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 Grant Newsham, "When China Attacks: A Warning to America" English | ISBN: 1684513650 | 2023 | 436 pages | MOBI | 4 MB When China Attacks is a fire bell in the night-a warning about a war that we are already losing. It offers a frightening, and well-founded, blow-by-blow account of what might happen next.  Robert Kelsey, "What's Stopping You?: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can" English | ISBN: 0857083074 | 2012 | 288 pages | MOBI | 651 KB A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure  Peter Burke, "What is the History of Knowledge?" English | ISBN: 0745669840 | 2015 | 160 pages | MOBI | 397 KB What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, 'knowledges in the plural') and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this new kind of history from different periods and from the history of India, East Asia and the Islamic world as well as from Europe and the Americas. He discusses some of the main concepts used by scholars working in the field, among them 'order of knowledge', 'situated knowledge' and 'knowledge society'. This book tells the story of the transformation of relatively raw 'information' into knowledge via processes of classification, verification and so on, the dissemination of this knowledge and finally its employment for different purposes, by governments, corporations or private individuals. A concluding chapter identifies central problems in the history of knowledge, from triumphalism to relativism, together with attempts to solve them.  Brenda E. Stevenson, "What is Slavery? " English | ISBN: 0745671519 | 2015 | 208 pages | MOBI | 3 MB What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of Africans in America, particularly the United States. Slavery proved to be essential to the creation of the young nation's agricultural and industrial economies and profoundly shaped its political and cultural landscapes, even until today.  Brenda E. Stevenson, "What is Slavery? " English | ISBN: 0745671519 | 2015 | 208 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of Africans in America, particularly the United States. Slavery proved to be essential to the creation of the young nation's agricultural and industrial economies and profoundly shaped its political and cultural landscapes, even until today.  Zygmunt Bauman, "What Use is Sociology?: Conversations with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester" English | ISBN: 0745671241 | 2013 | 180 pages | MOBI | 248 KB What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the world's leading thinkers offers a passionate, engaging and important statement of the need for sociology.  Omar Johnson, "What The Rich Know That You Don't: How The Rich Think Differently From The Middle Class And Poor When It Comes To Time, Money, Investing And Wealth Accumulation" English | ISBN: 1500714550 | 2023 | 287 pages | MOBI | 204 KB There is an ever widening wealth gap between the rich and the middle class and poor. In fact, this wealth gap is so wide that according to statistics almost half the world's wealth is owned by just 1% of the population. The rich are indeed getting richer while the middle class and the poor are being left behind. Are the rich just luckier and more fortunate than the middle class and the poor? Does their genetic make-up consist of a "rich" gene and is this the reason why they are able to obtain wealth?Well, if you believe that then you might as well believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. Of course there are some rich people that have inherited their wealth and yes some have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth. But a majority became rich because they had specific knowledge of the principles and strategies that pertain to wealth creation and wealth preservation. They then put forth a plan based on this knowledge and simply executed. This is how they became rich.The middle class and the poor are not privy to this type of information so they remain clueless on how to create and maintain wealth until now. In his book entitled What the Rich Know That You Don't author and serial entrepreneur Omar Johnson explains in detail the principles, habits and strategies of the rich and how they think and act differently from the middle class and poor when it comes to time, money, investing and wealth accumulation.Beware! This is not a book about getting rich by:Cutting up your credit cardsLiving below your meansGetting rid of your premium cable channels and NetflixGetting a great paying jobEliminating drinking coffee at StarbucksLiving a Spartan like existenceThis book contains information on how to get rich and stay rich by understanding and applying the wealth principles and the wealth strategies of the rich!  Michael J. Sandel, "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets" English | ISBN: 0374203032 | 2012 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 340 KB Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay?  Michael J. Sandel, "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets [Hardcover]" English | ISBN: 184614471X | 2012 | 256 pages | MOBI | 387 KB Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life-medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Can't Buy, Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time and provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy?  Bloom, "What Gardeners Grow: Bloom Gardener's Guide: 600 plants chosen by the world's greatest plantspeople" English | ISBN: 0711272905 | 2023 | 336 pages | MOBI | 9 MB What Gardeners Grow draws on the experience and passion of the world's most interesting and respected plantspeople to create a glossary of plants to inspire the everyday gardener. |
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