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 Doctor Michael Barr, "Who's Afraid of China?: The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power " English | ISBN: 1848135904 | 2011 | 160 pages | PDF | 1201 KB If China suddenly democratised, would it cease being labelled as a threat? This provocative book argues that fears of China often say as much about those who hold them as they do about the rising power itself. It focuses not on the usual trope of economic and military might, but on China's growing cultural influence and the connections between China's domestic politics and its attempts to brand itself internationally. Using examples from film, education, media, politics, and art, Who's Afraid of China? is both an introduction to Chinese soft power and a critical analysis of international reaction to it. It examines how the West's own past, hopes, and fears shape the way it thinks about and engages with China and argues that the rising power touches a nerve in the Western psyche, presenting a fundamental challenge to ideas about modernity, history, and international relations.  What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me By Rielle Hunter 2012 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1937856402 | EPUB | 3 MB The John EdwardsRielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. One of the biggest political scandals of all time," a fall from grace," a modern-day tragedy"it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the U.S. government, by supposed friends. However, there is someone who actually knows the truth, someone who lived it from day onethe woman at the heart of the story itself: Rielle Hunter.In the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller What Really Happened, Hunter offers an extremely personal account of her relationship with John Edwards: the facts of how they actually met, how their accidental love started and escalated, what it was like to fall in love with a married man who decided to run for president, the surprise of becoming pregnant during the campaign, how the affair became public, the extensive cover-up, and finally, what happened in the years after Edwards publicly admitted to being the father of their daughter, Frances Quinn.Meet Edwards's political players and get an intimate look at how they really operated. Learn about the evolution of friends," enablers, and do-gooders, their involvement with the affair and Edwards's 2008 presidential campaign, and where the money from Rachel Bunny" Mellon and Fred Baron actually went.This book doesn't spin the truth to achieve a prettier picture or a better story. It isn't about changing anyone's mind. It's simply the facts, the truth of what really happened.  Christopher Buckley, "Wet Work" English | 1991 | ISBN: 0394571932 | EPUB | pages: 271 | 1.9 mb The drug-overdose death of his beloved only granddaughter leads businessman Charlie Becker on a dangerous quest in search of the individual responsible, a search that propels him into the vicious drug culture and White House inner circles
 Michel Paillet, Complexity Welcome, "Welcome Complexity Manifesto: Addressing Complexity: Weaving Together: Reason and Strategy in Human Affairs" English | 2020 | ISBN: 9811477728 | ASIN: B08J88L7Y3 | EPUB | pages: 180 | 0.3 mb What if complexity were the undiscovered country? What if it were opportunity, gift, joy, enthusiasm? What if it were, not the defeat of all our customary modes of thought and action, but a challenge to discover the depth, breadth and substance of the world, with a regeneration of our thought and action? What if we were to shed our reassuring but unfit protections and, trusting and resolute, step into the promise of the unknown?  Anthony McElligott, "Weimar Germany " English | ISBN: 019928007X | 2009 | 324 pages | PDF | 9 MB The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted as long as it did. Besieged from the outset by hostile forces, the young republic was threatened  Weight of Modernity: An Intergenerational Study of the Rise of Obesity By Cathy Banwell, Dorothy Broom, Anna Davies, Jane Dixon 2012 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 904818956X | PDF | 3 MB Over a half of adults in the US, Canada, Australia and numerous European countries are now overweight or obese, a proportion that has risen sharply in the past two decades. Dominant biomedical explanations focus on the energy equation - an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure - and remedies focus on motivating individuals to restore the balance by eating better and being more active, or - in extreme cases - surgical intervention.This book offers a perspective that sees increasing obesity as a social phenomenon as well as a public health problem. It contains detailed accounts of three generations of Australians' experiences of changing environments and the emergence of social trends such as increasing availability of convenience foods, the individualisation and commercialisation of leisure, car reliance, and busyness. Participants' narratives are interwoven with sociological and historical analyses of changes to show how contemporary Australians are experiencing and adapting to dramatic socio-cultural and environmental changes that are reshaping their lives and, in many cases, their bodies. The book demonstrates that obesity is an unintended consequence of economic development accompanied by profound socio-cultural changes, and by identifying the key developments the authors propose leverage points. While the research was conducted in Australia, the fundamental drivers of rapid weight gain are equally present in other modern, secular societies.
 Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2013: 14th International Conference, Nanjing, China, October 13-15, 2013, Proceedings, Part II By Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Nguyen Thanh Tam, Lam Ngoc Tran, Karl Aberer (auth.), Xuemin Lin, Yannis Manolopoulos, Divesh Srivastava, Guangyan Huang (eds.) 2013 | 542 Pages | ISBN: 3642411533 | PDF | 15 MB This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2013, held in Nanjing, China, in October 2013. The 48 full papers, 29 short papers, and 10 demo and 5 challenge papers, presented in the two-volume proceedings LNCS 8180 and 8181, were carefully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Web mining; Web recommendation; Web services; data engineering and database; semi-structured data and modeling; Web data integration and hidden Web; challenge; social Web; information extraction and multilingual management; networks, graphs and Web-based business processes; event processing, Web monitoring and management; and innovative techniques and creations.
 Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2013: 14th International Conference, Nanjing, China, October 13-15, 2013, Proceedings, Part I By Ying Xu, Zhiqiang Gao, Campbell Wilson, Zhizheng Zhang, Man Zhu, Qiu Ji (auth.), Xuemin Lin, Yannis Manolopoulos, Divesh Srivastava, Guangyan Huang (eds.) 2013 | 526 Pages | ISBN: 3642412297 | PDF | 10 MB This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2013, held in Nanjing, China, in October 2013. The 48 full papers, 29 short papers, and 10 demo and 5 challenge papers, presented in the two-volume proceedings LNCS 8180 and 8181, were carefully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Web mining; Web recommendation; Web services; data engineering and database; semi-structured data and modeling; Web data integration and hidden Web; challenge; social Web; information extraction and multilingual management; networks, graphs and Web-based business processes; event processing, Web monitoring and management; and innovative techniques and creations.  Weapons of Mass Psychological Destruction and the People Who Use Them (Practical and Applied Psychology) edited by Larry C. James, Terry L. Oroszi English | December 1, 2015 | ISBN: 1440837546 | True EPUB | 231 pages | 7.8 MB Created by a team of experts in military science and psychology, this timely study is the first comprehensive treatment of the tactical and psychological use of weapons of mass destruction. The book introduces the term "weapons of mass psychological destruction" (WMPD) and draws from examples and case histories to examine the minds of the terrorists who choose these weapons, not for maximum killing, but for maximum psychological harm to the greatest number of people.  Water an Element of Life: Price Sensitivity and Consumption by Marginalised by Yuthika Agarwal, Gopal Krishna Agarwal English | May 3rd, 2021 | ISBN: 9390513294 | 213 pages | True EPUB | 4.16 MB This book discusses, the issues with respect to consumption of water by the marginalised (poor) sections of the society and the efficacy of using pricing policy as a tool for overall demand management of household water. It includes a case study based on the survey of the municipal water supply in Delhi. It covers water scenario at the national level, suggesting regulatory framework and reforms for the efficient urban water management in India. |
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