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Poverty, by America / Matthew Desmond. - London : Allen Lane, 2023. - 284 strony ; 24 cm.

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Desmond Matthew. Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura amerykańska

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Nierówności społeczne Osoby ubogie Ubóstwo Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Reportaż

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Socjologia i społeczeństwo

Książka w języku angielskim. The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. One in seven Americans live below the poverty line, a line which hasn't shifted over the last fifty years, despite the efforts of successive governments and extensive relief programs. Why is there so much scarcity in this land of dollars? In Poverty, by America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the nature of American poverty today and the stories we tell ourselves about it. Spanning racism, social isolation, mass incarceration, the housing crisis, domestic violence, crack and opioid epidemics, welfare cuts and more, Desmond argues that poverty does not result from a lack of resources or good policy ideas. We already know how to eliminate it. The hard part is getting more of us to care. To do so, we need a new story. As things stand, liberals explain poverty through insurmountable structural issues, whereas conservatives highlight personal failings and poor life choices. Both analyses abdicate responsibility, and ignore the reality that the advantages of the rich only come at the expense of the poor. It is time better-paid citizens put themselves back in the narrative, recognizing that the depth and expanse of poverty in any nation reflects our failure to look out for one another. Poverty must ultimately be met by community: all this suffering and want is our doing, and we can undo it.

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Kwan Kevin. Autor

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Książki Proza

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Ludzie bogaci Relacja romantyczna Ślub i wesele Chiny Szanghaj (Chiny)

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Książka w języku angielskim. Kolejna po "Crazy rich Asians ", historia o rodzinie, fortunie i sławie, tym razem w Chinach kontynentalnych.

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An African history of Africa : from the dawn of humanity to independence / Zeinab Badawi. - London : WH Allen, 2024. - 532 strony ; 24 cm.

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Badawi Zeinab. Autor

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Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

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Historia Kultura Afryka

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Etnologia i antropologia kulturowa Historia

Książka w języku angielskim. For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Visiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, Badawi weaves together a gripping new history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans themselves.

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The Volunteer : the true story of the resistance hero who infiltrated Auschwitz / Jack Fairweather. - London : WH Allen, 2020. - [2], XVIII, [2], 505 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Fairweather Jack (1978- ). Autor

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Książki

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Pilecki, Witold(1901-1948) Obóz hitlerowski Auschwitz-Birkenau Wojna 1939-1945 r Ruch oporu

Bibliografia na stronach [461]-486. Indeks.

Książka w języku angielskim. Autor przedstawia sylwetkę bohatera II wojny światowej, Witolda Pileckiego.

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Lean in : woman, work, and the will to lead / Sheryl Sanberg with Nell Scovell. - London : WH Allen, 2013. - [8], 230, [2] s. ; 22 cm.

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Sandberg Sheryl (1969- ). Scovell Nell.

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Przywództwo-socjologia-kobieta Osobowość-psychologia-kobieta Kobieta Sandberg, Sheryl-pamiętniki

Książka w języku angielskim. Książka napisana przez jedną z najbardziej wpływowych kobiet na świecie, prezeskę Facebooka, wcześniej pracującą na wysokich kierowniczych stanowiskach w Gogle, Starbucks, Walt Disney. Udowadnia w niej, że kobiety mają szansę na wysoką pozycję zawodową nie rezygnując z życia rodzinnego. Odwołując się do licznych publikacji i własnych doświadczeń, z dużym feministycznym zacięciem stara się pomóc pracującym kobietom podjąć mądre decyzje, które zaważą na ich życiu, karierze i rodzinie.

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Edible economics : a hungry economist explains the world / Ha-Joon Chang. - London : Allen Lane - an imprint od Penguin Books, 2022. - XXV, [1], 191, [1] strona ; 24 cm.

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Chang Ha-Joon (1963- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

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Ekonomia Gospodarka Polityka gospodarcza

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Gospodarka, ekonomia, finanse

Książka w języku angielskim. Myślenie ekonomiczne – o globalizacji, zmianach klimatycznych, imigracji, oszczędnościach, automatyzacji i wielu innych kwestiach – w najbardziej przyswajalnej formie. Obalająca mity, dowcipna i dająca do myślenia książka Edible Economics pokazuje, że zapoznanie się z ekonomią jest jak poznanie przepisu: jeśli go zrozumiemy, możemy go zmienić, a wraz z nim świat.

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How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / Bill Gates. - [London] : Allen Lane - an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021. - [8], 257 stron : ilustracje ; 24 cm.

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Gates Bill (1955- ). Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura amerykańska

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Gazy cieplarniane Globalne ocieplenie Zmiany klimatyczne Polityka ochrony środowiska Polityka klimatyczna

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Esej

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Geografia i nauki o Ziemi Ochrona środowiska Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna

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Książka w języku angielskim. Według Bila Gates’a tylko zatrzymanie emisji gazów cieplarnianych może uratować świat przed katastrofą. Oto jego plan i wezwanie do działania.

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Pirate enlightenment, or the real libertalia / David Roberts. - [London] : Allen Lane - an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023. - 175 stron ; 23 cm.

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Graeber David (1961-2020). Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Misson, Maximilien (ok. 1650-1722) Piraci Oświecenie Utopia Wyprawy i ekspedycje Madagaskar

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Geografia i nauki o Ziemi Historia

Bibliografia na stronach [165]-175.

Książka w języku angielskim. The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land. For Graeber, Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political thought. In this jewel of a book, he offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, merchants and traders, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice by Western revolutionary regimes a century later. Pirate Enlightenment playfully dismantles the central myths of the Enlightenment. In their place comes a story about the magic, sea battles, purloined princesses, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms, fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners and devil worship that lie at the origins of modern freedom.

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Beyond the wall : East Germany, 1949-1990 / Katja Hoyer. - Dublin : Allen Lane - an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023. - [18], 475, [1] strona, [16] stron tablic : ilustracje ; 24 cm.

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Hoyer Katja. Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura niemiecka Literatura angielska

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Mur Berliński (Niemcy) Społeczeństwo Życie codzienne NRD

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Opracowanie

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Historia

Bibliografia na stronach 433-446. Indeks.

Książka w języku angielskim. "In beyond the wall", acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West. Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.

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Doppelganger : a trip into the mirror world / Naomi Klein. - [London] : Allen Lane - an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023. - [10], 399, [2] strony ; 24 cm.

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Klein Naomi (1970- ). Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura amerykańska

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Dezinformacja Tożsamość osobista Tożsamość internetowa Media społecznościowe Manipulacja (psychologia) Ekstremizm polityczny

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Reportaż

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Socjologia i społeczeństwo

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Książka w języku angielskim. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now--and an intellectual adventure story for our times.

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The Big con : how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments, and warps our economies / Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington. - First published. - London : Allen Lane - an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023. - XIV, 343, [1] strona ; 24 cm.

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Mazzucato Mariana (1968- ). Autor Collington Rosie. Autor

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje naukowe

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Firma doradcza Poradnictwo

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Opracowanie

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Gospodarka, ekonomia, finanse Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna

Bibliografia na stronach 255-279. Indeks.

Książka w języku angielskim. There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and hollowed-out, risk-averse governments and shareholder value-maximizing firms. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown. With a wealth of original research, they argue brilliantly for investment and collective intelligence within all organizations and communities, and for a new system in which public and private sectors work innovatively for the common good. We must recalibrate the role of consultants and rebuild economies and governments that are fit for purpose.

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The Penguin book of French stories. Vol. 1, From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust / edited by Patrick McGuinness. - [London] : Allen Lane - an imprint of Penguin Books, 2022. - XVII, [1], 482, [1] strona ; 25 cm.

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McGuinness Patrick (1926- ). Redakcja

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Książki Proza

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Literatura francuska

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Opowiadania i nowele

Książka w języku angielskim. The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are decadent tales, 'bloody tales', fairy tales, detective stories and war stories. They are stories about the self and the other, husbands, wives and lovers, country and city, rich and poor. The first volume spans four hundred years, taking the reader from the sixteenth century to the 'golden age' of the fin de siècle.

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The Penguin book of French stories. Vol. 2, From Colette to Marie Ndiaye / edited by Patrick McGuinness. - [London] : Allen Lane - an imprint of Penguin Books, 2022. - XVI, 351 stron ; 25 cm.

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McGuinness Patrick (1926- ). Redakcja

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Książki Proza

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Literatura francuska

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Opowiadania i nowele

Książka w języku angielskim. The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, covering world wars, revolutions, and the horrors of the motorway service station. Along the way we meet electronic brains, she-wolves, a sadistic Cinderella, ancestors, infidels, dissatisfied housewives and lonely ambassadors, all clamouring to be heard. Funny, devastating and fresh at every turn, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old.

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Elastic : flexible thinking in a constantly changing world / Leonard Mlodinow. - [London] : Allen Lane - an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018. - IX, [1], 252 strony : ilustracje ; 23 cm.

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Mlodinow Leonard (1954- ). Autor

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Neuropsychologia Neurobiologia Mózg

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Książka w języku angielskim. O tym, jak ludzki umysł radzi sobie ze zmianami, oraz w jaki sposób możemy poprawić naszą zdolność rozwiązywania problemów i generowania nowych pomysłów - umiejętności krytycznych dla osiągnięcia sukcesu zawodowego i osobistego.

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The spider network : the wild story of a maths genius, a gang of backstabbing bankers, and one of the greatest scams in financial history / David Enrich. - London : WH Allen, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, 2018. - 479 stron ; 20 cm.

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Enrich David. Autor

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Hayes, Tom Przywłaszczenie Oszustwo Przestępczość gospodarcza

Książka w języku angielskim. Książka jest relacją z jednej z największych afer finansowych w Wielkiej Brytanii. Tamtejsze banki przez lata manipulowały stawką LIBOR, która określa procent, po jakim te instytucje pożyczają między sobą pieniądze.

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