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 W. J. King, James G. Skakoon, "The Unwritten Laws of Business" English | 2014 | ISBN: 038552126X | EPUB | pages: 112 | 0.3 mb The bestselling business classic that Raytheon CEO  The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror By Joseph Masco 2014 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0822357933 | PDF | 5 MB How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations. Tracing how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American social contract, Masco draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats-real, imagined, and emergent.  The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unraveling the Norman Conquest by David Musgrove, Michael Lewis 2021 | ISBN: 0500252424 | English | 352 pages | AZW3 | 17 MB The definitive and fully illustrated guide to the Bayeux Tapestry. The full history of the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the story of the tapestry itself.  The Stigma of Disease and Disability: Understanding Causes and Overcoming Injustices by Dr. Patrick W. Corrigan PsyD English | 2013 | ISBN: 1433815834 | 319 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB People with physical or mental disabilities such as HIV, substance abuse, cancer, or depression are negatively affected not only by the disease, but also by others' negative reactions to it. This humane book prepares advocates and health care professionals to more effectively fight the social injustice of stigma and better support the families of those with disabilities.  Robert Kirk, "The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns and Fairies" English | 2008 | ISBN: 1684224144, 1608641716 | EPUB | pages: 92| 11.5 mb 2019 Reprint of 1893 Edition Edited by Andrew Lang. Robert Kirk (1644 -1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight (a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.) Folklorist Stewart Sanderson and mythologist Marina Warner call Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of the most important and significant works on the subject of fairies and second sight. Left in manuscript form upon the author's death in 1692, this volume was first published in 1815 at the behest of Sir Walter Scott. In 1893, the distinguished folklorist Andrew Lang re-edited the work and it is in this form that the work is reprinted.  Matt Kingdon, "The Science of Serendipity: How to Unlock the Promise of Innovation" English | 2012 | ISBN: 111847810X, 1118478118 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 7.1 mb Innovation. The word might make you think of Silicon Valley. But innovation isn't the sole province of start-ups. They didn't invent it, and they're not always the ones from which we can best learn.  Wallace Swan, "The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQIA Administration and Policy " English | ISBN: 0815366507 | 2018 | 432 pages | PDF | 3 MB The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and Allies community (abbreviated LGBTQIA or "LGBT") is responding to a radically changed social and political environment. While a host of books have analyzed legal dimensions of LGBT public policy, this authoritative Routledge handbook is the first to utilize up-to-the-minute empirical data to examine and unpick the corrosive "post-factual" changes undermining LGBT public policy development. Taking an innovative look at a wide range of social and policy issues of broad interest―including homelessness, transgender rights, healthcare, immigration, substance abuse, caring for senior members of the community, sexual education, resilience, and international policy―through contributions from established scholars and rising stars, this comprehensive and cutting-edge volume will be a landmark reference work on LGBT administration and policy for decades to come.  The Post-Pandemic World: Sustainable Living on a Wounded Planet English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030917819 | 429 Pages | PDF | 16 MB The Covid-19 pandemic is a repeating biophysical shock yet one for which our current socio-economic structure was not prepared. Climate change, scarcity, depletion of natural resources, and the inevitable transition to renewable energy are one time events. Taken together, they present an existential threat to human society. This book is a guide to navigating these megatrends, which confront us now but whose consequences will unfold over decades.  Kingsley L. Dennis, "The Phoenix Generation: A New Era of Connection, Compassion, and Consciousness" English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780287925 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.3 mb Winner of the 2015 COVR Award for Best Alternative Science Book!  The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation And Identity in the United States And Canada, 1945-1980 By Gillian Mitchell 2007 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 0754657566 | PDF | 1 MB This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Students will find the book useful as an introduction, not only to key themes in the folk revival, but also to concepts in the study of national identity and to topics in American and Canadian cultural history. Academic specialists will encounter an alternative perspective from the more general, broad approach offered by earlier histories of the folk revival movement. |
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