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Joanna Macy, "Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World"
English | ISBN: 1888375833 | 2006 | 120 pages | MOBI | 256 KB
Eco-philosopher and best-selling author Joanna Macy, Ph.D., shares five stories from her more than thirty years of studying and practicing Buddhism and deep ecology. Gathered on her travels to India, Russia, Australia, and Tibet, these stories give testament to Joanna Macy's belief that either humankind awakens to a new and deeper understanding of our interconnectedness with our planet and all its myriad forms of life or risks loosing it. To bring about such a transformation of consciousness each and every one of us counts. Five Stories that Can Change the World tells of encounters with individuals who share very personal stories of sudden awakening, unexpected awareness, and the co-mingling of joy and pain. Each story is imbued with the specific cultural flavor of the places where the stories originate, but all share that each individual counts in the global need for change and awakening.

Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe, "Parenting Hell: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller"
English | ISBN: 1788707451 | 2022 | 320 pages | MOBI | 521 KB
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE HOSTS OF THE NO.1 SMASH HIT PODCAST.What's it really like to be a parent? And how come no one ever warned Rob or Josh of the sheer mind-bending, world-altering, sleep-depriving, sick-covering, tear-inducing, snot-wiping, bore-inspiring, 4am-relationship-straining brutality of it all? And if they did, why can't they remember it (or remember anything else, for that matter)?And just when they thought it couldn't get any harder, why didn't anyone warn them about the slices of unmatched euphoric joy and pride that occasionally come piercing through, drenching you in unbridled happiness in much the same way a badly burped baby drenches you in milk-sick?Join Josh and Rob as they share the challenges and madness of their parenting journeys with lashings of empathy and extra helpings of laughs. Filled with all the things they never tell you at antenatal classes, Parenting Hell is a beguiling mixture of humour, rumination and conversation for prospective parents, new parents, old parents and never-to-be parents alike.PRAISE FOR THE PARENTING HELL PODCAST: 'Fast, fun and, at times, genuinely touching' - Guardian'An hilarious cry for help from two dads overwhelmed by their own young families' - NME'Listen to Parenting Hell for the belly laughs' - Women's Health Mag

Raymond B. Vickers, "Panic in the Loop: Chicago's Banking Crisis of 1932"
English | ISBN: 0739166409 | 2011 | 347 pages | MOBI | 2 MB
Relying on a broad array of records used together for the first time, Panic in the Loop reveals widespread fraud and insider abuse by bankers―and the complicity of corrupt politicians―that caused the Chicago banking debacle of 1932. It provides a fresh interpretation of the role played by bankers who turned the nation's financial crisis of the early 1930s into the decade-long Great Depression. It also calls for the abolition of secrecy that still permeates the bank regulatory system, which would have prevented the Enron fiasco and the financial meltdown of 2008. This book focuses on the recurrent failures of the financial system―the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, the Enron debacle of the early 2000s, and finally the financial collapse of 2008. Because of regulatory secrecy, knowing what happened in Chicago in 1932 is critical to understanding the glaring problems in the regulation of American finance, in particular the lack of transparency, the abuse of financial institutions by insiders, and the capture of public institutions by insiders going through the revolving door between the private and public sectors. Eight decades later little has changed. The regulatory failures of the 1930s―especially the pervasive system of secrecy that allowed the fraud and insider abuse to flourish―were repeated during the collapse of 2008. Transparency would strike at the alliance between the executives of financial institutions and public officials, who caused the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression.

Andrea Fleschenberg, "Pakistan at Seventy-Five: Identity, Governance and Conflict-Resolution in a Post-Colonial Nation-State "
English | ISBN: 1789761891 | 2023 | 300 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Pakistan at Seventy-Five investigates the countrys multi-layered issues in the context of a post-colonial polity marked by diversity, heterogeneity, stratification and volatility. This wide-ranging discourse engages with diverse formal and informal actors as markers of identity, historical events and social conditions, as well as global geo-political and neo-colonial centreperiphery relations that shape narratives about the nation and the constructions of a sense of belonging. The editors and contributors utilise multi-faceted and multi-layered approaches, focusing on (1) identities, and questions of diversity and pluralism; (2) horizontal and vertical technologies and geographies of power related to questions of trust, legitimacy, participation, and governance; and (3) the distribution, deprivation and vulnerability of sociocultural, political, and human resources. Studying Pakistan has been subject to different approaches, including decolonial, indigenous, and feminist perspectives. This volume draws out alternative epistemological and methodological viewpoints: the insideroutsider conundrum, centreperiphery asymmetries, hegemonic discourses, and practices within Pakistans national/international academy. The chapter contributions are the outcome of a unique interdisciplinary research cooperation at Quaid-i-Azam University, focussing on early career researchers. Presenting a multiplicity of voices and trajectories, Pakistan at Seventy-Five provides new input to existing debates and directions for future scholarly endeavour. Contributors: Aftab Nasir, Andrea Fleschenberg, Arslan Waheed, Salman Rafi Sheikh, Sanaa Alimia, Sarah Holz, Sohaib Bodla, Wajeeha Tahir.

Robert W. Smith, "Pa-Kua: Chinese Boxing for Fitness & Self-Defense"
English | ISBN: 1556434391 | 2003 |160 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
Originally published in 1967, Pa-Kua was the West's first look into the esoteric Chinese martial arts. It has been a valued and sought after text ever since. It was put out of print in the 1970s, but since that time interest in the martial arts have continued to skyrocket. Pa-Kua gives an introduction to the little known mystical martial art from China, Pa Kua Chang (also known as Ba Gua Zhang), translated as "Eight Trigram Boxing". Smith describes its history, profiles its great practitioners and gives a series of unique exercises, illustrating the solo practice and their fighting applications.

Robert Irvine, "Overcoming Impossible: Learn to Lead, Build a Team, and Catapult Your Business to Success"
English | ISBN: 1400238331 | 2023 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 1388 KB
Make achieving your goals and finding success possible with this one-of-a-kind guide by Robert Irvine, popular host of Food Network's Restaurant: Impossible.

Lynette Ong, "Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Opinion Management in China "
English | ISBN: 1009631977 | 2026 | 80 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The digital age has afforded the governments new technologies of control, allowing them to co-opt, pre-empt and repress dissent. But, what if they lack the technical capacity to access digital tools of control? In what ways have digital technologies altered the way governments conduct statecraft? Based on an analysis of more than 3,000 public procurement documents, and a dozen elite interviews with various stakeholders, we found that the Chinese state has outsourced various functions of online surveillance to private and for-profit arms of state-owned corporations. We found that outsourcing surveillance is intended to augment state technical capacity to moderate and fine-tune the conduct of digital repression. Outsourcing digital repression opens a Pandora's box of state-business collaborations. This Element contributes to the literature on outsourcing repression, state‒business relations, and conduct of digital statecraft.

Ruta Vanagaite, "Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust"
English | ISBN: 1538133032 | 2020 | 240 pages | MOBI | 4 MB
A famous Nazi hunter and a descendent of Nazi collaborators team up on a journey to uncover Lithuania's Holocaust secrets.

Gooseberry Patch, "Our Favorite Slow-Cooker Recipes Cookbook "
English | ISBN: 1931890692 | 2005 | 126 pages | AZW3 | 884 KB
Over 60 of our favorite slow cooker recipes, plus handy tips. Purse-friendly size make meal-planning on the go easy. Durable softcover, 128 pages.

Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness"
English | ISBN: 0374227764 | 2016 | 272 pages | MOBI | 7 MB
Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds