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 State and Enterprise by Maria Rosaria Mauro, Federico Pernazza English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031104722 | 423 pages | True PDF EPUB | 16.21 MB  Spoils of Truce: Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon By Reinoud Leenders 2012 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0801451000 | PDF | 2 MB In Spoils of Truce, Reinoud Leenders documents the extensive corruption that accompanied the reconstruction of Lebanon after the end of a decade and a half of civil war. With the signing of the Ta'if peace accord in 1989, the rebuilding of the country's shattered physical infrastructure and the establishment of a functioning state apparatus became critical demands. Despite the urgent needs of its citizens, however, graft was rampant. Leenders describes the extent and nature of this corruption in key sectors of the Lebanese economy and government, including transportation, health care, energy, natural resources, construction, and social assistance programs.Exploring in detail how corruption implicated senior policymakers and high-ranking public servants, Leenders offers a clear-eyed perspective on state institutions in the developing world. He also addresses the overriding role of the Syrian leadership's interests in Lebanon and in particular its manipulation of the country's internal differences. His qualitative and disaggregated approach to dissecting the politics of creating and reshaping state institutions complements the more typical quantitative methods used in the study of corruption. More broadly, Spoils of Truce will be uncomfortable reading for those who insist that power-sharing strategies in conflict management and resolution provide some sort of panacea for divided societies hoping to recover from armed conflict.  Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850 By Antonia Finnane 2004 | 453 Pages | ISBN: 0674013921 | PDF | 27 MB The early-twentieth-century essayist Zhu Ziqing once wrote that he had only to mention the name of his hometown of Yangzhou to someone in Beijing and the person would respond, A fine place! A fine place! Yangzhou was indeed one of the great cities of late imperial China, and its name carries a rich historical and cultural resonance. Even today Yangzhou continues to evoke images of artists, men of letters, great merchant families, scenic waterways, an urban environment of considerable grace and charm, and a history imbued with colour and romance. This book is in some ways a biography of a city that acquired a personality, even a gender, and became an actor in its own history. Yangzhou invites attention because its place in China's cultural iconography tells us not only of one city's vicissitudes and fortunes but also of changes in the geography of the Chinese imagination. The author examines the city's place in the history of the late imperial era and of the meanings that accrued to Yangzhou over time. She argues that the actual construction of the city - its academies of learning, its philanthropic institutions, its gardens, its teahouses, and its brothels - underpinned the const  Lon Milo DuQuette, "Son of Chicken Qabalah: Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford's" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1578636159 | PDF | pages: 389 | 4.9 mb This simultaneously funny and serious book provides the easiest, fastest way for readers to painlessly attune themselves to the mysteries of the Hebrew alphabet and immerse themselves in the fundamentals of practical Qabalah. It is a road map from the Godhead to your head-a clear and lucid guide to an extremely complex, mystical topic. By performing the exercises and rituals in the book, the reader can complete the self-initiatory process comprising the three main degrees of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford's Practical Qabalah course.  John J. Macionis, "Society: The Basics - Loose-Leaf Edition Ed 15" English | ISBN: 0134674847 | 2018 | pages | PDF | 134 MB This is the standalone textbook. Standalone products do not include access codes or supplements.  Ciara Campbell, "Slavery in America " English | ISBN: 1680480367 | 2015 | pages | EPUB | 11 MB In this illuminating text, the origins of the slave trade in Africa and the effects of the practice of slavery on the political and economic history of the United States are explored. King Cotton, the slave hierarchy on southern plantations, the relationship of the slaveholders and slaves, the slave codes that regulated the absolute control of slaves, the ensuing slave rebellions, and the abolitionist movement and those who spoke out against the atrocities of slavery are among the many topics examined in this comprehensive historical resource. An informative timeline highlights key events and facts.  Lu Jianming, "Singapore Mandarin Grammar I" English | ISBN: 1032348135 | 2022 | 516 pages | PDF | 260 MB As the first volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin, this title discusses the distinguishing characteristics of the Chinese language and describes the grammar of Singapore Mandarin.  Simulation and Optimization of Internal Combustion Engines by Zhiyu Han English | 2021 | ISBN: 1468604007 | 372 Pages | True PDF | 73 MB  Simplifying State Management in React Native: Master state management from hooks and context through to Redux, MobX, XState, Jotai and React Query English | 2023 | ISBN: 1803235039 | 202 Pages | EPUB (True) | 5.4 MB  Sergei Dovlatov and His Narrative Masks By Jekaterina Young 2009 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 0810125978 | PDF | 2 MB This book provides an introduction to Sergei Dovlatov (1941-1990) that is closely attentive to the details of his life and work, their place in the history of Soviet society and literature, and of émigré culture during this turbulent period. A journalist, newspaper editor, and prose writer, Dovlatov is most highly regarded for his short stories, which draw heavily on his experiences in Russia before 1979, when he was forced out of the country. During compulsory military service, before becoming a journalist, he worked briefly as a prison camp guard-an experience that gave him a unique perspective on the operations of the Soviet state. After moving to New York, Dovlatov published works (in the New Yorker and elsewhere) that earned him considerable renown in America and back in Russia. Young's book presents a valuable critical overview of the prose of a late twentieth-century master within the context of the prevailing Russian and larger literary culture. |
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