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 Does the Center Hold?: An Introduction to Western Philosophy By Donald D. Palmer 2001 | 462 Pages | ISBN: 0767415809 | PDF | 49 MB [center]  Scott T. Allison, David M. Messick, G. Goethals, "Conceptions of Leadership: Enduring Ideas and Emerging Insights" English | 2014 | pages: 253 | ISBN: 1137472014 | PDF | 2,0 mb An exploration of both classic and contemporary conceptions of leadership, focusing on social psychological approaches to central questions such as the way people think about leaders and leadership, the personality attributes of leaders, power and influence, trust, and the qualities that sustain positive relationships between leaders and followers.  Commander-in-Tweet: Donald Trump and the Deformed Presidency English | 2021 | ISBN: 3658339640 | 115 Pages | PDF EPUB | 1 MB Donald Trump is one of the most controversial politicians of our time. On the one hand, this refers to his policies, but on the other hand, it also refers to his political style: Trump himself explicitly sees himself as a Twitter president. But what exactly is that supposed to be? What role does Twitter play in "official" communication, for example, in relation to classic media? Communications expert Klaus Kamps addresses these questions in this popular science essay.  Roland Lazenby, "Blood on the Horns: The Long Strange Ride of Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls" English | 2014 | ISBN: 188611059X | 273 pages | EPUB | 3 MB "A must read!" -USA TODAY  Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, "Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science" English | 2021 | ISBN: 022676592X | 144 pages | EPUB | 0.76 MB Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor-not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful yet rigorous analysis with a focus on humans rather than the institutions. Going against the grain of contemporary neo-institutional and behavioral economics which privilege observation over understanding, she asserts her vision of "humanomics," which draws on the work of Bart Wilson, Vernon Smith, and most prominently, Adam Smith. She argues for an economics that uses a comprehensive understanding of human action beyond behaviorism.  Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, and the Dead James Connolly English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030742733 | 291 Pages | PDF | 4 MB This book details the Irish socialistic tracks pursued by Bernard Shaw and Sean O'Casey, mostly after 1916, that were arguably impacted by the executed James Connolly. The historical context is carefully unearthed, stretching from its 1894 roots via W. B. Yeats' dream of Shaw as a menacing, yet grinning sewing machine, to Shaw's and O'Casey's 1928 masterworks. In the process, Shaw's War Issues for Irishmen, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman, Saint Joan, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, and O'Casey's The Story of the Irish Citizen Army, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, and The Silver Tassie are reconsidered, revealing previously undiscovered textures to the masterworks. All of which provides a rethinking, a reconsideration of Ireland's great drama of the 1920s, as well as furthering the knowledge of Shaw, O'Casey, and Connolly.  Belle Necropolis: Ghosts of Imperial Vienna By Katherine Arens 2014 | 231 Pages | ISBN: 1433119005 | EPUB | 3 MB Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980,fin de sicleVienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume argues that Habsburg nostalgia is anything but backward looking: instead, images from this glittering Habsburg past become evidence of a culture's sophisticated sense of how and why history is made, in both official and popular spheres. Including the first translation of an original account of Crown Prince Rudolf's suicide at Mayerling in 1889,Belle Necropolisargues for Austria's continued reuse of its own history to point the way toward the future rather than simply memorializing a past that only exists as living memories of shared stories, not as a truth in itself. Case studies included here range from imperial stereotypes before 1900 through their adaptations in the film1. April 2000and today's musicals, and from the politics of representing Austria since Rebecca West up through Schorske's master narrative of theRingstrasse. Through these studies, Habsburg culture emerges as a culture of commemoration that uses its own past to overcome the limits of a small country seeking a role on the contemporary world stage.
 Mohssen Mohammed, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, "Automatic Defense Against Zero-day Polymorphic Worms in Communication Networks" English | 2019 | ISBN: 036738003X, 1466557273 | 336 pages | EPUB | 6 MB Able to propagate quickly and change their payload with each infection, polymorphic worms have been able to evade even the most advanced intrusion detection systems (IDS). And, because zero-day worms require only seconds to launch flooding attacks on your servers, using traditional methods such as manually creating and storing signatures to defend against these threats is just too slow.  Gowri Vijayakumar, "At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis " English | ISBN: 1503628051 | 2021 | 278 pages | PDF | 11 MB In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort to prevent it. HIV prevention programs channeled billions of dollars toward those groups designated as at-risk-sex workers and men who have sex with men. At Risk captures this unique moment in which these criminalized and marginalized groups reinvented their "at-risk" categorization and became central players in the crisis response. The AIDS crisis created a contradictory, conditional, and temporary opening for sex-worker and LGBTIQ activists to renegotiate citizenship and to make demands on the state. Working across India and Kenya, Gowri Vijayakumar provides a fine-grained account of the political struggles at the heart of the Indian AIDS response. These range from everyday articulations of sexual identity in activist organizations in Bangalore to new approaches to HIV prevention in Nairobi, where prevention strategies first introduced in India are adapted and circulate, as in the global AIDS field more broadly. Vijayakumar illuminates how the politics of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape global crisis response. In so doing, she considers the precarious potential for social change in and after a crisis.  Ask Baba Lon: Answers to Questions of Life and Magick By Lon Milo DuQuette; David Cherubim; Constance Jean DuQuette 2011 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 1561842192 | EPUB + PDF | 1 MB Answers questions of magick and mysticism. |
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