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...
HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024. — 725 p. Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson’s Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times.Underlying everything in the book is Johnson’s belief that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an...
HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024. — 725 p. Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson’s Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times.Underlying everything in the book is Johnson’s belief that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an...
Report on the implementation of the Action Plan Against Disinformation. — Brussels, 2019 — 11 p. Today’s report by the Commission and the High Representative provides a first assessment of the progress achieved so far and sets out the main lessons for the future. It explains in more detail how the Action Plan and the Elections Package helped to fight disinformation in the context...
IPHR, 2024. — 16 p. Introduction. Lack of accountability for human rights violations perpetrated during January 2022 events. Ongoing violations of the freedom of assembly. Violations of the freedom of association. Violations of the freedom of expression. Persecution of activists, journalists, and bloggers.
Routledge, 2012. — 128 p. Loyalty is a highly charged and important issue, often evoking strong feelings and actions. What is loyalty? Is loyalty compatible with impartiality? How do we respond to conflicts of loyalties? In a global era, should we be trying to transcend loyalties to particular political communities? Drawing on a fascinating array of literary and cinematic...
Wheel of Time, 2010. — 453 p. In the ninth book of the Wheel of Time saga, the plot continues to thicken, and intrigue, as always, runs rampant. As usual, the story depends heavily on what has gone on in the previous book, in this case, The Path of Daggers (1998). Also as usual, the story focuses alternately on one or another of the main characters, most--make that all--of whom...
Dell, 2011. — 335 p. “The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both...
Perennial, 2004. — 659 p. From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Netherlands to the Philippines. This provocative work of history attributes Spain's rise to power to the collaboration of international business interests, including Italian financiers, German technicians, and...
Stanford University Press, 2023. — 601 p. The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir—its only Muslim-majority state—is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's most militarized zone, has been occupied by India for over seventy five years. In this...
Translated by Kirsten Lodge. — Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2015. — 141 p. A Gothic Soul is not a novel in the usual sense of the word: it is a diary of emotions and moods, of the undulating play of the spiritual world, an account of stories of the soul , of everything that agitates the inner self beneath the waves of nuances, fragrances, and tremors with which the real world...
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2019. United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. — 49 p. Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom from: Respect for Civil Liberties. Freedom to Participate in the Political Process Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government. Worker Rights.
CRC Press, 2012. — 262 p. After over 30 years in medical education, it has been very refreshing to read this book and realize that I still have more to learn.The authors build a bridge between educational principles and teaching in community clinical settings. An invaluable resource to community practitioners with a teaching role whether they are new to teaching or have had...
New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. — 181 p. Social Media Has Ushered In A New Era Of Communication Between Organizations And Key Stakeholders. This Text Guides Readers Through A Four-step Process Of Developing A Robust Social Media Campaign. Covering The Latest Industry Standards And Best Practices To Engage Digital Audiences Through Social Listening, Strategic...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on the...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on the...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. National best-selling and award-winning author Lily King’s new novel is the story of three young, gifted anthropologists in the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying a tribe on the...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 398 p. This textbook explains how to perform Finite Element Analysis using the Generative Structural Analysis workbench in CATIA V5. CATIA is a three dimensional CAD/CAM/CAE software developed by Dassault Systèms, France. This textbook is based on CATIA V5 Release 21. Users of earlier releases can use this book with minor...
London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017. Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the...
Harper Perennial, 2024. — 865 p. New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda’s fresh, contemporary single volume historical biography of General Robert E. Lee–perhaps the most famous and least understood legend in American history and one of our most admired heroes.Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, paints a vivid and admiring...
Harper Perennial, 2024. — 865 p. New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda’s fresh, contemporary single volume historical biography of General Robert E. Lee–perhaps the most famous and least understood legend in American history and one of our most admired heroes.Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, paints a vivid and admiring...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. — 799 p. — (Oxford History of Modem Europe). This history of Belgium and the Netherlands is the first major study in English to treat them as nations in their own right, while placing them in a wider European and world context. The Revolutionary Background, 1780-1795. The Great Revolution, 1792-1813. The Great Netherlands Hypothesis,...
Reaktion Books, 2017. — 304 p. The small ears of corn once grown by Native Americans have now become row upon row of cornflakes on supermarket shelves. The immense seas of grass and herds of animals that supported indigenous people have turned into industrial agricultural operations with regular rows of soybeans, corn, and wheat that feed the world. But how did this happen and...
No output data specified. — 87 p. Introduction. A Short History of Reading. Debunking Myths About Speed Reading. Common Obstacles and What to Look For. The Different Levels of Reading. Comprehension for All Ages. The First Steps. Rules For Faster Comprehension. Speed Reading Techniques – An Exploration. A Sense of Urgency. Top Strategies to Skyrocket Your Skills. The...
Atlantic Council — April 2018. — 15 p. Executive Summary The Renewed Russian Nuclear Threat The Gaps in US and NATO Nuclear Strategy Weighing Possible Strategic Response Options Toward a Better NATO Deterrence Strategy Possible Objections About the Author
University of Calicut, 2004. — 137 p. Preface. List of abbreviations. Introduction. Main Currents of Political and Social History of Kerala. Sufism in Kerala : Origin, early growth and relation with sufi movements in south India. Sufi orders in Kerala. Ideology and practices. Sufism and Mappila life. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography.
Données de sortie non spécifiées. — 116 p. Pour parler d'évolution, il faut d'abord définir la notion de structure et celle de mémoire. L'évolution se fait peut-être vers une fin, mais certainement à partir d'une origine. Nous libérerons ce terme d'évolution de tout jugement de valeur qui serait proprement humain et nous nous limiterons à reconnaître son existence du point de...
Wiley, 2022. In Rewired, the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey and u0026 Company, delivers a road-tested, how-to manual their own consultants use to help companies build the capabilities to outcompete in the age of digital and AI. Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle. There are no quick fixes but there...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 940 p. Invisible, Visible, and Vanishing Hands. Origins. The Progressive Era . The Light of Reason and the Necessity of Modern Society. Business Groups. The All-Permeating Principle of the Universe. Angle of Repose. The Seminal Catastrophe . The Export Department. Moral Equivalence. Wartime Socialism. An Industrial Engineer’s Utopia....
VBK Media, 2014. — 198 b. “Twee Poolse zusjes willen WO II ontvluchten naar Nieuw-Zeeland. Slechts één van hen krijgt een visum. Hun levenspad kruist zich met dat van de jonge piloot James McKenzie. "Een nieuwe wereld' is opnieuw een heerlijke roman van Sarah Lark. Ze schrijft boeken waar romantiek, geschiedenis en leesplezier hand in hand gaan.
Fourth edition. — Ontario: LexisNexis, 2014. — 1468 p. Foundational principles of evidence and the importance of evidentiary rulings in context. Types of evidence and conditions for the receipt of evidence. Evidential burden and burden of proof. Presumptions. Standards of proof. Hearsay. Self-serving evidence. Confessions. Illegally obtained evidence. Character evidence....
Harriman House, 2024. — 240 p. The Valuation Book contains the tools needed by anyone who wants to make a robust valuation of a business.No detailed prior knowledge of business valuation is required – the book covers everything you need to know, including how to read relevant parts of company accounts and the valuation tools (including DCF and multiples) that are used by...
Harriman House, 2024. — 240 p. The Valuation Book contains the tools needed by anyone who wants to make a robust valuation of a business.No detailed prior knowledge of business valuation is required – the book covers everything you need to know, including how to read relevant parts of company accounts and the valuation tools (including DCF and multiples) that are used by...
Duke University Press, 2000. — 357 p. Writing involves risks—the risk that one will be misunderstood, the risk of being persecuted, the risks of being made a champion for causes in which one does not believe, this risk of inadvertently supporting a reader’s prejudices, to name a few. In trying to give expression to what is true, the writer must “clear a passage within the...
Seventh Edition. — Routledge, 2020. The Seventh Edition Of The Highly Successful The City Reader Juxtaposes The Very Best Classic And Contemporary Writings On The City. Sixty-three Selections Are Included: Forty-five From The Sixth Edition And Eighteen New Selections, Including Three Newly Written Exclusively For The City Reader. The Anthology Features A Prologue Essay On How...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 312 p. In The Inner Life of Catholic Reform, Ulrich Lehner offers a longue durée overview of the sentiments and spiritual ideas of the 250-year long time span following the Council of Trent, known as Catholic Reform. While there have been many studies of the so-called Counter-Reformation, the political side of Catholic Reform, and of its...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 312 p. In The Inner Life of Catholic Reform, Ulrich Lehner offers a longue durée overview of the sentiments and spiritual ideas of the 250-year long time span following the Council of Trent, known as Catholic Reform. While there have been many studies of the so-called Counter-Reformation, the political side of Catholic Reform, and of its...
St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 372 p. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger. These are the Seven Deadly Sins, the vices of humankind that define immorality, the roots of all evil in this world.These sins, balanced by the Seven Cardinal Virtues, have their origins in Greco-Roman mythology and subsequently early Christianity. But do these sins really represent moral...
St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 372 p. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger. These are the Seven Deadly Sins, the vices of humankind that define immorality, the roots of all evil in this world.These sins, balanced by the Seven Cardinal Virtues, have their origins in Greco-Roman mythology and subsequently early Christianity. But do these sins really represent moral...
CRC Press, 2024. — xxviii, 530 p. — ISBN 978-1-003-46094-7. This book examines vibration phenomena with an emphasis on fractional vibrations using the functional form of linear vibrations with frequency-dependent mass, damping, or stiffness, covering the theoretical analysis potentially applicable to structures and, in particular, ship hulls. Covering the six classes of...
Broadside Books, 2023. America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it's too late. One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy that has endured across Administrations. For more than 40 years, he litigated, negotiated, and editorialized...
Routledge, 2020. Part I. Modernity and the global framework of sovereignty. The post-war order: liberalism, modernism, nationalism. Globalization of the international order. Fragility and local agony: the groundwork for illicit social order. The security-development complex: patching up global governance? Illicit social order: flipping the Coin. outline and methods. Part II....
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 424 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 424 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 199 p. — (European History in Perspective). The Sixteenth-Century Inheritance. The Reign of Gustav II Adolf. Sweden on the World Stage: The Foreign Policy of Gustav II Adolf. The Interregnum and Queen Christina, 1632–54. The Swedish ‘Power State’: Society, Culture, and the Burden of War. Proto-absolutism or ‘Military Monarchy’? The Brief Reign of...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 202 p. Records show that the Chinese invented gunpowder in the 800s. By the 1200s they had unleashed the first weapons of war upon their unsuspecting neighbours. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of that invention and its impact on the surrounding Asian world - Korea, Japan, South East Asia and South Asia - from the ninth...
HMH Books, 2006. Astronaut Jim Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger’s harrowing account of the Apollo 13 disaster. Serving as the basis for Ron Howard’s blockbuster Apollo 13, the book reveals true details not shown in the movie. Thrilling and evocative, you feel as though you’re alongside Lovell in the lunar module. Written with all the color and drama of the best fiction,...
The University of Chicago Press, 2024. — 232 p. — (Chicago Studies in American Politics) A provocative new perspective on presidential power.Border walls, school bathrooms, student loans, gun control, diversity, abortion, climate change–today, nothing seems out of reach for the president’s pen. But after all the press releases, ceremonies, and speeches, shockingly little gets...
The University of Chicago Press, 2024. — 232 p. — (Chicago Studies in American Politics) A provocative new perspective on presidential power.Border walls, school bathrooms, student loans, gun control, diversity, abortion, climate change–today, nothing seems out of reach for the president’s pen. But after all the press releases, ceremonies, and speeches, shockingly little gets...
Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2014. — 294 p. “Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful and ruthless Assassin's Guild, Celaena yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer for hire, Sam. When Celaena's scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, she finds...