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 Eyck Freymann, "Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China" English | ISBN: 019782384X | 2026 | 432 pages | PDF | 16 MB Sober, balanced, rigorously researched, and eminently readable, Defending Taiwan is a definitive guide to preventing World War III.  Catherine Shanahan M.D., "Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food" English | ISBN: 1250113822 | 2017 | 512 pages | PDF | 6 MB One of the Best Health and Wellness Books of 2017 ― Sports Illustrated  Chih-yu Shih, "Decolonizing Security in East Asia: Towards Pluriversal Coexistence " English | ISBN: 1009700383 | 2026 | 75 pages | PDF | 2 MB Decolonizing Security in East Asia challenges failing sovereign-centric models in the Indo-Pacific. It identifies a 'postcolonial security dilemma' where states camouflage ontological identity anxieties as existential survival discourse to secure Western recognition. The advocacy for an 'Asian NATO' epitomizes this mimicry, institutionalizing rigid binaries that provoke regional friction and invite the very external interventions they claim to deter. While regional groupings such as ASEAN or BRICS attempt to 'delink' from Western hegemony, they often fall into a 'Sovereign Sensibility Trap.' By hyper-fixating on sovereign equality, they ironically reproduce colonial logic, inviting fragmentation and marginalizing local peace. Moving beyond state-centrism, this Element proposes 'pluriversal coexistence' as a radical alternative. Through subaltern sites and grassroots vignettes, it demonstrates how security is found in relational, nonbinary practices rather than rigid borders. This Element provides a transformative framework for moving beyond the colonial architectures currently fracturing East Asian security.  Sarah Hopkyns, "Decoloniality in Multilingual University Spaces " English | ISBN: 1009569074 | 2026 | 100 pages | PDF | 6 MB This Element explores multilingual university spaces and decoloniality, critically examining how coloniality and neoliberalism intersect. While neoliberal language policies aim to equip students with English as a 'lingua academia', critical issues relating to students' translingual identities and belonging are often overlooked. Empirical data are shared from a linguistic landscape study involving a walking ethnography of a university educationscape in the United Arab Emirates, whereby Emirati students share insights on signage and spaces as 'intertextual products' connected to (un)belonging. Data are analysed through thematic and nexus analysis with main themes including the dominance of English, imbalanced bilingualism, bottom-up translanguaging, everyday nationalism, and sticky places and objects. Findings are discussed in relation to the study setting and other global contexts. The Element closes with practical suggestions on decolonising action relevant to a range of multilingual university spaces and future research directions.  Ian Wallace, "Decode Your Dreams: Unlock your unconscious and transform your waking life" English | ISBN: 0711257051 | 2022 | 192 pages | MOBI | 3 MB Become your own dream analyst and begin a powerful journey of self discovery with bestselling author, psychologist and dream expert Ian Wallace.  Nils Bunnefeld, "Decision-Making in Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Models for Interdisciplinary Approaches " English | ISBN: 1107092361 | 2017 | 286 pages | PDF | 9 MB Making decisions about the management and conservation of nature is necessarily complex, with many competing pressures on natural systems, opportunities and benefits for different groups of people and a varying, uncertain social and ecological environment. An approach which is narrowly focused on either human development or environmental protection cannot deliver sustainable solutions. This volume provides frameworks for improving the integration of natural resource management with conservation and supporting stronger collaboration between researchers and practitioners in developed and developing countries. Novel approaches are required when ecological and social dynamics are highly interdependent. A structured, participatory, model-based approach to decision-making for biodiversity conservation has been proven to produce real-world change. There are surprisingly few successful case studies, however; some of the best are presented here, from fisheries, pest management and conservation. Researchers and practitioners need this interdisciplinary approach, focused on quantitative tools that have been tested and applied, and learning from success.  Marco Rubio, "Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America's Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity" English | ISBN: 0063296977 | 2023 | 256 pages | MOBI | 1184 KB Thirty years of telling Americans they don't need families, communities, or a shared history is destroying what made our country the envy of the world.  Ludger Schuknecht, "Debt Sustainability " English | ISBN: 1009218484 | 2022 | 120 pages | PDF | 4 MB This study presents the facts, arguments and scenarios around public debt from a global perspective. Especially the largest economies feature record debt and fiscal risks, including from population ageing and financial imbalances. Given low interest rates, there is no imminent problem. But at some point, debt will have to come down. There are four possible scenarios how debt could come down. First, governments could economise and reform. Second, governments could default. Third, governments could erode the real value of debt via inflation and negative real interest rates. However, this scenario cannot continue forever. Policy errors can prompt a loss of confidence, destabilisation and crisis. This fourth scenario last included the largest economies in the 1970s. It would become a major global challenge if it were to happen again in today's interconnected world.  Alix Strauss, "Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious" English | ISBN: 006172856X | 2009 | 352 pages | MOBI | 3 MB Author Alix Strauss takes a provocative look at the self-imposed deaths of the famous and infamous in Death Becomes Them. In this fascinating and intimate chronicle of celebrity suicides, the spotlight shines on the lonely last moments of Kurt Cobain and Ernest Hemingway, Abbie Hoffman and Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Dandridge, Sigmund Freud, Hunter S. Thompson, and others. Death Becomes Them explores their sadness and madness, their accomplishments and the circumstances that led to their irreversible decision, and wishes them all a fond final good-bye.  Julie Kezik, "Data Management Essentials Using SAS and JMP" English | ISBN: 110711456X | 2016 | 150 pages | PDF | 10 MB SAS programming is a creative and iterative process designed to empower you to make the most of your organization's data. This friendly guide provides you with a repertoire of essential SAS tools for data management, whether you are a new or an infrequent user. Most useful to students and programmers with little or no SAS experience, it takes a no-frills, hands-on tutorial approach to getting started with the software. You will find immediate guidance in navigating, exploring, visualizing, cleaning, formatting, and reporting on data using SAS and JMP. Step-by-step demonstrations, , handy tips, and practical exercises with solutions equip you to explore, interpret, process and summarize data independently, efficiently and effectively. |
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