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 James Altucher, "Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: Lessons from Laureates to Stoke Curiosity, Spur Collaboration, and" English | ISBN: 1544523491 | 2021 | 176 pages | EPUB | 6 MB How can you unlock creativity and imagination to inspire, teach, and lead? What mental models do the world's most accomplished scientists use to supercharge their creativity and strengthen their most precious collaborations?  Elisabeth B. Reynolds, Ben Ross Schneider, Ezequiel Zylberberg, "Innovation in Brazil: Advancing Development in the 21st Century" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367146894 | EPUB | pages: 350 | 10.4 mb Since the early 2000s, state-led and innovation-focused strategies have characterized the approach to development pursued in countries around the world, such as China, India, and South Korea. Brazil, the largest and most industrialized economy in Latin America, demonstrates both the opportunities and challenges of this approach. Over the course of nearly 20 years, the Brazilian government enacted various policies and programs designed to strengthen the country's capacity to innovate. It increased spending on science and technology, encouraged greater collaboration between industry and universities, and fostered the creation of new institutions whose primary aim was to facilitate greater private research and development (R&D) spending.  Steven Curry, "Indigenous Sovereignty and the Democratic Project " English | ISBN: 1138258326 | 2020 | 192 pages | PDF | 5 MB Liberal democracies are predicated on popular sovereignty - the ideal of government for and by the People. Throughout the developed world indigenous peoples continue to deny legitimacy to otherwise popular governments because their consent has never been sought. Using examples from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA, this book tackles the problem of democratic legitimation from the perspective of indigenous peoples, arguing that having suffered conquest, these people cannot be said to consent until conditions for their consent have been realised. These conditions include constitutional change that recognizes indigenous law as the 'law of the land' - a radical proposal going far beyond the current limits of self-determination.  Darko Suvin, "In Leviathan's Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1434445194 | PDF | pages: 364 | 1.7 mb In eleven incisive, biting essays, Marxist philosopher Darko Suvin suggests that "capitalism (and all of us in Leviathan's belly) stands today in the presence of Yeats's rough beast advancing toward Bethlehem, that finance capitalism is not simply a stage but a recurrent 'Autumn' signal of transition from one world regime of accumulation and domination to another; it signals the destruction of the old regime and creation of a 'new' one." And to bolster his argument, Suvin points to the economic and social chaos creeping and growing through western society, bank failures, riots, unrest, loss of private capital, loss of middle-class jobs, increase in drug and alcohol abuse, proliferation of guns and other weapons in society, failure of our school systems, inability of police to provide security, and political revolution in less-developed states. The author stresses the need to provide "universal guaranteed income sufficient to modestly live on for all adults working 35 hours a week, and a stress on [providing decent] education and health." And to fund these simple measures: "Just pay trillions to people instead of banks and the military." Suvin's intelligent analysis and commentary will open many eyes that have been prejudiced against socialist thought by the rise of right-wing politicians, and demonstrate quite clearly to the modern reader that there IS another perspective worth considering.  Paul A. Van Dyke, Maria Kar-wing Mok, "Images of the Canton Factories 1760-1822: Reading History in Art" English | 2015 | ISBN: 9888208551 | PDF | pages: 189 | 5.7 mb Hundreds of Chinese export paintings of Canton trading houses and shopping streets are in museums and private collections throughout the world, and scholars of art and history have often questioned the reliability of these historical paintings. In this illustrated volume, Paul Van Dyke and Maria Mok examine these Chinese export paintings by matching the changes in the images with new historical data collected from various archives. Many factory paintings are reliable historical records in their own right and can be dated to a single year. Dating images with such precision was not possible in the past owing to insufficient information on the scenes. The new findings in this volume provide unprecedented opportunities to re-date many art works and prove that images of the Canton factories painted on canvas by Chinese artists are far more trustworthy than what scholars have believed in the past.  Tony Inman, "If Life's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Well" English | ISBN: 0992349311 | 2014 | 352 pages | EPUB | 532 KB Have you ever found yourself with reason to doubt your own sanity, or wondered if you have been 'beamed up' onto some strange planet in a parallel universe? Our hi-tech, environmentally-polluted, social media-addicted, politically volatile world, full of contradiction, absurd political correctness and media manipulation, can lead even the sanest among us to ask these questions. Tony Inman shares with raw emotion some of his story of highs, lows and invaluable lessons learned, both from personal experience in business and life, and from studying our world's transformational leaders. This book may just help you discover and fulfil your life's purpose!
 I Will Die on This Hill by Ashburn, Meghan;Edwards, Jules;Onaiwu, Morénike Giwa;McConnell, Nathan; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1839971681 | 258 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.37 MB
 How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now English | 2022 | ISBN: 1587435233 | 208 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3.2 MB Publishers Weekly starred review  How To Stop Caring What Others Think: For Real by Shona Schwartz English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BPCBXMXH | 238 pages | EPUB | 0.27 Mb In our society, more often than not, we identify ourselves by our external achievements: job, financial success, college degree, social standing, beauty. In this book, you will learn the steps to take to reexamine your relationship with your external realities, and recognize the danger in defining yourself by those failures and successes. You will learn that placing your self-worth in the hands of external successes and failures takes away all your control of personal value.  Claire Le Feuvre, "Homer from Z to a: Metrics, Linguistics, and Zenodotus " English | ISBN: 9004522336 | 2022 | 364 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book presents the first systematic linguistic study of Zenodotus' variant readings, showing that he used a version of Homer older than the one used by Aristarchus a century later. Several clues point to the fact that Zenodotus' version belongs to a tradition that was already distinct from that which eventually yielded the vulgate (that is, the Homer we know). In particular, his version largely pre-dates the Sophists' reflections on language, rhetorics and style, and the grammatical theories of Alexandrian scholars. |
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