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Free Download SQL and NoSQL Databases: Modeling, Languages, Security and Architectures for Big Data Management by Michael Kaufmann, Andreas Meier
English | June 30, 2023 | ISBN: 3031279077 | 268 pages | MOBI | 24 Mb
This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases. The authors thoroughly review the current state of database tools and techniques and examine upcoming innovations.

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Free Download Megan Kate Nelson, "Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0820342513, 0820333972 | PDF | pages: 353 | 6.5 mb
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "dead heaps of ruins," novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans―northern and southern, black and white, male and female―make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change.

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Free Download Pita Ogaba Agbese, John Mukum Mbaku, "Revival: Ethnicity and Governance in the Third World"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138736120, 1138736104 | EPUB | pages: 362 | 1.3 mb
This title was first published in 2001. Written by an outstanding international group of researchers focusing on ethnic conflict, this refreshing analysis provides practical and effective policy options for the people of the Third World.

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Free Download Gregory Flynn, Yves Meny, "Remaking The Hexagon: The New France In The New Europe"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813389275, 0367285614, 0813389194 | EPUB | pages: 277 | 1.3 mb
In this volume, distinguished French and U.S. historians, economists, and political scientists explore the dimensions of France's current crisis of identity. Although every European nation has been adjusting to the dramatic transformations on the continent since the end of the Cold War, France's struggle to adapt has been particularly difficult. Responding to a mix of external and internal pressures, the nation is now questioning many basic assumptions about how France should be governed, what the objectives of national policies should be, and ultimately what it means to be French.

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Free Download Liam O'Dowd, Martina McKnight, "Religion, Violence and Cities"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138379514 | EPUB | pages: 138 | 1.3 mb
In exploring the connections between religion, violence and cities, the book probes the extent to which religion moderates or exacerbates violence in an increasingly urbanised world. Originating in a five year research project , Conflict in Cities and the Contested State, concerned with Belfast, Jerusalem and other ethno-nationally divided cities, this volume widens the geographical focus to include diverse cities from the Balkans, the Middle East, Nigeria and Japan. In addressing the understudied triangular relationships between religion, violence and cities, contributors stress the multiple forms taken by religion and violence while challenging the compartmentalisation of two highly topical debates - links between religion and violence on the one hand, and the proliferation of violent urban conflicts on the other hand. Their research demonstrates why cities have become so important in conflicts driven by state-building, fundamentalism, religious nationalism, and ethno-religious division and illuminates the conditions under which urban environments can fuel violent conflicts while simultaneously providing opportunities for managing or transforming them.

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Free Download Alex R. Piquero, Stephen G. Tibbets, "Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Recent Research and Future Challenges"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0815336780 | EPUB | pages: 353 | 1.3 mb
Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior" is a collection of essays by experts in the field of criminal justice examines various aspects of the rational choice framework, which deals with the degree to which criminal behavior represents a rational choice. The editors also include essays that cover specific policy approaches that stem from this framework, an argument that is crucial in the debate over punishment as a deterrent and the role of society in fostering criminal behavior.

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Free Download Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood by Maitland Ward
English | September 6, 2022 | ISBN: 1982195894 | 214 pages | PDF | 1.83 Mb
An empowering, sex-positive, behind-the-scenes look at both Hollywood and the porn industry in this celebrity memoir unlike any other. Perfect for fans of Pleasure Activism and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star.

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Free Download Wouter Veenendaal, "Politics and Democracy in Microstates"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1138792594, 1138504114 | EPUB | pages: 226 | 1.3 mb
Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, this book analyses the effects of a small population size on political competition and participation. By comparing the four microstates of San Marino (Europe), St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean), Seychelles (Africa), and Palau (Oceania), it provides fresh and stimulating insight, concluding that the political dynamics of microstates are not as democratic as commonly believed. Instead, it is found in all four cases that smallness results in personalistic politics, dominance of the political executive, patron-client relations between citizens and politicians, and the circumvention of formal political institutions. In addition, the book suggests that the study of formal institutions provides an incomplete image of microstate democracy and that informal characteristics of politics in microstates also need to be explored in order to better explain the influence of smallness on democracy.

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Free Download S. Robert Lichter, Jonathan S. Morris, "Politics Is a Joke!: How TV Comedians Are Remaking Political Life"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813347173, 0367097605 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 1.3 mb
Does late night political humor matter? Are late-night comedians merely entertaining, or do they have the power to influence the way we think about politics and politicians? Politics Is a Joke! situates late night comedy in the historical context of political humor and demonstrates how the public turn to this venue for political information, and are in turn affected by it.

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Free Download Louis W. Goodman, Johanna Mendelson Forman, "Political Parties And Democracy In Central America"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813382432, 0813382424 | EPUB | pages: 407 | 1.3 mb
During the 1980s, superpower rivalry and regional conflicts decimated the Central American economies and eroded political systems within the region. Recent years, however, have witnessed remarkable political change, and since 1990 popularly elected presidents have held office in all seven countries. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the

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