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 Why and How We Give and Ask for Reasons: Perspectives from Philosophy and the Sciences by Preston Stovall and Ladislav Koren English | 2025 | ISBN: 0197745083 | 367 Pages | PDF | 4.8 MB  Why Welfare States Persist: The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) By Clem Brooks, Jeff Manza 2007 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 0226075842 | PDF | 1 MB The world's richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and fiscal pressures, has the welfare state not been replaced by another model? Reconsidering the myriad issues raised by such pressing questions, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza contend here that public opinion has been an important, yet neglected, factor in shaping welfare states in recent decades.Analyzing data on sixteen countries, Brooks and Manza find that the preferences of citizens profoundly influence the welfare policies of their governments and the behavior of politicians in office. Shaped by slow-moving forces such as social institutions and collective memories, these preferences have counteracted global pressures that many commentators assumed would lead to the welfare state's demise. Moreover, Brooks and Manza show that cross-national differences in popular support help explain why Scandinavian social democracies offer so much more than liberal democraciessuch asthe United States and the United Kingdom.Significantly expanding our understanding of both public opinion and social policy in the world's most developed countries, this landmark study will be essential reading for scholars of political economy, public opinion, and democratic theory.
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 Why We Love Back to the Future: 40 Years of Fandom, Flux Capacitors, and Timeless Adventures (Pop Classics, Sci-fi Trivia) by Brad Gilmore English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 1684817870 | 218 pages | PDF | 2.15 Mb Travel through time with Marty, Doc, and the unforgettable Back to the Future trilogy-celebrating 40 years of fandom and timeless adventure.[/center]  Why Wars Widen: A Theory of Predation and Balancing By Stacy Ber Haldi 2003 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 0714653071 | PDF | 2 MB This work explains how wars are most likely to escalate when the effects of warfare are limited. The author demonstrates that total wars during the modern era were very violent and were far less likely to spread, yet the cost of warfare is falling making future conflicts more likely to spread.  Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution by David Stipp English | September 23, 2025 | ISBN: 1643264877 | 320 pages | PDF | 8.39 Mb For fans of accessible and fun popular science comes an exploration of evolution's quirkiest puzzles and most enduring mysteries.  Why Most Traders Never Win: Why most trading strategies fail and how elite traders build repeatable profits over time English | 23 Jan. 2026 | ASIN: B0GJDWGFHZ | 288 pages | Epub | 569.89 KB The Hard Truth About Trading Most People Refuse to Face Most traders fail, and it's not because they lack intelligence, strategy, or access to tools. It's because they are caught in illusions-illusion of control, illusion of fast profits, and illusion of being smarter than the market. I know this because I've been there. I've felt the frustration, the anxiety, the crushing self-doubt, and the temptation to chase every new system promising instant success. Why Most Traders Never Win strips away every myth and exposes the reality of trading: success doesn't come from being right every time or predicting every move. It comes from alignment-aligning your expectations, your process, your emotions, and your identity with the market's inherent uncertainty. This book takes you on a journey through every mental trap that destroys trading accounts and shows how to replace them with habits and mindsets that create consistency, resilience, and repeatable profits. You'll discover how to manage risk without fear, detach emotion from outcomes, embrace patience without anxiety, and develop discipline that survives boredom and drawdowns. You'll learn why less really is more in trading, why repeated small wins beat sporadic "big hits," and why the traders who endure are those who master themselves, not the market. This is not a book about shortcuts or tricks. It's a blueprint for understanding how elite traders think, behave, and sustain success over time. If you're serious about finally escaping the endless cycle of losses, frustration, and self-sabotage, this book will give you the framework to see the market clearly, trade with confidence, and build a trading career that lasts.  Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings By Joseph Wittreich 2006 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 140397229X | PDF | 3 MB A poet of the seventeenth century, Milton with his future gaze may prove to be (singularly among the triumvirate of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton) the poet for the new millennium--the poet for the twenty-first century. Milton will be so to the extent that through him we see the upheavals in the humanities as deriving not from a revision of the canon but rather, as Bill Readings insists in The University in Ruins, from "a crisis in the function of the canon" and, then, to the extent that Milton shocks us into the recognition that poets sometimes deliver messages at odds with those with which they are credited.  Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide by Kevin Whitehead English | January 3, 2011 | ISBN: 0199731187, 9780199753109 | True EPUB | 172 pages | 2.6 MB What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively, insightful answers to these and many other fascinating questions, offering an entertaining guide for both novice listeners and long-time fans.  Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation (Evolution and Cognition) by Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich English | June 27, 2007 | ISBN: 0195300688, 0195314239, 9780199885268 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 3.1 MB Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.  Why Fascism Is on the Rise in France: From Macron to Le Pen by Ugo Palheta English | August 26, 2025 | ISBN: 1804290955, 9781804290972 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 0.5 MB LE PEN AND THE FAR RIGHT ARE CONQUERING FRANCE, AND MACRON IS PAVING THE WAY |
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