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 Lori Gruen, "Ethics and Animals: An Introduction Ed 2" English | ISBN: 1108833683 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 1102 KB In this comprehensive updated introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and reflect empathetically on our relationships with other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen discusses a range of issues central to human-animal relations and offers a reasoned new perspective on key debates in the field. She analyses and explains a range of theoretical positions and poses challenging questions that directly encourage readers to hone their ethical reasoning skills and to develop a defensible position about their own practices. Her book will be an invaluable resource for students in a wide range of disciplines including ethics, environmental studies, veterinary science, gender studies, and the emerging field of animal studies. The book is an engaging account of animal ethics for readers with no prior background in philosophy.  Colin Moock, "Essential ActionScript 3.0: ActionScript 3.0 Programming Fundamentals" English | 2007 | pages: 947 | ISBN: 0596526946 | PDF | 3,9 mb ActionScript 3.0 is a huge upgrade to Flash's programming language. The enhancements to ActionScript's performance, feature set, ease of use, cleanliness, and sophistication are considerable. Essential ActionScript 3.0 focuses on the core language and object-oriented programming, along with the Flash Player API.Essential ActionScript has become the #1 resource for the Flash and ActionScript development community, and the reason is the author, Colin Moock. Many people even refer to it simply as "The Colin Moock book."  Norman B. Epstein, Donald H. Baucom, "Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Couples: A Contextual Approach" English | 2009 | ISBN: 1557989125 | PDF | pages: 560 | 1.7 mb This text expands the boundaries of cognitive behavioural therapy with a framework that goes beyond partner's moment-to-moment interactions and takes into account the personal characteristics of the two individuals, their dyadic interactions and influences of the couple's interpersonal and physical environment. The authors also focus on ways to intervene when the couple struggles with developmental changes experienced by either partner or the couple, such as new challenges when children move into adolescence. They provide an integration of theory, research and practical suggestions that should be appealing to students, scholars and practitioners.  Thierry Meyer, "Engineering Risk Management" English | 2016 | pages: 353 | ISBN: 3110418037 | PDF | 92,7 mb This revised 2nd edition of Engineering Risk Management presents engineering aspects of risk management. After an introduction to potential risks the authors presents management principles, risk diagnostics, analysis and treatments followed by examp  Engineering Catalysis, 2nd edition by Dmitry Yu. Murzin English | 2020 | ISBN: 3110614421 | 426 pages | PDF | 11 MB The book illuminates various aspects of heterogeneous catalysis engineering, from catalysis design, catalyst preparation and characterization, reaction kinetics, mass transfer, and catalytic reactors to the implementation of catalysts in chemical technology. Aimed at graduate students, it is also a useful resource for professionals working in research and development.
 Empower Your Investing: Adopting Best Practices From John Templeton, Peter Lynch, and Warren Buffett by Scott A. Chapman CFA English | Aug 20, 2019 | ISBN: 1642932388 | 400 pages | EPUB | 6 MB Empower Your Investing-Adopting Best Practices From John Templeton, Peter Lynch, and Warren Buffett integrates lasting insights from master investors built upon case studies of their winning stocks into an investment process that has a proven track record of success and can help you master your own financial future.  Amit Prakash, "Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975 " English | ISBN: 0192898876 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught? Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants, Amit Prakash locates the origins of contemporary conflicts in race and empire in France's history. In Empire on the Seine, Prakash argues that the métropole and the colony dynamically co-developed a policing regime over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to manage colonial and racial difference. With the North African community emerging as a sizable and durable presence in Paris after World War I, this policing became a key state practice in imagining and administering the immigrant population. Prakash shows that despite the French state's current reluctance to use race as an official category, racial thought and racial targets animated police services, social services, and urban planning schemes from the 1920s until
 Daniel H. Cole, Michael D. McGinnis, Gwen Arnold, "Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Resource Governance" English | 2015 | ISBN: 073919108X | EPUB | pages: 444 | 3.4 mb In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons," Elinor (Lin) Ostrom also made important contributions to other fields of political economy and public policy. This four-volume compendium of papers written by Lin (often with coauthors, most notably her husband, Vincent), along with papers by others expanding on her work, brings together the strands of her entire empirical, analytical, theoretical, and methodological research program. Together with Vincent's important theoretical contributions, they defined a distinctive "Bloomington School" of political-economic thought.  Electoral Politics in Punjab: Factors and Phases By Ashutosh Kumar 2019 | 122 Pages | ISBN: 1138544817 | PDF | 5 MB This book examines electoral politics in the state of Punjab, India as it has evolved since the colonial period. It underlines the emergence of the state as a singular unit for electoral analysis in the last three decades. This book: Charts the common trends and developments that have dominated politics in Punjab, and those that continue to play an important role in the government of the state; Examines state parties and their leadership in the context of party alliances, campaigns and electoral verdicts; Presents a comparative study of the assembly and Lok Sabha elections held in the state after reorganisation in 1966 with the objective of highlighting differences in electoral issues taken up by the parties. An important intervention in the study of state-level politics in India, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of politics, especially comparative politics and political institutions, political sociology and social anthropology, and South Asian studies.
 Editing Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Papers given at the thirteenth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 4-5 November 1977 By Jane Millgate (editor) 2016 | 130 Pages | ISBN: 1138677329 | PDF | 3 MB First published in 1978, this collection of papers, first presented at the thirteenth annual Conference on Editorial Problems in 1977, focuses on the editing of nineteenth-century fiction. Four of the papers are devoted to single authors - Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy and Zola - while the fifth takes its principle examples from Hawthorne, Twain and Crane. Looking at a range of works from English, American and French literature, this volume demonstrates the number of different attitudes that exist towards the editorial process as well as the different ambitions for the texts that scholars seek to produce. This book will be of interest to those studying and editing nineteenth-century literature. |
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