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 Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests Through Adaptive Collaborative Management by Louise E. Buck, Charles C. Geisler, John Schelhas and Eva Wollenberg English | June 21, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0849300207 | 504 pages | PDF | 19,7 MB We live in a world of wide pendulum swings regarding management policies for protected areas, particularly as they affect the involvement of local people in management. Such swings can be polarizing and halt on-the-ground progress.  Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation by William P. Alston English | December 2006 | ISBN-10: 0801473322 | 256 pages | PDF | 10,7 MB Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the century-long search for a correct account of the nature and conditions of epistemic justification misses the point.  Best Practice in Labour and Delivery By Richard Warren, Sabaratnam Arulkumaran 2009 | 380 Pages | ISBN: 0521720680 | PDF | 7 MB An understanding of when and how to intervene is the key to good obstetric care. This textbook is an encompassing reference covering all the essential information relating to childbirth; it offers clear practical guidance on all aspects of labour and delivery. Written by well-known leading experts, each chapter offers a modern authoritative review of best practice. The evidence base decribed will help to optimize outcome through appropriate clinical management and justifiable intervention. Whilst this is an ideal textbook for those training and taking examinations in labour ward practice, it offers all those caring for the woman in labour a modern, evidence-based approach which will help them understand, recognize and deliver the best possible clinical care. The importance of team working, prioritizing, and the organization of maternity care receive appropriate emphasis with clear guidance and practical advice.  Dorothee Brantz, "Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History" English | ISBN: 0813929474 | 2010 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. The fascination with animals that leads not only to a desire to observe and even live alongside them, but to capture or kill them, is found in all civilizations. The essays collected in Beastly Natures show how animals have been brought into human culture, literally helping to build our societies (as domesticated animals have done) or contributing, often in problematic ways, to our concept of the wild.  Dario Martinelli, "Basics of Animal Communication" English | ISBN: 1443881708 | 2017 | 160 pages | PDF | 9 MB This volume represents a short, yet systematic introduction to the topic of animal communication, in a way that blends natural sciences and humanities into a multidisciplinary approach. It is structured in a way that allows students and teachers in this field to employ it as a useful pedagogical tool, and it is written with a style that is clear and engaging. A glossary of difficult terms and a rich bibliography are also available, altogether making Basics of Animal Communication very informative reading.  Stephan Haggard, "Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World " English | ISBN: 1108958400 | 2021 | 75 pages | PDF | 2 MB Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral system. Drawing on detailed case studies, including the United States and countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, the book focuses on three, inter-related causal mechanisms: the pernicious effects of polarization; realignments of party systems that enable elected autocrats to gain legislative power; and the incremental nature of derogations, which divides oppositions and keeps them off balance. A concluding chapter looks at the international context of backsliding and the role of new technologies in these processes. An online appendix provides detailed accounts of backsliding in 16 countries, which can be found atwww.cambridge.org/backsliding.  Philip Howell, "At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain" English | ISBN: 0813936861 | 2015 | 264 pages | PDF | 44 MB Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country's social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dog's changing place in society was the subject of intense debate and depended on a fascinating combination of forces even to come about.
 Arguments: Why We Argue and How You Can Use the Art of Persuasion to Effectively Defend Your Opinion by Jessica Forrest English | November 16, 2016 | ISBN: 1540442780 | 82 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.52 Mb [b]Learn Today the Art of Persuasion to Effectively Defend an Opinion!  Allen Feldman, "Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory" English | ISBN: 022627733X | 2015 | 432 pages | PDF | 3 MB In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to truth. Whether responding to the fantasy of weapons of mass destruction or an existential threat to civilization, Western political sovereignty seeks to align justice, humanitarian right, and democracy with technocratic violence and visual dominance. Connecting Guantánamo tribunals to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, American counterfeit killings in Afghanistan to the Baader-Meinhof paintings of Gerhard Richter, and the video erasure of Rodney King to lynching photography and political animality, among other scenes of terror, Feldman contests sovereignty's claims to transcendental right -whether humanitarian, neoliberal, or democratic-by showing how dogmatic truth is crafted and terror indemnified by the prosecutorial media and materiality of war.  Dustin R. Rubenstein, "Animal Behavior Ed 11" English | ISBN: 1605355488 | 2018 | 672 pages | PDF | 59 MB A comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the brain, genes, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding ecological and social environments. |
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