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 Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War By Marvin Kalb 2015 | 313 Pages | ISBN: 0815726643 | EPUB | 1 MB Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and whenever possible tried to isolate it diplomatically.This sharp deterioration in East-West relations has raised basic questions about Putin's provocative policies and the future of Russia and Ukraine. Marvin Kalb, who wrote commentaries for Edward R. Murrow before becoming CBS News' Moscow bureau chief in the late 1950's, and who also served as a translator and junior press officer at the US Embassy in Moscow, argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Putin did not "suddenly" decide to invade Crimea. He had been waiting for the right moment ever since disgruntled Ukrainians rose in revolt against his pro-Russian regime in Kiev's Maidan Square. These demonstrations led Putin to conclude that Ukraine's opposition constituted an existential threat to Russia.Imperial Gamble examines how Putin reached that conclusion by taking a critical look at the recent political history of post-Soviet Russia. It also journeys deep into Russian and Ukrainian history to explain what keeps them together and yet at the same time drives them apart.Kalb believes that the post-cold war world hangs today on the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. So long as it is treated as a problem to be resolved by Russia, on the one side, and the United States and Europe, on the other, it will remain a danger zone with global consequences. The only sensible solution lies in both Russia and Ukraine recognizing that their futures are irrevocably linked by geography, power, politics, and the history that Kalb brings to life in Imperial Gamble.  Immigrants in Children's Literature By Ruth McKoy Lowery 2000 | 156 Pages | ISBN: 0820444839 | PDF | 9 MB Issues of immigration remain fresh in the minds of many Americans whose lives are impacted in some form or other. Schooling is a public space where this impact is most often inevitable. Literature is one medium in which children are given a representational view of immigrants' lived experiences. This representation may or may not be positive. This book analyzes how forms of representations are presented in seventeen children's literature novels, looking particularly at how issues of race and class affect, or influence, these representations.
 Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic: A Study of an Early Christian Transformation of Pagan Culture By Allen Brent 2006 | 377 Pages | ISBN: 316148794X | PDF | 33 MB The letters of Ignatius of Antioch, whether considered genuine or pseudonymous, have been generally understood as addressing concerns and issues within the Church. Consequently, his language has been read as an expression of second century Judaeo Christianity or as a reply to Valentinianism, with little direct contact or concern with the surrounding pagan culture. Allen Brent submits Ignatius' language to a comprehensive analysis and seeks to show that both conceptually, and in terms of the form of his arguments, his language game is clearly that of the pagan, Greek city-states of Asia Minor in the Second Sophistic. The author shows from a variety of evidence, both literary, epigraphic and iconographic, that Ignatius' cultural background is in the world of the discourse of Hellenic autonomy against Roman imperial power, in the image-bearing mystery cults of the cities to whom he writes, in their embassies and Homonia treaties, and in their ideal of unity in a common culture expressed by their constitutions and cultural practices. Ignatius emerges as a brilliant missionary strategist, able to reshape ecclesial order in terms of secular social order and its conventions, whose work was scarcely comprehended by his more conservative Christian contemporaries and only later canonized by means of a gross distortion that obscured his original meaning.  Kathleen Buhle, "If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing" English | 2022 | ISBN: 0593241053 | 320 pages | AZW3 / EPUB / MOBI | 3.4 MB NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden unraveled in the wake of substance abuse and infidelity in this intimate, astonishing memoir.
 Stephen Skinner, "Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes" English | ISBN: 1509910816 | 2019 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 843 KB This proposed collection builds on the success of Fascism and Criminal Law: History, Theory,Continuity (Hart Bloomsbury, 2015). Based on the particular significance of criminal law inunderstanding the nature, exercise and representation of State power identified anddiscussed in that collection, this proposed collection intends to take the discussion further byfocusing on the relationship between ideology and criminal law under Italian Fascism,German National Socialism, and other regimes that could be labelled as generically fascist orauthoritarian. The collection is thus intended to provide wider and deeper reflection on theideas, beliefs and political principles that shaped the criminal law of the systems in question,how those systems operated through courts and repressive practices, and how ideologicalfactors influenced the substantive criminal law. The systems considered are explored bothon their own terms and in some chapters through comparative analysis, in relation to similarsystems and those apparently opposed to them. The collection is also intended to be moreextensive than the previous volume, with almost twice the number of contributors,including as before leading experts in the field and a number of emerging scholars.Moreover, this collection will present chapters by common theme to foster comparative andcritical reflection across systemic boundaries. The collection took root in a two-dayworkshop held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London on the 10th-11thSeptember 2015, entitled 'Anti-Democratic Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist,National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes'. The chapters will all be based on originalresearch and, as with the previous collection, will also constitute an important and muchneeded English language resource providing access to work on legal systems that arecurrently under-represented in Anglo-American scholarship.
 Huaqun Guo, "IRC-SET 2021: Proceedings of the 7th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology, August 2021, Singapore" English | ISBN: 9811698686 | 2022 | 710 pages | PDF | 21 MB This book highlights contemporary state of research in multidisciplinary areas in computer science, computer engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, biomedical sciences, life sciences, medicine, and health care. The accepted submissions to the 7th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology (IRC-SET 2021) that were presented on August 7, 2021, are published in this conference proceedings. The papers presented here were shortlisted after extensive rounds of rigorous reviews by a panel of esteemed individuals who are pioneers and experts in their respective domains.  INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB FOR BEGINNER by Alex Jaxson English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B6WN3J6M | 101 pages | EPUB | 0.45 Mb Matlab is currently the language of technical computing most known and used in academia, industry and services. It is composed of a set of tools and a very large number of functions, graphics objects with associated properties and operators. The book begins by looking at the main tools, in particular the Desktop, the Command and History Window, the Editor and the Help Browser. The selected number of functions, graphics objects, related properties and operators, considered fundamental in MATLAB, is a unique and remarkable feature of this book. These basic elements are minutely treated both formally and through examples. The arrangement of every data type as an array is another prominent emphasis of the book. Numerical data used in advanced mathematics usually defined as vectors or matrices are only one example. Others include logical values, strings of characters, dates, images, etc. Standard programming structures, like the many patterns of user functions and of the flow controls, are highlighted. The basic elements of data visualization - the main graphics objects and their properties - are also carefully examined.
 INTRODUCTION TO BITCOIN,DIGITAL CRYPTOCURRENCY AND BLOCK CHAIN: FUTURE MONEY OF DIGITAL CURRENCY by CADE WHITEHEAD English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BC1CBCH6 | 145 pages | EPUB | 0.31 Mb Bitcoin has real exchange value and we have a lot euro or dollar pay must, around inside return a bitcoin with receive. most reply is is most same How also everyone others situation currencies Moreover: Just and alone most Confidence in currency and anticipation of future goods or to purchase services with currency Bitcoin appears as a valuable currency. offer and sue to determine most Bitcoin market cap.  INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES by Theo Ryan English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B1Z78JZ5 | 215 pages | EPUB | 0.30 Mb A guide for professionals that outlines the basics of a security strategy for a system topics running under Windows 2000. Allows the reader to understand the main security concepts, learn how to control access to Windows using tools security products, customize remote access protection system, install or update operating room system with considering requirements security.
 INFLUENCER MARKETING: Top Influencer Marketing Strategies for the Social Business by RAZAQ ADEKUNLE English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08C7VW89L | 150 pages | EPUB | 0.20 Mb I highly advise anyone who has an interest in life online to get this book, sit down, and take notes because you're going to want to hear what this book has to say. |
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