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 Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults: Criminal Justice and Adult Protection (Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice) By Jacki Pritchard 2008 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 1843109379 | PDF | 2 MB "Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults" provides an up-to-date summary of developments in the legislative framework and best practice relevant to the area of adult protection work.It explains legislation that can be used in adult protection work, covering criminal and civil law, and crucial national guidance such as Achieving Best Evidence. Issues covered include confidentiality and information-sharing in adult protection work, capacity issues, police investigations, financial abuse, advocacy, witness support and honour-based violence. The book is illustrated throughout with case studies and good practice points.This book will be essential reading for anyone working with vulnerable adults, including health and social care workers, care managers, support workers, volunteers, advocates, police, probation staff, prison staff, lawyers training officers and students.  Gong, Revised and Updated: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Kevan Furbank English | June 27, 2025 | ISBN: 1789523400, 9781789523997 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 4.98 MB Every now and then a band comes along that defies convention, refuses to be pigeon-holed, thumbs its nose at comfy predictability and blows raspberries at commercial wisdom. That band is Gong. From 1970 to the present day, Gong have ploughed a unique musical furrow - part progressive rock, part spacey psychedelia, part proto-punk, ambient trance, drum 'n' bass and absurdist political performance art.  Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp English | 2025 | ISBN: 0241741238 | 587 Pages | PDF | 22.6 MB  Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp English | September 23, 2025 | ISBN: 0593321359 | 592 pages | PDF | 12 Mb "In the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything, Goliath's Curse provides a novel theory of civilizational development. . . . t feels something like reading the French economist Thomas Piketty filtered through Mad Max: Fury Road." -Ed Simon, The New York Times Book Review  Golfonomics By Stephen Shmanske 2004 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 9812386777 | PDF | 15 MB This book presents Stephen Shmanske's innovative research combining two of his passions, golf and economics. He develops two themes - the use of economics to explore institutional aspects of the business side of golf and the use of golf statistics to shed light on several vexing issues in economics. These two themes are addressed in two settings - the economics of golf course management and the economics of professional golf. Examples from golf course management are covered in separate chapters on golf cart usage, golf course maintenance, and the problem of slow play. Examples from professional golf include the causal relationships from practice to skill to earnings, the tournament compensation model, and the measurement of gender discrimination.  Gold In The Void: A Cross-Cultural, Integral Theory Guidebook for Navigating and Harvesting Gold from the Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Emergence and Spiritual Emergency (Sunlit Soul Solutions 1) by Ammanuel Santa Anna English | July 13, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D9CFS3ZW | 175 pages | EPUB | 0.54 Mb This book looks at the dark night of the soul throughout world religions, using an modern framework and provides a path to resilience, opportunity for growth and an overall comprehensive and richly textured analysis of what is commonly known as the Dark Night of the Soul. It is at once a guide towards your best outcome, companion and compendium of knowledge of this oft misunderstood universal human experience.  Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our Urban Future by Carl Elefante English | April 24, 2025 | ISBN: 164283355X | 296 pages | MOBI | 3.83 Mb Climate change is no longer an abstract threat. Day after day, an already disrupted climate is impacting the lives of millions, and the time available to curtail climate change is alarmingly limited. Going for zero greenhouse gas emissions requires retooling everything about industry, agriculture, transportation, and every city and town that people inhabit. The work of architects, engineers, landscape architects, urban designers and the countless others who shape the built environment has never been more relevant. Decarbonizing how buildings are designed, constructed, and operated is a sea change that is already altering professional principles and practices.  Gods of the Smoke Machine: Power, Pain, and the Rise of Christian Nationalism in the Megachurch by Scott Latta English | October 28, 2025 | ISBN: 8890680148 | 258 pages | EPUB | 0.64 Mb "A harrowing look at a growing and in many ways unaccountable force in American political life." -Publishers Weekly  R. Mahalakshmi, Malavika Binny, Megha Yadav, "Goddesses in South Asia : Traditions and Transformations" English | ISBN: 9361314769 | 2025 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB Goddess traditions have for long fascinated scholars, believers, writers and artists across South Asia. In the academic field, the diversity and complexity of goddess worship, and indeed the conceptualization of the goddess, have been illuminated through interdisciplinary methodologies and broad frameworks. This volume comprising thirteen chapters presents original research across a wide chronological and regional span, drawing on a range of literary, epigraphical, visual, archaeological, archival and ethnographic sources. With a focus on major early Indian religious traditions-Vedic, Buddhist, Jaina, Puranic, Tantric-while also giving prominence to lesserstudied traditions, such as village goddesses and socalled "minor deities," Goddesses in South Asia draws attention to the different temporal contexts that have a bearing on the prescriptions and practices around goddess worship. It also examines the interactions between goddess worship and other religious traditions, including Islam and Christianity, raising important questions about cross-religious engagements with the divine feminine. The book invites the reader to ask: Is goddess worship indicative of the status of women in society? What do the multiplicity of goddess forms and worship indicate? How do female deities' function within patriarchal societies? How are goddess figures represented across literary, oral, and visual media? In what way have academic and public discourses around the goddesses contributed to our understanding of goddess worship? How do goddess traditions continue to influence gender roles and social structures? The role of royal and other patronage, the institutionalizing of ritual practices, the legitimation of authority, and the construction of normative social values have been closely examined to elucidate these questions. With its critical and interdisciplinary approach, the volume offers fresh perspectives and makes a significant contribution to the study of goddess traditions in South Asia.  God vs. Darwin: The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom By Mano Singham 2009 | 187 Pages | ISBN: 1607091690 | PDF | 1 MB In God vs. Darwin, Mano Singham dissects the legal battle between evolution and creationism in the classroom beginning with the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 and ending with an intelligent design trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, in 2005. A publicity stunt, the Scopes Monkey trial had less to do with legal precedence than with generating tourism dollars for a rural Tennessee town. But the trial did successfully spark a debate that has lasted more than 80 years and simply will not be quelled despite a succession of seemingly definitive court decisions. In the greatest demonstration of survival, opposition to the teaching of evolution has itself evolved. Attempts to completely eliminate the teaching of evolution from public schools have given way to the recognition that evolution is here to stay, that explicitly religious ideas will never be allowed in public schools, and that the best that can be hoped for is to chip away at the credibility of the theory of evolution. Dr. Singham deftly answers complex questions: Why is there such intense antagonism to the teaching of evolution in the United States? What have the courts said about the various attempts to oppose it? Sprinkled with interesting tidbits about Charles Darwin and the major players of the evolution vs. creationism debate, God vs. Darwin is charming in its embrace of the strong passions aroused from the topic of teaching evolution in schools. |
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