Free Download Donatella della Porta, "Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: A Comparative Perspective "
English | ISBN: 1529228247 | 2023 | 176 pages | PDF | 10 MB
From Deliveroo to Amazon, digital platforms have drastically transformed the way we work. But how are these transformations being received and challenged by workers? This book provides a radical interpretation of the changing nature of worker movements in the digital age, developing an invaluable approach that combines social movement studies and industrial relations. Using case studies taken from Europe and North America, it offers a comparative perspective on the mobilizing trajectories of different platform workers and their distinct organizational forms and action repertoires. This is an innovative book that offers a complete view of the new labour conflicts in the platform economy.

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Free Download John Clarke, "The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture"
English | ISBN: 1529227666 | 2023 | 252 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and 'race', and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening 'crisis of authority' that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.

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Free Download Bruce W. Dayton Director of the CONTACT Peacebuilding Program and Associate Professor of Di, "Constructive Conflicts: From Emergence to Transformation"
English | ISBN: 1538160994 | 2022 | 378 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Substantially revised for the sixth edition, Constructive Conflicts explains how large-scale political and social conflicts can be waged more constructively, with more positive consequences and fewer destructive consequences for those involved. Drawing on research from political science, sociology, social-psychology, neuroscience, cultural studies, and other disciplines, Dayton and Kriesberg follow the lifecycle of social and political conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and often emerge again in new forms.

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Free Download Conflicts and Conflict Dynamics in Business Families: Dealing with Internal Family Disputes
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031502256 | 94 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
Conflicts within the owner circle - or rather, within the "family of the family business" - are often the main cause of existential crises for family businesses. The damaging effects of unchecked family conflicts affect two social systems: the family business and the business family itself. The impairment of the survival capability of the family business goes hand in hand with the reduced chance of constructive follow-up communication between family members. Once caught up in conflict communication, it is extremely difficult for business families to get out of it without the help of external knowledge. It is therefore surprising that the topic of conflict prevention in business families has so far been given relatively little attention.

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Free Download To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision (Audiobook)
English | May 24, 2022 | ASIN: B09FWWB4LF | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 42m | 231 MB
Author: Admiral James Stavridis | Narrator: Marc Cashman
From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle, drawn from the history of the United States Navy, with outcomes both glorious and notorious

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Free Download The Ottomans and Christians: The History and Legacy of the Ottomans' Conflicts with Catholic and Orthodox Nations (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868633096 | 2024 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Jim Walsh
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity's greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.

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Free Download Martin Perrow, "Wildlife and Wind Farms - Conflicts and Solutions: Offshore: Potential Effects "
English | ISBN: 1784271276 | 2019 | 300 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 13 MB
Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of research and monitoring studies, a growing body of literature and several international conferences on the topic.

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Free Download Martin Perrow, "Wildlife Wind Farms Conflicts and Solutions (Volume 4) "
English | ISBN: 1784271314 | 2019 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 37 MB + 57 MB
Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of research and monitoring studies, a growing body of literature and several international conferences on the topic.

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Free Download Salim Bouherar, "Algerian Languages in Education: Conflicts and Reconciliation"
English | ISBN: 3030893235 | 2021 | 225 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines the role of foreign languages and cultures in the Algerian educational system, highlighting how cultural imperialism and supremacy persist through damaging language ideologies and the privileging of colonial languages such as French and English. The authors challenge the claim that the Algerian educational system can be considered 'neutral', arguing instead that it was and still is the outcome of a conflict between Arabised and Francophone elites, serving strategic and ideological objectives rather than cultural or pedagogical goals. This book will be relevant to students and scholars of language education, language policy and planning, and the history and politics of the Arab and Muslim world, especially those interested in the influence of Western languages and cultures and the democratisation of educational systems.

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Free Download Michael Brecher, "The World of Protracted Conflicts"
English | ISBN: 1498531873 | 2016 | 412 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
The World of Protracted Conflicts seeks to frame the models to answer three crucial questions about interstate protracted conflict: what are the most likely conditions for the onset of a protracted conflict, its escalation/persistence, and its termination? It presents the findings on protracted conflict occurrence, continuation, and resolution through testing these models and their derived hypotheses against the evidence from 33 interstate protracted conflicts in the last century. These findings will, in turn, shed further light on the conflict-crisis-war linkage. This book examines and explains patterns that exist in the eruption, evolution, and winding down of these conflicts through a systematic comparison of recent and contemporary PCs.

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