The classic winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
'Magnificent... Freakonomics for football' - Guardian This is the revised and expanded 5th edition of the international bestseller about why Spain, Germany and Brazil win, and why the USA, Japan, Australia - and even Iraq - are destined to become th…
De sa att man inte kunde ge ut Simpsons på Svenska, men vi struntade i nej-sägarna och jantelagen och gav ut denna episka, tokroliga feta upplaga av Simpsons som album OCH Serietidning No1 på köpet! En bra present /Julklapp. Det är det första (och s…
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally...and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style? These are questions every soccer aficionado has asked. Soccernomics answers…
The Holocaust, Dutch football and World War II - from the bestselling author of the award-winning FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMY. Updated with a new afterword.
Leadership and Wisdom: Narrating the Future Responsibly gives business students and practitioners the opportunity to re-read tales, poems, myths and fables that have been interpreted by leading management scholars in order to translate the world's f…
The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists, librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe it as a classic. This third edition has been radically recast. Over…
Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect s…
Suddenly culture seems to explain everything, from civil wars to financial crises and divorce rates. But when we speak of culture, what, precisely, do we mean?Adam Kuper pursues the concept of culture from the early twentieth century debates to its…
Alliansen finns inte längre. Januariöverenskommelsen, coronapandemin och samhällsproblem kopplade till migration och kriminalitet har vänt upp och ner på det mesta i svensk politik. I Efter Alliansen funderar rutinerade profiler och kommande l…
This is the first comprehensive survey of the field of constraint databases, written by leading researchers. Constraint databases are a fairly new and active area of database research. Their ability to deal with infinite sets makes them particularly…
This is the first collection of Radcliffe-Brown's work chosen to represent his books as well as his essays. It includes some classic pieces, and also one or two lesser-known items. Radcliffe-Brown was a pioneer who established structural, sociologic…
Originally published in 1947 and reprinted with a new preface in 1961, this book is based on field studies and gives an account of the social organization of the Swazi, wiith special reference to the aristocratic structure of their society and the w…
Em sua interessante, variada e intensa trajet ria de vida, que se desenrola num paralelo ao crescimento econ mico e social do Brasil, da d cada de 1940 at a atualidade, Israel Kuperman, engenheiro, juiz e fazendeiro, descendente de imigrantes e "fil…
This book develops a theory that can be viewed as a noncommutative counterpart of the following topics: dynamical systems in general and integrable systems in particular; Hamiltonian formalism; variational calculus, both in continuous space and disc…
"When I testify in court, I am often asked: 'What is the damage of long term solitary confinement?' ...Many prisoners with serious mental illness emerge from prison after years in solitary with much worse disability, and even stable individuals emer…
Praise for Computational Systems BiologyApproaches in Cancer Research: "Complex concepts are written clearly and with informative illustrations and useful links. The book is enjoyable to read yet provides sufficient depth to serve as a valuable reso…
Praise for Computational Systems BiologyApproaches in Cancer Research:"Complex concepts are written clearly and with informative illustrations and useful links. The book is enjoyable to read yet provides sufficient depth to serve as a valuable resou…
Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge.1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry fat…
This work explores the insights and theories of Mark Twain and Sigmund Freud in the field of psychology. Though at first glance these two men seem to constitute an unlikely pairing, each formulated a comprehensive understanding of individual and gro…
This volume provides a fascinating perspective on the social sciences through its examination of the leading proponents, their ideas and careers. It includes useful suggestions for further reading. All the great names in the history of the subject a…
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich BWL - Didaktik, Wirtschaftsp dagogik, Universit t Osnabr ck, Veranstaltung: Kommunikation und Interaktion in beruflichen Lehr-/ Lernprozessen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ...] werde ich mich mit der The…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ESPRIT Working Group CONTESSA Workshop on Constraint Databases and Applications, held in Friedrichshafen, Germany in September 1995. The 10 full revised papers selected for inclusion in this volu…
Edited by Tom Pomplun Thirteen stories of adventure, horror, comedy and science fiction Includes "A Thousand Deaths," "To Kill a Man," and "Told in the Drooling Ward." These and more are adapted and illustrated by Rick Geary, Milton Knight, Onsmith…
Rafael decide, muy a pesar suyo, reanudar parte de las actividades sociales que hab a dejado de lado tras la muerte de su esposa. Eso traer como consecuencia una relaci n intensa con la mujer que se transformara en la mayor responsable de los hechos…
Beyond Stewardship is intended to equip Christians to live better in this world by helping us all think more intentionally about the relationship we have with the nonhuman creation in which we are necessarily and thoroughly embedded. It responds to…
Jennifer McCreavy has just accepted a position as chaplain, mistress of a girls' dorm called Blackburne House. She has also embarked on an undercover mission. Her half-sister Cathy Foxcroft was a second-year student at the school. The previous April…
Vorsicht Dieses Buch hat Nebenwirkungen, die nicht absch tzbar sind. Lesen Sie es nicht, wenn Sie weiterhin alles glauben wollen, was der esoterische Markt Ihnen anbietet. Es l st vielleicht sogar Wut in Ihnen aus. Lesen Sie es unbedingt, wenn Sie I…
Application of New Cybernetics in Physics describes the application of new cybernetics to physical problems and the resolution of basic physical paradoxes by considering external observer influence. This aids the reader in solving problems that were…
Amanda – obychnaja devushka iz provintsii. No ej povezlo ustroitsja na prestizhnuju stazhirovku. K neschastju, tuda zhe popadaet Martin Gregg, nadmennyj vyskochka, s kotorym Amanda uchilas v juridicheskoj shkole. S pervogo zhe dnja oni nachina…
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Any company that does business with consumers will find itself in bankruptcy court at some time during the life of the company. If you are the owner or manager of a business, you know the reality and need to understand how a customer's bankruptcy ca…
Anti-Aging," ein Modebegriff, der die ewige Jugend verspricht und dank der immer m chtiger werdenden Anti-Aging-Industrie in aller Munde ist. In den Industrienationen nimmt der Anteil lterer Menschen und deren individuelle Lebenserwartung kontinuier…
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Parteien wollen ihre eigenen Ziele durchsetzen, was jedoch in einer interdependenten Welt zunehmend weniger nur auf der Ebene der Nationalstaaten moglich ist. Die nationalen Parteien versuchen daher in transnationalen Parteienbunden sowohl regional…
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings an…
Mnogoe iz togo, chto my znaem pro sovremennyj futbol, - ne bolee chem mif. Populjarno, na osnove fakticheskikh dannykh avtory knigi razvenchivajut rasprostranennye zabluzhdenija i na primerakh pokazyvajut, kakimi imenno ekonomicheskimi, kulturnymi i…
In 1965, when quantitative planning was much in vogue, Royal Dutch Shell started experimenting with a different way of looking into the future: scenario planning. Shell's practice has now survived for almost half a century and has had a huge influen…
Given a conservative dynamical system of classical physics, how does one find a variational principle for it? Is there a canonical recipe for such a principle? The case of particle mechanics was settled by Lagrange in 1788; this text treats continuo…
Humanity's best hope for confronting the looming climate crisis rests with the new science of complexity. The sheer complexity of climate change stops most solutions in their tracks. How do we give up fossil fuels when energy is connected to everyth…
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Theologie - Didaktik, Religionsp dagogik, Note: 1,0, Universit t Osnabr ck, Veranstaltung: Schulischer Religionsunterricht zwischen Identit tsbildung und Entdeckung des Anderen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstra…
