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 Stefanov, "Boundaries and Borders in the Post-Yugoslav Space: A European Experience" English | ISBN: 3110712326 | 2021 | 275 pages | EPUB | 4 MB The purpose of this book is to demystify the causes of wealth and poverty like never before done. It is the seminal comprehensive presentation of the CDR index. The CDR index is a mathematical model that shows how capitalism (C), democracy (D) and rule of law (R) jointly with natural resources and geography explain almost all economic growth. As it turns out, capitalism, democracy, and rule of law are intangible policy variables that are at the disposal of all countries and explain almost all gross domestic production of tangible products and services. There is also a minor contribution from non-policy variables such as natural resources and geography. These are all that countries require at their disposal and choice in order to enjoy their desired standard of living. The CDR economic growth model is a new paradigm.  Ron McCallum, "Born at the Right Time: A memoir" English | 2019 | pages: 444 | ISBN: 0369355113 | EPUB | 6,1 mb Ron McCallum has been blind from birth. When he was a child, many blind people spent their lives making baskets in sheltered workshops, but Ron's mother had other ideas for her son. She insisted on treating him as normally as possible.
 Robert E. Drennan, Heywood Hale Broun, "Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags: The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1616087137 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 1.3 mb "Stop looking at the world through rose-colored bifocals." "His mind is so open, the wind whistles through it." "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Ever wonder where these sayings came from? For decades, the dining room of New York's legendary Algonquin Hotel was a hub of letters and humor. Cocktails were swilled as writers, humorists, actors, and critics poked fun at culture, the arts, and one another. In this lively tribute, today's readers will come to understand why Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and Dorothy Parker represent the epitome of quips and comebacks-wit that still packs a punch decades later.  Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage By Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (editor) 2020 | 319 Pages | ISBN: 9027204802 | PDF | 4 MB The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The presentation of original data from previously undescribed languages spoken by small communities in Africa and South America allows to discover unknown aspects of embodiment and to propose new interpretations. Well-known languages are analyzed from a new perspective relying on the benefits of linguistic corpora. Contrastive and theoretically oriented studies help to pinpoint similarities and differences among languages, as well as tendencies in conceptualization patterns and semantic development of the lexis of body part terms. The volume contributes to the field of linguistics, but also to cognitive science, anthropology and cultural studies.  Jules Ohman, "Body Grammar: A Novel" English | 2022 | ISBN: 0593466691 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling-a "terrific debut ... roiling with deep questions of identity and art, love, and the irrepressible need for meaning in life" (Jess Walter, bestselling author of The Cold Millions)
 Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America (Cambridge Latin American Studies) by John M. Monteiro, edited and translated by Barbara Weinstein, James Woodard English | October 25, 2018 | ISBN: 1107114675, 1107535182 | True EPUB | 290 pages | 2.5 MB Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made indigenous history a vital part of how scholars understand Brazil's colonial past.  Black-Hole Accretion Disks : Towards a New Paradigm By Kato, Shoji; Fukue, Jun; and Mineshige, Shin 2008 | 549 Pages | ISBN: 4876987408 | DJVU | 6 MB Since publication of the first edition, models of advection-dominated accretion flows and their comparison with observations have been much developed and deepened, including the cases of super-Eddington accretion. The launch of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer led to the discovery of high-frequency oscillations, which opened a new field of discoseismology. In addition, development of observational techniques show that the time when we see a direct image or silhouette of black holes is in the near future. Considering these situations, we fully revised the first edition in order to meet the developments mentioned above.  Black Dog (A Stone Barrington Novel) by Stuart Woods English | 2022 | ISBN: 059354000X | 304 Pages | True ePUB | 2.02 MB  Beyond the Secret Elephants: On mystery, elephants and discovery by Gareth Patterson English | January 6, 2020 | ISBN: 0639992943 | True EPUB | 194 pages | 4.4 MB Beyond the Secret Elephants is Gareth Patterson's long-awaited sequel to The Secret Elephants, published in 2009.  Beyond Subjectivism: Heidegger on Language and the Human Being By Abraham Mansbach 2002 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 0313311536 | PDF | 9 MB This in-depth analysis of Heidegger's major works finds a fundamental thematic unity in the philosopher's effort to overcome the subjectivism of modern philosophy and to account for the ontological hierarchy that it alone constitutes a foundation for everything else. The author sees this challenge to the Cartesian tradition as the key to understanding Heidegger's views on human beings and language, as well as their influence in the issues of identity and representation in contemporary philosophy. |
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