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 Alberto Minujin, "Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America: Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies " English | ISBN: 3838209478 | 2017 | 250 pages | EPUB | 2 MB This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address the issues of poverty, marginalization, exclusion, and old and new inequalities in post-neoliberal times. The objective is to advance the rights of all children and adolescents in the region. This urgent book represents a unique opportunity for practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and students to get access to the most up-to-date perspectives on child poverty and inequality from a conceptual and practical point of view.  Jonathan Darling, "Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum" English | ISBN: 0745340482 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB Of the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in popular consciousness. But there is a third practice, perpetrating a slower violence, that remains hidden: dispersal. Jonathan Darling provides the first detailed account of how dispersal - the system of accommodation and support for asylum seekers and refugees in Britain - both sustains and produces patterns of violence, suffering and social abjection. He explores the evolution of dispersal as a privatised process, from the first outsourced asylum accommodation contracts in 2012 to the renewed wave of outsourcing pursued by the Home Office today. Drawing on six years of research into Britain's dispersal system, and foregrounding the voices and experiences of refugees and asylum seekers, Darling argues that dispersal has played a central role in the erasure of asylum from public concern. Systems of Suffering is a vital tool in the arsenal of those fighting to hold the government to account for the violence of its asylum policy and practice.  Darren Purchese, "Sweet Studio: The Art of Divine Desserts" English | ISBN: 1742663370 | 2014 | 232 pages | EPUB | 3 MB From cakes and mousses to glazes and spreads, pastry chef Darren Purchese offers guidance towards the creation of enhanced textures and perfected flavors
 James Windle, "Suppressing Illicit Opium Production in Asia and the Middle East: Successful Intervention and National Drug Policies in " English | ISBN: 1784535818 | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Conventional analysis of the illicit opium market suggests that source country interventions have at best achieved minimal results. Yet there are countries that have eliminated, or significantly reduced, the illicit production of opium from their territory. Drawing on a wide range of academic, official and non-governmental sources, including previously unidentified records, James Windle provides detailed narratives of countries that have achieved national success, including China, Iran, Turkey, the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Thailand, Pakistan, Vietnam and Laos, and identifies key factors necessary for successful intervention. Suppressing Illicit Opium Production makes a valuable contribution to our scarce knowledge of source country drug policy and draws out important lessons to be learned for improving the effectiveness of future interventions. It will be essential reference for all practitioners, policy makers and academics concerned with a subject of significant contemporary relevance.
 Aaron S. Benjamin, "Successful Remembering and Successful Forgetting: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert A. Bjork" English | 2010 | ISBN: 1848728913 | EPUB | pages: 560 | 2.5 mb The chapters in this volume are testament to the many ways in which Robert Bjork's ideas have shaped the course of research on human memory over four decades. It showcases the theoretical advances and recent findings by researchers whose work and careers have been influenced by Bjork.
 Subnational Authorities and the European Union: Compliance in a Multilevel Implementation System by Stephan Lutzenberger English | EPUB | 2022 | 149 Pages | ISBN : 3030949753 | 4.8 MB The European Union, as a regulatory polity based on integration through law, arguably relies more on legal compliance with its policies than any other political system. Proceeding from this point of departure, this book puts the spotlight on the subnational tier and scrutinizes its role in ensuring compliance. Drawing on a dataset of infringement proceedings against federal and regionalized member states, the book shows that strong shared rule, i.e., strong cooperation between national and subnational authorities, can improve national compliance records. In contrast, policy sectors with strong redistributive consequences impair subnational authorities' capacity to comply. In short, policy and politics matter more than polity.  Nancy November, "String Quartets in Beethoven's Europe" English | ISBN: 1644697874 | 2022 | 276 pages | PDF | 15 MB String Quartets in Beethoven's Europe  Israel W. Charny, "Strategies Against Violence: Design For Nonviolent Change" English | ISBN: 0367288907 | 2020 | 417 pages | EPUB | 1340 KB "What would you do to advance the cause of peace in this mad world?" An outstanding group of professionals in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, political science, law, education, journalism, philosophy, and the arts answer this question, working with the concepts and tools of their fields to build a plan or model for behaviours that are likely to advance man toward peace and nonviolent change. They provide a rich sampling of the new ideas for human life that are needed if we are, in fact, ever to evolve into a more peaceful species. The book grew out of a series of sessions organized and chaired by Israel Charny at the annual meetings of the American Ortho-psychiatric Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The contributions are organized around three themes: the person, the community and the culture, and the world. Topics include a model for nonviolent strength to counter aggression by others; an examination of the psychology of Adolph Eichmann, with some startling conclusions about how men should cultivate their normal aggressive emotions and enjoy fantasies of violence; how the American democratic process can be turned unknowingly toward disastrous collective violence; and the problem of reducing the contagion of violence spread by daily newscasts of violent events.  Jack C. Chow, "Strategic Policy Design: A Practitioner's Guide to Statecraft" English | ISBN: 1482239922 | 2020 | 204 pages | EPUB | 1291 KB Modern organizations, whether public or private, are animated by a universal imperative: to achieve prominent goals that fulfill their mandates and uphold deeply held values and ideals. To realize this imperative, leaders entrusted to pursue organizational missions need to exercise a core set of strategic skills, discern opportunities, identify worthy goals, and implement pursuing actions. Strategic Policy Design introduces an integrated architecture for strategic thinking that enhances leadership skills in gauging conditions and crystallizing plans. This framework promotes a structured approach to strategic tasks by offering templates for decision making, from articulating a strategic mission, understanding the environment in which an organization operates, and rallying people and resources toward attaining strategic goals to a portable, versatile framework for the development and writing of strategy-oriented communications.  Donald B. Lemke, Al Milgrom, Tod G. Smith, "Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and the Personal Computer" English | 2006 | ISBN: 0736864881, 0736896503, 0736879854 | PDF | pages: 32 | 6.9 mb Tells the story of how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the personal computer, and their company, Apple Computer, Inc. Written in graphic-novel format. |
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