Sophie's World (30th Anniversary Edition)

2024-10-29 Fiction

Author : Jostein Gaarder
Release : 2024-10-29
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 490/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sophie's World (30th Anniversary Edition) written by Jostein Gaarder. This book was released on 2024-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new 30th anniversary edition of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World, the wildly popular (over thirty million copies in print!), page-turning novel about a young girl’s exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World is an exciting coming-of-age novel that thrives on its contradictions. It is a page-turning science fiction adventure as well as a history of Western philosophy—from the discourse of ancient Greece to debates about the Big Bang. The games begin when fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen finds two notes in her mailbox. One note asks, “Who are you?” The other asks, “Where does the world come from?” From here, with the aid of a devoted but mysterious instructor, Sophie sets off on a fantastic philosophical saga that will take her far beyond her small Norwegian hometown. Letters give way to lectures, questions give way to quests, and the dimensions of Sophie’s world (as well as our own) grow ever wider, deeper, and richer.

Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition)

2020-10-06 Fiction

Author : Walter Mosley
Release : 2020-10-06
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 343/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) written by Walter Mosley. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend’s bar, he’s wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and offers him good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a missing blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Easy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. “More than simply a detective novel…[Mosley is] a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it” (The New York Times).

Strategic Brand Management and Development

2020-12-30 Business & Economics

Author : Sotiris T. Lalaounis
Release : 2020-12-30
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 183/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Strategic Brand Management and Development written by Sotiris T. Lalaounis. This book was released on 2020-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together theories and concepts from brand management, consumer culture theory, marketing, communications, and design, this book provides an understanding of how organisations can successfully develop, market, and manage their brands. It draws extensively from scholarly research published in social sciences and humanities to provide a detailed discussion of the process of brand management and development. This book explores how organisations can design brand identities, develop brand marketing programmes, measure brand performance, and sustain brand equity, combining psychological, sociological, cultural, and management perspectives. It provides numerous examples that contextualise theory, enabling the reader to understand how past and present branding campaigns and strategies can be deconstructed, analysed, and evaluated, using these theoretical insights.With end-of-chapter case studies on Burberry, Juventus F.C., Pukka Herbs, YO!, and many other European and global brands, Strategic Brand Management and Development is an essential text for students in marketing, brand management, and consumer research, or for anyone interested in understanding the extraordinary power and scope of brands and branding in contemporary post-modern society.

Black Immigrants in North America

2019-11-14 Social Science

Author : Awad Ibrahim
Release : 2019-11-14
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 993/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Immigrants in North America written by Awad Ibrahim. This book was released on 2019-11-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first wave of Black immigrants arrived in North America during the 1960s and 1970s, coming originally from the Caribbean. An opportunity was missed, however, in documenting their everyday experience from a social science perspective: what did it mean for a Barbadian or a Jamaican to live in Toronto or New York? Were they Jamaicans or did they go with the descriptor ‘Black’? What relationship did they have with African Canadians or African Americans? Black Immigrants in North America answers these and other questions while documenting the second wave of Black immigration to North America, which started in the early 1990s. Theoretically and empirically grounded, the book is a documentation of the process of becoming Black – a radical identity transformation where a continental African is marked by Blackness. This, in turn, leads to a deeper understanding of what it means to encounter that social imaginary of, ‘Oh, they all look like Blacks to me!’ This encounter impacts what one learns and how one learns it, where learning English as a Second Language (ESL) is sidestepped in favor of Black English as a Second Language (BESL). Learning becomes a political and a pedagogical project of cultural, linguistic and identity investment and desire. Perfect for courses such as: Black Immigrants, Race Complexity, Critical Applied Linguistics, Ethnography, Graduate Course on Educational Foundations and Curriculum

Sophie's World

2005-12-02

Author : Jostein Gaarder
Release : 2005-12-02
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder. This book was released on 2005-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail--who are you? and where does the world come from? Before she knows it, Sophie is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. But Sophie is receiving a separate batch of equally unusual letters. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up in Sophie's world?

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