Principle of Interest Politics: Logic of Political Life from China's Perspective
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811939624 | 978 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
The book aims to build a political theory of interest politics by adopting an interest-analyzing approach of Marxism to explore the dual characteristics of social interests. Based on the logical start-point, the book unveils the foundations, nature, and characteristics of social-political life such as political power and political right. Then, a systematic research is conducted from perspectives of political behavior, political system, and political culture, following the two logical thread lines as political power and right. Finally, the book sees the analysis of social and political development in accordance with the inter-function of political power and political rights caused by the changes and development of social interests. It is a must-read book for readers interested in the political theory and political development in China.

Princeton Review AP Biology Prep, 2023: 3 Practice Tests + Complete Content Review + Strategies & Techniques (College Test Preparation) by The Princeton Review
English | September 13th, 2022 | ISBN: 0593450663 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 33.81 MB
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5! Ace the 2023 AP Biology Exam with this comprehensive study guide, which includes3 full-length practice tests, thoroughcontent reviews,targeted strategies for every section, and access to online extras.

Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives By Bonnie Roos (editor), Alex Hunt (editor)
2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0813930006 | PDF | 3 MB
Postcolonial Green brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Since its inception, ecocriticism has been accused of being inattentive to the complexities that colonialism poses for ideas of nature and environmentalism. Postcolonial discourse, on the other hand, has been so immersed in theoretical questions of nationalism and identity that it has been seen as ignoring environmental or ecological concerns. This collection demonstrates that ecocriticism and postcolonialism must be understood as parallel projects if not facets of the very same project―a struggle for global justice and sustainability. The essays in this collection span the globe, and cover such issues as international environmental policy, land and water rights, food production, poverty, women's rights, indigenous activism, and ecotourism. They consider all manner of texts, from oral tradition to literary fiction to web discourse. Contributors bring postcolonial theory to literary traditions, such as that of the United States, not typically seen in this light, and, conversely, bring ecocriticism to literary traditions, such as those of India and China, that have seen little ecological analysis. Postcolonial Green boasts a global geographical breadth, diversity of critical approach, and increasing relevance to the issues we face on a world stage.ContributorsNeel Ahuja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Pavel Cenkl, Sterling College * Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin * Ursula K. Heise, Stanford University * Jonathan Highfield, Rhode Island School of Design * Alex Hunt, West Texas A&M University * Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University * Patrick D. Murphy, University of Central Florida * Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M University * Caskey Russell, University of Wyoming * Rachel Stein, Siena College * Sabine Wilke, University of Washington * Laura Wright, Western Carolina University * Sheng-yen Yu, National Taipei University of Technology * Gang Yue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/Xiamen University

Marcel Wissenburg, "Political Pluralism and the State: Beyond Sovereignty"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 041546739X, 1138978833 | PDF | pages: 236 | 1.6 mb
The concept of a sovereign nation-state is a central part in many of the debates discussing the salient issues in political science today. Yet the debate on the state is fragmented and while the sub-disciplines within political science address the various possible consequences of different processes, the one thing they all share is uncertainty about the future shape and role of the state.

Dan Good, "Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1419753649, 1419753630 | 384 pages | EPUB | 1.7 MB
The powerful story of Ken Caminiti, who changed baseball forever as the first player to confess to having used performance-enhancing steroids

Plant-Based Medicine: The Ultimate Vegan Starter Guide Boosts Resistance to Germs, Viruses, and Bacteria that Cause Death: The Ultimate Vegan Starter Guide ... Resistance to Germs, Viruses, and B by Annie Banke
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BCKKGGD7 | 57 pages | EPUB | 3.05 Mb
Plant-based health care is becoming more popular these days.br> Almost everywhere is mainstream. Are you curious as to why? So this is the book for you. This plant-based nutrition book will demonstrate the advantages of a plant-based diet. It also includes seven plant-based recipes for beginners that may be readily modified. The majority of the recipes are cost-effective. The simple components can be found at most grocery stores, and all recipes can be modified to be gluten and oil free (low fat whole food plant based).

Pilates for Beginners: Core Pilates Exercises and Easy Sequences to Practice at Home by Katherine Corp
English | November 13, 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07K2JJKRF | 178 pages | EPUB | 3.40 Mb
Pilates for Beginners is the new kick-start guide for building an at-home Pilates practice with step-by-step guidance and easy sequences.

Olivier Darrigol, "Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present"
English | ISBN: 019871288X | 2014 | 400 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience? This book recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only, beginning with Descartes' geometric construction of the world, and finishing with recent derivations of quantum mechanics from natural axioms. Deductions based on theological, metaphysical, or transcendental arguments are worth remembering for the ways they motivated and structured physical theory, even though we would now criticize their excessive confidence in the power of the mind. Other deductions more modestly relied on criteria for the comprehensibility of nature, including forms of measurability, causality, homogeneity, and correspondence. The central thesis of this book is that such criteria, when properly applied to idealized systems, effectively determine some of our most important theories as well as the mathematical character of the laws of physics. The relevant arguments are

Pharmacology of Drug Stereoisomers
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811923191 | 218 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 16 MB
The book is devoted to an important aspect of pharmacology and pharmaceutical chemistry, i.e. the significance of stereoisomerism of drugs for their biological effect from the point of view of their pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and toxicology. The authors review the landmarks in the development of stereochemistry and stereopharmacology. Present-day IUPAC terminology is discussed; general issues of stereoisomerism are considered including separation of racemic mixtures and asymmetric synthesis of isomers, methods of quantifying the isomers of a drug in biological material. The authors put special emphasis on general problems of the influence of stereoisomerism on pharmacological and adverse effects of drugs. A classification of drugs based on stereochemical properties of their isomers is proposed. Possibilities of interaction of stereoisomers in racemic mixtures are discussed. A considerable portion of the book is devoted to pharmacological action of the main groups of drugs whose structure includes asymmetric atoms (that is, drugs with several isomers). Detailed attention is paid to advisability of developing single isomer drugs and to the specifics of their study at the stage of preclinical and clinical trials.

Michael Paulsen, "Pedagogy in the Anthropocene: Re-Wilding Education for a New Earth "
English | ISBN: 3030909794 | 2022 | 402 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book explores new pedagogical challenges and potentials of the Anthropocene era. The authors argue that this new epoch, with an unstable climate, new kinds of globally spreading viruses, and new knowledges, calls for a new way of educating and an alertness to new philosophies of education and pedagogical imaginations, thoughts, and practices. Addressing the linkages between the Anthropocene and Pedagogy across a broad pedagogical spectrum that is both formal and informal, the editors and their contributors emphasize a re-imagining of education that serves to deepen our understanding of the capacities and values of life.

Parkrun: An Organised Running Revolution By David Hindley
2022 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 0367640635 | PDF | 2 MB
This is the first book to take an in-depth look at parkrun - the free, weekly, timed 5km run on a Saturday morning - and to examine why its participants love it so much and why it has been such an astonishing success.

Harriet de Winton, "Painting Watercolor Botanicals: 34 Projects for Flowers, Foliage and More"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1440300917 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 108.4 mb
Learn to create your own beautiful watercolor botanical art with more than 30 projects, as well as information on materials and basic techniques. The graceful, contemporary style of these flowers and foliage is attractive and accessible to all no matter your skill level.

Philip S. Foner, "Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1608467872 | ASIN: B0839MNGWP | PDF | pages: 519 | 33.3 mb
In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.

Inc. BarCharts, "Organic Chemistry Reactions "
English | ISBN: 1572225890 | 2001 | pages | PDF | 1289 KB
The latest addition to our popular line of chemistry titles. This guide is packed with useful and up-to-date information.

One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance By Christina Hoff Sommers, Dr. Sally Satel M.D.
2006 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0312304447 | EPUB | 1 MB
Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals. Today---with a book for every ailment, a lawsuit for every grievance and a TV show for every conceivable problem---we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope with life's challenges.Drawing on established science and common sense, Christina Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives, with a host of troubling consequences, including:*The myth of stressed-out, homework-burdened, hyper-competitive, and depressed schoolchildren in need of therapy and medication*The loss of moral bearings in our approach to lying, crime, and addiction*The unasked-for "grief counselors" who descend on bereaved families, schools, and communities following a tragedyIntelligent, provocative, and wryly amusing, One Nation Under Therapy demonstrates that "talking about" problems is no substitute for confronting them.

John Foster, "Oil and World Politics: The real story of today's conflict zones: Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ukraine and more"
English | ISBN: 145941344X | 2018 | 280 pages | EPUB | 1253 KB
Petroleum is the most valuable commodity in the world and an enormous source of wealth for those who sell it, transport it and transform it for its many uses. As the engine of modern economies and industries, governments everywhere want to assure steady supplies. Without it, their economies would grind to a standstill.Since petroleum is not evenly distributed around the world, powerful countries want to be sure they have access to supplies and markets, whatever the cost to the environment or to human life. Coveting the petroleum of another country is against the rules of international law - yet if accomplished surreptitiously, under the cover of some laudable action, it's a bonanza. This is the basis of "the petroleum game," where countries jockey for control of the world's oil and natural gas. It's an ongoing game of rivalry among global and regional countries, each pursuing its own interests and using whatever tools, allies and organizations offer possible advantage.John Foster has spent his working life as an oil economist. He understands the underlying role played by oil and gas in international affairs. He identifies the hidden issues behind many of the conflicts in the world today. He explores military interventions (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria), tensions around international waterways (Persian Gulf, South China Sea), and use of sanctions or political interference related to petroleum trade (Iran, Russia, Venezuela). He illuminates the petroleum-related reasons for government actions usually camouflaged and rarely discussed publicly by Western politicians or media.Petroleum geopolitics are complex. When clashes and conflicts occur, they are multi-dimensional. This book ferrets out pieces of the multi-faceted puzzle in the dark world of petroleum and fits them together.

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1662601638 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 3.7 MB
Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disaster; and a call for justice-for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples.

Leila Mottley, "Nightcrawling: A Novel"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0593607872, 0593318935 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1.1 MB
BOOKER PRIZE LONG-LIST * NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK * A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice "bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole" (Tommy Orange, author of There There).

Ayman El-Baz, "Neurological Disorders and Imaging Physics: Engineering and Clinical Perspectives of Multiple Sclerosis (Volume 2) "
English | ISBN: 0750317604 | 2020 | 350 pages | PDF | 40 MB
This book explores the basics of Multiple sclerosis (MS), which is the most common immune-mediated disorder affecting the central nervous system. Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease in which the insulating covers of nervecells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.

Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change By Dieter Helm
2021 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0008404496 | EPUB | 2 MB
What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done.In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change.Net Zero is Professor Dieter Helm's measured, balanced view of how we stop causing climate change by adopting a net zero strategy of reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon absorption. It is a rational look at why the past 30 years efforts has failed and why and how the next 30 years can succeed. It is a vital book for anyone who hears the clamour of Extinction Rebellion and other ecological activists, but wonders what they can actually do to help spread Marxism.

Hugh Seton-Watson, "Nationalism and Communism "
English | ISBN: 1032180382 | 2022 | 254 pages | EPUB | 655 KB
This book, first published in 1964, collects a number of essays united by the general theme of national and social revolution. They examine features of revolutionary movements, and, particularly, revolutionary leadership in an analysis of the social conditions and personal motives which impel men towards forming revolutionary elites.

Abdul-Monem M. Al-Mashat, "National Security in the Third World"
English | ISBN: 0367017229 | 2019 | 138 pages | EPUB | 845 KB
For nations of the Third World, national security poses serious dilemmas. Unlike Western nations, less developed countries must balance the complex and often contradictory requirements of socioeconomic and political development with problems of internal stability and the requirements of national defense. For these countries, a concept of national security that focuses primarily on the international threat system and its overt manifestations of wars and violence, ignoring domestic well-being, is inadequate on theoretical and pragmatic grounds. This book addresses the security problems of Third World states, arguing for new ways to define and measure national security so that the concept may be appropriately applied to the needs of developing countries. In addition, the author argues that the "tranquility" of a state, a concept traditionally linked with national security, cannot necessarily be associated with quality of life as measured by conventional means. Dr. AI-Mashat constructs a tranquility index for ninety-five developing nations and tests its relationship with the physical quality-of-life index to demonstrate this point. Attempts to improve quality of life, he suggests, may in many countries lead to a reduction in security unless simultaneous attempts are made to democratize the regime.

National Identity and Educational Reform: Contested Classrooms By Elizabeth Anderson Worden
2014 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 0415719542 | PDF | 2 MB
National identity in Moldova remains contested despite repeated attempts by governments, historians, and educators to cultivate a shared sense of national belonging through the development of history textbooks. Concern over professional status and distrust of the government's motivations halted these reforms, demonstrating that the success of such efforts greatly depends on teachers' and citizens' social memory and everyday lives. This volume looks at educational reform and the struggle over national identity in the history classroom from the perspectives of five different groups: elected politicians, Ministry of Education officials, textbook authors and historians, teachers, and students. Each chapter explores the actors' motivations and agendas regarding reform, their role in promoting or obstructing the reform process, and their opinions about the ensuing controversy. Drawing on months of fieldwork and original research, author Elizabeth Worden examines the importance of teachers and students in the success or failure of a reform initiative.

Oliver Sacks, "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain"
English | ISBN: 1400040817 | 2007 | 400 pages | EPUB | 287 KB
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.

Multicampus University Systems: Africa and the Kenyan Experience By Ishmael I. Munene
2014 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0415825148 | PDF | 2 MB
In the face of increasing social demand and cutbacks in state budgetary support, universities in African countries are now turning towards a multicampus system strategy. As African governments have adopted neoliberal education policies that place premium on entrepreneurialism, profit making, privatization, and markets as drivers of university development, a reshaping of the academic work and organizational framework have taken place. However, little is known about the impact of this paradigm shift on access, quality and governance in higher education. This book fills the void in research and academic knowledge about the impact of the emerging university configurations in Africa. It analyzes the paradox surrounding the performance of multicampus university systems as avenues of broadening university access but whose structural success may be qualitatively contested.This book offers a refreshing examination of the African multicampus university system from both an African and global perspective. It makes use of empirical data from Kenya collected during extensive fieldwork along with substantive library and documentary resources on the rest of the continents to fortify arguments and demonstrate important conclusions. This allows for a comparative analysis of policies and strategies used in the establishment of campuses, both within and beyond national boundaries in the continent, and will be a welcome contribution to the existing repertoire on African universities.

Morton's Neuroma: Podiatrist Turned Patient: My Own Journey (Reflective Podiatric Practice) by David R Tollafield
English | January 30, 2018 | ISBN: 1981779280 | 150 pages | EPUB | 2.48 Mb
Nerve pain in the foot (Morton's neuroma) affects thousands of sufferers each year. It might seem unusual but Podiatrist David Tollafield explains the management of his own neuroma in a new book aimed at patients and professionals. Information leaflets while helpful fail to provide that personal touch- this is the difference between a pure factual and emotional context. One is single dimension, the other three dimensional. The key aim - avoid surgery, but where necessary the book provides a day by day, week by week guide over nine-months. The sections have a clear index and reference to common questions supported by diagrams, tables and colour pictures.'Very easy to understand...I would have found it helpful to have something like this as I was on Google and wanted as much as possible prior to surgery.' J.N PatientI doubt this level of information could be bettered...' Trevor Prior, former Dean and Consultant (Directorate of Podiatric Surgery).

Modern Corporations and Strategies at Work
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811946477 | 238 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
Strategies are integral to growth, expansion and sustainability of modern corporations. The agile strategies are central to overcome challenges of the turbulent times accelerated by risks, pandemics, wars, political instabilities and environmental disasters. This book on 'Modern Corporations and Strategies at Work' focuses on different strategies followed by corporations. This book makes critical reading of corporate strategies and evaluates them. This book offers insights into the way corporations develop and implement strategies to face different challenges. This book explores wider world of corporate strategies and their limitations.

Christel Seguin, "Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 8th International Symposium, IMBSA 2022, Munich, Germany, September 5-7, 2022, Procee"
English | ISBN: 3031158415 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 30 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment, IMBSA 2022, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2022. The 15 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 initial submissions. The papers focus on model-based and automated ways of assessing safety and other attributes of dependability of complex systems. They are organized in topical sections on safety analysis automation, MBSA practices, causal models and failure modeling strategies, designing mitigations of faults and attacks, data based safety analysis, dynamic risk assessment.

Micro and Nanoelectronics Devices, Circuits and Systems: Select Proceedings of Mndcs 2022
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811923078 | 519 Pages | PDF (True) | 20 MB
This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Micro and Nanoelectronics Devices, Circuits and Systems (MNDCS-2022). The book includes cutting-edge research papers in the emerging fields of micro and nanoelectronics devices, circuits, and systems from experts working in these fields over the last decade. The book is a unique collection of chapters from different areas with a common theme and is immensely useful to academic researchers and practitioners in the industry who work in this field.

Meteorology for Coastal Scientists by Robert V. Rohli
English | EPUB | 2021 | 507 Pages | ISBN : 3030730921 | 171.2 MB
This is a textbook for non-atmospheric specialists who work in the coastal zone. Its purpose will be to help coastal environmental, engineering, and planning professionals to understand coastal atmospheric processes. This in turn will allow more effective communication with climate modelers, atmospheric environmental consultants, and members of the media.