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1Adult Education and Learning in a Precarious Age: The Hamburg Declaration Revisited. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 138 , Welton Michael
UNESCO’s 1997 CONFINTEA V conference in Hamburg has been described as the high-water mark of international adult education policy-making. It produced one of the most utopian statements about adult… 2263.37 руб электронная книга2Leave it to Psmith , P.G. Wodehouse (2008)
Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace… 570 руб3Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream , Barbara Ehrenreich (2006)
Americans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by “middle-class” jobs are a thing… 894 руб4Comes the Night , Hampton-Jones Hollis (2011)
Meade is nineteen and living in Paris with her twin brother, Ben Ho, far from their privileged upbringing in Nashville, Tennessee. Hers is a restless quest of balancing addictions: to her brother… 869 руб5Borneo, Celebes, Aru , Wallace Alfred Russel (2008)
Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and… 293 руб6Ed King , Guterson David (2011)
In 1962, actuary Walter Cousins makes the biggest mistake of his life. When mild-mannered Walter -'a man who weighs risk for a living'- sleeps with the sharp-tongued, not-quite-legal British au pair… 1369 руб7Making it Up , Lively Penelope (2008)
Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed you… 617 руб8Hollywood , Bukowski Charles (2007)
Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter. Based on Bukowski's… 1038 руб9President's Last Love , Kurkov Andrey (2007)
Moscow, January 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool, to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the Romanov Dynasty. Treading water, and… 767 руб10The New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble , William Bonner, Addison Wiggin (2009)
In The New Empire of Debt, financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the financial crisis that has plagued the United States will soon bring an end to this once great… 846.3 руб
