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 Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" English | ISBN: 0691241171 | 2024 | 336 pages | MOBI | 836 KB A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her "forceful critique" of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracy  The Teachers Black Students Need by Zachary Scott Robbins English | March 19, 2025 | ISBN: 1032857552 | 152 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 2.77 Mb Who are the teachers Black students need? In this thought-provoking book, award-winning superintendent Zachary Scott Robbins considers this question and the impact its answer has for Black children everywhere. Robbins articulates the heartfelt concerns of an educator and father raising children in public school, some unsafe, some mired in racial unrest, and some defined by inequality. He shares what teachers can do to mitigate the imbalance of resources and educational opportunities available to Black students and to establish relationships with Black students that are foundational for sustainable, positive academic outcomes.  John Coleman, "The Teacher and the Teenage Brain" English | ISBN: 0367435810 | 2021 | 158 pages | MOBI | 3 MB The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people. It provides a critical insight into strategies for improving relationships in the classroom and helping both adults and teenagers cope better with this stage of life.  The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading: Translating Research to Reignite Joy and Meaning in the Classroom by Doug Lemov, Colleen Driggs, Erica Woolway English | July 29, 2025 | ISBN: 1394305990 | 480 pages | MOBI | 25 Mb The most comprehensive and practical guide to understanding and applying the science of reading to improve literacy instruction.  Antonio Giustozzi, "The Taliban at War: 2001 - 2018" English | ISBN: 1787381323 | 2019 | 336 pages | MOBI | 4 MB How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement's extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban's external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which have affected the Taliban's military campaigns and internal politics. Secondly, this is the first full-length study of the Taliban to acknowledge and discuss in detail the movement's polycentric character. Here not only the Quetta Shura, but also the Haqqani Network and the Taliban's other centres of power, are afforded the attention they deserve. The Taliban at War is based on extensive field research, including hundreds of interviews with Taliban members at all levels of the organisation, community elders in Taliban-controlled areas, and other sources. It covers the Taliban insurgency from its first manifestations in 2002 up to the end of 2015. The five-month Battle of Kunduz epitomised the ongoing transition of the Taliban from an insurgent group to a more conventional military force, intent on fighting a protracted civil war. In this latest book, renowned Afghanistan expert Antonio Giustozzi rounds off his twenty years of studying the Taliban with an authoritative study detailing the evolution of its formidable military machine.  The Systems Handbook: Essential Systems for Building a Successful Plumbing & Heating Business by Aaron Mcleish English | July 29, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FKGSSGCC | 643 pages | EPUB | 2.71 Mb Running a plumbing and heating business isn't easy - but it can be easier.  The System of Japanese Society: A Historical Sociology of Work and Employment (Japanese Society Series) by Eiji Oguma English | September 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1920850430 | 524 pages | PDF | 8.61 Mb In developed countries, non-regular employment in the labor market is increasing and the gap between rich and poor is widening. Gender inequality in employment is also often an issue. Japan is no exception. In recent years, the dual structure of the employment market has become problematic. A unique systemic rigidity has created an employment environment that is so different between regular and non-regular employment, and between large and small enterprises, that it is difficult for employees to move up the hierarchy. This book has two main themes: first, statistically revealing the dual structure of employment that has been created by the Japanese-style employment system; and second, tracing the historical process to the formation of Japan' s unique employment practices under the influence of governmental bureaucracy and military culture. This process is compared with the history of employment systems in the US and Europe. Through this book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the issues facing Japan by learning how the system of Japanese society, including employment, education, social security and welfare, and gender inequality, was established historically.  The System Was Never Personal: How Organizations Recalculate Value in the Age of AI (When Judgment Is No Longer Human Book 1) English | December 26, 2025 | ASIN: B0GCNGH83T | 317 pages | Epub | 866.86 KB This book examines a structural shift in how modern organizations operate. It does not begin with technology, artificial intelligence, or automation. It begins with a quieter observation: at some point, human judgment stopped being structurally necessary for systems to function at scale. The System Was Never Personal traces how organizations recalibrate value once interpretation becomes optional, prediction becomes cheaper than explanation, and accountability no longer requires a human intermediary. What many experience as confusion, loss of leverage, or misalignment is treated here not as an individual problem, but as a consequence of systemic reconfiguration. The book is not prescriptive. It does not offer strategies, coping mechanisms, or recommendations for adaptation. Nor does it argue for or against any particular technological direction. Instead, it describes the conditions under which judgment was once required, how those conditions eroded, and what replaces them when systems prioritize continuity, cost, and variance reduction over understanding. Its structure reflects this intent. Rather than advancing a single argument, the book is organized as a series of analytical vantage points. Each section isolates a specific structural transition-how responsibility detached from decision-making, how repetition lost its stabilizing role, how optimization proceeded without deliberate exclusion. Readers are not expected to follow a linear path or arrive at a conclusion. Engagement begins through recognition, not persuasion. You may read selectively. You may enter through the table of contents, scan the promises beneath each section, and decide where alignment or resistance appears. Both are informative. The book does not assume agreement, nor does it seek to produce it. This work is for readers who sense that something fundamental has shifted in organizational life, but who are dissatisfied with explanations that rely on motivation, mindset, or moral framing. It offers no verdict and assigns no blame. It makes visible the system as it operates. The system was never personal. But seeing how it recalculates may clarify why effort, judgment, and outcome no longer align the way they once did.  Yasser Munif, "The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death" English | ISBN: 0745340725 | 2020 | 208 pages | MOBI | 2 MB Understanding the Syrian revolution is unthinkable without an in-depth analysis from below. Paying attention to the complex activities of the grassroots resistance, this book demands we rethink the revolution.  The Syria-Iran Axis: Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the Middle East (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) by Nadia von Maltzahn English | June 30, 2015 | ISBN: 1784531693 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3.76 Mb Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the close alliance between Syria and Iran has endured for over three decades, based on geopolitical interests between the two states and often framed in the language of resistance. In view of their strong relationship at a state-level, what have Syria and Iran each been doing to foster popular exchange and employ cultural tools to build an image in the other country? The Syria-Iran Axis examines the motivations, content and reach of cultural diplomacy between Syria and Iran to determine to what degree the two partners have been successful in bridging their world views and political outlooks. By analysing the extent to which a state-directed cultural exchange can foster bilateral relations in the Middle East, Nadia von Maltzahn offers a unique analysis of the formation of foreign policy and diplomacy in the region. |
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