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 Colin Woodard, "Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood" English | 2020 | ISBN: 0525560157 | 432 pages | AZW3 | 1.2 MB The author of American Nations returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity, purpose, and identity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century-a myth that continues to affect us today  Understanding the Human Mind: Unstoppable Willpower by Jason Browne English | November 1, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08M8CRQKR | 135 pages | PDF | 0.65 Mb The Secret Power of Millionaires and Famous People That Most People Will Never Master  Understanding the Building Regulations By Simon Polley 2005 | 293 Pages | ISBN: 0415349176 | PDF | 3 MB Although the UK's Building Regulations are complex and lengthy, their essential features are relatively straightforward. In this 3rd edition of his bestselling book, Simon Polley brings his brief and practical guide fully up-to-date for Spon, with a number of key changes across the book and the addition of an excellent new section. Written by this leading industry practioner, Understanding Building Regulations is well laid out, jargon-free, eay to use, and a great alternative to John Stephenson's much larger and weightier The Building Regulations Explained. It is an excellent introduction for students as well as for professionals who want a first-rate entry-level text.  Fanar Haddad, "Understanding 'Sectarianism': Sunni-Shi'a Relationsin the Modern Arab World" English | 2020 | ISBN: 0197510620 | PDF | pages: 377 | 4.9 mb "Sectarianism" is one of the most over-discussed yet under-analyzed concepts in debates about the Middle East. Despite the deluge of commentary, there is no agreement on what "sectarianism" is. Is it a social issue, one of dogmatic incompatibility, a historic one or one purely related to modern power politics? Is it something innately felt or politically imposed? Is it a product of modernity or its antithesis? Is it a function of the nation-state or its negation?
 Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education by Ilana Redstone, John Villasenor 2020 | ISBN: 0190078065 | English | 208 pages | EPUB | 1 MB Open inquiry and engagement with a diverse range of views are long-cherished and central tenets of higher education and are pivotal to innovation and knowledge creation. Yet, free inquiry on American campuses is hampered by a climate that constrains teaching, research, and overall discourse.  Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design by Aileen Kwun, Bryn Smith 2016 | ISBN: 1616892811 | English | 224 pages | EPUB | 23 MB Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields-including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora Lamm, and Deborah Sussman; architects Michael Graves, Denise Scott Brown, and Stanley Tigerman; urbanist Jane Thompson; industrial designer Charles Harrison; furniture designer Jens Risom; and critic Ralph Caplan-spotlight creators, thinkers, and pioneers whose lifelong dedication to experimentation and innovation continues to shape their disciplines well into their ninth decade.  Ruth Morse, "Truth and Convention in Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation and Reality" English | ISBN: 0521317908 | 2005 | 312 pages | PDF | 106 MB Medieval assumptions about the nature of literary and historical narrative representation were widely different from our own. Writers and readers looked for truths that were not necessarily literal or empirical fact, and the embellishments of language bore a more complex relationship to the objects of representation in the historical past that was depicted. Ruth Morse's challenging book makes a study of the principles of rhetorical invention that operate as a context for the interpretation of medieval historical narratives. It examines the background of medieval education in rhetoric, commentary and invention, and looks at different modes of writing-history, biography and translation. She traces ways in which historical narratives claimed their legitimacy, for example by reference to earlier textual authorities. In analyzing the complex process of narrative reconstruction, the author herself reconstructs medieval habits of reading and writing, and provokes far-reaching questions about language and representation.  Triumphs in Early Autism Treatment By Ennio Cipani PhD 2008 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 0826159958 | PDF | 2 MB ''Both parents and professionals who work with young children with autism should read this book.'' --Temple Grandin , author, Thinking in Pictures (From the Foreword) ''To Miss Molly, before you started with an ABA program, we couldn't sing to you , we couldn't talk too loud, or even play music. Now you are in the drama club, dance classes, and on stage singing at the school talent show!!! I'm so proud of you.'' --Mother of Molly Martin , featured in Chapter 4 Triumphs in Early Autism Treatment offers a wealth of insight and hope to both parents and clinicians. This book documents the latest research that shows that children who receive Applied Behavioral Analysis treatment consistently progress in skill development. This groundbreaking treatment has allowed numerous children to reach the ''best outcome status,'' a level of normal intellectual and educational functioning. In essence, they become indistinguishable from their peers in everyday life. A must-read for parents and clinicians, this book is the first to document ''best outcome'' case studies using exclusively ABA treatment. Key Features: First-hand accounts of the intellectual and behavioral progress of seven autistic children, written in a narrative style by the ABA professionals who conducted the consultations Contributors include Audrey Gifford, who is both a professional Behavioral Analyst and a parent of an autistic child who received ABA treatment Overview of autism research prior to ABA and an introduction to the development of the method Analysis of ABA treatment demonstrating why ABA is the most effective of all treatment methods
 Jathan Sadowski, Frank Pasquale, "Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World" English | 2020 | ISBN: 026253858X | 256 pages | AZW3 | 0.629 MB Who benefits from smart technology? Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and connectivity?  Nicole Krauss, "To Be a Man: Stories" English | 2020 | ISBN: 0062431021, 1408871831 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2.3 MB In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all. |
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