...
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"The secrets behind China's extraordinary educational system - good, bad, and ugly, Chinese students' consistently stunning performance on the international PISA exams-- where they outscore students of all other nations in math, reading, and science--have positioned China as a world education leader. American educators and pundits have declared this a "Sputnik Moment," saying that we must learn from China's education system in order to maintain our...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2010]
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Hilarious story about baring it all for a cause. When New York publicist E.J. Baxter loses both her job and her fiance at the office Christmas party, she does what anyone would do, she takes a job in Montana! Now, to help the local search-and-rescue station raise funds, E.J. must convince 12 men to pose naked for a calendar. And soon, she finds herself wanting to make room in her own calendar for one of the hunky rescuers!
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