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 Amish Raj Mulmi, "All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Contest for the Himalayas" English | ISBN: 1787385396 | 2022 | 328 pages | MOBI | 947 KB During the June 2020 territorial dispute over Kalapani, India blamed tensions on a newly assertive Nepal's deepening relations with China. But beyond the accusations and grandstanding, this reflects a new reality: the power equations in South Asia have been redrawn, to make space for China. Nepal did not turn northwards overnight. Its ties with China have deep historical roots built on Buddhism, dating to the early first millennium. While India's unofficial 2015 blockade provided momentum to the rift with Delhi, Nepal has long wanted deeper ties with Beijing, to counteract India's oppressive intimacy. With China's growing South Asian and global ambitions, Nepal now has a new primary bilateral partner-and Nepalis are forging a path towards modernity with its help, both in the remote borderlands and in the cities. All Roads Lead North offers a long view of Nepal's foreign relations, today underpinned by China's world-power status. Sharing never- before-told stories about Tibetan guerrilla fighters, failed coup leaders and trans- Himalayan traders, Nepal analyst Amish Raj Mulmi examines the histories binding mountain communities together across the Sino-Nepali border. Part history, part journalistic account, Mulmi's is a complex, compelling and rigorously researched study of a small country caught between two neighbourhood giants.  Don Lincoln, "Alien Universe: Extraterrestrial Life in Our Minds and in the Cosmos" English | ISBN: 1421410729 | 2013 | 208 pages | MOBI | 4 MB Are alien civilizations really possible?  Algorithms of Autonomous AI Agents: The Beginner's Blueprint for Networking Intelligent Agents and Launching the World's First Self-Sovereign Systems. by Adams Anderson English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GL82CG8K | 309 Pages | PDF | 168 MB  Algorithms in Combinatorial Geometry (Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science.) by Herbert Edelsbrunner English | July 31, 1987 | ISBN: 9783540137221 | 438 pages | PDF | 18 Mb Computational geometry as an area of research in its own right emerged in the early seventies of this century. Right from the beginning, it was obvious that strong connections of various kinds exist to questions studied in the considerably older field of combinatorial geometry. For example, the combinatorial structure of a geometric problem usually decides which algorithmic method solves the problem most efficiently. Furthermore, the analysis of an algorithm often requires a great deal of combinatorial knowledge. As it turns out, however, the connection between the two research areas commonly referred to as computa tional geometry and combinatorial geometry is not as lop-sided as it appears. Indeed, the interest in computational issues in geometry gives a new and con structive direction to the combinatorial study of geometry. It is the intention of this book to demonstrate that computational and com binatorial investigations in geometry are doomed to profit from each other. To reach this goal, I designed this book to consist of three parts, acorn binatorial part, a computational part, and one that presents applications of the results of the first two parts. The choice of the topics covered in this book was guided by my attempt to describe the most fundamental algorithms in computational geometry that have an interesting combinatorial structure. In this early stage geometric transforms played an important role as they reveal connections between seemingly unrelated problems and thus help to structure the field.  Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen für Dummies, 2nd Edition German | 2026 | ISBN: 3527724400 | 655 pages | True EPUB | 40.31 MB Dieses Buch führt Sie sachte in die Denkweisen des Fachs "Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen" ein. Es erklärt Informatik-Anfängern Terminologie, Notation und zentrale Inhalte des Fachgebiets auf anschauliche und sehr unterhaltsame Weise. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Techniken und Tricks, die Sie benötigen, um effiziente Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen zu entwickeln. Sie werden auch in die Lage versetzt, Pseudocode in der typischen akademischen Darstellung zu verstehen und in unterschiedlichen Programmiersprachen zu realisieren oder umgekehrt grundlegende algorithmische Ideen als Pseudocode zu dokumentieren.  Stanley, "Algebraic Combinatorics " English | ISBN: 3319771728 | 2018 | 280 pages | AZW3 | 793 KB Written by one of the foremost experts in the field, Algebraic Combinatorics is a unique undergraduate textbook that will prepare the next generation of pure and applied mathematicians. The combination of the author's extensive knowledge of combinatorics and classical and practical tools from algebra will inspire motivated students to delve deeply into the fascinating interplay between algebra and combinatorics. Readers will be able to apply their newfound understanding to mathematical, engineering, and business models. Prerequisites include a basic knowledge of linear algebra over a field, existence of finite fields, and rudiments of group theory. The topics in each chapter build on one another and include extensive problem sets as well as hints to selected exercises. Key topics include walks on graphs, cubes and the Radon transform, the Matrix-Tree Theorem, de Bruijn sequences, the Erdős-Moser conjecture, electrical networks, the Sperner property, shellability of simplicialcomplexes and face rings. There are also three appendices on purely enumerative aspects of combinatorics related to the chapter material: the RSK algorithm, plane partitions, and the enumeration of labeled trees.  Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom (Global Political Thinkers) by Uwe Rasch English | January 3, 2026 | ISBN: 303157608X | 359 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 9.40 Mb This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley's socio-political ideas in a concise and highly accessible manner, both for political theorists and interested students from various disciplines. From his social journalism in the early 1930s, through his notoriously famous novel Brave New World, his involvement with the Peace Pledge Union in the mid-30s, his pivotal socio-anthropological study Ends and Means in 1937, his post-war essays, the black dystopia Ape and Essence, his involvement with Eastern philosophy and Krishnamurti, his lecture circuits in the 1950s (Santa Barbara, MIT, etc.) to his final novel, Island (1962), the counter-piece to Brave New World, the author explores how Huxley investigates the benefits and risks of democracy, anarchism, decentralisation, forms of authoritarianism, human engineering (education), the ideological pitfalls of the grand narratives of the early 20th century, as well as the anthropological dimensions underpinning social ideals and their means of realisation.  Michele Alacevich, "Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography" English | ISBN: 0231199821 | 2021 | 352 pages | MOBI | 2 MB Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought  Air Force One: The Definitive History, Operations, and Security of The POTUS' Airplan English | 2026 | ISBN: 8233346071 | 160 pages | ePUB | 5.48 MB Air Force One: The Definitive History, Operations, and Security of The POTUS' Airplane by Dr. Andrew Wharton is a detailed exploration of the iconic aircraft that serves as the U.S. President's airborne command center, diplomatic tool, and symbol of American power. The book traces the evolution of Air Force One from its origins in the 1940s, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt's flights on the Dixie Clipper and Sacred Cow, to the modern Boeing 747-200B (VC-25A) models used today. It covers key historical moments, such as Lyndon B. Johnson's oath aboard SAM 26000, Nixon's 1972 China visit, and George W. Bush's 9/11 response, highlighting the aircraft's role in pivotal events.  Dinah Hannaford, "Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care " English | ISBN: 1503634604 | 2023 | 228 pages | MOBI | 1478 KB Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world employ maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs. Though nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local people working within the intimate sphere of their homes, these relationships are seldom, if ever, discussed in analyses of the development paradigm and its praxis. Aid and the Help addresses this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the intersection of development work and domestic work. Examining the reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the ostensibly "giving" industry of development can be an extractive industry as well. |
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