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 Donald Holbrook, "Al-Qaeda 2.0: A Critical Reader" English | ISBN: 0190856440 | 2018 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB On 16 June 2011, three days before his sixtieth birthday, Ayman al-Zawahiri was declared the new leader of Al- Qaeda, replacing the fallen Osama bin Laden. The veteran Egyptian jihadist had little of his predecessor's charisma and enjoyed much less popularity, respect and celebrity. Yet, as scores of jihadi commanders from different organisations have succumbed to their enemies' missiles, bombs and bullets, Zawahiri has soldiered on. His tenure as Al-Qaeda's leader has been marked by some of its darkest and most challenging moments, which have threatened the viability and future of Al-Qaeda's central leadership. The gravest such development has been the emergence of Islamic State as a separate and rival jihadist entity.  Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, "Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning" English | ISBN: 1517911761 | 2022 | 318 pages | PDF | 5 MB An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons  Emizet F. Kisangani, "African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces" English | ISBN: 1108426220 | 2021 | 292 pages | PDF | 2 MB Foreign military intervention has had a profound impact on post-colonial African history and politics. Interventions have destabilized borderlands, overthrown governments, and taken a devastating toll on populations. Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering advance a new theoretical framework and combine quantitative, qualitative, and historical methods to shed fresh light on these important but understudied events. Their detailed analysis brings understanding to supportive and hostile interventions and to interventions by former colonial states, non-colonial foreign actors, and African countries. Kisangani and Pickering also analyse military incursions into ungoverned territories and lands engulfed in civil war. Showcasing a variety of examples from the Second Congo War to the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict, the book offers a rich and accessible examination of military intervention on the continent.  Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems by Eftihia G. Nathanail English | PDF | 2021 | 1157 Pages | ISBN : 3030610748 | 97.7 MB This book gathers together innovative research and practical findings relating to urban mobility transformation. It is especially intended to provide academicians, researchers, practitioners and decision makers with effective strategies and techniques that can support urban mobility in a sustainable way.  Maxim Mokin, Edward C. Jauch, Italo Linfante, "Acute Stroke Management in the First 24 Hours: A Practical Guide for Clinicians" English | 2018 | ISBN: 0190856513 | PDF | pages: 253 | 6.1 mb Acute Stroke Management in the First 24 hours bridges the clinical application gap by offering a practice-based approach to treating ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. The comprehensive text, written by international experts in the field of stroke care, covers all aspects of stroke care, including review of stroke systems, clinic features, neuroimaging diagnostic characteristics, and pre-hospital care and challenges. Practical clinical studies in each chapter engage readers in the discussion of common diagnostic pitfalls and work challenges. Chapters also include detailed figures and management algorithms, making this book an easy-to-use reference guide ideal for first responders and clinicians working in emergency medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, and critical care.  Dean Spaulding, John Falco, "Action Research for School Leaders" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0131381040 | PDF | pages: 168 | 2.8 mb In this authoritative, action-oriented guide, current and future school leaders, building administrators, and action research team members get the research skills they need to improve schools by increasing student achievement. With its focus on building-level action research, Action Research for School Leaders provides readers with technical background and skills for reading and critiquing educational research, methods for applying current research and research methods, and a framework for conducting their own building-level action research for ongoing building improvement.  Across Cultural Borders: Historiography in Global Perspective By Eckhardt Fuchs (editor), Benedikt Stuchtey (editor) 2001 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 0742517675 | PDF | 16 MB This innovative work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess, but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the commonalities and differences in writing history. Distinguishing among distinct cultural identities, the contributors consider the ways and means of intellectual transfers and assess the strength of local historiographical traditions as they are challenged from outside. The essays explore the question of the utility and the limits of conceptions of modernism that apply Western theories of development to non-Western cultures. Warning against the dominant tendency in recent historiographies of non-Western societies to define these predominantly in relation to Western thought, the authors show the extent to which indigenous traditions have been overlooked. The key question is how the triad of industrialization, modernization, and the historicization process, which was decisive in the development of modern academic historiography, also is valid beyond Europe. Illustrating just how deeply suffused history writing is with European models, the book offers a broad theoretical platform for exploring the value and necessity of a world historiography beyond Eurocentrism.  A Voltaire for Russia: A. P. Sumarokov's Journey from Poet-Critic to Russian Philosophe By Amanda Ewington 2010 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 0810126966 | PDF | 1 MB In A Voltaire for Russia, Amanda Ewington examines the tumultuous literary career of Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov in relation to that of his slightly older French contemporary, Voltaire. Although largely unknown in the English-speaking world, Sumarokov was one of the founding fathers of modern Russian literature, renowned in his own time as a great playwright and prolific poet. A Voltaire for Russia polemicizes with long-accepted readings of Sumarokov as an imitator of French neoclassical poets, ultimately questioning the very notion of a Russian "classicism." Ewington uncovers Sumarokov's poignantly personal devotion to Voltaire as a new framework for understanding not only his works but also his literary allegiances and agenda, as he sets out to establish a Russian literature and cultivate a reading public.  Brendan Keogh, "A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames " English | ISBN: 0262037637 | 2018 | 248 pages | EPUB | 2 MB An investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game incorporate each other.  Judith Czako, "A Handbook on Anti-Dumping Investigations" English | ISBN: 0521830427 | 2003 | 564 pages | PDF | 2 MB The focus of growing concern in international trade policy, anti-dumping procedures have become a source of tension between countries. This handbook covers major areas arising in anti-dumping investigations as embodied in the relevant World Trade Organization (WTO) provisions and offers well-sourced information and guidance for understanding the intricacies of these proceedings. The volume will assist investigators conducting the required studies; government officials; and professionals working in importing and exporting enterprises, as well as scholars concerned with international trade issues. |
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