Who Gets What - and Why Mariner Books

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"In his fluent and accessible book, Mr. Roth vividly describes the successes of market design." -- Economist.com

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Run the United States of America for Profit: But Who Gets to Spend That Money and How When Where Why on What

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Normal Gets You Nowhere HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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When Kelly Cutrone's first book, "If You Have to Cry, Go Outside", was first published, young people flocked to this new voice. It quickly became a "New York Times" bestseller, and fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone became more than a personality, she became a beloved guru, mentor, and fairy godmother. I know you don't feel normal, so why are you trying to act it and prove to everyone you are? Cutrone says. So much of what we say or don't say, and what we do or don't do, is dictated by what others have told us, or what people may think of us. This is not how we should be living - by measuring ourselves against the mundane. An invitation to rethink who you are, what you value, and what you want from life, "Normal Gets You Nowhere" goes beyond how to reinvent yourself and create your own brand, and begins to investigate what it means to live in this world as a tuned in, caring individual with a passion for making a difference.

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Bia Gets A New Baby Brother Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLC

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Bia is a precocious 2-year-old who is curious about everything! And what she is most curious about now is her new baby brother. It's hard for Bia to understand why the baby can't do all the things that she can do. And his crying is really getting on her nerves! New big brothers and sisters will immediately relate to Bia as they learn with her and discover all about the baby and learn important new rules. Told with simple language and charming pictures, Bia Gets a New Baby Brother helps take the confusion away when there is a new baby in the home. Author Katherine Buerger-Smith is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio where she owns a property management firm with her husband. She has four children.

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Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe - Souad

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Opis - Pierwsze na świecie świadectwo ofiary zbrodni honorowej. Miała siedemnaście lat i zakochała się: zhańbiła rodzinę. Więc rodzina wydała na nią wyrok śmierci... Pokochała go pierwszą miłością. Myślała, że się z nią ożeni. Ale ukochany zniknął, a ona odkryła, że jest w ciąży. A w jej świecie to najcięższa zbrodnia... W zapomnianej przez Boga wiosce w Cisjordanii kobiety są warte mniej niż zwierzęta domowe. Tu mężczyzna jest panem życia i śmierci żony, córki, siostry. Brat może bezkarnie zabić siostrę, matka - córkę, kolejną bezużyteczną dziewczynkę, jaka się urodzi. Tu kobiecie odbiera się godność, a nawet życie zgodnie z odwiecznym obyczajem i uświęconą tradycją. A śmierć jest karą dla dziewczyny, która zhańbi rodzinę. Tak jak Souad. Wyrok wydaje jej ojciec. Szwagier dokonuje egzekucji. Oblewa Souad benzyną i podpala... SOUAD przeżyła - cudem, ale rodzina usiłowała zabić ją nawet w szpitalu. Na zawsze jednak pozostanie straszliwie okaleczona - na ciele i duszy. I wciąż musi się ukrywać; dopóki żyje, jej rodzinę okrywa hańba. Spalona żywcem, opublikowana pod pseudonimem szokująca opowieść o piekle, jakim było jej dzieciństwo i młodość, stała się międzynarodowym bestsellerem. Wydana w 37 w krajach książka przerywa tabu milczenia wobec istniejącej nadal w krajach muzułmańskich barbarzyńskiej tradycji. Nieludzkiego obyczaju, prawa mężczyzn, na mocy którego co najmniej pięć tysięcy kobiet pada co roku ofiarą zbrodni honorowej. Nazwa - Spalona Żywcem Wyd. Kieszonkowe Autor - Souad Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Amber Kod ISBN - 9788324159406 Kod EAN - 9788324159406 Wydanie - 1 Rok wydania - 2016 Tłumacz - 31182,maria rostworowska; Format - 110 x 175 x 14 Ilość stron - 224 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2016-06-23

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What is Madness? Penguin Books

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"What is Madness?" is Darian Leader's probing study of madness, sanity, and everything in between. What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work Darian Leader undermines common conceptions of madness. Through case studies like the apparently 'normal' Harold Shipman, he shows that madness rarely conforms to standard models. "What is Madness?" explores the idea of quiet madness - that at times many of us live interior lives that are far from sane but allow us to function normally and unthreateningly - he argues that we must seek a new way to assess, treat and deal with those suffering mental health problems. "What is Madness?" is Darian Leader's radically insightful and masterfully convincing exploration of a painful, complex but endlessly fascinating area of humanity. "A terrific intellectual stylist". (Joseph O' Neill, "Guardian"). "Engrossing and enlightening...Leader is as much a philosopher as a psychoanalyst". ("Metro"). "The mad ...have been segregated and often confined; for fear, perhaps, that they will contaminate the rest of us. But as Darian Leader brilliantly shows, things are never so simple". (Hanif Kureshi, "Independent"). "Provides valuable insights into how psychiatry can help those who have suffered psychosis to rebuild their lives". ("Sunday Times"). "Witty, probing. A myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our madness". ("Independent"). "Leader's insights could have radical consequences for the way we regard madness". ("Daily Telegraph"). "Fascinating. A formidable grasp of psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail. What Leader does so effectively is to give us a sense of what it might be like to live inside the mind of a psychotic. A humane and timely book". ("New Statesman"). "Superb insights, brilliant". ("Observer"). "One of our most important contemporary thinkers". ("Guardian"). Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He is the author of "The New Black", "Strictly Bipolar", "Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?" , "Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late", "Freud's Footnotes" and "Stealing the Mona Lisa", and co-author, with David Corfield, of "Why Do People Get Ill?" He is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University.

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What is Madness? Penguin Books

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"What is Madness?" is Darian Leader's probing study of madness, sanity, and everything in between. What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is really between being mad and going mad? In this landmark work Darian Leader undermines common conceptions of madness. Through case studies like the apparently 'normal' Harold Shipman, he shows that madness rarely conforms to standard models. "What is Madness?" explores the idea of quiet madness - that at times many of us live interior lives that are far from sane but allow us to function normally and unthreateningly - he argues that we must seek a new way to assess, treat and deal with those suffering mental health problems. "What is Madness?" is Darian Leader's radically insightful and masterfully convincing exploration of a painful, complex but endlessly fascinating area of humanity. "A terrific intellectual stylist". (Joseph O' Neill, "Guardian"). "Engrossing and enlightening...Leader is as much a philosopher as a psychoanalyst". ("Metro"). "The mad ...have been segregated and often confined; for fear, perhaps, that they will contaminate the rest of us.But as Darian Leader brilliantly shows, things are never so simple". (Hanif Kureshi, "Independent"). "Provides valuable insights into how psychiatry can help those who have suffered psychosis to rebuild their lives". ("Sunday Times"). "Witty, probing. A myth-busting diagnosis of the method in our madness". ("Independent"). "Leader's insights could have radical consequences for the way we regard madness". ("Daily Telegraph"). "Fascinating. A formidable grasp of psychiatric history and a storyteller's flair for detail. What Leader does so effectively is to give us a sense of what it might be like to live inside the mind of a psychotic. A humane and timely book". ("New Statesman"). "Superb insights, brilliant". ("Observer"). "One of our most important contemporary thinkers". ("Guardian"). Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He is the author of "The New Black", "Strictly Bipolar", "Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?", "Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late", "Freud's Footnotes" and "Stealing the Mona Lisa", and co-author, with David Corfield, of "Why Do People Get Ill?" He is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University.

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Blood Doctor Penguin

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Blood. That

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Roaring Nineties Penguin

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His previous book revealed the shocking truth about globalization. Now, Joseph Stiglitz blows the whistle on the devastation wrought by the free market mantra in the nineties

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Matchmaking Kto co dostaje i dlaczego - Roth Alvin E.

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Opis - Standardowe rozważania ekonomiczne w głównej mierze dotyczą rynku surowców czy papierów wartościowych, gdzie cena łączy ze sobą nabywców i sprzedawców - w momencie gdy podaż spotyka się z popytem. Jednak najważniejszych transakcji w życiu dokonujemy na rynkach, na których ceny odgrywają drugoplanową rolę. Często nie zdajemy sobie nawet sprawy, że mamy do czynienia z rynkiem. Gdyż o tym, kto dostanie nerkę do przeszczepu albo zostanie przyjęty do najlepszej uczelni wyższej, nie decyduje cena. Chodzi tu o rynek wzajemnego kojarzenia stron transakcji (ang. match market), gdzie strony "transakcji" muszą się wzajemnie dobrać, a cena nie odgrywa w tym procesie istotnej roli. Czy istnieje mechanizm alokacji takich dóbr? Czy są metody kojarzenia stron na takim rynku? Noblista Alvin E. Roth, autor książki Matchmaking. Kto co dostaje i dlaczego, wraz z zespołem kilku współpracowników z całego świata przyczynił się do stworzenia nowej dziedziny ekonomii zwanej projektowaniem rynku, która wprowadza wiedzę naukową do procesu kojarzenia oraz do innych aspektów funkcjonowania rynków. Rynek jest wytworem ludzkiej działalności, a nie zjawiskiem naturalnym. Sztuka projektowania rynków daje nam szansę na utrzymanie oraz poprawianie jednych z najstarszych i najważniejszych ludzkich wynalazków. Szansę naprawy źle działających mechanizmów, a czasem nawet stworzenia całkiem nowych. To możliwości, które trzeba cenić, analizować, podchodzić do nich z pokorą oraz bacznie obserwować. *** Alvin E. Roth - doktor nauk ekonomicznych, profesor ekonomii na Uniwersytecie Stanforda, jeden z czołowych ekspertów w dziedzinie projektowania rynków oraz teorii gier. W połowie lat 90. XX w. zaprojektował National Resident Matching Program - system, który łączy 20 tys. amerykańskich lekarzy z 4 tys. programów stażu w całym kraju. W 2004 r. przygotował wraz z dwoma tureckimi ekonomistami, Utku nverem i Tayfunem Snmezem, New England Programm for Kidney Exchange, system kojarzenia dawców i biorców nerek do przeszczepów. Za swoją działalność na polu tworzenia rynków Alvin Roth wspólnie z Lloydem Shapleyem w 2012 r. otrzymał Nagrodę Nobla w dziedzinie ekonomii. Nazwa - Matchmaking Kto co dostaje i dlaczego Oryginalny tytuł - Who Gets What ? and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Mar-ket Design Autor - Roth Alvin E. Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - MT Biznes Kod ISBN - 9788380871090 Kod EAN - 9788380871090 Rok wydania - 2017 Język - polski Tłumacz - Malcherek Monika Format - 16.0x23.5cm Ilość stron - 280 Podatek VAT - 5% Premiera - 2017-03-24

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We Had To Remove This Post Pan Macmillan

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To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst - but Kayleigh needs money. That's why she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. It's gruelling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend - and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh's future seems bright. But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators own morals bend and flex under the weight of what they see? We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and gripping story about who or what determines our world view. Examining the toxic world of content moderation, the novel forces us to ask: what is right? What is real? What is normal? And who gets to decide? Translated by Emma Rault.

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Burying Water Atria Books

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Left for dead in the fields of rural Oregon, a young woman defies all odds and survives-but she awakens with no idea who she is, or what happened to her. Refusing to answer to "Jane Doe" for another day, the woman renames herself "Water" for the tiny, hidden marking on her body-the only clue to her past. Taken in by old Ginny Fitzgerald, a crotchety but kind lady living on a nearby horse farm, Water slowly begins building a new life. But as she attempts to piece together the fleeting slivers of her memory, more questions emerge: Who is the next-door neighbour, quietly toiling under the hood of his Barracuda? Why won't Ginny let him step foot on her property? And why does Water feel she recognizes him? Twenty-four-year-old Jesse Welles doesn't know how long it will be before Water gets her memory back. For her sake, Jesse hopes the answer is never. He knows that she'll stay so much safer-and happier-that way. And that's why, as hard as it is, he needs to keep his distance. Because getting too close could flood her with realities better left buried. The trouble is, water always seems to find its way to the surface.

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False Witness HarperCollins

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."- theSkimm Recommended by Washington Post - theSkimm - GMA.com - Popsugar - Bustle - Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Augusta Chronicle - Sun-Sentinel - Mystery and Suspense Magazine - and more! He saw what you did. He knows who you are...From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller.AN ORDINARY LIFE...Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter.HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST...But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence.BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP...On a Sunday night at her daughter's school play, she gets a call from one of the firm's partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. Though wary of the case, it becomes apparent she doesn't have much choice if she wants to keep her job. They're scheduled to go to trial in one week. When she meets the accused face-to-face, she realizes that it's no coincidence that he's specifically asked for her to represent him. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he may know what happened over twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT.Suddenly she has a lot more to lose than this case. The only person who can help is her younger, estranged sister Callie-the last person Leigh would ever want to drag into this after all they've been through. But with the life-shattering truth in danger of being revealed, she has no choice..."A high-stakes thriller . . . Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous." -OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE

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The Travelling Cat Chronicles Transworld Publ. Ltd UK

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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION, the life-affirming journey of a man and his cat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. INCLUDES 6 SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED LINE-DRAWINGSSometimes you have to travel a long way to see what

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Chasing Hillary HarperCollins

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New York Times bestseller"The Devil Wears Prada meets The Boys on the Bus"-New York TimesThe dishy, rollicking, and deeply personal story of what really happened in the 2016 election, as seen through the eyes of the New York Times reporter who gave eight years of her life to covering the First Woman President who wasn't.For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the presidency. Chozick's front-row seat, initially covering Clinton's imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to "The Hillary Beat" ahead of the 2016 election, took her to 48 states and set off a nearly ten-years-long journey in which the formative years of her twenties and thirties became - both personally and professionally - intrinsically intertwined to Clinton's presidential ambitions.Chozick's candor and clear-eyed perspective-from her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaign's Brooklyn headquarters, to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump and her globetrotting with Bill Clinton- provide fresh intrigue and insights into the story we thought we all knew. This is the real story of what happened, with the kind of dishy, inside details that repeatedly surprise and enlighten.But Chasing Hillary is also a rollicking, irreverent, refreshingly honest personal story of how the would-be first woman president looms over Chozick's life. And, as she gets married, attempts to infiltrate the upper echelons of political journalism and inquires about freezing her eggs so she can have children after the 2016 campaign, Chozick dives deeper into decisions Clinton made at similar points in her life.In the process, Chozick came to see Clinton not as an unknowable enigma and political animal but as a complex person, full of contradictions and forged in the political battles and media storms that had long predated Chozick's years of coverage.Trailing Clinton through all of the highs and lows of the most noxious and wildly dramatic presidential election in American history, Chozick comes to understand what drove Clinton, how she accomplished what no woman had before, and why she ultimately failed. Poignant, illuminating, laugh-out-loud funny, Chasing Hillary is a campaign book like never before that reads like a fast-moving political novel.

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