Random House, 2024. What Is Information? Stories: Unlimited Connections. Documents: The Bite of the Paper Tigers. Errors: The Fantasy of Infallibility. Decisions: A brief History of Democracy and Totalitarianism. The New Members: How Computers Are Different from Printing Presses. Relentless: The Network Is Always On. Fallible: The Network Is Often Wrong. Democracies: Can We...
Prickly Paradigm Press, Paradigm, 2003. — 66 p. “The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in "significant otherness." In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not just surrogates for theory, she says; they are not here just to think with. Neither...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 336 p. Providing a detailed account of Israel s foreign policy towards the Cyprus question between 1946 and the declaration of Cypriot independence in August 1960 Gabriel Haritos examines the international and regional factors which shaped Israel s approach to diplomatic relations with the independent Republic of Cyprus Based on newly available...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 704 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past,...
State University of New York Press, 1976. — 370 p. The essays of this volume provide a sampling of the significance of Neoplatonism in Western philosophy and culture. Some deal with its sources; some with its interpretation, and some with its historical influence.
Dundurn Press, 2024. — 296 p. When the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide.Does the past define who we are, who we become?In April 1942, Suzanne’s mother was an eight-month-old baby when her family was torn from their home in Victoria, B.C. Arriving at Vancouver’s Hastings Park, her family bunked in horse stalls for months before...
Dundurn Press, 2024. — 296 p. When the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide.Does the past define who we are, who we become?In April 1942, Suzanne’s mother was an eight-month-old baby when her family was torn from their home in Victoria, B.C. Arriving at Vancouver’s Hastings Park, her family bunked in horse stalls for months before...
Pegasus Books, 2024. — 560 p. A magisterial cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, ranging from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens to the story of shipbuilding, navigation, maritime exploration, slavery, and nascent European imperialism.A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that...
Pegasus Books, 2024. — 560 p. A magisterial cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, ranging from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens to the story of shipbuilding, navigation, maritime exploration, slavery, and nascent European imperialism.A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that...
Amnesty International 2022. — 44 p. Unlawful killings in bucha and other towns and villages northwest of kyiv Еxtrajudicial executions Еxtrajudicial executions after torture Reckless shootings Attacks on residential buildings in Borodyanka Legal analysis Justice and accountability
Berghahn Books, 2022. — 260 p. — (WYSE Series in Social Anthropology) Bringing together contributions from anthropology sociology religious studies and philosophy along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other The chapters examine how people realize the...
New York; London: John Wiley & Sons, 1962. — 428 p. This book is intended both as a teaching tool on the senior level and as an up-to-date presentation ofsignificant theoretical results. Reflecting my attitude toward teaching numerical analysis, the elementary parts of the book stress basic concepts and questions of intrinsic interest rather than cookbook-like enumeration of...
Warsaw/Berlin: Gruyter Poland Ltd, 2020. — 151 p. David Herbert and Stefan Fisher-Høyrem. Introduction: How Do Social Media Change Social Order? The Deep Datafication of Society from Global to Local Scales (and Back Again). References. Nick Couldry . The Social Construction of Reality. The Question of Social Order: Returning to Elias. Managing Social Order Through Data....
Blackstone Publishing Inc, 2023. — 314 p. A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin’s nemesis Alexey Navalny– lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader. THE DISSIDENT is the...
Blackstone Publishing Inc, 2023. — 314 p. A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin’s nemesis Alexey Navalny– lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader. THE DISSIDENT is the...
No Starch Press, 2022. — 264 p. Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering (2.7 million subscribers!) and this book is essentially 50 new episodes crammed between two covers. Engineering in Plain Sight extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making them approachable and understandable to...
No Starch Press, 2022. — 264 p. Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering (2.7 million subscribers!) and this book is essentially 50 new episodes crammed between two covers. Engineering in Plain Sight extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making them approachable and understandable to...
Raspberry Pi Press, 2024. — 136 p. Design and make your own microcontroller board using the same chip that powers the popular Raspberry Pi Pico. KiCad is an amazing piece of free and open-source software that allows anyone, with some time and effort, to make high-quality PCB designs. Couple this amazing software with numerous PCB fabrication companies and even PCBA services...
Raspberry Pi Press, 2024. — 136 p. Design and make your own microcontroller board using the same chip that powers the popular Raspberry Pi Pico. KiCad is an amazing piece of free and open-source software that allows anyone, with some time and effort, to make high-quality PCB designs. Couple this amazing software with numerous PCB fabrication companies and even PCBA services...
Basic Books, 2001. From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreementIn Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young (wo)men of tomorrow. Exploring the entire range of and...
Basic Books, 2001. From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreementIn Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young (wo)men of tomorrow. Exploring the entire range of and...
Princeton University Press, 2015.— 288 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the...
Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 320 p. When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks...
México: UNAM, 1974. — 650 p. Autor, Fernando Horcasitas, antropólogo, historiador y asiduo estudioso del náhuatl, nos ofrece en ella los resultados de sus investigaciones sobre un importante aspecto de la expresión literaria en dicha lengua. Las producciones estudiadas por él, tanto del período novohispano como de la época independiente de México, ostentan, como rasgo en común,...
Acquisition.com, 2023. Start Here . How I Got Here. The Problem This Book Solves. Get Understanding . Leads Alone Aren’t Enough. Engage Your Leads: Offers and Lead Magnets. Get Leads . Warm Outreach. Post Free Content Part I. Post Free Content Part II. Free Goodwill. Cold Outreach. Run Paid Ads Part I: Making An Ad. Run Paid Ads Part II: Money Stuff. Core Four On Steroids: More...
Acquisition.com, 2023. Start Here . How I Got Here. The Problem This Book Solves. Get Understanding . Leads Alone Aren’t Enough. Engage Your Leads: Offers and Lead Magnets. Get Leads . Warm Outreach. Post Free Content Part I. Post Free Content Part II. Free Goodwill. Cold Outreach. Run Paid Ads Part I: Making An Ad. Run Paid Ads Part II: Money Stuff. Core Four On Steroids: More...
Negotiation Special Report #2 Copyright 2012 by Harvard University, 14 p. The articles in this Special Report were previously published in Negotiation, a monthly newsletter for leaders and business professionals in every field. Negotiation is published by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, an interdisciplinary consortium that works to connect rigorous research...
New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. — 240 p. To What Extent Do Courts Make Social And Public Policy And Influence Social And Public Policy Change? This Innovative Text Analyzes This Question Generally And In Seven Distinct Policy Areas That Play Out In Both Federal And State Courts--tax Policy, Environmental Policy, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality, Affirmative Action,...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 944 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-507894-7. — (Oxford History of the United States). The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the...
Sasquatch Books, 2021. — 257 p. “A vegetarian follow-up to the very popular Chinese Soul Food cookbook that includes 75 plant-based comfort food recipes you can make at home. Chinese Soul Food drew cooks into the kitchen with the assurance they could make this cuisine at home. Though a popular cuisine across North America, Chinese food can be a little intimidating. But author...
Collins, 2025. — 256 p. The incredible story of Manfred Gans, who raced across Germany in May 1945 to free his parents from a concentration campFour days after Germany’s surrender in May 1945, a young British officer hopped in a Jeep and headed east into Germany. But this was no ordinary soldier. Manfred Gans was searching for his family.As a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany, Manfred...
Collins, 2025. — 256 p. The incredible story of Manfred Gans, who raced across Germany in May 1945 to free his parents from a concentration campFour days after Germany’s surrender in May 1945, a young British officer hopped in a Jeep and headed east into Germany. But this was no ordinary soldier. Manfred Gans was searching for his family.As a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany, Manfred...
European Parliament resolution of 11 February 2021 on the human rights situation in Kazakhstan (2021/2544(RSP). — 9 p. On 11 February 2021, The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in Kazakhstan (2021/2544(RSP)).
Copyright 2017 Human Rights Watch Printed in the United States of America This 28th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2017. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff conducted during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011. — 424 p. Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be hunted down and killed if it costs 10,000...
Lawbook Exchange Ltd, 2000. — 318 p. The social history of law in the United States is defined and explored in this groundbreaking work. Beginning with a general discussion of legal history as a field of study, Hurst goes on to outline the development of the major types of legal authorities, describe public-policy reactions to the physical challenges of society and its...
Is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carré and Franz Kafka. is a cook in a Kraków restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he’s trapped in, a new career – part spy, part people-smuggler – begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into...
Is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carré and Franz Kafka. is a cook in a Kraków restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he’s trapped in, a new career – part spy, part people-smuggler – begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into...
Edited by Anna Hyrske. — The History Press, 2025. — 224 p. Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally published in 1942, as war still raged between Finland and Soviet Union. Its writer was a Finnish woman who emigrated to Russia in the 1930s, convinced the new egalitarian state and workers’ paradise would be a better life for her and her young son, hopeful once...
Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2010. — 187 p. The Rise of Ottoman Historiography. On the Social Structure of the Ottoman Empire: Paradigms and Research. The Çift-Hâne System and Peasant Taxation. Les régions de Kruje et de la Dibra autour de 1467 et 1519. Ottoman Archivai Materials on Millets. Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire. Turkish Impact on the Development of Modern Europe....
Published by Program on Negotiation Harvard Law School. Copyright 2012 by Harvard University. 11 p. The articles in this Special Report were previously published in Negotiation, a monthly newsletter for leaders and business professionals in every field. Negotiation is published by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, an interdisciplinary consortium that works to...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 688 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8130-7. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an...
Принят Комитетом по стандартам описания, Стокгольм, Швеция, 19-22 сентября 1999 года: [перевод с английского] / Междунар. совет архивов; гл. ред. пер.: Жабко Е. Д. - 2-е изд. - СПб.: Президентская библиотека имени Б. Н. Ельцина, 2011. - 247 с.
Основной международный стандарт архивного описания принят Комитетом по стандартам описания (Стокгольм, Швеция) 19-22 сентября 1999 года....
Survival & Prepping. Book 1, 2016. Survival in the Movies Have No Fear! 5 Most Common Survival Situations The Survival Mindset Developing a Survival Mindset Strengthen Your Mind Take a Knee Survival Inventory Survival of the Fittest Sleep On It You ARE What You Eat Shelter Building a Debris Hut Elevated Shelter Desert Shelter Fire The Hand Drill Method of Starting a Fire The...
Lotus Books, 2025. — 392 p. Hatha A Comprehensive Guide is a must-read if you want to get the most from your yoga practice. Starting from the traditional approach to yoga, you will discover how each yoga pose affects the inner body and how systematic yoga practice can increase your overall health and well-being. You will also learn the ancient principles of sequencing asanas...
Lotus Books, 2025. — 392 p. Hatha A Comprehensive Guide is a must-read if you want to get the most from your yoga practice. Starting from the traditional approach to yoga, you will discover how each yoga pose affects the inner body and how systematic yoga practice can increase your overall health and well-being. You will also learn the ancient principles of sequencing asanas...
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on...
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 321 P. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Definitions and Illustrations. We can never do merely one thing. Emergent Properties. Interconnections. Kinds of interconnections. Games against Nature Are Not Games against Nature. System Effects. Indirect and Delayed Effects. Relations Are Often Not Bilaterally Determined. Interactions, Not Additivity....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. — 384 p. With the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014 – 160 years after the Crimean War – the peninsula has come to the geopolitical fore once more on the global stage. This book provides a comprehensive history of the region that until now has been missing, one that stretches from ancient times through to the present and which explores various...