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 Creative Pottery : Innovative Techniques and Experimental Designs in Thrown and Handbuilt Ceramics by Deb Schwartzkopf English | 2020 | ISBN: 1631598252 | 195 Pages | True PDF | 56.4 MB  Yizhou Wang, "Creative Involvement: A New Direction in China's Diplomacy " English | ISBN: 113873313X | 2017 | 104 pages | EPUB | 407 KB With the enhancement of national strength, China's diplomacy has leapt onto a new high ground, basically obtaining the status of a world power. Meanwhile, it has also received a large amount of right and wrong mixed criticism and suggestions from different sides, in the face of a sudden increase in opportunities, pressures, and conflicts. The "creative involvement" in this book is exactly proposed for the future of China's diplomacy. In this book, the author first defines the concept "creative involvement". Different from diplomatic theories in the traditional senses, creative involvement is a kind of diplomatic thinking which encourages more active participation in international affairs and advocates creative solutions. Then the author makes case studies on some events and people which have been of typical significance in China's diplomatic practices since the end of the Cold War, expounding their innovations and limitations. In the third part, the author turns to various supportive propositions, ideas, and theories concerning creative involvement and explains how they are applied to China's future diplomatic practice. Lastly, the author tries to set a number of scenarios, discussing the possible entry points for creative involvement.
 Jack P. Greene, "Creating the British Atlantic: Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity" English | 2013 | pages: 507 | ISBN: 0813933919, 0813933889 | PDF | 9,9 mb Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created during the colonization process. He shows how transplanted Old World components―political, legal, and social―were adapted to meet the demands of new, economically viable, expansive cultural hearths. Greene argues that these transplantations and adaptations were of fundamental importance in the formation and evolution of the new American republic and the society it represented.  Creating and Using Virtual Prototyping Software: Principles and Practices English | 2021 | ISBN: 9780136567035 | 386 pages | True EPUB, MOBI | 21.35 MB Develop, Deploy, and Sustain High-Performance Virtual Prototyping for Advanced R&D  Anthony D. Lott, "Creating Insecurity: Realism, Constructivism, and US Security Policy" English | ISBN: 0815388276 | 2018 | 186 pages | EPUB | 639 KB In this absorbing book Anthony Lott develops a national security analysis that can be used to critique the policies of states. His approach combines realist thought common to traditional security studies and a version of 'political' constructivism common to critical security studies. While the focus on human security remains integral, the 9/11 attacks on New York demonstrate the importance of national security traditionally defined. This book recognizes the importance of both components of security in a broader security dialogue. After building a theoretical understanding of security, the work examines four disparate security issues that currently engage policy makers in the United States: the current discourse concerning ballistic missile defense, the war on drugs in Colombia, democratic challenges to economic globalization and the state response, and the US-led war to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. The book is designed for upper-division international relations courses in national security studies, international politics and theory.  Laurie Perry, "Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair" English | 2007 | ISBN: 0757305911 | 287 pages | EPUB | 2.1 MB If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced Southerner trying to create a new life after her husband leaves her to 'get his creativity back.' (Whatever that means.) But will she get her groove back in a tiny rented apartment, with a mountain of boxes, visible panty lines, and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem?
 Cracking Containers with Docker and Kubernetes: The definitive guide to Docker, Kubernetes English | 2021 | ISBN: 9789391030872 | 495 pages | True EPUB | 16.64 MB A book that will help you become the Mozart of Microservices  Prudence Gibson, Baylee Brits, "Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World" English | 2018 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 1947447696 | PDF | 7,4 mb Covert Plants contributes to newly emerging discourses on the implications of vegetal life for the arts and culture. This stretches to changes in our perception of 'nature' and to the adapting roles of botany, evolutionary ecology, and environmental aesthetics in the humanities. Its editors and contributors seek various expressions of vegetal life rather than the mere representation of such, and they proceed from the conviction that a rigorous approach to thinking with and through vegetal life must be interdisciplinary. At a time when urgent calls for restorative care and reparative action have been sounded for the environment, this essay volume presents a range of academic and creative perspectives, from evolutionary biology to literary theory, philosophy to poetry, which respond to the perplexing problems and paradoxes of vegetal thinking.
 Gregory Burnep, "Courts at War: Executive Power, Judicial Intervention, and Enemy Combatant Policies since 9/11" English | ISBN: 0700630473 | 2021 | 248 pages | EPUB | 982 KB On June 28, 2004, the US Supreme Court broke with a long-standing tradition of deference to the executive in wartime national security cases and became an important actor in an armed conflict. By declining to rubber-stamp the executive branch's actions, the judiciary would henceforth play a major role in shaping national security policies in the war on terror. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, lawyers, lawsuits, and court decisions have repeatedly altered the landscape in the policy areas of detention and military commissions. In  Rachael M. Rudolph, "Counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia: New Approaches to Radical Threats " English | ISBN: 1999878701 | 2017 | 272 pages | EPUB | 805 KB As jihadist extremism, and its manifestation as Al Qaeda, began to spread - even in the years before 9/11 - Saudi Arabia became a principal target. Jihadists identified the country as the first state against which they could mount a concerted effort to destabilise, undermine and subvert the authority of its central government and its ruling elites. This prompted the Saudis to take defensive initiatives which were to become widely recognised as an effective way to deal with extremism. The key element of the Saudi approach was to lace their hard confrontation of the extremists with subtle, soft mechanisms to undermine the will of actual and potential terrorists. The efforts ranged from interdiction of funding terrorist groups to the deployment of social and psychological pressures aimed at steering extremists away from their cause. This included welfare inducements whereby perpetrators were persuaded by material benefits - state support to families and individuals, housing allowances, educational opportunities - to abandon their political goals in favour of a return to family and society. This book charts the course of the Saudi terrorist rehabilitation programme and makes vital reading for all who, either directly or indirectly, have an interest in following the emergence of international terrorism. |
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