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 Ngaire Hobbins, "Better Brain Food: Eat to Cheat Dementia and Cognitive Decline" English | ISBN: 1760527548 | | pages | AZW3 | 50 MB With dementia on the rise, Ngaire Hobbins explains how we can eat to cheat dementia and cognitive decline in her new book Better Brain Food.  Jim Haynes, "Best Australian Drinking Stories" English | ISBN: 1760632902 | 2019 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 1381 KB The story of Australia's almost-250-year love affair with alcohol told with yarns, verse, anecdotes, and surprising historical narratives  Roberto Di Ceglie, "Belief, No-Fault Unbelief and Medieval Christian Thought " English | ISBN: 1009790528 | 2026 | 75 pages | PDF | 3 MB Traditionally, Christians have viewed unbelief as resulting from moral and/or cognitive shortcomings. However, a recent proposal such as John Schellenberg's 'divine hiddenness argument' for atheism has supported the idea that there is no-fault unbelief. In this Element, the author draws on important insights from medieval Christian thought to argue that both believers and non-believers should stop blaming each other based on mere evidence. Believers may recognise that no-fault unbelief can, in a sense, apply to them, too. They may find it perplexing that they neither believe nor achieve communion with God as much as they would like. Proponents of no-fault unbelief might focus on achieving communion with God rather than solely worrying about absolving themselves of blame. Ultimately, believers and non-believers alike might promote spiritual progress by setting aside the primacy of evidence and committing themselves to God and the good.  Delilah Snell, "Beginner's Guide to Preserving: Safely Can, Ferment, Dehydrate, Salt, Smoke, and Freeze Food" English | ISBN: 1648768113 | 2021 | 244 pages | MOBI | 5 MB A comprehensive guide to food preservation techniques for beginners.  R. Danielle Egan, "Becoming Sexual: A Critical Appraisal of the Sexualization of Girls" English | ISBN: 0745650724 | 2013 | 200 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood. However, measuring such claims against a wide range of data sources reveals a far more complicated picture.  Paul Kersey , "Because We Live Here: The Paul Kersey Anthology" English | ISBN: 1979758735 | 2017 | 318 pages | MOBI | 0,5 MB Collecting the best writings of Paul Kersey, the iconoclastic creator of SBPDL.com, this volume documents the decline of America during the Barack Obama administration and the growing pushback against what he dubbed "Black-Run America" (BRA) with the incredible, incomparable rise of Donald Trump to the presidency. Because We Live Here documents the consequences of the civil rights victory in the United States as well as the erosion of both Freedom of Association and the supplanting of the Founding Fathers vision of creating a nation for "ourselves and our posterity." Borrowing its title from a powerful line in John Milius' 1984 classic Red Dawn, Kersey's Because We Live Here is a primer into understanding the rise of the Alt-Right and why the battle for identity will be the great cause of the 21st century.  David Warsh, "Because They Could: The Harvard Russia Scandal " English | ISBN: 1718946503 | 2018 | 304 pages | MOBI | 7 MB The Harvard Russia scandal of the 1990s was a turning point in the years after the Cold War ended. But it never achieved a satisfying resolution, despite its extensive trail of litigation. When the US Justice Department charged a prominent Harvard professor, his wife, his deputy, and this deputy's girlfriend with financial misconduct in Russia while leading a team of experts advising the government of Boris Yeltsin on behalf of the United States, Harvard defended itself and its professor to the hilt. The university lost - was all but laughed out of court by a jury. It returned to the government most of the money it had been paid.It turns out there was a second lawsuit, one whose resolution Harvard attorneys were able to settle and seal. They silenced the American businessman at the heart of the case with a non-disclosure agreement, insuring that what really happened in Moscow would be less well understood. The Harvard-Russia scandal was never about Russia. It was always a story about the United States, its ethical standards and everyday concepts of fair play.Alas, the Harvard venture was the least of the folly in those years. After 1992, the US built out its military alliance to the borders of Russia, over Moscow's increasingly vehement objections. I have called my story Because They Could because that is the essence of both the Harvard scandal and the story of NATO enlargement. At every juncture, the principals took advantage of their privileged positions, and, when brought to account, employed the strategy summarized up by the famous adage, ascribed variously to Henry Ford II, Nellie McClung, and Benjamin Jowett: "Never apologize, never explain, get the thing done and let them howl." The Clinton team were pioneers in this strategy, and used it sparingly. With Donald Trump it has become the spirit of the age.  William Vanderbloemen, "Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest" English | ISBN: 1400247101 | 2023 | 272 pages | MOBI | 1161 KB "This book is one of the most worthwhile and immediately usable reads I have come across in a long time." -Kiplinger  William Spaniel, "Bargaining over the Bomb: The Successes and Failures of Nuclear Negotiations" English | ISBN: 1108477054 | 2019 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB Can nuclear agreements like the Iran deal work? This book develops formal bargaining models to show that they can over time, despite apparent incentives to cheat. Existing theories of nuclear proliferation fail to account for the impact of bargaining on the process. William Spaniel explores how credible agreements exist in which rival states make concessions to convince rising states not to proliferate and argues in support of nuclear negotiations as effective counter-proliferation tools. This book proves not only the existence of settlements but also the robustness of the inefficiency puzzle. In addition to examining existing agreements, the model used by Spaniel serves as a baseline for modeling other concerns about nuclear weapons.  Ronit Ricci, "Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon " English | ISBN: 1108480276 | 2020 | 282 pages | PDF | 7 MB Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise; Lanka, where Sita languished in captivity; and Ceylon, faraway island of exile for Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising Malay manuscripts and documents from Sri Lanka, Javanese chronicles, and Dutch and British sources, Ricci explores histories and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic past. |
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