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 John Langan, "The Power of Determination" English | ISBN: 1591945038 | 2017 | 140 pages | EPUB | 2 MB The Power of Determination tells the stories of fourteen people who carry the following belief in their hearts:  The Ponytail: Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman by Trygve B. Broch English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 235 Pages | ISBN : 3031207793 | 10.6 MB This book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in sports and society, Broch uncovers this hairstyle's polyvocality and argues that it is a total social phenomenon. By separating his approach from the cultural studies tradition, Broch highlights how hair is imbued with codes, narratives, and myth that allow its wearers to understand, maneuver, and criticize social gender relations in deeply personal ways. Using multiple theories about hair, bodies, myths, and icons, he creates a multidimensional method to show how icons are imitated and used. As women navigate their practical lives, health issues, and gendered expectations, the ponytail materializes their dynamic maneuvering of cultural and social environments. Sporting a ponytail-itself an embodiment of movement-is filled with a performativity of social movements: a cultural kinetics that is never apolitical.  Ángel Ubide, "The Paradox of Risk: Leaving the Monetary Policy Comfort Zone" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0881327190 | PDF | pages: 343 | 3.9 mb For decades, economic policymakers have worshipped at the altar of combating inflation, reducing public deficits, and discouraging risky behavior by investors. That mindset made them hesitate when the global financial crisis erupted in 2007-08. In the face of the worst economic disaster in 75 years, they often worried excessively about the risks and possible losses from their actions, rather than moving forcefully to support financial institutions, governments and people. Ángel Ubide's provocative thesis in The Paradox of Risk is that central banks' fear of inflation and risk taking has hampered their efforts to revive global prosperity. In their confusion, he argues, policymakers made the recovery weaker. He calls on world leaders to abandon old shibboleths and learn the lessons from the financial crisis and its sluggish aftermath. Ubide mobilizes a wealth of research on the experience from the last decade, urging policymakers to leave their "comfort zone," embrace risk taking, and take bolder action to brighten the world's economic prospects.  Byung-Chul Han, "The Palliative Society: Pain Today" English | ISBN: 150954724X | 2021 | 76 pages | EPUB | 234 KB Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions - even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a palliative politics that is incapable of implementing radical reforms that might be painful, so all we get is more of the same.  William S. Maxfield, "The Oxygen Cure: A Complete Guide to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy" English | ISBN: 1630060518 | 2017 | 228 pages | EPUB | 1332 KB The Best-Kept Secret in Medicine  The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia By Robert Cramb (editor), John F. McCarthy (editor) 2016 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 9814722065 | PDF | 18 MB The oil palm industry has transformed rural livelihoods and landscapes across wide swathes of Indonesia and Malaysia, generating wealth along with economic, social, and environmental controversy. Who benefits and who loses from oil palm development? Can oil palm development provide a basis for inclusive and sustainable rural development? Based on detailed studies of specific communities and plantations and an analysis of the regional political economy of oil palm, this book unpicks the dominant policy narratives, business strategies, models of land acquisition, and labour-processes. It presents the oil palm industry in Malaysia and Indonesia as a complex system in which land, labour and capital are closely interconnected. Understanding this complex is a prerequisite to developing better strategies to harness the oil palm boom for a more equitable and sustainable pattern of rural development.  Kingshuk Nag, "The NaMo Story: A Political Life: A Political Story" English | 2013 | ASIN: B00OHCSX92 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 1.8 mb One of the truly enigmatic personalities on the contemporary Indian political canvas, Narendra Damodardas Modi is difficult to ignore. From his humble beginnings as a RSS pracharak to his rise in the Hindutva ranks, and from being Bharatiya Janata Party's master planner to one of the its most popular and controversial state chief ministers, Modi's mantra of change and development is gradually finding many takers. Though he evokes vastly different reactions among the citizens for his alleged role during the Godhra aftermath, what is absolutely clear is that he indeed is racing towards the centre stage, making the 2014 General Elections look more like a Presidential system - where, you either vote for him or against him. And that, as they say, is the Modi effect. Kingshuk Nag paints the most vivid portrait of the extraordinary politician who is poised to take on a new role in the coming years.  The Monkey Mind Workout for Uncertainty: Break Free from Anxiety and Build Resilience in 30 Days! by Jennifer Shannon English | February 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1684035880 | 149 pages | PDF | 5.37 Mb Outsmart your monkey mind and build the mental muscle it takes to face uncertainty with calm confidence!  Rob Brandsma, "The Mindfulness Teaching Guide: Essential Skills and Competencies for Teaching Mindfulness-Based Interventions" English | ISBN: 1626256160 | 2017 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB You must embody mindfulness in order to teach it. The Mindfulness Teaching Guide offers a thorough and practical guide for mindfulness teachers and professionals, offering a systematic approach to developing the teaching methods, skills, and competencies needed to become a proficient mindfulness teacher.  The Mathematica GuideBook for Symbolics by Michael Trott English | PDF | 2006 | 1060 Pages | ISBN : 0387950206 | 172.66 MB Mathematica is today's most advanced technical computing system. It features a rich programming environment, two-and three-dimensional graphics capabilities and hundreds of sophisticated, powerful programming and mathematical functions using state-of-the-art algorithms. Combined with a user-friendly interface, and a complete mathematical typesetting system, Mathematica offers an intuitive easy-to-handle environment of great power and utility. |
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