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Suicidologija

Ostali autori: Marija Božičević Darko Marčinko

Hajduci sa lujzinske ceste

Jedna od mnogih pripovijesti koje je ispisivao život svakodnevice na novoj goranskoj magistrali u prvim desetljećima devetnaestog stoljeća. Pretisak knjige iz 1981. godine.

John Adams

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as out of his senses; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Paperback, Condition: Very Good. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.

Trigonometrija

Ostali autori: Mirko Franić Opis: Vježbenica za srednje škole

All the Shah’s Men

An American Coup and the Roots of the Middle East Terror. With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Americanism in the Middle East. Selected as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Economist, it now features a new preface by the author on the folly of attacking Iran.

Dancing in the Streets

A History of Collective Joy. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. From the earliest orgiastic Mesopotamian rites to the medieval practice of Christianity as a danced religion and the transgressive freedoms of carnival, she demonstrates that mass festivities have long been central to the Western tradition. In recent centuries, this festive tradition has been repressed, cruelly and often bloodily. But as Ehrenreich argues in this original, exhilarating, and ultimately optimistic book, the celebratory impulse is too deeply ingrained in human nature ever to be completely extinguished.

Ljubomora

Dok novinski članci ovu temu razmatraju na pretežno senzacionalistički način, posmatrajući samo aspekte i ponekad smrtonosne posledice seksualne ljubomore, Piter Tuhi tvrdi u ovoj šarmantno provokativnoj knjizi da je ljubomora mnogo vise od destruktivnog osećanja kako obično pretpostavljamo. Ponekad pomaže, ali mnogo vise šteti. Knjiga se bavi značenjem, istorijom i vrednostima ljubomore, stavljajući u žižu interesovanja njene posledice na modernu kulturu i stvaralaštvo.U njegovom eklektičkom pristupu prepliću se psihologija, umetnost i književnost, neuronauke, antropologija i niz drugih disciplina koje mogu pomoći prevazilaženju porodičnog nasilja, mobinga, nasilja prema životinjama i različitih vidova psihopatologije. U širokom rasponu od Londona do pacifičkih ostrva, od klasičnih civilizacija do danas, ovo je elegantan, pametan i lepo ilustrovan pledoaje o ne uvek smrtnom grehu , ljubomori.