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 Sally Blundell, "The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade: New Edition " English | ISBN: 1780261330 | 2013 | 144 pages | EPUB | 905 KB An in-depth look at two decades of a global movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the free market, and a critical analysis of the state of fair trade today. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.
 Lisa Ze Winters, "The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic" English | 2016 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 0820348961, 0820353841 | PDF | 2,8 mb Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora.
 Hyacinthe Destivelle O.P., Michael Plekon, Vitaly Permiakov, "The Moscow Council (1917-1918): The Creation of the Conciliar Institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0268063397 | PDF | pages: 466 | 2.2 mb By the early twentieth century, a genuine renaissance of religious thought and a desire for ecclesial reform were emerging in the Russian Orthodox Church. With the end of tsarist rule and widespread dissatisfaction with government control of all aspects of church life, conditions were ripe for the Moscow Council of 1917-1918 to come into being.  Samuel Salzborn, "The Modern State and Its Enemies: Democracy, Nationalism and Antisemitism" English | 2020 | pages: 230 | ISBN: 1785272209 | PDF | 3,8 mb The Modern State and Its Enemies considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state, informed the key theoretical questions arising in the democratic context, and shaped the relationship between (state) sovereignty and (individual) liberty. The modern state as a nation-state is thus based on the relationship between its territory, its people and its sovereign authority. As a result, nationalism and minorities policy are issues that are key to the state's self-conception. But historically, these have also been repeatedly used as weapons against the state, manifesting in separatism, irredentism and antidemocratic agitation. Both antisemitism and right-wing extremism have always stood in opposition to the democratic state and continue to do so. Antisemitism in particular is antithetical to modernity as it fundamentally rejects equality and individual liberty. This book presents its arguments in theoretical, historical and sociological terms, with a particular focus on examples from the German context.  The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), "The Military Balance 2018" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1857439554 | PDF | pages: 517 | 15.5 mb The Military Balance is an authoritative assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries. Detailed A-Z entries list each country's military organisation, personnel numbers, equipment inventories, and relevant economic and demographic data. Regional and select country analyses cover the major developments affecting defence policy and procurement, and defence economics. The opening graphics section displays notable defence statistics, while additional data sets detail selected arms orders and military exercises, as well as comparative defence expenditure and personnel numbers. The Military Balance is an indispensable handbook for anyone conducting serious analysis of security policy and military affairs. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, founded in 1958, is an independent centre for research, analysis and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military dimension.
 The Mathematics of Time: Essays on Dynamical Systems, Economic Processes, and Related Topics by Steve Smale English | PDF | 1980 | 154 Pages | ISBN : 0387905197 | 20.9 MB Introduction to conjugacy problems for difieomorphisms. This is a survey article on the area of global analysis defined by differentiable dynamical systems or equivalently the action (differentiable) of a Lie group G on a manifold M. An action is a homomorphism G-Diff(M) such that the induced map GXM-M is differentiable. Here Diff(M) is the group of all diffeomorphisms of M and a diffeomorphism is a differentiable map with a differentiable inverse. Everything will be discussed here from the C«> or C" point of view. All manifolds maps, etc. will be differentiable (Cr, 1;;:; r ~ 00) unless stated otherwise.  Evie Vane, "The Little Guide to Getting Tied Up: Tips for Rope Bondage Bottoms" English | ISBN: 1500771686 | 2014 | 112 pages | EPUB | 1331 KB This and Evie Vane's award-winning book *Better Bondage for Every Body* (  Heather Conway, "The Law and the Dead" English | 2016 | ISBN: 0415706947, 0367596849 | PDF | pages: 297 | 6.5 mb The fate of the dead is a compelling and emotive subject, which also raises increasingly complex legal questions. This book focuses on the substantive laws around disposal of the recently deceased and associated issues around their post-mortem fate. It looks primarily at the laws in England and Wales but also offers a comparative approach, drawing heavily on material from other common law jurisdictions including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.  Yehezkel Margalit, "The Jewish Family: Between Family Law and Contract Law" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1107163404, 1316615189 | PDF | pages: 218 | 2.6 mb Traditional Jewish family law has persevered for hundreds of years and rules covering marriage, the raising of children, and divorce are well established; yet pressures from modern society are causing long held views to be re-examined. The Jewish Family: Between Family Law and Contract Law examines the tenets of Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women, assisted reproduction technologies, and prenuptial agreements. Through interdisciplinary research combining the legal aspects of family law and contract law, it explores how the Jewish family can cope with both old and modern obstacles and challenges. Focusing on the nexus of Jewish family law and contract law to propose how 'freedom of contract' can be part of how family law can be interpreted, The Jewish Family will appeal to practitioners, activists, academic researchers, and laymen readers who are interested in the fields of law, theology, and social science.
 The Jewel on the Mountaintop: The European Southern Observatory through Fifty Years by Claus Madsen English | PDF | 2012 | 564 Pages | ISBN : 3527412034 | 104.11 MB Authored by ESO senior advisor Claus Madsen, the present book comprises 576 action-packed pages of ESO history and dramatic stories about the people behind the organisation. This is the ultimate historical account about ESO and its telescopes in the southern hemisphere, but also about a truly remarkable European success story in research. Spanning the range from the first telescopes to the future platforms of the next generation, it shows how the improvement of the telescopes leads to a continuously changing view of the Universe. With 150 photos and illustrations. Produced especially for ESO's 50th anniversary. |
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