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 Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High by David Noble, Carol Kauffman English | February 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 1647823935 | 288 pages | True EPUB (Retail Copy) | 1.77 MB The best leaders, in the biggest moments, know how to read the situation, respond in the most effective way possible, and move forward. You can, too.
 Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: A Textbook of Advanced Modern Chinese By Chih-p'ing Chou; Wang Wei; Joanne Chiang 2008 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0691131090 | PDF | 22 MB Most Chinese-language textbooks today cater to beginners and intermediate-level students, but virtually none address the unique needs of advanced students seeking to expand or reinforce their language skills in one semester. Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema fills this gap through the use of critically acclaimed Chinese films to teach students Chinese while also broadening their knowledge about China.The authors have carefully chosen ten movies produced in recent decades by filmmakers from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Set broadly within the twentieth century, these classic films are representative of both urban and rural life, and vividly depict the diversity of perspectives that comprise contemporary Chinese society. The authors provide an informative synopsis and critique of each movie, and include selections of movie dialogue that allow students to practice and build proficiency. The comprehensive lessons are supplemented with exercises, sentence-pattern examples, English-language glossaries, and extensive vocabulary lists. There are also discussion questions that can be used in conjunction with screenings of the films.Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema is designed for students with three or more years of college-level instruction in modern Chinese, and can be used alone or as a sequel to Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese. It has been proven effective at Princeton University and in the Princeton in Beijing program, and is ideal for those returning from study abroad in China.  Reading the East India Company 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender By Betty Joseph 2004 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0226412024 | PDF | 16 MB In Reading the East India Company, Betty Joseph offers an innovative account of how archives-and the practice of archiving-shaped colonial ideologies in Britain and British-controlled India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Drawing on the British East India Company's records as well as novels, memoirs, portraiture and guidebooks, Joseph shows how the company's economic and archival practices intersected to produce colonial "fictions" or "truth-effects" that strictly governed class and gender roles-in effect creating a "grammar of power" that kept the far-flung empire intact. And while women were often excluded from this archive, Joseph finds that we can still hear their voices at certain key historical junctures. Attending to these voices, Joseph illustrates how the writing of history belongs not only to the colonial project set forth by British men, but also to the agendas and mechanisms of agency-of colonized Indian, as well as European women. In the process, she makes a valuable and lasting contribution to gender studies, postcolonial theory, and the history of South Asia.  ReThinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking (MIT Press) By Eran Ben-Joseph 2012 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 0262017334 | PDF | 67 MB There are an estimated 600,000,000 passenger cars in the world, and that number is increasing every day. So too is Earth's supply of parking spaces. In some cities, parking lots cover more than one-third of the metropolitan footprint. It's official: we have paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In ReThinking a Lot, Eran Ben-Joseph shares a different vision for parking's future. Parking lots, he writes, are ripe for transformation. After all, their design and function has not been rethought since the 1950s. With this book, Ben-Joseph pushes the parking lot into the twenty-first century. Ben-Joseph shows that parking lots can be aesthetically pleasing, environmentally and architecturally responsible, and used for something other than car storage. He introduces us to some of the many alternative and nonparking purposes that parking lots have served -- from RV campgrounds to stages for "Shakespeare in the Parking Lot." He shows us parking lots that are lushly planted with trees and flowers and beautifully integrated with the rest of the built environment. With purposeful design, Ben-Joseph argues, parking lots could be significant public places, contributing as much to their communities as great boulevards, parks, or plazas. For all the acreage they cover, parking lots have received scant attention. It's time to change that; it's time to rethink the lot.  Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960 By William Thomas 2015 | 399 Pages | ISBN: 0262028506 | PDF | 3 MB The evolution of a set of fields -- including operations research and systems analysis -- intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making.  Ransomware and Cyber Extortion: Response and Prevention English | 2023 | ISBN: 9780137450336 | 319 Pages | PDF | 3 MB Ransomware and other cyber extortion crimes have reached epidemic proportions. The secrecy surrounding them has left many organizations unprepared to respond. Your actions in the minutes, hours, days, and months after an attack may determine whether you'll ever recover.  Sheldon B Liss, "Radical Thought In Central America" English | ISBN: 0367284928 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB Central American pensadores have interpreted the theories of Marx and other scholars of revolution in diverse ways. In this book Sheldon Liss examines the political theory and ideology of some of Central America's most important radical thinkers, including non-Marxists, and demonstrates how they have challenged the tenets of imperialism and capitalism. Chapters on individual Central American countries begin with brief historical introductions that emphasize the rise of radical activities and organizations. Individual essays based on published writings, interviews, and scholarly analyses of their works then establish each writer's personal ideology, social and political goals, and theories of society, state, and institutions of power. Liss also examines their relationship to social and political movements and contributions to the national intellectual life of the past and present. In addition, Liss discusses the writers' understanding of the role of the United States in the Americas and beliefs about national struggles for independence. By focusing on political and social theory and on intellectual history, this book also provides the background critical for understanding recent developments and changes in Central America.
 Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930 By Lindgren Johnson 2017 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 1138954543 | PDF | 23 MB Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, and James Weldon Johnson alongside slaughterhouse lithographs, hunting photography, and sheep "husbandry" manuals, Lindgren Johnson argues instead for a critical African American tradition that at pivotal moments reconsiders and recuperates discourses of animality weaponized against both African Americans and animals. Johnson articulates a theory of "fugitive humanism" in which these texts fl ee both white and human exceptionalism, even as they move within and seek out a (revised) humanist space. The focus, for example, is not on how African Americans shake off animal associations in demanding recognition of their humanity, but on how they hold fast to animality and animals in making such a move, revising "the human" itself as they go and undermining the binaries that helped to produce racial and animal injustices.Fugitive humanism reveals how an interspecies ethics develops in these African American responses to violent dehumanization. Illuminating those moments in which the African American canon exceeds human exceptionalism, Race Matters, Animal Matters ultimately shows how these black engagements with animals and animality are not subsequent to efforts for racial justice ― a mere extension of the abolitionist or antilynching movements― but, to the contrary, are integral to those efforts. This black- authored temporality challenges widely accepted humanist approaches to the relationship between racial and animal justice as it anticipates and even critiques the valuable insights that animal studies and posthumanism have to offer in our current moment.  QuickBooks Desktop Pro 2022: A Step By Step Beginner's Guide to Learn All About QuickBooks Desktop Pro 2022 New Features and Set Up Preferences by Jason Harder English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09WJN542D | 106 pages | EPUB | 0.29 Mb Are you looking for comprehensive accounting software that can help you manage your finances? If so, QuickBooks Pro 2022 may be the perfect solution for you. This software makes it easy for business owners to keep track of their expenses, invoices, and other financial data. One of the best things about the QuickBooks Pro 2022 is that it is highly customizable, and you can tailor the program to meet your specific needs and requirements. Additionally, the software offers a wide range of features that can help you manage your business more effectively. For example, you can use QuickBooks Pro 2022 to create invoices, track payments, and generate reports on your financial data. This Guidebook comes with easy-to-understand tutorials from experts who are proficient with bookkeeping as regards this Intuit software. From this book, you'd get help with any questions that may arise while using the software.
 QuickBooks: A Complete Tutorial for beginners to Learning QuickBooks Simple Concepts and Techniques by Jason Harder English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08XQ5MRDR | 72 pages | EPUB | 0.71 Mb This book is designed to provide you with the experience and benefits of QuickBooks. It also enlightens you with useful information on putting your device to maximum use, especially in how to use forms, create sales receipts, create invoices, receive payments, write checks, and pay bills. Going further, you will have the opportunity to learn the home page insights, Balance sheet, Profit and loss, moving around a window key shortcuts and editing key shortcuts. |
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