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 Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children by Hannah Barnes English | February 23, 2023 | ISBN: 1800751117 | True EPUB | 557 pages | 1.2 MB Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS's flagship gender service for children.  Time Management For A Modern World: Making Managing Time Easier by Morton Hewitt English | December 21, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQX4NXR1 | 124 pages | EPUB | 0.31 Mb Do you often find yourself struggling to balance all of the tasks on your to do list?  Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music By Sydney Hutchinson 2016 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 022640546X | PDF | 5 MB Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue típico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders-something nearly unheard of in the macho Caribbean music scene. Examining this cultural phenomenon, Sydney Hutchinson offers an unexpected and fascinating account of gender in Dominican art and life. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and New York among musicians, fans, and patrons of merengue típico-not to mention her own experiences as a female instrumentalist-Hutchinson details a complex nexus of class, race, and artistic tradition that unsettles the typical binary between the masculine and feminine. She sketches the portrait of the classic male figure of the tíguere, a dandified but sexually aggressive and street-smart "tiger," and she shows how female musicians have developed a feminine counterpart: the tíguera, an assertive, sensual, and respected female figure who looks like a woman but often plays and even sings like a man. Through these musical figures and studies of both straight and queer performers, she unveils rich ambiguities in gender construction in the Dominican Republic and the long history of a unique form of Caribbean feminism.  Thomas Aquinas on Virtue and Human Flourishing By Stephen Theron 2018 | 123 Pages | ISBN: 1527505499 | PDF | 1 MB "Thomas Aquinas offers teleological systematisation of the habits needed for human flourishing. His metaphysical jurisprudence remodels ethics upon this, rather than on a moral precept. 'Eternal law' governing the world determines 'natural law', reflected in human legislation (a variety of the 'anthropic principle'). Finally, law, unwritten, is infused spirit as self-consciousness, 'universal of universals'. Acquired virtues elicit this, become effusion, represented in religion as gifts or graces. But mind's or spirit's omnipresence, necessarily 'closer to me than I am to myself', supersedes the abstractions of heteronomy versus autonomy. The habitual well-being brought by prudence, justice, courage and temperance prompts this picture of gifts and graces. The 'theological virtues', faith (explicit or implicit) and hope fulfilled in love, 'crown' our natural rationality, set toward as being the universal. 'Become what you are'. Heteronomous law is thus 'defused' at root by grounding it entirely upon immovable spiritual (mental) inclination towards universal fulfilment as naturally desired, reflection shows. Virtue, finally, is best assessed as a capacity for the individually beautiful yet habit-based action, Aristotle's to kalon. Aquinas puts this picture as summed up in the beatitudes of the 'Sermon on the Mount'."--back cover.  Pooja Rangan, "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (Volume 3) " English | ISBN: 0520389735 | 2023 | 334 pages | PDF | 9 MB A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more.
 Think. Map. Do.: How Ambitious Leaders Can Accelerate Their Climb Into Senior Management by Robert Hutton English | December 20, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQT1K9H1 | 178 pages | EPUB | 0.44 Mb Rob Hutton's first book, THINK. MAP. DO. HOW AMBITIOUS LEADERS CAN ACCELERATE THEIR CLIMB INTO SENIOR MANAGEMENT offers in-depth, real-world leadership insights for both young and seasoned leaders who want to continue to grow their careers. He teaches the practical management and leadership skills needed to advance into senior management or grow all the way to the C-Suite! He takes his 28 years of senior leadership in big, industry leading NYSE companies (as both a Division President and Regional President) and clearly defines how to get pushed-up and, importantly, how to avoid mistakes that could derail (or significantly delay) your quest for career advancement.
 Donald Cressey, "Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America" English | ISBN: 1138539538 | 2017 | 393 pages | EPUB | 1267 KB Organized crime in America today is not the tough hoodlums familiar to moviegoers and TV watchers. It is more sophisticated, with many college graduates, gifted with organizational genius, all belonging to twenty-four tightly knit "families," who have corrupted legitimate business and infiltrated some of the highest levels of local, state, and federal government. Their power reaches into Congress, into the executive and judicial branches, police agencies, and labor unions, and into such business enterprises as real estate, retail stores, restaurants, hotels, linen-supply houses, and garbage-collection routes.How does organized crime operate? How dangerous is it? What are the implications for American society? How may we cope with it? In answering these questions, Cressey asserts that because organized crime provides illicit goods and services demanded by legitimate society, it has become part of legitimate society. This fascinating account reveals the parallels: the growth of specialization, "big-business practices" (pooling of capital and reinvestment of profits; fringe benefits like bail money), and government practices (negotiated settlements and peace treaties, defined territories, fair-trade agreements).For too long we have, as a society, concerned ourselves only with superficial questions about organized crime. Theft of the Nation focuses on to a more profound and searching level. Of course, organized crime exists. Cressey not only establishes this fact, but proceeds to explore it rigorously and with penetration. One need not agree with everything Cressey writes to conclude that no one, after the publication of Theft of the Nation, can be knowledgeable about organized crime without having read this book.
 Gavin Barrett, "The evolving role of national parliaments in the European Union: Ireland as a case study" English | ISBN: 1784993212 | 2018 | 360 pages | EPUB | 586 KB This book examines the gradually increasing role of national parliaments in the European Union and asks how and why this came about. It takes Ireland as a case study, examining the relationship between Ireland's parliament (the Oireachtas) and the European Union. It also focuses sharply on parliament's role in European affairs in Ireland, a jurisdiction of strong comparative interest to the UK . It examines the evolution in national parliaments' roles, the reasons for change and the challenges that must be faced in making further progress. The book analyses Ireland's slow parliamentary adaptation to European integration, analyses the impact of the Lisbon Treaty and economic crises in accelerating reform, and identifies where improvement is still badly needed.
 Jeremy Rifkin, "The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism" English | ISBN: 1137278463 | 2014 | 368 pages | MOBI | 900 KB In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.
 Christopher Tugendhat, "The Worm in the Apple: A History of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron" English | ISBN: 191336853X | 2022 | 256 pages | EPUB | 305 KB The first extensive history of the relationship between the UK Conservative Party and the European Union. |
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