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 Chocolate Crisis: Climate Change and Other Threats to the Future of Cacao by Dale Walters English | December 22nd, 2020 | ISBN: 1683401670 | 230 pages | True EPUB | 10.13 MB Chocolate is the center of a massive global industry worth billions of dollars annually, yet its future in our modern world is currently under threat. In Chocolate Crisis, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree.  Chinese Home Remedies: Harnessing Ancient Wisdom For Self-Healing by Lihua Wang English | April 17th, 2020 | ISBN: 1564148084 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 2.93 MB An expert in traditional Chinese medicine shares more than 1,000 remedies in this A-to-Z guide to herbs, massage, food therapy, and more.  China's Road to the Korean War By Chen Jian 1996 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 0231100256 | PDF | 2 MB Through the use of recently released Chinese documents, conversations with People's Republic of China scholars, and in-depth interviews with people who were present at key decision-making meetings, this book aims to discover China and the USSR's roles in the outbreak of the Korean conflict.  China since Tiananmen By Joseph Fewsmith 2001 | 333 Pages | ISBN: 0521001056 | PDF | 2 MB China Since Tiananmen is the first book to evaluate the intellectual and political trends and to assess how China has changed since the Tiananmen Incident in 1989. Fewsmith looks at intellectual trends to capture the way China's elite has assessed the social, political, economic, and intellectual trends of the past decade. Similarly, he examines the conduct of elite politics to see how the political system has, and has not, evolved over the past decade. Fewsmith puts the rise of neo-conservatism and nationalism into historical context, evaluating the changes of the past decade to the changes after the May Fourth Movement of 1919. This more comprehensive and realistic assessment of the forces that drive China today is of critical importance to anyone trying to understand Sino-U.S. relations, for those relations are themselves intrinsic to the story of China's evolution. Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations at Boston University and Director of the East Asian Interdisciplinary Studies Program. He is the author of Elite Politics in Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe, 2001) and The Dilemmas of Reform in CHina: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (M.E. Sharpe, 1994). He has written extensively on contemporary politics in China, with articles appearing in such journals as Asian Survey, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, Modern China, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. He is the editor of The Chinese Economy and serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Contemporary China.  Child and Adolescent Development: An Advanced Course By William Damon, Richard M. Lerner 2008 | 818 Pages | ISBN: 0470176571 | PDF | 3 MB This advanced text for psychology, human development, and education provides students with state-of-the-art overviews of the discipline in an accessible, affordable format. Unique both in the depth of its coverage and in the timeliness of the research that it presents, this comprehensive text conveys the field of child and adolescent development through the voices of scientists who themselves are now shaping the field.  Laura E. Pérez, "Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities " English | ISBN: 0822338688 | 2007 | 408 pages | PDF | 6 MB In Alma Lopez's digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons-the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards-embrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire within Mexican and Chicano/a religious and popular cultures. Ester Hernandez's 1976 etching Libertad/Liberty depicts a female artist chiseling away at the Statue of Liberty, freeing from within it a regal Mayan woman and, in the process, creating a culturally composite Lady Liberty descended from indigenous and mixed bloodlines. In her painting Coyolxauhqui Last Seen in East Oakland (1993), Irene Perez reimagines as whole the body of the Aztec warrior goddess dismembered in myth. These pieces are part of the dynamic body of work presented in this pioneering, lavishly illustrated study, the first book primarily focused on Chicana visual arts.  Chess: The Right First Steps For Beginners by Dan Engberson English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B088695P8R | 52 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.35 Mb Learn the most effective way to approach chess. Written for beginners and those struggling to break the 1000-barrier in simple, easy to understand terms. Solid steps to approach the game in ways that will eliminate wasted time, wasted effort, and help you develop good habits, stop blundering, and improve quickly. This book will help you progress quickly.  Chess Strategy: Or Why Positions Do (Not) Collapse by Alexander Koblenz English | March 27, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B086G3XMSG | 137 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 3.23 Mb In this small book, the author tried to acquaint his readers with the most important problems of chess strategy, with the help of various exercises to familiarize them with independent creative work. Now it remains on the reader to test himself in how he will be able to put the acquired knowledge into practice. The author expects it to be studied by a chess practitioner who is somewhat oriented on what happens on the chessboard. But it is not enough to improve "naked" practice. It is necessary to be aware of the achievements of theory, to understand the properties and potentialities of pieces, to feel their interaction in specific game situations.In addition to practical games, the book includes studies. In them, the beauty of chess is revealed in crystal clear form - there are no such side factors as time, mental and psychological state of players, etc., which have a serious impact on the course of the fight and the final result. Don't despair if some tasks will turn out to be "tough nuts". If within an hour you do not manage to solve the mystery of this book, look at the end of the book, where the solutions are placed. Trying to solve the task yourself.
 Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Daniele Checchi, "Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives" English | 2014 | pages: 433 | ISBN: 0199687439 | PDF | 2,0 mb There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate, and research in the social sciences. The central questions addressed by this book, and the major research project GINI on which it is based, are:
 Jorge Fernández Jaén, "Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in Historical Linguistics With a Focus on Spanish " English | ISBN: 9027205361 | 2020 | 332 pages | PDF | 9 MB Diachronic linguistics has been experiencing a strong revival during the last few decades, since an increasing number of researchers have assumed that evolutionary and historical factors must be considered to properly understand how natural languages work. This book offers new data and insights on some of the research lines which are currently being developed within the framework of diachronic language research. The papers brought together in this volume are characterized both by their originality and by their methodological diversity; the reader will thus find herein theoretical as well as empirical works, undertaken from various perspectives of analysis (diachronic cognitive semantics, grammaticalization theory, discursive traditions, historical phraseology, etc.). The final outcome is an eclectic volume which offers valuable information for every reader, regardless of whether they are experienced linguists or junior researchers willing to know the latest epistemological advances in this discipline. |
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