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 The New Dogs of War: Nonstate Actor Violence in International Politics by Ward Thomas English | September 15th, 2021 | ISBN: 1501758896 | 276 pages | True EPUB | 1.00 MB As Ward Thomas details in The New Dogs of War, in many countries militias and paramilitary groups wield greater power than national governments, while in some war zones private contractors perform missions previously reserved for uniformed troops. Most ominously, terrorist organizations with global reach have come to define the security landscape for even the most powerful nations. Across the first decades of the twenty-first century we have witnessed a dramatic rise in the use of military force by these nonstate actors in ways that impact the international system, leading Thomas to undertake this valuable assessment of the state of play at this critical moment.  The Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane, 1796-1914 by Peter Reese English | January 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 184884848X, 1526781956 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 39.45 MB Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far behind in the race to develop the aeroplane before the First World War? Despite their initial advantage, they were overtaken by the Wright brothers in America, by the French and the Germans. Peter Reese, in this highly readable and highly illustrated account, delves into the fascinating early history of aviation as he describes what happened and why.  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales By Oliver Sacks 1998 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 0684853949 | DJVU | 2 MB In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks'sThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hattells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."  Andrew Mangham, "The Male Body in Medicine and Literature " English | ISBN: 1786940523 | 2018 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of  The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds By John Bowlby 2005 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0415354811 | PDF | 3 MB Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well-known humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.  George Lakoff, Elisabeth Wehling, "The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic" English | 2012 | ISBN: 147670001X | 160 pages | EPUB | 1.5 MB "The essential handbook for thinking and talking Democratic-must reading not only for every Democrat but for every responsible citizen" (Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor and author of Beyond Outrage).
 The Kingdom of Moab: The History of the Ancient Kingdom that Fought Against the Israelites' Invasion of Canaan by Charles River Editors English | July 2, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B098LW77VV | 65 pages | EPUB | 0.38 Mb *Includes pictures  The Guru Principle: A Guide to the Teacher-Student Relationship in Buddhism by Shenpen Hookham English | August 17th, 2021 | ISBN: 1611809266 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 0.90 MB A clear-headed and relatable guidebook for navigating the student-teacher relationship by one of the first female Buddhist teachers in the West.  Murray Shukyn, "The Ged For Dummies, 2nd Edition" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0470570806 | 432 pages | PDF | 8.7 MB Get the skills and know-how you need to pass the GED test  The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine By Serhii Plokhy 2015 | 433 Pages | ISBN: 0465073948 | PDF | 5 MB Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's existence as a sovereign nation. As award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its fraught present and likely future.Situated between Europe, Russia, and the Asian East, Ukraine was shaped by the empires that have used it as a strategic gateway between East and West-from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, all have engaged in global fights for supremacy on Ukrainian soil. Each invading army left a lasting mark on the landscape and on the population, making modern Ukraine an amalgam of competing cultures.Authoritative and vividly written, The Gates of Europe will be the definitive history of Ukraine for years to come. |
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