Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john kennedy

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  • THE HISTORY OF STEAM NAVIGATION
    JOHN KENNEDY
    The History of Steam Navigation, is a comprehensive history of the development and impact of steam-powered ships, from their origins in the late 18th century to the mid-19th century. The book covers the major technological advancements, key figures in the industry, and notable events and accidents that shaped the history of steam navigation. ...

    $39.70

  • BUSINESS CULTURE IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA
    JOHN KENNEDY
    This book examines how Russia’s entrepreneurs operate in a business environment beset with risk and uncertainty. The challenges they may encounter include an unreliable judicial system, insecure property rights, arbitrary interference from officials, as well as corruption, harassment, suspicion and violence. Based on extensive original research, including fieldwork within three...

    $1,099.00

  • RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN ASIA
    JOHN CHIKIN LEE / KERRY J. KENNEDY
    The book examines ancient religious traditions and modernity in a globalized Asia that is as much in need of a moral compass as it is economic development. Religious education has been an aspect of many societies over time and irrespective of culture. Yet as globalization advances local values are challenged every day by internationalized discourses and global perspectives. It ...

    $1,059.00

  • THE NEON BIBLE
    JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE
    “A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century” that “belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty” (Orlando Sentinel).   John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen....

    $229.00

  • COLLECTION MANAGEMENT: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION
    KENNEDY, JOHN
    The rapidly increasing reliance on digital rather than print-based resources has not diminished the importance of library collection management, but it has required significant modification in the thinking and the practice of collection managers, who today usually have to consider their clients' need for both print-based and digital materials. This updated edition aims to provi...

    $1,018.00

  • THE DEFENSE OF THE WEST
    ROBERT KENNEDY / JOHN M WEINSTEIN
    Drawing on their daily involvement with defense issues and their interactions with the military and political elements of the national security community, civilian and military defense analysts in the U.S. Army War Colleger Strategic Studies Institute offer a lucid analysis of the complex mosaic of strategic and European defense issues. Their contributions are probing, balanced...

    $1,299.00

  • UN PAIS DE IMIGRANTES
    KENNEDY JOHN F.
    A lo largo de su presidencia, John F. Kennedy estuvo apasionado por el tema de la reforma migratoria. Él pensaba que los Estados Unidos son una nación de personas que valoran equitativamente las tradiciones y la exploración de nuevas fronteras, dignos de la libertad para construir mejores vidas para sí mismos en su país adoptivo. ...
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    $299.00

  • LA CONJURA DE LOS NECIOS
    TOOLE JOHN KENNEDY
    Una vez que se conoce a Ignatius Reilly resulta imposible olvidarse de él. Este tipo incómodo, inadaptado y sometido a la necesidad de conseguir trabajo se dedica a explicarnos el mundo a través de varios cuadernos. Por sus páginas se cuelan personajes entrañables o detestables, miserables y resignados, tristes u osados, hábiles y talentosos, torpes o engreídos, que se van enca...
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    $295.00

  • LA CONJURA DE LOS NECIOS
    TOOLE JOHN KENNEDY
    «Este libro se ha reseñado en todas partes, y a todos los críticos les ha entusiasmado. Por una vez, todos tenían razón.» (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone)«Irresistiblemente divertida, una comedia épica en la gran tradición de Cervantes y Fielding.» (Monroe K. Spears)El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Rei...
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    $340.00