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 Designing and Managing Complex Systems by Moriarty, David; English | 2022 | ISBN: 0323916090 | 324 pages | True PDF EPUB | 16.01 MB  Gabrielle Meagher, "Designing Social Service Markets: Risk, Regulation and Rent-Seeking" English | ISBN: 1760465313 | 2022 | 438 pages | PDF | 4 MB Governments of both right and left have been introducing market logics and instruments into Australian social services in recent decades. Their stated goals include reducing costs, increasing service diversity and, in some sectors, empowering consumers. This collection presents a set of original case studies of marketisation in social services as diverse as family day care, refugee settlement, employment services in remote communities, disability support, residential aged care, housing and retirement incomes. Contributors examine how governments have designed these markets, how they work, and their outcomes, with a focus on how risks and benefits are distributed between governments, providers and service users. Their analyses show that inefficiency, low‑quality services and inequitable access are typical problems. Avoiding simplistic explanations that attribute these problems to either a few 'bad apple' service providers or an amorphous neoliberalism that is the sum of all negative developments in recent years, the collection demonstrates the diversity of market models and examines how specific market designs make social service provision susceptible to particular problems. The evidence presented in this collection suggests that Australian governments' market-making policies have produced fragile and fragmented service systems, in which the risks of rent-seeking, resource leakage and regulatory capture are high. Yet the design of social service markets and their implementation are largely under political control. Consequently, if governments choose to work with market instruments, they need to do so differently, working with principles and practices that drive up both quality and equality.  Decarbonisation Pathways for African Cities by Smith I Azubuike, Ayodele Asekomeh, Obindah Gershon English | PDF | 2022 | 197 Pages | ISBN : 3031140052 | 5.2 MB This book examines the pathways to decarbonising African cities, structured around strategies and applications in renewable energy, waste management, healthcare, telecommunication, education and governance reconfigurations for Petro-cities.  Decapitation in Sources on Alexander the Great by Marc Mendoza English | PDF | 2022 (2023 Edition) | 132 Pages | ISBN : 3031191730 | 3.8 MB This book explores cases of decapitation found in sources on the reign of Alexander the Great. Despite the enormous literature on the career of Alexander the Great, this is the first study on the characterisation of violent deaths during his hectic reign. This historiographical omission has involved the tacit and blind acceptance of the details found in the ancient sources. Therefore, this book seeks to illustrate how cultural expectations, literary models, and ideological taboos shaped these accounts and argues for a close and critical reading of the sources. Given the different cultural considerations surrounding decapitation in Greek and Roman cultures, this book illustrates how those biases could have differently shaped certain episodes depending on the ultimate writer.  Debating Leaderless Management: Can Employees Do Without Leaders? by Frederik Hertel, Anders Örtenblad, Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 (2023 Edition) | 376 Pages | ISBN : 3031045920 | 5.5 MB Management research has traditionally assumed that leaders play an essential role in both public and private organizations and are required for a business to run smoothly. However, more recently, a vein of critical research has claimed that leaders can do more harm than good, creating confusion and putting their reputation before production and employee wellbeing. This book asks the question - what would happen if there were no leaders? Would employees be better off without formal (or informal) leaders? And even if such a utopia were desirable, would it be realizable in practice?  Diane Phelps Budden, "Dear Hubby of Mine: Home Front Wives in World War II" English | ISBN: 0578557606 | 2020 | 192 pages | EPUB | 4 MB Touching letters written by a loving couple; musty letters that detail past lives, my parents letters. A housewife and her sailor husband with shared immigrant experiences penned more than 500 letters during World War II, and the letters inform this book. Abridged versions of the letters weave a loving romantic story with actual events occurring on the home front and the battlefront. The letters are further brought to life through the 25 original family photographs and remembrances from the period. The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is celebrated in 2020. Most of the participants have passed on. While servicemen stories have been broadly told, the tales of the resolute war wives, who had a significant impact on the outcome of the war and the well-being of the country, have not been widely shared. While some women joined the military, and others entered the workforce for the first time, the majority stayed at home to raise children. Dear Hubby of Mine focuses on this latter group of women whose stories have been under-represented and largely uncelebrated in World War II literature. In addition, my parents immigrant backgrounds formed in the Hungarian community in Cleveland, Ohio, shed light on the experiences of other minority groups and refugees that came before and after them. While many readers may see the story as a touching romance, and it is, others will appreciate the depiction of the country in the 1940s under wartime conditions and how that influenced America's culture in the decades to come. Women charted new roles during the war that led to new freedoms in the years ahead and eventually brought about major societal changes.  Deadly Quiet City: Stories From Wuhan, COVID Ground Zero by Murong Xuecun English | 11 March 2022 | ISBN: 1743798741 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2.2 MB From one of China's most celebrated and silenced literary authors, Murong Xuecun, Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true stories from the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.  Clive Brook, "Dare to Be Holy in This Secular Age" English | ISBN: 0648511154 | 2019 | 336 pages | EPUB | 1161 KB Born at Nagambie in Victoria in 1937, Clive grew up on a sheep farm. He has worked with sheep, and in retail in Shepparton, also in an offi ce in Melbourne. He was trained for the ordained ministry by the Society of the Sacred Mission, an Anglican Monastery. He served in Gympie, Roma, Wondai, Noosa, and West Bundaberg in the Diocese of Brisbane, then in Bamaga (North Queensland) with Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
 Jerry Alan Johnson, "Daoist Internal Alchemy: Neigong & Weigong Training: The Secret Teaching of Esoteric Daoist Magic" English | 2014 | ISBN: 188524648X | PDF | pages: 619 | 86.0 mb This work contains the Different Schools of Training Daoist Alchemy, the Three Cultivation Methods, Five Postnatal Energetic Transformations, Principles of Daoist Dao Yin Training, Yin and Yang Dao Yin Transformational Methods, Understanding Dao Yin Harmony, Energetic and Spiritual Manifestations, Shengong Cultivation Methods, Nourishing and Strengthening the Shen, Housing the Shen, Combining the Shen with the Respiration, Combining the Shen with the Qi, Three Training Levels of Ancient Daoist Mysticism: the Level of Man (Rooting Qi into the Lower Dantian, Circulating Qi through the Seas of Yang and Yin, Macrocosmic Orbit, Regulating the Qi of the Wu Xing, Fusion of the Eight Trigrams, Activating the Belt Vessel, Fusing and Energizing the Taiji Pole, Creating & Controlling the Immortal Fetus), the Level of Earth (description and examples) and the Level of Heaven (description and examples), Introduction to External and Internal Cultivation, External Cultivation Methods, Internal Cultivation Methods, Daoist Five Yang and Yin Organ Exercises, the Daoist Turtle Breathing Technique used for Gathering Qi, Five Yin Organ Energetic Manifestations, and the Old Man and the Tide Pool exercise.
 M. Elizabeth Ginway, "Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction" English | ISBN: 0826501184 | 2020 | 246 pages | EPUB | 362 KB Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England. Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations (science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced in Mexico and Brazil across a historical overview from 1870 to the present. The book portrays the effects-and ravages-of modernity in these two nations, addressing its technological, cultural, and social consequences and their implications for the human body. |
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