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The book addresses common struggles with modern life, such as excessive phone use, unhealthy eating habits, and lack of focus. It explores the impact of these behaviors on productivity and overall well-being. By examining these issues, the author aims to guide readers toward regaining control over their time and energy, fostering a more fulfilling and balanced lifestyle. The content encourages self-reflection and offers strategies to overcome distractions and enhance motivation for personal and professional growth.

The American Watersheds trilogy is Education through Entertainment. Along the Journey the reader learns, through the experiences of others, to better shape their own life path. The series does not attempt to cover any particular subject in great depth. Through the author's stories, where we meet half the stars of the entertainment business among others, the reader will ultimately ask themselves what is my purpose? What are the possibilities? The answer can be beyond your wildest imagination. Peace and Love Gregory S Clark

Lonely Planet New England is the most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Swim, fish or surf the 5000-mile coastline, devour pancakes drenched in maple syrup, or walk in the footsteps of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau; all with your trusted travel companion.

Czy ekonomiści z Banku Światowego i Międzynarodowego Funduszu Walutowego kierują się błędnym wyobrażeniem o przyczynach wzrostu gospodarczego? A wdrażane programy pomocowe dla ubogich państw należy wpisać w nurt fantastyki? W Pożegnaniu z jałmużną Gregory Clark stawia prowokacyjną tezę, że o zamożności i ub�stwie państw nie decydują czynniki geograficzne, zasoby siły roboczej czy bogactwa naturalne, lecz kultura. Autor wykazuje, że zdolne do trwałego rozwoju gospodarczego są tylko społeczeństwa o długiej historii osiadłego życia, kt�re wykształciły sprawne instytucje zapewniające bezpieczeństwo. Pożegnanie z jałmużną , doskonałe i trzeźwiące wyzwanie rzucone przekonaniu, że ubogie społeczeństwa mogą osiągnąć wzrost gospodarczy dzięki interwencji zewnętrznej, może zmienić spos�b myślenia o gospodarczej historii świata.

Includes a fresh foreword by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern. This volume discusses the ongoing response to the book and the debates it has engendered.

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. This book weaves an argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture. It will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism.

"How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe! While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique -- tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and periods -- renowned economic historian Gregory Clark reveals that mobility rates are lower than conventionally estimated, do not vary across societies, and are resistant to social policies. The good news is that these patterns are driven by strong inheritance of abilities and lineage does not beget unwarranted advantage. The bad news is that much of our fate is predictable from lineage. Clark argues that since a greater part of our place in the world is predetermined, we must avoid creating winner-take-all societies."--Jacket.

Suggests that social mobility rates are lower than normally estimated, do not vary across societies, and are resistant to social policies by examining surnames from modern Sweden, fourteenth-century England, and Qing Dynasty China.

With this special exhibition, the Draiflessen Collection presented up-to-then not yet presented exhibits from a private collection: the Liberna Collection. The extensive holdings of the collection established by Bernard Brenninkmeijer – part of the Draiflessen Collection as a permanent loan – comprise not only precious manuscripts, but also early printed materials from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. Highlights of this first-class collection are books of hours, rare editions of incunabula, lavish volumes, graphic works by Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn as well as drawings by Guercino or Antoon van Dyck. The selection of round one hundred works from the Liberna Collection entered into a fascinating dialogue with works on loan from Berlin, Kassel, Cologne, Munich and Vienna, among other places. While the contents naturally play a decisive role, the special appeal of old books lies in the technical and artistic accomplishments, which required a maximum degree of precision. The graphic works shown also owe their impressive effect as images to masterful control of these precision techniques. Besides the content, the exhibition also focussed on the particular aesthetics of the exhibits.